Patents by Inventor Nigel Osborne

Nigel Osborne 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: 12237069
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for analysing audio (eg. music) tracks. A predictive model of the neuro-physiological functioning and response to sounds by one or more of the human lower cortical, limbic and subcortical regions in the brain is described. Sounds are analysed so that appropriate sounds can be selected and played to a listener in order to stimulate and/or manipulate neuro-physiological arousal in that listener. The method and system are particularly applicable to applications harnessing a biofeedback resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: X-SYSTEM LIMITED
    Inventors: Nigel Osborne, Robert Ashcroft, Paul Robertson, Peter Kingsley
  • Publication number: 20250025658
    Abstract: A computer system configured to: (i) receive a file of electroencephalogram (EEG) data comprising EEG data of healthy brain behaviour of a human subject; (ii) audify the EEG data; (iii) analyse the audified EEG data according to a neuro-physiological model of the principal areas and networks of the human brain involved in processing music, to produce analysis data of the audified EEG data; (iv) analyse the music file audio data according to the neuro-physiological model, to produce analysis data of the music file audio data; (v) compare the analysis data of the audified EEG data with the analysis data of the music file audio data, to match the analysis data of the audified EEG data with matched analysis data of the music file audio data, to produce a playlist of matched music audio files corresponding to the matched music file audio data, wherein the matched music audio files are suitable to entrain healthy brain behaviour in the human subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Ruaraidh OSBORNE, Jonathan WALTON, Nigel OSBORNE
  • Publication number: 20220285006
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for analysing audio (eg. music) tracks. A predictive model of the neuro-physiological functioning and response to sounds by one or more of the human lower cortical, limbic and subcortical regions in the brain is described. Sounds are analysed so that appropriate sounds can be selected and played to a listener in order to stimulate and/or manipulate neuro-physiological arousal in that listener. The method and system are particularly applicable to applications harnessing a biofeedback resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Nigel OSBORNE, Robert ASHCROFT, Paul ROBERTSON, Peter KINGSLEY
  • Patent number: 11342062
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for analysing audio (eg. music) tracks. A predictive model of the neuro-physiological functioning and response to sounds by one or more of the human lower cortical, limbic and subcortical regions in the brain is described. Sounds are analysed so that appropriate sounds can be selected and played to a listener in order to stimulate and/or manipulate neuro-physiological arousal in that listener. The method and system are particularly applicable to applications harnessing a biofeedback resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: X-SYSTEM LIMITED
    Inventors: Nigel Osborne, Robert Ashcroft, Paul Robertson, Peter Kingsley
  • Publication number: 20200286505
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for analysing sounds, such as audio tracks, and automatically classifying the sounds in a space in which arousal is one axis and valence is another axis. The location of a sound or track in that arousal-valence space is automatically determined using a computer implemented system that analyses, measures or infers values for each of the following base feature parameters: harmonicity, turbulence, rhythmicity, sharpness, volume and linear harmonic cost, or any combination of two or more of those parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Nigel OSBORNE, Kit BARNES, John TURNER
  • Publication number: 20200213790
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for analysing audio (eg. music) tracks. A predictive model of the neuro-physiological functioning and response to sounds by one or more of the human lower cortical, limbic and subcortical regions in the brain is described. Sounds are analysed so that appropriate sounds can be selected and played to a listener in order to stimulate and/or manipulate neuro-physiological arousal in that listener. The method and system are particularly applicable to applications harnessing a biofeedback resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Nigel OSBORNE, Robert ASHCROFT, Paul ROBERTSON, Peter KINGSLEY
  • Patent number: 10587967
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for analysing audio (eg. music) tracks. A predictive model of the neuro-physiological functioning and response to sounds by one or more of the human lower cortical, limbic and subcortical regions in the brain is described. Sounds are analysed so that appropriate sounds can be selected and played to a listener in order to stimulate and/or manipulate neuro-physiological arousal in that listener. The method and system are particularly applicable to applications harnessing a biofeedback resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: X-SYSTEM LIMITED
    Inventors: Nigel Osborne, Robert Ashcroft, Paul Robertson, Peter Kingsley
  • Publication number: 20180027347
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for analysing audio (eg. music) tracks. A predictive model of the neuro-physiological functioning and response to sounds by one or more of the human lower cortical, limbic and subcortical regions in the brain is described. Sounds are analysed so that appropriate sounds can be selected and played to a listener in order to stimulate and/or manipulate neuro-physiological arousal in that listener. The method and system are particularly applicable to applications harnessing a biofeedback resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Nigel OSBORNE, Robert ASHCROFT, Paul ROBERTSON, Peter KINGSLEY
  • Patent number: 9736603
    Abstract: A method and system for analyzing audio (eg. music) tracks. A predictive model of the neuro-physiological functioning and response to sounds by one or more of the human lower cortical, limbic and subcortical regions in the brain is described. Sounds are analyzed so that appropriate sounds can be selected and played to a listener in order to stimulate and/or manipulate neuro-physiological arousal in that listener. The method and system are particularly applicable to applications harnessing a biofeedback resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: X-SYSTEM LIMITED
    Inventors: Nigel Osborne, Robert Ashcroft, Paul Robertson, Peter Kingsley
  • Publication number: 20140307878
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for analysing audio (eg. music) tracks. A predictive model of the neuro-physiological functioning and response to sounds by one or more of the human lower cortical, limbic and subcortical regions in the brain is described. Sounds are analysed so that appropriate sounds can be selected and played to a listener in order to stimulate and/or manipulate neuro-physiological arousal in that listener. The method and system are particularly applicable to applications harnessing a biofeedback resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: X-SYSTEM LIMITED
    Inventors: Nigel Osborne, Robert Ashcroft, Paul Robertson, Peter Kingsley