US Patent Issued to SMULE on May 20 for "Audio-visual effects system for augmentation of captured performance based on content thereof" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,005, issued on May 20, was assigned to SMULE INC. (San Francisco).

"Audio-visual effects system for augmentation of captured performance based on content thereof" was invented by David Steinwedel (San Francisco), Perry R. Cook (Jacksonville, Ore.), Paul T. Chi (San Jose, Calif.), Wei Zhou (San Francisco), Jon Moldover (San Francisco), Anton Holmberg (San Francisco) and Jingxi Li (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Visual effects schedules are applied to audiovisual performances with differing visual effects applied in correspondence with differing elements of musical structure. Segmentation techniques applied to one or more...