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- 5327521 - Walt Disney - Speech Transform System (C-code)
- 5504833 -
- 5900570 - Creaive - FM Synth
- 5963907 - Yamaha - Voice converter
- 5892830 - SRS Labs
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- 5665931 - Kawai - Formant
- 5712439 - Yamaha
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- 5287785 - Brass
- 5750912 - Emule voice
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- 6064996 - Evolutionary controlling system with behavioral simulation
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- 5488589 - nnet 3d ocean modeler
Source localization using a non-traditional three-dimensional ocean modeler
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- 5524173 - France Telecom - Puckette
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- 5578779 - ESS
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- 5276272 - Wind instrument simulating apparatus
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- 3878749 - walsh function organ
- 5903232 - Mot - SRC
- 5473759 - Apple - Correlograms
- 6035271 -
- 5835605 - Yahama - Exhaust sound engine
- 4622877 - Karplus - Sound synthesis
- 5911170 - TI - ARMA 10th order
- 5276272 - Wind instrument simulating apparatus
- 5998723 - Apparatus for forming musical tones using impulse response signals
and method of generating musical tones
- 4924744 - Apparatus for generating sound through low frequency and noise
modulation
- wo98/32223 -
5256830 - Musical tone synthesizing apparatus
5103711 - Casio can PSO/GA optimise this ?
5826232 - Sextant Avionique - Method for voice analysis and synthesis using
wavelets
5247474 - reverb
5195141 - audio EQ
6069309 -
5442128 - general music organ
5828812 - Recurrent neural network-based fuzzy logic system and method
5606646 -
5416847 - Walt Disney - Multi-band, digital audio noise filter (DSP56k asm)
9500568 -
5644677 - Mot - Signal processing system for performing real-time pitch
shifting and method therefor (DSP56k asm)
5756919 - Korg - Musical sound generating system including pseudo-sinusoidal
wave operator
5903480 - neoMagic - 4 Allpass audio effect
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4658370 -
5741994 - coupling WGs app for PSO/GA to optimise ?
4821223 - 2D FIR
- 5369725 - Pionneer - Pitch
- 5522010 - Pionneer - Pitch
- 4369336 - Eventide - Pitch
- 4464784 - Eventide - Pitch
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- 4700391 - VCS - Pitch
- 6049766 - Creative Labs - Pitch
- 6046395 - IVL - Pitch
- 5768393 - 3D
- 4736663
- 5506795 - Yamakawa - Apparutus and Method for Generating Chaotic Signals and
Chaos Device
- 4611522
- 5198604
- 5031132 - Dolazza - Circuit for convolving a set of digital data
- 4909121
- 6410838 - Non linear
- 6421637 - kawai
5432856
3986423 - Oberheim
4185531
5315621 - Seimens - Adaptive nonrecursive digital filter and method for
forming filter coefficients therefor
5502663
des 428887
6421446
6195434
5500900
5371799
5744742
6111183
5597970
5451707
5559300
2001/0039872
5452951
5862232
6218971
5768126
6327648
5751616 - conv check
6331893
6259759
5159565
- 2001/0003945
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- 6405230 - Sony filter
- 5747714 - multi-dsp piano
- 5166464
- 5528726 - Cook
- 5559300 - Yamaha -
- 5243658
- 5230649 - Duck call
- 5559301 - Korg
- 4038859 - Analog Electronics Wind Instrument (1977)
- 5524060
- 5392448 - Real-time operating system and virtual digital signal
processor for the control of a computer
- 5283900 - Real-time operating system and virtual digital signal
processor for the control of a digital signal processor
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- 5313013 - Yamaha flute wg
- 5221803 - kawai
- 5945620 - Allen Organ
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- 4350073 - Hybrid pipe organ
- 6125187 - Sony - Howling Eliminating Apparatus
- 5951628 - Method and system for performing a convolution operation (LOG)
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- 6111181 - TI ... lots of maths
- 6745156 - Petroleum exploration and prediction apparatus and method
6729337 - Method and system for generating sensory data onto the human
neural cortex
- 6665560 - Sleep disconnect safety override for direct human-computer
neural interfaces for the control of computer controlled functions
- 6662032 - Interventive-diagnostic device
- 6584357 - Method and system for forming an acoustic signal from neural
timing difference data
- 6546378 - Signal interpretation engine
- 6536440 - Method and system for generating sensory data onto the human
neural cortex
- 6487817 - Electronic device to detect and direct biological
microvariations in a living organism
- 6135944 - Method of inducing harmonious states of being
- RE36348 - Method and apparatus for changing brain wave frequency
- 5857939 - Exercise device with audible electronic monitor
- 5743744 - Method and apparatus for measuring and enhancing neuro-motor
coordination
- 5692517 - Brain-body actuated system
- 5667470 - Apparatus and method for using listener feedback to determine
the nature of sound stimuli presented to the listener
- 5662117 - Biofeedback methods and controls
- 5638826 - Communication method and system using brain waves for
multidimensional control
- 5566678 - Digital EEG noise synthesizer
- 5529498 - Method and apparatus for measuring and enhancing neuro-motor
coordination
- 5474082 - Brain-body actuated system
- 5465729 - Method and apparatus for biofeedback
- 5406957 - Electroencephalic neurofeedback apparatus for training and
tracking of cognitive states
- 5377100 - Method of encouraging attention by correlating video game
difficulty with attention level
- 5356368 - Method of and apparatus for inducing desired states of
consciousness
- 5343871 - Method and apparatus for biofeedback
- 5311877 - Waking degree maintaining apparatus
- 5289438 - Method and system for altering consciousness
- 5267942 - Method for influencing physiological processes through
physiologically interactive stimuli
- 5137501 - Process and device for supporting fitness training by means of
music
- 5076281 - Device and method for effecting rhythmic body activity
