US 12,155,905 B2
Interactive electronic libretto/translation HD display interface apparatus and method
Gary Ellis, Santa Fe, NM (US); Karl G. Kern, Santa Fe, NM (US); Paul Horpedahl, Santa Fe, NM (US); and Adelaide Zhang, Santa Fe, NM (US)
Assigned to The Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, NM (US)
Appl. No. 17/608,658
Filed by The Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, NM (US)
PCT Filed May 4, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/031374
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 3, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/227243, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 12, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/843,185, filed on May 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0150597 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 21/485 (2011.01); H04N 21/214 (2011.01); H04N 21/414 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/4856 (2013.01) [H04N 21/2143 (2013.01); H04N 21/414 (2013.01); H04N 21/6118 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A multi-channel data distribution method comprising:
creating a master database file containing first display data for at least one of a plurality of displays and storing the master database file in an arbiter;
displaying the first display data on the at least one of the plurality of displays and for any of the plurality of displays not having any display data contained in the master database file, displaying a default message; and
forming at least one data packet by combining second display data for a plurality of channels, a signifier, and at least one display instruction packed together in a single data packet, wherein the second display data for the plurality of channels comprises second display data for a first language and second display data for a second language.