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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gerard Dirk Smits, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
QSound Labs, Inc., , CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370389 ; 370260 ; 381 17 ; 381310 ;
Abstract
A computer network teleconferencing system is provided in which audio signals are coupled to or associated with source indicators, such as source addresses in TCP protocol packets. Three-dimensional spatialization transforms are applied to audio data according to the source of such data so that, upon reproduction, a listener perceives different participants as being located in different spaced-apart locations within a 3-D spatialization region. Preferably, the user may select or modify the apparent location of the teleconference participants.