Michael Wagner Brook

20110230246, Sep 22, 2011

Mar 15, 2011

13/048235

Michael Helman Brook - Palo Alto CA, US
Lun-Shin Yuen - Palo Alto CA, US

A63F 9/24

463 9

A social networking word game that features a set of letters generated randomly from a list of player-associated names or themed words, with letter values determined by the ordinal position of the letter in the name or word, wherein the player is presented with a set of these randomly generated letters and corresponding values and must within a given time limit and a given point system, assemble the highest scoring single word or words. Each player's unique game content may in turn be used to generate new instances of the game. The game can be played as part of a community of players, where each player's unique sub-community is managed by a server, which handles player-to-player challenges and the presentation of game instances. The client side collects game data, the server side processes this data, and then makes it available to the community at large.

60181184, Jan 25, 2000

Apr 7, 1998

9/056354

Geoffrey M. Smith - Palo Alto CA
Mark H. Goldstein - Menlo Park CA
John W. Eichenseer - San Francisco CA
Michael B. Brook - Los Angeles CA
Robert L. Adams - Stanford CA

Interval Research Corporation - Palo Alto CA

G10H 700

84600

A signal mapping system maps sensor signals into control signals that control the operation of a music synthesizer. A "one to many" mapping technique is used, allowing at least some of the sensor signals to each be mapped into numerous music synthesizer control signals. Physical gestures by a user are mapped into a large set of music synthesizer control signals, some of which continuously vary in value as the user moves through the gestures. Signal mapping functions are used to map the sensor signals into note number and velocity values for at least one voice to be generated by the music synthesizer. The note number and velocity values are sent to the music synthesizer as note-on events when predefined note-on and note-off trigger conditions, defined with respect to specified ones of the sensor signals, are satisfied. Other ones of the signal mapping functions are used to generate asynchronous control signals that are sent to the music synthesizer independent of the note-on and note-off events. A third set of signal mapping functions are used to generate the trigger signals for determining when note-on and note-off events are to be sent to the music synthesizer.

60051817, Dec 21, 1999

Apr 7, 1998

9/056388

Robert L. Adams - Stanford CA
Michael Brook - Los Angeles CA
John Eichenseer - San Francisco CA
Mark Goldstein - Menlo Park CA
Geoff Smith - Palo Alto CA

Interval Research Corporation - Palo Alto CA

G10H 314

84734

A control instrument for a system for generating acoustic output which includes a processor for receiving user input signals and control the acoustic output in response to the user input signals. The control instrument includes an instrument body, and at least one sensor element carried by the instrument body. The sensor element generates user input signals upon tactile actuation of the sensor element by a user. The user input signals indicate the location of contact and amount of force applied to the sensor element by the user. A music synthesis system and a sound processing system each including the control instrument are also provided.