About Us
To contact us regarding investment, licensing or partnering:
Michael Stauffer
VP, Circular Logic
Boca Raton FL, USA
(215) 386-7375
Contact via email
Business Opportunity
Interactive audio technologies depend on signal processing algorithms to process sound. These technologies enable interaction between people and computer systems, and are core components leading to next generation audio devices such as music systems, auditory prostheses, and speech recognition systems. Circular Logic's breakthrough patented technology enables nonlinear signal processing to be effectively and efficiently implemented in digital hardware or software.
The company is building its core business in the computer music market, with 2.7 million users for our technologies. We plan to subsequently target the hearing aid and cochlear implant markets with 700 million potential users, and the speech technology market which reaches most everyone using a communications technology. We will produce consumer software products in the computer music market. We plan to license our technology in the hearing aid, cochlear implant and other markets, and we seek licensees to integrate our technology into end-user products, and strategic partners to collaborate in end-use product development.
Industry Problem
Current generation audio technologies don't work as well as they should. The problem is that state-of-the-art audio signal processing technologies employ linear systems almost exclusively, approximating human auditory capabilities only roughly. Next-generation signal processing algorithms must mimic the remarkable capabilities of human auditory perception, capabilities that arise from nonlinear processes in the auditory system. If signal processing algorithms were able to mimic these capabilities, many limitations of audio technologies would disappear.
Technology
Circular Logic's technology is based on the observation that non-linear oscillators can be entrained (phase-locked) and that coupled non-linear oscillators can mimic natural processes. Circular Logic has developed these basic ideas into a patented process for real-time audio processing that emulates the essential features of human auditory processing, including noise rejection and signal creation.
Advantages and Differentiating Features
Our technology enables signal processing by networks of nonlinear oscillators. This is similar to a signal processing by a bank of linear filters, with the important difference that the processing units are nonlinear. Oscillators can be connected together into complex networks, and connectivity patterns can be learned automatically. Nonlinearities lead directly to improved noise tolerance, improved recognition of complex patterns such as pitches, phonemes and rhythmic structures, and improved ability to segregate sounds that originate from multiple environmental sources.
Applications & Benefits
Our technology will power the next generation of interactive audio applications. Music performance systems will be able to follow the tempo of complex rhythms. Music transcription systems will be able to identify individual notes in a chord. Hearing aid wearers will be better able to understand speech in a noisy room. Speech transcription systems will function even amidst background noise. Cochlear implant users will experience drastically improved sound quality.
