Patent ID: 7561177

Claim:
A camera apparatus, comprising: at least two cameras configured to by carried or worn by respective participants and operable to produce respective video streams; at least two microphones associated with respective ones of the cameras, each of the microphones being adapted to produce a respective audio stream; a data processor operable to perform operations comprising selecting at least one of the audio streams according to a predetermined first set of one or more criteria, choosing at least one of the video streams according to a predetermined second set of one or more criteria. wherein the choosing comprises determining at least one of the video streams that comprises an image of a source of audio content of the selected audio stream based on an image content based analysis of the video streams, outputting an audio mixing control signal and a video selecting control signal based on the at least one selected audio stream and the at least one chosen video stream; an audio signal mixer operable to receive contemporaneously the audio streams and adapted to perform operations comprising deriving a single audio output signal from at least one of the received audio streams according to the audio mixing control signal; and a video signal selector circuit for receiving contemporaneously the video streams and adapted to perform operations comprising deriving a single video output signal from at least one of the received video streams according to the video selecting control signal.