公开(公告)号：US20230353812A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-02

申请号：US18152045

申请日：2023-01-09

Applicant: SMULE, INC.

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

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

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

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：US11693616B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-04

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

CPC classification number: G06F3/16 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G10L25/51 ,  G10L25/90 ,  G06F2203/04808

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：US11683536B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-20

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

CPC classification number: H04N21/2187 ,  H04L65/762 ,  H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/43076

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：US20220030056A1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-27

申请号：US17303769

申请日：2021-06-07

Applicant: SMULE, INC.

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

IPC: H04L29/08 ,  G06F3/16

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：US20190306540A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-03

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 ,  H04N21/233 ,  H04L29/06

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：US10339906B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-02

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: A63H5/00 ,  G04B13/00 ,  G10H1/00 ,  G10H1/32 ,  G10H1/36

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：USD844667S1

公开(公告)日：2019-04-02

申请号：US29600456

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：USD844664S1

公开(公告)日：2019-04-02

申请号：US29600446

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：US09754571B2

公开(公告)日：2017-09-05

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: G10H1/02 ,  G10H1/36 ,  G10L21/013 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G10L21/0356

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.

公开(公告)号：US09082380B1

公开(公告)日：2015-07-14

申请号：US13664939

申请日：2012-10-31

Applicant: Smule, Inc.

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

IPC: G09B15/00 ,  G09B15/02 ,  G10H1/00 ,  G10H7/00

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.

Abstract translation: 尽管移动设备平台和应用程序的实际限制，真正迷人的乐器可能会以允许音乐表现性能被实时捕获和渲染的方式进行合成。 在某些情况下，合成乐器可以提供游戏，分级或教学模式，其中相对于乐谱评估用户表现的一个或多个质量。 通过不断适应这种模式，实际的演奏特征，在某些情况下，对于给定用户音乐家的技能水平，用户与合成乐器的交互可以更具吸引力，并且可以捕获用户的兴趣和经济机会（例如， -app购买和/或社交网络）在一般较长的时间段内。