Patents Examined by Jianchun Qin
  • Patent number: 12266330
    Abstract: Techniques are described for generating music data for accompaniment using machine learning (ML) techniques. In an implementation, MIDI-formatted music data is tokenized as a music token sequence. Based on the input music token sequence of a portion of an original music signal, a trained ML model generates an output music token sequence for a portion of a generated music signal. Such a portion of the generated music signal is temporally ahead of the portion of the original music signal, which was used to generate the portion of the generated music signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: MacDougal Street Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilia Belikov, Aleksandr Alekseev, Vazgen Hakobjanyan, Robert Joseph Pfeifer
  • Patent number: 12266329
    Abstract: A Form Atom defined by self-contained constructional properties representing a historical corpus of music and contained within metadata of the Form Atom is disclosed. The Form Atom has a generative set of heuristics to support generation of a set of chords in a chord scheme or many different sets of chords. The generated chords are spaced out within a defined window of musical time by chord spacer heuristics. The Form Atom has a tag describing its compositional heuristics. A chord list of the Form Atom is provided in local tonic and defines branching structures that may be used for the generation of different chords from the local tonic. A progression descriptor is combined with a form function such that the Form Atom expresses musically a question, an answer and a statement. A meta-map of a chord scheme for a musical section is created from the metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: DAACI Limited
    Inventor: Joseph Michael William Lyske
  • Patent number: 12260844
    Abstract: A removable bridge block system for a guitar having a first opening bordering a first compartment. A support structure is connected to at least a portion of the first compartment. A bridge block is retained within the first compartment of the body portion of the guitar. The bridge block has a recess configured to receive a plate of the locking mechanism. The locking mechanism has a plate including a disk having a substantially curved edge and a flat edge portion. The plate is retained within a second compartment of the body of the guitar. The plate is configured to rotate, with the force of a user's fingers or with a tool such as a screw driver, within the second compartment of the body of the guitar to orient the substantially curved edge of the plate to be retained within the recess of the bridge block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Inventor: Michael Kevin Krobot
  • Patent number: 12249305
    Abstract: An information processing method implemented by a computer, the information processing method including, generating pedal data representing an operation period of a pedal that extends sound production by key depression, from playing data representing a playing content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Misa Uehara, Akira Maezawa
  • Patent number: 12249301
    Abstract: A timpani percussion mallet for use with a timpani musical instrument by a timpani player, the mallet comprising: a shaft having a first end that is for a timpani player to hold, and also having an opposite second end that is for the timpani player striking a part of the timpani musical instrument, wherein the shaft comprises at least one tube with outer walls, wherein the tube contains within the outer walls a plurality of segments including a first segment comprising a first solid segment material and a second solid segment comprising a second segment material different from the first solid segment material, and optional additional segments with optional additional solid segment materials, wherein the first and second segments are each non-movable within the tube, wherein the first segment is located closer to the first end, and the second segment is located closer to the second end, wherein the first segment and the second segment have different densities to provide the timpani percussion mallet and shaft
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Inventor: Jason Haaheim
  • Patent number: 12230239
    Abstract: A method and system for visualizing music using a perceptually conformal mapping system are provided. A music source file is input into a processor configured to carry out a series of steps on audio cues identified within the music and ultimately generate a simultaneous visual representation on a display device. The series of steps include application of one or more perceptually conformal mapping systems that essentially induce a synesthetic experience in which a person can experience music both acoustically and visually at the same time. The device extracts cues from the music that are designed to specifically capture fundamentals of human appreciation, maps them into visual cues, then presents those visual cues synchronized with the source music.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: New Resonance, LLC
    Inventors: John Fargo Lathrop, Fred Jay Cummins
  • Patent number: 12198663
    Abstract: Computer-based systems, devices, and methods for automatically generating aesthetic chord progressions and key modulations in musical compositions are described. Known harmonic relationships are expanded upon to produce a much richer set of harmonic transition probability models compared to conventional music theory, and these models are leveraged by a computer-based musical composition system to generate new musical compositions and variations of existing musical compositions. Techniques for enabling a computer-based musical composition system to automatically determine when to introduce a key modulation, what key to module to, and what chord progression(s) to use within the new key are all described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Obeebo Labs Ltd.
