Patents by Inventor Erling Wold

Erling Wold 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: 20250119626
    Abstract: A system processed a representation of a media content item using a trained machine learning model to identify whether the media content item is a modified media content item. The trained machine learning model outputs an indication of one or more modifications of the media content item. Responsive to determining that the one or more modifications satisfy a criterion, one or more operations are performed on the media content item in view of the one or more modifications to generate an updated media content item. The updated media content item is compared to known media content items to identify known material contained therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Zafar Rafii, Erling Wold, Todd Patrick McGee, Richard Boulderstone
  • Patent number: 11816151
    Abstract: Embodiments cover identifying an unidentified media content item as a cover of a known media content item using lyrical contents. In an example, a processing device receives an unidentified media content item and determines lyrical content associated with the unidentified media content item. The processing device then determines a lyrical similarity between the lyrical content associated with the unidentified media content item and additional lyrical content associated with a known media content item of a plurality of known media content items. The processing device then identifies the unidentified media content item as a cover of the known media content item based at least in part on the lyrical similarity, resulting in an identified cover-media content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Audible Magic Corporation
    Inventor: Erling Wold
  • Publication number: 20230244710
    Abstract: A method and system classify media content items and then identify a subset of the classified media content items. In embodiments, audio features of a plurality of media content items are processed by one or more machine learning model to classify each of the media content items as containing music or not containing music. Those media content items not containing music are filtered out, digital fingerprints of those media content items that contain music are generated, and the digital fingerprints are used to identify those media content items that contain music.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Erling Wold, Jay Friedman, Richard Boulderstone
  • Patent number: 11294954
    Abstract: An unidentified media content item may be received by a processing device. A set of features of the unidentified media content item may be determined. Metadata associated with the unidentified media content item may be determined. A first similarity between the metadata associated with the unidentified media content item and additional metadata associated with a known media content item from a media content repository may be determined. A second similarity between the set of features of the unidentified media content item and an additional set of features associated with the known media content item may be determined. The unidentified media content item may be identified as a cover of the known media content item based on the first similarity and the second similarity by the processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Audible Magic Corporation
    Inventors: Erling Wold, Jay Friedman, Richard Boulderstone
  • Patent number: 11288302
    Abstract: A media item may be received by a computing device. One or more works may be identified in the media item. One or more ratios may be determined based on the length of the media item and/or lengths of one or more identified works in the media item. An output may be determined based on the one or more ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Audible Magic Corporation
    Inventors: Vance Ikezoye, Jay Friedman, Erling Wold, Michael Thomas Edwards
  • Publication number: 20220027407
    Abstract: A system receives a media content item and analyzes the media content item to identify copyrighted material contained therein. Analyzing the media content item includes determining an initial interval for selecting segments of the media content item to be analyzed, generating a first digital fingerprint of a first segment of the media content item, comparing the first digital fingerprint to at least a first subset of a plurality of digital fingerprints of a first plurality of known works to determine whether the first digital fingerprint matches one of the plurality of digital fingerprints of the first plurality of known works, and determining an updated interval for selecting the segments of the media content item to be analyzed based on whether or not a match was found between the first digital fingerprint and one of the plurality of digital fingerprints of the first plurality of known works.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Vance Ikezoye, Erling Wold
  • Publication number: 20210357451
    Abstract: Embodiments cover identifying an unidentified media content item as a cover of a known media content item using lyrical contents. In an example, a processing device receives an unidentified media content item and determines lyrical content associated with the unidentified media content item. The processing device then determines a lyrical similarity between the lyrical content associated with the unidentified media content item and additional lyrical content associated with a known media content item of a plurality of known media content items. The processing device then identifies the unidentified media content item as a cover of the known media content item based at least in part on the lyrical similarity, resulting in an identified cover-media content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventor: Erling Wold
  • Publication number: 20200175055
    Abstract: A media item may be received by a computing device. One or more works may be identified in the media item. One or more ratios may be determined based on the length of the media item and/or lengths of one or more identified works in the media item. An output may be determined based on the one or more ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Vance Ikezoye, Jay Friedman, Erling Wold, Michael Thomas Edwards
  • Patent number: 10599702
    Abstract: A media item may be received by a computing device. One or more works may be identified in the media item. One or more ratios may be determined based on the length of the media item and/or lengths of one or more identified works in the media item. An output may be determined based on the one or more ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Audible Magic Corporation
    Inventors: Vance Ikezoye, Jay Friedman, Erling Wold, Michael Thomas Edwards
  • Patent number: 10476925
    Abstract: A media stream cue point creator receives a media stream comprising at least one of an audio portion or a video portion, wherein the media stream lacks at least one indicator of a content segment within the media stream. The media stream cue point creator identifies a first segment of the plurality of segments of the media stream, wherein the segment corresponds to a segment in a segment reference data store, and creates a cue point associated with the first segment, wherein the cue point identifies at least one of a beginning or an end of the first content segment in the media stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Audible Magic Corporation
    Inventors: Jim Schrempp, Rob Williams, Vance Ikezoye, Dave Avery, Erling Wold, Alan Edel
  • Publication number: 20190205467
