FIELD OF INVENTION

The present invention generally relates to processing, storage and transmission of audible and inaudible waveforms in digital media.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Human brains perceive audible and inaudible wave signals and respond to the signals by operating at different mental states when signals of different frequencies, pitch and loudness (amplitude) are perceived. The operation of the brain at certain mental state in turn affects the physiology and psychology of the body, which is reflected through the emotional and health quality.

A wave signal vibrates at an increased amplitude or power that stimulate a desired mental state when the frequency at which it vibrates is the same or close to the natural frequency of the system (e.g. human body) on which it acts. This is known as the resonance phenomenon. As little was known about the exact characteristics of wave signals which achieves resonance to stimulate the desired mental or physiological states, various research is being done to elucidate such characteristics and to find ways to process and transmits such wave signals in order to enable perception by the human mind (brain) and body to stimulate beneficial effects due to the transmitted signals. Apart from processing and modulating signal waveforms to achieve such effects, there is also a need to configure a device capable of delivering such signals to users.

The present invention provides a device and method for processing, storing and transmitting such signals that are modulated to stimulate beneficial states of the mind and body through resonance when they are perceived and interpreted by the human brain.

SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION

The present invention features a device for storing and transmitting a plurality of media files, the media file comprising a signal having a waveform with a repeating segment of 0-930 s and a peak frequency of 5-7000 Hz.

The present invention is characterized in that the waveform having a high concentration of power in a low frequency band or lower, which is less than 10 kHz, such that the signal is audible or inaudible, wherein the signal that is embedded into the media file is transmitted to a human receiver and the signal is processed by a brain of the human receiver to interpret at least one information in the signal.

Preferably, the signal is transmitted with a display of an interactive interface using the device. The interface further enables a selection of a media file embedded with the signal from a plurality of media files in the device.

Further, the signal is interpreted by the human receiver to stimulate calming and relaxing effect on the receiver.

Preferably, the waveform has a repeating segment of 120-130 s and a peak frequency of 100-300 Hz for enhancing mind of the human receiver.

Preferably, the waveform has a repeating segment of 40-50 s and a peak frequency of 6500-7500 Hz for achieving quantum nutrition of the human receiver.

Preferably, the waveform has a repeating segment of 900-950 s and a peak frequency of 20-50 Hz for enhancing sleep of the human receiver. Preferably, the waveform has a repeating segment of 150-160 s and a peak frequency of 1-10 Hz for providing relaxation to the human receiver.

Preferably, the waveform has a repeating segment of 10-20 s and a peak frequency of 50-150 Hz for achieving quantum healthcare of the human receiver.

Preferably, the waveform has a repeating segment of 140-160 s and a peak frequency of 1-10 Hz for relieving headache of the human receiver.

Preferably, the waveform has a peak frequency of 1000-1500 Hz for preventing stress caused by surrounding radiation of the human receiver.

Preferably, the waveform has a repeating segment of 190-200 s and a peak frequency of 600-800 Hz for anti-aging of the human receiver.

Preferably, the waveform has a peak frequency of 1 -10 Hz for helping in weight loss of the human receiver.

The present invention also discloses a method for processing, storing and transmitting a signal in a media file, comprising steps of processing a waveform of an extracted signal to comprise a repeating segment of 10-930 s and a peak frequency of 5-7000 Hz; embedding the processed signal into the media file; and storing the processed signal and media file in a device. The waveform has a high concentration of power in a low frequency band or lower, which is less than 10 kHz, and the signal is able to be transmitted to a human receiver with the media, such that the signal is audible or inaudible, wherein the signal that is embedded into the media file is transmitted to a human receiver and the signal is processed by a brain of the human receiver to interpret at least one information in the signal.

