Studio booth with preliminary low resolution transmission and subsequent high resolution transmission

• US 20080074487A1
• Filed: 05/31/2007
• Published: 03/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Studio One Entertainment, Inc. (Aftermaster, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Studio One Entertainment, Inc. (Aftermaster, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ryckman, Lawrence
• Granted Patent: US 8,144,257 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/14.1
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/53 for automatically delivering a finished picture after a signal causing exposure has been given, e.g. by pushing a button, by inserting a coin
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3206 Player sensing means, e.g. presence detection, biometrics
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3223 Architectural aspects of a gaming system, e.g. internal configuration, master/slave, wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3286 Type of games
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/365 the accompaniment information being stored on a host computer and transmitted to a reproducing terminal by means of a network, e.g. public telephone lines
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/368 displaying animated or moving pictures synchronized with the music or audio part
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/135 Musical aspects of games or videogames; Musical instrument-shaped game input interfaces game background music G10H2210/026; musical game scoring or performance evaluation G10H2210/091
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00132 in a digital photofinishing system, i.e. a system where digital photographic images undergo typical photofinishing processing, e.g. printing ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00286 with studio circuitry, devices or equipment, e.g. television cameras television studio circuitry, devices or equipment per se H04N5/222
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41415 involving a public display, viewable by several users in a public space outside their home, e.g. movie theatre, information kiosk
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4781 Games
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/222 Studio circuitry; Studio devices; Studio equipment cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors, or control thereof H04N23/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/272 Means for inserting a foreground image in a background image, i.e. inlay, outlay
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/142 Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

A method to produce in an area of restricted size in a realistic manner while minimizing perspective distortion and subject distortion a recording of an individual that produces the illusion that the individual is located in a larger area.

Claims

1. A method to produce in an area of restricted size in a realistic manner while minimizing perspective distortion and subject distortion a recording of an individual that produces the illusion that the individual is located in a larger area, comprising the steps of

(a) providing a studio booth including

(i) an interior with a front wall, a rear wall, side walls extending between said front wall and rear wall, a floor, and a ceiling,

(ii) an audio and video system to detect and generate high resolution audio-visual signals comprising a recording of at least one performance conducted in said booth, said system including a high resolution digital camera mounted at said front wall,

(iii) a transmitter to send said audio-visual signals to a selected location remote from said booth,

(iv) a computer system to receive high resolution audio-visual signals and to generate low resolution audio-video signals from said high resolution audio-visual signals;

said booth occupying a spatial volume fitting substantially within a footprint volume having a simple convex polygon cross-section having dimensional parity;

(b) selecting a lens system for said digital camera with a horizontal field of view that minimizes subject distortion of an individual performing in said interior of said booth;

(c) defining, to minimize subject distortion, a minimum distance that an individual stands away from said camera when said individual is in the interior of said booth to conduct a performance;

(d) selecting a scenic backdrop

(i) to minimize subject-background correlation distortion,

(ii) depicting an area larger than said interior of said studio booth;

(e) conducting a live performance in said booth by the individual in said interior and no closer to said camera than said minimum distance and generating with said audio and visual system a recording of the performance comprising high resolution audio visual signals of said live performance including said scenic backdrop selected in step (d);

(f) generating with said computer system from said high resolution audio visual signas of step (g) low resolution audio visual signals;

(g) transmitting with said transmitter at a selected time said low resolution audio visual signals to a selected location; and

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(h) transmitting with said transmitter subsequent to said selected time said high resolution audio visual signals to a selected location.