Patent ID: 7995770

Claim:
A wireless personal receiver for reproducing program data including stereo audio data originating from a source in a venue having a boundary and plural sound reproducing transducers therein, said personal receiver comprising: a receiver for receiving wireless transmissions and demodulating data contained therein, wherein the data includes at least the program data and locating data; a storage device storing a representation of the venue including locations of the plural sound reproducing transducers of the venue therein; a processor coupled to said receiver and to said storage device for determining from the locating data and from the stored representation of the venue the present location of said personal receiver and distances to respective ones of the sound reproducing transducers of the venue; a programmable delay circuit responsive to said processor for delaying the received program data by a predetermined delay time relating to the determined distances from one or more of the sound reproducing transducers of the venue; a personal sound transducer coupled to said programmable delay circuit for reproducing the delayed received stereo audio data in a human perceivable form; whereby the received stereo audio reproduced by the personal sound transducer is substantially in time alignment with ambient sound from the sound reproducing transducers of the venue in the location of said personal receiver.