- 5036858 - Method and apparatus for changing brain wave frequency
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- 6452083 - Incremental sequence completion system and method
(DAB)
- 6449204 - Sony - Rhythm feature extractor
- 6424959 - Koza - Automatic synthesis, placement and
routine of complex structures
- 2002/0134222 - Music sound synthis with waveform with
caching by prediction
- 6365816 - Rossum - Digital sampling instrument
employing cache memory
- 6298322 - Lindemann - Encoding and synthesis of tonal
audio signals using dominant sinusoids and a vector-quantized residual tonal
signal
- 6239345 - Laroche - Optimal Looping for wavetable
synthesis
- 6198035 - Kawai - Musical sound signal generation
apparatus
- 6078669 - Euphonics
- 6073100 - Method and apparatus for synthesizing signals using
transform-domain match-output extension
- 6002080 - Electronic wind instrument capable of diversified performance expression
- 5956685 - Arcadia inc. - Sound characteristic
converter, sound label association apparatus and method therefor
- 5867813 - Method and apparatus for automatically and
reproducibly rating the transmission quality of a speech transmission system
- 5806024 - NEC - Coding of a speech or music signal
with quantization of harmonics components specifically and then residue
components
- 5793644 - LSI logic - Cell placement alteration
apparatus
- 5787387 - Voxware, Inc - Harmonic adaptive speech
coding method and system
- 5774837 - Voxware, Inc - Speech coding system and
method using voicing probability determination
- 5745586 - Matsushita - Sound quality control system
- 5744743 - Pedal resonance effect simulation device
for digital pianos
- 5641929 - Kawai - Apparatus for and method of
generating musical tones
- 5543580 - Yamaha - Tone synthesizer
- 5425497 - Cup holder
- 5029509 - Serra Smith - Musical synthesizer combining
deterministic and stochastic waveforms
- 4649783 - Karplus - wavetable-modification instrument
and method for generating musical sound
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- 4377960 - Electronic musical instrument of waveform
memory reading type
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Applications
- 2001/0026502
- 2001/0093161
Misc.
- Professor Steven Errede (UIUC, USA)
Physics of music course syllabus
Energy-Efficient Detection in Sensor Networks
Swaroop Appadwedula, Venugopal V. Veeravalli, and Douglas L. Jones
IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS
http://tesla.csl.uiuc.edu/~vvv/papers/journal/eedd.pdf
- Manual of patent examining procedure (8th
ed., Feb 2003 revision)
United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2003, Washington, DC
www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/index.html
(accessed May 2003).
- Juridical point of view on patents
If you want something official ask a lawyer. I am NOT a lawyer... But, my
understanding is that it's basically up to the particular patent holder to
decide how/if/when to enforce it, some possibilities are:
- Have a published and administered patent licensing policy with fees and
litigate moderately to ensure people license your technology. (eg
Fraunhoffer MP3 licensing).
- Openly require licensing but require individual negotiation for licensing.
Litigate when necessary. If a small company holds patents and tries to
enforce them it may have limited resources to negotiate licensing and to
litigate. Thus you may find youself in a position where the company doesn't
have time to license the tech to small players, _nor_ the interest/resources
to litigate. Of course situations can change over time...
- Make no noise about your patents until someone worth sueing is making a
lot of money from the technology. There are a few variations on this theme
including: Suddenly wake up and realise that you have a patent which covers
a widely used technology (.gif), go after a single player (Xerox vs. Palm
handwriting recognition), or aquire the patent from someone else, often a
dubious patent, then see who you can sue.
- Use patents to attack direct competitors or selected
companies/individuals, ignore other violations. "Attack" could
result in killing the company, swapping of patents, total takeover,
financial or other settlements. Here the patent acts as a bargaining chip
between relatively "equal" parties (think MS, Sun, IBM for
example).
- Rabidly seek to gag any person (whether commercial or non-commercial) who
appears to be using technology related to your patent. This might happen if
you consider your patent to be extremely central to your business (eg Lake
RT Convolution patent).
- Ignore all violations for the time being, because your legal department is
too busy with more lucrative IP. Do one of the above later when/if you have
time. (Some universities might be in this situation because there are many
departments generating IP but only one Legal department). There might be
other scenarios too.
Best wishes
Ross.
- There are three big rules for a patent:
- It
must be novel.
- It must not be obvious to "the practitioner skilled in the art"
within the given domain.
- It must do something 'useful'
The first point will depend on prior art:
patents, publications, etc. Remember that novel applies to the entire
invention. Components of the invention might be well known, but the
invention combines them in a new way. The second point is typically
addressed by referring to the instructional literature. If it is in a
textbook or otherwise commonly known then it can not be patented. If,
however, we assume for the moment that addition had not yet been discovered
then it is obviously not obvious. ;-) In addition (oh, I'm on a roll...look
out!), one can take a commonly known technique (see above), or set of
techniques and apply them in a novel way. This was done by LakeDSP (or so
their lawyers argue) for their 0 latency convolving patent. The third issue
is up to the author of the patent. He must convince the patent examiner that
the invention is somehow useful. This is not very difficult. I've yet to see
any patent get bounced because the examiner felt 'Gee, this device is not
useful.'
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