Patent ID: 8538036

Claim:
A method of providing directed acoustic sound in an electronic entertainment system having a non-directional audio speaker system, comprising the steps of: providing, by the electronic entertainment system, one or more audio signals to a directed acoustic sound system, the directed acoustic sound system being connected in-line with the non-directional audio speaker system so as to provide the one or more audio signals to the non-directional audio speaker system, the directed acoustic sound system and the non-directional audio speaker system being selectable by a user of the electronic entertainment system; in response to a first user selection of the directed acoustic sound system: suppressing, by the directed acoustic sound system, the one or more audio signals at the non-directional audio speaker system; generating a sound beam from the one or more audio signals by the directed acoustic sound system; and projecting, by the directed acoustic sound system, the sound beam through the air along a pre-selected path to reproduce the one or more audio signals along at least a portion of the pre-selected path, thereby providing the user disposed substantially in the portion of the pre-selected path wire with a private listening experience; and in response to a second user selection of the non-directional audio speaker system: reproducing the one or more audio signals by the non-directional audio speaker system.