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Filtering sounds for conferencing applications

  • US 9,530,426 B1
  • Filed: 06/24/2015
  • Issued: 12/27/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A conferencing system, comprising:

  • a near-eye display device configured to display video received from a remote communication device of a communication partner;

    a spatially-diverse microphone array including a plurality of microphones;

    an audio communication interface configured to transmit, to the remote communication device of the communication partner, an audio stream including real-world sounds produced by one or more real-world audio sources captured by the spatially-diverse microphone array and virtual sounds produced by one or more virtual audio sources; and

    an audio filter configured to selectively reduce a relative volume of background sounds in the audio stream based, at least in part, on real-world positioning of corresponding audio sources.

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