The present invention consists of features and a combination of parts hereinafter fully described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that various changes in the details may be made without departing from the scope of the invention or sacrificing any of the advantages of the present invention. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

To further clarify various aspects of some embodiments of the present invention, a more particular description of the invention will be rendered by references to specific embodiments thereof, which are illustrated in the appended drawings. It is appreciated that these drawings depict only typical embodiments of the invention and are therefore not to be considered limiting of its scope. The invention will be described and explained with additional specificity and detail through the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is an illustration showing the process of extracting one or more signal waveform, processing, embedding into a media file, storing and transmitting the signal in an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 2 illustrates the processing step of more than one signal waveform of the present invention, wherein the waveforms are first processed and then combined before embedding into a media file.

Figure 3 illustrates the processing step of more than one signal waveform of the present invention, wherein the waveforms are first combined and then processed before embedding into a media file.

Figure 4 illustrates the processing of an acquired signal waveform of the present invention by way of splicing, copying/duplicating, recombining, adjusting frequency, amplitude, peak frequency and spectral flatness to produce a processed waveform.

Figure 5 illustrates the steps of embedding, storing and transmitting processed waveform(s) of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The general principles of the present invention relate to processing, storing and transmitting audible and inaudible signal waveforms that are embedded in digital media. More specifically, a device of the present invention is configured to store and transmit processed signals that are embedded in desired types of media files.

Referring to Figure 1 , the signal waveform 101 is first acquired or extracted 200 from an existing signal from the environment or nature, or generated from a signal generator. Examples of signal generator are general purpose generators — such as function generators, radio frequency (RF) and microwave signal generators, pitch generators, arbitrary waveform generators, digital pattern generators, and frequency generators — or special purpose generators — such as pitch generators, audio generators, computer programs and video signal generators. The generator to be used is selected based on the type of waveforms to be generated for desired applications in the present invention. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the waveforms are acquired from sounds of nature, such as rain, ocean waves, forest, running water, etc. by means of a microphone or a sound or wave receiver. Alternatively, the waveform is generated using a pitch or audio generator.

Referring to Figures 2 and 3, more than one waveform, such as a second acquired waveform 102, may be processed 301 for combining 302 into a single, processed signal before being embedded 400 into a selected media file. In one preferred embodiment of the present invention, both waveforms are separately processed 301 , then combined 302 before being embedded 400 into a media file. The combined signal maybe processed 30T another time before being embedded into a media file (as illustrated in Figure 2). Alternatively, the signal is first combined 302, then processed 301 ’ before being embedded 400 into a media file.

Referring to Figure 4, processing or modulating of signal waveform(s) involves selecting desired segments, known as splice segments, from the acquired waveform, then duplicating I copying I recombining the splice segments to create repeating segments in the waveform. The frequency and amplitude are also adjusted according to the psychoacoustic or physiological effects to be achieved. For sound waves the frequency and amplitude affects the pitch and loudness, respectively. The peak frequency which transmits the maximum power of the signal is also adjusted during processing 301 . Adjusting spectral flatness I spread, that is the ratio of the geometric mean to the arithmetic mean of a power spectrum in quantifying how tone-like a sound is, as opposed to being noise-like, is also part of the processing 301 . Where speech-emotion recognition is employed prior to processing signal waveforms acquired from speeches, an acoustic descriptor and model, such as multi-band excitation (MBE) speech model, mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs), perceptual linear prediction (PLP) coefficients, supra-segmental features like prosodic descriptors, ComParE, OpenCV, Cognitive Services API, hidden markov model (HMM), support vector machine (SVM), and Gaussian mixture model (GMM), or a combination thereof is used to perform emotion recognition and pre-processing into raw waveforms.

In examples of embodiment of the present invention, the characteristics of waveforms that are processed are provided in Table 1 .

Table 1

All waveforms have high concentration of power in the very low frequency region (<30 kHz) or lower. Most waveforms have most of their power concentrated <3 kHz, except waveforms 2 and 3. Waveform 2 has most of its power concentrated in the medium frequency region (6-8 kHz), while waveform 3 has its 90% power below 10 kHz. Very low peak frequencies (5-100 Hz) can be found for waveform 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9. The frequency bands 50-60 Hz and 5-8 kHz of waveform 5 could have been purposely suppressed in order for no slow (or low frequency) envelop modulation to be present in all the waveforms. Other than the examples in Table 1 , additional waveforms the media file comprising a signal having a waveform with a repeating segment of 0-930 s and a peak frequency of 5-7000 Hz, having a high concentration of power in a low frequency band or lower (less than 10 kHz) are processed, stored and transmitted in a device.

