Techniques to facilitate a live audience experience on a computing device
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorGeorgios Krasadakis
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Abstract
Techniques to provide an online audience to an event with a live audience experience. The live audience refers to users who are physically present at a live event and the online audience refers to users who are viewing the event through those users' computing devices. These techniques connect these audiences by communicating content that reflects the live audience's emotional state to the online audience's computing devices. In some embodiments, these techniques enhance the online audience's live viewing of the event by augmenting the event's broadcast with a visual indicator that expresses the live audience's response to a specific moment that occurred during the event. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- a logic circuit;
- and
- logic operative on the logic circuit to:
- identify mass reaction indicia from motion data that corresponds to a first set of computing devices possessed by a plurality of members of a live audience in physical proximity to an event, the motion data being provided by one or more position determination systems of the computing devices of the first set of computing devices and being indicative of actual movement of the computing devices possessed by the plurality of members of the live audience in physical proximity to the event;
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- generate visual indicator data based upon the mass reaction indicia that is communicated to a second set of computing devices associated with an online audience.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- identifying mass reaction indicia from motion data that captures movements corresponding to a set of mobile devices possessed by a plurality of members located within a geographic area in physical proximity to an event, the motion data being provided by one or more position determination systems of the mobile devices of the set of mobile devices and being indicative of actual movement of the computing devices possessed by the plurality of members of the live audience in physical proximity to the event;
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- communicating visual indicator data that represents the mass reaction indicia to an application running on computing devices located outside of the geographic area.
A system comprising:
- one or more processing devices operatively coupled to a memory, the memory bearing one or more instructions that, when executed by the one or more processing devices, configure the system to perform one or more operations including:
- process a pulse score quantifying a current state of an event with respect to an emotional state of a live audience in physical proximity to the event, the pulse score being at least partly based on motion data provided by one or more position determination systems of a plurality of computing devices associated with a plurality of members of the live audience and being indicative of actual movement of the computing devices possessed by the plurality of members of the live audience in physical proximity to the event;
- render content based upon the pulse score;
- and
- display the content in a portal configured to monitor the event.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.