Patents by Inventor Ahmed Raouf MEROUCHE

Ahmed Raouf MEROUCHE 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: 10514882
    Abstract: A digital audio processing system determines characteristics of an electronic presentation to generate a musical composition that is unique to the electronic presentation by adjoining digital audio stems in accordance with the characteristics of the electronic presentation. Embodiments enable a user to define an order for displaying images and a level of importance of the images with respect to one another. For example, the user may designate a specific one of the multiple images as a “highlight image” for emphasizing during the electronic presentation. Then, the system may arrange numerous musical segments adjacent to one another so that the intensity (e.g., energy level) of a resulting musical composition coincides with key events (e.g., a highlight image being shown) of the particular electronic presentation. The intensity of a particular musical segment may indicate a relative note structure density as compared to other musical segments that are defined within the stem data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Thomas Mollis, Brendan Mitchel Walsh, George Valavanis, Ines Khelifi, Jonathan A. Adams, Laurentiu Titi Nedelcu, Ahmed Raouf Merouche, Sourabh Bansal, Sung-Hon Wu, Stacey W. Y. Law, Ted T. Chen, Duncan Og MacConnell
  • Publication number: 20190258448
    Abstract: A digital audio processing system determines characteristics of an electronic presentation to generate a musical composition that is unique to the electronic presentation by adjoining digital audio stems in accordance with the characteristics of the electronic presentation. Embodiments enable a user to define an order for displaying images and a level of importance of the images with respect to one another. For example, the user may designate a specific one of the multiple images as a “highlight image” for emphasizing during the electronic presentation. Then, the system may arrange numerous musical segments adjacent to one another so that the intensity (e.g., energy level) of a resulting musical composition coincides with key events (e.g., a highlight image being shown) of the particular electronic presentation. The intensity of a particular musical segment may indicate a relative note structure density as compared to other musical segments that are defined within the stem data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Adam Thomas MOLLIS, Brendan Mitchel WALSH, George VALAVANIS, Ines KHELIFI, Jonathan A. ADAMS, Laurentiu Titi NEDELCU, Ahmed Raouf MEROUCHE, Sourabh BANSAL, Sung-Hon WU, Stacey W.Y. LAW, Ted T. CHEN, Duncan Og MacCONNELL
  • Publication number: 20180315407
    Abstract: Described herein is a system for automatically mixing music. An ordering component receives information regarding a set of songs, obtains pre-analyzed metadata about songs in the set of songs, and, based upon the pre-analyzed metadata orders the songs into a mix based upon an analysis of beats-per-minute and song key. A cue point component, based upon a user preference, selects one or more cue points from the pre-analyzed metadata for transitions into and/or out of the songs in the mix. A transition component, based upon the user preference and information derived from the pre-analyzed metadata for each section of a particular song, configures transitions between songs in the mix. The system can store metadata about the mix for playback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Harrison Wesley HOFFMAN, David Rowland SINCLAIR, Laurentiu Titi NEDELCU, Adam Thomas MOLLIS, Sung-Hon WU, Ahmed Raouf MEROUCHE, Brendan Mitchel WALSH