Electronic sound screening system and method of accoustically impoving the environment

Abstract

A flexible apparatus for, and method of, acoustically improving an environment permits manual adjustment by one or more local or remote users using a simple graphical interface and automatic adjustment of the system parameters once the manual adjustment is performed. The inputs are weighted by distance from the physical apparatus. The apparatus includes a receiver, a converter, an analyser, a processor and a sound generator. The acoustic energy impinges on the receiver and is converted to an electrical signal by the converter. The analyser receives the electrical signal from the receiver, analyzes the electrical signal, and generates data analysis signals in response to the analyzed electrical signal. The processor produces sound signals based on the data analysis signals from the analyser in each critical band. The sound generator provides sound based on the sound signals. This permits the users to define the sound heard in a set space.

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[0001] priority [0002] This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application 10 / 145,113, filed February 6, 2003, entitled "Apparatus for acoustically improving an environment," which is a continuation of international application PCT / GB01 / 04234 and U.S. application 10 / 145,097 application, international application PCT / GB01 / 04234 with an international filing date of September 21, 2001, published in the UK under PCT Article 21, paragraph 2, and US application 10 / 145,097 filed February 2, 2003 , titled "Apparatus for acoustically improving an environment and related method", which is a continuation-in-part of the international application PCT / GB00 / 02360, whose international filing date is June 16, 2000, under PCT Article 21, paragraph 2 Publicly available in the UK under the regulation, which has now been waived. Each of the aforementioned applications is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. Background technique [0003] This invention relates to devices...

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After having done a lot of these disjoint analyses, the problem for the auditory system is to determine how to group the results so that each group is from the same ambient time or source

[0045] Furthermore, known sheltering systems are systems installed in the center of the space such that users in the space are limited or not controlled with their outputs, or if possible self-contained systems with limited inputs that only allow A user located closest to the masked system controls a small number of system parameters

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