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Communication system

  • US 4,885,797 A
  • Filed: 06/02/1988
  • Issued: 12/05/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/13/1985
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A communication system for instructing individual members of a group and the group as a whole comprising a transmitter to be used by the instructor and a receiver for each memeber of the group which receiver contains an electric battery and is mounted on an elastically extensible article to be worn on the head of the respective member, each receiver designed to be extensible and to be contained within the extensible article, an input amplifier stabilized by a crystal oscillator and yielding an audio frequency signal, decoding means for sensing a sub-audible tone in that signal identifying that the signal is intended for the entire group or another sub-audible tone identifying that the signal is intended for the particular receiver, an output circuit for passing the signal to audio transducers, one over each ear of the member in use, when the decoding means yields a signal denoting that a sub-audible tone acceptable to that receiver is contained in the audio frequency signal, and in that the transmitter injects a sub-audible continuous tone under the control of the instructer to identify the member to be instructed onto the audio input to the receiver.

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