Sweet spot size of virtual acoustic imaging systems at asymmetric listener locations

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 112, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 1992-2002

  Rose, John ^a   Nelson, Philip ^a   Rafaely, Boaz ^a   Takeuchi, Takashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; WAVE FILTERS;

HEAD LOCATIONS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPOLE; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACOUSTICS; AMPLIFIERS; HEAD; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POSTURE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0036840494     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1510532     Document Type: Article

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