Multi device audio capture

摘要

At a master device are registered one or more other devices associated with one or more audio channels for recording at least one acoustic signal from one or more sound sources. The at least one acoustic signal is recorded using at least one of the master device and one or more other devices, and the at least one recorded acoustic signal is either collected by at least one of the master device and the one or more other devices, or transmitted to another entity by at least one of the master device and the one or more other devices. In the examples the registration assigns audio and/or video channels to different microphones of the different devices. In one embodiment these different recordings are mixed at the master device and in another they are mixed at a web server into a multi-channel audio/sound (or audio-video) file.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
registering at a master device one or more other devices associated with one or more audio channels for recording at least one acoustic signal from one or more sound sources; recording the at least one acoustic signal using at least one of the master device and one or more other devices based on position of the one or more other devices relative to the master device, in which the position is received at the master device via manual entry or via wireless signaling from the one or more other devices, wherein the at least one recorded acoustic signal is either:
collected by at least one of the master device and the one or more other devices, ortransmitted to another entity by at least one of the master device and the one or more other devices; and wherein registering the one or more other devices further comprises attributing a user-selected one of a directional polar pattern and an omni-directional polar pattern for each different other device and the master device to record the at least one acoustic signal based on the user-selected polar pattern.