DocumentCode
2631899
Title
Generation of audible sound with ultrasonic signals through the human body
Author
Kim, S.E. ; Hwang, J.H. ; Kang, T.W. ; Kang, S.W. ; Sohn, S.W.
Author_Institution
SoC Applic. Res. Team, Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst. (ETRI), Daejeon, South Korea
fYear
2012
fDate
4-6 June 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
This paper presents an innovative hearing system. The hearing system generates audible sound in the ears without any receivers, and no one can hear the generated sound except the user. The theory for generating audible sound is based on a self-demodulation effect which arises from the nonlinearity of the transmission medium. The nonlinear acoustics of the human body allow ultrasonic waves to interact in the transmission medium. When two ultrasonic waves with different frequencies are transmitted through the human body, an audio signal at the difference frequency of two waves is produced in the ears due to the self-demodulation effect.
Keywords
biomedical ultrasonics; ear; hearing aids; audible sound generation; ears; hearing system; human body; nonlinear acoustics; self-demodulation effect; ultrasonic signal; ultrasonic wave; Acoustics; Amplitude modulation; Arrays; System-on-a-chip; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic transducers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Consumer Electronics (ISCE), 2012 IEEE 16th International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Harrisburg, PA
ISSN
0747-668X
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-1354-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ISCE.2012.6241713
Filename
6241713
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