Patent ID: 6144747
Filing Date: 2000-11-07
Classification: H04R,H04S

Abstract:
A personal surround sound system for an individual listener, comprising:a receiver for receiving the individual decoded speaker signals corresponding to a single original performance or sound track for a surround sound system comprised of four speaker signals, left front, left rear, right front and right rear speaker signals representing sound sources disposed in an azimuthal plane in respective first positions;a head mounted binaural speaker system having a right binaural speaker disposed proximate to the right ear of the listener and a left binaural speaker disposed proximate to the left ear of the speaker;a virtual positioning system for positioning each of said left front, left rear, right front and right rear speaker signals relative to the listener such that said virtually positioned left front, left rear, right front and right rear speaker signals can be transmitted proximate to the right and left ear of the listener as binaural signals through said right and left binaural speakers, but are actually perceived by the listener as being within, or displaced above or below said azimuthal plane relative to said first positions of the associated left front, left rear, right front and right rear speaker signals; anda combiner for combining said virtually positioned left front, left rear, right front and right rear speaker signals such that all four virtually positioned left front, left rear, right front and right rear speaker signals are combined to drive said right and left binaural speakers.