Category: Patents Rock

Rockin’ Design Patent: US Design Patent No. D349,127 Filed: 16 January 1992 In the name of: Paisley Park Entreprises Title: Portable, Electronic Keyboard Musical Instrument What’s claimed: ”The ornamental design for portable electronic keyboard musical instrument, as shown and described.” Why this design patent rocks: This design patent relates to the late artist Prince’s guitar-keyboard hybrid dubbed the “Purpleaxxe.” See here if you’re curious to know more about the ‘keytar’ and its appearances at Prince’s shows. If you’re a patent-savvy music tech business looking for patent help, get in touch with Russell IP here! The information above is for general interest and […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 10,839,008 Filed: 26 January 2018 In the name of: Sync Floor, Inc Title: System And Method For Natural Language Music Search What’s claimed: ”A computerized method for generating search results from a natural language description of music, the method comprising: generating an annotated input identifying spans of the natural language description of music and corresponding valence categorizations selected from a set of valence levels; translating the annotated input to generate corresponding musical features of a music description and categorization schema; generating a feature map associating the musical features with corresponding ones of the valence categorizations; generating […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 9,812,107 Filed: 12 February 2016 In the name of: Artiphon Inc  Title: Ergonomic Electronic Musical Instrument With Pseudo-strings What’s claimed: ”A musical device comprising: a body having a plurality of triggers and ergonomic features correlating to at least two-stringed instruments that are played using different playing techniques, the ergonomic features further comprising a neck having an underside, the underside having a smaller neck outline inset from a larger neck outline, wherein the smaller neck outline provides a thumb-rest that approximates the width of violin’s neck and the larger neck outline approximates the width of a […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 9,841,942 Filed: 22 February 2016 In the name of: Powerchord Group Limited Title: Method Of Augmenting An Audio Content What’s claimed: ”A method of augmenting an ambiently experienced audio content, the method comprising: recording an acoustic audio signal from the ambiently experienced audio content using a microphone; receiving a wireless signal comprising a first audio signal and a second audio signal, the wireless signal received using a first wireless communication system, wherein the first audio signal comprises sound that is also audible within the ambiently experienced audio content and the second audio signal comprises sound […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 7,974,838 Filed: 3 March 2008 In the name of: iZotope Inc Title: System And Method For Pitch Adjusting Vocals What’s claimed: ”A method performed by a processor, comprising: receiving a first audio signal; extracting a vocal signal from the first audio signal; receiving a second audio signal; determining a pitch for the second audio signal; determining a pitch for the extracted vocal signal by limiting a pitch detection range based on the determined pitch of the second audio signal; and adjusting the pitch of the second audio signal based on a difference between the determined pitch […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 4,048,895 Filed: 12 October 1976 In the name of: Randall L. May Title: Adjustable Pitch Drum What’s claimed: ”An adjustable musical drum assembly comprising, a cylindrical drum shell having an open end, a supporting spider having a fixed support with a threaded opening therein substantially axial of said drum shell, said spider having a plurality of outwardly extending supporting legs having rebent outer end portions fitting over the open end of said drum shell, a drum hoop positioned around the rebent end portions of said spider supporting legs and securing the same on said drum shell, […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 7,680,788 Filed: 8 August 2003 In the name of: Concert Technology Corp Title: Music Search Engine What’s claimed: ”A method for encoding music for searching, the method comprising the steps of: generating a database of a plurality of songs; assigning an index value for each note of at least a portion of each of a plurality of songs in the song database; generating a difference sequence by calculating a difference of the index values between successive notes of each of the plurality of songs; inputting a sequence of notes; assigning an index value for each note […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 10,002,604 Filed: 14 November 2013 In the name of: Yamaha Corporation Title: Voice Synthesizing Method And Voice Synthesizing Apparatus What’s claimed: ”A voice synthesizing method comprising: a first receiving step of receiving first utterance control information generated on detecting a start of a manipulation on an input device by a user, wherein the start of the manipulation is an initial interaction with the input device by the user; a first synthesizing step of synthesizing and outputting, in accordance with a timing of the reception of the first utterance control information, a first voice including a […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 10,757,499 Filed: 25 September 2019 In the name of: Sonos Inc Title: Systems And Methods For Controlling Playback And Other Features Of A Wireless Headphone What’s claimed: “A wireless headphone with user controls, the headphone comprising: a left earcup comprising a left speaker driver and a left earcup housing; and a right earcup comprising a right speaker driver and a right earcup housing; a processor; a microphone; user controls comprising: a voice assistant activator control; a volume slider; a play control slider; a play-pause control; non-volatile memory containing instructions that when executed direct the processor to: […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 8,521,316 Filed: 31 March 2010 In the name of: Apple Inc Title: Coordinated Group Musical Experience What’s claimed: “A method, comprising; receiving information at a first personal communication device from a second personal communication device, the information including an indication of a shared music characteristic of a first music content privately playing on the second personal communication device, the first music content included in a first music item selected for playing from a plurality of first music items stored in the second personal communication device; selecting at least a second music item from a second […]