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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2015
Applicant:
Light4sound, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventor:
Waleed Sami Haddad, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Light4Sound, San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 3/06 (2006.01); G10H 3/18 (2006.01); G10H 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 3/188 (2013.01); G10H 1/0083 (2013.01); G10H 3/06 (2013.01); G10H 3/181 (2013.01); G10H 3/18 (2013.01); G10H 2220/411 (2013.01); G10H 2240/311 (2013.01);
Abstract
A optoelectronic pickup for a musical instrument includes at least one light source which directs light to impinge a string of the musical instrument in at least one photoreceiver located to detect the reflected light, so as to generate an electrical signal that is responsive to string vibrations. A number of dissimilar filter approaches are included to control undesired effects of spurious light, the filter approaches may be structure-based, signal processing-based, and/or optics-based.