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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 20120031256 | TONE GENERATION APPARATUS In response to detection of a note-on instruction, a CPU assigns a tone generating unit comprising two tone generating channels and sets tone color control data of the assigned tone generating unit into tone generator registers. The tone color control data includes a pa... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20110308376 | MULTI-CHANNEL DATA SONIFICATION SYSTEM WITH PARTITIONED TIMBRE SPACES AND MODULATION TECHNIQUES A data sonification system for representing a plurality of channels of numerical information is described. The data sonification system includes a plurality of audio waveform generator elements. Each of the audio waveform generator elements generates an associated audio... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110226116 | WAVEFORM GENERATION APPARATUS AND WAVEFORM GENERATION PROGRAM In a waveform generation apparatus, a coordinates information group showing original waveform data in a two-dimensional phase space having a time axis and a wave height value axis is expanded to an n-dimensional phase space (n>2) including a time axis and a wave heig... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110083545 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FILTERING WAVETABLE INFORMATION FOR WIRELESS DEVICES A method for providing wavetable information to a wireless device from a content server over a wireless network, the wavetable information including a plurality of samples corresponding to a plurality of notes, comprising: in response to a request from the wireless devi... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110011242 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MUSIC DATA STREAMS An apparatus comprises a data receiving module, a synthesizer module and a mix-in sample module. The data receiving module is configured to receive a plurality of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) data signals. The synthesizer module is configured to analyze t... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100313738 | AUDIO SMOOTHING SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND METHOD The present invention relates to an audio smoothing system for smoothing an audio waveform to generate a smoothed waveform, comprising an audio generator, an audio smoothing device and an operating interface. The audio smoothing device is provided for receiving an audio... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100206156 | Electronic musical instruments Methods and a system for providing electronic musical instruments are disclosed. Through novel combinations of sensor inputs and processing, they allow simulation of acoustic instruments including but not limited to a Trombone, Trumpet, and Saxophone. Sensor inputs are ... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100199832 | WAVEFORM GENERATING APPARATUS, SOUND EFFECT IMPARTING APPARATUS AND MUSICAL SOUND GENERATING APPARATUS A synthesizer 10 is configured such that when a PC 30 is connected thereto, the synthesizer 10 accepts selection of a tone used for sound generation from among a tone included in an internal tone generation unit 16 and a tone included in a to... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100077907 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT When the on-on time between Note 1 and Note 2 is shorter than the double stop judgment time JT, as shown in FIG. 3A, the mode is changed from Unison 1 to Unison 2. When note-on information of Note 1 is inputted at time t1... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20090260505 | METHOD FOR THE EFFICIENT IMPLEMTIONATION OF A WAVETABLE OSCILLATOR A method for organizing a wave sample in a memory comprises loading the wave in two parts, each of which is a continuous waveform, wherein a discontinuity is provided between said two parts.... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090249943 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT An electronic musical instrument includes: an input device that inputs a sound generation instruction that instructs to start generating a musical sound and a stop instruction that instructs to stop the musical sound being generated by the sound generation instruction; ... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090241756 | Electronic Keyboard Instrument Electronic piano includes speakers arranged on its front side region and another speaker provided at a back position of the piano. Waveform memory provided in a tone generator section has prestored therein sets of four-channel waveform data, each of the sets correspondi... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090205479 | Method and Apparatus for Generating Musical Sounds The present invention provides to generate musical sound data easily for people to enjoy playing. A musical sound generating apparatus 10 comprises a vibration recognizing means 12, a main control device 14, an acoustic device 16 and a displa... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090151543 | MUSICAL SOUND GENERATING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING MUSICAL SOUND GENERATION PROCESSING PROGRAM Upon activation by a power-on operation, a CPU transfers part of waveform data items of predetermined tone colors from a waveform data storage to a waveform RAM, and after this, transfers data items including the remaining waveform data to be transferred. Thereby, a mus... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090019991 | MUSIC COMPOSITION REPRODUCTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM [Problems] To provide a system for promoting user-friendly distribution of music composition data while considering the benefit of an author. [Means for Solving Problems] When a user operates a mobile telephone (8) to give a reproduc... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090019993 | Waveform Generating Apparatus, Sound Effect Imparting Apparatus and Musical Sound Generating Apparatus A synthesizer 10 is configured such that when a PC 30 is connected thereto, the synthesizer 10 accepts selection of a tone used for sound generation from among a tone included in an internal tone generation unit 16 and a tone included in a to... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090019992 | Waveform Generating Apparatus In a synthesizer 10, when a function of a tone generation module 312 provided by an external tone generation server 310 is usable, a tone generator control module 102 assigns a necessary number of sound generation channels among sound generat... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090013855 | Music piece creation apparatus and method Music piece data composed of audio waveform data are stored in a memory. Analysis section analyzes the music piece data stored in the memory to determine sudden change points of sound condition in the music piece data. Display device displays individual phoneme componen... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090000462 | Electronic Musical Instrument An electronic music instrument includes a musical-tone control that generates operation information of keys and a damper pedal to serve as musical-tone control information; a musical-tone generator simultaneously generating a plurality of musical tones according to the ... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080289479 | Reproduction device, reproduction method and computer usable medium having computer readable reproduction program emodied therein The reproduction device comprises a decoding section, a threshold calculating section, and a musical data output section. The threshold calculating section calculates an average amplitude level in a predetermined section of an end portion of first musical data generated... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080257133 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CREATING MUSIC PIECE DATA A plurality of template data files are provided, each designating a structure and conditions of a music piece, and having a plurality of tracks, each track being assigned to a particular instrument group and defining a time progression structure of music to be performed... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080250913 | Sound Synthesis A device for synthesizing sound having sinusoidal components includes a selector for selecting a limited number of the sinusoidal components from each of a number of frequency bands using a perceptual relevance value. The device further includes a synthesizer for synthe... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080245213 | MUSIC SOUND GENERATOR A music sound generator imitates released key string vibration sounds (RKSV) and cabinet resonances of an acoustic piano. When a key is pressed, waveform is readout from a normal music sound waveform memory 15. The normal sound waveform is inputted into a filter ... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080245214 | WAVEFORM GENERATING DEVICE To compose a series of musical tones, a waveform generating device reads out a plurality of time axis segments of waveform data in optional order by compressing or expanding the segments of waveform data in conformance with performance data. With the waveform generating... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080216636 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND WAVEFORM ASSIGNMENT PROGRAM An electronic musical instrument, which can easily select waveform data assigned to each key or each key range of a keyboard, is provided. When assignment of waveform data to a key range including one or more keys of a keyboard is edited, the assignment state of the wav... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080156175 | WAVEFORM PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH VERSATILE DATA BUS A waveform data processing apparatus has a bus that transfers data signals representative of waveform data. A plurality of transmitting nodes transmit the data signals to the bus. A plurality of receiving nodes receive the data signals from the bus. A clock generator ge... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080078280 | COMPRESSED DATA STRUCTURE AND APPARATUS AND METHOD RELATED THERETO Compressed waveform data structure is proposed which is suited for segmentation of a plurality of samples of compressed waveform data into a plurality of frames and subsequent storage of each of the frames. The number of bits per sample of the compressed waveform data i... | 04/03/2008 |
| 20080034946 | User controls for synthetic drum sound generator that convolves recorded drum sounds with drum stick impact sensor output Methods and apparatus for simulating the sound of a specific percussion instrument. A first stored waveform representative of the impulse response of the specific percussion instrument is convolved with a second waveform representating of the vibrations produced when a ... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20070256542 | 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 switching ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070240556 | Compressed data structure and apparatus and method related thereto Compressed waveform data structure is proposed which is suited for segmentation of a plurality of samples of compressed waveform data into a plurality of frames and subsequent storage of each of the frames. The number of bits per sample of the compressed waveform data i... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070162437 | User terminal and music file management method therefor An application program installed in a user terminal including a user interface unit for displaying a list of music files; a playback unit for playing back a music file selected out of the list; a transfer unit for transferring the selected music file to a certain storag... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070157796 | Tone synthesis apparatus and method In a storage section, there are stored special connecting waveform data for connecting between at least two notes to be generated in succession. The special connecting waveform data contain only a waveform of a succeeding-note region of a waveform connecting portion whi... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070131093 | Sound system A sound system includes, separately, a first clock generation section that generates a system clock for supply to a CPU or others via an internal bus, and a second clock generation section that generates a waveform synthesis clock for supply to a waveform synthesizer of... | 06/14/2007 |
| 20070079689 | Waveform generation for FM synthesis A method and system is disclosed for generating one or more predetermined waveforms from one or more contiguous segments of at least one prototype waveform stored in one or more memory tables, the method and system comprising iterations of following sample processing st... | 04/12/2007 |
| 20070017348 | Waveform data interpolation device and waveform data interpolation program With a decimal-fraction address representing a position between two continuous sample values and input from a decimal-fraction address calculation block (5-2) assumed as x, a product-sum block (5-5) calculates the value of x(1−x) as the sum... | 01/25/2007 |
| 20070000371 | Tone synthesis apparatus and method Dynamics values are acquired intermittently at predetermined time intervals, and waveform data corresponding to the acquired dynamics values are acquired. The thus-acquired waveform data are synthesized to generate a tone waveform of a range corresponding to a sustain p... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20060283309 | Musical sound waveform synthesizer In a musical sound waveform synthesizer apparatus, a performance event information receiver receives performance event information representing musical performance events which successively occur as a musical performance progresses. A musical sound synthesizer synthesiz... | 12/21/2006 |
| 20060272482 | Tone synthesis apparatus and method Determination is made, in accordance with acquired performance information, as to whether a crossfade characteristic should be changed or not, and a crossfade characteristic of crossfade synthesis having already been started at the time of the acquisition of the perform... | 12/07/2006 |
| 20060225561 | Waveform data processing apparatus In a waveform data processing apparatus, a transfer section reads out waveform data of multiple tracks stored in a first storage device in data units, and transfers the read waveform data to a second storage device having an access speed higher than an access speed of t... | 10/12/2006 |
