Granted Patent B2

US 12,243,437 · App. 17/561,772 · Granted Mar 4, 2025

Inventors: Eran Aharonson (Tel Aviv, IL); Oded Zewi (Tel Aviv, IL); Yoav Biderman (Tel Aviv, IL); Yariv Bandiel (Tel Aviv, IL); Yuval Kaminka (Tel Aviv, IL); Saggi David Messer (Tel Aviv, IL); Or Yotvat Gafni (Tel Aviv, IL); Anatoli Tsinovoy (Tel Aviv, IL)

Assignee: Simply Ltd.

G09B15/00G10L25/51G10L25/90

Abstract

Claims (84)

1. A method for determining an Input/Output (I/O) device configuration of an I/O device, the configuration comprising microphone configuration, speaker configuration, or both, for use with a music teaching system, the method comprising:

a) receiving model information about a given I/O device;

b) receiving an initial I/O device configuration of the given I/O device, the device configuration comprising at least microphone configuration, speaker configuration, or both; and

c) receiving system usage characteristics of the given I/O device for the initial I/O device sound capturing configuration;

d) receiving, information about a plurality of I/O devices of the same model as the given I/O device, wherein the received information comprises respective I/O device sound capturing configurations, associated system usage characteristics and scores;

e) receiving an input indicative of background music (BGM) to be output by the I/O device;

f) while providing the BGM output: capturing through at least one microphone of the I/O device, sound of an instrument played by a user;

g) processing sound data relating to the captured sound;

determining, based on the received information about the plurality of I/O devices, and further based on the selected background music (BGM) and the processing of the sound data, whether the initial I/O device configuration for the given I/O Device is to be updated to obtain an updated I/O device configuration,

wherein for the updated configuration, one of the following is improved:

instrument sound recognition by the I/O device; or

composite sound quality comprising the BGM output and the instrument sound;

or both.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising updating the initial configuration of the given I/O device to obtain the updated configuration.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the updated I/O device configuration improves a performance score of one or more performance parameter values.

4. A method for determining an Input/Output (I/O) device configuration for a music teaching system, wherein the I/O device configuration comprises a speaker configuration, a microphone configuration, or both, the method comprising;

receiving from at least one first music teaching system used by at least one first user for at least one first environmental parameter:

at least one first sound capturing-configuration for I/O devices of the at least one first music teaching system;

at least one first score indicative of at least one first user experience and information about the at least one first environmental parameter; and

information about the at least one first environmental parameter;

receiving from at least one second music teaching system used by at least one second user in a at least one second environmental parameter:

at least one second configuration for I/O devices of the at least one second music teaching system;

at least one second score indicative of at least one second user experience and information about the at least one second environmental parameter; and

information about the at least one second environmental parameter; and

upon at least one third user initiating a music learning session with at least one third music teaching system having an initial configuration in at least one third environmental parameter:

receiving a third input indicative of a third background music (BGM) to be output by the I/O device and, while providing the third BGM output:

capturing through at least one microphone of the I/O device, a third sound of a third instrument played by the third user; and

processing third sound data relating to the third captured sound

determining, based on the at least one first score and the at least one second score and further based on the third BGM and the processing of the third sound data, at least one third configuration to be applied to the at least one third music teaching system for at least one third environmental parameter;

wherein for the at least one third configuration of the music teaching system, under the at least one third environmental parameter, the following is improved:

instrument sound recognition by the I/O device; or

composite sound quality comprising the BGM output and the instrument sound;

or both; and

transmitting the at least one third configuration to the at least one third music teaching system, such that the at least one third music teaching system can apply the at least one third configuration.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising providing the at least one first configuration to the at least one second music teaching system, and wherein the second configuration is updated by the at least one second music teaching system using the at least one first configuration as an initial configuration.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising introducing changes to the at least one first configuration by the at least one second music teaching system, thereby obtaining the at least one second configuration.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the at least one second configuration is determined using A/B testing.

