Patents by Inventor Andrew H. Silverstein

Andrew H. Silverstein 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).

  • Publication number: 20240062736
    Abstract: An automated music composition and generation system including a system user interface for enabling system users to review and select one or more musical experience descriptors, as well as time and/or space parameters; and an automated music composition and generation engine, operably connected to the system user interface, for receiving, storing and processing musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters selected by the system user, so as to automatically compose and generate one or more digital pieces of music in response to the musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters selected by the system user. The automated music composition and generation engine includes: a digital piece creation subsystem for creating and delivering the digital piece of music to the system user interface; and a digital audio sample producing subsystem supported by virtual musical instrument libraries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventor: Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11776518
    Abstract: An automated music composition and generation system including a system user interface for enabling system users to review and select one or more musical experience descriptors, as well as time and/or space parameters; and an automated music composition and generation engine, operably connected to the system user interface, for receiving, storing and processing musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters selected by the system user, so as to automatically compose and generate one or more digital pieces of music in response to the musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters selected by the system user. Each digital piece of composed and generated music contains a set of musical notes arranged and performed in the digital piece of music. The engine includes: a digital piece creation subsystem and a digital audio sample producing subsystem supported by virtual musical instrument libraries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Shutterstock, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11657787
    Abstract: An automated music composition and generation process within an automated music composition and generation system driven by lyrical musical experience descriptors. The process involves the system user accessing said automated music composition and generation system, employing an automated music composition and generation engine having a system user interface. The system user interface is used to select and provide musical experience descriptors, including lyrics, to the automated music composition and generation engine for processing by said automated music composition and generation engine. The system user initiates the automated music composition and generation engine to compose and generate music based on the musical experience descriptors and lyrics provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Shutterstock, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11651757
    Abstract: An automated music composition and generation process within an automated music composition and generation system driven by lyrics. The process involves the system user accessing said automated music composition and generation system, employing an automated music composition and generation engine having a system user interface. The system user interface is used to provide lyrics to the automated music composition and generation engine for processing by the automated music composition and generation engine. The system user initiates the automated music composition and generation engine to compose and generate music based on lyrics the provided as input. The lyrics are analyzed for vowel formants to generate pitch events, which are used to support the automated music composition process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Shutterstock, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11468871
    Abstract: An automated music composition and generation system for automatically composing and generating digital pieces of music using an automated music composition and generation engine driven by a set of emotion-type and style-type musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters provided by a system user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Shutterstock, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11430418
    Abstract: An automated music composition and generation system having an automated music composition and generation engine for receiving, storing and processing musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters selected by the system user. The automated music composition and generation engine includes a user taste generation subsystem for automatically (i) determining the musical tastes and preferences of a system user based on user feedback and autonomous piece analysis, (ii) maintaining a system user profile reflecting musical tastes and preferences of each system user, and (iii) using the musical taste and preference information to change or modify the musical experience descriptors provided to the system to produce a digital piece of composed music composition that better reflects the musical tastes and preferences of the system user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Shutterstock, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11430419
    Abstract: An automated music composition and generation system having an automated music composition and generation engine for processing musical experience descriptors and space parameters selected by the system user. The engine includes: a user taste generation subsystem for automatically determining the musical tastes and preferences of each system user based on user feedback and autonomous piece analysis, and maintaining a system user profile reflecting musical tastes and preferences of each system user; and a population taste aggregation subsystem for aggregating the musical tastes and preferences of the population of system users, and modifying the musical experience descriptors and/or time and/or space parameters provided to the automated music composition and generation engine, so that the digital pieces of composed music better reflect the musical tastes and preferences of the population of system users and meet future system user requests for automated music compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Shutterstock, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11037539
    Abstract: An autonomous music composition and performance system employing an automated music composition and generation engine configured to receive musical signals from a set of a real or synthetic musical instruments being played by a group of human musicians. The system buffers and analyzes musical signals from the set of real or synthetic musical instruments, composes and generates music in real-time that augments the music being played by the band of musicians, and/or composes and generates music for subsequent playback, review and consideration by the human musicians.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Shutterstock, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11037541
    Abstract: An automated music composition and generation system having a system user interface operably connected to an automated music composition and generation engine, and supporting a method of composing a piece of digital music using musical experience descriptors as to indicate what, when and how particular musical events should occur in the piece of digital music to be automatically composed and generated. The method uses the system user interface to select one or more musical experience descriptors and applying the musical experience descriptors along a timeline representation of a piece of digital music to be automatically composed and generated by the automated music composition and generation engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Shutterstock, inc.
