Audio cues for multi-party videoconferencing on an information handling system
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1. An information handling system comprising:
- a processor operable to execute an application;
memory interfaced with the processor and operable to store information associated with execution of the application;
a display operable to present visual information as images;
plural speakers operable present audio information as sounds;
a network module interfaced with the processor and operable to support communication over a network with plural network locations, each network location having a network address;
a video conferencing application operable present videoconferencing information as images at the display and sounds at the speaker; and
a multi-party conferencing module associated with the video conferencing application and operable to present visual information of each of plural videoconferencing participants as a visual image in an associated display space, each display space having a display location on the display, and to present audio information for each video conferencing participant as a sound having a stereo characteristic based upon the display location of the associated video conferencing participant visual image, the audio information received as monoaural information and altered to have the stereo characteristic by associating network address information of the audio information with network address information of visual information presented in each display space.
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Abstract
Stereo audio cues are provided at an information handling system to associate audio with its source based upon the characteristics of the image of the source as presented at a display of the information handling system. For example, in one embodiment, a location on a display of a window having a videoconferencing participant is used to create a stereo audio location that correlates audio associated with the participant to the window location. In another embodiment, the size on a display of a window having a videoconferencing participant is used to determine the volume of audio that is associated with the participant.
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1. An information handling system comprising:
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a processor operable to execute an application; memory interfaced with the processor and operable to store information associated with execution of the application; a display operable to present visual information as images; plural speakers operable present audio information as sounds; a network module interfaced with the processor and operable to support communication over a network with plural network locations, each network location having a network address; a video conferencing application operable present videoconferencing information as images at the display and sounds at the speaker; and a multi-party conferencing module associated with the video conferencing application and operable to present visual information of each of plural videoconferencing participants as a visual image in an associated display space, each display space having a display location on the display, and to present audio information for each video conferencing participant as a sound having a stereo characteristic based upon the display location of the associated video conferencing participant visual image, the audio information received as monoaural information and altered to have the stereo characteristic by associating network address information of the audio information with network address information of visual information presented in each display space. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for presenting a video conference at an information handling system, the video conference having plural participants, the method comprising:
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presenting an image of a first participant at a display in a first window having a first window characteristic, the first image associated with a first network address and having associated monoaural audio information; presenting an image of a second participant at the display in a second window having a second window characteristic, the second image associated with a second network address and having associated monoaural audio information; presenting audio of the first participant at one or more speakers, the audio information altered to have a first stereo audio characteristic based upon the first window characteristic, the stereo audio characteristic applied to audio information by association of network address information of the monoaural audio information with the first network address of the first image; and presenting audio of the second participant at the one or more speakers, the monoaural audio information altered to have a second stereo audio characteristic based upon the second window characteristic, the stereo audio characteristic applied to audio information by association of network address information of the monoaural audio information with the second network address of the second image. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system for presenting a videoconference having plural participants, the system comprising:
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a non-transitory machine readable medium storing; a videoconferencing application operable to present a first image of a first participant at a display in a first window, a second image of a second participant at the display in a second window, a first audio of the first participant at one or more speakers, and a second audio of the second participant at the one or more speakers; and a multiparty conferencing module operable to determine a characteristic of the first window and to alter the first audio in response to the characteristic, the multiparty conferencing module identifying audio as the first audio by associating a network address of audio with a network address of the first image in the first window; wherein the audio is received as monoaural information and altered to have a stereo characteristic by associating network address information of the audio with network address information of visual information presented in the window. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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