Sound recording system

• US 4,141,344 A
• Filed: 03/02/1978
• Issued: 02/27/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Louis J. Barbara
• Original Assignee: Louis J. Barbara
• Inventors: Barbara, Louis J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kamm, William E.
• Application Number:
  US05/882,777
• Time in Patent Office: 362 Days
• Field of Search: 128/1 C, 128/1 R, 128/2.1 B, 328/158, 328/160, 360/18
• US Class Current: 600/28
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/369 Electroencephalography [EEG] devices for psychotechnics A61B5/16
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/372 Analysis of electroencephalograms
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/384 Recording apparatus or displays specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0027 by the hearing sense
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 21/00 Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis

Abstract

In recording an audio program, such as music or voice, on a magnetic tape recorder an A.C. signal generator operating at a frequency below about 14 Hz. provides an A.C. baseline for the audio program signal. This 14 Hz. or lower A.C. signal is sensed by the listener'"'"'s ear to create an Alpha or Theta state in his brain when the tape is played back.

Claims

1. In a recording system for a sound recorder having an input, the combination of:

a signal generator for generating an A.C. signal of predetermined amplitude within the frequency range below about 14 Hz.;

means for combining additively with said A.C. signal an audio program signal falling substantially within a frequency range substantially above 14 Hz. and of substantially smaller amplitude than the maximum amplitude of said A.C. signal;

and means for applying the additively combined audio program signal and A.C. signal to the sound recorder input.

2. A recording system according to claim 1, wherein said A.C. signal has an amplitude within the range from about three to five times the mean amplitude of said audio program signal.

3. A recording system according to claim 1, wherein said A.C. signal is a sine wave with an amplitude substantially four times the mean amplitude of said audio program signal.

4. A recording system according to claim 1, wherein said means for combining the audio program signal with said A.C. signal comprises:

step-down transformer means having a primary and a secondary;

means for applying the audio program signal to the primary of said step-down transformer means;

volume control means having its input operatively connected to the secondary of said step-down transformer means;

step-up transformer means having a primary operatively connected to the output of said volume control means and having a secondary;

potentiometer means operatively connected to the secondary of said step-up transformer means, said potentiometer means having an adjustable tap connected to one input terminal of said sound recorder;

and means connecting said A.C. signal generator across one terminal of said potentiometer means and another input terminal of the sound recorder to add said A.C. signal to said audio program signal.

5. A recording system according to claim 4, wherein:

said primary of said step-up transformer means has one terminal thereof connected directly to said other input terminal of the sound recorder;

and said primary of said step-down transformer means has one terminal thereof connected directly to said other input terminal of the sound recorder.

6. A recording system according to claim 5, wherein:

said step-up transformer means is a single transformer;

said step-down transformer means is a single transformer;

and the input to the sound recorder has just two input terminals.

7. A recording system according to claim 5, wherein:

said step down transformer means consists of two transformers, one for each stereo channel;

said volume control means consists of two separate volume controls operatively connected respectively to the individual step-down transformers;

said step-up transformer means consists of two separate transformers operatively connected respectively to the individual volume controls;

and the input to the sound recorder has three input terminals, one of which is said other input terminal to which that A.C. signal generator is connected.

8. A recording system according to claim 4, wherein said A.C. signal has an amplitude within the range from substantially three to five times the mean amplitude of said audio program signal.

9. A recording system according to claim 5, wherein said A.C. signal is a sine wave with an amplitude substantially four times the mean amplitude of said audio program signal.