Patents by Inventor Raphaël GREFF

Raphaël GREFF 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: 11956616
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a receiver (201) receiving a multi-channel audio signal representing audio for a scene. An extractor (203) extracts at least one directional audio component by applying a spatial filtering to the multi-channel signal where the spatial filtering is dependent on the multi-channel audio signal. A feature processor (205) determines a set of features for the first directional audio component and a categorizer (207) determines a first audio source category out of a plurality of audio source categories for the directional audio signal in response to the set of features. An assigner (209) assigns a first audio source property to the first directional audio component from a set of audio source properties for the first audio source category. The apparatus may provide very advantageous categorization and characterization of individual audio sources/components present in a multi-channel signal. This may be advantageous e.g. for visualization of audio events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: STEELSERIES FRANCE
    Inventors: Maxime Baelde, Nathan Souviraa-Labastie, Raphaël Greff
  • Publication number: 20240091638
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a gaming system that cooperates with a graphical user interface to enable user modification and enhancement of one or more audio streams associated with the gaming system. In embodiments, the audio streams may include a game audio stream, a chat audio stream of conversation among players of a video game, and a microphone audio stream of a player of the video game. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventors: Raphaël Greff, Vincenzo Giamundo, Timothée Pourbaix
  • Publication number: 20240066400
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a gaming system that cooperates with a graphical user interface to enable user modification and enhancement of one or more audio streams associated with the gaming system. In embodiments, the audio streams may include a game audio stream, a chat audio stream of conversation among players of a video game, and a microphone audio stream of a player of the video game. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventors: JEFFREY NICHOLAS MAHLMEISTER, Simon Duffy, Paul Allais, Raphaël Greff, Thomas J. Panfil, Cédric Demière, Battsengel Lopez, Vincenzo Giamundo, Hong Cong Tuyen Pham
  • Patent number: 11865443
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a gaming system that cooperates with a graphical user interface to enable user modification and enhancement of one or more audio streams associated with the gaming system. In embodiments, the audio streams may include a game audio stream, a chat audio stream of conversation among players of a video game, and a microphone audio stream of a player of the video game. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventors: Raphaël Greff, Vincenzo Giamundo, Timothée Pourbaix
  • Patent number: 11850507
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a gaming system that cooperates with a graphical user interface to enable user modification and enhancement of one or more audio streams associated with the gaming system. In embodiments, the audio streams may include a game audio stream, a chat audio stream of conversation among players of a video game, and a microphone audio stream of a player of the video game. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventors: Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister, Simon Duffy, Paul Allais, Raphaël Greff, Thomas J. Panfil, Cédric Demière, Battsengel Lopez, Vincenzo Giamundo, Hong Cong Tuyen Pham
  • Publication number: 20230405458
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a gaming system that cooperates with a graphical user interface to enable user modification and enhancement of one or more audio streams associated with the gaming system. In embodiments, the audio streams may include a game audio stream, a chat audio stream of conversation among players of a video game, and a microphone audio stream of a player of the video game. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventors: Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister, Simon Duffy, Raphaël Greff, Damien Granger, Nathan Souviraa-Labastie
  • Patent number: 11766612
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a gaming system that cooperates with a graphical user interface to enable user modification and enhancement of one or more audio streams associated with the gaming system. In embodiments, the audio streams may include a game audio stream, a chat audio stream of conversation among players of a video game, and a microphone audio stream of a player of the video game. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventors: Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister, Simon Duffy, Raphaël Greff, Damien Granger, Nathan Souviraa-Labastie
  • Publication number: 20230060590
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a gaming system that cooperates with a graphical user interface to enable user modification and enhancement of one or more audio streams associated with the gaming system. In embodiments, the audio streams may include a game audio stream, a chat audio stream of conversation among players of a video game, and a microphone audio stream of a player of the video game. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventors: Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister, Simon Duffy, Paul Allais, Raphaël Greff, Thomas J. Panfil, Cédric Demière, Battsengel Lopez, Vincenzo Giamundo, Hong Cong Tuyen Pham
  • Publication number: 20230067090
