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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7202407 | Tone material editing apparatus and tone material editing program There are provided tone material editing apparatus and program. The tone material editing apparatus is connected to a tone material providing apparatus that provides tone material data. Video data stored in the tone material editing apparatus is reproduced. The tone... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203702 | Information sequence extraction and building apparatus e.g. for producing personalised music title sequences This invention serves to provide an apparatus for storing at least one sequence of information formed from a succession of information items in which an artistic or rational link is considered to exist between at least some pairs of adjacent items in the succession.... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7193635 | Portable terminal, overlay output method, and program therefor A portable terminal allows the user to flexibly and readily change an overlay output distribution for reproduced data in accordance with the user's taste and can automatically control the overlay output distribution in accordance with a surrounding environment. A se... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7189915 | Singing voice synthesizing method, singing voice synthesizing device, program, recording medium, and robot A singing voice synthesizing method for synthesizing the singing voice from performance data is disclosed. The input performance data are analyzed as the musical information of the pitch and the length of sounds and the lyric (S2 and S3). A track as th... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7191190 | Meta data management for media content objects Meta data associated with multiple pieces of content (e.g., songs, movies, other audio/video clips, etc.) stored on multiple pieces of media (e.g., CDs, DVDs, etc.) is maintained in a meta data store. The meta data store also includes meta data associated with other... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7188352 | Intelligent digital audiovisual playback system Payment-based audiovisual playback system characterized by comprising a microprocessor unit, primarily including storage means for storing inter alia in digital form the visual and sound information to be used, and associated, through a number of interfaces, with di... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187848 | Digital video system The erasion level appending range of a file is instructed. According to this instruction, the erasion level is set. When this setting range does not agree with the cell unit of the current cell, the current cell is divided to set a sequence of divided cells. Playbac... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7183482 | Singing voice synthesizing method, singing voice synthesizing device, program, recording medium, and robot apparatus A singing voice synthesizing method synthesizes the singing voice by exploiting performance data, such as MIDI data. The input performance data are analyzed as the musical information including the pitch and the length of the sounds and the lyric (S2 and S... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7176372 | Interactive digital music recorder and player A digital multi-media device provides features for a user unskilled in musical arts or sound handling techniques that provides automatic musical score composition in accordance with contained composition instructions. Stored sound samples and interfaces for obtainin... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7173178 | Singing voice synthesizing method and apparatus, program, recording medium and robot apparatus A singing voice synthesizing method and a singing voice synthesizing apparatus in which the singing voice is synthesized using performance data such as MIDI data. The performance data entered is analyzed as the musical information of the sound pitch, sound duration ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174557 | Method and apparatus for event distribution and event handling in an enterprise An event distribution and event handling system receives a first event at a first event filter. The first event filter has a set of associated filter criteria, which is applied to the first event. If the first event satisfies the filter criteria, the first event is ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7164076 | System and method for synchronizing a live musical performance with a reference performance In a music video game, a player's performance is digitally sampled while the player performs a musical composition. The player's performance is compared with a reference performance of the musical composition provided by the music video game. Performance feedback is... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164075 | Music session support method, musical instrument for music session, and music session support program A music session support method which enables each of players in a music session which is performed via a network to immediately recognize whether or not the other players are in the state of being able to participate in the session. A session support apparatus 10... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161081 | Portable telephony apparatus with music tone generator A sound control apparatus is provided in a portable terminal for sounding a music tone in association with operation of the portable terminal, which is controlled by a main CPU. In the sound control apparatus, a memory memorizes music information representing a musi... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7156742 | Memory cartridge system A memory cartridge system includes a main body, and a main body ROM incorporated in the main body is stored with a warning message display program, and a memory cartridge attachable to or detachable from the main body is stored with a karaoke program. When the memor... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154514 | Systems and methods for downscaling an image Systems and methods for downscaling an image. An original image, represented by a collection of individual pixels, is provided so as to be downscaled. One or more of the scan lines of the original image are selectively skipped. One or more of the pixels of non-skipp... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149471 | Portable cellular phone Music data stored in a data card 101 is input into a portable cellular phone 110, and also a plurality of pieces of application software (131, 133) suitable for a music data format defined in connection with the music data is selected by a user ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7142807 | Method of providing Karaoke service to mobile terminals using a wireless connection between the mobile terminals A method of providing a Karaoke service to mobile terminals through wireless connection between them. The mobile terminals are grouped as a service group and one of them is designated as a master mobile terminal and the other mobile terminals as slave mobile termina... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7141733 | Karaoke apparatus, content reproducing apparatus, method of managing music piece data for a karaoke apparatus, and method of managing content data for content reproducing apparatus Music piece data of so-called managed music pieces, each of which requires allowance of performance for each karaoke apparatus are stored in a hard disk in the same manner as music piece data of other karaoke music pieces. A ROM (20), which has stored therein... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7134876 | Sound system with dedicated vocal channel A karaoke sound system had a mixer that combines the singer's real-time voice signal from a microphone with the pre-recorded background song/music signal from a player, an amplifier that receives the mixed signal from the mixer to provide amplification or gain boost... