Patent ID: 8719877

Claim:
A system on-board a mobile platform for supplying wireless audio signals and wireless video signals from a source, the wireless video signals presented on a video display associated with a first seat and the wireless audio signals received by a user at a second seat, in a manner so that the wireless audio signals received by the user at the second seat are synchronized with the video signals present on the video display unit that the user is viewing, the video display unit being associated with the first seat, the audio and video signals cooperatively forming information content being viewed and listened to by the user, the system comprising: a wireless access point for transmitting a wireless signal having synchronized audio and video components; a transceiver associated with the first seat for receiving the wireless signal from the wireless access point and providing only the video component thereof to the video display unit; an electronics subsystem associated with the first seat and in communication with the transceiver, the electronics subsystem configured to separate out the audio component from the wireless signal; a transmitter subsystem associated with said first seat for receiving the audio component; a transducer for generating an inductive magnetic signal representative of the audio component; and a receiver subsystem associated with said second seat, wherein said second seat is located adjacent said first seat, the receiver subsystem operable to receive said inductive magnetic signal and to convert said inductive magnetic signal into audio information for use by said user in said second seat, said inductive magnetic signal enabling said audio component to be forwarded as wireless audio information to said second seat wherein the audio component and the video component are substantially synchronized when presenting said information content to the user.