US 12,131,746 B2
Coordinating and mixing vocals captured from geographically distributed performers
Perry R. Cook, Jacksonville, OR (US); Ari Lazier, San Francisco, CA (US); Tom Lieber, San Francisco, CA (US); and Turner Evan Kirk, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Smule, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by SMULE, INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/386,387.
Application 14/656,344 is a division of application No. 13/085,414, filed on Apr. 12, 2011, granted, now 8,983,829, issued on Mar. 17, 2015.
Application 17/386,387 is a continuation of application No. 16/550,769, filed on Aug. 26, 2019, granted, now 11,074,923.
Application 16/550,769 is a continuation of application No. 15/664,659, filed on Jul. 31, 2017, granted, now 10,395,666, issued on Aug. 27, 2019.
Application 15/664,659 is a continuation of application No. 14/656,344, filed on Mar. 12, 2015, granted, now 9,721,579, issued on Aug. 1, 2017.
Application 13/085,414 is a continuation in part of application No. 12/876,132, filed on Sep. 4, 2010, granted, now 9,147,385, issued on Sep. 29, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/323,348, filed on Apr. 12, 2010.
Prior Publication US 2022/0084534 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G10H 1/36 (2006.01); G10L 13/033 (2013.01); G10L 21/013 (2013.01)
CPC G10L 21/013 (2013.01) [G10H 1/366 (2013.01); G10L 13/0335 (2013.01); G10H 2210/066 (2013.01); G10H 2210/331 (2013.01); G10H 2240/251 (2013.01); Y10S 84/04 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of coordinating a performance of a group, wherein the coordinated group performance includes vocal contributions captured at respective geographically-distributed portable computing devices, the method comprising:
using a first one of the geographically-distributed portable computing devices for vocal performance capture, the portable computing device having a display, a microphone interface and a communications interface;
responsive to a user selection, receiving via the communications interface a media encoding including a vocal performance of at least one other vocalist captured against a rendering of a backing track at a remote one of the geographically-distributed portable computing devices;
at the first portable computing device, rendering the media encoding, and against the rendered media encoding, capturing at least a portion of a vocal performance of the user, the user and the at least one other vocalist each members of the group; and
streaming, as the coordinated group performance, a mix of at least the user's captured performance with the vocal performance of the at least one other vocalist captured at the remote portable computing device, wherein metadata associated with the streamed mix includes geocoded location of the respective vocal performance captures for display in association with an audiovisual rendering of the coordinated group performance.