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7129406 | Automatic performance apparatus An automatic performance apparatus reproduces, by a program process executed on a computer, automatic performance data comprising a series of performance data which is assigned to one channel of a plurality of channels and to which a channel number representative of... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7122732 | Apparatus and method for separating music and voice using independent component analysis algorithm for two-dimensional forward network Provided is an apparatus and method for separating music and voice using an independent component analysis method for a two-dimensional forward network. The apparatus of separating music and voice can separate voice signal and a music signal, each of which are indep... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124084 | Singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus and storage medium There are provided a singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus capable of performing synthesis of natural singing voices close to human singing voices based on performance data being input in real time. Performance data is inputted for each phonetic unit const... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124194 | Audiovisual distribution system for playing an audiovisual piece among a plurality of audiovisual devices connected to a central server through a network Audiovisual reproduction system triggered by payment from a user, developed around a microprocessor device, said system comprising memory containing, in compressed digital form, audio and visual information to be used, a display and digital audio reproduction unit e... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7110838 | Method and apparatus for downloading data to portable devices There are provided a download system and a download control method for portable players, which enable a user to download music data to the portable player by a simple operation, and a storage medium that stores a program for executing the download control method. Th... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7102688 | System and method for using a hand held device to display a readable representation of an audio track A system and method for using a hand held device having a display to display a readable representation of an audio track of a playing media such as, for example, a television program, a compact disc, or digital video disc. In one embodiment, the system generally inc... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103318 | Microphone accessory An accessory for use with a microphone has an electronic screen by means of which communications such as advertisements, messages, logos, the name of a TV station and the like may be displayed. The accessory may be attachable to the microphone itself, or to a boom, ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7102072 | Apparatus and computer program for detecting and correcting tone pitches The tone pitch of a given tone waveform is detected by forming an envelope waveform of the given tone waveform, holding the level of the envelope waveform at each of the zero cross times of the given tone waveform and releasing such holding starting new holding when... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7094960 | Musical score display apparatus A musical score display apparatus reads note data and lyric data, and displays the read note data and lyric data on a displayed musical score. In the case where the lyric data are displayed to match the displayed note data, a position where character strings of the ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7093164 | Information processing apparatus and memory cartridge system An information processing apparatus includes a high-speed processor, and the high-speed processor processes a game program restored in a memory cartridge. A power control routine is then executed, and capacitors (C4, C5) included in a charge pump circu... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7078609 | Interactive digital music recorder and player A digital multi-media device provides features for a user unskilled in musical arts or sound handling techniques that provides automatic musical score composition in accordance with contained composition instructions. Stored sound samples and interfaces for obtainin... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079754 | Digital video system The erasion level appending range of a file is instructed. According to this instruction, the erasion level is set. When this setting range does not agree with the cell unit of the current cell, the current cell is divided to set a sequence of divided cells. Playbac... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076205 | Control method, control apparatus, data receiving and recording method, data receiver and receiving method A data receiving and recording method and data receiver are provided for receiving data coded by a predetermined method and copyright information attached to the data. While recording the received data on a predetermined recording medium, the copyright information i... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075921 | Remote media control for voice over internet telephony and related applications A person receiving a Voice over IP call, such as a call center agent, remotely controls media settings on a caller's multimedia terminal device functioning as a telephone terminal device. In some embodiments, the call center agent may remotely control media settings... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7066737 | Reading/teaching aid A method of reading using a reading aid (12) including a handle part (14) which is adapted to be gripped manually at a location spaced from text to be read, and a cursor part (15) attached to the handle part (14) and extending transversel... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068596 | Interactive data transmission system having staged servers Methods and apparatus for use in a network including a local server coupled to a central server, the local server being coupled to a plurality of network devices, for interactively controlling from one of the plurality of network devices a flow of audio visual data ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065557 | Method and apparatus for consuming content at a network address User interface apparatus (1) comprising electronic user interface device (2) and storage device (3), the electronic user interface device being operative to convey information to a user, the information being derived from a resource which is rem... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7058889 | Synchronizing text/visual information with audio playback A method of synchronizing visual information with audio playback includes the steps of selecting a desired audio file from a list stored in memory associated with a display device, sending a signal from the display device to a separate playback device to cause the s... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053915 | Method and system for enhancing virtual stage experience The present invention is a system and method for increasing the value of the audio-visual entertainment systems, such as karaoke, by simulating a virtual stage environment and enhancing the user's facial image in a continuous video input, automatically, dynamically ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053957 | Demonstrating an effect of a signal-processing operation by a signal-processing device The invention relates to a device for demonstrating an effect of a selected signal-processing operation. The device comprises signal-processing means (3) for processing incoming signals to supply said signals to presentation means (9), and demonstratio... | 05/30/2006 |
