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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2013

Filed:

Jun. 24, 2010
Applicants:

Bowon Lee, Mountain View, CA (US);

Ton Kalker, Mountain View, CA (US);

Kar Han Tan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Bowon Lee, Mountain View, CA (US);

Ton Kalker, Mountain View, CA (US);

Kar Han Tan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/14 (2006.01); H03B 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Disclosed herein are multimedia-conferencing systems and methods enabling local participants to hear remote participants from the direction the remote participants are rendered on a display. In one aspect, a method includes a computing device receives a remote participant's image and sound information collected at a remote site. The remote participant's image is rendered on a display at a local site. When the local participant is in close proximity to the display, sounds generated by the remote participant are played over stereo loudspeakers so that the local participant perceives the sounds as emanating from the remote participant's location rendered on the display.


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