INDEX

SL NO. CONTENTS PAGE NO.

1 INTRODUCTION 1
2 THEORY 2
2.1 TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW 3
2.2 RANGE OF HEARING 5
3 WORKING 6
3.1 BEAM DISPERSION 8
3.2 COMPONENTS OF AUDIO SPOTLIGHTING SYSTEM 8
4 MODES OF LISTENING 11
4.1 DIRECT MODE 11
4.2 PROJECTED MODE 11
5 ADVANTAGES 14
6 APPLICATIONS 15
6.1 AUTOMOBILES 13
6.2 RETAIL SALES 13
6.3 SAFETY OFFICIALS 13
6.4 PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT 13
6.5 EMERGENCY RESCUE 13
6.6 ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM 14
6.7 MUSEUMS 14
6.8 MILITARY APPLICATIONS 14
6.9 AUDIO/VIDEO CONFERENCING 14
6.10 SOUND BULLETS 14
7 FUTURE OF AUDIO SPOTLIGHTING 15
8 CONCLUSION 16
9 REFERENCE 17

LIST OF FIGURES
FIGURE NO. FIGURE NAME PAGE
NO.
1 PROPAGATION OF SOUND BEAM 2
2 CONVENTIONAL SPEAKERS 4

3 AUDIO SPOTLIGHTING SPEAKERS 4

4 RANGE OF HEARING 5

5 AUDIO SPOTLIGHTING EMITTER 6

6 DIRECTIVITY 7

7 COMPUTER SIMULATION OF SOUND 7

BEAM
8 DISPERSION OF SOUND BEAM 8

9 BLOCK DIAGRAM OF ASLS 9

10 PARAMETRIC LOUDSPEAKER 10

11 DIRECTEC AND PROJECTED AUDIO 11