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7616767 |
Method and device for determining acoustical transfer impedance
The method comprises generating an acoustical volume velocity Q in the listening position, measuring a response quantity p, such as sound or vibration, at a suspected source position resulting from...
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7613312 |
Audio processing apparatus for implementing level corrections of audio data
A audio processing apparatus capable of judging and correcting volume levels of audio data, with a level judgment thinning controller for thinning the frequency of the level judgments provided...
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7609840 |
System and method for hierarchical audio conflict control
A control system and associated method resolving audio conflicts. The control system comprises a computing device, a memory device comprising a database, and a plurality of audio sources. The...
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7599502 |
Sound control installation
The invention concerns a sound control installation for at least one electrical unit comprising two cameras ( 4, 5 ) to take pictures of an area (A) in a space containing the electrical units;...
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7587055 |
Sound collection system
Collecting the sound while rotating at least one or more microphone around a rotational axis, the filter processing is carried out in accordance with the positional information of the microphone at...
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7579958 |
Audio power meter
An audio power meter includes a circuit for measuring the power of an amplified audio signal outputted by an audio power amplifier to which the audio power meter is connected. The circuit generates...
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7577263 |
System for audio signal processing
A sound reproduction system comprising a digital audio signal input ( 1 ), a digital audio signal processor ( 2 , DSP) and a digital audio signal output ( 3 ) wherein the digital signal processor (...
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7567676 |
Sound event detection and localization system using power analysis
The beginning detection, accommodation and frequency bias properties of the human hearing mechanism have been modeled to create systems that can detect directional transients (“sound events”)...
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7561698 |
Auto shutoff for portable audio devices
A system for automatically shutting of a portable audio player is disclosed. A portable audio player includes a microphone, an audio detector and a processor. The portable audio player may be...
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7548791 |
Graphically displaying audio pan or phase information
Systems, methods, and computer program products for displaying visual representations of features of audio data are provided. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided. Audio...
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7522035 |
Enhanced bedside sound monitoring and alarm response method, system and device
Home safety and security are provided using a bedside unit to monitor audible safety and security alarms and send notification signals to the appropriate communication site. A home security system...
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7519443 |
Information signal reproducing apparatus
An information signal reproducing apparatus which is capable of forming a suitable reproducing environment and building an easy-handling reproducing system regardless of differences such as signal...
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7508307 |
Home health and medical monitoring method and service
A health monitoring method and system utilizes a bedside device to monitor breathing patterns and other health measuring signals and communicates these patterns and signals to a medical monitoring...
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7502483 |
Hearing aid, training device, game device, and audio output device
The present invention provides a hearing aid in which at least one portion of an input sound signal is divided into a frequency band signal, and a single or a plurality of the frequency band...
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7499553 |
Sound event detector system
The beginning detection, accommodation and frequency bias properties of the human hearing mechanism have been modeled to create systems that can detect directional transients (“sound events”)...
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7492908 |
Sound localization system based on analysis of the sound field
The beginning detection, accommodation and frequency bias properties of the human hearing mechanism have been modeled to create systems that can detect directional transients (“sound events”)...
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7482942 |
Arrangement and method for starting a machine
An arrangement is disclosed for an industrial drive in which at least one machine or part of machine can be started from a location separate from the machine or part of machine. The arrangement...
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7477144 |
Breathing sound monitoring and alarm response method, system and device
Home safety and security are provided using a bedside sound monitoring unit including a microphone, microprocessor, memory and a communications port. The unit utilizes a sound monitoring program...
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7477143 |
Enhanced personal monitoring and alarm response method and system
Home safety and security are provided using a bedside unit to monitor an audible personal security pendant and to send notification signals to the appropriate communication site. Improved...
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7477142 |
Residential fire, safety and security monitoring using a sound monitoring screen saver
Methods useful with conventional personal computers provide automatic response to an identified alarm sound by sending a notification signal via the Internet only when a special sound monitoring...
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7471987 |
Determining location of an audience member having a portable media monitor
Systems, methods and devices for gathering data concerning media usage by predetermined audience members. An audience measurement code in acoustic energy produced by a media receiver is detected by...
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7467084 |
Device and method for operating a voice-enhancement system
A method and a device are for operating a voice-enhancement system, such as a communication and/or intercom/two-way intercom or duplex telephony device in a motor vehicle. The device includes at...
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7460919 |
Music contents reproducing apparatus
A contents reproduction control portion uses feature quantity data about feature quantities of pieces of music and an interference degree table which defines degrees of interference among the...
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7457422 |
Method and implementation for detecting and characterizing audible transients in noise
A method and implementation for detecting and characterizing audible transients in noise includes placing a microphone in a desired location, producing a microphone signal wherein the microphone...
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7450724 |
Hearing aid adjustment device
A hearing device fitting device that includes a computing device ( 3 ), connected on an input side with a connection (E 3 ) for data entry and on an output side with a connection (A 3 ) for a...
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7447318 |
System for using digital signal processing to compensate for power compression of loudspeakers
This invention provides a compensation system capable of compensating for power loss due to the power compression effects of the voice coil as the temperature of the voice coil increases. To...
