System and method for listening to teams in a race event

摘要

A computer-implemented method and system allows a remote computer user to listen to teams in a race event. The method includes receiving audio signals from a plurality of audio sources at the race event; transmitting at least some of the audio signals to a remote computer; and filtering the audio signals as a function of the source of at least some of the audio signals so that at least some of the audio signals are not played by the remote computer and heard by the user.

主权项

1. A computer implemented method to provide audio and video from a televised vehicle race event using a computer network to a plurality of remote computing devices remote from the vehicle race event, the computer implemented method comprising:
providing a server having a processor operable to enable the server to communicate via the computer network to each of the remote computing devices and to access a storage device having audio data from the televised vehicle race event; providing a user interface for a single monitor operable on each of the plurality of remote computing devices, the user interface configured to render a visual indication identifying audio sources of a first plurality of audio sources apart from other audio sources that have audio that can be rendered at each of the plurality of remote computing devices, wherein a number of audio sources in the first plurality of audio sources is less than a total number of audio sources at the vehicle race event having audio that can be rendered at each of the plurality of remote computing devices; during the televised vehicle race event and separate from a television signal of the televised vehicle race event:
transmitting with the server to each of the remote computing devices through the computer network, first data packets in one or more streams containing first data representing audio signals from audio sources and video signals from cameras at the vehicle race event, the first data packets constructed so that each remote computing device selectively renders a plurality of camera views occurring at the same time in the televised vehicle race simultaneously with audio from only one of the audio sources of the first plurality of audio sources when audio from at least two of the audio sources of the first plurality of audio sources occurs at the same time;after transmitting from the server to each remote computing device the first data packets constructed so that each remote computing device renders the plurality of camera views occurring at the same time in the vehicle race event simultaneously with audio from only one of the audio sources of the first plurality of audio sources when audio from at least two of the audio sources of the first plurality of audio sources occurs at the same time, receiving with the server from at least one remote computing device to transmit audio of an audio source that occurred earlier in the vehicle race event; andafter receiving the indication from the at least one remote computing device, transmitting with the server to the at least one remote computing device, second data packets containing second data representing the audio corresponding to the indication from the at least one remote computing device.