SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PARTICIPANTS TO PERCEIVABLY MODIFY A PERFORMANCE

• US 20150270915A1
• Filed: 09/17/2013
• Published: 09/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mario Perron
• Original Assignee: MRV Lab, Inc.
• Inventors: Perron, Mario
• Granted Patent: US 9,887,791 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/38 Arrangements for distribution where lower stations, e.g. receivers, interact with the broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/33 Arrangements for monitoring the users' behaviour or opinions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

The present invention discloses a system and method for participants to perceivably modify a performance using participant devices. A participant device, being connected through a network to a performance, such as a conference, a live event, a pre-recorded event or any type of gathering, captures the participant input actions and communicates such input actions to a server. The server collects and aggregates the received input actions and used the aggregations to calculate modifications to the performance. The performer device of a performer being part of the performance receives and displays the calculated modification and executes such modification to perceivably modify the said performance.

Claims

1. ) A system for participants to perceivably modify a performance, the system comprising:

a) at least one communication network;

b) at least one participant device connected to the communication network, wherein the at least one participant device is configured to capture one or more participant input actions and to communicate such input actions to a server;

c) at least one performer device connected to the communication network, wherein the at least one performer device is configured;

i) to trigger an arbitration request to the server;

ii) to display the modifications;

d) the at least one server being connected to the communication network, wherein the at least one server is configured;

i) to execute one or more computer program that aggregates the participant device inputs received through the communication network;

ii) to calculate performance modifications based on the aggregated inputs;

iii) to communicate the performance modifications to the performer device.

2. ) The system as described in claim 1, wherein the performance is a live event.

3. ) The system as described in any of claim 1 or 2, wherein the at least one server and the at least one performer device are integrated in a single physical unit.

4. ) The system as described in any of claim 1 or 3, wherein the performer device is configured to execute a program acting as the server and to communicates with the at least one participant device through the communication network.

5. ) The system as described in any of claims 1 to 4, wherein the one or more input actions are formatted as an electronic message, the electronic message comprising:

a) an identifier of the participant device;

b) the identifier of one or more performer device;

c) the identifier of an arbitration request;

d) the description of the input action.

6. ) The system as described in any of claims 1 to 5, wherein the communication network is a cellular network.

7. ) The system as described in any of claims 1 to 6, wherein the server is further configured to receive and process data, signals, query requests, audio, images or video, and to output the any said processed data to at least one participant device, at least one performer device or a combination thereof.

8. ) The system as described in any of claims 1 to 7, wherein the performer device is connected to a media generating device.

9. ) The system as described in any of claims 8, wherein the media generating device and the performer device are integrated in one physical device.

10. ) The system as described in any of claim 8 or 9, wherein the media generating device is a musical instrument.

11. ) The system as describe in any of claim 8 or 9, wherein the media generating device is a DJ Station.

12. ) A method for participants to perceivably modify a performance, the method comprising the steps:

a) to capture one or more input actions from at least one participant;

b) to aggregate the one or more input actions;

c) to calculate modifications based on the aggregated input actions;

d) to perceivably modify a performance based on the calculated modifications.

13. ) A method as described in claim 12, wherein the one or more input actions are captured using at least one participant device.

14. ) The method as described in claim 13, wherein the method further comprises the steps:

a) to request to the at least one participant device one or more input actions for perceivably modifying the performance;

b) to execute a program on the participant device to display the requested input action on the participant device;

c) to send the captured one or more input actions.

15. ) A method as described in any of claim 13 or 14, wherein the method further comprises a step to communicate the one or more input actions from the at least one participant device to a server.

16. ) The method as described in any of claims 12 to 15, wherein the step to aggregate the received participant inputs is realized by executing one or more computer program implementing an aggregation algorithms.

17. ) A method as described in claim 16, wherein the steps to aggregate the one or more input actions and to calculate the modifications based on the aggregated input actions is executed by the server.

18. ) A method as described in any of claims 12 to 17, wherein the modification of the performance are executed by one or more performer devices.

19. ) The method as described in any of claims 18, wherein the calculated modifications are communicated to the one or more performer devices through a communication network.

20. ) The method as described in any of claim 18 or 19, wherein a performer manually executes the modifications displayed on the device of the performer device.

21. ) The method as described in any of claim 18 or 19, wherein the reception of the calculated modifications by the performer device triggers the execution of a computer program configured to process the calculated modifications and to automatically perform the modification to the performance of the performer.

22. ) A method as described in any of claims 12 to 21, wherein the one or more input actions of the participant are selected from the followings:

pressing a button, waving the participant device, taking a picture, recording the voice a participant, bumping the participant device with another, moving or stopping.

23. ) The method as described in any of claims 12 to 22, wherein the step for aggregating the participant input actions comprise one or more of the followings steps:

a) to add input actions by type,

b) to tally the input actions until t a statistically significant threshold is obtained;

c) to compose one or more images;

d) to extract one or more voice inputs;

e) to average numerical inputs;

f) to find minimum or maximum values;

g) to project a result based on a minimal sample of inputs;

h) to map input actions into one or more output values tables.

24. ) The method as described in any of claims 12 to 23, wherein the modifications are calculated by assigning the aggregated participant inputs actions to one or more modification parameters which depend on the type of recorded performance and the current state of the performance.

25. ) The method as described in claim 24, wherein the modifications parameters comprise one or more of the followings:

stop and then restart media content, repeat a segment of media content, speed-up or slow-down a segment of media content, change the left-right balance of media content, play the aggregated voice inputs from the participants or display a slide show of pictures taken by participant devices.

26. ) The method as described in any of claims 12 to 25, wherein the method further comprises the steps:

a) to located a participant within a communication network coverage;

b) to add the participant device to a participant list.

27. ) The method as described in any of claims 18 to 21, wherein the method further comprises the steps:

a) to register the at least one performer device with a server;

b) to add the performer device to the list of active performers.