Patents by Inventor Tero Tolonen

Tero Tolonen 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: 6541691
    Abstract: A method for generating accompaniment to a musical presentation, the method comprising steps of providing a note-based code representing musical information corresponding to the musical presentation, generating a code sequence corresponding to new melody lines by using said note-based code as an input for a composing method, and providing accompaniment on the basis of the code sequence corresponding to new melody lines. Providing the note-based code representing the musical information comprises steps of receiving the musical information in the form of an audio signal, and applying an audio-to-notes conversion to the audio signal for generating the note-based code representing the musical information, the audio-to-notes conversion comprising the steps of estimating fundamental frequencies of the audio signal for obtaining a sequence of fundamental frequencies, and detecting note events on the basis of the sequence of fundamental frequencies for obtaining the note-based code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Oy Elmorex Ltd.
    Inventors: Tero Tolonen, Ville Pulkki
  • Publication number: 20020035915
    Abstract: A method for generating accompaniment to a musical presentation, the method comprising steps of providing a note-based code representing musical information corresponding to the musical presentation, generating a code sequence corresponding to new melody lines by using said note-based code as an input for a composing method, and providing accompaniment on the basis of the code sequence corresponding to new melody lines. Providing the note-based code representing the musical information comprises steps of receiving the musical information in the form of an audio signal, and applying an audio-to-notes conversion to the audio signal for generating the note-based code representing the musical information, the audio-to-notes conversion comprising the steps of estimating fundamental frequencies of the audio signal for obtaining a sequence of fundamental frequencies, and detecting note events on the basis of the sequence of fundamental frequencies for obtaining the note-based code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Publication date: March 28, 2002
    Inventors: Tero Tolonen, Ville Pulkki