Patent ID: 9247191
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G11B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: determining a communication delay between a first device and a second device; in response to activation of a camera application on the first device, sending an indication of the activation to the second device; in response to a camera event, sending an indication of the camera event to the second device, where the camera event comprises taking a photograph; receiving, at the first device from the second device, audio data and a marker corresponding to a time when the second device received the indication of the camera event; and merging image data and the audio data, where merging the image data and the audio data comprises: determining a first point in the audio data corresponding to the time the photograph was taken based at least in part on the marker and the communication delay and merging the photograph with a segment of the audio data which spans a time which precedes the first point in the audio data by a first pre-configured amount of time and which follows the first point in the audio data by a second pre-configured amount of time while cross-correlating audio data from the first device with the audio data from the second device.