Media playback system
AssigneeDigital & Future Technologies Limited
InventorChristopher John Crockford
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Abstract
A media playback system comprising a transmitter configured to transmit an indication of a media item; a plurality of drones; a controller configured to control the spatial configuration of the drones and, in response to receiving the indication of a media item control the drones to adopt a predefined 3D spatial configuration; a mobile device comprising a camera and a media playback unit, wherein the camera is capable of capturing an image of the plurality of drones; a processor configured to analyse the captured image to determine the media item that corresponds to the predefined 3D spatial configuration; and wherein the media playback unit is configured to play the determined media item.
Claims19
A media playback system comprising:
- a transmitter configured to transmit an indication of a media item;
- a plurality of drones;
- a controller configured to control the spatial configuration of the drones and, in response to receiving the indication of a media item, control the drones to adopt a predefined 3D spatial configuration;
- a mobile device comprising a camera and a media playback unit, wherein the camera is capable of capturing an image of the plurality of drones;
- a processor configured to analyse the captured image to determine the media item that corresponds to the predefined 3D spatial configuration;
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- wherein the media playback unit is configured to play the determined media item at the mobile device.
A method of controlling the playback of media, the method comprising:
- transmitting, at a transmitter, an indication of a media item;
- receiving the indication of the media item at a plurality of drones;
- in response to receiving the indication of the media item, adopting a predefined 3D spatial configuration with the plurality of drones;
- capturing, at a mobile device, an image of the plurality of drones;
- analysing the captured image to determine the media item that corresponds to the predefined 3D spatial configuration;
- playing, at the mobile device, the determined media item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.