Patents by Inventor Alex Cabrer Manning

Alex Cabrer Manning 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).

  • Method and system for creating object-based audio content
    Patent number: 11195511
    Abstract: Described herein is a method for creating object-based audio content from a text input for use in audio books and/or audio play, the method including the steps of: a) receiving the text input; b) performing a semantic analysis of the received text input; c) synthesizing speech and effects based on one or more results of the semantic analysis to generate one or more audio objects; d) generating metadata for the one or more audio objects; and e) creating the object-based audio content including the one or more audio objects and the metadata. Described herein are further a computer-based system including one or more processors configured to perform said method and a computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium with instructions adapted to carry out said method when executed by a device having processing capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignees: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Toni Hirvonen, Daniel Arteaga, Eduard Aylon Pla, Alex Cabrer Manning, Lie Lu, Karl Jonas Roeden
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING OBJECT-BASED AUDIO CONTENT
    Publication number: 20210295820
    Abstract: Described herein is a method for creating object-based audio content from a text input for use in audio books and/or audio play, the method including the steps of: a) receiving the text input; b) performing a semantic analysis of the received text input; c) synthesizing speech and effects based on one or more results of the semantic analysis to generate one or more audio objects; d) generating metadata for the one or more audio objects; and e) creating the object-based audio content including the one or more audio objects and the metadata. Described herein are further a computer-based system including one or more processors configured to perform said method and a computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium with instructions adapted to carry out said method when executed by a device having processing capability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicants: DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB, DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toni Hirvonen, Daniel Arteaga, Eduard Aylon Pla, Alex Cabrer Manning, Lie Lu, Karl Jonas Roeden