Moving object equipped with ultra-directional speaker

• US 20070183618A1
• Filed: 02/10/2005
• Published: 08/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Sakai, Shinichi, Tsujino, Hiroshi, Okuno, Hiroshi, Nakadai, Kazuhiro, Ishii, Masamitsu
• Application Number:
  US10/588,801
• Publication Number:
  US 20070183618A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/387
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/323 for loudspeakers H04R1/34 and H04R1/40 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2201/401 2D or 3D arrays of transducers
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2217/03 Parametric transducers where sound is generated or captured by the acoustic demodulation of amplitude modulated ultrasonic waves
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2430/20 Processing of the output signals of the acoustic transducers of an array for obtaining a desired directivity characteristic H04R2203/12 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 27/00 Public address systems circuits for preventing acoustic reaction H04R3/02; circuits for distributing signals to loudspeakers H04R3/12; monitoring or testing arrangements for public address systems H04R29/007; amplifiers H03F
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 3/12 for distributing signals to two or more loudspeakers specially adapted for hearing aids H04R25/407

Abstract

An ultra-directional speaker having a modulator 33 for modulating an ultrasonic carrier signal with an input electric signal from an audible sound signal source, and an emitter 44 for emitting an output of the modulator 33 is mounted in a moving object 1 having a target tracking system for sensing a target in a surrounding space in real time using the above-mentioned emitter 44. The moving object equipped with ultra-directional speaker can therefore transmit a voice only to a specific target through parametric action caused by the nonlinearity of finite amplitude of ultrasonic wave.

Claims

1. A moving object equipped with ultra-directional speaker, characterized in that said moving object has a nondirectional speaker and an ultra-directional speaker, and is also equipped with a visual module, an auditory module, a motor control module, and an integration unit that integrates them with one another, so that said moving object can simultaneously transmit sounds to a specific target and an unspecified target, respectively.

2. The moving object equipped with ultra-directional speaker according to claim 1, characterized in that said moving object transmits a sound only to the specific target by using a target tracking means that recognizes and tracks a target, and an emitter orientation control means that controls an emitter so that the emitter is oriented toward the target tracked by said target tracking means.

3. The moving object equipped with ultra-directional speaker according to claim 2, characterized in that said moving object transmits different voices to the specific target and unspecified target, respectively, by transmitting the voice to the unspecified target by using the nondirectional speaker, and transmitting the voice to the specific target by using the ultra-directional speaker.