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Sonaptic Announces New 3D Audio Technology for Mobile Devices

Scottsdale, Arizona (ots/PRNewswire)

- True Psychoacoustic, Positional 3D Audio Enables Virtual
Surround Sound, Immersive Audio for Games, Video and Music on Mobile
Phones, Personal Video and Music Players, PDAs and Gaming Platforms
DEMO@15 Event, Sonaptic Limited (High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire,
UK) the acknowledged leader in advanced audio technologies for the
mobile device market, today announced the company's new 3D Audio
Engine for mobile devices. Announced at DEMO@15, the premier event
showcasing the world's most promising new high-tech developments, 3D
Audio Engine brings true psychoacoustic 3D audio to a range of
handheld devices. Sonaptic's technology is portable and has been
especially crafted for the low-power, low resource requirements of
the mobile device environment and is ideally suited for use on mobile
phones, personal video and music players, PDAs and gaming platforms.
Created by the same team that designed the 3D audio for the
Microsoft(R) Xbox(R), Sonaptic's 3D Audio Engine actually surpasses
this quality benchmark to create an immersive, 360-degree sound
environment emanating from the embedded speakers in portable
electronics or from standard headphones. Sonaptic psychoacoustic 3D
audio far surpasses the primitive stereo expansion technology
previously used in these devices. 3D Audio Engine mathematically
models how sound actually enters the human ear and head in software
and applies sophisticated algorithmic processing to the sound. This
allows the listener to experience audio and music in an immersive and
natural fashion, overcoming the inherently limited speaker
capabilities in these devices.
This allows music to come from all around the listener through
speakers or headphones -- it also enables games to create an
environment where sounds appear to come from far behind you, or to
the left and right beyond the confines of the device.
Sonaptic received a rousing reception at DEMO@15, renowned as the
event that launched breakthroughs such as Java(TM), TiVo(R) and
Palm(R). DEMO's Executive Producer Chris Shipley personally selects a
limited number of companies every year to participate in this highly
competitive event. A wide range of journalists and analysts at DEMO
have expressed gratifying excitement at this breakthrough in mobile
audio.
"The Sonaptic 3D Audio Engine is capable of delivering true
psychoacoustic 3D sound on a mobile device using just 20 KB of RAM
and 10% or less of the total available processing power," said David
Monteith, Managing Director of Sonaptic, Ltd. "Sonaptic technology
can redefine the user experience for mobile convergence devices and
we expect this technology to appear in US mobile phones in the second
half of this year, as well as many other consumer  electronics and
peripherals.
The Sonaptic 3D Audio Engine can not only create psychoacoustic 3D
audio from stereo sources, but can also "virtualize" 5.1 or 7.1
surround for movies, trailers or surround-mixed games and music on
the mobile device. The Sonaptic 3D Audio Engine is available for
immediate licensing as either software or as an actual chip from
Sonaptic licensees Rohm(R) and Yamaha(R). Pricing is available upon
request -- email  sales@sonaptic.com for details.
Sonaptic Limited
Sonaptic Limited was founded in 2002 to create effective and
efficient audio technologies for next-generation portable devices.
Sonaptic technology is based on more than 12 years of research by the
company's founders, initially created at EMI Music's Central Research
Laboratories in the 1990's. To learn more about Sonaptic, please
visit the company's website at http://www.sonaptic.com
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