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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120125179 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SOUND MATERIAL CAPTURING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An information processing apparatus is provided which includes a music analysis unit for analyzing an audio signal serving as a capture source for a sound material and for detecting beat positions of the audio signal and a presence probability of each instrument sound i... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120067196 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCORING A SINGING VOICE A system for scoring a singing voice comprises a receiving means (1) for receiving a singing reference audio signal and/or a user audio signal and/or a pitch contour representation (PCR) of the reference and/or user singing audio signals; a processor means (2<... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120006183 | AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS AND MANIPULATION OF DIGITAL MUSICAL CONTENT FOR SYNCHRONIZATION WITH MOTION Systems and methods are provided for extracting rhythmic chroma information from a signal. A method may perform a process for rhythmic event perception, periodicity estimation, and chroma representation. Such a process may be implemented by a digital signal processor. T... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110277616 | LOW FREQUENCY MASSAGE APPARATUS OPERATING IN CONJUCTION WITH MUSIC AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME A low frequency massage apparatus may include a wired sound source input module for receiving a sound source signal being played, a frequency filter module for classifying the sound source signal according to frequencies, an A/D converter module for digitally converting... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110271819 | MUSIC ANALYSIS APPARATUS In a musical analysis apparatus, a spectrum acquirer acquires a spectrum for each frame of an audio signal representing a piece of music. A beat specifier specifies a sequence of beats of the audio signal. A feature amount extractor divides an interval between the beats... | 11/10/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110214556 | RHYTHM EXPLORER A compositional tool classifies and indexes loops in a library of audio loops by generating a time-stamped series of the durations of the percussive events that comprise each loop. The duration of a percussive event is based on spectral masking, in which a subsequent ev... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110146478 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POLICY BASED AUTOMATIC SCORING OF VOCAL PERFORMANCES Systems and methods for the automatic scoring of a vocal performance are provided. The systems and methods for providing feedback and scoring a vocal performance generally relate to receiving/processing a user's vocals, measuring the various performance qualities of the... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20100313739 | RHYTHM RECOGNITION FROM AN AUDIO SIGNAL A guitar delay engine such as a multi-tap delay pedal or other rhythm engine such as a vocal multi-tap delay pedal, a drum machine, or any other device that requires setting a rhythmic pattern (i.e. level and timing information) for operation is provided. In a guitar de... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100192754 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MUSIC USING BIO-SIGNAL An apparatus and method for generating music is provided. A bio-signal measurer measures a bio-signal of a user. A bio-signal configuration information extractor extracts bio-signal configuration information from the measured bio-signal. A music composition information ... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100191733 | MUSIC LINKED PHOTOCASTING SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD A music linked photocasting service system and method are provided. The music linked photocasting service method includes reproducing music at the request of a user, analyzing a mood of the reproduced music at prescribed times, until music reproduction is completed, sea... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100175538 | RHYTHM MATCHING PARALLEL PROCESSING APPARATUS IN MUSIC SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM OF MOTION CAPTURE DATA AND COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREOF Computation time of correlation comparison between rhythm features obtained from motion capture (MoCap) data and rhythm features obtained from music data is shortened. A rhythm matching parallel processing apparatus includes a feature holding unit which holds beat infor... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100050854 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE AUTOMATIC OR SEMI-AUTOMATIC COMPOSITION OF MULTIMEDIA SEQUENCE The method according to the invention includes the creation of a reference multimedia sequence structure, the breaking down of this structure into basic components (tracks P1, P2, Pn) each containing a series of basic subcomponents (bric... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100017034 | BEAT TRACKING APPARATUS, BEAT TRACKING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, BEAT TRACKING PROGRAM, AND ROBOT A beat tracking apparatus includes: a filtering unit configured to perform a filtering process on an input acoustic signal and to accentuate an onset; a beat interval reliability calculating unit configured to perform a time-frequency pattern matching process employing ... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100011939 | ROBOT A robot includes: a sound collecting unit collecting and converting a musical sound into a musical acoustic signal; a voice signal generating unit generating a self-vocalized voice signal; a sound outputting unit converting the self-vocalized voice signal into a sound a... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090314154 | GAME DATA GENERATION BASED ON USER PROVIDED SONG The vocal track of any song provided by a user may be isolated and data based on the vocal track, such as pitch, rhythm, and/or duration, may be generated. The data may be used in a game in which the user may sing into a microphone and may try to match their singing as ... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090282965 | Musical sound device The present invention is a musical sound device having an input device including a plurality of selection sections and a timing input section, a storage unit for storing first musical sound data for outputting a first musical sound, second musical sound data for outputt... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090272253 | MUSIC EDIT DEVICE AND MUSIC EDIT METHOD A music editing apparatus is provided that uses so-called time line meta data that describe a beat and melody structure of a song to automatically accomplishes an automatic DJ remix play with a low load. The apparatus also includes a synchronous reproduction controlling... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090235809 | System and Method for Evolving Music Tracks Systems and methods of generating music tracks are disclosed. One such method, for generating one type of music track from another type of music track, is implemented in a computer. The method includes the steps of receiving a music track input having a first type into ... