Patent ID: 8818000

Claim:
An audio headset system for manipulating audio signals, comprising: the audio headset, comprising: a first housing and a second housing separated by a predetermined distance, wherein the first housing and the second housing are operatively connected; a first sound sensor in the first housing; a first audio speaker in the first housing, the first audio speaker in close proximity to and acoustically isolated from the first sound sensor; a second sound sensor in the second housing; a second audio speaker in the second housing, the second audio speaker in close proximity to and acoustically isolated from the second sound sensor; and a signal processing control unit operatively connected to the first sound sensor and to the second sound sensor for collecting audio signals corresponding to sound sensed by each of the first sound sensor and the second sound sensor, the signal processing control unit configured to apply a beamforming algorithm to the collected audio signals, and to selectively transmit the beamformed collected audio signals; wherein the signal processing control unit is further configured to capture, amplify and transmit audio signals received by the first sound sensor and the second sound sensor when the audio signals received by the first sound sensor and the second sound sensor are in-phase with one another and for selectively canceling audio signals received by the first sound sensor and the second sound sensor when the audio signals received by the first sound sensor and the second sound sensor are out-of-phase with one another.