    Abstract: An unidentified media content item may be received by a processing device. A set of features of the unidentified media content item may be determined. Metadata associated with the unidentified media content item may be determined. A first similarity between the metadata associated with the unidentified media content item and additional metadata associated with a known media content item from a media content repository may be determined. A second similarity between the set of features of the unidentified media content item and an additional set of features associated with the known media content item may be determined. The unidentified media content item may be identified as a cover of the known media content item based on the first similarity and the second similarity by the processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Erling WOLD, Jay FRIEDMAN, Richard BOULDERSTONE
  • Publication number: 20190108227
    Abstract: A media item may be received by a computing device. One or more works may be identified in the media item. One or more ratios may be determined based on the length of the media item and/or lengths of one or more identified works in the media item. An output may be determined based on the one or more ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Vance Ikezoye, Jay Friedman, Erling Wold, Michael Thomas Edwards
  • Publication number: 20190036998
    Abstract: A media stream cue point creator receives a media stream comprising at least one of an audio portion or a video portion, wherein the media stream lacks at least one indicator of a content segment within the media stream. The media stream cue point creator identifies a first segment of the plurality of segments of the media stream, wherein the segment corresponds to a segment in a segment reference data store, and creates a cue point associated with the first segment, wherein the cue point identifies at least one of a beginning or an end of the first content segment in the media stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Jim Schrempp, Rob Williams, Vance Ikezoye, Dave Avery, Erling Wold, Alan Edel
  • Publication number: 20190028766
    Abstract: A media content item may be received by a first processing device. A set of features of the media content item may be determined. The set of features determined from the media content item may be analyzed using a media classification profile comprising a first model for a first class of media content items and a second model for a second class of media content items. Whether the media content item belongs to the first class of media content items or the second class of the media content items may be determined based on a result of the analysis. Responsive to determining that the media content item belongs to the first class, either a portion of the media content item or a digital fingerprint of the media content item may be sent to a second processing device for further processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Erling Wold, Jay Friedman, Richard Boulderstone
  • Patent number: 10181015
    Abstract: A processor receives a first list comprising a plurality of events from a portion of digital data of an unknown work and one or more metrics between each pair of adjacent events from the plurality of events. The processor compares the first list to a second list comprising events and metrics between events for a known work to determine a first quantity of hits and a second quantity of misses. The processor determines whether the first list matches the second list based on the first quantity of hits and the second quantity of misses. The processor determines that the unknown work is a copy of the known work responsive to determining that the first list matches the second list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Audible Magic Corporation
    Inventor: Erling Wold
  • Patent number: 10091263
    Abstract: A media stream cue point creator receives a media stream comprising at least one of an audio portion or a video portion, wherein the media stream lacks at least one indicator of a content segment within the media stream. The media stream cue point creator identifies a first segment of the plurality of segments of the media stream, wherein the segment corresponds to a segment in a segment reference data store, and creates a cue point associated with the first segment, wherein the cue point identifies at least one of a beginning or an end of the first content segment in the media stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Audible Magic Corporation
    Inventors: Jim Schrempp, Rob Williams, Vance Ikezoye, Dave Avery, Erling Wold, Alan Edel
  • Publication number: 20180032705
    Abstract: A processor receives a first list comprising a plurality of events from a portion of digital data of an unknown work and one or more metrics between each pair of adjacent events from the plurality of events. The processor compares the first list to a second list comprising events and metrics between events for a known work to determine a first quantity of hits and a second quantity of misses. The processor determines whether the first list matches the second list based on the first quantity of hits and the second quantity of misses. The processor determines that the unknown work is a copy of the known work responsive to determining that the first list matches the second list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventor: Erling Wold
  • Patent number: 9785757
    Abstract: A processor receives a first list comprising a plurality of events from a portion of digital data of an unknown work and one or more metrics between each pair of adjacent events from the plurality of events. The processor compares the first list to a second list comprising events and metrics between events for a known work to determine a first quantity of hits and a second quantity of misses. The processor determines whether the first list matches the second list based on the first quantity of hits and the second quantity of misses. The processor determines that the unknown work is a copy of the known work responsive to determining that the first list matches the second list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Audible Magic Corporation
    Inventor: Erling Wold
  • Publication number: 20160132664
    Abstract: A processor receives a first list comprising a plurality of events from a portion of digital data of an unknown work and one or more metrics between each pair of adjacent events from the plurality of events. The processor compares the first list to a second list comprising events and metrics between events for a known work to determine a first quantity of hits and a second quantity of misses. The processor determines whether the first list matches the second list based on the first quantity of hits and the second quantity of misses. The processor determines that the unknown work is a copy of the known work responsive to determining that the first list matches the second list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Erling Wold
  • Patent number: 9268921
    Abstract: A computing system selects a portion of data of an unknown work and detects each event in the portion of data of the unknown work. An event is a perceptual occurrence in a work successively positioned in time. The system determines an event metric between each successive event in the portion of data in the unknown work and generates a list of event metrics between the events for the unknown work. The system compares the list of event metrics for the unknown work to a list of event metrics for a known work and determines the unknown work is a copy of the known work responsive to a match between the list of event metrics of the unknown work and the list of event metrics for the known work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Audible Magic Corporation
    Inventor: Erling Wold