Patents by Inventor Bochen Li

Bochen Li 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: 12640127
    Abstract: A method for generating an audio output is described. Image inputs of interactive movements by a user captured by an image sensor are received. The interactive movements are mapped to a sequence of audio element identifiers. The sequence of audio element identifiers are processed to generate a musical sequence by performing music theory rule enforcement on the sequence of audio element identifiers. An audio output that represents the musical sequence is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: LEMON INC.
    Inventors: Bochen Li, Daiyu Zhang, Shawn Chan Zhen Yi, Jitong Chen
  • Publication number: 20260128022
    Abstract: There are provided methods, devices, and computer program products for processing music data. In a method, the music data is divided into a plurality of segments according to a predetermined length. A plurality of control tokens are determined for the plurality of segments based on control information associated with the plurality of segments, respectively. A plurality of sound tokens are determined for the plurality of segments based on sound information associated with the plurality of segments, respectively. A feature for the music data is obtained based on the plurality of control tokens and the plurality of sound tokens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2024
    Publication date: May 7, 2026
    Inventors: Haonan Chen, Jordan BL Smith, Janne Jayne Harm Renée Spijkervet, Ju-Chiang Wang, Pei Zou, Bochen Li, Qiuqiang Kong, Xingjian Du
  • Patent number: 12567394
    Abstract: In examples, a method for converting audio samples to full song arrangements is provided. The method includes receiving audio sample data, determining a melodic transcription, based on the audio sample data, and determining a sequence of music chords, based on the melodic transcription. The method further includes generating a full song arrangement, based on the sequence of music chords, and the audio sample data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2026
    Assignee: LEMON INC.
    Inventors: Bochen Li, Andrew Shaw, Jitong Chen
  • Patent number: 12505820
    Abstract: In examples, a method for generating a remixed audio sample is provided. The method may include receiving an audio portion, obtaining metadata from the received audio portion, and analyzing the metadata and generating a symbolic music representation based on the analyzed metadata. In some examples, a selection of a style asset is received and applied to the symbolic music representation. Accordingly, a remixed audio portion may be rendered based on the stylized symbolic representation. That is, metadata associated with a song or song portion may be analyzed to identify a tempo, key, structure, chord, and/or progressions, etc., such that a remixed version of the song can be provided with customized instrumental arrangements and styles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: LEMON, INC.
    Inventors: Bochen Li, Vibert Thio, Haonan Chen, Xuefan Hu, Jitong Chen
  • Patent number: 12451106
    Abstract: Systems and methods directed to combining audio tracks are provided. More specifically, a first audio track and a second audio track are received. The first audio track is separated into a vocal component and one or more accompaniment components. The second audio track is separated into a vocal component and one or more accompaniment components. A structure of the first audio track and a structure of the second audio track are determined. The first audio track and the second audio track are aligned based on the determined structures of the tracks. The vocal component of the first audio track is stretched to match a tempo of the second audio track. The stretched vocal component of the first audio track is added to the one or more accompaniment components of the second audio track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2025
    Assignee: LEMON INC.
    Inventors: Vibert Thio, Bochen Li, Haonan Chen, Jitong Chen
  • Patent number: 12437735
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media for generating a beatbox transcript are disclosed. Some examples may include: receiving an audio signal having a plurality of beatbox sounds, generating a spectrogram of the audio signal, processing the spectrogram of the audio signal with a neural network model trained on training samples including beatbox sounds, generating, by the neural network model a beatbox sound activation map including a plurality of activation times for a plurality of beatbox sounds, decoding the beatbox sound activation map into a beatbox transcript and providing the beatbox transcript as an output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2025
    Assignee: LEMON INC.
