US Patent Issued to Snap on Jan. 13 for "Neural networks for accompaniment extraction from songs" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,497, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Neural networks for accompaniment extraction from songs" was invented by Gurunandan Krishnan Gorumkonda (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A messaging system that extracts accompaniment portions from songs. Methods of accompaniment extraction from songs includes receiving an input song that includes a vocal portion and an accompaniment portion, transforming the input song to an input image, where the input image represents the frequencies and intensities of the input song, processing the input image using a convolutional neural network (CNN) to ge...