Facsimile and static presentation processing – Static presentation processing – Attribute control
Patent
1979-12-26
1982-03-30
Orsino, Jr., Joseph A.
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Static presentation processing
Attribute control
179 1G, 179156R, 434116, H04N 718
Patent
active
043227449
ABSTRACT:
A system for utilizing sensing abilities of human hearing, including horizontal and vertical directional acuity, to represent visual aspects of the environs by converting incoming signals to audio waves, transmitted in response to an array of electroacoustic transducers in a plane parallel to a medial plane and then to the ears. Translation by the subject of incoming sound waves to location of their source and apperception of intelligence, including speech, are normal functions of human hearing. In use of the present invention, no additional cerebral translations are involved. Additional information may be superposed by means of pitch, intensity, timbre, chords and arbitrary signals requiring very simple translations by the brain, which signals may thereby be interpreted as color, brightness, texture and/or distance.
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