Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices – Sound effects – Reverberators
Patent
1984-11-29
1988-06-14
Ng, Jin F.
Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
Sound effects
Reverberators
381 682, 381 685, H04R 2500, H04R 120, H04R 124, H04R 304
Patent
active
047517387
ABSTRACT:
A pair of sensitive microphones or transducers are mounted on a user's body, spaced apart by a distance equal to one-half a wavelength of the center frequency of a range of frequencies to be emphasized. By summing the outputs of the two microphones, sound in the broadside or look direction (i.e., the direction the listener faces, the microphones being on a line perpendicular to this direction) are emphasized; sounds in the endfire or side directions are nulled or produce a substantially null response in the region of the center frequency defined by the microphone spacing. A third microphone may be added that is not equally spaced from the microphones on either side, but is spaced to provide half wavelength distances which define maximum and null responses centered at the other points within the frequency range (1-4 KHz) desirable for highly effective hearing. The summed signal from each mircophone pair is bandpass filtered. Three bandpass filters are used. The centers of their pass bands are 1200 Hz, 2250 Hz, and 3600 Hz, respectively. Thus each microphone pair and associated bandpass filter is responsible for providing a directonal receiving capability in its assigned range of frequencies. The frequency ranges are contiguous and overlap slightly. The final output is obtained by summing and amplifying the bandpass filter outputs. A good bandpass filter design is a fourth order Butterworth filter, whose center frequency can be designed to be: ##EQU1##
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Brearley et al, "A Hearing Aid for Use in the Presence of Background Noise", Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine, vol. 4, No. 3, (1981).
Brearley Maurice N.
Widrow Bernard
Byrd Danita R.
Ng Jin F.
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
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