AUDIO SPOT LIGHTING

Presented by,
Subith M.P.
S7 EEE
Roll no:55
 INTRODUCTION
What is audio spot lighting?
 Invented by Dr. F. Joseph Pompei.
 It is the Production of focused beams of Sound
 Combination of Non-Linear Acoustics & Fancy
Mathematics.
 Uses Ultra-sonic Energy to create Narrow beams
of sound
 Non Linearity of the AIR aid the device for its
working
 Device used: Parametric Array
 How does ordinary sound system work?
 Piezoelectric Tweeters.
 Speakers.
 Woofers etc.

What ordinary audible sound &

Conventional Loud Speakers lack?
 Difficulty in reproducing clean bass.
 Has to rely on a large woofer/enclosure
combination for it.
 Dynamic, Electrostatic, or any Transducer-based
design, all loudspeakers today have one thing in
common: they are Direct Radiating.
 The Audible Portions of the Sound spreads out in
all directions
THEORY
 Audio spot lighting is a technology that creates
focused beams of sound similar to light beams
coming out of a flashlight.
 By ‘shining’ sound to one location, specific
listeners can be targeted with sound without
others nearby hearing it.
 The Audio Spotlight & Hyper Sonic Sound
Technology (developed by American Technology
Corporation), uses ultrasonic energy to create
extremely narrow beams of sound that behave
like beams of light.
WORKING
 Low Beam Angle is required to focus the Sound.
 Smaller the Wave length, Lesser the Beam Angle.
 Another way to Focus sound is to increase
Aperture size of Speakers(10m dia for 20Hz)
practcally difficult.
AUDIO SPOTLIGHT CREATES FOCUSED BEAM OF SOUND
UNLIKE CONVENTIONAL LOUD SPEAKERS …

Audio spotlight looks like a disc-shaped loudspeaker,

trailing a wire, with a small laser guide-beam mounted
in the middle.
Technology Overview
 Developed by American Technology Corporation
 Uses ultrasonic energy to create extremely
narrow beams of sound that behave like
beams of light.
 Ultrasonic sound has very small wavelength—in
the millimeter range and lies beyond the
threshold of human hearing
OMPONENTS AND SPECIFICATION

 Audio Spotlight consists of three major

components:
1. A Thin, Circular Transducer Array.
2. A Signal Processor .
3. An Amplifier.
 It works with the principle of Linearity of Air
 NON-LINEARITY OF AIR
 When inaudible ultrasound pulses are fired into the air,
it spontaneously converts the inaudible ultrasound into
audible sound tones.
 A device known as a parametric array employs the non-
linearity of the air to create audible by-products from
inaudible ultrasound, resulting in an extremely
directive, beamlike wide-band acoustical source.
 The ultrasound column acts as an airborne speaker
 Human speech, as well as music, contains multiple
varying frequency signals.
 Then came the idea of using pure ultrasound
signals as a carrier wave.
 Airborne ultrasounds of

28kHz are envelope-

modulated with audio
signals. Inherent non-linearity
of the air works as a
de-modulator.
PARAMETRIC
Thus de-modulated sounds impinge on our
LOUDSPEAKER

eardrums. We can hear those sounds!

 Similar to the idea of Amplitude Modulation
(AM).
 The speech and music signals are mixed with the
pure ultrasound carrier wave, and the resultant
hybrid wave is then broadcast.
 Berktay’s equation holds strong here
P2(x,t)=KPc2-∂2/ ∂t2(E(x,t)

P2(x,t)=Audible secondary
pressure wave
K=Misc physical
parameters
Pc=SPL of the ultrasonic
carrier wave
E(x,t)=Envelope function
COMPUTER SIMULATION OF SOUND PROPAGATION:
COMPLEX SET OF HIGH-INTENSITY ULTRASOUND SIGNALS
INTERMODULATEAIR

CONVENTIONAL LOUDSPEAKER & ULTRASONIC

EMITTER
There are two ways to use Audio Spotlight
SPECIAL FEATURES OF AUDIO SPOTLIGHT

 
•Creates highly FOCUSED BEAM of sound
 
•Sharper directivity than conventional loud
speakers using Self demodulation of finite
amplitude ultrasound with very small
wavelength as the carrier
 
•Uses inherent non-linearity of air for
demodulation