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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100224051 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT HAVING AD-LIB PERFORMANCE FUNCTION AND PROGRAM FOR AD-LIB PERFORMANCE FUNCTION The ROM 101 stores a chord scale note table composed of a plurality of scale by 12 notes starting from a chord tone in which C note is given as a root note and arranging a chord scale note as an inverted form of a chord in which the note is given as the lowest no... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100192755 | AUTOMATIC ACCOMPANIMENT FOR VOCAL MELODIES A graphical user interface for facilitating generation of an accompaniment for a recorded audio melody is described. A Hidden Markov Model, trained with blended chord transition matrices and melody observation matrices, is used for providing the accompaniment for the re... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20090064851 | Automatic Accompaniment for Vocal Melodies A method for generating an accompaniment for a recorded audio melody includes providing a recorded audio melody that includes segments; performing a frequency analysis of the recorded audio melody; summing the total duration of each fundamental frequency within a segmen... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20080173161 | Intonation Training Device An intonation training device for training musicians in just intonation. As disclosed, the device is a pocket-sized portable device with an audio output and a user interface which includes an LCD display and a device such as a push button for selecting an item from a me... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20070240559 | MUSICAL TONE SIGNAL GENERATING APPARATUS A musical tone signal generating apparatus enabling a user to designate a desired chord in a selected key of a piece of music with a simple operation such as operating a numeric key. A chord assigning section assigns numeric keys with respective ones of numeric keys in ... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20060272486 | Music editing method and related devices Music editing methods. A tonic chord is received. A group of candidate chords corresponding to the tonic chord is automatically retrieved. One of the candidate chords is selected, and a chord progressing of a music file is set with the tonic chord and the selected candi... | 12/07/2006 |
| 20050145098 | Automatic accompaniment apparatus and a storage device storing a program for operating the same An automatic accompaniment apparatus includes: a storage unit for storing accompaniment style data including basic accompaniment data for automatic accompaniment and replacement accompaniment data to be reproduced in place of the basic accompaniment data; and a reproduc... | 07/07/2005 |