    Inventors: Bochen Li, Rodrigo Castellon, Daiyu Zhang, Jitong Chen
  • Publication number: 20240371345
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a music generation method, apparatus, system and storage medium. In at least some embodiments of the present disclosure, by displaying a music generation interface including a text input box, a music generation control and a music configuration item in response to an operation by a user triggering the music generation control, so that the user can input a custom text in the text input box and configure a music melody through the music configuration item, and then in response to an operation by the user triggering the music generation control, it is possible to generate a voice based on the custom text input by the user, and generate a music including the voice corresponding to the custom text based on the generated voice and the user configured music melody.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yufan XUE, Qiang ZHENG, Dong NIU, Liangqin XU, Xiaochan WANG, Jitong CHEN, Bochen LI, Naihan LI
  • Publication number: 20240290306
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a song generation method, apparatus and system, and a storage medium. The song generation method includes acquiring a target lyric text input by a user; aligning the target lyric text with a singing melody of an initial song, to determine correspondence between text units in the target lyric text and notes in the singing melody, wherein the singing melody is a singing melody of initial lyrics in the initial song; performing voice synthesis on the target lyric text based on the correspondence between the text units in the target lyric text and the notes in the singing melody, to obtain a singing voice singing the target lyric text with the singing melody; and combining the singing voice with an accompaniment audio of the initial song to generate a target song.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Yilin ZHANG, Bochen LI, Vibert THIO, Shizhu LIU, Jitong CHEN, Naihan LI, Yuping WANG
  • Patent number: 12040000
    Abstract: The present application provides a special effect processing method and apparatus. The method includes: generating an audio signal in response to a touch operation of a user in a process of playing a video; segmenting the audio signal into multiple audio frames; performing, according to attributes of the audio frames, special effect processing on a picture which is currently played in the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: LEMON INC.
    Inventors: Chenyu Sun, Jitong Chen, Nathanael Schager, Maryyann Crichton, Josiah John Serrano, Bochen Li, Xuefan Hu, Fraser Smith, Hwankyoo Shawn Kim, David Trevelyan, Suiyu Feng, Brandon Wu, Tao Xiong
  • Publication number: 20240169961
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for determining an audio, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: a chord corresponding to an input audio is determined in response to receiving the input audio; at least one to-be-selected arrangement style is determined according to the chord and/or a melody attribute of the input audio; at least one to-be-selected arrangement template associated with a target arrangement style is displayed based on a trigger operation to the at least one to-be-selected arrangement style; and a target audio is played based on a trigger operation to the at least one to-be-selected arrangement template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Shuai YUAN, Bochen LI, Qiuhong XU, Na ZHAO, Zhengyi FANG, Peidao LI, Shengli WANG
  • Patent number: 11869465
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided that accurately estimates a point at which a musical performance is started by a player. The apparatus includes the musical performance analysis unit 32, and the musical performance analysis unit 32 obtains action data that includes a time series of feature data representing actions made by a player during a musical performance for a reference period and estimating a sound-production point based on the action data at an estimated point using a learned model L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Maezawa, Bochen Li
  • Publication number: 20230377608
    Abstract: The present application provides a special effect processing method and apparatus. The method includes: generating an audio signal in response to a touch operation of a user in a process of playing a video; segmenting the audio signal into multiple audio frames; performing, according to attributes of the audio frames, special effect processing on a picture which is currently played in the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Chenyu SUN, Jitong CHEN, Nathanael SCHAGER, Maryyann CRICHTON, Josiah John SERRANO, Bochen LI, Xuefan HU, Fraser SMITH, Hwankyoo Shawn KIM, David TREVELYAN, Suiyu FENG, Brandon WU, Tao XIONG
  • Publication number: 20230360619
    Abstract: In examples, a method for generating a remixed audio sample is provided. The method may include receiving an audio portion, obtaining metadata from the received audio portion, and analyzing the metadata and generating a symbolic music representation based on the analyzed metadata. In some examples, a selection of a style asset is received and applied to the symbolic music representation. Accordingly, a remixed audio portion may be rendered based on the stylized symbolic representation. That is, metadata associated with a song or song portion may be analyzed to identify a tempo, key, structure, chord, and/or progressions, etc., such that a remixed version of the song can be provided with customized instrumental arrangements and styles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Bochen LI, Vibert THIO, Haonan CHEN, Xuefan HU, Jitong CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230360618
