An audio system includes a plurality of near-field speakers arranged in a listening area. A plurality of cross-talk cancellation filters are coupled to the speakers. The speakers and the filters are arranged to provide first and second listening zones in the listening area such that audio from the first listening zone is cancelled in the second listening zone and vice versa. The system also includes at least one audio source providing audio content. Volume-based equalization circuitry receives an audio signal representing audio content for the first listening zone from the audio source and controls a volume adjustment applied to the audio signal to control a volume of audio in the first listening zone. The circuitry limits attenuation or amplification of a first frequency portion of the audio signal when a volume setting differential corresponding to a difference between volume settings for the first and second zones exceeds a predetermined value.

A method for playback of an audio signal at an individual seat-based sound (ISS) system in a coherent listening environment having a plurality of ISS systems and a plurality of listening modes. Each ISS system has a single transducer. A listening mode and a set of playback preferences are selected. A crosstalk cancellation algorithm for the ISS system of interest is generated using impulse response measurements of the audio signal, taken only in an acoustical domain, of a transfer function between the audio signal directly after the single transducer in the ISS system of interest and the audio signal at the head of the listener in the ISS system of interest. The crosstalk cancellation algorithm for the selected listening mode is applied to the audio signal, and the audio signal is played back at the single transducer of the ISS system of interest.

An audio system includes a plurality of near-field speakers arranged in a listening area. A plurality of cross-talk cancellation filters are coupled to the speakers. The speakers and the filters are arranged to provide first and second listening zones in the listening area such that audio from the first listening zone is cancelled in the second listening zone and vice versa. The system also includes at least one audio source providing audio content. Volume-based equalization circuitry receives an audio signal representing audio content for the first listening zone from the audio source and controls a volume adjustment applied to the audio signal to control a volume of audio in the first listening zone. The circuitry limits attenuation or amplification of a first frequency portion of the audio signal when a volume setting differential corresponding to a difference between volume settings for the first and second zones exceeds a predetermined value.

A personal audio device including multiple output transducers for reproducing different frequency bands of a source audio signal, includes an adaptive noise canceling (ANC) circuit that adaptively generates an anti-noise signal for each of the transducers from at least one microphone signal that measures the ambient audio to generate anti-noise signals. The anti-noise signals are generated by separate adaptive filters such that the anti-noise signals cause substantial cancelation of the ambient audio at their corresponding transducers. The use of separate adaptive filters provides low-latency operation, since a crossover is not needed to split the anti-noise into the appropriate frequency bands. The adaptive filters can be implemented or biased to generate anti-noise only in the frequency band corresponding to the particular adaptive filter. The anti-noise signals are combined with source audio of the appropriate frequency band to provide outputs for the corresponding transducers.

An audio system includes a plurality of near-field speakers arranged in a listening area. A plurality of cross-talk cancellation filters are coupled to the speakers. The speakers and the filters are arranged to provide first and second listening zones in the listening area such that audio from the first listening zone is cancelled in the second listening zone and vice versa. The system also includes at least one audio source providing audio content. Volume-based equalization circuitry receives an audio signal representing audio content for the first listening zone from the audio source and controls a volume adjustment applied to the audio signal to control a volume of audio in the first listening zone. The circuitry limits attenuation or amplification of a first frequency portion of the audio signal when a volume setting differential corresponding to a difference between volume settings for the first and second zones exceeds a predetermined value.

A computer-implemented method for generating crosstalk cancellation (CTC) filters for a reverberant acoustic environment having multiple audio zones, the method comprising determining, based on a CTC simulation model of an acoustic environment, a first set of frequency responses for respective positions proximate to one or more speakers located in the acoustic environment, and a second set of frequency responses for respective listening positions in the acoustic environment, generating, based on the first set of frequency responses and the second set of frequency responses, an acoustic environment transfer function matrix for the acoustic environment, and generating, based on the acoustic environment transfer function matrix, a set of CTC filters for a set of speakers in the acoustic environment.

An audio system includes a plurality of near-field speakers arranged in a listening area. A plurality of cross-talk cancellation filters are coupled to the speakers. The speakers and the filters are arranged to provide first and second listening zones in the listening area such that audio from the first listening zone is cancelled in the second listening zone and vice versa. The system also includes at least one audio source providing audio content. Volume-based equalization circuitry receives an audio signal representing audio content for the first listening zone from the audio source and controls a volume adjustment applied to the audio signal to control a volume of audio in the first listening zone. The circuitry limits attenuation or amplification of a first frequency portion of the audio signal when a volume setting differential corresponding to a difference between volume settings for the first and second zones exceeds a predetermined value.

A method for playback of an audio signal at an individual seat-based sound (ISS) system in a coherent listening environment having a plurality of ISS systems and a plurality of listening modes. Each ISS system has a single transducer. A listening mode and a set of playback preferences are selected. A crosstalk cancellation algorithm for the ISS system of interest is generated using impulse response measurements of the audio signal, taken only in an acoustical domain, of a transfer function between the audio signal directly after the single transducer in the ISS system of interest and the audio signal at the head of the listener in the ISS system of interest. The crosstalk cancellation algorithm for the selected listening mode is applied to the audio signal, and the audio signal is played back at the single transducer of the ISS system of interest.

An apparatus comprising: means for receiving one or more left ear microphone signals; means for receiving one or more right ear microphone signals; means for boosting a left ear sound signal in dependence upon the received one or more right ear microphone signals; means for boosting a right ear sound signal in dependence upon the received one or more left ear microphone signals.