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.
Claims17
A media playback system comprising:
- a plurality of drones;
- a mobile device comprising:
- a camera capable of capturing an image of the plurality of drones having a 3D spatial configuration,
- a processor configured to analyze the captured image to determine a media item that corresponds to the 3D spatial configuration of the plurality of drones, and
- a media playback unit,
- wherein the media playback unit is configured to play the determined media item at the mobile device.
A computer-implemented method of controlling the playback of media at a mobile device, the mobile device comprising a processor and a camera, the method comprising:
- using the camera, capturing an image of a plurality of drones having a 3D spatial configuration;
- using the processor, analyzing the captured image to determine a media item that corresponds to the 3D spatial configuration of the plurality of drones;
- and
- using the mobile device, playing the determined media item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.