Jason S Booth

US Patent:

20110257771, Oct 20, 2011

Filed:

Mar 16, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/049742

Inventors:

Bryn Bennett - Somerville MA, US
Jason D. Booth - Upton MA, US
Sylvain Dubrofsky - Somerville MA, US

Assignee:

Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. - Cambridge MA

International Classification:

G06F 19/00

US Classification:

700 92

Abstract:

The invention provides scoring a performance of a guitar part in a rhythm-action game. It operates in the context of a video game platform in communication with a display and a controller and involves receiving an input performance from the controller including at least one input chord note, each input chord note including an input string value corresponding to a struck string and an input fret value associated with the input string value. Then, a reference performance is provided, which includes at least two reference chord notes to be input at a target time, each reference chord note including a reference string value and a reference fret value associated with the reference string value. Then, a degree of matching is determined between the input performance and the reference performance, and a score is assigned to the input performance based on the degree of matching.

US Patent:

20160290864, Oct 6, 2016

Filed:

Jan 22, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/003891

Inventors:

- Wilmington MA, US
Jason Booth - Boxford MA, US
Claude Robotham - North Reading MA, US
Federico Izzia - Burlington MA, US

International Classification:

G01J 3/02

Abstract:

This invention relates to a system and method to improve the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of optical spectrometers that are limited by nonrandom or fixed pattern noise. A signal from a sample is collected using a short test exposure, a total observation time to maximize SNR is calculated, and the total observation time is achieved by averaging multiple exposures whose time is selected based on the time dependent noise structure of the detector. Moreover, with a priori knowledge of the time dependent noise structure of the spectrometer, this method is easily automatable and can maximize SNR for a spectrum of an unknown compound without any user input.