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090217805 | MUSIC GENERATING DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF Provided is a music generating device. The device includes a user interface, a lyric processing module, a melody generating unit, a harmony accompaniment generating unit, and a music generating unit. The user interface receives lyrics and melody from a user, and the lyr... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090199698 | Storage medium storing musical piece correction program and musical piece correction apparatus A musical piece correction apparatus corrects a sounding timing (note-on timings) of a sound constituting apart of a musical piece. First, the musical piece correction apparatus reads, from storage means, music performance data indicating sounding timings in the musical... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090150781 | Video Editing Matched to Musical Beats Methods and apparatus provide for a clip-beat aligner that identifies musical beats in an audio file. An editing mode is provided to associate the audio file with a media segment according to a timeline. The clip-beat aligner aligns a boundary of the media segment with ... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090056526 | BEAT EXTRACTION DEVICE AND BEAT EXTRACTION METHOD Upon receiving a digital audio signal recorded in a .wav file, a beat extraction processing unit 12 extracts coarse beat position information from this digital audio signal and outputs the result as metadata recorded in an .mty file. In addition, a beat alignment... | 03/05/2009 |
| 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 |
| 20080276793 | BEAT ENHANCEMENT DEVICE, SOUND OUTPUT DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OUTPUTTING BEATS In a sound output device, a sound input unit acquires a sound signal reproduced by a reproduction device. A beat extractor extracts a beat component of the sound signal based on a spectrogram, and generates a beat waveform having information of a beat timing and a beat ... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080236368 | RECORDING OR PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND MUSICAL PIECE DETECTING APPARATUS Provided is a recording or playback apparatus capable of separating a musical piece from an audio including the musical piece and a speech through a simple arithmetic process. A cut point detector detects, as a cut point, a time point at which an audio signal level or a... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080190269 | System for playing music and method thereof A system for playing music is provided. The system includes: a mood categorizer categorizing a mood of a music file; a similar music search module searching for similar music having a mood similar to music which a user desires by referring to the categorized mood; a hig... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080110322 | Photo recommendation method using mood of music and system thereof A photo recommendation method using a mood of music is provided. The photo recommendation method using the mood of the music includes: categorizing the music into a mood by analyzing a sound source of the music; searching for a photo using meta information of the music;... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080078282 | Motion data generation device, motion data generation method, and recording medium for recording a motion data generation program To generate motion data of a motion in synchronization with a melody of music. As an embodiment of the present invention, when motion pattern data corresponding to a predetermined motion pattern is stored, music data is analyzed to detect a beat of music based on the mu... | 04/03/2008 |
| 20080041219 | SOUND OUTPUT DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR SOUND OUTPUT DEVICE, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM To provide a sound output device capable of preferably outputting, while utilizing control data created based on an assumption that sound data will be output via a certain number of speakers, the sound data via a number of speakers that is larger or smaller than the cer... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20080011149 | Synchronizing a musical score with a source of time-based information Disclosed is a method of synchronizing a musical score with a source of time-based information. The method comprises deriving a mapping between rhythmic positions associated with the musical score and a reference time base; and synchronizing the musical score and the so... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20070261537 | CREATING AND SHARING VARIATIONS OF A MUSIC FILE A method, device, system and apparatus are provided for creating and sharing variations of a music file, wherein a variation metadata file is created that indicates which beats, measures and/or segments of an original music file are included in the variation created, in... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070199430 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN ENCODED RHYTHMIC PATTERN An encoded rhythmic pattern has several groups of velocity values, wherein the velocity values are sorted, such that the groups are included in sequence in an encoded rhythmic pattern. Now, the velocity values concentrated at the beginning of the encoded rhythmic patter... | 08/30/2007 |
| 20070186755 | KARAOKE SYSTEM WHICH DISPLAYS MUSICAL NOTES AND LYRICAL CONTENT A karaoke system which displays and highlights musical notes and tablature, in addition to lyrics, as they are to be played or sung, with a view to helping an aspiring musician learn to play their instrument of choice. The system further utilizes a means to slow the tem... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070180979 | Portable Music Player with Synchronized Transmissive Visual Overlays A portable music player apparatus that outputs visual content to a head-worn transmissive display, the visual content being modulated in time with playing musical content and overlaid upon the user's direct view of his or her physical surroundings. In this way, the user... | 08/09/2007 |
| 20070163428 | 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 ... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070157798 | Apparatus and method for reproducing audio signal An audio signal reproducing apparatus includes a storage unit for storing digital audio data of music pieces each having a tempo corresponding to either a first tempo or a second tempo, the second tempo being different from the first tempo, if a walking tempo of a user ... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070131096 | Automatic Music Mood Detection A system and methods use music features extracted from music to detect a music mood within a hierarchical mood detection framework. A two-dimensional mood model divides music into four moods which include contentment, depression, exuberance, and anxious/frantic. A mood ... | 06/14/2007 |
| 20060272485 | Evaluating and correcting rhythm in audio data The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for evaluating and correcting rhythm of audio data. Embodiments of the invention are capable of obtaining preferred rhythm in audio data, and strategically correcting the portions of audio data resulting an enhancing r... | 12/07/2006 |
| 20060266200 | Rhythm action game apparatus and method A rhythm action game apparatus comprising an audio analyser adapted to analyze a music track and provide corresponding rhythm data, and a sequence generator adapted to generate game play cues according to said rhythm data. There is also disclosed a music processor compr... | 11/30/2006 |
