How the Codentity AI (artificial intelligence) solution works its magic
Internally, the Codentity specification—
AUTOMATIC CALCULATION OF DIGITAL MEDIA CONTENT DURATIONS OPTIMIZED FOR OVERLAPPING OR ADJOINED TRANSITIONS
—is informally referenced as the "Content Durations" patent.
This nickname highlights a key foundational element of the invention, which is the recognition of a need to explicitly declare that in the timeline (in other words, the playing interval) of almost every digital audio file, there are at least two types of content:
• The desirable creative segment, and
• An extraneous appended section, most generally, heard as 2 to 4 seconds of silence
The objective of any competent automatic (meaning not executed by a human operator) music transition mixing design is to:
• Reproduce, in its entirety, the creative content segment at expected audio levels, and
• Not reproduce or include any portion of the audio file that does not form an essential or vital part of the creator's intent
[The creative content portion is defined as the section of any musical or spoken word digital audio reproduction file that the creator wants the listener to enjoy and at its expected sound volume...
...and it does not include any appended silence or low audio level "trailing" effect heard during, for example, a fade-to-zero style ending.]
In Simple Terms
Licensed marketplace embodiments of the Codentity patent technology can vary, but broadly speaking, this page provides one workflow example. *
Codentity’s patented AI Transition Technology (AITT) emulates human-operator decision making—as if, for instance...
...a music DJ (meaning an operator / engineer) was listening to a first independent audio file and, not wishing to allow a period of silence or abnormally low levels, cognitively determining when to best begin playing a second independent audio file...
...based on his or her foreknowledge or assessment that a first audio file was ending and how it was concluding—whether as a "fade out" OR a "cold" (abrupt) sound design style.
In real time, and with almost zero CPU overhead, Codentity AITT automatically calculates, stores, and assigns:
1- the optimal duration timing for the creative content portion of each discrete (independent) digital audio file (the moment it begins playing) and
(Optionally, with awareness of the ending style of the creative content portion of any first independent audio file, AITT can suitably modify its timing calculation before it is assigned.)
with the file's calculated creative content duration interval assigned to a programmatic timing object, AITT can
2- Recognize that the creative content duration interval assigned to a first audio file has expired, and then execute a command to the system to begin rendering the creative content portion of a second audio file, and further
3- When requested by the user (or with a playlist that has not been exhausted), subsequent (that is succeeding) audio files can be reproduced as synchronized interoperations (meaning mixing transitions) in the process explained here for the first and second files.
Codentity AITT instructions can be case sensitive so that transitions can be implemented as either naturally overlapped or, when appropriate, tightly abutted to conform with listener expectations and the sound designer’s intent.
*The simplified explanation of the Codentity LLC patent methodology is a condensed representation. It is not meant to replace the actual language of the granted patent; the limitations of which are solely determined by the metes and bounds of the patent (US 9,286,942).
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