(1) What is "External localization of headphones"?

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A dog is yelping on the right forward.

 People can determine sound direction by sensing a little difference of sounds.
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 Well, let's record a dog's yelp in order to hear it slightly louder on the right.

(1) Modulate louder on the right.
(2) Modulate lower on the left.

 This is the same as an usual recording method. Let's try listening to this sound!

 A dog is yelping on a little left side in your head. The sound cannot locate in the out of your head even a dog is in any directions or distances.(Picture1-2)

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A dog is around here.

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You can sense the sound from outside of your head.

 But Arnis's technology can release the sound from the inside of your head.

(2) What is "External localization of speakers"?

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 Please imagine that you are watching TV.

 There are three persons in the television, they are standing in line.(Picture2-1)

 The center one is focused on and they are having a conversation.

 You can naturally hear their voice from speakers of the television as shown in Picture2-2.

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Hi, Hello, How do you do?

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Hi, Hello, How do you do?

 But you surely catch their voice like Picture2-3 indeed.

 Thus, like this, Arnis's Technology let you be able to hear from where there are no speakers.

(3) What kind of devices are required?

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 You can enjoy Arnis's Next-Generation Spatial Acoustic Sound through two ways.

 One is, to listen to the sound contents that have already been edited under Next-Generation Spatial Acoustic Sound Technology. No any devices are required in this way.
 You can use your own stereo headphone or stereo speakers.
 Sound sources can be available in the page of "enjoy ARNIS sound".

 The other is, to use an audio player in which Arnis's sound technology is embedded. You can enjoy any sound sources through this as Next-Generation Spatial Acoustic Sound.

 In the near future, we are sure to produce such dreamy items.
 Please look forward to our new products appearing.

(4) What is "Binaural recording method"?

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 A binaural recording method uses a dummy-head which was made to be like a human head shape where microphones are embedded inside of the ears.

 When we listen to the sound recorded through a dummy-head, the sound can be heard at the outside of our ears.
But, as this way limits sound positions or sound directions at recording, they cannot be changed later.

 We (Arnis Sound Technologies) can let you hear sounds at the outside of headphones or speakers by processing the sounds recorded through ordinary method.

(5) What is "Fixed point DSP"?

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 It is a low-priced, small and low-electric-power device.
 It had been quite difficult and  hard to create 3-D acoustic sounds using such processors.

 We (Arnis Sound Technologies) have made it possible to create 3-D acoustic sounds though fixed point DSPs' calculation ability that requires comparatively low accuracy.

(6) What is "Real-time processing"?

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 For example, how do you take it that if it takes 10 minutes to process 3 minutes' sound into 3-D acoustic sound?
 Therefore, you will not manage to listen using your CD players as usual, since it takes too much time.

 However, the real-time processing is to calculate in a shorter time than an actual time.
 For example, you can see some sound effects switches on your CD players or stereo system. They use DSPs.

 So many ways of processing or calculations had been required to create 3-D acoustic sound for a long time.
 Our technology has made it possible to calculate and create 3-D acoustic sounds shorter than a length of an actual time.

(7) What is "Embedded system"?

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 It is to embed something parts in devices.
 If we can enjoy 3-D acoustic sounds only by using small and low-priced embedded fixed point DSPs...

 Let's try to find and create enjoyable way of use.

(8) About sounds from the front by headphone

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 As you know, headphones cover our ears.
 That is to say that headphones make you listen to sounds by only ears.
 Someone may say that "Sounds are always heard from the outside of us and we feel them by our ears."
 When we feel sounds, we feel not only by ears but also by vibrations of our bones and skins, senses of sights, perceptions or surroundings using many of our senses.
 It will be unnatural sounds when sounds move around if sounds from the front are reproduced only on information from our ears.
 Arnis Sound Technologies thinks that it is more important for us to listen to natural sounds than to adhere to unnatural sounds from the front. 
 Though we can provide sounds from the front, they may not be clear as we produce them not to be unnatural sounds.