Patent ID: 7760891

Claim:
A method for processing hypersonic signals performed by a hypersonic signal-emitting device, comprising: generating a signal; and forming a plurality of individual transducer outputs of the signal at a plurality of phases, the outputs having a common frequency and amplitude, the individual transducer outputs generating wavelets originating at a common origin with reference to a first axis, and the plurality of phases being generated using electronic delays; forming a plurality of focused hypersonic beams based on the wavelets; receiving a plurality of reflected hypersonic signals; simultaneously detecting a plurality of objects based on the plurality of reflected hypersonic signals; learning, based on the plurality of reflected hypersonic signals, sets of transmission parameters that are sets of phases for optimally steering and focusing the hypersonic beams in order to focus (maximize) transmission of the hypersonic beams and audible power to the plurality of objects, the learning including associating a set of transmission parameters with each of a plurality of detected objects, storing the sets of transmission parameters and computing a resultant set of transmission parameters based on the stored sets of transmission parameters; generating the plurality of hypersonic wavelets based on the resultant set of transmission parameters associated with a plurality of neighborhoods for the hypersonic beams; and transmitting audio information to the plurality of objects detected at locations corresponding to the neighborhoods based on the resultant set of transmission parameters.