Patents by Inventor Joseph Plazak
Joseph Plazak 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).
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Publication number: 20240312440Abstract: Dynamic user-defined stave filters enable users of scorewriter software applications to generate de-condensed musical parts from condensed scores. When a stave filter is applied to some or all of a stave displaying multiple types of musical element, one or more of the musical element types are hidden from view. Stave filters remove from display note and/or non-note element types. Filtered staves are linked to corresponding unfiltered staves such that compositional changes in a condensed score are reflected in the linked de-condensed staves. Uses include generation of individual parts from a score or generation of different orchestrations or arrangements. Filtered staves are drawn in an intelligent fashion to ensure that musical data are displayed in a musically valid form that conforms to stylistic conventions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2023Publication date: September 19, 2024Applicant: Avid Technology, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Plazak, Daniel Witkowski
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Patent number: 12020671Abstract: An operator of a digital audio workstation (DAW) application is able to assign individual tracks of a DAW session for export to specific players within a musical score of a scorewriter application. The DAW operator associates each track with a player identifier, which is retained in association with an interoperable format file generated by the export process. When the scorewriter imports such a file, it extracts the player identifier and uses it to map the track to a scored instrument. The mapping may also depend on a scorewriter arrangement of players for the instruments. The DAW operator may assign multiple tracks representing a given instrument played with different techniques to a single instrument part in a score. The playing techniques for the instruments are also associated with the tracks and may be parsed by the scorewriter to annotate the score with the corresponding notations.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2023Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Joseph Plazak, Samuel Lambert, Joseph Pearson, Sylvain Girard
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Publication number: 20240194172Abstract: Music creation applications enable users to enter new objects into a musical project using gestures mediated by input maps that are adapted to the musical context of the object entry location. The musical context may be defined by an explicit aspect of the musical project or implicitly by notes or intervals already entered into the project. The adaptation of the input maps may include spatial scaling to provide greater space to objects favored by the context. The context-adapted input maps may be displayed and used to guide user input, such as with gestures on a touch screen. In some implementations, input-sensitive regions of input maps are scaled in accordance with the musical context without being displayed. The methods apply to musical object entry via pop-up input maps and virtual instrument displays.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2022Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: Avid Technology, Inc.Inventors: Sylvain Girard, Joseph Plazak
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Publication number: 20240021179Abstract: An operator of a digital audio workstation (DAW) application is able to assign individual tracks of a DAW session for export to specific players within a musical score of a scorewriter application. The DAW operator associates each track with a player identifier, which is retained in association with an interoperable format file generated by the export process. When the scorewriter imports such a file, it extracts the player identifier and uses it to map the track to a scored instrument. The mapping may also depend on a scorewriter arrangement of players for the instruments. The DAW operator may assign multiple tracks representing a given instrument played with different techniques to a single instrument part in a score. The playing techniques for the instruments are also associated with the tracks and may be parsed by the scorewriter to annotate the score with the corresponding notations.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: Avid Technology, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Plazak, Samuel Lambert, Joseph Pearson, Sylvain Girard
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Patent number: 11875764Abstract: A media composition application, such as a musical scorewriter or a digital audio workstation, provides in situ suggestions for continuation or completion of a media composition. The suggestions are based on some or all of the portion of the composition already composed or are based on a corpus of compositions, such as those by a particular composer or those of a specific genre. The length of the suggestions is specified by the user. The suggestions are provided within a graphical user interface of the application and displayed as a possible direct continuation of the composition within a musical stave. If the user rejects the suggestion, additional suggestions are automatically displayed in situ. Reductive, most-probable suggestions may be offered as well as exploratory suggestions that facilitate a creative compositional interaction between user and application. Data filters enable selected aspects of a data source to be used for suggestion generation.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Joseph Plazak
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Patent number: 11837206Abstract: A graphical user interface for music creation applications, such as score notation applications and digital audio workstations, includes multi-dimensional gestures. To enter a sound event into a musical project, a user uses an input device to select and drag a desired sound event in one or more dimensions. The relative position or rate of movement along a given dimension defines a value of a sound event parameter allocated to the given dimension. The sound event is entered into the project when the selection is released. The user inputs the gesture using a pointing device such as a mouse, stylus with a touch screen, or finger on a touch screen. Stylus dimensions mapped to sound event parameters may include, horizontal and vertical stylus tip positions, vertical and horizontal tilt of the stylus, and stylus tip pressure. Sound event parameters controlled by the gestures may include diatonic pitch, chromatic inflection, and duration.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Avid Technology, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Plazak, Sam Butler
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Publication number: 20230032765Abstract: A graphical user interface for music creation applications, such as score notation applications and digital audio workstations, includes multi-dimensional gestures. To enter a sound event into a musical project, a user uses an input device to select and drag a desired sound event in one or more dimensions. The relative position or rate of movement along a given dimension defines a value of a sound event parameter allocated to the given dimension. The sound event is entered into the project when the selection is released. The user inputs the gesture using a pointing device such as a mouse, stylus with a touch screen, or finger on a touch screen. Stylus dimensions mapped to sound event parameters may include, horizontal and vertical stylus tip positions, vertical and horizontal tilt of the stylus, and stylus tip pressure. Sound event parameters controlled by the gestures may include diatonic pitch, chromatic inflection, and duration.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2021Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: Avid Technology, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Plazak, Sam Butler
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Publication number: 20220310048Abstract: A media composition application, such as a musical scorewriter or a digital audio workstation, provides in situ suggestions for continuation or completion of a media composition. The suggestions are based on some or all of the portion of the composition already composed or are based on a corpus of compositions, such as those by a particular composer or those of a specific genre. The length of the suggestions is specified by the user. The suggestions are provided within a graphical user interface of the application and displayed as a possible direct continuation of the composition within a musical stave. If the user rejects the suggestion, additional suggestions are automatically displayed in situ. Reductive, most-probable suggestions may be offered as well as exploratory suggestions that facilitate a creative compositional interaction between user and application. Data filters enable selected aspects of a data source to be used for suggestion generation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Avid Technology, Inc.Inventor: Joseph Plazak
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Publication number: 20110133955Abstract: A traffic control system for controlling vehicular traffic flow at intersections in which the conventional red/yellow/green three-light traffic signal that informs a motorist to stop, prepare to stop, and go is supplemented with multiple yellow light signals which are integrated as part of the traffic light. The additional yellow light signals inform a motorist that they will have sufficient time to make a gradual normal stop at the intersection before the red stop light is switched on by dividing the duration of the yellow cautionary signal into multiple yellow light signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2009Publication date: June 9, 2011Inventors: Carey Plazak, Joseph Plazak