Re-creating the sound of an audience location area from a measured performance space in a live rehearsal space

• US 10,275,726 B2
• Filed: 09/25/2017
• Issued: 04/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Constellation Productions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Constellation Productions, Inc.
• Inventors: KnicKrehm, Glenn, Bassuet, Alban, Woodger, Andrew Neill
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Paul
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fahnert, Friedrich
• Application Number:
  US15/713,740
• Publication Number:
  US 20180025297A1
• Time in Patent Office: 582 Days
• Field of Search: 381 1, 381 17, 381 56, 381 61, 381 63, 381 83, 381310, 381 18, 381303, 381306, 381307, 310322
• CPC Class Codes: A63J 1/02 Scenery; Curtains; Other decorations; Means for moving same fireproof curtains A62C2/10
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/994 Acoustical surfaces with adjustment mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G01H 7/00 Measuring reverberation time ; room acoustic measurements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/13 Architectural design, e.g. computer-aided architectural design [CAAD] related to design of buildings, bridges, landscapes, production plants or roads
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/20 Design optimisation, verification or simulation optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/14 for acoustics
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/002 Devices for damping, suppressing, obstructing or conducting sound in acoustic devices G10K1/06 - G10K1/10 take precedence; for electro-mechanical transducers for communication H04R3/002
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 15/00 Acoustics not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 29/00 Monitoring arrangements; Testing arrangements for hearing aids H04R25/30; detection of loudspeaker connection H04R5/04; sound-field adaptation dependent on speaker detection H04S7/308

Abstract

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a computer-based method for reproducing a performance sound quality in a rehearsal space, the method comprising accessing a computer stored multi-dimensional sound signature for an audience location in a performance space, receiving sound data from a sound input device in the rehearsal space, modifying the sound data to match a sound characteristic of the multi-dimensional sound signature, and transmitting the modified sound data through a sound output device in the rehearsal space.

Claims

1. A computer-based method for reproducing a performance sound quality in a rehearsal space, the method comprising:

accessing a computer stored multi-dimensional sound signature for an audience location in a performance space;

receiving sound data from a sound input device in the rehearsal space;

modifying the sound data received in the rehearsal space to match a sound characteristic of the multi-dimensional sound signature of the audience location of the performance space; and

simultaneously transmitting the modified sound data matching the sound characteristic of the performance space through a sound output device in the rehearsal space.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the multi-dimensional sound signature comprises a measured sound quality.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the multi-dimensional sound signature comprises a time-based sound reflection sequence within the performance space for at least two sound parameters.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the multi-dimensional sound signature comprises a combination of a plurality of different sound dimensions selected from the group consisting of timing, direction, amplitude, and frequency of sound reflections.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the sound data reduces a difference between an acoustic environment of the rehearsal space and the multi-dimensional sound signature of the audience location in the performance space when the modified sound data is transmitted in the rehearsal space.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the sound input device is a microphone.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the sound output device is a speaker.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the sound output device is a headphone.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the audience location is an area of audience seats in the performance space.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the audience location is a specific seat in the performance space.

11. A system comprising:

an acoustic processing facility accessing a computer stored multi-dimensional sound signature for an audience location in a performance space;

a sound input device receiving sound data, wherein the acoustic processing facility modifies the sound data received in a rehearsal space to match a sound characteristic of the multi-dimensional sound signature of the audience location of the performance space; and

a sound output device to simultaneously transmit the modified sound data matching the sound characteristic of the performance space in the rehearsal space.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the multi-dimensional sound signature comprises a measured sound quality.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the multi-dimensional sound signature comprises a time-based sound reflection sequence within the performance space for at least two sound parameters.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the multi-dimensional sound signature comprises a combination of a plurality of different sound dimensions selected from the group consisting of timing, direction, amplitude and frequency of sound reflections.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein modifying the sound data reduces a difference between an acoustic environment of the rehearsal space and the multi-dimensional sound signature of the audience location in the performance space when the modified sound data is transmitted.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the sound input device is a microphone.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the sound output device is a speaker.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the sound output device is a headphone.

19. The system of claim 11, wherein the audience location is an area of audience seats in the performance space.

20. The system of claim 11, wherein the audience location is a specific seat in the performance space.