公开(公告)号：US20160005416A1

公开(公告)日：2016-01-07

申请号：US14720320

申请日：2015-05-22

Applicant: Smule, Inc.

Inventor： Spencer Salazar ,  Rebecca A. Fiebrink ,  Ge Wang ,  Mattias Ljungstrom ,  Jeffrey C. Smith ,  Perry R. Cook

IPC: G10L21/013 ,  G06F3/16

CPC classification number: G10H1/366 ,  G06F3/165 ,  G10H1/368 ,  G10H2210/251 ,  G10H2210/331 ,  G10H2220/011 ,  G10H2240/125 ,  G10H2240/175 ,  G10H2240/211 ,  G10H2240/251 ,  G10L21/013 ,  G10L21/0356

Abstract: Techniques have been developed to facilitate (1) the capture and pitch correction of vocal performances on handheld or other portable computing devices and (2) the mixing of such pitch-corrected vocal performances with backing tracks for audible rendering on targets that include such portable computing devices and as well as desktops, workstations, gaming stations, even telephony targets. Implementations of the described techniques employ signal processing techniques and allocations of system functionality that are suitable given the generally limited capabilities of such handheld or portable computing devices and that facilitate efficient encoding and communication of the pitch-corrected vocal performances (or precursors or derivatives thereof) via wireless and/or wired bandwidth-limited networks for rendering on portable computing devices or other targets.

Abstract translation: 已经开发了技术来促进（1）在手持或其他便携式计算设备上的声音表演的捕获和音调校正，以及（2）将这种音调校正的声乐表演与背景轨道的混合，以便在包括这种便携式计算机 设备，以及桌面，工作站，游戏站，甚至电话目标。 所描述的技术的实施采用信号处理技术和系统功能的分配，给定这些手持或便携式计算设备的通常有限的能力，并且促进音调校正的声乐表演（或其前体或衍生物）的有效编码和通信， 通过无线和/或有线带宽限制网络在便携式计算设备或其他目标上呈现。

公开(公告)号：US12041290B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-16

申请号：US18152045

申请日：2023-01-09

Applicant: SMULE, INC.

Inventor： Anton Holmberg ,  Benjamin Hersh ,  Jeannie Yang ,  Perry R. Cook ,  Jeffrey C. Smith

IPC: H04N21/43 ,  G10H1/36 ,  H04L65/611 ,  H04L65/612 ,  H04L65/75 ,  H04L67/104 ,  H04N5/265 ,  H04N21/2187 ,  H04N21/242 ,  H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/4788

CPC classification number: H04N21/4302 ,  G10H1/366 ,  H04L65/611 ,  H04L65/612 ,  H04L65/765 ,  H04L67/104 ,  H04N5/265 ,  H04N21/2187 ,  H04N21/242 ,  H04N21/43079 ,  H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/4788 ,  G10H2210/066 ,  G10H2210/091 ,  G10H2220/011 ,  G10H2230/015 ,  G10H2240/175 ,  H04N21/462

Abstract: Techniques have been developed to facilitate the livestreaming of group audiovisual performances. Audiovisual performances including vocal music are captured and coordinated with performances of other users in ways that can create compelling user and listener experiences. For example, in some cases or embodiments, duets with a host performer may be supported in a sing-with-the-artist style audiovisual livestream in which aspiring vocalists request or queue particular songs for a live radio show entertainment format. The developed techniques provide a communications latency-tolerant mechanism for synchronizing vocal performances captured at geographically-separated devices (e.g., at globally-distributed, but network-connected mobile phones or tablets or at audiovisual capture devices geographically separated from a live studio).

公开(公告)号：US20230007313A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-05

申请号：US17659644

申请日：2022-04-18

Applicant: SMULE, INC.

