{"title":"A comparative study of preprocessing methods in the parametric loudspeaker","authors":"Chuang Shi, Y. Kajikawa","doi":"10.1109/APSIPA.2014.7041678","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The parametric loudspeaker is a directional sound reproduction device making use of the parametric sound generation. A sound beam is formed as a result of nonlinear interactions between ultrasonic beams. The parametric loudspeaker is advantageous in transmitting an equally narrow sound beam from a smaller emitter as compared to the conventional loudspeaker. Due to this advantage, parametric loudspeakers are readily applied in a variety of sound field control applications, such as creation of personal listening spots, spatial audio reproduction, and active noise control. However, there is a long concerned drawback of the parametric loudspeaker, whereby harmonic and intermodulation distortions are byproducts of the parametric sound generation. Hence, a comparative study of six preprocessing methods, including two proposed methods from this paper, is carried out. Harmonic and intermodulation distortions are demonstrated by experiments.","PeriodicalId":231382,"journal":{"name":"Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA), 2014 Asia-Pacific","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"12","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA), 2014 Asia-Pacific","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APSIPA.2014.7041678","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The parametric loudspeaker is a directional sound reproduction device making use of the parametric sound generation. A sound beam is formed as a result of nonlinear interactions between ultrasonic beams. The parametric loudspeaker is advantageous in transmitting an equally narrow sound beam from a smaller emitter as compared to the conventional loudspeaker. Due to this advantage, parametric loudspeakers are readily applied in a variety of sound field control applications, such as creation of personal listening spots, spatial audio reproduction, and active noise control. However, there is a long concerned drawback of the parametric loudspeaker, whereby harmonic and intermodulation distortions are byproducts of the parametric sound generation. Hence, a comparative study of six preprocessing methods, including two proposed methods from this paper, is carried out. Harmonic and intermodulation distortions are demonstrated by experiments.