Patents by Inventor Duncan Og MacConnell

Duncan Og MacConnell 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: 10936275
    Abstract: A system and method include presentation of a plurality of virtual objects to a first user, reception, from the first user, of a command to associate a voice annotation with one of the plurality of virtual objects, reception of audio signals of a first voice annotation from the first user, and storage the received audio signals in association with metadata indicating the first user and the one of the plurality of virtual objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Duncan Og Macconnell, Ilya Yurievich Rostovtsev, Stephen Earl Fenton, Bill Chau, Kenneth Douglas Smith, Kelly Jean Graham, Ines Khelifi, Thomas Charles Butcher
  • Patent number: 10902864
    Abstract: A system and method includes presentation of a mixed-reality environment to a user, presentation of a first audio control to the user within the mixed-reality environment, detection of a manipulation by the user of the first audio control within the mixed-reality environment, determination of a first value of an audio-related parameter associated with speech intelligibility based on the manipulation, determination of two or more audio processing parameter values associated with speech intelligibility based on the first value, reception of first speech audio signals, application of audio processing to the first speech audio signals based on the determined two or more audio processing parameter values to generate second speech audio signals, and transmission of the second speech audio signals to a loudspeaker system for playback to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Duncan Og MacConnell
  • Publication number: 20200211578
    Abstract: A system and method includes presentation of a mixed-reality environment to a user, presentation of a first audio control to the user within the mixed-reality environment, detection of a manipulation by the user of the first audio control within the mixed-reality environment, determination of a first value of an audio-related parameter associated with speech intelligibility based on the manipulation, determination of two or more audio processing parameter values associated with speech intelligibility based on the first value, reception of first speech audio signals, application of audio processing to the first speech audio signals based on the determined two or more audio processing parameter values to generate second speech audio signals, and transmission of the second speech audio signals to a loudspeaker system for playback to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventor: Duncan Og MACCONNELL
  • Publication number: 20200210138
    Abstract: A system and method include presentation of a plurality of virtual objects to a first user, reception, from the first user, of a command to associate a voice annotation with one of the plurality of virtual objects, reception of audio signals of a first voice annotation from the first user, and storage the received audio signals in association with metadata indicating the first user and the one of the plurality of virtual objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Duncan Og MACCONNELL, Ilya Yurievich ROSTOVTSEV, Stephen Earl FENTON, Bill CHAU, Kenneth Douglas SMITH, Kelly Jean GRAHAM, Ines KHELIFI, Thomas Charles BUTCHER
  • Publication number: 20200211540
    Abstract: A system and method includes capture of first speech audio signals emitted by a first user, conversion of the first speech audio signals into text data, input of the text data into a trained network to generate second speech audio signals based on the text data, processing of the second speech audio signals based on a first context of a playback environment, and playback of the processed second speech audio signals in the playback environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Duncan Og MACCONNELL, Thomas Charles BUTCHER
  • Patent number: 10514882
    Abstract: A digital audio processing system determines characteristics of an electronic presentation to generate a musical composition that is unique to the electronic presentation by adjoining digital audio stems in accordance with the characteristics of the electronic presentation. Embodiments enable a user to define an order for displaying images and a level of importance of the images with respect to one another. For example, the user may designate a specific one of the multiple images as a “highlight image” for emphasizing during the electronic presentation. Then, the system may arrange numerous musical segments adjacent to one another so that the intensity (e.g., energy level) of a resulting musical composition coincides with key events (e.g., a highlight image being shown) of the particular electronic presentation. The intensity of a particular musical segment may indicate a relative note structure density as compared to other musical segments that are defined within the stem data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Thomas Mollis, Brendan Mitchel Walsh, George Valavanis, Ines Khelifi, Jonathan A. Adams, Laurentiu Titi Nedelcu, Ahmed Raouf Merouche, Sourabh Bansal, Sung-Hon Wu, Stacey W. Y. Law, Ted T. Chen, Duncan Og MacConnell
  • Publication number: 20190258448
    Abstract: A digital audio processing system determines characteristics of an electronic presentation to generate a musical composition that is unique to the electronic presentation by adjoining digital audio stems in accordance with the characteristics of the electronic presentation. Embodiments enable a user to define an order for displaying images and a level of importance of the images with respect to one another. For example, the user may designate a specific one of the multiple images as a “highlight image” for emphasizing during the electronic presentation. Then, the system may arrange numerous musical segments adjacent to one another so that the intensity (e.g., energy level) of a resulting musical composition coincides with key events (e.g., a highlight image being shown) of the particular electronic presentation. The intensity of a particular musical segment may indicate a relative note structure density as compared to other musical segments that are defined within the stem data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Adam Thomas MOLLIS, Brendan Mitchel WALSH, George VALAVANIS, Ines KHELIFI, Jonathan A. ADAMS, Laurentiu Titi NEDELCU, Ahmed Raouf MEROUCHE, Sourabh BANSAL, Sung-Hon WU, Stacey W.Y. LAW, Ted T. CHEN, Duncan Og MacCONNELL