TELECONFERENCING METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL SOUND POSITIONING

摘要

A computer network teleconferencing system is provided in which audio signals are coupled to or associated with source indicators (332a and 332b), such as source addresses in TCP protocol packets. Three-dimensional spatialization transforms are applied to audio data according to the source of such data so that, upon reproduction (314), a listener (344a and 344b) perceives different participants as being located in different spaced-apart locations within a 3-D spatialization region. Preferably, the user may select or modify the apparent location of the teleconference participants.