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Audio Spotlighting

Audio spot lighting is a new technology that uses ultrasonic frequencies to create a narrow, focused beam of sound similar to a flashlight beam. It works by exploiting the nonlinearity of air to generate an ultrasonic column that can be accurately controlled to produce audible sound in a specific location without others nearby hearing it. The technology uses transducers arranged in an array to propagate ultrasonic signals and form a parametric array, allowing the sound beam to be focused into a narrow 3 degree angle. This directs the sound faster and with less dispersion than traditional speakers.

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Audio Spotlighting

Audio spot lighting is a new technology that uses ultrasonic frequencies to create a narrow, focused beam of sound similar to a flashlight beam. It works by exploiting the nonlinearity of air to generate an ultrasonic column that can be accurately controlled to produce audible sound in a specific location without others nearby hearing it. The technology uses transducers arranged in an array to propagate ultrasonic signals and form a parametric array, allowing the sound beam to be focused into a narrow 3 degree angle. This directs the sound faster and with less dispersion than traditional speakers.

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AUDIO SPOTLIGHTING

INTRODUCTION
Audio spot lighting is a very recent technology that creates a focussed beams of sound similar to light beams coming out of a flash light. Specific listeners can be targeted with sound without others nearby hearing it. It makes use of non-linearity property of air.

CONVENTIONAL SPEAKERS

AUDIO SPOTLIGHTING

HOW IS THE SOUND FOCUSED INTO A NARROW BEAM???


Maintain a low beam angle that is dictated by wavelength. The smaller the wavelength,the less the beam angle, the more focussed will be the sound. The audio spot light uses ultrasonic energy to create extremely narrow beams of sound .

FOCUSED BEAM OF SOUND

The ultrasound column acts as a airborne speaker,and as the beam moves through the air gradual distortion takes place in a predictable way.this gives rise to audible components that can be accurately predicted and controlled..

DEMONSTRATION OF HOW INVISIBLE ULTRASOUND WAVE WORKS

RANGE OF HEARING

WORKING
Ultra sonic frequencies :21 khz to 28 khz Wavelength :few millimeters Beam angle :3 degree Narrow beam with small dispersion

AUDIO SPOTLIGHTING EMITTER

DISPERSION OF SOUND BEAM

BLOCK DIAGRAM OF AN AUDIO SPOLIGHTING SYSTEM

TRANSDUCER: These transducers are arranged in form of an array called parametric array in order to propagate the ultrasonic signals from the emitter and thereby to exploit the nonlinearity property of air.

MODES OF LISTENING:

ADVANTAGES
Can focus sound only at the place you want. Ultrasonic emitter devices are thin and flat . The directed sound travels much faster . Dispersion can be controlled. Highly cost effective and longer life span. Requires same power as required for regular speakers. There is no lag in reproducing the sound..

APPLICATIONS:

AUTOMOBILES

SAFETY OFFICIALS MILITARY APPS AUDIO/VIDEO CONFERENCING SOUND BULLETS

MUSEUMS

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

RETAIL SALES

CONCLUSION
Even the best loudspeakers are subject to distortion and their omni direction sound is annoying to the people in the vicinity who do not wish to.the audio spotlight will force people to rethink their relationship with sound.audio spotlighting really

PUT SOUND WHERE YOU WANT IT

REFERENCE
1) F. Joseph Pompei. The use of airborne ultrasonics for generating audible sound beams. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, P. J. Westervelt. Parametric acoustic array. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2)Thomas D. Kite, John T. Post, and Mark F. Hamilton. Parametric array in air: Distortion reduction by preprocessing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 3) Jacqueline Naze Tjotta and Sigve Tjotta. Nonlinear interaction of two collinear,spherically spreading sound beams. 4) www.silentsound.co.za Silent sound. 5)www.wikipedia.org - Sound from Ultrasound. 6) www.howstuffworks.com 7)www.techalone.com-audio spotlighting. 8)www.holosonics.com 9)Electronics for you-vol.40 January 2008.

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