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- Patent Title: Audiovisual collaboration system and method with latency management for wide-area broadcast and social media-type user interface mechanics
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Application No.: US16443022Application Date: 2019-06-17
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Publication No.: US11310538B2Publication Date: 2022-04-19
- Inventor: Anton Holmberg , Benjamin Hersh , Jeannie Yang , Yuning Woo , Wang Liang , Perry R. Cook , Jeffrey C. Smith
- Applicant: SMULE, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: SMULE, INC.
- Current Assignee: SMULE, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Haynes and Boone, LLP
- Main IPC: H04N21/2187
- IPC: H04N21/2187 ; H04L29/06 ; H04N21/233 ; H04L65/60

Abstract:
Techniques have been developed to facilitate the livestreaming of group audiovisual performances. Audiovisual performances including vocal music are captured and coordinated with performances of other users in ways that can create compelling user and listener experiences. For example, in some cases or embodiments, duets with a host performer may be supported in a sing-with-the-artist style audiovisual livestream in which aspiring vocalists request or queue particular songs for a live radio show entertainment format. The developed techniques provide a communications latency-tolerant mechanism for synchronizing vocal performances captured at geographically-separated devices (e.g., at globally-distributed, but network-connected mobile phones or tablets or at audiovisual capture devices geographically separated from a live studio).
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