Patent ID: 11865443
Assignee: STEELSERIES APS
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A  G  H | IPC A  G  H

Claim 16:
17. A method, comprising:
providing, by a processing system including a processor, to a user of a gaming system, a series of listening tests, each listening test of the series of listening tests providing a comparison for the user of a first standard head-related transfer function and a second standard head-related transfer function of a plurality of standard head-related transfer functions;
receiving, by the processing system, from the user, an indication of a preferred head-related transfer function for each listening test of the series of listening tests, including receiving from the user a second indication of an optimal head-related transfer function of the plurality of standard head-related transfer functions;
receiving, by the processing system, a game output audio stream from the gaming system;
applying, by the processing system, the optimal head-related transfer function to the game audio output stream to produce a game surround sound audio stream;
receiving, by the processing system, a plurality of chat audio streams from respective other gaming systems operated by teammates;
applying, by the processing system, one of different chat head-related transfer functions to each of the plurality of chat audio streams to produce chat surround sound audio streams wherein each of the different chat head-related transfer functions has a particular direction that follows an avatar of a teammate in a visual game space of the respective chat audio stream associated with the teammate;
combining, by the processing system, the game surround sound audio stream and the chat surround sound audio streams to produce a surround sound audio stream;
and
providing, by the processing system, the surround sound audio stream to audio equipment of the user.