Patent ID: 7532734

Claim:
An apparatus for spatial restitution of a sound to a listener comprising: a pair of headphones each having a bracket defining a protective cushion cupping the respective ear of the listener, said protective cushion generally defining a hemispherical surface, the headphone having at least five speakers positioned on said hemispherical surface, each of the speakers being non-directional; and an omnidirectional sound producing means connected to said pair of headphones, said sound producing means for reproducing a spatial quality of a sound by application of a Huygens Fresnel principle so that a sound surface corresponds to an addition of spherical curves emitted by the five speakers, two adjacent speakers of the five speakers being spaced by a distance less than a distance of one-half of a shortest wavelength corresponding to a given maximum frequency such that the sound is perceived by the listener as being continuous for frequencies less than said given maximum frequency, said given maximum frequency being a frequency that is audible to the ear of the listener.