Referring to Figures 1 -4, the combined and processed signal waveform is then embedded 400 into a media file, such as audio, video and picture by means of discrete fourier transform (DFT) or more generally, fourier transform (FT). Besides, methods like trained neural network, convolutional neural network (CNN) with a bidirectional long short-term memory (BLSTM), CNN-based representation learning approach, and dynamic fusion network using kernel extreme learning machine (KELM) are alternatively employed to process, combine and merge waveforms and media files. The media file used for embedding may be different from the processed signal waveform. For example, spectral manipulation is done onto an ocean wave sound. Then the processed sound is embedded into a running water sound. As illustrated in Figure 5, the embedded signal is transmitted by way of parallel channels 601 or merged into a single channel 602 with those of the media file. Each of the waveforms, such as those in Table 1 , is individually embedded 400 into a media file. Alternatively, if the embedded signal is transmitted by way of parallel channels 601 , more than one signal may be embedded 400 into a media file. The processed signal that has been embedded into the media file is stored 500 in a device. The device is a storage and transmission device, which includes, but not limited to, a mobile phone, personal computer, laptop, photo player, music player, video player, graphical display board I gadget, billboard, and server. Examples of embedded media file formats that are stored in the device are provided, but not limited to those, in Table 2. Table 2

The storage and transmission device transmits 600 the signal embedded media file to at least one human receiver. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the media file is selected from a plurality of signal embedded media files stored in the device and presented in the form of a playlist, a thumbnail grid or an interactive interface. More preferably, the signal is transmitted with a display of an interactive interface using the device. In such embodiment, the interface performs a graphical and acoustic transmission of the embedded signal, and either or both of the graphical or acoustic transmission may be silenced yet not compromising the transmission of the signal where the signal is transmitted by way of parallel, dual or multiple channels 602. The signal and/or at least one information transmitted in the signal is interpreted by a brain of the human receiver. The signal is interpreted by the human receiver to stimulate calming and relaxing effect on the receiver, among other beneficial psychoacoustic and/or physiological effects, such as quantum nutrition and healthcare, sleep enhancement, stress relief, anti-aging, headache relief, weight loss, mind enhancement and shielding from surrounding interference or preventing stress caused by surrounding radiation (also described in Table 1 ).

According to studies published in (i) Korotkov, K. (2020) Effect of music on structuration of water, Int J Complement Alt Med., 3(1 ):14- 16; (ii) Korotkov, K. (2020) Remote detection of music influence with physical sensor, J Appl Biotechnol Bioeng., 7(1 ):7— 10; and (iii) Korotkov, K. (2020) Influence of mobile phone to people and protective effect of quantum resonance technology, J Appl Biotechnol Bioeng., 7(2):48-51 , Bio-Well devices equipped with water electrode sensor, environment sensor and electrophotonic imaging system for the respective studies were used. In the first two studies, energy levels in water and physical environment that were exposed to signals embedded into music of the present invention were significantly different from those exposed to a control music, without any signal of the present invention. The third study calculated stress coefficients from electron and photon emissions by measuring ring fingers of human participants exposed to mobile phone radiation. After two weeks of listening to classical music without any signal of the present invention, stress levels increased in the control group of 15 people exposed to mobile phone radiation. On the other hand, no participants of the group that listened to music embedded with signals of the present invention had increased stress level after exposure to mobile phone radiation. Therefore, it was shown that the signal in the media file that is processed, stored and transmitted by the device and method of the present invention is capable to be perceived and interpreted by the human brain to achieve beneficial effects on the human mind and body.

The present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from its essential characteristics. The described embodiments are to be considered in all respects only as illustrative and not restrictive. The scope of the invention is, therefore indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description. All changes, which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims, are to be embraced within their scope.