Method and system for movie karaoke
OwnerDavid N. Jonesinventor
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Abstract
A user's recorded voice and/or image is played back in the context of a scene from a pre-recorded movie such that it replaces an actor's recorded voice and/or image of the pre-recorded movie, thus giving the illusion that the user is participating in the scene. The replacement may occur in real time (without storing the user-generated audio/video information), for example as the movie is playing to an audience or to the user, or using a stored version of the user-generated content. Script notes and/or subtitles may be provided to the user so that he can better understand the scene and thereby more accurately emulate the movie character which he will personify.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method, comprising providing, in response to a request designating a scene of interest included in a media file, a control file including instructions for playing of audio and video portions of the scene of interest, which instructions when executed by a computer system, cause the computer system to play the audio and video portions intermixed with capture of user-generated audio and video information provided as inputs to the computer system at designated times during the playing of the audio and video portions.
The method of claim 2, wherein the control file further includes instructions that when executed by the computer system, cause the computer system to display subtitles highlighted so as to indicate when a user should speak lines of dialog appropriate to the scene of interest.
A computer-implemented method, comprising playing a scene of interest from a media file so as to render perceptible audio and video portions of the scene of interest at some times during the playing of the media file and to render imperceptible the audio and video portions of the scene of interest at other times during the playing of the media file, and recording user-provided audio and video information during those times the audio and video portions of the scene of interest are rendered imperceptible during playing of the media file.
A computer-implemented method, comprising playing audio and video portions of a scene of interest of a media file and playing user-generated content, the playing of the audio and video portions and the user-generated content being arranged in time so that the audio and video portions of the scene of interest are rendered perceptible at and for first designated periods of time and are rendered imperceptible at and for second designated periods of time, and designated portions of the user-generated content are played during the second designated periods of time when the audio and video portions of the scene of interest are rendered imperceptible.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.