Patents by Inventor Maxwell Morrison

Maxwell Morrison 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: 11915714
    Abstract: Methods for modifying audio data include operations for accessing audio data having a first prosody, receiving a target prosody differing from the first prosody, and computing acoustic features representing samples. Computing respective acoustic features for a sample includes computing a pitch feature as a quantized pitch value of the sample by assigning a pitch value, of the target prosody or the audio data, to at least one of a set of pitch bins having equal widths in cents. Computing the respective acoustic features further includes computing a periodicity feature from the audio data. The respective acoustic features for the sample include the pitch feature, the periodicity feature, and other acoustic features. A neural vocoder is applied to the acoustic features to pitch-shift and time-stretch the audio data from the first prosody toward the target prosody.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: Adobe Inc., Northwestern University
    Inventors: Maxwell Morrison, Juan Pablo Caceres Chomali, Zeyu Jin, Nicholas Bryan, Bryan A. Pardo
  • Patent number: 11830481
    Abstract: Methods are performed by one or more processing devices for correcting prosody in audio data. A method includes operations for accessing subject audio data in an audio edit region of the audio data. The subject audio data in the audio edit region potentially lacks prosodic continuity with unedited audio data in an unedited audio portion of the audio data. The operations further include predicting, based on a context of the unedited audio data, phoneme durations including a respective phoneme duration of each phoneme in the unedited audio data. The operations further include predicting, based on the context of the unedited audio data, a pitch contour comprising at least one respective pitch value of each phoneme in the unedited audio data. Additionally, the operations include correcting prosody of the subject audio data in the audio edit region by applying the phoneme durations and the pitch contour to the subject audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Maxwell Morrison, Zeyu Jin, Nicholas Bryan, Juan Pablo Caceres Chomali, Lucas Rencker
  • Publication number: 20230197093
    Abstract: Methods for modifying audio data include operations for accessing audio data having a first prosody, receiving a target prosody differing from the first prosody, and computing acoustic features representing samples. Computing respective acoustic features for a sample includes computing a pitch feature as a quantized pitch value of the sample by assigning a pitch value, of the target prosody or the audio data, to at least one of a set of pitch bins having equal widths in cents. Computing the respective acoustic features further includes computing a periodicity feature from the audio data. The respective acoustic features for the sample include the pitch feature, the periodicity feature, and other acoustic features. A neural vocoder is applied to the acoustic features to pitch-shift and time-stretch the audio data from the first prosody toward the target prosody.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Maxwell Morrison, Juan Pablo Caceres Chomali, Zeyu Jin, Nicholas Bryan, Bryan A. Pardo
  • Publication number: 20230169961
    Abstract: Methods are performed by one or more processing devices for correcting prosody in audio data. A method includes operations for accessing subject audio data in an audio edit region of the audio data. The subject audio data in the audio edit region potentially lacks prosodic continuity with unedited audio data in an unedited audio portion of the audio data. The operations further include predicting, based on a context of the unedited audio data, phoneme durations including a respective phoneme duration of each phoneme in the unedited audio data. The operations further include predicting, based on the context of the unedited audio data, a pitch contour comprising at least one respective pitch value of each phoneme in the unedited audio data. Additionally, the operations include correcting prosody of the subject audio data in the audio edit region by applying the phoneme durations and the pitch contour to the subject audio data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Maxwell Morrison, Zeyu Jin, Nicholas Bryan, Juan Pablo Caceres Chomali, Lucas Rencker