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US 8,620,006 B2Granted
Center channel rendering
AssigneeBose Corporation
InventorsWilliam Berardi, Hilmar Lehnert, Guy Torio
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Abstract
An audio system including a rendering processor for separately rendering a dialogue channel and a center music channel. The audio system may include circuitry for extracting one or both of the dialogue channel or the center music channel from program material that does not include both a dialogue channel and a center music channel. The dialogue channel and the center music channel may be radiated with different radiation patterns.
Claims16
A multichannel audio system comprising:
- a rendering processor for separately rendering a center dialogue channel and a center music channel;
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- a channel extractor for extracting at least one of the center dialogue channel and the center music channel from program material that does not include both of the dialogue channel and the center music channel;
- wherein the rendering processor is coupled to an array of acoustic drivers.
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A multichannel audio signal processing system comprising
- a discrete center channel input;
- a left input channel;
- a right input channel;
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- signal processing circuitry to process the discrete center channel input and the left and right input channels to create a center music channel.
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A multichannel audio processing system comprising:
- a channel extractor for extracting at least one of a dialogue channel and a center music channel from program material that does not include both of the dialogue channel and the center music channel.
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