Patent ID: 7096080

Claim:
A live performance system including n live performance providing apparatuses for producing and distributing live performance, n being an integer not smaller than one and the live performance providing apparatuses being connected through a communication network, each live performance providing apparatus comprising: output means for outputting a live performance guide output based on at least one of synchronization information and a live performance signal supplied from an other of the apparatus connected to the communication network, capturing means for capturing a content performed in accordance with the live performance guide output from the output means as a live performance signal, and transmitter means for transmitting one of the live performance signal captured by the capturing means, a live performance signal obtained by synthesizing the live performance signal captured by the capturing means and a live performance signal supplied by the other apparatus, wherein the n live performance providing apparatuses are assigned first through n-th connection orders; the live performance providing apparatus having the first connection order transmits the live performance signal captured by the capturing means and the synchronization information to the live performance providing apparatus having a second connection order through the transmitter means; each of the live performance providing apparatuses having the second through the n-th connection orders outputs the live performance guide output through the output means based on at least one of the synchronization information and the live performance signal transmitted from the live performance providing apparatus having an immediately prior connection order; and when the live performance providing apparatuses having the second through the (n−1)-th connection orders exist each of the second through (n−1)-th live performance providing apparatuses transmits the supplied synchronization information and the live performance signal obtained by synthesizing the live performance signal captured by the capturing means and the live performance signal supplied by the live performance providing apparatus having an immediately prior connection order to the live performance providing apparatus having a subsequent connection order.