8. The method of claim 4 , wherein the at least one first configuration or the at least one second configuration is determined in accordance with a score calculated upon a parameter relating to one or more of the following:

signal to noise ratio of a captured audio signal;

signal to noise ratio of the captured audio signal in certain frequencies or frequency ranges;

recognition rate of the audio signal captured during the at least one first user or the at least one second user playing a piece of music;

sound quality of the captured audio signal;

success rate of the at least one first user or the at least one second user in playing the piece of music;

time required for the at least one first user or the at least one second user to complete a playing task relative to a duration of the piece of music;

a monetary event taken by a user consequent playing the piece of music; and

user rate.

9. A system configured to determine an Input/Output (I/O) device configuration for a music teaching system, wherein the I/O device configuration comprises a speaker configuration, a microphone configuration, or both, the method comprising:

a memory configured to store data and software instructions, and

a processor which, when executing the software instructions, allows the execution of the following steps:

receiving model information about the given I/O device;

receiving an initial I/O device configuration of the given I/O device;

receiving system usage characteristics of the given I/O device for the initial I/O device configuration,

receiving an input indicative of background music (BGM) to be output by the given I/O device;

while providing the BGM output: capturing through at least one microphone of the given I/O device, sound of an instrument played by a user;

processing sound data relating to the captured sound; and

receiving, information about a plurality of I/O devices of the same model as the given I/O device, wherein the received information comprises respective I/O device configurations, associated system usage characteristics and scores;

determining, based on the received information about the plurality of I/O devices, and further based on the selected background music (BGM) and the processing of the sound data, whether the initial I/O device configuration of the given I/O Device is to be updated to obtain an updated I/O device configuration

wherein for the updated configuration, one of the following is improved:

instrument sound recognition by the I/O device; or

composite sound quality comprising the BGM output and the instrument sound;

or both.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the device configuration pertains to signal processing performed by the device.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the initial I/O device configuration are default I/O device sound capturing-configurations.

12. The system of claim 9 , wherein the updated I/O device configuration improves a performance score of one or more performance parameter values.

13. The system of claim 9 , wherein the determining of the updated I/O device configuration is executed such to improve device performance in accordance with a performance target function.

14. The system of claim 9 , wherein at least one user associates a performance score to at least two of the plurality of received I/O device configurations.

15. The system of claim 9 , wherein a performance score is assigned automatically to at least two of the plurality of received I/O device configurations based on a target function.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the updated I/O device configuration is determined based on the score associated to the at least two of the plurality of received I/O device configurations.

17. A system for determining an Input/Output (I/O) device configuration for use with a music teaching system, wherein the I/O device configuration comprises a speaker configuration, a microphone configuration, or both, the method comprising

a memory configured to store data and software instructions, and

a processor which, when executing the software instructions, causes the execution of the following steps:

receiving from at least one first music teaching system used by at least one first user in at least one first environmental parameter, at least one first configuration for I/O devices of the at least one first music teaching system along with at least one first score indicative of at least one first user experience;

receiving from at least one second music teaching system used by at least one second user in a second environmental parameter, at least one second configuration for I/O devices of the at least one second music teaching system;

upon at least one third user initiating a music learning session with at least one third music teaching system having an initial sound configuration:

receiving an input indicative of background music (BGM) to be output by a selected I/O device;

while providing the BGM output: capturing through at least one microphone of the selected I/O device, sound of an instrument played by a user;

processing sound data relating to the captured sound; and

determining, based on the at least one first and the at least one second score and further based on the selected background music (BGM) and the processing of the sound data, at least one third configuration to be applied to the at least one third music teaching system; and

transmitting the at least one third configuration to the at least one third music teaching system, such that the at least one third music teaching system can apply the at least one third configuration to the selected I/O device, wherein for the at least one third configuration of the music teaching system

one of the following is achieved for the selected I/O device:

improved instrument sound recognition by the selected I/O device; or

improved composite sound quality comprising the BGM output and the instrument sound;

or both

wherein a device configuration comprises at least microphone configuration, speaker configuration, or both.

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