Patents by Inventor Andy Precious

Andy Precious 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).

  • Client-side audio signal mixing on low computational power player using beat metadata
    Patent number: 8426715
    Abstract: A low computational power digital audio player achieves beat continuous transitioning between digital audio pieces based on beat metadata, which can be generated via offline processing on a higher computational power computer or via background or idle processing on the digital audio player. The digital audio player produces playlists of beat matching compatible songs based on the metadata, or pick lists of songs that are beat matching compatible with a currently playing song. By facilitating selection of songs with beat matching compatible tempos based on metadata, the beat continuous transitions can be achieved without altering the beat tempo of digital audio pieces, or with simple resampling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: John Bregar, Andy Precious, Sanjeev Mehrotra, Serge Smirnov
  • CLIENT-SIDE AUDIO SIGNAL MIXING ON LOW COMPUTATIONAL POWER PLAYER USING BEAT METADATA
    Publication number: 20090157203
    Abstract: A low computational power digital audio player achieves beat continuous transitioning between digital audio pieces based on beat metadata, which can be generated via offline processing on a higher computational power computer or via background or idle processing on the digital audio player. The digital audio player produces playlists of beat matching compatible songs based on the metadata, or pick lists of songs that are beat matching compatible with a currently playing song. By facilitating selection of songs with beat matching compatible tempos based on metadata, the beat continuous transitions can be achieved without altering the beat tempo of digital audio pieces, or with simple resampling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: John Bregar, Andy Precious, Sanjeev Mehrotra, Serge Smirnov