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Continuous score-coded pitch correction

  • US 9,147,385 B2
  • Filed: 09/04/2010
  • Issued: 09/29/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • using a portable computing device for vocal performance capture, the portable computing device having a display, a microphone interface and a data communications interface;

    retrieving via the data communications interface both (i) lyrics and (ii) pitch correction settings, the retrieved lyrics and pitch correction settings respectively coding temporal correspondence of particular lyrics and of particular variations in pitch correction settings with particular points in a backing track;

    at the portable computing device, audibly rendering a first encoding of the backing track and concurrently presenting the lyrics on the display in accord with the temporal correspondence coding thereof;

    at the portable computing device, capturing and continuously pitch correcting a vocal performance of a user in accord with the coded temporal variations in pitch correction settings;

    mixing the pitch-corrected vocal performance into the audible rendering of the backing track at the portable computing device, wherein the resulting mixed performance includes the user'"'"'s own vocal performance captured in correspondence with the lyrics and backing track, but pitch-corrected in accord with the coded temporal variations in pitch correction settings;

    transmitting from the portable computing device to a remote device via the data communications interface, an audio encoding of the pitch-corrected vocal performance; and

    varying the pitch correction settings dynamically during the vocal performance capture in correspondence with user interface gestures by the user.

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