Method and apparatus for facilitating group musical interaction over a network
AssigneeHarmonix Music Systems, Inc.
InventorsEran Egozy, Dan Schmidt, Alexander Rigopulos
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Abstract
A method for providing real-time musical interaction among a plurality of players connected via a network includes the steps of analyzing local player's musical performance to extract emulation data that represents the musical performance; transmitting emulation data to remote players over a network; receiving emulation data from remote players over the network; and using the emulation data to emulate the remote player's musical performance by locally generating approximations of the performances.
Claims18
A method for facilitating real-time competition between players of a game, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving music performance input from a local player;
- (b) generating audio output responsive to the received input;
- (c) receiving emulation data extracted from a remote musical performance;
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- (d) generating a local approximation of the remote musical performance using the emulation data, the local approximation synchronous with the local musical performance.
A method for facilitating musical interaction over a network, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving emulation data representing a remote user's musical performance;
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- (b) locally generating an approximation of the remote user's musical performance using the received emulation data, the approximation synchronous with a local musical performance.
A means for facilitating musical interaction over a network, comprising:
- (a) means for receiving emulation data representing a remote user's musical performance;
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- (b) means for locally generating an approximation of the remote user's musical performance using the received emulation data, the approximation synchronous with a local musical performance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.