Patents by Inventor Alexander M. D'Anci

Alexander M. D'Anci 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: 11264058
    Abstract: Coordinated audio and video filter pairs are applied to enhance artistic and emotional content of audiovisual performances. Such filter pairs, when applied in audio and video processing pipelines of an audiovisual application hosted on a portable computing device (such as a mobile phone or media player, a computing pad or tablet, a game controller or a personal digital assistant or book reader) can allow user selection of effects that enhance both audio and video coordinated therewith. Coordinated audio and video are captured, filtered and rendered at the portable computing device using camera and microphone interfaces, using digital signal processing software executable on a processor and using storage, speaker and display devices of, or interoperable with, the device. By providing audiovisual capture and personalization on an intimate handheld device, social interactions and postings of a type made popular by modern social networking platforms can now be extended to audiovisual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Smule, Inc.
    Inventors: Parag P. Chordia, Perry R. Cook, Mark T. Godfrey, Prerna Gupta, Nicholas M. Kruge, Randal J. Leistikow, Alexander M. D. Rae, Ian S. Simon
  • Patent number: 10607650
    Abstract: Coordinated audio and video filter pairs are applied to enhance artistic and emotional content of audiovisual performances. Such filter pairs, when applied in audio and video processing pipelines of an audiovisual application hosted on a portable computing device (such as a mobile phone or media player, a computing pad or tablet, a game controller or a personal digital assistant or book reader) can allow user selection of effects that enhance both audio and video coordinated therewith. Coordinated audio and video are captured, filtered and rendered at the portable computing device using camera and microphone interfaces, using digital signal processing software executable on a processor and using storage, speaker and display devices of, or interoperable with, the device. By providing audiovisual capture and personalization on an intimate handheld device, social interactions and postings of a type made popular by modern social networking platforms can now be extended to audiovisual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Smule, Inc.
    Inventors: Parag P. Chordia, Perry R. Cook, Mark T. Godfrey, Prerna Gupta, Nicholas M. Kruge, Randal J. Leistikow, Alexander M. D. Rae, Ian S. Simon
  • Patent number: 9459768
    Abstract: Coordinated audio and video filter pairs are applied to enhance artistic and emotional content of audiovisual performances. Such filter pairs, when applied in audio and video processing pipelines of an audiovisual application hosted on a portable computing device (such as a mobile phone or media player, a computing pad or tablet, a game controller or a personal digital assistant or book reader) can allow user selection of effects that enhance both audio and video coordinated therewith. Coordinated audio and video are captured, filtered and rendered at the portable computing device using camera and microphone interfaces, using digital signal processing software executable on a processor and using storage, speaker and display devices of, or interoperable with, the device. By providing audiovisual capture and personalization on an intimate handheld device, social interactions and postings of a type made popular by modern social networking platforms can now be extended to audiovisual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Smule, Inc.
    Inventors: Parag P. Chordia, Perry R. Cook, Mark T. Godfrey, Prerna Gupta, Nicholas M. Kruge, Randal J. Leistikow, Alexander M. D. Rae, Ian S. Simon
  • Patent number: 4762292
    Abstract: A web loop position sensing system detects the position of web material, such as magnetic tape, in a vacuum column by using light emitters and receptors arranged along an array outside the vacuum column. The light emitters direct light towards a retroreflective surface formed of glass bead tape on an interior side of the vacuum column. Light reflected by the glass bead tape is received by the light receptors in the array. The quantity of light received by the light receptors is detected and used to control a supply reel in a tape transport in which the vacuum column is used, thereby maintaining the web loop tension within the vacuum column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1988
    Inventor: Alexander M. D'Anci