Patent ID: 7643640
Filing Date: 2010-01-05
Classification: G06F,G09B,H04R

Abstract:
1. A method for simulating sound system performance using a configuration simulator, comprising the steps of: specifying a sound system configuration comprising sound system components; simulating, based on the sound system configuration, the sound a user would expect to hear if the user were physically located in an identified listening position in a sound system model associated with the sound system configuration; without performance of additional set-up operations, playing back the simulation result through an output device, for evaluation by a listener; computing a sound system performance attribute based on at least the first parameter, the attribute comprising a representative time response having at least one reflected sound identifier; and displaying: 1) a visual representation of the sound system model, the sound system comprising at least a first one of the sound system components, 2) at least a first parameter associated with the first sound system component, and 3) a graphic representation of the computed sound system performance attribute 4) superimposed over the visual representation of the sound system model, a colored map in which different colors of the colored map each represent a different level of favorableness of the sound system performance attribute and wherein the system uses one color for the desirable sound pressure level in the middle of the sound pressure level scale and a second color for the undesirable sound pressure level, found at both ends of the sound pressure level scale; and wherein the second color represents both the high and low ends of the sound system performance attribute scale.