Patent ID: 8571192

Claim:
A method for generating a spatial rendering of a real-time audio sound from a conference participant to a remote real-time video teleconference participant in real-time using a plurality of speakers, the audio sound related a real time to video being displayed to said remote video teleconference participant on a window-based video display screen having a given physical location of said conference participant, the method comprising: receiving one or more real-time video input signals of said conference participant for use in displaying said real-time video to said remote video teleconference participant on said window-based video display screen, each of said received video input signals being displayed in a corresponding window on said video display screen; receiving one or more real-time audio input signals related to said one or more video input signals, one of said audio input signals including said audio sound; determining a desired physical location of said conference participant for spatially rendering said audio sound relative to said video display screen, the desired physical location being determined based on a position on the video display screen at which a particular one of said windows is being displayed, the particular one of said windows corresponding to the received video input signal related to the received audio input signal which includes said audio sound; and generating a plurality of real-time audio output signals based on said determined desired physical location for spatially rendering said audio sound, said plurality of audio signals being generated such that when delivered to said remote video teleconference participant using said plurality of speakers, the remote video teleconference participant hears said audio sound as being rendered from said determined desired physical location for spatially rendering said audio sound.