    Abstract: Systems and methods directed to combining audio tracks are provided. More specifically, a first audio track and a second audio track are received. The first audio track is separated into a vocal component and one or more accompaniment components. The second audio track is separated into a vocal component and one or more accompaniment components. A structure of the first audio track and a structure of the second audio track are determined. The first audio track and the second audio track are aligned based on the determined structures of the tracks. The vocal component of the first audio track is stretched to match a tempo of the second audio track. The stretched vocal component of the first audio track is added to the one or more accompaniment components of the second audio track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Vibert THIO, Bochen LI, Haonan CHEN, Jitong CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230360620
    Abstract: In examples, a method for converting audio samples to full song arrangements is provided. The method includes receiving audio sample data, determining a melodic transcription, based on the audio sample data, and determining a sequence of music chords, based on the melodic transcription. The method further includes generating a full song arrangement, based on the sequence of music chords, and the audio sample data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Bochen LI, Andrew SHAW, Jitong CHEN
  • Patent number: 11763849
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques for automatically and fast generating music for videos. The techniques comprise receiving a video from a user. The video may comprise a plurality of segments of frames. Information may be extracted from the video, wherein the extracted information comprises information indicating motion speed in the video, information indicating motion saliency in the video, information indicating scene transition in the video, and timing information associated with the video. A plurality of sets of music notes matching the plurality of segments of frames may be generated based at least in part on the extracted information. A plurality of vectors corresponding to the plurality of sets of music notes may be generated. The plurality of pieces of music audio corresponding to the plurality of segments of frames may be generated based at least in part on the plurality of vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: LEMON INC.
    Inventors: Zhihao Ouyang, Daiyu Zhang, Bochen Li, Baoman Liu, Liuqing Yang
  • Publication number: 20230282188
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media for generating a beatbox transcript are disclosed. Some examples may include: receiving an audio signal having a plurality of beatbox sounds, generating a spectrogram of the audio signal, processing the spectrogram of the audio signal with a neural network model trained on training samples including beatbox sounds, generating, by the neural network model a beatbox sound activation map including a plurality of activation times for a plurality of beatbox sounds, decoding the beatbox sound activation map into a beatbox transcript and providing the beatbox transcript as an output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Bochen Li, Rodrigo Castellon, Daiyu Zhang, Jitong Chen
  • Publication number: 20230197040
    Abstract: A method for generating an audio output is described. Image inputs of interactive movements by a user captured by an image sensor are received. The interactive movements are mapped to a sequence of audio element identifiers. The sequence of audio element identifiers are processed to generate a musical sequence by performing music theory rule enforcement on the sequence of audio element identifiers. An audio output that represents the musical sequence is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Bochen Li, Daiyu Zhang, Shawn Chan Zhen Yi, Jitong Chen
  • Publication number: 20220083583
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for associating a media content clip(s) with other media content clip(s) having a different modality by determining first embedding vectors of media content items of a first modality, receiving a media content clip of a second modality, determining a second embedding vector of the media content clip of the second modality, ranking the first embedding vectors based on a distance between the embedding vectors and the second embedding vector, and selecting one or more of the media content items of the first modality based on the ranking, thereby pairing media content clips based on emotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Bochen LI, Aparna KUMAR
  • Patent number: 11157542
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for associating a media content clip(s) with other media content clip(s) having a different modality by determining first embedding vectors of media content items of a first modality, receiving a media content clip of a second modality, determining a second embedding vector of the media content clip of the second modality, ranking the first embedding vectors based on a distance between the embedding vectors and the second embedding vector, and selecting one or more of the media content items of the first modality based on the ranking, thereby pairing media content clips based on emotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SPOTIFY AB
    Inventors: Bochen Li, Aparna Kumar