Peter Andrew Thomson

US Patent:

20230075074, Mar 9, 2023

Filed:

Sep 9, 2022

Appl. No.:

17/930933

Inventors:

- Stockholm, SE
Youn Jin KIM - Brooklyn NY, US
Peter Milan Thomson SOBOT - Brooklyn NY, US
Angus William SACKFIELD - Brooklyn NY, US

Assignee:

Spotify AB - Stockholm

International Classification:

G10H 1/00

Abstract:

A system, method and computer product for combining audio tracks. In one example embodiment herein, the method comprises determining at least one music track that is musically compatible with a base music track, aligning those tracks in time, and combining the tracks. In one example embodiment herein, the tracks may be music tracks of different songs, the base music track can be an instrumental accompaniment track, and the at least one music track can be a vocal track. Also in one example embodiment herein, the determining is based on musical characteristics associated with at least one of the tracks, such as an acoustic feature vector distance between tracks, a likelihood of at least one track including a vocal component, a tempo, or musical key. Also, determining of musical compatibility can include determining at least one of a vertical musical compatibility or a horizontal musical compatibility among tracks.

US Patent:

20210097966, Apr 1, 2021

Filed:

Aug 10, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/989644

Inventors:

- Stockholm, SE
David Samuel RUBINSTEIN - New York NY, US
Peter Milan Thomson SOBOT - Brooklyn NY, US

International Classification:

G10H 1/26
H04S 1/00
G06F 16/683

Abstract:

An electronic device modifies a first media content item by superimposing a first set of data over a first accented musical event. The first accented musical event has a first audio profile. The first set of data has a second audio profile configured to be masked by the first audio profile during playback of the first media content item. The electronic device transmits, to a second electronic device, the modified first media content item.