Patent classifications
G10H2250/041
Generating a stream comprising synchronized content
A method of generating a stream comprising synchronized interactive content is described. The method comprises the steps of: transmitting a first stream from a studio to a terminal or a terminal system of a first user and to a buffer; transmitting in response to the first stream a second stream to a mixer connected to the buffer, the second stream comprising content generated in reaction to the content of the first stream; providing the mixer with a temporal relation between the packets in the first and second stream; generating a first output stream comprising a substantially synchronized content by mixing packets in second stream with packets of the buffered first stream on the basis of the temporal relation.
Reproduction control device, program, and reproduction control method
A playing controller includes: a data acquiring unit configured to acquire audio data associated with information regarding a play position in a music piece and text-related data associated with the information regarding the play position; an operation signal acquiring unit configured to acquire an operation signal indicating an operation for a control of the music piece; an audio data processing unit configured to process, in accordance with the operation signal, the audio data associated with a section within the music piece identified by the information regarding the play position; an image data generating unit configured to generate image data containing a character image based on the text-related data and process the character image showing a lyric in the section based on the information regarding the play position and the operation signal; and a data output unit configured to output the processed audio data and the image data.