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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110088533 | Personalized mandala-mantra A method for creating a personalized musical file is presented, the method comprising receiving a birth date, determining angular distribution of planets on a birth sky based, at least in part, on the birth date, selecting a plurality of Names from Shem ha-Meforash base... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110061514 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND STORAGE DEVICE OF MUSIC FILES A plurality of musical instrument is connected to a server device through a network to form a storage system. The musical instrument generates performance data, and sends the performance data to the server device every time the performance data is generated. The server ... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110030536 | Steel Pan Tablature System and Associated Methods A device for entering, editing, and outputting representations of notes to be played on a steel pan includes a processor, a display, an input and output device, and software adapted to display a representation of a steel pan having concentric rings of note pads, receive... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110000359 | MUSIC COMPOSITION DATA ANALYZING DEVICE, MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TYPE DETECTION DEVICE, MUSIC COMPOSITION DATA ANALYZING METHOD, MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TYPE DETECTION DEVICE, MUSIC COMPOSITION DATA ANALYZING PROGRAM, AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TYPE DETECTION PROGRAM There is provided a musical instrument kind detection apparatus, etc., permitting improvement of detection rate of musical instrument based on the instrument sound in comparison with the conventional prior art. A musical composition analysis section AN1 analyzes ... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100037752 | MUSIC PLAYER CONNECTION SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED PLAYLIST SELECTION A system compiles a music playlist to accommodate the tastes of various participants in a group setting. A music profile is created for each participant, the profile containing representations of songs that are characteristic of the participant's tastes. A master device... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20090158917 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING ONE TOUCH MUSIC PLAY A mobile electronic device includes a user interface displaying a music play icon, and a memory storing music. Selection of the music play icon by a user causes the mobile electronic device to play music stored in the memory without further interaction by the user with ... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090100988 | SCHEME FOR PROVIDING AUDIO EFFECTS FOR A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND FOR CONTROLLING IMAGES WITH SAME A method for use with a musical instrument includes receiving a signal representative of a sound produced by the musical instrument, receiving a selection of an audio effect from a wireless controller, applying the audio effect to the signal representative of a sound pr... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090078108 | Musical composition system and method The invention is a method and system for accessing a plurality of musical tracks and mixing two or more of those musical tracks into a new work. A plurality of individual tracks or works is located at a location accessible to a large number of users, such as a main serv... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20080314230 | ELECTRONIC PROOF SYSTEM AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME An electronic proof system is provided in association with an automatic player piano; while a human player is practicing a music tune on the acoustic piano, the electronic proof system monitors the pedals of piano to see whether or not the player brings the pedals to ta... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080302232 | PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK DEVICE, AND PLAYBACK CONTROL METHOD Disclosed is a technology that enables a user to quickly obtain associated information of a music piece to his/her taste while passively hearing music pieces. An initial screen is displayed (Step S1). A box is displayed at the center... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080282870 | Automated disc jockey An automated disc jockey. It accesses a database that models multiple music tracks as linked data objects. Each music track model includes a music track data object identifying the music track and linked to a plurality of other data objects that parameterize metadata of... | 11/20/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 20080236364 | Tone processing apparatus and method For at least one music piece, a storage section stores tone data of each of a plurality of fragments segmented from the music piece and stores a first descriptor indicative of a musical character of each of the fragments in association with the fragment. Descriptor gene... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080229910 | DATABASE CONSTRUCTING APPARATUS AND METHOD In a music information database, music information where music pieces and impression words representing impressions of the music pieces and usable as search words when any of the music pieces is to be searched for is registered for a plurality of music pieces. Informati... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080190266 | METHOD AND TERMINAL FOR PLAYING AND DISPLAYING MUSIC A method and a terminal for playing and displaying music are provided. The method includes selecting a desired track in a playback mode, playing the selected track, displaying information about the selected track and a playing progress bar and displaying a current play ... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080173160 | ELECTRIC GUITAR DESIGNED TO BE PLAYABLE BY AN INDIVIDUAL USING A PROSTHETIC DEVICE An electric guitar designed to be playable by an individual using a prosthetic device comprises an electric guitar body and a plurality of sound-generating components disposed in the electric guitar body, the components sized and positioned to facilitate operation by a ... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20080156173 | VEHICLE INFOTAINMENT SYSTEM WITH PERSONALIZED CONTENT The personalized content system of the system combines a summary music identification value creation and identification algorithm that represents a mathematical summary music identification of a song, an audio file, or other relational music criteria and data (e.g. titl... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080134862 | Generation of Exercise Instruction Information In the invention there is generated a playlist of music files that controls an exercise, each of the music files being associated with at least one parameter. The parameter characterizes the efficiency of the exercise. The user may listen to the playlist while performin... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20070283799 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS INVOLVING PLAYING MUSIC BY MEANS OF PORTABLE COMMUNICATION APPARATUSES AS INSTRUMENTS Apparatuses, methods and computer program products involving playing music by means of portable communication apparatuses, e.g. mobile telephones, as instruments. According to an embodiment of the invention, a method for generating music data in a portable communication... | 12/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 20070234880 | Standalone electronic module for use with musical instruments An electronic module has an enclosure which is mechanically and electrically compatible with a plurality of receiving devices such as amplifiers, computers, mixer consoles, and musical instruments. The module has a programmable control panel and display on the enclosure... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070028749 | Programmable audio system An audio system and method. The audio system comprises a sensing device and a memory device. The memory device comprises a list of groups of gesture types. A first specified audio sound is stored within the memory device. A user programs a first association between the ... | 02/08/2007 |
| 20060254408 | Recording control method The present invention comprises the steps of: when there is a change of music-piece, writing the last data of previous piece of music stored in a storage device to a recording medium; writing the front data of the next piece stored in the storage device; and executing f... | 11/16/2006 |
| 20060254409 | Sorting media files using dynamic passive recognition techniques A method comprises storing information regarding content previously played by a user, the information including a playback frequency; determining new content similar to the content previously played; scoring the new content based on the stored information; and sorting t... | 11/16/2006 |
| 20060254407 | MUSICAL NOTATION SYSTEM An integrated system and software package for creating and performing a musical score including a user interface that enables a user to enter and display the musical score, a database that stores a data structure which supports graphical symbols for musical characters i... | 11/16/2006 |
| 20060032362 | System and method for the creation and playback of animated, interpretive, musical notation and audio synchronized with the recorded performance of an original artist A music application guides a user with some musical experience through the steps of creating and editing a musical enhancement file that enhances and plays in synchronicity with an audio signal of an original artist's recorded performance. This enables others, perhaps w... | 02/16/2006 |
| 20060032363 | Auto playlist generation with multiple seed songs The present invention relates to systems and/or methods that generate playlist(s) for a library or collection of media items via selecting a plurality of seed items, at least one of which is an undesirable seed item. Some of the seed items are desirable indicating that ... | 02/16/2006 |
| 20050235809 | Server apparatus streaming musical composition data matching performance skill of user In a server apparatus, a storage section stores musical composition data representing a plurality of musical compositions. A transmission section transmits musical composition data which represents a first musical composition to an electronic musical apparatus via a com... | 10/27/2005 |
| 20050183566 | Stringed musical instrument having a built in hand-held type computer An apparatus and method is disclosed for storing, editing, deleting and visually displaying personal information within a stringed musical instrument. A hand-held type computer (34) located in and forming a portion of the envelope or housing of the stringed music... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050172787 | 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 position ... | 08/11/2005 |
| 20050132869 | Electronic musical apparatus and server computer An electronic musical apparatus M1 transmits apparatus ID information and a common page access signal to a server computer SC. The server computer SC receives the signal and apparatus ID information. On the basis of the apparatus ID information, the server comput... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050103186 | Music reproducing unit The present invention teaches a music reproducing unit for selecting songs that a user desires from among a large number of songs stored in a mass storage device such as an HDD without troublesome operation and reproducing the same, which selects songs that the user des... | 05/19/2005 |
