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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Shawn Crispin Wright, Sammamish, WA (US);
Dan Osborn, Woodinville, WA (US);
Joe Thompson, Seattle, WA (US);
Hongwu Huai, San Bruno, CA (US);
Forest Woodcroft Gouin, Seattle, WA (US);
Megan Saunders, Kirkland, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A conferencing system includes a near-eye display device that displays video received from a remote communication device of a communication partner. An audio stream is transmitted to the remote communication device. The audio stream includes real-world sounds produced by one or more real-world audio sources captured by a spatially-diverse microphone array and virtual sounds produced by one or more virtual audio sources. A relative volume of background sounds in the audio stream is selectively reduced based, at least in part, on real-world positioning of corresponding audio sources, including real-world and/or virtualized audio sources.