Category: Patents Rock

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 9,497,530 Filed: 13 May 2016 In the name of: Nura Holdings Pty Ltd Title: Personalization Of Auditory Stimulus What’s claimed: “Headphones configured to personalize an audio signal to a user, the headphones comprising: a speaker proximate to a user’s ear, configured to emit a content audio signal and a test audio signal, the test audio signal comprising a frequency in the audible frequency range; a microphone proximate to the user’s ear, the microphone configured to measure a response associated with the user, the response comprising a sound evoked in the user’s ear in response to […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 3,237,502  Filed: 11 May 1964 In the name of: Kimball International Inc Title: Stringed Musical Instrument What’s claimed: ”In a stringed musical instrument having a head, a body and an inter-connecting neck, and having a plurality of strings extending from said head along said neck to said body, the combination of: a manually adjustable anchor for said strings mounted on said body for simultaneously varying the tension in all said strings to produce a vibrato effect; and a bridge mounted on said body adjacent said anchor and over which said strings are stretched; said anchor including […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 4,018,121 Filed: 2 May 1975 In the name of: (The Board of Trustees of) Leland Stanford Junior University Title: Method Of Synthesizing A Musical Sound What’s claimed: “A method of synthesizing a musical sound composed of a plurality of component frequencies and characterized by a time-varying amplitude envelope having a time-varying attack portion, a substantially steady-state portion and a time-varying decay portion, the steps comprising, generating a signal ωc to define a carrier frequency in the audio range, generating a signal ωm to define a modulation frequency in the audio range, generating a signal I(t) to define a […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 9,224,377 Filed: 9 November 2012 In the name of: Fictitious Capital Limited Title: Computerized Percussion Instrument What’s claimed: “A musical instrument comprising an imager arranged to provide a series of two dimensional images of an operator of the musical instrument; a processor, coupled to the imager to receive the images, the processor configured to: store an indication of a size and/or position of a first marker in a first selected image of the series of two dimensional images; store an indication of a size and/or position of a second marker in the first selected image of […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 8,822,803 Filed: 11 September 2013 In the name of: Ableton AG Title: Dynamic Diatonic Instrument What’s claimed: “A musical instrument comprising buttons for playing notes comprising: buttons arranged in an isomorphic layout consisting of rows and columns; a layout format selector to select a layout from the group consisting of a diatonic layout of the buttons, wherein a certain diatonic scale in a certain key is selected and wherein each row consists of consecutive notes of said scale in said key, and a chromatic layout of the buttons, wherein each row consists of consecutive notes of […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 10,586,518 Filed: 19 March 2018 In the name of: Band Industries Inc Title: Automatic Tuning Methods And Systems What’s claimed: “An apparatus, comprising: a stringed musical instrument tuning device configured to adjust tension of a musical instrument string with a dynamic string tension adapting action rotationally applied to a tuning peg, the stringed musical instrument tuning device comprising: an actuator, adapted to releasably couple with a musical instrument tuning peg and radially displace the tuning peg about the tuning peg longitudinal axis of rotation; a sensor system, adapted to receive and transduce to electronic form […]

Rockin’ Patent: France Patent No. 3,075,428 Filed: 15 December 2017 In the name of: Enhancia Title: Ring And Interface Module What’s claimed: “System (S) comprising a ring (100) and a module (200), in which: ring (100) comprises an inertial unit (102) able to collect movement data, a processor (104), antenna (112) suitable for the interface module with a battery (122), and a first transmitting movement data (200); and the interface module (200) capable of receiving the data comprises a second antenna movement (212) (100), a processor (204), a means (122) of the ring (100), and a link suitable for movement data […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 10,068,557 Filed: 23 August 2017 In the name of: Google LLC Title: Generating Music With Deep Neural Networks What’s claimed: “A computer system to generate music, the computer system comprising: a machine-learned neural synthesizer model comprising an autoencoder model, the autoencoder model comprising an encoder neural network and a decoder neural network; wherein the encoder neural network is configured to receive an input audio waveform and, in response, provide an embedding descriptive of the input audio waveform; and wherein the decoder neural network is configured to receive the embedding and at least a portion of the […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 8,952,232 Filed: 14 January 2013 In the name of: PianoArc LLC Title: Circular Piano Keyboard What’s claimed: “A curved digital piano keyboard, comprising: a plurality of natural and accidental piano keys, the piano keys being in a single plane and collectively forming an inward-facing arc toward a central reference point, wherein a size of the piano keys conforms generally to a conventional dimension of natural and accidental piano keys at least at a play location of the respective keys; a key action mechanism configured to return each piano key to an original position after being depressed […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 2,563,477 Filed: 1 May 1948 In the name of: Constant Martin (inventor) Title: Electronic Musical Instrument  What’s claimed: “In an electronic musical instrument in combination with an oscillator unit, a tube-coupling unit, a filter unit, an amplifier unit and a loud-speaker mounted in sequence from the output of said oscillator, said oscillator unit comprising a first tube and a second tube having its grid coupled through a capacity with the anode of said first tube and having its anode coupled through a resistance with the grid of said first tube, variable grid-resistance means for said second […]