Mobile microphone system and method
AssigneeSocial Microphone, Inc.
InventorsKenneth Nathaniel Sherman, Andrew Michael Livingston
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Abstract
A method centrally controls communication at a single venue. Information, at least at the venue, is provided to attendees at the venue for transmitting electronic signals to the central communication point. At least one electronic communication transmission from an attendee who has access to the central communication point is enabled to have at least part of the transmission broadcast at the venue or allow open communication from the attendee to be broadcast at the venue. The personal mobile communications device of an attendee is used as a microphone over wireless telephone networks or local wireless communication networks.
Claims20
A system for wirelessly transmitting sound from an audience member back to the audience through an amplified audio system, comprising:
- a central communications point connected to the audio system;
- at least one personal mobile communications device used by the audience member, the personal mobile communications device nominally communicating audio signals over a first wireless communications channel, communicating audio signals corresponding to the sound from the audience member over a local wireless communications channel to the central communications point;
- the central communications system receiving the audio signals from the personal mobile communications device over the local wireless communications channel and sending unmixed audio signals to the audio system;
- whereby sound corresponding to the audio signals is broadcast to the audience by the amplified audio system without significant delay.
A system of wirelessly transmitting sound from an audience member back to the audience through an amplified audio system, comprising:
- a central communications point connected to the audio system;
- at least one personal mobile communications device used by the audience member to communicate audio signals corresponding to the sound from the audience member over a wireless communications channel to the central communications point;
- the central communications point receiving the audio signals from the personal mobile communications device over the wireless communications channel and sending unmixed audio signals to the audio system;
- whereby sound corresponding to the audio signals is broadcast to the audience by the amplified audio system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.