    Inventor: Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11037538
    Abstract: An automated music performance system that is driven by the music-theoretic state descriptors of any musical structure (e.g. a music composition or sound recording). The system can be used with next generation digital audio workstations (DAWs), virtual studio technology (VST) plugins, virtual music instrument libraries, and automated music composition and generation engines, systems and platforms. The automated music performance system generates unique digital performances of pieces of music, using virtual musical instruments created from sampled notes or sounds and/or synthesized notes or sounds. Each virtual music instrument has its own set of music-theoretic state responsive performance rules that are automatically triggered by the music theoretic state descriptors of the music composition or performance to be digitally performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Shutterstock, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Estes, Cole Ingraham, Hunter Ewen, Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11037540
    Abstract: An automated music composition and generation system includes a graphical user interface (GUI) based system user interface for enabling system users to review and select one or more musical experience descriptors as well as time and/or space parameters; and an automated music composition and generation engine, operably connected to the GUI-based system user interface, for receiving, storing and processing the musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters, and composing and generating digital pieces of music, each containing a set of musical notes arranged and performed in the digital piece of composed music.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Shutterstock, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11030984
    Abstract: An automated music composition and generation system having a system user interface operably connected to an automated music composition and generation engine, and supporting a method of scoring a selected media object with one or more pieces of digital music. The method uses the system user interface to select one or more musical experience descriptors and then apply the selected musical experience descriptors to the selected digital media object to indicate what, when and how particular musical events should occur in the one or more pieces of digital music to be automatically composed and generated by the automated music composition and generation engine. The generated piece of digital music is then used in musically scoring the selected digital media object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Shutterstock, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11024275
    Abstract: An automated music performance system that is driven by the music-theoretic state descriptors of any musical structure (e.g. a music composition or sound recording). The system can be used with next generation digital audio workstations (DAWs), virtual studio technology (VST) plugins, virtual music instrument libraries, and automated music composition and generation engines, systems and platforms. The automated music performance system generates unique digital performances of pieces of music, using virtual musical instruments created from sampled notes or sounds and/or synthesized notes or sounds. Each virtual music instrument has its own set of music-theoretic state responsive performance rules that are automatically triggered by the music theoretic state descriptors of the music composition or performance to be digitally performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Shutterstock, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Estes, Cole Ingraham, Hunter Ewen, Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11017750
    Abstract: A method of automatically confirming the uniqueness of digital pieces of music produced by an automated music composition and generation system while satisfying the creative intentions of system users. The method involves reviewing, selecting and providing one or more musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters, to an automated music composition and generation engine operably connected to the system user interface. The automated music composition and generation engine includes a music piece analysis subsystem for automatically examining each piece of composed music that has been generated by said automated music composition and generation engine, comparing the digital piece of composed and generated music against other digital pieces of music composed and generated by said automated music composition and generation system for said system user, and determining whether or not the examined digital piece of composed and generated music is sufficiently unique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Shutterstock, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11011144
    Abstract: An automated music composition and generation system provided with a system user interface enabling system users to review, select and provide one or more musical experience descriptors as well as time and/or space parameters, to an automated music composition and generation engine, operably connected to the system user interface. The automated music composition and generation engine includes a musical kernel generation subsystem for automatically analyzing and saving musical kernel elements automatically abstracted from the digital piece of music.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Shutterstock, inc.
    Inventor: Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Publication number: 20210110801
    Abstract: An automated music performance system that is driven by the music-theoretic state descriptors of any musical structure (e.g. a music composition or sound recording). The system can be used with next generation digital audio workstations (DAWs), virtual studio technology (VST) plugins, virtual music instrument libraries, and automated music composition and generation engines, systems and platforms. The automated music performance system generates unique digital performances of pieces of music, using virtual musical instruments created from sampled notes or sounds and/or synthesized notes or sounds. Each virtual music instrument has its own set of music-theoretic state responsive performance rules that are automatically triggered by the music theoretic state descriptors of the music composition or performance to be digitally performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Samuel Estes, Cole Ingraham, Hunter Ewen, Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Publication number: 20210110800
    Abstract: An automated music performance system that is driven by the music-theoretic state descriptors of any musical structure (e.g. a music composition or sound recording). The system can be used with next generation digital audio workstations (DAWs), virtual studio technology (VST) plugins, virtual music instrument libraries, and automated music composition and generation engines, systems and platforms. The automated music performance system generates unique digital performances of pieces of music, using virtual musical instruments created from sampled notes or sounds and/or synthesized notes or sounds. Each virtual music instrument has its own set of music-theoretic state responsive performance rules that are automatically triggered by the music theoretic state descriptors of the music composition or performance to be digitally performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Samuel Estes, Cole Ingraham, Hunter Ewen, Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Publication number: 20210110802
    Abstract: An automated music performance system that is driven by the music-theoretic state descriptors of any musical structure (e.g. a music composition or sound recording). The system can be used with next generation digital audio workstations (DAWs), virtual studio technology (VST) plugins, virtual music instrument libraries, and automated music composition and generation engines, systems and platforms. The automated music performance system generates unique digital performances of pieces of music, using virtual musical instruments created from sampled notes or sounds and/or synthesized notes or sounds. Each virtual music instrument has its own set of music-theoretic state responsive performance rules that are automatically triggered by the music theoretic state descriptors of the music composition or performance to be digitally performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Samuel Estes, Cole Ingraham, Hunter Ewen, Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 10964299
    Abstract: An automated music performance system that is driven by the music-theoretic state descriptors of any musical structure (e.g. a music composition or sound recording). The system can be used with next generation digital audio workstations (DAWs), virtual studio technology (VST) plugins, virtual music instrument libraries, and automated music composition and generation engines, systems and platforms. The automated music performance system generates unique digital performances of pieces of music, using virtual musical instruments created from sampled notes or sounds and/or synthesized notes or sounds. Each virtual music instrument has its own set of music-theoretic state responsive performance rules that are automatically triggered by the music theoretic state descriptors of the music composition or performance to be digitally performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Shutterstock, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Estes, Cole Ingraham, Hunter Ewen, Andrew H. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 10854180
    Abstract: An automated music composition and generation system and process for producing one or more pieces of digital music, by providing a set of musical energy (ME) quality control parameters to an automated music composition and generation engine, applying certain of the selected musical energy quality control parameters as markers to specific spots along the timeline of a selected media object or event marker by the system user during a scoring process, and providing the selected set of musical energy quality control parameters to drive the automated music composition and generation engine to automatically compose and generate one or more pieces of digital music with control over the specified qualities of musical energy embodied in and expressed by the piece of digital music to composed and generated by the automated music composition and generation engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: AMPER MUSIC, INC.
    Inventor: Andrew H. Silverstein