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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120006182 | EDITING OF DRUM TONE COLOR IN DRUM KIT During reproduction of drum-part performance tones with a predetermined performance pattern, comprising a combination of a plurality of drum tone colors, based on automatic performance style data including at least performance pattern data associated with a drum kit def... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110232462 | SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED INTERPRETATION OF PRE-RECORDED MUSIC The invention relates to a computer-aided prerecorded-music-interpretation system. The system comprises at least one musical actuator (A1, A2) actuatable by an interpreting artist user, memory means for storing musical information (MM) relating to the scor... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110219939 | METHOD OF INSTRUCTING AN AUDIENCE TO CREATE SPONTANEOUS MUSIC A method of instructing an audience to spontaneously create music at an entertainment event is disclosed. The method comprises providing noisemakers to groups of participants, the noisemakers being distinguishable between the plurality of types and each noisemaker sound... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110197740 | Novel Karaoke and Multi-Channel Data Recording / Transmission Techniques via Wavefront Multiplexing and Demultiplexing An advanced channel storage and retrieving system is achieved that is capable of simultaneously transporting multiple-stream data concurrently, with encryptions and error detection and limited correction capability using wavefront (WF) multiplexing (muxing) at the pre-p... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110072954 | Interactive display An interactive assembly for displaying a sequence of words from a text comprising: a processor; at least one memory operatively connected to the processor; at least one speech recognizer operatively connected to the processor; at least one audio input operatively connec... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110041671 | 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 ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20100326256 | Methods for Online Collaborative Music Composition Systems and methods for creating and editing collaborative music compositions via a computer network, including remote uploading tracks by musicians, and for creating and joining a band, wherein the system and methods provide for at least one musician to join a virtual ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100300264 | Practice Mode for Multiple Musical Parts Described are methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer program products, that provide a practice mode for multiple musical parts in a rhythm-action game. In one aspect this is accomplished by displaying, on a display in communication with a game platform, a... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100300265 | DYNAMIC MUSICAL PART DETERMINATION Described are methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer program products, for dynamically determining a musical part performed by a player of a rhythm-action game. In one aspect of a rhythm-action game, microphones are not tied to a particular part and there... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100304863 | BIASING A MUSICAL PERFORMANCE INPUT TO A PART Described are methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer program products, for biasing a musical performance input of a player of a rhythm-action game to a part in the game. In one aspect this is accomplished by providing, by a game platform, a history of a d... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100300270 | DISPLAYING AN INPUT AT MULTIPLE OCTAVES Described are methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer program products, for displaying an input at multiple octaves in a rhythm-action game. In one aspect this is accomplished by receiving by a game platform via a microphone, a music performance input data... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100300269 | Scoring a Musical Performance After a Period of Ambiguity Described are methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer program products, for scoring a musical performance after a period of ambiguity in a rhythm-action game. This is accomplished by displaying a first target music data and a second target music data where... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100300268 | PREVENTING AN UNINTENTIONAL DEPLOY OF A BONUS IN A VIDEO GAME Described are methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer program products, for preventing an unintentional deploy of a bonus in a video game. In one aspect this is accomplished by displaying, on a display in communication with a game platform, a target music ... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100300267 | SELECTIVELY DISPLAYING SONG LYRICS Described are methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer program products, for selectively displaying song lyrics in a rhythm-action game. In one aspect this is accomplished by determining a number of vocal cues to be displayed on a display in communication w... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100300266 | Dynamically Displaying a Pitch Range Described are methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer program products, for dynamically displaying a pitch range in a rhythm-action game. In one aspect this is accomplished by a game platform dividing a musical composition into a plurality of portions each... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100288107 | THIN KARAOKE HAVING DISPLAY DEVICE IN A BODY The present invention relates to a thin karaoke machine, in which a display device, an amplifier and a karaoke machine are integrated into a single body. The thin karaoke system includes a front cover having an opening formed in a center thereof. A back cover is bent ba... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100288108 | MUSIC COMPOSITION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PORTABLE DEVICE HAVING TOUCHSCREEN A music composition method and system is provided for composing a music piece using a touch interaction with a touchscreen-enabled portable device. A music composition method includes setting an accompaniment with chords varying according to the progress of a unit play ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100216549 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK COMMUNICATION OF MUSIC DATA A system, computer readable storage medium, and method for communicating musical data over a network, comprising: connecting one or more player modules to a network; providing an unassigned channel of prerecorded music data; providing an assigned channel of prerecorded ... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100192753 | KARAOKE APPARATUS A karaoke apparatus includes a sound effect processing system provided in a microprocessor. The system decodes standard song data from an internal storage or an external storage connected to an extended system interface by a song decoding module; corrects pitches of sin... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100192752 | SCORING OF FREE-FORM VOCALS FOR VIDEO GAME A music based video game in which a game player's singing performance is digitally sampled while the player performs a free-form vocal over a prerecorded musical composition. Aspects of the game player's free-form vocal performance are compared with predetermined criter... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100180754 | System and method of enhancing control of a portable music device A portable device is disclosed for use with an audio or video content provider to establish hands-free control of the available functions of the content provider. The device may include a microphone interface to receive an electric signal from an integral or an external... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100126331 | METHOD OF EVALUATING VOCAL PERFORMANCE OF SINGER AND KARAOKE APPARATUS USING THE SAME A method of evaluating a vocal performance of a singer of a karaoke apparatus includes extracting a voice energy, extracting a reference pitch, and comparing the voice energy and an energy corresponding to the reference pitch and evaluating the vocal performance of the ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100107856 | KARAOKE SYSTEM The system describes a karaoke system that enhances the experience of singing along with music, but without the need to display the lyrics. The system includes a combination of a vocal track reducer and an echo canceller, decision logic for determining when a person is ... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100089223 | Microphone set providing audio and text data The present invention is a microphone set which comprises a hand-hold microphone housing, a microphone, and a karaoke module received in the microphone housing. The karaoke module further comprises a voice input module, a data storage, a data processor, an audio output ... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100043626 | AUTOMATIC TONE-FOLLOWING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MUSIC ACCOMPANYING DEVICES The present invention provides an automatic tone-following method and system for music accompanying devices, which detects the frequency of the singer's voice instantly and continuously and compares it with the theme tone frequency of the accompanying music to estimate ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20090318225 | MUSIC PRODUCTION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PRODUCING MUSIC BY COMBINING PLURAL MUSIC ELEMENTS A music production apparatus includes a melody data storage operative to store music data for a plurality of melody elements forming music, a condition storage operative to store a condition for combining melody elements and a condition related to an attribute applicabl... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090272252 | METHOD FOR COMPOSING A PIECE OF MUSIC BY A NON-MUSICIAN A method for composing music by a non-musician is based on the use of pre-recorded melodies which are stored in banks and associated with orchestra accompaniments also stored in banks. The orchestra accompaniments are in advance embodied in the form of an entire devoid ... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090183622 | PORTABLE MULTIMEDIA OR ENTERTAINMENT STORAGE AND PLAYBACK DEVICE WHICH STORES AND PLAYS BACK CONTENT WITH CONTENT-SPECIFIC USER PREFERENCES A portable multimedia device stores multimedia content and sets of user preferences (“settings”) for one or more users (karaoke participants), on a title by title basis, that the one or more users may wish to apply upon playback of the content. The content and setti... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090178543 | MUSIC ACCOMPANIMENT APPARATUS HAVING DELAY CONTROL FUNCTION OF AUDIO OR VIDEO SIGNAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME There is provided a music accompaniment apparatus that is connected to at least one external device to reproduce an audio or video signal, the music accompaniment apparatus including: an audio input section for inputting an external audio signal; an audio signal process... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090178544 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS 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... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090173214 | Method and apparatus for storing/searching for music Provided are a method and apparatus for generating and storing a database that may be searched for music upon a user's request, and a method and apparatus for searching for music corresponding to the user's request. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090165634 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME FEEDBACK FOR KARAOKE Systems and methods for providing real-time feedback to karaoke users are provided. The systems and methods for providing users with real-time feedback while they are singing karaoke generally relate to receiving the user's vocals, determining whether the user is singin... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090165633 | Music displaying apparatus and computer-readable storage medium storing music displaying program A music displaying apparatus stores in advance music piece related information concerning a music piece, and a plurality of comparison parameters which is associated with the music piece related information. The music displaying apparatus obtains voice data concerning s... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090151545 | ENSEMBLE SYSTEM An ensemble system enabling even performer unskilled in playing a musical instrument to easily grasp the difference in tempo from the performance of the facilitator. The circle corresponding to the performance terminal “Facilitator” is indicated fixedly on the cente... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090145285 | ENSEMBLE SYSTEM An ensemble system enabling easy, flexible assignment of performance parts to the facilitator and the performers. In “setting” field, performance terminals (facilitator and piano (1 to 5)) are displayed. A pull-down menu for selecting presence/absence ... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090126554 | Finger musical instrument The present invention relates to a finger musical instrument, including a first glove and a second glove, some performance keys distributed on a fingertip of each of the gloves, and a sound box positioned at each of the gloves. The finger musical instrument further incl... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090031885 | Networked karaoke system and method A karaoke system, comprising a plurality of electronic devices each configured to output karaoke content, at least one of the plurality of electronic devices configured to calculate a group karaoke score corresponding to respective users of the plurality of electronic d... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090023123 | AUDIO INPUT DEVICE AND KARAOKE APPARATUS TO DETECT USER'S MOTION AND POSITION, AND ACCOMPANIMENT METHOD ADOPTING THE SAME An audio input device and a karaoke apparatus to detect user's motion and position, and an accompaniment method adopting the same. According to the audio input device and the karaoke apparatus, at least one of user's motion information and position information is detect... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090007762 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ACTUATING DESIGNATED ACCOMPANIMENT SOUNDS A musical accompaniment system is described including a fretted, stringed electric musical instrument, a floor unit, interface units and connecting cables. Designated frets of the instrument are divided into sections that output to a switching component that sends MIDI ... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080282871 | Portable karaoke device A type of portable karaoke device includes a microphone, a twist knob control, several control buttons and a composite A/V output. There is an audio processor and a MPEG decoder inside the microphone. That audio processor is used to receive audio signals from the microp... | 11/20/2008 |
