Coordinating and mixing audiovisual content captured from geographically distributed performers
US10587780B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 8, 2018 |
| Grant date | Mar 10, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 15, 2038 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S84/04
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Audiovisual performances, including vocal music, are captured and coordinated with those of other users in ways that create compelling user experiences. In some cases, the vocal performances of individual users are captured (together with performance synchronized video) on mobile devices, television-type display and/or set-top box equipment in the context of karaoke-style presentations of lyrics in correspondence with audible renderings of a backing track. Contributions of multiple vocalists are coordinated and mixed in a manner that selects for visually prominent presentation performance synchronized video of one or more of the contributors. Prominence of particular performance synchronized video may be based, at least in part, on computationally-defined audio features extracted from (or computed over) captured vocal audio. Over the course of a coordinated audiovisual performance timeline, these computationally-defined audio features are selective for performance synchronized video of one or more of the contributing vocalists.
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