Patents by Inventor Kevin J. Karplus

Kevin J. Karplus 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: 4649783
    Abstract: A musical instrument employing probabilistic wavetable-modification method of producing musical sound. A randomly initialized wavetable which is periodically accessed to provide an output signal which determines the musical sound. The output signal from the wavetable is probabilistically modified and stored back into the wavetable as modified data. The modified data, after a delay, is accessed from the wavetable and thereby becomes a new output signal. This process is periodically repeated whereby each new output signal is stored (after possibly being modified) back into the wavetable to produce rich and natural musical sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1987
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Alexander R. Strong, Kevin J. Karplus