Patents by Inventor Jaume Ortola

Jaume Ortola has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7249022
    Abstract: There are provided a singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus capable of performing synthesis of natural singing voices close to human singing voices based on performance data being input in real time. Performance data is inputted for each phonetic unit constituting a lyric, to supply phonetic unit information, singing-starting time point information, singing length information, etc. Each performance data is inputted in timing earlier than the actual singing-starting time point, and a phonetic unit transition time length is generated. By using the phonetic unit transition time, the singing-starting time point information, and the singing length information, the singing-starting time points and singing duration times of the first and second phonemes are determined. In the singing voice synthesis, for each phoneme, a singing voice is generated at the determined singing-starting time point and continues to be generated for the determined singing duration time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Hiraku Kayama, Oscar Celma, Jaume Ortola
  • Patent number: 7124084
    Abstract: There are provided a singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus capable of performing synthesis of natural singing voices close to human singing voices based on performance data being input in real time. Performance data is inputted for each phonetic unit constituting a lyric, to supply phonetic unit information, singing-starting time point information, singing length information, etc. Each performance data is inputted in timing earlier than the actual singing-starting time point, and a phonetic unit transition time length is generated. By using the phonetic unit transition time, the singing-starting time point information, and the singing length information, the singing-starting time points and singing duration times of the first and second phonemes are determined. In the singing voice synthesis, for each phoneme, a singing voice is generated at the determined singing-starting time point and continues to be generated for the determined singing duration time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Hiraku Kayama, Oscar Celma, Jaume Ortola
  • Publication number: 20060085198
    Abstract: There are provided a singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus capable of performing synthesis of natural singing voices close to human singing voices based on performance data being input in real time. Performance data is inputted for each phonetic unit constituting a lyric, to supply phonetic unit information, singing-starting time point information, singing length information, etc. Each performance data is inputted in timing earlier than the actual singing-starting time point, and a phonetic unit transition time length is generated. By using the phonetic unit transition time, the singing-starting time point information, and the singing length information, the singing-starting time points and singing duration times of the first and second phonemes are determined. In the singing voice synthesis, for each phoneme, a singing voice is generated at the determined singing-starting time point and continues to be generated for the determined singing duration time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Publication date: April 20, 2006
    Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiraku Kayama, Oscar Celma, Jaume Ortola
  • Publication number: 20060085197
    Abstract: There are provided a singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus capable of performing synthesis of natural singing voices close to human singing voices based on performance data being input in real time. Performance data is inputted for each phonetic unit constituting a lyric, to supply phonetic unit information, singing-starting time point information, singing length information, etc. Each performance data is inputted in timing earlier than the actual singing-starting time point, and a phonetic unit transition time length is generated. By using the phonetic unit transition time, the singing-starting time point information, and the singing length information, the singing-starting time points and singing duration times of the first and second phonemes are determined. In the singing voice synthesis, for each phoneme, a singing voice is generated at the determined singing-starting time point and continues to be generated for the determined singing duration time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Publication date: April 20, 2006
    Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiraku Kayama, Oscar Celma, Jaume Ortola
  • Publication number: 20060085196
    Abstract: There are provided a singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus capable of performing synthesis of natural singing voices close to human singing voices based on performance data being input in real time. Performance data is inputted for each phonetic unit constituting a lyric, to supply phonetic unit information, singing-starting time point information, singing length information, etc. Each performance data is inputted in timing earlier than the actual singing-starting time point, and a phonetic unit transition time length is generated. By using the phonetic unit transition time, the singing-starting time point information, and the singing length information, the singing-starting time points and singing duration times of the first and second phonemes are determined. In the singing voice synthesis, for each phoneme, a singing voice is generated at the determined singing-starting time point and continues to be generated for the determined singing duration time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Publication date: April 20, 2006
    Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiraku Kayama, Oscar Celma, Jaume Ortola
  • Publication number: 20030009344
    Abstract: There are provided a singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus which is capable of performing synthesis of natural singing voices close to human singing voices based on performance data being input in real time. Performance data is inputted for each phonetic unit constituting a lyric, to supply phonetic unit information, singing-starting time point information, singing length information, etc. thereof. The singing-starting time point information represents the actual singing-starting time point. Each performance data is inputted in timing earlier than the actual singing-starting time point, and has its phonetic unit information converted to a phonetic unit transition time length. The phonetic unit transition time length is formed by a first phoneme generation time length and a second phoneme generation time length, for a phonetic unit formed by a first phoneme and a second phoneme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventors: Hiraku Kayama, Oscar Celma, Jaume Ortola