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a gaming system that cooperates with a graphical user interface to enable user modification and enhancement of one or more audio streams associated with the gaming system. In embodiments, the audio streams may include a game audio stream, a chat audio stream of conversation among players of a video game, and a microphone audio stream of a player of the video game. One of the audio streams may trigger an action in the gaming system such as recording a portion of game content for a timer period. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventors: Raphaël Greff, Nathan Souviraa-Labastie, Thomas Jacques Roland Serre
  • Publication number: 20230066209
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a gaming system that cooperates with a graphical user interface to enable user modification and enhancement of one or more audio streams associated with the gaming system. In embodiments, the audio streams may include a game audio stream, a chat audio stream of conversation among players of a video game, and a microphone audio stream of a player of the video game. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventors: Raphaël Greff, Vincenzo Giamundo, TIMOTHÉE POURBAIX
  • Publication number: 20230068527
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a gaming system that cooperates with a graphical user interface to enable user modification and enhancement of one or more audio streams associated with the gaming system. In embodiments, the audio streams may include a game audio stream, a chat audio stream of conversation among players of a video game, and a microphone audio stream of a player of the video game. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventors: Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister, Simon Duffy, Raphaël Greff, Damien Granger, Nathan Souviraa-Labastie
  • Publication number: 20230064627
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving an input audio stream from a gaming system, the input audio stream including gaming audio of a video game played by a game player, the input audio stream including a plurality of classes of sounds, providing the input audio stream to a neural network, extracting, by the neural network, sounds of a selected class of sounds of the plurality of classes of sounds, and providing a plurality of output audio streams including providing a first audio stream including the sounds of the selected class of sounds of the input audio stream and a second audio stream including remaining sounds of the input audio stream. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventors: Nathan Souviraa-Labastie, Damien Kevin Granger, Raphaël Greff
  • Publication number: 20220329959
    Abstract: A system and method that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a multichannel audio stream; forming a front channel audio stream of the multichannel audio stream, including combining a first subset of audio channels of the multichannel audio stream to form the front channel audio stream; forming a surround channel audio stream of the multichannel audio stream including combining a second subset of audio channels of the multichannel audio stream to form the surround channel audio stream; providing the front channel audio stream to a primary set of speakers positioned in front of a listener and providing the surround channel audio stream to a supplemental speaker positioned behind the listener; and synchronizing the front channel audio stream and the surround channel audio stream. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventors: Hong Cong Tuyen Pham, Raphaël Greff, Vincenzo Giamundo, Matthieu Campion, Paul Allais, Nathan Souviraa-Labastie
  • Publication number: 20220141609
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a receiver (201) receiving a multi-channel audio signal representing audio for a scene. An extractor (203) extracts at least one directional audio component by applying a spatial filtering to the multi-channel signal where the spatial filtering is dependent on the multi-channel audio signal. A feature processor (205) determines a set of features for the first directional audio component and a categorizer (207) determines a first audio source category out of a plurality of audio source categories for the directional audio signal in response to the set of features. An assigner (209) assigns a first audio source property to the first directional audio component from a set of audio source properties for the first audio source category. The apparatus may provide very advantageous categorization and characterization of individual audio sources/components present in a multi-channel signal. This may be advantageous e.g. for visualization of audio events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Maxime BAELDE, Nathan SOUVIRAA-LABASTIE, Raphaël GREFF
  • Patent number: 8868631
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing a signal, in particular a digital audio signal, suitable for being implemented by a digital signal processor (DSP) having libraries for calculating Fourier transforms from the complex number space to the complex number space, for digitally processing P input signals, P being an integer at least equal to 2, more particularly for filtering said P input signals by the convolution of sampled fast Fourier transforms (FFT), thus obtaining Q output signals, Q being an integer at least equal to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: A-Volute
    Inventors: Hong Cong Tuyen Pham, Raphael Greff, Paul Allais
  • Publication number: 20120020443
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing a signal, in particular a digital audio signal, suitable for being implemented by a digital signal processor (DSP) having libraries for calculating Fourier transforms from the complex number space to the complex number space, for digitally processing P input signals, P being an integer at least equal to 2, more particularly for filtering said P input signals by the convolution of sampled fast Fourier transforms (FFT), thus obtaining Q output signals, Q being an integer at least equal to 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: A-VELOUTE
    Inventors: Hong Cong Tuyen Pham, Raphael Greff, Paul Allais