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US 12,732,653 B2Granted
Hybrid audio/visual imagery entertainment system with live audio stream playout and separate live or prerecorded visual imagery stream playout
Assigneee Scapes Network LLC
InventorsRobert A Oklejas, Dragan Cerovcevic, Roy Radakovich
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Abstract
A hybrid audio and visual imagery entertainment system that combines visual imagery obtained as live visual imagery or prerecorded visual imagery with the transmission of live audio displayed on a display for therapeutic benefit to a user. Each of the visual imagery and audio of the system can be viewed or heard by the user on its own; however, it is designed to be viewed and heard simultaneously but where the audio and visual imagery streams are separate and unsynchronized and displayed on a display for viewing and hearing by a user.
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A hybrid audio and visual imagery system comprising:
- a first feed consisting essentially of an audio signal not embedded with a video signal with said first feed conveying continuously live sound of a first subject;
- a second feed consisting essentially of a visual imagery signal not embedded with an audio signal with said second feed conveying live visual imagery or prerecorded visual imagery of a second subject distinct, separate and independent to said conveyed live sound of said first feed;
- a control device located at a remote location, with control signals from a user generated by said control device,
- a first control node in communication with said control device and located at a central location at which said first feed is received, said first control node having a first input comprising said first feed and a first portion of said control signals associated with said audio signal, and having a first output signal comprising a first user feed, said first output signal from said first control node received by said control device,
- a second control node in communication with said control device and located at said central location at which said second feed is received, said second control node having a second input comprising said second feed and a second portion of said control signals associated with said visual imagery signal, and having a second output signal distinct and separate from said first output signal comprising a second user feed, said second output signal from said second control node received by said control device, and
- a display located at the remote location and coupled to said control device,
- wherein a sound of said first subject conveyed by said first user feed and said visual imagery of said second subject conveyed by said second user feed are independently outputted by said display as a single combined resulting product that is not a unified audio/visual product and wherein the sound of the first subject conveyed by the first user feed and the visual imagery of the second subject conveyed by the second user feed are each independently selected to provide a relaxation or calming effect on the human psyche of the user,
- wherein said first portion of said control signals is processed only by said first control node and not by said second control node, and
- wherein said second portion of said control signals is processed only by said second control node and not by said first control node.
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A method for independently providing visual imagery and/or audio to a display at a remote location in response to control signals received from a user at the remote location, comprising:
- receiving a first feed comprising an audio signal not embedded with a visual imagery signal, the first feed conveying continuously live sound of a first subject;
- receiving a second feed independent of the first feed, the second feed comprising a visual imagery signal not embedded with an audio signal with the audio signal of the first feed isolated from the visual imagery signal of the second feed, the second feed conveying live visual imagery or prerecorded visual imagery of a second subject supplemental and separate to the conveyed continuously live sound of the first feed;
- generating control signals from a control device located at the remote location;
- communicating a first portion of the control signals associated with the audio signal to a first control node located at a central location, the first control node having a first input comprising the first feed and a first output signal comprising a first user feed;
- communicating a second portion of the control signals associated with the visual imagery signal to a second control node located at the central location, the second control node having a second input comprising the second feed and a second output signal distinct and separate from the first output signal comprising a second user feed;
- receiving the first and second output signals at the control device;
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- outputting the sound of the first subject conveyed by the first user feed and the visual imagery of the second subject conveyed by the second user feed independently as a single combined resulting product on a display at the remote location, wherein the resulting product is not a unified audio/visual product and wherein the sound of the first subject conveyed by the first user feed and the visual imagery of the second subject conveyed by the second user feed are each independently selected to provide a relaxation or calming effect on the human psyche of the user,
- wherein the first portion of the control signals is processed only by the first control node and not by the second control node, and
- wherein the second portion of the control signals is processed only by the second control node and not by the first control node.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.