Three dimensional audio speaker array

A system, comprising:

• an acoustically transparent screen;
• a projector configured to project video onto the screen;
• a front speaker array behind the screen;
• a left speaker array extending orthogonal to the front speaker array and the screen;
• a right speaker array extending orthogonal to the front speaker array and the screen;
• and
• a sound processor that is configured to cause a speaker in the front speaker array, a speaker in the left speaker array, and a speaker in the right speaker array to emit a sound based on a location of an image object projected on the screen by the projector,
• wherein the sound processor is configured to:
• determine an X-Y-Z location of the sound;
• determine the speaker in the front speaker array based on an X-Y coordinate of the X-Y-Z location of the sound;
• and
• determine the speaker in the left speaker array and the speaker in the right speaker array based on a Z coordinate of the X-Y-Z location of the sound.

A computer program product for audio control, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to:

• receive a source signal;
• determine a location of a sound associated with an image object projected on a screen based on the source signal;
• determine at least one speaker to play the sound;
• and
• transmit a signal to the at least one speaker to play the sound,
• wherein the determining the location of the sound comprises one of:
• determining an X-Y-Z location of the sound by decoding data encoded in the source signal;
• and
• determining an X-Y location of a sound associated with a projected image object by:
• analyzing a video component of a source signal, using image analysis, to identify a predefined object;
• and analyzing an audio component of the source signal to identify a sound associated with the identified object.