Patent ID: 9681245
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G10L,H04M,H04R,H04S

Claim:
1. A method executed by one or more electronic devices in an electronic system that emulates an experience of talking face-to-face by providing binaural sound of a voice of a caller to an image during a telephone call, the method comprising: capturing, with a camera in a wearable electronic device, a video of a field of view of a wearer of the wearable electronic device; receiving, at the wearable electronic device, the telephone call from an electronic device of the caller; displaying, on a display of the wearable electronic device and to the wearer in the video, an image representing the caller in the field of view of the wearer of the wearable electronic device; convolving, with a processor in the one or more electronic devices in the electronic system, the voice of the caller with head related transfer functions (HRTFs) so the voice of the caller externally localizes as binaural sound in empty space away from the wearer in the field of view of the wearer of the wearable electronic device at a location corresponding to where the wearer sees the image representing the caller; receiving, with the one or more electronic devices in the electronic system and during the telephone call, a command from the wearer to move the voice of the caller from externally localizing at the location corresponding to where the wearer sees the image representing the caller to internally localizing as mono sound or stereo sound inside a head of the wearer; and moving, with the one or more electronic devices in the electronic system and during the telephone call and in response to the command, the voice of the caller from externally localizing as the binaural sound in the empty space away from the wearer at the location corresponding to where the wearer sees the image representing the caller to internally localizing as the mono sound or the stereo sound inside the head of the wearer.