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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110277617 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A HARMONY NOTE Tone pitch information is extracted from the received input note information. A scale is determined on the basis of retrieved tonality information. A reference scale note is determined on the basis of the extracted tone pitch information and the determined scale. A tone... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110167989 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING PITCH PERIOD OF INPUT SIGNAL Provided are a method and apparatus for detecting a pitch period of an input signal, the method including: generating division frames by dividing the input signal by a unit of a first predetermined number of samples at a time domain; detecting a reference sample which h... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110100198 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A NOTE SIGNAL UPON A MANUAL INPUT An embodiment of a device for generating a note signal upon a manual input includes an operator to enable a user of the same as an input to define one or several points as an input signal, and a controller which is implemented to receive the input signal and to generate... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110048214 | SELECTING DEVICE, SELECTING METHOD, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM A music information memory unit stores music information including identification information on each piece of music and pace information thereof. A process control unit selects out a predetermined number of pieces of music information each of whose identification infor... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20100275760 | Programmable System to Integrate Generated Signals with Signals from a Musical Instrument A programmable system for integrating signals in a musical instrument including a programmable device that is configured to create re-callable scenes, where the scenes are representations of audio signals generated by signal devices. The programmable system also include... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100218664 | ELECTRONIC MUSIC ON HAND PORTABLE AND COMMUNICATION ENABLED DEVICES A portable electronic device having a screen and a numeric keypad, comprises: a sound card for processing sound signals to produce musical tones; a musical synthesizer, associated with said sound card, for electronically synthesizing musical instruments; and a user inte... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100107857 | Tone Control Apparatus and Method Virtual damper position data, simulatively representing a position of a damper member provided for suppressing vibration of a string in a physical tone generating mechanism of the acoustic piano, is generated on the basis of key-on data, key-off data, released key posit... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100024628 | PARAMETER SETTING APPARATUS Each parameter is provided with increase/decrease switches and a slider. In a case where a user desires seamless rough control of the value of a target parameter, the user is to use the slider. In a case where the user desires easy control of the value of the parameter ... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100018382 | System for Musically Interacting Avatars Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for avatars to musically interact with each other. In one representative embodiment, a server is configured to host a virtual environment and various client devices communicate with the server over an ele... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090188378 | MODULAR KEYBOARD SYSTEM Disclosed is a modular electronic musical keyboard performance system that can be separated into modules for better portability and flexibility.... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090173217 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO AUTOMATICALLY MATCH KEYS BETWEEN MUSIC BEING REPRODUCED AND MUSIC BEING PERFORMED AND AUDIO REPRODUCTION SYSTEM EMPLOYING THE SAME A method to automatically match keys between music being reproduced and music being performed includes detecting a key from an audio signal being reproduced from a storage medium or audio source, detecting a key from a sound signal representing music being played by a u... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090090234 | Storage medium storing music playing program, and music playing apparatus The game apparatus stores music data which indicates at least a pitch of each of sounds which form a melody of a predetermined piece of music and an output timing to output each of the sounds. The game apparatus sequentially detects, among the sounds included in the mus... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090025541 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT The electronic musical system comprises a keyboard that has a plurality of keys to designate the pitch, a key operation detector for detecting the operating state of the keyboard, set operator that can switch to the parameter setting state, parameter value input port to... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090000463 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MUSICAL SONIFICATION OF DATA A musical sonification system and method sonifies data, such as real-time financial market data, to produce an audio signal output including a musical rendering of the data. A sonification engine converts the data into sound parameters based on configuration data and a ... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080289481 | SCAT GUITAR SIGNAL PROCESSOR The disclosed subject matter includes, in one aspect, a signal processor having circuitry configured to substitute an assortment of pre-recorded sounds in place of the sound of the guitar. The pre-recorded sounds are triggered by a guitar note that is above a certain th... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080105110 | Embodied music system An embodied music system. The system creates an interactive interface between a listener and the external environment. The system includes a physical device located in the environment that provides sensory input to the listener. An audio signal of the system is adapted ... | 05/08/2008 |
| 20080072742 | ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT Respective sets of black keys and white keys of respective octaves of a keyboard 10 are defined as specific key range, respectively, to assign various tone colors of percussion instruments of a drum set to a plurality of keys included in the respective specific k... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20070256547 | Musically Interacting Devices Provided is, among other things, a system of musically interacting devices. A first device has a first identification code, a first wireless communication interface and a first audio player, and a second device has a second identification code, a second wireless communi... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256546 | Storage medium having music playing program stored therein and music playing apparatus therefor Acceleration data outputted from an acceleration sensor provided in an input device is acquired and a magnitude of an acceleration is calculated. Next, based on the calculated magnitude of the acceleration, at least one piece of track data representing a target music to... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070234883 | Electronic musical instrument system An RF tag having stored therein equipment setting information related to a performance, by an electronic musical instrument, of a given music piece is attached to a music-piece-related information having music-piece-related information of the given music piece presented... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070227340 | METHODS AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS FOR FINGERING ASSIGNMENTS Embodiments of the disclosure relate to assignment of fingering for performance of a musical piece. In one example, a processor of an electronic system receives a file having data relating to at least one musical piece. The processor parses the file and assigns keys to ... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070221047 | Method and apparatus for assigning tone for display object, and computer-readable medium having embodied hereon computer program for executing method thereof A method and apparatus for assigning a tone for an object displayed in a mobile device or a digital convergence product having a display function are provided. The method includes displaying a screen in which a staff and at least one musical note are assigned to each of... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070214944 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT HAVING CONTROLLER EXACTLY DISCRIMINATING HALF-PEDAL AND CONTROLLING SYSTEM USED THEREIN A mute piano is responsive to key movements and pedal movements so as to produce music data codes expressing the pitch of tones and pedal effect to be given to the tones in accordance with the MIDI protocols, and the damper pedal stroke is divided into a rest region, a ... | 09/20/2007 |
| 20070131097 | Method and system for regulating music based on the location of a device A method and system for regulating music played by a mobile device based on a location of the device is useful for enhancing enjoyment and satisfaction derived from activities such as physical exercise programs. The method includes determining a first location of the mo... | 06/14/2007 |
| 20070113726 | Using music to influence a person's exercise performance Aspects of the invention use music to influence a person's performance in a physical workout. A computing device receives and analyzes data indicating current physiology and movement of the user in order to provide a music piece that will influence the user to speed up,... | 05/24/2007 |
| 20070084333 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF IN A MULTIMEDIA PLAYER In a portable multimedia device, a method, apparatus, and system for providing user supplied configuration data are described. In one embodiment, a hierarchically ordered graphical user interface are provided. A first order, or home, interface provides a highest order o... | 04/19/2007 |
| 20070006708 | GAMING DEVICE WHICH DYNAMICALLY MODIFIES BACKGROUND MUSIC BASED ON PLAY SESSION EVENTS A gaming device having a sound generating device operable to produce a background sound. The gaming device tracks play session events and determines when the tracked events meet a designated characteristic or parameter. The gaming device modifies the background sound ba... | 01/11/2007 |
| 20060288848 | User interface for simultaneous management of owned and unowned inventory The present invention provides a user configurable computer interface for managing inventory. The interface provides a list, generated according to a user-defined organization. The list includes both owned and un-owned items and provides a means for sampling and purchas... | 12/28/2006 |
| 20060288847 | User interface for simultaneous management of owned and unowned inventory The present invention provides a user configurable computer interface for managing inventory. The interface provides a list, generated according to a user-defined organization. The list includes both owned and un-owned items and provides a means for sampling and purchas... | 12/28/2006 |
| 20060236848 | System and method for dynamic note assignment for musical synthesizers An embodiment of the invention creates a method and system for assigning notes to be played by a musical synthesizer to a predetermined number of instrument voices available to be sounded by said musical synthesizer, so that the musical synthesizer may emulate the sound... | 10/26/2006 |
| 20060213355 | Sound generation assignment device, music sound generator and sound generation assignment process program A CPU sets an application of music sound generation to each of plural ports, and a priority to the set application, and further sets the maximum number of channels that assign an arbitrary sound source to each port from plural kinds of sound sources and produce sounds. ... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060185502 | Apparatus and method for detecting performer's motion to interactively control performance of music or the like Performance interface system includes a motion detector provided for movement with a performer, and a control system for receiving detection data transmitted from the motion detector and controlling a performance of a tone in response to the received detection data. Sta... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060169126 | Music classification device, music classification method, and program A parameter used in sorting genre is adequately set to improve sorting accuracy. To this end, a music sorter includes a parameter selecting section 160 for obtaining a plurality of candidate genres which are genres to which the music possibly belongs and for sele... | 08/03/2006 |
| 20060144211 | Data input device and data input method An efficient and user friendly data entry device and data entry method. At least a first symbol and a second symbol are printed on a key-top, and at least a first switch and a second switch are provided corresponding to the symbols. The first switch is activated when th... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060101985 | System and method for determining genre of audio Both the beat and genre of music are used to select or generate a dance robot object for display of a robot icon on a computer monitor or for establishing the movements of a three-dimensional robot. The detected genre can define the type of dance performed by the robot.... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20060065106 | Apparatus and method for changing a segmentation of an audio piece For changing a segmentation of an audio piece after a segment class assignment, at first a short segment is selected, which has a length shorter than a predetermined minimum length. This short segment is preferably merged with the corresponding successor segment or pred... | 03/30/2006 |
| 20060060068 | Apparatus and method for controlling music play in mobile communication terminal Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for controlling music play in a mobile communication terminal. The apparatus includes a motion recognition sensor unit for detecting a motion of the mobile communication terminal and outputting detection signals, a sound source ch... | 03/23/2006 |
| 20050257669 | MIDI scalable polyphony based on instrument priority and sound quality A method of scaling polyphony can include identifying music data to be played (415), wherein the music data indicates instruments to be used and each instrument has an assigned priority. A measure of polyphony needed to play the music data can be compared with po... | 11/24/2005 |
| 20050155484 | Electronic musical apparatus displaying network service items for selection and computer program therefor An electronic musical apparatus is of a data processing type and is connectable to an external server via a communication network. The apparatus comprises a display screen, item selecting keys arranged around the display screen, and a communication device to connect wit... | 07/21/2005 |
| 20050126369 | Automatic extraction of musical portions of an audio stream Music and non-music portions in an audio stream are identified. The audio stream is digitized and segmented into frames. Selected frames are passed through a filter bank which includes filters having bandwidths approximately proportional to their center frequencies. The... | 06/16/2005 |
