Patent ID: 8472984

Claim:
An ambient telecommunication system comprising: a plurality of transmitters disposed at different positions in a first location for rendering sound represented by encoded information in a signal communicated from a conversing party in a second location; a plurality of receivers disposed at different positions in the first location for receiving sound from a conversing party in the first location for encoding in an information signal to be communicated to the conversing party in the second location; at least one light-emitting unit disposed in the first location and configured to emit ambient light rendering properties represented by encoded information in a signal communicated from the conversing party in the second location, said encoded information being related to at least one of: a property of said conversing party; conversation from said conversing party; a controlling unit for selectively activating one of said transmitters, on of the said receivers and one of said at least one light-emitting unit based on a current position of the conversing party in the first location.