Patent ID: 8411126

Claim:
In a video/audio conference between a local participant and a remote participant, a method of spatial audio rendering the remote participant at a local site using a computing device comprising: receiving the remote participant's image and sound information collected at a remote site; receiving location information collected at the remote site that indicates the remote participant's location in front of a remote display at the remote site; rendering the remote participant's image on a local display at the local site; determining the local participant's location in front of the local display by determining the distance between first and second speakers of the stereo loudspeakers is greater than the distance between the local participant's left ear and the left speaker and is greater than the distance between the local participant's right ear and the right speaker; and when the local participant is in close proximity to the local display, playing sounds generated by the remote participant over stereo loudspeakers by adjusting the sounds based at least in part on the remote participant's location in front of the remote display at the remote site and the local participant's location in front of the local display so that the local participant perceives the sounds as emanating from the remote participant's location rendered on the local display.