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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7464034 | Voice converter for assimilation by frame synthesis with temporal alignment A voice converting apparatus is constructed for converting an input voice into an output voice according to a target voice. The apparatus includes a storage section, an analyzing section including a characteristic analyzer, a producing section, a synthesizing sectio... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463740 | Sound data processing apparatus for simulating acoustic space A data processing apparatus is designed for simulating an acoustic characteristic of an acoustic space which contains a sound source for generating a sound and a sound receiving point for receiving the sound. In the apparatus, each of a plurality of characteristic c... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7456352 | System of electronic musical instrument and mobile wireless terminal set An electronic musical instrument is constructed to treat music information associated to music tones, and can be coupled to a mobile wireless terminal set communicable with a public communication network. In the electronic musical instrument, a main block processes ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7455440 | Electronic device, panel structure thereof and method of mounting indicator therein A panel of an electronic device on which an indicator is mounted is provided with an insertion hole therethrough. The indicator is composed of a light guide with one end surface exposed to a front surface side of the panel and another end surface projecting to a rea... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454258 | Digital mixing system, engine apparatus, console apparatus, digital mixing method, engine apparatus control method, console apparatus control method, and programs executing these control methods A digital mixing system is provided in which a console section and an engine section that executes signal processing can operate consistently in accordance with control signals input to the console section and the engine section. The digital mixing system has a plur... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7451330 | Portable appliance, power saving method and sound volume compensating method, and storage medium There are provided a mobile device that is equipped with a musical composition-reproducing section and capable of curtailing the battery drain as much as possible, and a mobile device that prevents the quality of reproduced musical tones from being degraded even if ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450728 | Parameter control method and program therefor, and parameter setting apparatus Non-linear functions to be used for automatically varying current values of parameters to be set, independently of each other, are prepared in corresponding relation to a plurality of parameter setting operator members, such as faders of a mixer. In response to an a... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450449 | Semiconductor memory device and its test method A test circuit is connected to a memory core integrated unit of SRAM. When the memory core integrated unit is to be tested, a test start signal is set to a high level so that one of a bit line and an inverted bit line is used for data write and the test circuit sets... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7449948 | Amplifier PWM signals having different polarities input from a +IN terminal and a −IN terminal are output to a pre-driver and a switching signal generation circuit. The pre-driver outputs to switches a gate signal for actuating a driver obtained from the input PWM signal. T... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7447137 | Method and apparatus for controlling power during recording of a visible image in an optical storage medium A controlling unit 130 of an optical disc recording apparatus judges a failure of a focus servo in accordance with an output signal of a servo circuit 107. When a failure of the focus servo is detected, a laser light irradiating position at the time of... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7446792 | Method and apparatus for forming visible image on optical disk An optical disk has inner and outer information areas respectively in inner and outer portions thereof in each of which a groove is formed at a predetermined width. A planar mirror surface is provided without forming a groove, in an area lying between the areas. Whe... | 11/04/2008 |
| D579914 | Combined speaker and amplifier | 11/04/2008 |
| 7443806 | Communication management apparatus and method for an audio data communication management system A communication management system is consisted of a plurality of apparatuses connected to a network. Each apparatus comprises: a transmitter that transmits first setting information representing all setting status of own apparatus to the other apparatuses connected ... | 10/28/2008 |
| D579441 | Combined speaker and amplifier | 10/28/2008 |
| 7439980 | Image processing method and apparatus In image processing adapted to a display apparatus using a plurality of line buffers for storing data regarding dots aligned on scanning lines on the screen, when a line having a prescribed width and a prescribed length is drawn on the screen, a line drawing range i... | 10/21/2008 |
| RE40543 | Method and device for automatic music composition employing music template information For each section forming a music piece, music template information is supplied which includes at least information indicative of a pitch variation tendency in the section. A plurality of already-composed music pieces are preferably analyzed to store a plurality of p... | 10/21/2008 |
| D579040 | Electronic piano | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439436 | Main case body of musical keyboard instrument A main case body of a musical instrument, which is capable of securing a degree of freedom of design. A case structure includes a lower front case, a lower rear case, and an upper case. The lower front case has a keyboard unit mounted therein. A bottom part extends ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436420 | System and method for controlling a tracking servo during label printing A visible light characteristic changing layer formed from photosensitive or heat-sensitive material is formed in a location which can be viewed from a part of a label surface of an optical disk. The optical disk is set on a turntable of an optical disk unit while th... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436254 | Class D amplifier A D class amplifier of the invention generates a carrier signal Pct based on a master clock Φp without jitter, which is supplied to a PWM circuit. Using a digital PLL including a phase comparator, a loop filter and a carrier oscillator, the generated carrier signal... | 10/14/2008 |