    Inventor: Colin P. Williams
  • Patent number: 12183319
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a plurality of keys that include at least first keys corresponding to a first pitch range and second keys corresponding to a second pitch range; and at least one processor, configured to perform the following: in accordance with a key operation in the first pitch range, determining a syllable position contained in a phrase; and in accordance with a key operation in the second pitch rang, instructing a sound production of a digitally synthesized sound corresponding to the determined syllable position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Danjyo, Fumiaki Ota, Atsushi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12159611
    Abstract: This video control device includes: a detection unit that detects a beat timing of audio; and a control unit that updates a display mode of a video on the basis of the beat timing and change information indicating a change in a display mode of a video displayed on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Kusakabe, Yasuto Saito
  • Patent number: 12154534
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed herein for generating harmonious audio. An input for changing a mode of an electronic device from a first mode to a second mode can be received and, in response, a controller of the electronic device can modify electrical connections between a matrix circuit and a set of keys of the electronic device. In modifying the electrical connections, a set of tones associated with a first subset of keys of the set of keys can be associated with a second subset of keys of the set of keys. Keys of the second subset of keys can be adjacent to at least one other key of the second subset of keys and tones of the set of tones can be associated with respective keys of the second subset of keys. Audio output when one key is operated can be harmonious with audio output when other keys are operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Inventor: Gary Groeber
  • Patent number: 12148407
    Abstract: A utility article for protecting and covering the strings of a musical instrument, while providing options for visibility and display. The utility article, including a covering member made of flexible material and having a front side and a rear side. Four flaps extend from the left edge and the right edge of the covering member, wherein two flaps extend outwards to form a sleeve and the two flaps extend rearwards wrapping the neck of the musical instrument. The two pockets will serve for holding the user's common accessories and tools, while an attachable flap will allow the device to second as a guitar strap when not in its primary use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Inventor: Adam Grant
  • Patent number: 12142249
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus that includes a plurality of pieces of sensing data in different forms obtained from a plurality of sensors each sensing a state related to a performance by a motion of a user, an information processing section that processes the sensing data converted by the conversion section, and an information output section that outputs feedback information to the user on the basis of a processing result of the information processing section. The conversion section converts the sensing data in an analog form from the sensors into sensing data in a digital form and outputs the sensing data in the digital form to the information processing section, and converts the sensing data in the digital form from the sensors into sensing data in the analog form and outputs the sensing data in the analog form to the analog-digital signal conversion section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Furuya, Takanori Oku
  • Patent number: 12131722
    Abstract: A wearable music system having a “Y” shaped harness, a housing, a rotatable platform coupled to the housing, and a bracket coupled to the rotatable platform. The harness comprises two curved pieces, a central section coupled to the two curved pieces, a first vertical support coupled to the central section, the first vertical support having a plurality of holes there through, and a second vertical coupled to the first vertical support, the second vertical support having a plurality of holes there through. The housing has a rear surface, a bottom surface, and two side surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Inventor: Matthew T. Patterson
  • Patent number: 12118968
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stored with an automatic music arrangement program, and an automatic music arrangement device are provided. An outer voice note having a highest pitch among notes of which sound production start times are approximately the same in a melody part acquired from musical piece data is identified. A melody part acquired by deleting inner voice notes of which sound production starts within a sound production period of the outer voice note and of which pitches are low from the melody part is generated. Candidate accompaniment parts in which root notes of chords of chord data of the musical piece data are arranged to be produced at sound production timings thereof for each pitch range acquired by shifting a range of pitches corresponding to one octave by one semitone at each time are generated, and an accompaniment part is selected among them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Susami, Tomoko Ito
  • Patent number: 12112731
    Abstract: The present application relates to the technical field of computers, and discloses a method and apparatus for generating a music file, and an electronic device and a storage medium. The method for generating a music file comprises: obtaining a first image; performing feature extraction on the first image to obtain a salient feature of the first image; mapping the salient feature to a musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) information coordinate system on the basis of the position of the salient feature in the first image, so as to determine MIDI information corresponding to the salient feature, the MIDI information coordinate system being used for indicating a correspondence between MIDI information and time; and generating a music file on the basis of the correspondence between the MIDI information and the time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yufan Xue, Guanjun Guo, Xin Yuan, Yuezhao Chen, Hao Huang, Na Li, Xubin Zhou
  • Patent number: 12106743
    Abstract: A musical instrument operable to play a multi-component percussive beat. The musical instrument includes a plurality of finger controllers, wherein each finger controller is operable to control a component part of the multi-component percussive beat. Each of the plurality of finger controllers has a touch-sensitive range providing a plurality of actuation regions, and each actuation region is operable to play a hit pattern associated with a component percussion track representing a respective component of the multi-component percussive beat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Chord Board, LLC
    Inventor: Akiva Shapiro
  • Patent number: 12100376
    Abstract: A step sequencer with a four by sixteen grid of buttons is disclosed. The sequencer is used to generate patterns of sounds on different channels. The sequencer can be used as a hardware controller to control music production software. The grid of the sequencer emulates the virtual grid generated in a graphical user interface by the music production software. The grid of the hardware controller is used to control the corresponding grid on the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: inMusic Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Gill, John Alex Souppa, Torrie Justin Jones, John O'Donnell
  • Patent number: 12087260
    Abstract: A dynamic, chord based, MIDI scale and pattern generator effects creation system and method is disclosed. This software eliminates the need for a “specific” chord information device and allows for any audio or MIDI input to influence MIDI effects for creating melodies, basslines and arpeggios that fit over specific chords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Inventor: Zachary Charles Kinter
  • Patent number: 12087258
    Abstract: An electric string instrument is disclosed, comprising a body portion and a rotating neck portion, where the neck portion comprises strings all around its circumference and can rotate around its axis. Each string comprises an electric pickup, and a slip ring or a wireless connection connects all the pickups to the body of the string instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Inventors: Adam Damato, Mattias Krantz
  • Patent number: 12059533
    Abstract: Musical compositions and/or other audio programs are automatically identified, generated, curated, and/or personalized, so as to treat, mitigate, and/or address specific symptoms, such as those related to mental health disorders. Based on a user's particular issues relating to poor sleep, stress, anxiety, and/or other conditions, particular audio programs are automatically output so as to alleviate and/or address such issues. The system uses metadata to automatically identify, generate, curate, and/or personalize musical compositions and/or other audio programs, and to match such programs with particular conditions and issues, so as to maximize effectiveness in addressing such issues in users. In at least one embodiment, the system may automatically determine, based on survey responses indicating the severity of the user's symptoms, a dosage for audio programs to be output for the user, and may set a time to automate the amount of time the user listens to the audio programs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Pineal Labs Inc.
    Inventors: Neal Sarin, Warren Riker