Patent ID: 7692680
Filing Date: 2010-04-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A system for providing location-specific sound in a telepresence system comprising: a plurality of remote microphones, each remote microphone associated with a respective area and operable to generate a sound signal from the voice of at least one user within the respective area; a plurality of remote cameras, each remote camera associated with a respective remote microphone of the plurality of remote microphones and aligned to generate an image of its associated respective area; a plurality of local displays, each local display operable to reproduce the image of a respective area generated by a respective remote camera; a plurality of local loudspeakers, each local loudspeaker associated with a respective local display and operable to reproduce the sound signal from the voice of the at least one user within the respective area reproduced by the respective local display; and wherein each remote microphone is associated with a respective local loudspeaker such that each local loudspeaker is operable to reproduce only the sound signal from its associated microphone based on the image being reproduced on its associated local display.