Abstract: The device is now a squarely-truncated horizontal cylinder capped at each end by a circular disc central to which is placed a transducer. With amplification the device yields the sound spectrum which can be heard in consciousness. The cylinder is extended just sufficiently to accommodate truncation at 35 degrees 16 minutes yielding a chiral pair of elliptical openings which, with amplification, add cues to sound-source localization and range determination which are not heard but are known subconsciously. The long axes of the elliptical openings are set orthogonally at 45 degrees to the horizon, thus allowing correct spatial orientation. Elliptical caps, with open edges, are applied to the elliptical ends of the device hiding the transducers from view and from direct sound. To cancel internally generated resonances the enclosed spaces are filled with fine irregularly-shaped particulate matter.

Abstract: A microphone has a hollow cylindrical housing with a lateral axis, and two non-parallel elliptical end faces oriented mirror symmetrically with respect to a plane perpendicular to the lateral axis. Two circular transducer mounting plates extend across the housing, adjacent the end faces, perpendicular to the lateral axis and carry two microphone transducers mounted centrally in the mounting plates for receiving sound from outside the transducer mounting plates. The ends of the housing are covered with end panels of an air-pervious material. Sound-damping tragus pads are secured to inner faces of the end panels, with each tragus pad having an elliptical periphery spaced from the housing to provide an undamped elliptical path for the transmission of sound. In use, the microphone is normally positioned with the lateral axis horizontal and the long axes of the two elliptical end faces converging downwardly to a front side of the microphone to meet at a dihedral angle of 70 degrees 32 minutes.

Abstract: A sound receiving and sound reproduction apparatus includes a microphone and loudspeaker. The microphone has a cylindrical transducer housing with a centre section and two end sections. The centre section has elliptical and faces that converge mirror-symmetrically downwardly and towards the front of the microphone. The end sections are solid blocks that are spaced from the centre section and have similarly oriented end faces. In the loudspeaker, there are three components, a centre unit with centre and end sections spaced slightly along a common axis and two end components spaced to opposite ends of the centre unit. In each case, the speakers radiate through elliptical gaps that converge upwardly to a centre plane of the loudspeaker unit. Periodic chambers are connected to each of the units of the loudspeaker.

Abstract: The invention comprises a microphone and loud speaker system in which the components include a cylinder having a center section and an end section at each end of the center section in axial alignment with one another. The adjacent ends of the center and end sections are elliptical and lie in planes oriented at an angle of 35.degree.16' to the longitudinal axis of the module, the long axes of the ellipses are oriented at 45.degree. to horizontal. The planes of the elliptical ends are substantially isomorphic to the tympanic membrane of the human hearing structure and represent half the dihedral angle of a regular tetrahedron. All of the loudspeaker transducers are shielded by sheilding cylinders with elliptical end faces lying in planes oriented, at half the dihedral angle of a regular tetrahedron, namely, 35.degree.16' to the axes of the cylinders, with the long axes of the ellipses oriented at 45.degree. to the horizontal.

Abstract: A triaxial or four-dimensional radiant energy transducer system is embodied in an omniphonic microphone and loudspeaker system as it relates to the sound spectrum. This is a system which is capable of detecting the location and direction of a source of sound and, conversely, is capable of re-presenting the location and direction of that source of sound.