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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7697703 | Digital mixer apparatus While an AUX-bus selecting operator is being operated beyond a predetermined time period, displays of channel-ON operators, normally indicating ON/OFF states of corresponding input channels, indicate ON/OFF states of signal delivery from the input channels to the AU... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7608774 | Performance guide apparatus and program Two-dimensional display section is provided near a keyboard, and, in accordance with performance data, this display section is caused to effect a dynamic display moving, in a given two-dimensional trajectory, from a first display position corresponding to a key to b... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7600609 | Sound-absorbing panel and production method of the same In order to provide a sound-absorbing panel and a production method of the same which has excellent freedom of design and have small differences in the maximum sound-absorbing coefficients among products, a sound-absorbing panel is adopted which is characterized by ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7589270 | Musical content utilizing apparatus A musical content utilizing apparatus has a data input portion B11, transformation process portion B13 and utilization process portion B15 implemented via programmed processes. The data input portion B11 inputs musical content data compri... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7573793 | Power determining method in optical disk recording apparatus having a plurality of pickups A method is designed for determining optimum power values of optical beams emitted from a plurality of optical pickups provided in an optical disk recording apparatus. In the method, a first step is performed for performing test recording of data by use of the plura... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7547833 | Key driving apparatus and keyboard musical instrument A key driving apparatus for driving a key may include, but is not limited to, a first elastically deformable unit. The first elastically deformable unit is configured to receive a first control voltage. The first elastically deformable unit is configured to show ela... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7450971 | Telecommunication terminal apparatus A CPU 10 operates in response to an instruction for starting reproduction of a melody to read out tone color data and tempo data included in selected musical composition data from a RAM 11 or a ROM 12, and transfer the readout data to a musical ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450678 | Asynchronous signal input apparatus and sampling frequency conversion apparatus In an asynchronous data input apparatus, a writing section writes data successively into a FIFO buffer memory at an variable input rate so that the data are accumulated in the FIFO buffer memory. A reading section reads the accumulated data successively from the FIF... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7390958 | Method for teaching music One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for teaching music to one or more students. The instructor's manual operation of a musical instrument controls in real-time the illumination of guide lamps on each student's musical instrument. This allows ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7390956 | Automatic player musical instrument, noise suppressor incorporated therein, method used therein and computer program for the method Black/white keys are selectively moved by key actuators energized with a driving signal in a playback mode, and plunger sensors, which are provided inside of the key actuators, report the measured values of the keystroke to a motion controlling section; since the me... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7390954 | Electronic musical apparatus system, server-side electronic musical apparatus and client-side electronic musical apparatus A plurality of client-side electronic musical apparatuses 10 are connected to a server-side electronic musical apparatus 30 through a communications network 50. Each of the client-side electronic musical apparatuses 10, which is provided ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392101 | Multi-track digital recording/reproducing apparatus and method, multi-track digital recording/reproducing program There are provided multi-track recording/reproducing apparatus and method and a multi-track recording/reproducing program, which enable flexible setting of the number of reproducing tracks and that of recording tracks and also facilitates the setting. At least one t... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392103 | Audio signal processing device In an audio signal processing device which processes audio signals and outputs the audio signals, on the recalling setting data representing a setting status of the device, protection setting defining a group which is not recalled at the time of recalling the settin... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7390959 | Tone control device and program for electronic wind instrument A tone control device applied to an electronic wind instrument realizes an octave-changeover-blowing technique in which the same note is produced with different octaves respectively by use of the same fingering state, thus increasing controllable ranges with regard ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7385132 | Electronic music apparatus and music-related data display method There are provided a first storage section that stores text files each including at least text data, and a second storage section that stores registration data including predetermined performance environment setting information and text file selection information sp... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385129 | Music reproducing system The reproducing of the MP3 part is started from a first reproducing start position that is positioned prior to a second pointed reproducing start position. In this case, this MP3 part is mute-reproduced in a period that extends from the first reproducing start posit... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7365259 | Keyboard apparatus A keyboard apparatus is including a plurality of keys and a plurality of mass members provided under the respective keys to be pivotably supported on a keyboard frame being a support member, each of the mass members extends along a longitudinal direction of the key ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365260 | Apparatus and method for reproducing voice in synchronism with music piece Music piece sequence data are composed of a plurality of event data which include performance event data and user event data designed for linking a voice to progression of a music piece. A plurality of voice data files are stored in a memory separately from the musi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362339 | Image processing method and apparatus Image processing is performed on a plurality of layers including at least one line display layer or at least one sprite display layer, from which a plurality of attribute data regarding lines or sprites are sequentially read out so as to produce a plurality of displ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7361825 | Electronic keyboard instrument In an electronic keyboard instrument, each key moves from an initial position to a full stroke position via first, second, and third positions sequentially. A velocity detector detects a first key velocity of the key when the key moves from the first position to the... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7361824 | Method and device for storing main information with associated additional information incorporated therein To store main information with associated additional information incorporated therein, data constituting the additional information is divided into a plurality of small-size data pieces of, e.g., one bit. Then, the respective values of particular ones of predetermin... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7361827 | Transducer free from aged deterioration, musical instrument using the same and method used therein An electronic system, which serves as a recorder and an automatic player, is installed in an automatic player piano, and hammer sensors, which are implemented by photo couplers, report current hammer positions through analog signals to a data processor so that the d... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358430 | Strap attachment member An attachment member for a strap for a guitar includes a shaft-shaped member fixable inside a hole in a guitar body via an adhesive agent; and a holding member continuous with this shaft-shaped member which is positioned outside the hole. The shaft-shaped member inc... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359757 | Remote control method and apparatus, remote controller, and apparatus and system based on such remote control When a user gives a parameter storage instruction via a remote controller, current settings of parameters in an input switching circuit, surround circuit, graphic equalizer and electronic volume are stored into a non-volatile RAM. Then, once the user gives a reprodu... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356557 | Content distribution system; content distribution method; distribution server, client terminal, and portable terminal used in the system; and computer readable recording medium on which is recorded a program for operating a computer used in the system A user accesses a sound data distribution server by operating a client terminal. The sound data distribution server transmits data for displaying a list of distributable music. The data are displayed on a display unit of the client terminal. While referring to the d... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7348482 | Discriminator for differently modulated signals, method used therein, demodulator equipped therewith, method used therein, sound reproducing apparatus and method for reproducing original music data code A nibble stream containing MIDI music data words and synchronous nibbles and an external audio signal are selectively converted to an audio-frequency signal, which in turn is converted to a set of PCM codes for storing it in a compact disc; and the audio frequency s... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350156 | Audio signal editing apparatus and control method therefor Interlocking flag, indicating whether or not an interlocked display should be made, can be set in association with predetermined editing operators. When any of the operators is operated, a displayed screen on a display is switched over to a screen related to the ope... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348477 | Electronic keyboard musical instrument Casing of an electronic keyboard musical instrument includes two discrete parts: a main casing section; and a rear casing section. The main casing section includes a bottom plate having a keyboard section placed thereon, a keyslip portion extending upward from the b... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348481 | Cursor movement controlling apparatus for electronic musical apparatus A cursor movement controlling apparatus for an electronic musical apparatus comprises a display that displays a plurality of choices for controlling parameters of the electronic music apparatus, each of which is categorized into one of groups, and a cursor for selec... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7344256 | Projection type image display apparatus A DMD (digital micromirror device) includes a substantially rectangular element face made up of plural mirror elements arranged in a matrix. The DMD is provided with a light shielding cover having a light transmitting portion which corresponds to the element face. R... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7339863 | Method of recording information on optical disks at a recording density proportional to the actual information volume and disk nominal capacity A method is designed for recording contents information along a track of an optical disk of a writeable type. A volume detection step is carried out for detecting an actual volume of the contents information to be recorded into the optical disk. A capacity detection... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336186 | RFID tag-containing apparatus and RFID tag-containing seal An RFID tag-containing apparatus which is capable of alerting a user to leakage of information stored in RFID tags without tailoring the RFID tags. At least one container section is capable of containing at least one article. A receiver section receives information ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336293 | Scanning optical media 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... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336292 | Optical media label printing using different power levels 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... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332666 | Performance control system, performance control apparatus, performance control method, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program A performance control apparatus which can actually reproduce performance information without a long sounding blank time period being produced even if the performance information includes information indicative of a long sounding blank time period. Performance data m... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7332663 | Keyboard apparatus A key unit having a white key unit and a black key unit in which main bodies of a plurality of white keys and black keys, respectively, are coupled to respective common key support parts via coupling parts pivotably in a key depression direction is mounted on a keyb... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7332670 | Automatic player exactly bringing pedal to half point, musical instrument equipped therewith and method used therein An automatic player reenacts a music passage on an acoustic piano without any fingering of a human player; solenoid-operated key actuators and a solenoid-operated pedal actuator is provided for the keys and damper pedal; the automatic player makes the damper pedal t... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7329812 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument which has a fallboard unit whose dimension in the longitudinal direction of the instrument is not increased even when the fallboard unit contains a functional component part including electrical wiring. A cover unit has a front cover... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330442 | Communication apparatus managing other node and communication apparatus managed by other node A communication apparatus as a node of a communication network comprises a reading device that reads management information representing management status of a dominated node stored in the dominated node connected via the communication network, a writing device that... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330730 | Portable terminal A portable terminal (e.g., portable telephone) is constituted using a geomagnetic sensor for detecting an azimuth, and a GPS receiver for detecting a present position thereof. A direction of a prescribed place (e.g., Mecca) is calculated based on the azimuth informa... | 02/12/2008 |
