Patent ID: 8577064
Filing Date: 2013-11-05
Classification: H04R

Abstract:
1. A system for capturing and guiding stereophonic sound, comprising: a first stereo speaker for receiving electronic signals from a first audio channel, the first stereo speaker including a first diaphragm, a first cap covering the first diaphragm of the first stereo speaker, the first cap in fixed relation to the first stereo speaker; a second stereo speaker for receiving electronic signals from a second audio channel while the first stereo speaker is receiving different electronic signals from the first audio channel, the second stereo speaker including a second diaphragm, the first audio channel comprising audio that is different from the audio comprised by the second audio channel, a second cap covering the second diaphragm of the second stereo speaker, the second cap in fixed relation to the second stereo speaker; an enclosed capsule housing the first and second stereo speakers; a first sound carrying tube, one end of the first sound carrying tube operatively engaged to the first diaphragm and a second end of the first diaphragm connected to a left earpiece, the first sound carrying tube for carrying sound from the first speaker to the left earpiece so as to extend the first audio channel from the first stereo speaker to the left earpiece, the first sound carrying tube configured to distance the first stereo speaker and the first cap from a left ear of a user; a second sound carrying tube, one end of the second sound carrying tube operatively engaged to the second diaphragm and a second end of the second diaphragm connected to a right earpiece, the second sound carrying tube for carrying sound from the second speaker to the right earpiece so as to extend the second audio channel from the second stereo speaker to the right earpiece, the second sound carrying tube configured to distance the second stereo speaker and the second cap from a right ear of the user, the first stereo speaker and the first cap configured such that, independent of the enclosed capsule that houses the first and second stereo speaker, sound entering the first stereo speaker and exiting the first diaphragm is acoustically isolated from the second stereo speaker, sound that has exited the first diaphragm remains acoustically isolated from the second stereo speaker while traveling through the first sound carrying tube to the first earpiece, the second stereo speaker and the second cap configured such that, independent of the enclosed capsule that houses the first and second stereo speaker, sound entering the second stereo speaker and exiting the second diaphragm is acoustically isolated from the first stereo speaker, sound that has exited the second diaphragm remains acoustically isolated from the first stereo speaker while traveling through the second sound carrying tube to the second earpiece, the system configured such that when the user wears the left earpiece in the left ear and the right earpiece in the right ear the audio of the first channel from the left earpiece is audible by the left ear of the user but not the right ear while the audio of the second channel from the right earpiece is simultaneously audible by the right ear of the user so that stereophonic sound is audible by the user, the audio of the second channel not being audible by the left ear.