| D578545 | Combined music player and pulse meter | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436971 | Mixing signal-path setting apparatus and program One or more input channels are selected from among a plurality of input channels, and signals of the selected one or more input channels are mixed into a first output channel. A particular input channel to be excluded from the plurality of input channels is set as d... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433846 | Method of embedding permanent identification code into musical apparatus A method is designed for embedding an identification code into a musical apparatus which is allotted a serial number. The method is carried out by the steps of accepting an input of the serial number by a user of the musical apparatus, applying a specific operation ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433745 | Digital mixing system with dual consoles and cascade engines A method is designed for controlling a total mixing system including a first mixing system and a second mixing system, which are operated in a linked manner. In the method, the first mixing system stores first scene data specifying contents of a mixing process match... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7432435 | Tone synthesis apparatus and method Dynamics value is acquired intermittently at predetermined time periods, and a waveform data set for a sustain tone, corresponding to the acquired dynamics value, is specified from among waveform data sets stored in a memory. To generate a tone waveform while switch... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7432429 | Pedaling aid for handicapped musician A pedaling aid is combined with an acoustic piano, and assists a physically handicapped person in performing a piece of music on the acoustic piano; the pedaling aid includes a human interface, a pedal actuator and a controller, and the pedal actuator is equipped wi... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7432430 | Musical instrument, music data producer incorporated therein and method for exactly discriminating hammer motion In an automatic player piano, hammer sensors monitor associated hammers so as to report current positions on the hammer trajectories, and a data processor analyzes the hammer motion for producing pieces of music data representative of the performance on the acoustic... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430564 | Performance information reproducing apparatus and method and performance information reproducing program There is provided a performance information reproducing apparatus that is capable of realizing desired synchronized reproduction of a plurality of types of data, such as music and images with ease. An external storage device stores a musical tone data file, in which... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430298 | Sound field controller A sound field controller including a plurality of output channels for respectively supplying signals to a plurality of speakers, includes: a weighting-coefficient outputting unit which outputs weighting coefficients for determining how the signals on the plurality o... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430454 | Multi-track digital recording and reproducing apparatus A multi-track digital recording/reproducing apparatus for recording/reproducing multi-track digital audio data, comprises: a multi-track recorder that records/reproduces digital audio data to/from a plurality of recording tracks; a mixing bus that selectively inputs... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7427723 | Keyboard apparatus A keyboard apparatus constructed to be capable of reducing the depth size thereof and permitting a key unit to be mounted to a key frame with a simple operation. Hinges are extended downward from rear ends of black key main bodies of a black key unit in the vertical... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428534 | Information retrieval system and information retrieval method using network Client is supplied in advance with a storage medium that has stored therein a pseudo display program, identical or similar to at least a portion of a display program of a Web site for selling or distributing products or information, along with URL information. The c... | 09/23/2008 |
| D577057 | Electronic piano | 09/16/2008 |
| 7425672 | Exterior structure for keyboard instrument An exterior structure for a keyboard instrument, which is capable of dramatically increasing the variation of producible types of keyboard instruments while suppressing the cost of molds. A lower case includes a front-side lower case LCf and a rear-side lower case L... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424430 | Tone generator of wave table type with voice synthesis capability A sound source apparatus has a plurality of tone forming parts for outputting either of desired tones or formants according to designation of a wave table sound source mode or a voice synthesizing mode, such that the tone forming parts generate the tones in the wave... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423950 | Apparatus for forming an image on an optical disk An optical disk apparatus for forming an image on an optical disk according to dot data which defines density of dots of the image, the optical disk apparatus includes: a framing unit which makes a frame data by grouping a plurality of unit data, wherein when the do... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420113 | Rendition style determination apparatus and method On the basis of performance event information, at least two notes to be sounded in succession or in an overlapping relation to each other are detected, and a tone pitch difference between the detected at least two notes is detected. Tone pitch difference limitation ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7420115 | Memory access controller for musical sound generating system In an access controller provided for a musical sound signal generating system, a signal generating section operates when a readout of wave data of one block stored in a working memory is completed in a sound channel, for supplying a next waveform request signal to a... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7420116 | Music data modifier for music data expressing delicate nuance, musical instrument equipped with the music data modifier and music system A music data modifier receives pieces of original music data from a master hybrid piano, and partially modifies the pieces of original music data to pieces of modified music data for a slave hybrid piano; each piece of original music data contains a series of values... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7416773 | Sound absorbing body In order to provide a sound-absorbing body which has both a thin thickness and improved sound-absorption characteristics with regard to a low tone range sounds, the sound-absorbing body (1) includes: an organic hybrid sheet (2) constituted from an orga... | 08/26/2008 |
