Hybrid Audio/Visual Imagery Entertainment System With Live Audio Stream Playout And Separate Live Or Prerecorded Visual Imagery Stream Playout

Abstract

A hybrid audio and visual imagery entertainment system that combines visual imagery obtained as live visual imagery or prerecorded visual imagery with the transmission of live audio displayed on a display for therapeutic benefit to a user. Each of the visual imagery and audio of the system can be viewed or heard by the user on its own, however, it is designed to be viewed and heard simultaneously but where the audio and visual imagery streams are separate and unsynchronized and displayed on a display for viewing and hearing by a user.

1 . A hybrid audio and visual imagery system for independently providing visual imagery and/or audio to a display at a remote location in response to control signals received from a user at the remote location, comprising:
 a first feed including an audio signal conveying continuously live sound of a first subject;   a second feed including a visual imagery signal conveying live visual imagery or prerecorded visual imagery of a second subject supplemental and separate to the conveyed live sound of the first feed;   a control device located at the remote location, with the control signals from the user generated by the control device,   a first control node in communication with the control device and located at a central location at which the first feed is received, the first control node having a first input comprising the first feed and a first portion of the control signals associated with the audio signal, and having a first output signal comprising a first user feed, the first output signal from the first control node received by the control device, and   a second control node in communication with the control device and located at the central location at which the second feed is received, the second control node having a second input comprising the second feed and a second portion of the control signals associated with the visual imagery signal, and having a second output signal distinct and separate from the first output signal comprising a second user feed, the second output signal from the second control node received by the control device, and   a display located at the remote location and coupled to the control device, the sound of the first subject conveyed by the first user feed and the visual imagery of the second subject conveyed by the second user feed independently outputted by the display.   
     
     
         2 . The hybrid audio and visual imagery system of  claim 1 , wherein the continuously live sound of the first subject conveyed by the first user feed and outputted by the display comprises continuously live human voice sounds. 
     
     
         3 . The hybrid audio and visual imagery system of  claim 1 , wherein the continuously live sound of the first subject conveyed by the first user feed and outputted by the display comprises continuously live music. 
     
     
         4 . The hybrid audio and visual imagery system of  claim 1 , wherein the continuously live sound of the first subject conveyed by the first user feed and outputted by the display comprises continuously live prerecorded music played through an audio playing device. 
     
     
         5 . The hybrid audio and visual imagery system of  claim 1 , wherein the continuously live sound of the first subject conveyed by the first user feed and outputted by the display comprises continuously live prerecorded sounds played through an audio playing device. 
     
     
         6 . The hybrid audio and visual imagery system of  claim 1 , wherein the continuously live sound of the first subject conveyed by the first user feed and outputted by the display comprises continuously live non-human sounds. 
     
     
         7 . The hybrid audio and visual imagery system of  claim 1 , wherein the continuously live sound of the first subject is acquired by a microphone and outputted as the first feed from the microphone to the first control node. 
     
     
         8 . The hybrid audio and visual imagery system of  claim 1 , wherein the visual imagery of the second subject conveyed by the second user feed and outputted by the display remains unchanged for minutes to hours at a time. 
     
     
         9 . The hybrid audio and visual imagery system of  claim 1 , wherein the live or prerecorded visual imagery of the second subject conveyed by the second user feed and outputted by the display comprises live visual imagery of the second subject conveyed by the second user feed and outputted by the display. 
     
     
         10 . The hybrid audio and visual imagery system of  claim 9 , wherein the live visual imagery of the second subject is acquired by a camera and outputted as the second feed from the camera to the second control node. 
     
     
         11 . The hybrid audio and visual imagery system of  claim 1 , wherein the live or prerecorded visual imagery of the second subject conveyed by the second user feed and outputted by the display comprises prerecorded visual imagery of the second subject conveyed by the second user feed and outputted by the display. 
     
     
         12 . The hybrid audio and visual imagery system of  claim 11 , wherein the prerecorded visual imagery of the second subject is acquired by a camera and recorded on a recording device through visual imagery outputs from the camera, and wherein the prerecorded visual imagery is subsequently outputted as the second feed from the recording device to the second control node. 
     
     
         13 . The hybrid audio and visual imagery system of  claim 11 , wherein the prerecorded visual imagery of the second subject is stored on a storage device, and wherein the prerecorded visual imagery is subsequently outputted as the second feed from the storage device to the second control node. 
     
     
         14 . The hybrid audio and visual imagery system of  claim 1 , wherein the user sends the control signals from the control device to the first control node for controlling the receipt of the first user feed to the display. 
     
     
         15 . The hybrid audio and visual imagery system of  claim 1 , wherein the user sends the control signals from the control device to the second control node for controlling the receipt of the second user feed to the display. 
     
     
         16 . The hybrid audio and visual imagery system of  claim 1 , wherein the user sends the control signals from the control device to the second control node for selecting between the live visual imagery and the prerecorded visual imagery. 
     
     
         17 . The hybrid audio and visual imagery system of  claim 15 , wherein the user sends the control signals from the control device to the second control node for selecting between the live visual imagery and the prerecorded visual imagery. 
     
     
         18 . The hybrid audio and visual imagery system of  claim 1 , wherein the audio signal is selected by the user from one or more audio signals, with each one of the one or more audio signals corresponding to a respective one audio source of one or more audio sources. 
     
     
         19 . The hybrid audio and visual imagery system of  claim 1 , wherein the visual imagery signal is selected by the user from one or more visual imagery signals, with each one of the one or more visual imagery signals corresponding to a respective one visual imagery source of one or more visual imagery sources.