Mark Steven Godfrey

US Patent:

20200082802, Mar 12, 2020

Filed:

Apr 15, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/384273

Inventors:

- San Francisco CA, US
Mark T. Godfrey - San Francisco CA, US
Ian S. Simon - San Francisco CA, US
Jeannie Yang - San Francisco CA, US
Michael W. Allen - San Carlos CA, US

International Classification:

G10H 1/36
G10L 21/00

Abstract:

An application that manipulates audio (or audiovisual) content, automated music creation technologies may be employed to generate new musical content using digital signal processing software hosted on handheld and/or server (or cloud-based) compute platforms to intelligently process and combine a set of audio content captured and submitted by users of modern mobile phones or other handheld compute platforms. The user-submitted recordings may contain speech, singing, musical instruments, or a wide variety of other sound sources, and the recordings may optionally be preprocessed by the handheld devices prior to submission.

US Patent:

20170024615, Jan 26, 2017

Filed:

Jul 21, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/215723

Inventors:

- San Carlos CA, US
Mark Godfrey - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Shred Video, Inc. - San Carlos CA

International Classification:

G06K 9/00
G10L 25/57
G10L 15/08
G10L 15/04
G11B 27/034
G11B 27/19

Abstract:

In accordance with an embodiment, a method is disclosed for detecting action in a video clip. An audio clip is extracted from the video clip. The audio clip is converted to an auditory spectrogram. The auditory spectrogram is used to construct a self-similarity matrix. The self-similarity matrix is then used to calculate a novelty curve. The clip is then segmented into segments according to peaks in the novelty curve. Each of segments is scored, and then classified as an action clip if the score is above or below a predetermined threshold. Related methods for folding a digitized song into a shorter version of itself and for sequencing a set of user-supplied video and photo clips to a user-supplied song are further disclosed.