Video headphones, system, platform, methods, apparatuses and media

Abstract

There are provided music headphones including a pair of small loudspeakers for high quality stereo music reproduction, in which at least one integral video camera is built into the headphones and the headphones include at least one connection to a physically separate portable music device, such as a smartphone, where at least one of the connections enables (i) high quality playback of stereo music from the portable music device using the small loudspeakers; and at least one of the connections enables (ii) transferring of video data from the or each video camera to the portable music device for one or more of: editing or mixing music or other audio in order to create a soundtrack for a video recording, or sharing a video recording, and where the video data is editable.

1 . A head-mountable device comprising a first earphone assembly and a second earphone assembly, wherein the first earphone assembly is circum-aural or supra-aural, and wherein the second earphone assembly is circum-aural or supra-aural, in which:
 the first earphone assembly that includes a first housing defining a first interior space and a first loudspeaker disposed at least partially within the first interior space and integrated with the first housing;   the second earphone assembly that includes a second housing defining a second interior space and a second loudspeaker disposed at least partially within the second interior space and integrated with the second housing;   an image capturing apparatus that includes a camera integrated within the first earphone assembly;   audio input connections each configured to receive audio signals from at least one of two independent audio sources; and   an audio output configured to supply audio signals from the audio input connections to the first and second loudspeakers;   wherein the head mountable device is configured to permit switching between the first one of the audio sources and the second one of the audio sources, and wherein the image capturing apparatus is configured to operate concurrently with the first one of the audio sources, and wherein the image capturing apparatus is configured to operate concurrently with the second one of the audio sources.   
     
     
         2 . The head-mountable device of  claim 1 , wherein the audio sources are a microphone and an audio player. 
     
     
         3 . The head-mountable device of  claim 2 , wherein the camera is disposed within the first interior space and arranged to receive light from an aperture defined in the first housing to capture images. 
     
     
         4 . The head-mountable device of  claim 3 , wherein the microphone resides within either the first interior space or the second interior space. 
     
     
         5 . The head-mountable device of  claim 2 , further comprising a manual switch associated with either the first earphone or the second earphone, wherein the manual switch turns the camera ON and OFF, and wherein the manual switch turns one of the audio sources ON and OFF concurrent with the camera. 
     
     
         6 . The head-mountable device of  claim 1 , wherein the camera is rotatably mounted within the first interior space. 
     
     
         7 . A processor-implemented method to share a world view video, comprising:
 receiving via a processor a request to record a user's world view video;   recording via video headphones the world view video, wherein the headphones include a pair of headphone units, wherein each headphone unit is circum-aural or supra-aural, wherein each headphone unit comprises a loudspeaker housing in which is situated at least one integral video camera built into the loudspeaker housing;
 adjusting via the processor the world view video based on user instructions; 
 establishing a connection between the video headphones and a music device; and 
 sharing via the processor and the music device the adjusted world view video with the user's social network. 
   
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 7 , wherein the video headphones comprise audio headphones with an embedded video camera and a microphone. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 7 , wherein the adjusting the world view video comprises trimming the world view video. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 7 , wherein the adjusting the world view video comprises adding audio to the world view video. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 7 , wherein the adjusting the world view video comprises adding video effects to the world view video. 
     
     
         12 . The head-mountable device of  claim 1 , wherein the head-mountable device includes at least one connection to a music device; and
 wherein the image capturing apparatus can capture video data and transfer the video data to the music device; said transferring of video data including the transfer of real-time video that is relatively low resolution but sufficient to enable a user to view a scene being captured, and wherein high resolution video data is sent subsequently to the music device to store and to allow the user to edit that video on the music device.   
     
     
         13 . The head-mountable device of  claim 12 , wherein the user can select at least one music track, genre, channel or playlist stored or accessible from the music device, to be the soundtrack to that video wherein said one music track, genre, channel or playlist is generated by the music device. 
     
     
         14 . The head-mountable device of  claim 13 , wherein said one music track, genre, channel or playlist is automatically generated by the music device based on they matching color and motion characteristics of the video being captured. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 7 , further comprising transferring the adjusted world view video to the music device; said transferring of the adjusted world view video including the transfer of real-time video that is relatively low resolution but sufficient to enable a user to view a scene being captured, and wherein high resolution video data is sent subsequently to the music device to store and to allow the user to edit that video on the music device. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 15 , further comprising selecting, by the user, at least one music track, genre, channel or playlist stored or accessible from the music device, to be the soundtrack to that adjusted world view, wherein said one music track, genre, channel or playlist is generated by the music device. 
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 16 , wherein said one music track, genre, channel or playlist is automatically generated by the music device based on they matching color and motion characteristics of the adjusted world view being captured.