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System and method for capture and rendering of performance on synthetic musical instrument

  • US 8,222,507 B1
  • Filed: 11/04/2009
  • Issued: 07/17/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • using a portable computing device as a musical instrument, the portable computing device having a multi-sensor user-machine interface, wherein the musical instrument is a synthetic wind instrument and the multi-sensor user-machine interface includes a microphone and a multi-touch sensitive display;

    capturing user gestures from data sampled from plural of the multiple sensors, the user gestures indicative of user manipulation of controls of the musical instrument;

    encoding a gesture stream for a performance of the user by parameterizing at least a subset of events captured from the plural sensors; and

    audibly rendering the performance on the portable computing device using the encoded gesture stream as an input to a digital synthesis of the musical instrument executing on the portable computing device.

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