ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,367, issued on July 28, was assigned to Pinnacle 20 LLC (Cave Creek, Ariz.).
"Methods and systems for synchronizing lighting to music in real-time" was invented by Nikos Aristotle Lambesis (Cave Creek, Ariz.) and James Alexander Kaye (Phoenix).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for synchronizing lighting to music in real-time includes detecting beats in an audio stream of music, estimating a tempo of the music in the audio stream based on the detected beats, and triggering one or more lighting actions in response to the detected beats based on the estimated tempo. Beats may be detected by looping through a process for each of a p...