Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices – Binaural and stereophonic – Pseudo stereophonic
Patent
1992-12-14
1995-06-27
Isen, Forester W.
Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
Binaural and stereophonic
Pseudo stereophonic
381 22, H04S 502
Patent
active
054286875
ABSTRACT:
A surround sound processor for presentation of a stereophonic source program on a multiple loudspeaker array surrounding the listening area. The processor includes input signal conditioning and matrixing circuits, a control voltage generator responsive to the directional information contained in the stereophonic source signals, and a variable matrixing circuit for generating appropriate loudspeaker feed signals to create the illusion of the sound field wrapping around the listening area. The control voltage generator includes a servologic circuit employing variable time constant smoothing circuits each responsive to the difference signal between its input and its output and to a pulse signal from a one-shot triggered by threshold detectors which compare the difference signals with fixed threshold voltages. In one aspect, suitable for incorporation into an integrated circuit, a multiplier circuit and a controlled bidirectional current source charging and discharging a capacitor provides the smoothing function. Alternatively a symmetrical nonlinear resistive circuit or element is used to charge and discharge the capacitor. A novel and economical combined threshold detector and one-shot suitable for integrated circuits is also disclosed.
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Fosgate James W.
Willcocks Martin E. G.
Fosgate James W.
Isen Forester W.
McCombs David L.
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