Patents by Inventor Randal Leistikow

Randal Leistikow 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: 20240054044
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product aspects for According to some aspects, a computing device (e.g., a server, a cloud-based device, an application-service device, etc.) may identify a characteristic of content received via a recording application on a user device (e.g., a mobile device, a smart device, a computing device, etc.). A type of the user device may be determined based on an identifier received with the content. Based on the type of the user device, an instruction may be sent to the user device that causes a change in an operational state of a component of the user device that is utilized by the recording application. Remediation instructions that remediate the characteristic of the content may be sent to the user device based on an indication of the change in the operation state of the audio component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: CHRIS MANCHESTER, MARK GILL, RANDAL LEISTIKOW
  • Publication number: 20220103958
    Abstract: Latency on different devices (e.g., devices of differing brand, model, vintage, etc.) can vary significantly and tens of milliseconds can affect human perception of lagging and leading components of a performance. As a result, use of a uniform latency estimate across a wide variety of devices is unlikely to provide good results, and hand-estimating round-trip latency across a wide variety of devices is costly and would constantly need to be updated for new devices. Instead, a system has been developed for crowdsourcing latency estimates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Amanda Chaudhary, David Steinwedel, John Shimmin, Lance Jabr, Randal Leistikow
  • Patent number: 11146901
    Abstract: Latency on different devices (e.g., devices of differing brand, model, vintage, etc.) can vary significantly and tens of milliseconds can affect human perception of lagging and leading components of a performance. As a result, use of a uniform latency estimate across a wide variety of devices is unlikely to provide good results, and hand-estimating round-trip latency across a wide variety of devices is costly and would constantly need to be updated for new devices. Instead, a system has been developed for crowdsourcing latency estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Smule, Inc.
    Inventors: Amanda Chaudhary, David Steinwedel, John Shimmin, Lance Jabr, Randal Leistikow
  • Publication number: 20200082802
    Abstract: An application that manipulates audio (or audiovisual) content, automated music creation technologies may be employed to generate new musical content using digital signal processing software hosted on handheld and/or server (or cloud-based) compute platforms to intelligently process and combine a set of audio content captured and submitted by users of modern mobile phones or other handheld compute platforms. The user-submitted recordings may contain speech, singing, musical instruments, or a wide variety of other sound sources, and the recordings may optionally be preprocessed by the handheld devices prior to submission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Randal Leistikow, Mark T. Godfrey, Ian S. Simon, Jeannie Yang, Michael W. Allen
  • Publication number: 20190335283
    Abstract: Latency on different devices (e.g., devices of differing brand, model, vintage, etc.) can vary significantly and tens of milliseconds can affect human perception of lagging and leading components of a performance. As a result, use of a uniform latency estimate across a wide variety of devices is unlikely to provide good results, and hand-estimating round-trip latency across a wide variety of devices is costly and would constantly need to be updated for new devices. Instead, a system has been developed for crowdsourcing latency estimates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Amanda Chaudhary, David Steinwedel, John Shimmin, Lance Jabr, Randal Leistikow
  • Patent number: 10284985
    Abstract: Latency on different devices (e.g., devices of differing brand, model, vintage, etc.) can vary significantly and tens of milliseconds can affect human perception of lagging and leading components of a performance. As a result, use of a uniform latency estimate across a wide variety of devices is unlikely to provide good results, and hand-estimating round-trip latency across a wide variety of devices is costly and would constantly need to be updated for new devices. Instead, a system has been developed for crowdsourcing latency estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: SMULE, INC.
    Inventors: Amanda Chaudhary, David Steinwedel, John Shimmin, Lance Jabr, Randal Leistikow
  • Patent number: 10262644
    Abstract: An application that manipulates audio (or audiovisual) content, automated music creation technologies may be employed to generate new musical content using digital signal processing software hosted on handheld and/or server (or cloud-based) compute platforms to intelligently process and combine a set of audio content captured and submitted by users of modern mobile phones or other handheld compute platforms. The user-submitted recordings may contain speech, singing, musical instruments, or a wide variety of other sound sources, and the recordings may optionally be preprocessed by the handheld devices prior to submission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Smule, Inc.
    Inventors: Randal Leistikow, Mark Godfrey, Ian S. Simon, Jeannie Yang, Michael W. Allen
  • Patent number: 9761209
    Abstract: Notwithstanding practical limitations imposed by mobile device platforms and applications, truly captivating musical instruments may be synthesized in ways that allow musically expressive performances to be captured and rendered in real-time. Synthetic musical instruments that provide a game, grading or instructional mode are described in which one or more qualities of a user's performance are assessed relative to a musical score. By providing a range of modes (from score-assisted to fully user-expressive), user interactions with synthetic musical instruments are made more engaging and tend to capture user interest over generally longer periods of time. Synthetic musical instruments are described in which force dynamics of user gestures (such as finger contact forces applied to a multi-touch sensitive display or surface and/or the temporal extent and applied pressure of sustained contact thereon) are captured and drive the digital synthesis in ways that enhance expressiveness of user performances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Smule, Inc.
    Inventors: Perry R. Cook, Jeannie Yang, Yuning Woo, John Shimmin, Randal Leistikow, Michael Berger, Jeff Smith
  • Publication number: 20170011724
    Abstract: Notwithstanding practical limitations imposed by mobile device platforms and applications, truly captivating musical instruments may be synthesized in ways that allow musically expressive performances to be captured and rendered in real-time. Synthetic musical instruments that provide a game, grading or instructional mode are described in which one or more qualities of a user's performance are assessed relative to a musical score. By providing a range of modes (from score-assisted to fully user-expressive), user interactions with synthetic musical instruments are made more engaging and tend to capture user interest over generally longer periods of time. Synthetic musical instruments are described in which force dynamics of user gestures (such as finger contact forces applied to a multi-touch sensitive display or surface and/or the temporal extent and applied pressure of sustained contact thereon) are captured and drive the digital synthesis in ways that enhance expressiveness of user performances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Perry R. Cook, Jeannie Yang, Yar Woo, John Shimmin, Randal Leistikow, Michael Berger, Jeff Smith
  • Publication number: 20150120308
    Abstract: An application that manipulates audio (or audiovisual) content, automated music creation technologies may be employed to generate new musical content using digital signal processing software hosted on handheld and/or server (or cloud-based) compute platforms to intelligently process and combine a set of audio content captured and submitted by users of modern mobile phones or other handheld compute platforms. The user-submitted recordings may contain speech, singing, musical instruments, or a wide variety of other sound sources, and the recordings may optionally be preprocessed by the handheld devices prior to submission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Randal Leistikow, Mark Godfrey, Ian S. Simon, Jeannie Yang