System and method for participants to perceivably modify a performance

• US 9,887,791 B2
• Filed: 09/17/2013
• Issued: 02/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mario Perron
• Original Assignee: Mario Perron
• Inventors: Parron, Mario
• Primary Examiner(s): Jiang, Yong Hang
• Application Number:
  US14/428,921
• Publication Number:
  US 20150270915A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,603 Days
• Field of Search: 340 44
• 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 live or recorded 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 movement data of the at least one participant device and to communicate such movement data to a server;

c) 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 movement data of each participant device received through the communication network by adding movement data by type and by mapping movement data into one or more output values tables, the computer program being further configured to aggregate the movement data by either averaging numerical movement data or finding minimum or maximum values;

ii) to calculate performance modifications based on the aggregated movement data;

iii) to communicate the performance modifications to at least one performer device;

d) the at least one performer device comprising a central processing unit (CPU) being connected to the communication network, wherein the at least one performer device is configured;

i) to deliver the live or recorded performance;

ii) to execute the performance modifications on the live or recorded performance.

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

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

4. The system as described in claim 1, wherein the one or more movement data is formatted as an electronic message, the electronic message comprising:

a) an identifier of the participant device;

b) an identifier of one or more performer device;

c) an identifier of an arbitration request;

d) a description of the movement data.

5. The system as described in claim 1, wherein the communication network is a cellular network.

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

7. The system as described in claim 1, wherein the performer device is connected to a media generating device.

8. The system as described in claim 7, wherein the media generating device and the performer device are integrated in one physical device.

9. The system as described in claim 7, wherein the media generating device is a musical instrument.

10. The system as describe in claim 7, wherein the media generating device is a DJ Station.

11. A method for participants to perceivably modify a live or recorded performance, the method comprising the steps:

a) to capture at least some of movement data of at least one participant device;

b) to aggregate the captured movement data by adding movement data by type and by mapping movement data into one or more output values tables, the aggregation of the captured movement data further comprising either averaging numerical movement data or finding minimum or maximum values;

c) to calculate modifications based on the aggregated movement data;

d) to perceivably modify the live or recorded performance based on the calculated modifications.

12. The method as described in claim 11, wherein the movement data is captured using the at least one participant device.

13. The method as described in claim 12, wherein the method further comprises requesting the at least one participant to move the at least one participant device for perceivably modifying the performance.

14. The method as described in claim 12, 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.

15. The method as described in claim 11, wherein the step to aggregate the received participant inputs is realized by executing one or more computer program implementing aggregation algorithms.

16. The method as described in claim 15, 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.

17. The method as described in claim 11, wherein the modifications of the performance are executed by one or more performer devices, the one or more performer devices being configured to deliver live or recorded performance.

18. The method as described in claim 17, wherein the calculated modifications are communicated to the one or more performer devices through a communication network.

19. The method as described in claim 17, wherein a performer manually executes the modifications displayed on the device of the performer device.

20. The method as described in claim 17, 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.

21. The method as described in claim 11, wherein the one or more movement data of the participant device are selected from the followings:

waving the participant device, bumping the participant device with another, moving or stopping.

22. The method as described in claim 11, wherein the modifications are calculated by assigning the aggregated the movement data of the participant device to one or more modification parameters which depend on the type of recorded performance and the current state of the performance.

23. The method as described in claim 22, 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.

24. The method as described in claim 11, wherein the method further comprises the steps:

a) to locate a participant device within a communication network coverage;

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

25. The method as described in claim 17, 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.