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Method and apparatus for remote synchronization of audio, lighting, animation and special effects

  • US 5,493,281 A
  • Filed: 07/29/1994
  • Issued: 02/20/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/23/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of synchronizing performance of a plurality of remote location programs at a plurality of remote locations, comprising:

  • (a) storing, with a controller, programs in memory at predetermined memory address locations at each of the plurality of remote locations, at least one of said programs located at corresponding memory address locations at each remote location being different from the other programs, each of said programs being stored as digitally-encoded information;

    (b) transmitting a synchronization signal to each of the remote locations over a predetermined radio frequency with the use of a transmitter, said synchronization signal identifying a memory address within said predetermined memory address locations at the plurality of remote locations;

    (c) receiving said synchronization signal on said predetermined radio frequency at each of the remote locations with a receiver; and

    (d) retrieving simultaneously with a controller at each of the plurality of remote locations said digitally-encoded program information, in response to said synchronization signal, for synchronous performance of the programs at the plurality of remote locations.

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