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7437935 |
Continuous chatter boundary criteria for manufactured parts
A chatter boundary system includes a measuring module, a comparison module, and a boundary module. The measuring module measures and collects samples of undulations in a manufactured part. The...
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7430004 |
Volume control linked with zoom control
Digital cameras and methods wherein volume control is linked with zoom control. The present invention captures audio along with recorded images at different zoom settings, and upon playback adjusts...
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7428310 |
Audio output adjusting device of home theater system and method thereof
A home theater system, an audio output adjusting device of a home theater system and methods thereof allow a prescribed or three-dimension audio configuration state for at least one prescribed...
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7426417 |
Method and apparatus for efficiently accounting for the temporal nature of audio processing
Some embodiments of the invention provide a computer system for processing an audio track. This system includes at least one DSP for processing the audio track. It also includes an application for...
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7424333 |
Audio fidelity meter
An audio fidelity meter includes a scale which uses colors to visually represent the fidelity of an encoded digital audio file based at least on its extracted bit rate. The bit rate is one of...
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7415119 |
Method for hierarchical audio conflict control
A control system and associated method resolving audio conflicts. The control system comprises a computing device, a memory device comprising a database, and a plurality of audio sources. The...
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7409066 |
Method of adjusting filter parameters and an associated playback system
To improve upon a method of adjusting at least one filter parameter such as the mid-frequency of at least one filter unit provided with a playback system for audio signals, this filter unit being...
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7409065 |
Apparatus and method for detecting sound direction
An apparatus and method for detecting sound direction is disclosed, which utilizes a plurality of sound source detecting units to receive a plurality of sound signals form a sound source. The sound...
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7403110 |
Enhanced alarm monitoring using a sound monitoring screen saver
Alarm monitors comprising conventional personal computers respond automatically to an identified alarm sound by sending a notification signal via the Internet only when a special sound monitoring...
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7401519 |
System for monitoring exposure to impulse noise
In one embodiment, a system for monitoring exposure to impulse noise includes a sound-sensing device, such as a microphone or other type of pressure transducer, operable to sense impulse noise, and...
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7394907 |
System and process for sound source localization using microphone array beamsteering
A system and process for sound source localization (SSL) utilizing beamsteering is presented. The present invention provides for improved beamsteering with less drain on system resources while...
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7391316 |
Sound monitoring screen savers for enhanced fire, safety, security and health monitoring
Method, system and device useful with conventional personal computers respond automatically to an identified alarm sound by sending a notification signal via the Internet only when a special sound...
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7386135 |
Cardioid beam with a desired null based acoustic devices, systems and methods
An acoustic device is provided with first and second one or more acoustic elements to generate a first signal that includes mostly undesired audio and substantially void of desired audio, and a...
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7377233 |
Method and apparatus for the automatic identification of birds by their vocalizations
An apparatus for detecting and identifying birds based upon electronic analysis of their bird calls and songs and method for doing so by utilizing a step-by-step hierarchical method of breaking...
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7373209 |
Sound features extracting apparatus, sound data registering apparatus, sound data retrieving apparatus, and methods and programs for implementing the same
The present invention implements a method and an apparatus for retrieving a sound data desired by the user on the basis of its subjective impression over the sound data. The subjective impression...
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7372966 |
System for limiting loudspeaker displacement
Loudspeakers can be damaged by high drive signals. One reason for this damage is an excess vibration displacement of the coil-diaphragm assembly. This invention describes a novel method for...
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7346172 |
Auditory alert systems with enhanced detectability
Methods and systems for distinguishing an auditory alert signal from a background of one or more non-alert signals. In a first embodiment, a prefix signal, associated with an existing alert signal,...
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7340064 |
Active noise control system
An active noise control system is provided which cancels a noise using a secondary noise from a speaker that is operated in accordance with an output from an adaptive controller. The system is...
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7336793 |
Loudspeaker system for virtual sound synthesis
A sound system obtains a desired sound field from an array of sound sources arranged on a panel. The desired sound field allows a listener to perceive the sound as if the sound were coming from a...
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7330551 |
Apparatus and method for controlling input signal level
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for controlling an input signal level. The apparatus for controlling an input signal level according to the present invention includes: a memory for storing...
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7327848 |
Visualization of spatialized audio
A method and apparatus is provided for presenting a user with a visual indication of the likely user-perceived location of sound sources in an audio field generated from left and right audio...
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7319761 |
Method and apparatus for locating and correcting sound overload
The invention describes a graphical method for detecting and adjusting audio overload conditions. The graphical user interface provides a user complete playback control of several audio tracks,...
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7319760 |
Apparatus for creating sound image of moving sound source
In a sound image creating apparatus, a distance computation section computes intermediate positions of a moving point along a trajectory line from a movement start position to a movement end...
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7313241 |
Hearing aid device, and operating and adjustment methods therefor, with microphone disposed outside of the auditory canal
For a hearing-impaired person provided with a hearing aid device with which sound acquisition ensues outside of the auditory canals of the person, the localization capability with regard to a...
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