Wireless networked record session device
OwnerWilliam Bollman, Kevin Carricoinventors
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Abstract
A social entertainment user interface operating on a wireless networked record session device capable of producing a live video and/or audio stream as if made in a vintage record booth. Record sessions are listened to and/or watched by a plurality of other social entertainment user interfaces operating on other networked listening/watching wireless networked devices. Video and audio filters emulate various altered looks and sounds. Record sessions are streamed live or near-live for other social entertainment user interfaces operating on other networked wireless devices to listen and/or watch, and passively and actively rated to dynamically enable watching of the most preferred record sessions.
Claims16
A social entertainment device formed by a non-transitory social entertainment computer program downloaded to a wireless device which when executed by the wireless device operates to output social entertainment media for arranged play on a display of the wireless device using at least one video channel defined by a particular hashtag, the social entertainment device being configured to:
- cause push of a notification to at least one of a plurality of other social entertainment devices to announce pending play of a recording from the social entertainment device;
- intermittently operate a camera on the social entertainment device to stop-and-start record a live record session for a fixed maximum recorded length of time selectable to have a value of no greater than 65 seconds;
- transforming an image from the camera of the social entertainment device for display as a selectable video filter;
- transforming video of the live record session by application of the selectable video filter;
- associate the recorded live record session for playing in arranged sequence with record sessions of some of the plurality of other social entertainment devices, the recorded live record session having a branded watermark applied thereto;
- immediately upon startup of the social entertainment computer program on the wireless device a record session by another of the plurality of other social entertainment devices is played with the branded watermark on the display of the social entertainment device;
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- record sessions of a sub-plurality of the plurality of other social entertainment devices are played in arranged sequence on the display of the social entertainment device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.