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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120011988 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT When musical performance data is input to the electronic musical instrument in accordance with user's operation for musical performance, the electronic musical instrument detects a chord in accordance with the input musical performance data at the defined timing T3 | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110247480 | POLYPHONIC NOTE DETECTION Processor-implemented methods and systems for polyphonic note detection are disclosed. The method includes converting a portion of a polyphonic audio signal from a time domain to a frequency domain. The method includes detecting a fundamental frequency peak in the frequ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110247479 | CHORD TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS The invention relates to systems, methods, and apparatus for assessing a musical performance of a chord, a chord series, or a chord progression. The performance can include a user's performance of a musical instrument. MIDI or audio notes are input and compared to the n... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110232463 | DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING MUSICAL RELATIONSHIPS The invention relates to a device (1) for displaying musical relationships, a display element (2) being provided which is situated so it is displaceable in a first direction in a holder (3) and is additionally displaceable via the holder (3) ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110185881 | AUTOMATIC ACCOMPANYING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE STORING MEDIUM CPU 21 decides a current melody tone CM relating to a key depressed at a the leading position of a current beat and a previous melody tone PM relating to a key depressed at the leading position of a beat coming directly before the current beat, based on time info... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110011246 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO GENERATE AND MANIPULATE STRING-INSTRUMENT CHORD GRIDS IN A DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATION A system and method that enables a user to generate and manipulate string-instrument chord grids in a digital audio workstation. The system and method for generating a string-instrument chord grid includes receiving first data input and second data input. The first data... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100307321 | System and Method for Producing a Harmonious Musical Accompaniment An apparatus for enhancing audio comprising a first interface and a harmonizing module is disclosed. The first interface receive a first audio segment from a first source. The harmonizing module is coupled to the first interface. The harmonizing module is configured to ... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100294112 | PORTABLE CHORD OUTPUT DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM To provide a portable chord producing device capable of producing chord sounds by a simple operation. In or on a housing 10 of a portable size, an operation switch 121 with which eight different chord sounds can be designated,... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100175539 | AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE OF MUSIC Methods for automatically analyzing and/or performing music are described. One embodiment concerns a method for assigning chords to a musical score indicative of a sequence of time segments, each time segment comprising at least one note, the method comprising assigning... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100175540 | MUSIC PERFORMANCE TRAINING APPARATUS AND METHOD Chord to be performed is presented to a user. Chord is detected based on one or more notes performed by the user. When it is not detected that a chord has been duly established, one of the notes performed by the user is detected as a root note of a chord. Comparison is ... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100170382 | 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... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100126332 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SOUND ANALYSIS METHOD, AND PROGRAM An information processing apparatus is provided which includes a beat analysis unit for detecting positions of beats included in an audio signal, a structure analysis unit for calculating similarity probabilities, each being a probability of similarity between contents ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20090293706 | Music Composition Reproducing Device and Music Compositoin Reproducing Method First, an extracting unit extracts chord progression of a tune to be reproduced. Then, a timing detector detects the timing of variation of the chord progression extracted by the extracting unit. Subsequently, an add-tone reproducing unit combines an add-tone with the t... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090260507 | Systems and methods for composing music A system and method for generating a new composition based on a database of pre-recorded performances of existing compositions. A system and method for generating an automated method for converting existing performances and associated MIDI transcriptions to a database a... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090249945 | MUSIC COMPOSITION DATA RECONSTRUCTION DEVICE, MUSIC COMPOSITION DATA RECONSTRUCTION METHOD, MUSIC CONTENT REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND MUSIC CONTENT REPRODUCTION METHOD An apparatus that allows a musical piece to be recomposed by reflecting, for example, the mood, preference, and ambient environment of a listening user in the musical piece in real time. The apparatus includes a rhythm master unit and a rhythm slave unit. The rhythm mas... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090223350 | Computer-readable storage medium having music playing program stored therein and music playing apparatus At a time T0, prior read reproduction is started with a volume of 0. Upon starting the prior read reproduction, MIDI events containing note events are sequentially generated. Each time each of the note events is generated, note data is generated based on these no... | 09/10/2009 |
| 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 |
| 20090173216 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING AN AUDIO DATUM A device and a method for analyzing an audio datum is described, having a semitone analyzer which is implemented to analyze the audio datum with regard to a volume information distribution over an amount of semitones, and a vector calculator which is implemented to calc... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090151547 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM The present invention relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a recording medium for analyzing chord progressions more accurately. A featuring quantity extraction unit 41 extracts respectively a probability of given chor... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090107321 | SELECTION OF TONAL COMPONENTS IN AN AUDIO SPECTRUM FOR HARMONIC AND KEY ANALYSIS An audio signal is processed to extract key information by selecting (102) tonal components from the audio signal. A mask is then applied (104) to the selected tonal components to discard at least one tonal component. Note values of the remaining tonal com... | 04/30/2009 |
