Patent ID: 8406608

Claim:
A system for creating talk shows and other video programming, comprising: (a) a processor-based production server; (b) a host processor-based facility configured for: (i) accepting inputs of content and stylistic information for designing a composited video program, and (ii) electronically transferring said content and stylistic information to the processor-based production server; and (c) a plurality of participant processor-based devices, each associated with a user, wherein the host processor-based facility and a set of the participant processor-based devices are configured: (i) to communicate with each other over an electronic communications network as participating devices in a live conference that includes audio communication, with each of the participating devices transmitting a live first data stream; and (ii) to transmit a second data stream to the processor-based production server, wherein both the first data stream and the second data stream represent a corresponding user's participation in the live conference, wherein the processor-based production server is configured to receive the second data streams and assemble them into a final composited video program using the content and stylistic information, wherein each of a plurality of the second data streams includes an audio signal and a video signal, and wherein the processor-based production server is configured to combine the audio signals and to display the video signals in different frames that make up a composited video for the final composited video program, and wherein when generating the final composited video program, the processor-based production server is further configured to automatically enlarge different individual frames, relative to the other frames, at different points in time based on an analysis of the audio signals.