Patent ID: 9674628
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G10L,H04M,H04R,H04S

Claim:
1. A method executed by one or more electronic devices in an electronic system that provides a voice of a caller in binaural sound to a wearer of a wearable electronic device during a telephone call between the caller and the wearer, the method comprising: displaying, to the wearer and with the wearable electronic device during the telephone call, an image that represents the caller at a location in a room where the wearer is located; convolving, during the telephone call and with a processor, the voice of the caller with head related transfer functions (HRTFs) so the voice of the caller localizes to the wearer as the binaural sound at a sound localization point (SLP) that is located in empty space at the image that represents the caller at the location in the room where the wearer is located; tracking, during the telephone call and with the wearable electronic device, a location and a head orientation of the wearer as the wearer moves from the room to another room and away from the image that represents the caller; and changing, during the telephone call and while the wearer moves from the room to the another room, the HRTFs convolving the voice of the caller so the voice of the caller continues to localize to the wearer at the SLP at the location in the room even while the wearer is located in the another room.