Patent ID: 9628914
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: A61F,G10K,H04R

Claim:
1. A system for providing binaural telepresence, the system comprising: a first communication device; a first set of headphones, coupled to the first communication device, configured to provide first left and right external microphone signals to the first communication device, and having an active hear-through mode; a second communication device capable of receiving signals from the first communication device; and a second set of active noise reducing headphones, coupled to the second communication device, and having an active noise-cancelling mode; wherein the first communication device is configured to transmit the first left and right external microphone signals to the second communication device; the second communication device is configured to provide the first left and right feed-forward external microphone signals to the second set of headphones; one of the first set of headphones, the first communication device, the second communication device, or the second set of headphones is configured to apply first filters to the first left and right external microphone signals; the second set of headphones are configured to reproduce the filtered first left and right external microphone signals so that a user of the second set of headphones hears ambient noise from the environment of the first set of headphones; and the filtering of the first left and right external microphone signals results in the user of the second set of headphones hearing the ambient noise from the first set of headphones with ambient naturalness.