US 11,310,538 B2 · Audiovisual collaboration system and method with latency management for wide-area broadcast and social media-type user interface mechanics

Abstract

Techniques have been developed to facilitate the livestreaming of group audiovisual performances. Audiovisual performances including vocal music are captured and coordinated with performances of other users in ways that can create compelling user and listener experiences. For example, in some cases or embodiments, duets with a host performer may be supported in a sing-with-the-artist style audiovisual livestream in which aspiring vocalists request or queue particular songs for a live radio show entertainment format. The developed techniques provide a communications latency-tolerant mechanism for synchronizing vocal performances captured at geographically-separated devices (e.g., at globally-distributed, but network-connected mobile phones or tablets or at audiovisual capture devices geographically separated from a live studio).

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A collaboration method for a livestream broadcast of a coordinated audiovisual work of first and second performers captured at respective geographically-distributed, first and second devices, the method comprising:

receiving, at the second device, a media encoding of an audiovisual performance mixed with a backing audio track and including (i) vocal audio captured at the first device from a first one of the performers and (ii) video that is performance synchronized with the captured first performer vocals;
at the second device, audibly rendering the received mixed audio performance and capturing thereagainst vocal audio from a second one of the performers;
mixing, at the second device, the second performer vocal audio captured by the second device with the mixed audiovisual performance received from the first device to provide a broadcast audiovisual mix that includes the captured vocal audio of the first and second performers and the backing audio track without apparent temporal lag therebetween;
and
supplying the audiovisual broadcast mix to a service platform configured to livestream the broadcast audiovisual mix to plural recipient devices constituting an audience.

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Audiovisual collaboration system and method with latency management for wide-area broadcast and social media-type user interface mechanics

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Audiovisual collaboration system and method with latency management for wide-area broadcast and social media-type user interface mechanics

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