AUDIO SPOTLIGHTING

PRESENTED BY:
NAMRATA MAURYA
EI-4rth Year
0712232035
INTODUCTION
 Audio spot lighting produces audio
beam like a flash light.
 Make use of interference from
ultrasonic waves.
 Potentially great dynamic range(better
than speaker cones).
THEORY
 Audio spotlighting is a technology that
creates focused beam of sound similar to light
beam coming out of a flash light.
 By shining sound to one location, specific
listeners can be targated with sound without
others nearby hearing it.
 The audio spotlighting & hyper sound
technology uses ultrasonic energy to create
extremely beams of sound thaht.t behave like
beams of light.
Technology
 It is developed by “American
tecnology corporation” uses
Ultrasonic energy to create
extremely narrow beam of
sound that behave like beam
of light .
 Ultrasonic sound is that
sound that has very small
wavelength in the milimeter
range and you can not hear
Ultrasound since it lies
beyond the threshold of
human hearing.
TWO WAYS TO USE AUDIO
SPOTLIGHT:
Components &Specifications:-
 Audio Spotlight Transducer-
 Light weight,nonmagnetic transducer.
 1.27 cm thick and 30.48cm in diameter.
 It can project a three-degree wide beam of sound over 100
meters distance.

 The sound beam Processor/Amplifier-

 These are integrated into a system about the size of a
traditional amplifier and they use about the same amount of
power.
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 speaker(10m
dia for 20Hz)practcally difficult.
Special Features of Audio
Spotlight:
 A comparison with conventional LoudSpeaker:-
 Creates highly focused beam of sound.
 Sharper directivity than conventional loudspeaker.
 Uses inherent non-linearity of air for demodulation.
 Highly cost effective.
Range of Hearing
 The human ear is sensitive
to frequency ranging from
20 to 20,000Hz.
 If the range of human
hearing is expressed as % of
shift from the lowest audible
frequency to highest it spans
a range of 100,000%.
 No single loudspeaker
element can operate
efficiently over such a wide
range of frequencies.
 Using this it is possible to
design a perfect transducer
which can work over a wide
range of frequency which is
Application
Automobiles-Beam alert signals can be directly propogated from
an announcement device in the dashboard to the driver.
Public announcement-Highly focused announcement in the noisy
environment such as subway,airport,parks,traffic intersections
etc.
 Safety officials-Portable audio spotlighting devices for
communicating with a specific person in a crowd of people.
 Military applications-Ship to ship communication and ship board
announcement.
 Entertainment system-In home theatre system(properties of
sound can be improved).
Advantages
Can focus sound only at the place you want.
The focused or directed sound travels much
faster in a straight line than conventional
loudspeaker.
Dispersion can be controlled.
Can reduce or eliminate the feed back from
microphones.
There is no lag in reproducing the sound.
Future of Audio spotlighting
Even the best loudspeaker are subject to distortion &
their omni directional sound is annoying to the
people in the vicinity who do no wish to listen.
Audio spotlighting system holds the promise of
replacing convetional speakers.It allows the user to
control the direction of propogation of sound.
The audio spotlight will force people to rethink their
relationship with sound.
Audio spotlight really “put sound where you want it”.
Conclusion
 Audio spotlight is really going to make a
revolution in sound transmission and the user
can decide the path in which audio signal
should propogate.
 Due to unidirectional propogation it finds
application in large number of fields.
 Audio spotlighting system is going to shape
the future of sound and will serve our ears
with magical experience.c
THANK YOU
 NON-LINEARITY OF AIR
 Audio spotlighting exploits the property of non-linearity of air.
 When inaudible ultrasound pulses are fired into the air, it
spontaneously converts the inaudible ultrasound into audible
sound tones, hence proved that as with water, sound
propagation in air is just as non-linear, and can be calculated
mathematically.
 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.
 This source can be projected about an area much like a
spotlight, and creates an actual spatialized sound distant from
the transducer.
EXAMPLE
PARAMETRIC LOUDSPEAKER- AMAZING AUDIO SPOTLIGHT
 The Audio Spotlight uses a beam of ultrasound as a "virtual
acoustic source", enabling unprecedented control of sound
distribution. The graph to the right shows the real sound field of
the The Audio Spotlight uses a beam of ultrasound as a "virtual
acoustic source", enabling unprecedented control of sound
distribution. The graph to the right shows the real sound field of
the Audio Spotlight versus the theoretical maximum directivity
of any loudspeaker, panel, dome, or "shower" of the same size.
As shown by this comparison, no loudspeaker in the world can
approach the level of control provided by Audio Spotlight
technology.