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| 20120048097 | MUSIC SOUND GENERATION APPARATUS, MUSIC SOUND GENERATION SYSTEM, AND MUSIC SOUND GENERATION METHOD A music sound generation apparatus generates music-sound data based on sound source data, and outputs the music-sound data in synchronization with audio data obtained separately from the music-sound data. A channel assigner assigns a predetermined number of channels to ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120024128 | PERFORMANCE APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT A performance apparatus 11 extends in its longitudinal direction to be held by a player with his or her hand, and is provided with an acceleration sensor 23 for detecting an acceleration sensor value and an angular rate sensor 22 for detecting an an... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120017749 | TONE GENERATION CONTROL APPARATUS A tone generation apparatus detects a position of a mouthpiece section having been pressed by a human player holding the mouthpiece section in his or her mouth. The tone generation apparatus identifies a tone pitch on the basis of the detected position and human player'... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120006181 | PERFORMANCE APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT A performance apparatus 11 is provided with a first acceleration sensor 22 at its head portion and a second acceleration sensor 23 at its base portion. CPU 21 determines operation of the performance apparatus 11 during a period from th... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110309136 | System and method for retail store automation Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for playing music at a cash register and for performing price scanning. A method for playing music at a cash register includes, for each item scan, selecting a note from a set of s... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110174137 | TONE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND METHOD Watermark information indicative of content of music piece performance data to be reproduced in synchronism with a first audio signal is embedded into the first audio signal, and the resultant signal is acquired as a second audio signal. In parallel to the above-mention... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110017048 | DROP TUNE SYSTEM A tuning device receives the electrical output of an instrument that reflects sound at a first tone level. The tuning device digitizes electrical output. The user has switches operable to generate control signals that are processed to effect a bypass of the device or to... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100307320 | FLEXIBLE MUSIC COMPOSITION ENGINE An apparatus, method and system for generating music in real time are provided. A pipeline for coordinating generation of a musical piece is created. At least one producer is loaded into the pipeline, the at least one producer for producing at least one high level music... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100236383 | Living organism controlled music generating system A music synthesising system wherein the musical output is responsive to the normal activities of a living organism. In one example, electrical activity within the cells of a living plant is used to trigger and modulate a music synthesiser. In another example, the moveme... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100107855 | System and methods for the creation and performance of enriched musical composition A System and method for the creation and performance of enriched musical composition. One aspect of the invention allows a composer to associate content with one or more triggers, and to define behavior characteristics that control the functioning of each trigger. Anoth... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100102939 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING FINGER MOVEMENT BASED MUSICAL TONE GENERATION AND RELATED METHODS An electronic device may include a finger biometric sensor and an audio output transducer. The electronic device may further include a controller cooperating with the finger biometric sensor for determining at least one biometric characteristic of a user's finger. The c... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100043625 | MUSICAL COMPOSITION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A GENERATION OF A MUSICAL COMPOSITION A musical composition system, includes a plurality of tokens (5-7) of visibly distinct types, each representing aspects of at least a fragment of a musical composition, wherein the tokens are configured for placement by at least one user in a spatial confi... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20090301286 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT An electronic musical instrument includes a keyboard having a plurality of keys, a top board located in the rear of the keyboard and having a space for placing external equipment, a music stand that is erected on the top board, and a plurality of connection terminals th... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090260504 | AUTOMATIC AUDIO PLAYING DEVICE The automatic audio playing device mainly contains a hollow body member, a control unit housed inside the body member, a plug member and a speaker as integral parts of the body member, an adaptor, and a remote controller. The control unit has a radio reception circuit f... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090199697 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, DEVICES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING MUSIC RECOMMENDATION TREKKING An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided to allow a user to generate a playlist in a game-like manner. A starting song and a target song may be initially selected. The computer system recommends a plurality of songs based on the starting song. The ... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090193565 | Harmony hat The Harmony Hat is a musical instrument which greatly improves the portability of an electronic musical instrument by: (1) integrating the keyboard surfaces into the visor of a hat; and (2) deploying a portable battery supply so as to eliminate any need for alternating ... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090123998 | Signature encoding sequence for genetic preservation The present invention describes a method for fabrication of nucleic acid-based medium for storage of socially valuable information. This medium offers the possibility of simple and efficient reproduction of the information and cm be used for preserving information over ... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090114080 | VOICE SIGNAL BLOCKER, TALK ASSISTING SYSTEM USING THE SAME AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME A talk assisting system has a vibration sensor for detecting tones produced through a musical instrument and a signal interrupter connected between a microphone and a sound system; while a player is fingering a music tune on the musical instrument, pieces of vibration d... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090044685 | ENSEMBLE SYSTEM An electronic musical instrument is provided, which makes it possible to manage a state of attendance (presence/absence, etc.) of participants and perform easy management on the level of activity on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. According to performance operations ... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090000461 | APPLIANCE AUDIO NOTIFICATION DEVICE A flexible audio tone-generating device for use in a consumer appliance. The device generates pleasing musical tones. The device uses two outputs of a software-executing processor utilizing stored tone data associated with status events of the appliance to drive a tone ... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080295671 | Electronic Musical Instrument Keyboard Apparatus Mass body unit includes a base section, an elongated member, and a mass concentrating section. The elongated member is formed by a thin sheet metal plate being bent, along its length, into a hollow cross-sectional shape such that an opening portion is defined between le... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080236363 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CAPABLE OF PRODUCING AFTER-TONES AND AUTOMATIC PLAYING SYSTEM An automatic player musical instrument includes an acoustic piano and an electronic system for selectively producing acoustic tones and electronic tones as regular tones equivalent to the tones to be produced for the keys moved toward the end positions and after-tones e... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080229909 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING RECEIVED MUSIC CONTENT A browser portion BR obtains a reproduction manner specifying file from a content distribution server 30, and delivers the same to a reproduction control portion CT. The reproduction control portion CT obtains from the content distribution server 30 a musi... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080229908 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH ELECTRONIC PROOF SYSTEM, ELECTRIC SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM An automatic player musical instrument is a combination of an acoustic piano and an electric system, which serves as an automatic playing system and an electronic proof system, and a controller of the electric system has an information processing capability; when a user... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080223196 | Semiconductor Device Having Music Generation Function, and Mobile Electronic Device, Mobile Telephone Device, Spectacle Instrument, and Spectacle instrument Set Using the Same There is provided a semiconductor device having a music generation function for automatically generating music data from image data inputted without preparing music information in advance, and a mobile electronic device, a mobile telephone device, a spectacle instrument... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080156172 | 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 comprising... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080148922 | DIGITAL TURNTABLE SCRATCH INTERFACE A scratch interface tactilely interacted by a user and adapted for positioning on a digital turntable is disclosed. The scratch interface comprises a positioning element that mechanically engages with a complementary locking element coupled to the platter of the digital... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080113797 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING GROUP MUSICAL INTERACTION OVER A NETWORK A method for providing real-time musical interaction among a plurality of players connected via a network includes the steps of receiving input from a local player representing a musical performance, generating audio output responsive to the received input, receiving se... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080092720 | Key actuating system A key actuating system (1) of a keyboard musical instrument is provided which helps quickly push the keys by reducing reaction force with respect to force of pushing the keys during manual operation, and which supports a person having less strength to play the ke... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080083318 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SYNTHESIZING ELECTRONIC TRANSPARENT AUDIO A method and system for synthesizing electronic watermarks is disclosed. The method includes generating electronic watermark sounds for music data by converting harmonic overtones that match the music data into signals. The generated electronic watermark sounds are then... | 04/10/2008 |
| 20070272073 | Electronic musical instrument system and program thereof This system serves as one musical instrument by interconnecting a plurality of musical apparatuses EMa through EMf via an expandable communication connecting portion such as USB networks CB and UH. The respective musical apparatuses EMa through EMf have their own appara... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070256541 | Musical video game console and methods therefor A game console capable of operating with a variety of electronic musical instruments is provided. Such a system is especially useful for downloading different musical video games for a variety of musical instruments and capable of changing the level of difficulty during... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070234879 | Vehicular sound effect generating apparatus A vehicular sound effect generating apparatus has a controller for determining whether a transmission on a vehicle is a manual transmission or an automatic transmission based on whether a clutch signal is generated or not, and automatically changing weighting gain chara... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070234884 | Method and system for providing pressure-controlled transitions Pressure-controlled transitions are provided for single-note lines in electronic musical instruments. By addressing the relative pressure for two or more pressure points on a playing surface, the method and system provides the performer with the ability to control trans... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070227336 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH DIRECT PRINTER INTERFACE In an electronic musical instrument, a tone generator generates performance sounds of a music piece. A printer interface is provided for directly connecting a printer. An image data generation part generates image data of a musical score which corresponds to the music p... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070227335 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH DIRECT PRINT INTERFACE In an electronic musical instrument, an input device inputs performance information. A tone generator operates based on tone setting parameters for generating music sounds according to the performance information. A display is capable of switching a plurality of scenes ... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070214939 | Musical ball An apparatus for the production of sound includes a a ball that includes an impact sensor that is activated by a deceleration such as impact of the ball upon a floor and upon activation of the impact sensor, an output signal is transmitted to a receiver and wherein the ... | 09/20/2007 |
| 20070214940 | Electromagnetic musical instrument frequency conversion systems and related methods A method for generating electromagnetic (EM) music through excitation of an EM Musical Instrument is provided. An input queue, comprised of three sub-queues, receives three input audio queues. An EM excitation signal is generated based on the received input audio queues... | 09/20/2007 |
| 20070157795 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A VISUALIZING MAP OF MUSIC The present invention provides a method for generating a visualizing map of music in accordance with the identifiable features of the music. First, the music would be divided into plural segments, and the length of each segment is preferably identical. After that, an au... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070107583 | Method and Apparatus for Composing and Performing Music The present invention is method and apparatus for music performance and composition. More specifically, the present invention is an interactive music apparatus comprising actuating a signal that is transmitted to a processing computer that transmits output signals to a ... | 05/17/2007 |
