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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120067195 | EDUCATIONAL METHOD AND APPARATUS TO SIMULTANEOUSLY TEACH READING AND COMPOSING MUSIC A method and apparatus for composing and teaching of music while learning to read music is provided that involves a user following a supported sequence of tasks that guide creativity of the user to construct a musical composition. The musical composition is constructed ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120042766 | Musical Instructional Player A segmented, interactive audio-visual content progress bar and method of use whose divisions provide an information and instructional index of performance content. The progress bar provides a time linear segmentation of a user component of a performance content and a so... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20110283869 | System and Method for a Simplified Musical Instrument A system and method is described for a novel, simplified electronic musical instrument. By combining a simplified user input controller with a musical instrument synthesizer, a new simple to learn musical instrument is created allowing anyone to perform music without ma... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110259178 | Machine and method for teaching music and piano A system for teaching music with input and output devices, musical representations presented on vertically and horizontally oriented musical staffs, output responsive to selective application of input data, confirmation of propriety of input choice, and scrolling presen... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110239845 | MUSICAL SCORE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND PROGRAM FOR REALIZING MUSICAL SCORE DISPLAY METHOD There is provided a musical score display apparatus which can display a musical score at multiple levels ranging from a partial part to all parts and can display a comment relating to the displayed musical score based on the creation date and time, and a program for rea... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110214554 | MUSICAL SCORE POSITION ESTIMATING APPARATUS, MUSICAL SCORE POSITION ESTIMATING METHOD, AND MUSICAL SCORE POSITION ESTIMATING PROGRAM A musical score position estimating apparatus includes a sound feature quantity generating unit configured to generate a feature quantity of an input sound signal, and, a score position estimating unit configured to calculate a weight coefficient based on the feature qu... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110185880 | Music Teaching Tool for Steel Pan and Drum Players and Associated Methods A steel drum teaching tool includes a circular base divided into twelve radial sectors and three concentric rings, defining 36 note elements. An adjacent note name in a first radial direction is separated by an interval of a fifth, and an adjacent note name in a second ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110154976 | DEVICE FOR PROVIDING AND ANALYZING MUSICAL DATA The present invention relates to a device for providing and analyzing musical data that includes a rectangular base A engaging with two cursors B and C, the base and the cursors having musical data thereon that relate to notes, scales, tonalities, intervals and chords, ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110036231 | MUSICAL SCORE POSITION ESTIMATING DEVICE, MUSICAL SCORE POSITION ESTIMATING METHOD, AND MUSICAL SCORE POSITION ESTIMATING ROBOT A musical score position estimating device includes an audio signal acquiring unit, a musical score information acquiring unit acquiring musical score information corresponding to an audio signal acquired by the audio signal acquiring unit, an audio signal feature extra... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20100313736 | System and method for learning music in a computer game A system comprising means for receiving a first input from an electronic device, said first input pertaining to performance of music by a user, means for receiving a second input, said second input pertaining at least to music intended to be performed by the user; and a... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100313737 | MUSIC SCORE RECOGNITION METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREOF A music score recognition method and a system thereof are provided. In the present method, a music score is detected and at least one measure in the music score is obtained by searching bar lines, so as to plan a recognition order according to the position of each measu... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100288104 | MUSICAL CONTROLLER Specially designed for relating musical sounds to the conventional way of writing on a staff and vice versa, the controller is formed by a casing which is flat, cylindrical or some other shape, on which a staff is depicted, with, in the areas of the staff corresponding ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100236381 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MUSICAL SCORE EDITING METHOD EXECUTED THEREON, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM An image processing apparatus that processes image data representing a musical score inputs image data of a musical score document to the image processing apparatus, detects a blank area in the musical score based on the input image data, and generates image data in whi... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100236382 | Footprint Indication Kit for Percussion Instruments Embodiments are disclosed that relate to facilitating the reproducible placement of percussive instruments, such as drums, relative to one another. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a footprint indication kit for percussion instruments. The footprint indica... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100180751 | MUSICAL GUIDE FOR GUITARS A musical guide and method for guitar playing includes providing a musical guide including a series of scales, chords or notes in the form of a temporary tattoo or sticker. The tattoo or sticker may be placed on the forearm of the user. As such, the user can match the s... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100162875 | Steel Pan Tablature System and Associated Methods A tablature system for representing a series of notes to be played on a steel pan/drum having concentric rings of note pads is provided, wherein each note pad is for producing a distinct musical pitch. The tablature includes a staff having three horizontal lines positio... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100131086 | SOUND SOURCE SEPARATION SYSTEM, SOUND SOURCE SEPARATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SOUND SOURCE SEPARATION An audio signal produced by playing a plurality of musical instruments is separated into sound sources according to respective instrument sounds. Each time a separation process is performed, the updated model parameter estimation/storage section 114 estimates par... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100077905 | INSTRUCTIONAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PIANO OR OTHER MUSICAL KEYBOARD An instructional device and associated method for illustrating the positions of keys and their associated notes on a keyboard are provided. The instructional device includes key markers that are adjustably mounted on a support structure in a configuration corresponding ... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20090293704 | MUSIC EDUCATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE A Music Education System including at least one staff coupled to at least one markable and erasable piece of material, which attracts magnetic surfaces, comprising at least one magnetic surface; and coupleable to a markerboard; at least one musical notation placed on th... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090277321 | PORTABLE INTERFACE DEVICE AND SYSTEM INCORPORATING SUCH DEVICE The present invention relates to a portable interface device (10) and to a system incorporating the device. Embodiments include a music tuition system comprising an electronic digital data processing unit (12) capable of accessing a store of electronic mus... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090255396 | SELF-ADJUSTING MUSIC SCROLLING SYSTEM A system for automatically adjusting a music score comprises a display screen and a music scrolling system configured to perform the steps of selecting a music score, the music score being cataloged and stored in a music score database as a first MIDI file, displaying a... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090217803 | Electronic musical score display device An electronic musical score display device comprises an electronic display panel displaying at least one page of musical score data; a manipulator that will transmit a page turn signal wirelessly, generated from a pressure contact such as the pressing of a foot; and a m... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090120267 | METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING A LIGHT DISPLAY FOR A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT A light display that is mountable on a musical instrument is provided such that musical indicators are visible through the light display housing when illuminated by a light source but otherwise remains opaque or not visible.... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090114079 | Virtual Reality Composer Platform System A virtual reality composer platform and system (VRCPS) includes a plurality of user input/output devices and signal input/output controllers interfaced to a central processing unit complete with plurality of memory means, a butterfly morpheus musical instrument with plu... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090095144 | Musical score recognition device and computer program thereof The part template including information that is necessary to set after the image of the musical score read out by the scanner is recognized, is stored beforehand, and the part template corresponding to the read out musical score by the scanner is selected from a plurali... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090031881 | Zinistesia: An Apparatus And Method For Teaching, Writing, And Reading Music A system and method of identifying the parts and components of a musical work, where analysis and time dedicated to studying are combined in a color based system which uses multicolor musical scores to indicate specific components of the musical work. Each of the compon... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090025535 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPRESENTING MUSICAL NOTES IN AN OCTAVE TO THE VISIBLE LIGHT SPECTRUM AND METHOD THEREFOR A method of graphically representing the musical notes in an octave in parallel to the visible light spectrum, by means of one or more color codes comprising colors in a spectrally sequential order and repeating the code throughout the different octaves, and a series of... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090019989 | Electronic Manual Display Apparatus and Method In a memory, there are stored one or more scripts including commands for controlling an electronic music apparatus, and display data for displaying a manual pertaining to the electronic music apparatus. The display data include information associating particular descrip... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20080314228 | Interactive tool and appertaining method for creating a graphical music display The invention provides apparatus and a method for creating a visual representation of music that conveys the musical form, structure, event surface, orchestration, and sonic framework of the piece being visualized. The representation comprises visual characters/sprites ... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080307946 | BRAILLE MUSIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS Methods and systems for converting digital music scores to Braille, and vice versa and for creating Braille and digital music scores directly from music keyboard entry. The system and methods are embodied in computer programs which can extract note data from a digital s... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080307945 | Device and Method for Generating a Note Signal and Device and Method for Outputting an Output Signal Indicating a Pitch Class A device for generating a note signal upon a manual input is described which comprises an operating means which is implemented to enable a user of the same, as an input, to define an input angle or an input angle range as the input signal, and a controller which is impl... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080289477 | MUSIC COMPOSITION SYSTEM AND METHOD A system, program code, and method for music composition, comprising: displaying a composition object according to a first value, wherein the first value includes a musical event; displaying a first and second indicator, wherein the first and second indicator describes ... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080276790 | System and method for sound recognition The present disclosure relates to sound and speech recognition devices and methods. A system is provided that utilizes a system of tonal and rhythmic visualization methods to recognize different sounds so as to accurately identify true security problems in a cost effect... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080271591 | System and method for musical instruction The present disclosure relates to music instruction devices and methods. A system is provided which allows a user to more intuitively understand music theory and performance. The system also streamlines composition and arrangement in multi-instrument environments. The u... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080271589 | Method and apparatus for editing and mixing sound recordings The present disclosure relates to audio mixing and editing devices and methods. A system is provided that permits mixing of and editing of multiple input audio tracks through the use of visual representation of audio signals. By viewing the visual representations of the... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080264238 | Musical instrument tuning method and apparatus The present disclosure relates to musical instruments and devices. A system is provided which utilizes tonal visualization components incorporating color and/or shape to allow a person to “see” a note or group of notes sounded by an instrument to determine whether t... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080264241 | System and method for music composition The present disclosure relates to music composition devices and methods. A system is provided which allows composers of all skill levels to easily create music that is pleasurable to the ear. The system may also assist more advanced composers in creating complex musical... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080264239 | Archiving of environmental sounds using visualization components The present disclosure relates to sound recognition devices and methods. A system is provided that utilizes a system of tonal and rhythmic visualization methods to recognize different environmental sounds so as to accurately identify certain species of wildlife and othe... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080249982 | Audio search system The present invention relates to systems and methods for identifying audio files. In particular, the present invention relates to systems and methods for identifying audio files (e.g., music files) with user-established search criteria. The systems and methods of the pr... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080127809 | Electronic display stand An electronic display stand includes a face panel and a single foot stand located on the bottom of the face panel. The face panel has a display screen located on the top surface and electronic control elements located inside that are electrically connected to the displa... | 06/05/2008 |
