System and method for listening to teams in a race event
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1. A computer implemented method to provide audio and video from a televised vehicle race event using a computer network to a plurality of remote computing devices remote from the vehicle race event, the computer implemented method comprising:
- providing a server having a processor operable to enable the server to communicate via the computer network to each of the remote computing devices and to access a storage device having audio data from the televised vehicle race event;
providing a user interface for a single monitor operable on each of the plurality of remote computing devices, the user interface configured to render a visual indication identifying audio sources of a first plurality of audio sources apart from other audio sources that have audio that can be rendered at each of the plurality of remote computing devices, wherein a number of audio sources in the first plurality of audio sources is less than a total number of audio sources at the vehicle race event having audio that can be rendered at each of the plurality of remote computing devices;
during the televised vehicle race event and separate from a television signal of the televised vehicle race event;
transmitting with the server to each of the remote computing devices through the computer network, first data packets in one or more streams containing first data representing audio signals from audio sources and video signals from cameras at the vehicle race event, the first data packets constructed so that each remote computing device selectively renders a plurality of camera views occurring at the same time in the televised vehicle race simultaneously with audio from only one of the audio sources of the first plurality of audio sources when audio from at least two of the audio sources of the first plurality of audio sources occurs at the same time;
after transmitting from the server to each remote computing device the first data packets constructed so that each remote computing device renders the plurality of camera views occurring at the same time in the vehicle race event simultaneously with audio from only one of the audio sources of the first plurality of audio sources when audio from at least two of the audio sources of the first plurality of audio sources occurs at the same time, receiving with the server from at least one remote computing device to transmit audio of an audio source that occurred earlier in the vehicle race event; and
after receiving the indication from the at least one remote computing device, transmitting with the server to the at least one remote computing device, second data packets containing second data representing the audio corresponding to the indication from the at least one remote computing device.
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method and system allows a remote computer user to listen to teams in a race event. The method includes receiving audio signals from a plurality of audio sources at the race event; transmitting at least some of the audio signals to a remote computer; and filtering the audio signals as a function of the source of at least some of the audio signals so that at least some of the audio signals are not played by the remote computer and heard by the user.
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1. A computer implemented method to provide audio and video from a televised vehicle race event using a computer network to a plurality of remote computing devices remote from the vehicle race event, the computer implemented method comprising:
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providing a server having a processor operable to enable the server to communicate via the computer network to each of the remote computing devices and to access a storage device having audio data from the televised vehicle race event; providing a user interface for a single monitor operable on each of the plurality of remote computing devices, the user interface configured to render a visual indication identifying audio sources of a first plurality of audio sources apart from other audio sources that have audio that can be rendered at each of the plurality of remote computing devices, wherein a number of audio sources in the first plurality of audio sources is less than a total number of audio sources at the vehicle race event having audio that can be rendered at each of the plurality of remote computing devices; during the televised vehicle race event and separate from a television signal of the televised vehicle race event; transmitting with the server to each of the remote computing devices through the computer network, first data packets in one or more streams containing first data representing audio signals from audio sources and video signals from cameras at the vehicle race event, the first data packets constructed so that each remote computing device selectively renders a plurality of camera views occurring at the same time in the televised vehicle race simultaneously with audio from only one of the audio sources of the first plurality of audio sources when audio from at least two of the audio sources of the first plurality of audio sources occurs at the same time; after transmitting from the server to each remote computing device the first data packets constructed so that each remote computing device renders the plurality of camera views occurring at the same time in the vehicle race event simultaneously with audio from only one of the audio sources of the first plurality of audio sources when audio from at least two of the audio sources of the first plurality of audio sources occurs at the same time, receiving with the server from at least one remote computing device to transmit audio of an audio source that occurred earlier in the vehicle race event; and after receiving the indication from the at least one remote computing device, transmitting with the server to the at least one remote computing device, second data packets containing second data representing the audio corresponding to the indication from the at least one remote computing device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A computing system to provide audio and video associated with teams during a televised vehicle race event via a computer network to a plurality of remote computing devices remote from the vehicle race event, the computing system comprising:
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a storage device configured to store data of audio from each of a plurality of audio sources from the vehicle race event; and a server having a processing module operably connected to the storage device to receive the data and to the computer network, the processing module configured to during the televised vehicle race event and separate from a television signal of the televised vehicle race event; transmit to each remote computing device through the computer network first data packets in one or more streams containing first data representing the audio signals from the audio sources and the video signals from the cameras at the vehicle race event, the first data packets constructed so that each remote computing device selectively renders a plurality of camera views occurring at the same time in the vehicle race event simultaneously with audio from one of the audio sources of a first plurality of audio sources having audio that can be rendered at each of the plurality of remote computing devices when audio from at least two of the audio sources of the first plurality of audio sources occurs at the same time, wherein a number of audio sources in the first plurality of audio sources is less than a total number of audio sources at the vehicle race event having audio that can be rendered at each of the plurality of remote computing devices; after transmitting to each of the remote computing devices the first data packets constructed so that each remote computing device selectively renders the plurality of camera views occurring at the same time in the race simultaneously with audio from one of the audio sources of the first plurality of audio sources when audio from at least two of the audio sources of the first plurality of audio sources occurs at the same time, receive an indication from at least one remote computing device to transmit audio of an audio source that occurred earlier in the vehicle race event; and after receiving the indication from the at least one remote computing device, access the storage device and transmit to the at least one remote computing device, second data packets containing second data representing the audio corresponding to the indication from the at least one remote computing device. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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9. A computing device for rendering audio and video of a vehicle race event, the computing device comprising:
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a speaker; a single monitor; a user interface; and a processor operably coupled to the speaker, the single monitor and the user interface, the processor configured to; receive from a network data packets representative of audio from audio sources and video from cameras at the vehicle race event; visually identify on the single monitor audio sources of a first plurality of audio sources at the vehicle race event having audio that can be rendered through the speaker, a number of audio sources in the first plurality of audio sources being less than a total number of audio sources at the vehicle race event having audio that can be rendered through the speaker; at least during portions of the vehicle race event as the vehicle race event is occurring live; receive through the user interface an indication of a selected audio source that the user of the computing device wants to hear over any other audio source at the vehicle race event; audibly render through the speaker the selected audio source that the user of the computing device wants to hear over any other audio source at the vehicle race event; receive through the user interface inputs from a user of the computing device to selectively render on the single monitor only one of any of the camera views and to selectively render on the single monitor a plurality of camera views of the vehicle race event occurring at the same time during the vehicle race event; simultaneously visually render the plurality of camera views of the vehicle race event on the single monitor occurring at the same time during the vehicle race event while also audibly rendering through the speaker only one audio source of the first plurality of audio sources when audio occurs simultaneously during the vehicle race event for at least two audio sources of the first plurality of audio sources; after audibly rendering the only one audio source of the first plurality of audio sources or the audio of the selected audio source that the user of the computing device wants to hear over any other audio source at the vehicle race event, receive through the user interface a second indication of an audio source having audio that occurred earlier in the vehicle race event; and audibly render through the speaker audio corresponding to the second indication that occurred earlier in the vehicle race event. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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