He was
born
in Noordwijk, near Leiden, in the Netherlands on August
22, 1939.
He became a
physician in Castricum in Noord-Holland (in The Netherlands of course)
and
after four years he had besides his very busy and large practice he has
to
handle, the idea of trying to get the true 3-dimensional sound through
a two
channel system, thus through a normal stereo-equipment.
He has indeed after many years of experiments of trying and searching,
invented the three-dimensional sound as we now know by and can hear for
example by
the DirectSound-3d of Microsoft and many others, who are presenting
surround sound
by two channels.
By
changes in the American law after the patent was adjudged to him,
it was remarkable and very frustrating that it was not possible to make
effective the claims
to Microsoft, Intel, and many Manufacturers of soundcards and
sound-equipments,
which are in fact using these by him, discovered principles.
It
concerns billions
of dollars.
He has
analyzed the sound of being built up in two segments: namely the informant or
basically part of
pure information of it and the directional
information part
as a functional and natural aspect for hearing from where sounds come
from.
This
was
the key for to be able to manipulate sounds as we now can experience in
computer-games and many more applications.
Also
he has
as the first invented a system for recording music in the most natural
way and
to reproduce it by a normal stereo-equipment with loudspeakers, so that
the
listener thinks he is at the location, for example in the concert hall.
He
gives
it the name Holographic Sound System (first named BILAS or bilateral
acoustic system).
In the
years middle of 1970 he became therefore in the international
audio-world more
or less an interesting guy, but he was never rewarded for his
exceptional
efforts and inspiration.
The
applying for the most important patent was first rejected as
science-fiction
and too incredible to be real, but after more extended and specific
explanations he got his American Patent.
But
after he has got that, some years later despite of his rights who
has
for some years yet to go, the American Patent Law became suddenly
changed in a way, that there has been an article adjoined - the
so-called 'all elements rule' - and with that rule it was not possible
anymore for him to claim his legal fees.
This was very frustrating and
incomprehensible and unjustifiable for him. But he has the
satisfaction, that his
ideas are used all over the world.
So, if you have interest
and the guts to read the official patents then you are invited to get
the
information on the following webpage’s here after.
Earlier he invented two cameras.
The
first
one was a very fast sport-shutter (easy 1/4000 sec or faster), which
has to
placed before the objective of a (cheap and) normal camera. This
shutter then
takes over the task of the build in shutter. This
was
achieved by a system of a plurality of parallel screens, each provided
with a
plurality of parallel slots.
This
first construction he combined thereafter with a synchronized
moving screen provided with an elongated slot, which screen is
positioned adjacent the space for the photosensitive recording material
and such a construction - his second camera - became the so-called
"against the sun/light camera". It is a totally different one with
amazing properties.
Mid seventies he was invited by a good friend, late Ben Dingerdis, who was acquainted with General Haig from the NATO in Brussels, to lay his ideas - concerning the possibility to make airplanes and other things invisible for radar detection - before a particular commission, which specially here fore has came from Brussels to the military airport Ypenburg near The Hague.
These ideas, on which is based the now known Stealth-technique, were there well discussed in a hush-hush conference.
One of his remarks was, that he as a medical doctor further it has to leave to experts and that they therefore have to ask for a number of engineers. He also made the remark, that because of the excessive military consequences he didn’t have the need for to get a bullet by one or other secret service. He enforced his meaning by saying that he of course strictly should keep silence about this and thus therefore there was no reason to be silenced and that he otherwise hadn’t come to the meeting, if they were afraid that he should leak his own ideas to the wrong party.See also: http://www.ireport.com/people/Vandenberg
When he was three
years
young
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