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

Claim 9:
10. A non-transitory, machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
providing, to a user of a gaming system, audible comparisons of performance of a plurality of standard head-related transfer functions;
receiving, from the user, a selection of an optimal head-related transfer function of the plurality of standard head-related transfer functions;
receiving a game output audio stream from the gaming system;
applying the optimal head-related transfer function to the game audio output stream to produce a game surround sound audio stream;
receiving a plurality of chat audio streams from teammates operating one or more respective other gaming systems;
applying one of different chat head-related transfer functions 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 head-related transfer functions 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;
combining the game surround sound audio stream and the plurality of chat surround sound audio streams to produce a surround sound audio stream;
and
providing the surround sound audio stream to audio equipment of the user.