Patent ID: 9504625
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: A61H,A61N

Claim Text:
1. A vibroacoustic water system, comprising: a shell for containing water, the shell comprising a left side wall and a right side wall offset on opposite sides of a first axis, and a head wall and a foot wall offset on opposite sides of a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, wherein the first axis and the second axis define four quadrants, wherein the left side wall, the right side wall, the head wall, and the foot wall form a closed perimeter of the shell; a set of audile transducers mounted in energy transmitting relation to the shell, the set of audile transducers receiving an audile input signal having an audile wave characteristic and driving the shell to effect an aural stimulus; a set of at least four vibratile transducers mounted in energy transmitting relation to the shell and positioned below a waterline of water in the shell, wherein at least one of the vibratile transducers is arranged in each of the four quadrants and secured to each of the head wall, the foot wall, the left side wall, and the right side wall, the vibratile transducers receiving a vibratile input signal having a vibratile wave characteristic different from the audile wave characteristic and driving the shell to effect a tactile stimulus in the water which is different from the aural stimulus; the shell further comprising a head pocket formed on the head wall of the shell and above a backrest portion of the head wall, the head pocket extending substantially horizontally outside the closed perimeter, and curving upward and connecting to a rim of the shell; and a controller comprising preprogrammed logic that causes the controller to distribute the audile input signal between the set of audile transducers to achieve a desired auditory experience, and to distribute the vibratile input signal between the at least four vibratile transducers to achieve a desired vibratory experience, thereby creating a spatial center location for each of the aural and tactile stimuli, wherein the controller causes the spatial center of the tactile stimulus to move between each of the four quadrants along two dimensions of a plane defined by the first and second axes, wherein the controller causes the spatial centers of the aural stimulus and the tactile stimulus to move in coordination with each other so as to provide spatially-varying and coordinated vibratory and auditory experiences; wherein the controller is configured to receive an auxiliary input and to route the auxiliary input to the audile transducers and the vibratile transducers, wherein the controller is further configured to analyze the auxiliary input to extract pulsating signals forming a beat, and wherein the controller is further configured to cause the extracted pulsating signals to be provided to the vibratile transducers and filtered from the audile signal.