Patents Represented by Attorney J. S. Spicer
  • Patent number: 5539705
    Abstract: A wireless communication system undetectable by radio frequency methods for converting audio signals, including human voice, to electronic signals in the ultrasonic frequency range, transmitting the ultrasonic signal by way of acoustical pressure waves across a carrier medium, including gases, liquids, or solids, and reconverting the ultrasonic acoustical pressure waves back to the original audio signal. The ultrasonic speech translator and communication system (20) includes an ultrasonic transmitting device (100) and an ultrasonic receiving device (200). The ultrasonic transmitting device (100) accepts as input (115) an audio signal such as human voice input from a microphone (114) or tape deck. The ultrasonic transmitting device (100) frequency modulates an ultrasonic carrier signal with the audio signal producing a frequency modulated ultrasonic carrier signal, which is transmitted via acoustical pressure waves across a carrier medium such as gases, liquids or solids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: M. Alfred Akerman, Curtis W. Ayers, Howard D. Haynes