Patent ID: 7720212
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: H04M,H04S

Abstract:
1. An audio conferencing system comprising: sending a signal of a sound at a sound location to a listening location, the sound location and the listening location being physical locations; establishing a relationship between a virtual listening location and a virtual sound location; processing the signal to provide a sound at the listening location seeming to have an analogous relationship between the listening location and the sound location as the relationship between the virtual listening location and the virtual sound location in that the virtual listening location is at the sound location and the virtual sound location is at the listening location; and displaying a graphic user interface having a first icon corresponding to a location of a sound pickup system within the sound location and a second icon corresponding to a desired virtual location of a remote attendee within the sound location in relation to the location of the sound pickup system within the sound location, where the remote attendee is not physically located at the sound location but rather is physically located at the listening location such that the second icon indicates a desired location of the remote attendee if the remote attendee were physically located at the sound location.