Inventor： Anton Holmberg ,  Benjamin Hersh ,  Jeannie Yang ,  Yuning Woo ,  Wang Liang ,  Perry R. Cook ,  Jeffrey C. Smith

IPC: H04N21/2187 ,  H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/43 ,  H04L65/75

Abstract: Techniques have been developed to facilitate the livestreaming of group audiovisual performances. Audiovisual performances including vocal music are captured and coordinated with performances of other users in ways that can create compelling user and listener experiences. For example, in some cases or embodiments, duets with a host performer may be supported in a sing-with-the-artist style audiovisual livestream in which aspiring vocalists request or queue particular songs for a live radio show entertainment format. The developed techniques provide a communications latency-tolerant mechanism for synchronizing vocal performances captured at geographically-separated devices (e.g., at globally-distributed, but network-connected mobile phones or tablets or at audiovisual capture devices geographically separated from a live studio).

公开(公告)号：US20210055905A1

公开(公告)日：2021-02-25

申请号：US16947943

申请日：2020-08-25

Applicant: SMULE, INC.

Inventor： Jon Moldover ,  David Steinwedel ,  Jeffrey C. Smith ,  Perry R. Cook

IPC: G06F3/16 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G10L25/51 ,  G10L25/90 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G06F3/0488

Abstract: User interface techniques provide user vocalists with mechanisms for solo audiovisual capture and for seeding subsequent performances by other users (e.g., joiners). Audiovisual capture may be against a full-length work or seed spanning much or all of a pre-existing audio (or audiovisual) work and in some cases may mix, to seed further contributions of one or more joiners, a user's captured media content for at least some portions of the audio (or audiovisual) work. A short seed or short segment may span less than all (and in some cases, much less than all) of the audio (or audiovisual) work. For example, a verse, chorus, refrain, hook or other limited “chunk” of an audio (or audiovisual) work may constitute a short seed or short segment. Computational techniques are described that allow a system to automatically identify suitable short seeds or short segments. After audiovisual capture against the short seed or short segment, a resulting, solo or group, full-length or short-form performance may be posted, livestreamed, or otherwise disseminated in a social network.

公开(公告)号：US20190355337A1

公开(公告)日：2019-11-21

申请号：US16418659

申请日：2019-05-21

Applicant: SMULE, INC.

Inventor： David Steinwedel ,  Andrea Slobodien ,  Jeffrey C. Smith ,  Perry R. Cook

IPC: G10H1/36 ,  H04N21/439 ,  H04N21/4402 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/43

Abstract: User interface techniques provide user vocalists with mechanisms for forward and backward traversal of audiovisual content, including pitch cues, waveform- or envelope-type performance timelines, lyrics and/or other temporally-synchronized content at record-time, during edits, and/or in playback. Recapture of selected performance portions, coordination of group parts, and overdubbing may all be facilitated. Direct scrolling to arbitrary points in the performance timeline, lyrics, pitch cues and other temporally-synchronized content allows user to conveniently move through a capture or audiovisual edit session. In some cases, a user vocalist may be guided through the performance timeline, lyrics, pitch cues and other temporally-synchronized content in correspondence with group part information such as in a guided short-form capture for a duet. A scrubber allows user vocalists to conveniently move forward and backward through the temporally-synchronized content.

公开(公告)号：USD844665S1

公开(公告)日：2019-04-02

申请号：US29600452

申请日：2017-04-12

Applicant: SMULE, INC.

Designer： Charles Espeleta ,  Jeannie Yang ,  Oscar Corral ,  Jonathan Moody ,  Ran Xie ,  Jeffrey C. Smith ,  Robert Hamilton

公开(公告)号：US20180288467A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-04

申请号：US15944537

申请日：2018-04-03

Applicant: SMULE, INC.