| 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 |
| 20080289480 | ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT FOR ASSISTING IN IMPROVISATION A musical keyboard includes a plurality of white keys and black keys. As a number of keys are depressed simultaneously, a pattern of the depressed keys is judged as categorized in a number of predetermined patterns of depressed keys in view of the white keys and the bla... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080196576 | HARMONIC ANALYSIS The invention provides methods and apparatuses for creating a two-dimensional graphical representation of music which has been analysed into a chord sequence, by evaluating a first parameter of each chord, e.g. the harmonic root, determining a first display coordinate f... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080190270 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE COMPOSITION, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR The present invention relates to a system, a method, and a computer-readable recording medium, which enable ordinary persons other than professional composers to easily compose music by using a music database provided by an online server. According to one aspect of the ... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080127811 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL APPARATUS HAVING AUTOMATIC PERFORMANCE FEATURE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING A COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREFOR In an automatic performance system, song and style data DAi and DCj (i:1 through n, j:1 through m) contains tempo and meter data TPa, TMa; TPc, TMc, respectively, so that the style data DCj whose tempo and meter data matches with those of the song data DAi is reproduced... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080034947 | CHORD-NAME DETECTION APPARATUS AND CHORD-NAME DETECTION PROGRAM When a first bar-division determination section determines that the bass note changes in a bar or when a second bar-division determination section determines that the degree of change in the chord in the bar is large, a chord-name determination section divides the bar a... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20080028919 | ASSISTIVE APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PLAYING MUSIC An assistive music playing apparatus plays a music piece with musically acceptable notes even when the player inputs musically unacceptable notes. The apparatus provides a chord progression pattern, and comprises a note conversion device. A chord progression pattern def... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080000345 | Apparatus and method for interactive The system comprises an amplified speaker, an input sensing device, a sound synthesizer, and a programmable computer storing and executing a program containing a user input analysis algorithm, a melody composing algorithm associated with a chord supplying algorithm, and... | 01/03/2008 |
| 20070289434 | Chord estimation apparatus and method A chord estimation apparatus includes: frequency-component extraction means for extracting a frequency component from an input music signal; scale-component information generation means for mapping the frequency component extracted by the frequency-component extraction ... | 12/20/2007 |
| 20070144335 | Apparatus and method for determining a type of chord underlying a test signal An apparatus for determining a type of chord has a means for providing a reference vector for the type of chord, a means for providing a reference vector from a test signal, and a means for comparing the reference vector with the test signal vector. The means for provid... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20070000373 | Method of conveying musical information A method of conveying musical information is described. The method includes the steps of assigning sequential alphabetic and numeric designations as a system of reference to the physical location of individual piano keys on a piano keyboard, the physical location corres... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20060201311 | Chord presenting apparatus and storage device storing a chord presenting computer program CPU 31 reads out plural chord data which are stored in external storage device 34 or the like and represent a series of chords, and presents to a user the chords represented by the chord data. In presenting the chords to the user, display 21 or exte... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060191399 | Fingering guidance apparatus and program A fingering guidance image 81 for guiding a fingering upon performing a chord of a stringed instrument to a user is displayed on a display device. This fingering guidance image 81 includes a musical instrument image 811 indicating a guitar, a depres... | 08/31/2006 |
| 20060070510 | Musical composition data creation device and method An apparatus and a method for making music data each perform converting an input audio signal indicative of a music piece into a frequency signal indicative of magnitudes of frequency components at predetermined time intervals; extracting frequency components correspond... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060027080 | Entry of musical data in a mobile communication device Within a mobile communication device (100), a method (300) of specifying two or more musical notes for substantially concurrent playback can include receiving (302) an input specifying a root note (FIG. 2) indicating a position on a neck of a... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20050160901 | Song selection apparatus and method A song selection device stores song characteristic quantities of a plurality of songs. A user operates the song selection device to enter personal properties and a sensibility word. The song selection device selects a song having a song characteristic quantity correspon... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050150360 | Play data editing device and method of editing play data A play data editing device edits play data according to a characteristic of a speaker. The play data editing device includes a dividing unit (301) for dividing first play data into second play data per channel; a classifying unit (302) for classifying the ... | 07/14/2005 |
| 20050109194 | Automatic musical composition classification device and method An automatic musical composition classification device and method that allow a plurality of musical compositions to be automatically classified based on the melody similarity. Chord progression pattern data representing a chord progression sequence for each of the plura... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050103189 | Music selecting apparatus and method A music selecting apparatus and method, which are capable to indicate a music piece matching with the sensitivities of the user. A degree of chord change is stored as data for each of a plurality of music pieces, a sensitivity word for music selection is set in accordan... | 05/19/2005 |
| 20050076771 | Method of conveying musical information Disclosed is a method of conveying musical information. The method includes the steps of assigning sequential numeric designations to primary, ionian musical tones, and modeling a musical passage comprised of a series of tones by compiling a pattern of printed or electr... | 04/14/2005 |
