Satt Sud-Est has assigned an exclusive licence to Arteac-Lab, co-founded by former CNRS researcher Philippe Herzog, for an electroacoustic modeling software called Simbox.
Arteac-Lab, a France-based developer of electroacoustic engineering technology based on research at Aix-Marseille University and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), has secured an exclusive licence for electroacoustic modeling software.
The licence agreement was managed by regional tech transfer office Satt Sud-Est.
The software, Simbox, was developed in the Laboratory of Mechanics and Acoustics (LMA), a research unit affiliated with Aix-Marseille University, the CNRS Institute of Engineering Sciences and Systems and Ecole Centrale de Marseille.
Founded in February 2019, Arteac-Lab is working on electroacoustic engineering technology to capture, manipulate and play back sound in a three-dimensional field. The company produces both software and compact and easy-to-install hardware.
The technology has applications in the industrial sector, where it can be used to scan for faults and anomalies in real time in noisy environments or sites where access is restricted.
Arteac-Lab is also creating consumer technology, such as its sound bubbles, which enable a user to listen to music without disturbing people around them, and a near-field rendering system that immerses the user in a hyper-realistic spatialised soundscape.
The technology is based on research by Arteac-Lab co-founder Philippe Herzog, a research director at the LMA until December 2018. Herzog co-founded the business with Christophe Lambourg.
Thierry Heles
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