Event data transmission to eventgoer devices

• US 9,655,027 B1
• Filed: 07/13/2015
• Issued: 05/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Prosports Technologies, LLC
• Original Assignee: Prosports Technologies, LLC
• Inventors: Cronin, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Grey, Christopher
• Application Number:
  US14/798,294
• Time in Patent Office: 673 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/244 using a network of reference devices, e.g. beaconing

Abstract

An event venue with a performance area (e.g., a stage, a sport field, a sport court) and an eventgoer area (e.g., a stadium seating section, a bleacher section) may include beacons and cameras throughout the performance area. The beacons and cameras may each record event occurrence data (e.g., images, audio, video, or some combination thereof) of particular occurrences (e.g., sport goals, sport fouls, songs played) during an event (e.g., sports game, concert) at the event venue. The beacons and cameras may send this event occurrence data to a transmission system. The transmission system may convert the event occurrence data from a first format to a second format, and then may output the event occurrence data in the second format through one or more local wireless transmitters. Eventgoers in the transmission zones of these transmitters may then receive the event occurrence data at their mobile devices.

Claims

1. A method for event venue communication, the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of recorded datasets from a plurality of recording devices located at a plurality of different locations within performance areas of an event venue, the plurality of recorded datasets including different formats;

detecting one or more pre-determined events occurring within one of the performance areas of the event venue;

receiving a dataset selection input identifying a first recorded dataset from the plurality of recorded datasets, wherein the received dataset selection input corresponds to the detected event in a first performance area of the event venue;

converting the first recorded dataset from a first format associated with at least a first recording device of the plurality of recording devices into a second format;

identifying other performance areas as being among a set of performance areas that are farthest away from the first performance area to transmit the converted recorded dataset;

selecting local wireless transmitters within the event venue associated with the first performance area, wherein selection of the wireless transmitters targets users farthest away from the detected event for receipt of first recorded dataset associated with the identified performance areas; and

transmitting the first recorded dataset in the second format wirelessly to receiver devices in the identified performance areas so that the targeted users within the identified performance areas can view the first recorded dataset associated with the detected event using the selected one or more local wireless transmitters in the first performance area, where each local wireless transmitter transmits data within a wireless transmission zone near the local wireless transmitter, wherein each wireless transmission zone includes at least a portion of an eventgoer area of the event venue, and wherein at least a first local wireless transmitter of the one or more local wireless transmitters is a Visible Light Communication (VLC) transmitter.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first recorded dataset includes audio data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first recorded dataset includes at least one of image data or video data.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising

identifying the location of a first recording device that recorded the first recorded dataset;

and

transmitting the identified location of the first recording device along with the transmission of the first recorded dataset.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a transmitter selection input identifying the one or more local wireless transmitters from a plurality of local wireless transmitters, the one or more local wireless transmitters being at least a subset of the plurality of local wireless transmitters.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein at least one of the dataset selection input or the transmitter selection input is an input into a user interface.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein at least one of the dataset selection input or the transmitter selection input is an automatic computer-generated input.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the one or more local wireless transmitters are close to a particular event occurrence within the performance area of the event venue relative to the remainder of the plurality of local wireless transmitters.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the one or more local wireless transmitters are far away from a particular event occurrence within the performance area of the event venue relative to the remainder of the plurality of local wireless transmitters.

10. A system for event venue communication, the system comprising:

a plurality of recording devices located at a plurality of different locations within performance areas of an event venue;

one or more local wireless transmitters, where each local wireless transmitter of the one or more local wireless transmitters transmits data within a wireless transmission zone near the local wireless transmitter, wherein each wireless transmission zone includes at least a portion of an eventgoer area of an event venue, wherein at least a first local wireless transmitter of the one or more local wireless transmitters is a Visible Light Communication (VLC) transmitter; and

a transmission controller device, wherein execution of instructions stored in a memory of the transmission controller device by a processor of the transmission controller device;

receiving a plurality of recorded datasets from the plurality of recording devices, wherein the plurality of recorded datasets including different formats,

detecting one or more pre-determined events occurring within one of the performance areas of the event venue,

receiving a dataset selection input identifying a first recorded dataset from the plurality of recorded datasets, wherein the received dataset selection input corresponds to the detected event in a first performance area of the event venue,

converting the first recorded dataset from a first format associated with at least a first recording device of the plurality of recording devices into a second format,

identifying other performance areas as being among a set of performance areas that are farthest away from the first performance area to transmit the converted recorded dataset,

selecting local wireless transmitters within the event venue associated with the first performance area, wherein selection of the wireless transmitters targets users farthest away from the detected event for receipt of first recorded dataset associated with the identified performance areas, and

transmitting the first recorded dataset in the second format wirelessly to receiver devices in the identified performance areas so that the targeted users within the identified performance areas can view the first recorded dataset associated with the detected event using the selected one or more local wireless transmitters in the first performance area.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the first recorded dataset includes at least one of audio data, image data, or video data.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor of the transmission controller device further:

identifies the location of a first recording device that recorded the first recorded dataset, and

transmits the identified location of the first recording device along with the transmission of the first recorded dataset.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor of the transmission controller device further receives a transmitter selection input identifying the one or more local wireless transmitters from a plurality of local wireless transmitters, the one or more local wireless transmitters being at least a subset of the plurality of local wireless transmitters.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein at least one of the dataset selection input or the transmitter selection input is an input into a user interface.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein at least one of the dataset selection input or the transmitter selection input is an automatic computer-generated input.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the one or more local wireless transmitters are close to a particular event occurrence within the performance area of the event venue relative to the remainder of the plurality of local wireless transmitters.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the one or more local wireless transmitters are far away from a particular event occurrence within the performance area of the event venue relative to the remainder of the plurality of local wireless transmitters.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for event venue communication, the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of recorded datasets from a plurality of recording devices located at a plurality of different locations within performance areas of an event venue, the plurality of recorded datasets including different formats;

detecting one or more pre-determined events occurring within one of the performance areas of the event venue;

receiving a dataset selection input identifying a first recorded dataset from the plurality of recorded datasets, wherein the received dataset selection input corresponds to the detected event in a first performance area of the event venue;

converting the first recorded dataset from a first format associated with at least a first recording device of the plurality of recording devices into a second format;

identifying other performance areas as being among a set of performance areas that are farthest away from the first performance area to transmit the converted recorded dataset;

selecting local wireless transmitters within the event venue associated with the first performance area, wherein selection of the wireless transmitters targets users farthest away from the detected event for receipt of first recorded dataset associated with the identified performance areas; and

transmitting the first recorded dataset in the second format wirelessly to receiver devices in the identified performance areas so that the targeted users within the identified performance areas can view the first recorded dataset associated with the detected event using the selected one or more local wireless transmitters in the first performance area, where each local wireless transmitter transmits data within a wireless transmission zone near the local wireless transmitter, wherein each wireless transmission zone includes at least a portion of an eventgoer area of the event venue, and wherein at least a first local wireless transmitter of the one or more local wireless transmitters is a Visible Light Communication (VLC) transmitter.