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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120011989 | OPERATION DETECTION APPARATUS Operation detection apparatus includes a sensor section, and a pad formed of a transparent or translucent material and including at least one hitting portion provided on its surface. The hitting portion is suitable for being hit by a user. The sensor section is provided... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20100307322 | METHOD FOR SYNTHESIZING TONE SIGNAL AND TONE SIGNAL GENERATING SYSTEM An electronic piano includes a tone signal synthesizing system implemented by software, keys and key sensors monitoring the keys and reporting the key positions to the tone signal synthesizing system, and the tone signal synthesizing system includes damper model calcula... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100269670 | Foot-Operated Audio Effects Device A foot-operated audio effects device (10) receives, stores and operates at least one software audio effect plug-in (86). At least two of the audio effect plug-in (86) may be designed to operate under different operating systems. The device (10 | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100236388 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT A computer portion 70 determines main reaction force RF0 by use of a main reaction force table storing main reaction forces which vary according to the velocity and the depth of a depression of the key 11. The computer portion 70 determines f... | 09/23/2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100089225 | Pedal Apparatus and Electronic Keyboard Apparatus Having the Same An electronic keyboard apparatus capable of changing, with a simple construction, a musical tone control characteristic for each pedal manipulation stroke section. A detection value representing a pedal depression depth is converted into an output value according to a t... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20090314156 | REACTIVE FORCE CONTROL APPARATUS FOR PEDAL OF ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT Reactive force control apparatus for a pedal comprises: a movement detection section that detects movement of the pedal; a solenoid that produces a reactive force in response to operation of the pedal; a reference reactive force impartment table defining intensities of ... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090235810 | TOUCH CONTROL APPARATUS OF ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT In order to detect a state of a key 30, a differential acceleration sensor 38 is provided in addition to a common position sensor 35 and a velocity sensor 36. A reaction force applied by a solenoid unit 20 is determined on the basis of... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090183625 | Effects Control Apparatus And Method The invention relates to a method and apparatus for digitally controlling analogue effect devices for musical instruments. The invention comprises an analogue effects device controlled by digital means such that the output sound from the musical instruments is of analog... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090178546 | EFFECT SETTING DEVICE SYSTEMS AND METHODS A first control may be for setting a patch including one or more types of effects to be provided by circuitry to an inputted music signal, the patch associated with multiple candidate keywords to be displayed by a display device. A second control may be for assigning a ... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090019997 | INNER FORCE SENSE CONTROLLING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INNER FORCE SENSE AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT USING THE SAME An electronic keyboard musical instrument has a load applier, which gives rise to inner force sense equivalent to another musical instrument such as a piano in the player through black keys and white keys, and the load applier has a mechanical load applier applying a pa... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090013856 | ELECTRONIC ASSISTANT SYSTEM FOR LESSON IN MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME While a player is fingering a music tune on a piano, an electronic assistant system monitors the keys to see whether or not the player starts to produce tones through a particular playing technique such as repetition; when the electronic assistant system finds particula... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20080223201 | Acoustic-effect assignment controlling apparatus and computer readable medium having a computer program for controlling assignment of acoustic effects When it is determined that Insertion Effect Block 20n for adding the same acoustic effect is found, CPU 13 assigns the Insertion Effect Block 20n for adding the same acoustic effect to a tone color part PTs whose tone color information... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080163746 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND STORAGE MEDIUM Audio player, having many items of music content stored therein and having at least a function for reproducing any one of the items of music content stored therein, is instructed to select and reproduce music content, corresponding to a user-designated music piece, from... | 07/10/2008 |
