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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 11, 2020
Applicant:

Smule, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Spencer Salazar, San Francisco, CA (US);

Rebecca A. Fiebrink, Timmins, CA;

Ge Wang, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Mattias Ljungstrom, Berlin, DE;

Jeffrey C. Smith, Atherton, CA (US);

Perry R. Cook, Jacksonville, OR (US);

Assignee:

Smule, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 1/36 (2006.01); G10H 1/02 (2006.01); G10L 21/013 (2013.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G10L 21/0356 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 1/366 (2013.01); G06F 3/165 (2013.01); G10H 1/368 (2013.01); G10L 21/013 (2013.01); G10L 21/0356 (2013.01); G10H 2210/251 (2013.01); G10H 2210/331 (2013.01); G10H 2220/011 (2013.01); G10H 2240/125 (2013.01); G10H 2240/175 (2013.01); G10H 2240/211 (2013.01); G10H 2240/251 (2013.01);
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.


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