Inventor： Anton Holmberg ,  Benjamin Hersh ,  Jeannie Yang ,  Perry R. Cook ,  Jeffrey C. Smith

IPC: H04N21/43 ,  H04N21/4788 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: Techniques have been developed to facilitate the livestreaming of group audiovisual performances. Audiovisual performances including vocal music are captured and coordinated with performances of other users in ways that can create compelling user and listener experiences. For example, in some cases or embodiments, duets with a host performer may be supported in a sing-with-the-artist style audiovisual livestream in which aspiring vocalists request or queue particular songs for a live radio show entertainment format. The developed techniques provide a communications latency-tolerant mechanism for synchronizing vocal performances captured at geographically-separated devices (e.g., at globally-distributed, but network-connected mobile phones or tablets or at audiovisual capture devices geographically separated from a live studio).

公开(公告)号：US20180151161A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-31

申请号：US15667372

申请日：2017-08-02

Applicant: SMULE, INC.

Inventor： Charles Espeleta ,  Jeannie Yang ,  Perry R. Cook ,  Oscar Corral ,  Jonathan Moody ,  Ran Xie ,  Jeffrey C. Smith ,  Dean Schaffer

IPC: G10H1/00 ,  G10H1/32 ,  G10H1/36

CPC classification number: G10H1/0016 ,  G10H1/32 ,  G10H1/361 ,  G10H1/368 ,  G10H2210/091 ,  G10H2210/555 ,  G10H2210/571 ,  G10H2220/096 ,  G10H2220/151 ,  G10H2220/161 ,  G10H2220/201 ,  G10H2240/075 ,  G10H2240/175

Abstract: Advanced, but user-friendly composition and editing environments for musical scores may be provided using the types, and in some cases the instances, of computing devices that will in turn consume musical score content so generated. Indeed, by integrating musical composition facilities within synthetic musical instruments that can be widely deployed on hand-held or portable computing devices, a social music network that includes such synthetic musical instruments gains access to a large, and potentially prolific, population of authors, editors and reviewers, as well as to the community-sourced musical scores that they can generate. By curating such content and/or by applying crowd-sourcing or other computational techniques to maintain quality, a social music network may rapidly deploy the new and ever evolving content that its user community desires.

公开(公告)号：US09620095B1

公开(公告)日：2017-04-11

申请号：US14797695

申请日：2015-07-13

Applicant: Smule, Inc.

Inventor： Robert Hamilton ,  Amanda S. Chaudhary ,  Ari Lazier ,  Jeffrey C. Smith

IPC: G10H1/40 ,  G10H1/36

CPC classification number: G10H1/368 ,  G10H1/38 ,  G10H1/40 ,  G10H2210/061 ,  G10H2210/091 ,  G10H2210/391 ,  G10H2220/015 ,  G10H2220/096 ,  G10H2220/135 ,  G10H2220/151 ,  G10H2220/355 ,  G10H2230/015

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. In some cases, synthetic musical instruments can provide a game, grading or instructional mode in which one or more qualities of a user's performance are assessed relative to a musical score. By constantly adapting to such modes to actual performance characteristics and, in some cases, to the level of a given user musician's skill, user interactions with synthetic musical instruments can be made more engaging and may capture user interest and economic opportunities (e.g., for in-app purchase and/or social networking) over generally longer periods of time.

公开(公告)号：US11310538B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-19

申请号：US16443022

申请日：2019-06-17

Applicant: SMULE, INC.

Inventor： Anton Holmberg ,  Benjamin Hersh ,  Jeannie Yang ,  Yuning Woo ,  Wang Liang ,  Perry R. Cook ,  Jeffrey C. Smith

IPC: H04N21/2187 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04N21/233 ,  H04L65/60

Abstract: Techniques have been developed to facilitate the livestreaming of group audiovisual performances. Audiovisual performances including vocal music are captured and coordinated with performances of other users in ways that can create compelling user and listener experiences. For example, in some cases or embodiments, duets with a host performer may be supported in a sing-with-the-artist style audiovisual livestream in which aspiring vocalists request or queue particular songs for a live radio show entertainment format. The developed techniques provide a communications latency-tolerant mechanism for synchronizing vocal performances captured at geographically-separated devices (e.g., at globally-distributed, but network-connected mobile phones or tablets or at audiovisual capture devices geographically separated from a live studio).