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Audio Spotlighting Complete
Audio Spotlighting Complete
Audio Spotlighting Complete
A SEMINAR REPORT
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
in
ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
by
AUDIO SPOTLIGHTING
Head of Department
Faculty in Charge Electrical and Electronics Engineering
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
It is with great enthusiasm and learning spirit that I bring out this seminar
report. I also feel that it’s the right opportunity to acknowledge the support and
guidance that came in for various quarters during the course of completion of
my seminar.
Audio spot lighting is a very recent technology that creates focused beams of sound similar
to light beams coming out of a flashlight. By ‘shining’ sound to one location, specific
listeners can be targeted with sound without others nearby hearing it. It uses a non-linear
acoustics for its working. But it is real and is better than any conventional loud speaker.
This acoustic device comprises a speaker that fires inaudible ultrasound pulses with very
small wavelength which act in a manner very similar to that of a narrow column. The ultra
sound beam acts as an airborne speaker. Holosonic Research Labs invented the Audio
Spotlight that is made of a sound processor, an amplifier and the transducer. This use
ultrasound based solutions to beam sound into a focused beam. Audio spotlight can be
either directed at a particular listener or to a point where it is reflected. The targeted or
directed audio technology is going to a attain a huge commercial market in entertainment
and consumer electronics and technology. Being the most recent and dramatic change in the
way we perceive sound, audio spot light technology can do many miracles in various fields
like, Home theatre audio system, Navy and military applications, museum displays etc.
Thus audio spotlighting helps us to control where sound comes from and where it goes.
INDEX
1 INTRODUCTION 1
2 THEORY 2
3 TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW 3
4 RANGE OF HEARING 5
5 WORKING 6
6 BEAM DISPERSION 9
7 10
8 MODES OF LISTENING 13
9 ADVANTAGES 14
10 APPLICATIONS 15
12 CONCLUSION 18
13 REFERENCE 19
LIST OF FIGURES
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2 CONVENTIONAL SPEAKERS 4
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6 DIRECTIVITY 7
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10 PARAMETRIC LOUDSPEAKER 12
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