Studio booth with bi-directional transmission of content

• US 20090154889A1
• Filed: 05/31/2007
• Published: 06/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Studio One Entertainment, Inc. (Aftermaster, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Studio One Entertainment, Inc. (Aftermaster, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ryckman, Lawrence G.
• Application Number:
  US11/809,218
• Publication Number:
  US 20090154889A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/326
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• 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 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

A method to generate bi-directional content by receiving promotional data and by producing in an area of restricted size while minimizing perspective distortion and subject distortion a recording of an individual that produces the illusion that the individual is located in a different locale.

Claims

1. A method to generate bi-directional content by receiving promotional data and by producing in an area of restricted size 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,

(i) an exterior,

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

(iii) a chroma key screen extending over at least a portion of said rear wall to produce background light that is, along with the performance conducted in the booth, detected by said digital camera,

(iv) at least one display screen on said exterior of said booth,

(v) a transmitter-receiver to send said audio-visual signals to a selected location remote from said booth and to receive signals containing promotional material,

(vi) a computer system to receive said promotional signals from said transmitter-receiver and display said signals on said display screen,

 

said booth occupying a spatial volume fitting substantially within a footprint volume having a simple convex polygon cross-section having dimensional parity and having a width no greater than ten feet;

(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 audio and visual system a recording of said live performance with said scenic backdrop selected in step (d);

(f) transmitting to said selected remote location with said transmitter-receiver said recording produced in step (b); and

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(g) transmitting to said transmitter-receiver signals containing promotional material; and

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(h) displaying on said display screen with said computer system said promotional material.