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

Claim 0:
1. A device, comprising
a gaming application which produces gaming output information including a game output audio stream;
a chat audio application which produces one or more chat audio streams from one or more other devices;
an audio processing module in data communication with the gaming application and the chat audio application, the audio processing module including a head-related transfer function (HRTF) module in data communication with the gaming application, the HRTF module operative to receive the game output audio stream from the gaming application and to apply a preferred HRTF to the game output audio stream to produce a game surround sound audio stream, wherein the preferred HRTF is selected by a user of the device from a plurality of standardized HRTFs based on comparisons by the user of a performance of the standardized HRTFs, wherein the HRTF module is further operative to receive a plurality of chat audio streams from the chat audio application and apply one of different chat HRTFs to each of the plurality of chat audio streams to produce a plurality of chat surround sound audio streams, wherein each of the different chat HRTFs have 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, and wherein the HRTF module is further operative to combine the game surround sound audio stream and the chat surround sound audio streams to produce a surround sound audio stream; and
a speaker system coupled with the HRTF module and operative to receive the surround sound audio stream and produce surround sound audio for the user of the device.