| 20080115659 | Expressing Music Expressing a musical work includes identifying a series of musical moments in the musical work and electronically specifying values for levels of each musical moment in the series. The electronically-specified values for at least one level are displayed.... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080110323 | Interactive composition palette A system for providing an audio and visual music composition including a composition server accessible to at least one user via a communications network, at least one instrument database accessible by the server including a plurality of musical instruments, a user inter... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20070175318 | Resonance generator According to which a damper is operated before or after keying, one of two resonances is generated. A second waveform storage 18 storing original waveform data of a first resonance based on a music sound including an impact sound of keying according to a before-k... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070137466 | Sound synthesis by combining a slowly varying underlying spectrum, pitch and loudness with quicker varying spectral, pitch and loudness fluctuations The present synthesizer generates an underlying spectrum, pitch and loudness for a sound to be synthesized, and then combines the underlying spectrum, pitch and loudness with stored Spectral, Pitch, and Loudness Fluctuations and noise elements. The input to the synthesi... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070137465 | Sound synthesis incorporating delay for expression The present synthesizer includes functionality for changing over from a current note to the following notes that results in natural and expressive combinations and transitions. The method of the present invention incorporates an delay (actual, functional, or look ahead)... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070084334 | RESONANCE GENERATION DEVICE OF ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, RESONANCE GENERATION METHOD OF ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM A resonance generation device of an electronic musical instrument, including: a key depression state detecting means detecting whether a key which is in a specific relation with a played key is already depressed or not when a key playing operation is performed; a specif... | 04/19/2007 |
| 20070022868 | Performance apparatus and tone generation method therefor A Plurality of key switches for tone-generating are arranged two-dimensionally. Mode setting section sets a tone adjusting mode in which the key switches are caused to function as tone-adjusting operators. In the tone adjusting mode, adjustment of a predetermined tone f... | 02/01/2007 |
| 20060219091 | Electronic musical instrument with velocity indicator A keyboard electronic musical instrument is of a type which comprises a keyboard including a plurality of individual keys for playing individual musical notes and arrayed in a first direction, and a key detecting device for detecting respective key depression velocities... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060201313 | Velocity estimator for manipulators and musical instrument using the same An automatic player piano is a combination between an acoustic piano and an electronic system serving as a recorder and an automatic player; while a user is fingering a piece of music on the acoustic piano, the player strongly depresses some keys and softly depresses ot... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060185503 | Automatic player capable of reproducing stop-and-go key motion and musical instrument using the same A servo controller of an automatic player piano normalizes an actual key position to a value less than a reference value indicative of a target stop on a reference trajectory when the key is found in a region immediately before the target stop and to another value great... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060130640 | Music data modifier for music data expressing delicate nuance, musical instrument equipped with the music data modifier and music system A music data modifier receives pieces of original music data from a master hybrid piano, and partially modifies the pieces of original music data to pieces of modified music data for a slave hybrid piano; each piece of original music data contains a series of values of ... | 06/22/2006 |
| 20060090631 | Rendition style determination apparatus and method On the basis of performance event information, at least two notes to be sounded in succession or in an overlapping relation to each other are detected, and a tone pitch difference between the detected at least two notes is detected. Tone pitch difference limitation rang... | 05/04/2006 |
| 20050211074 | Tone control apparatus and method Rendition style parameters for realizing various release rendition styles and/or attack rendition styles are stored in a memory. Operation-related time lengths are detected which pertain to turning-on and/or turning-off operation of a pedal operator. Any one of the rele... | 09/29/2005 |
| 20050150361 | Musical instrument performing artistic visual expression and controlling system incorporated therein A set of formation data codes, which includes action event codes and duration codes, is loaded in an automatic player piano, and a controller interprets the action event codes for driving the solenoid-operated key actuators; since the solenoid-operated key actuators slo... | 07/14/2005 |
| 20050103190 | Kernal-mode audio processing modules Multiple kernel-mode audio processing modules or filters are combined to form a module or filter graph. The graph is implemented in kernel-mode, reducing latency and jitter when handling audio data (e.g., MIDI data) by avoiding transfers of the audio data to user-mode a... | 05/19/2005 |
| 20050016363 | Extensible kernel-mode audio processing architecture An extensible kernel-mode audio (e.g., MIDI) processing architecture is implemented using multiple modules that together comprise a module graph. The module graph is implemented in kernel-mode, reducing latency and jitter when handling audio data by avoiding transfers o... | 01/27/2005 |
