US 12,720,130 B2 · Attention based audio experience in streaming of live events

Abstract

Systems and methods for synchronizing a portion of the radio broadcast with a portion of a TV broadcast and switching from TV to radio broadcast upon detecting a triggering condition are described. A determination is made if radio and TV broadcasters are within a local transmission range (e.g., connected via a wire), to broadcast live event feeds directly to each other. If broadcasters are within local transmission range, then the radio broadcast's feed may be multiplexed with the audio feed of the TV broadcast. If they are farther apart, then their clocks may be synchronized, and the corresponding audio packets of the radio and TV broadcasts may be multiplexed together based on a time stamp from the synchronized clocks and delivered to the client device. Upon detecting the triggering condition, the client device may switch from the TV broadcast to the synchronized radio broadcast.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

accessing a radio broadcast and a television (TV) broadcast of a live event;
synchronizing the radio broadcast with the TV broadcast by synchronizing a portion of an audio stream associated with the radio broadcast with a portion of an audio stream associated with the TV broadcast, wherein, synchronizing the portion of the audio stream associated with the radio broadcast with the portion of the audio stream of the TV broadcast comprises, embedding a time stamp on a first audio packet of the radio broadcast and a first audio packet of the TV broadcast, wherein the time stamp has a common time and is generated using a network time protocol (NTP);
multiplexing the synchronized portion of the audio stream associated with the radio broadcast and the portion of the audio and video streams associated with the TV broadcast as a single multiplexed stream;
and
transmitting the single multiplexed stream to a client device either in response to detecting a triggering event or upon user request.

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A system comprising:

communications circuitry configured to access a radio broadcast and a television (TV) broadcast of a live event;
and
control circuitry configured to:
synchronize the radio broadcast with the TV broadcast by synchronizing a portion of an audio stream associated with the radio broadcast with a portion of an audio stream associated with the TV broadcast, wherein, synchronizing the portion of the audio stream associated with the radio broadcast with the portion of the audio stream of the TV broadcast comprises, embedding a time stamp on a first audio packet of the radio broadcast and a first audio packet of the TV broadcast, wherein the time stamp has a common time and is generated using a network time protocol (NTP);
multiplex the synchronized portion of the audio stream associated with the radio broadcast and the portion of the audio and video streams associated with the TV broadcast as a single multiplexed stream;
and
transmit the single multiplexed stream to a client device either in response to detecting a triggering event or upon user request.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Attention based audio experience in streaming of live events

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Attention based audio experience in streaming of live events

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Abstract

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