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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7050462 | Real time communications of musical tone information A musical tone data communications system having a unit for generating MIDI data of a musical performance by a player, a unit for transmitting the generated MIDI data over a communications network and a unit for receiving the transmitted MIDI data and reproducing mu... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050518 | Data transmission method The invention relates to a method for the asynchronous serial data transmission between a transmitter and a receiver over a radio transmission link, whereby a synchronization data frame and a carrier recognition frame is arranged in front of the useful data frame. T... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7030311 | System and method for delivering a multimedia presentation to a user and to allow the user to play a musical instrument in conjunction with the multimedia presentation Disclosed is a system and method to deliver a multimedia presentation of an audio file to a computing device for display to a user and further to allow the user to play a musical instrument in conjunction with the multimedia presentation. In response to a user selec... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031476 | Method and apparatus for intelligent speaker A speaker system having intelligence for communication with the amplifier. The speaker system contains a communications module that transmits information across the connection between the speaker system and the amplifier with regard to the speaker characteristics. T... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028082 | Personalized audio system and method A personalized audio system and method that overcomes many of the broadcast-type disadvantages associated with conventional radio stations. According to one embodiment, the personalized audio system includes the following: (1) a user interface that enables a user of... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027847 | Communications system and method, wireless communications system, wireless microphone and wireless receiver Herein disclosed a communications system according to the present invention comprises, a wireless microphone transmission apparatus for transmitting a radio microphone signal on a predetermined wireless microphone frequency channel carrying a voice signal and a tone... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024181 | System and method of transmitting service content in a mobile communication system An arrangement for using a mobile communication service within a mobile communication system in which a mobile station is adapted to send a transmission request for an available service. The system receives the request and registers the request in a transmission que... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7022905 | Classification of information and use of classifications in searching and retrieval of information A method and apparatus are provided for classification of information and using the classification information in search and retrieval of information. In one embodiment, musical compositions having various highly subjective characteristics and features are classifie... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7010291 | Mobile telephone unit using singing voice synthesis and mobile telephone system A mobile telephone unit of the invention comprises a storage section for storing karaoke piece data, a controller for reading the karaoke piece data from the storage section, analyzing the karaoke piece data, and fetching melody information and singing voice synthes... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010328 | Wireless communications system, wireless microphone transmission apparatus, and wireless receiving apparatus Herein disclosed a communications system according to the present invention comprising: a wireless microphone transmission apparatus for transmitting a radio microphone signal on a predetermined wireless microphone frequency channel carrying a voice signal and a ton... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006416 | Record medium with mechanism of secrecy protection A record medium preventing a first drive device from reading data therefrom while allowing a second drive device to read the data therefrom wherein data-read operation is performed according to volume management information stored in the record medium, including a p... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003515 | Consumer item matching method and system A method of determining at least one match item corresponding to a source item. A database of multiple items such as songs is created. Each song is also represented by an n-dimensional database vector in which each element corresponding to one of n musical character... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003496 | Terminal apparatus, information service center, transmitting system, and transmitting method A transmitting system is provided in which a data once downloaded in a memory means of a terminal apparatus from an information service center is returned to the information service center while the returned data is deleted from the memory means of the terminal appa... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6993509 | Method and apparatus for distributing multimedia programs Distribution of audio and other multimedia content is accomplished by generating a multimedia session consisting of at least one multimedia program, generating a data session consisting of digital files including at least one software player program and a digital co... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6987222 | Determining similarity between artists and works of artists A method of determining a numerical value of similarity as between a pair of artists is set forth. In the method, for each artist, a list of artist style values is calculated, where each artist style value is representative of a style of the artist and a weight of s... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6979769 | Data reproducing device, data reproducing method, and information terminal Each of MIDI data, audio data, text data and image data to be received in a data receiving section is SMF-formatted data including event information and event-executing delta time. A data sorting section sorts data based on data type depending upon a delta time of e... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6975995 | Network based music playing/song accompanying service system and method A system and method for providing a service of playing an accompaniment/musical performance is disclosed. In order to embody the system and method for providing the service of playing the accompaniment/musical performance, virtual orchestra system (VOS) files, which... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6971882 | Method and apparatus for providing interactive karaoke entertainment An interactive karaoke system includes a microphone developing an audio input from at least one karaoke performer; a camera producing a series of video frames including the at least one karaoke performer; and a karaoke processor system including a video environment ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6973019 | Recording medium reproducing apparatus In a recording medium reproducing apparatus that can reproduce a recording medium such as a CD-R or CD-RW recording therein compressed audio data, a track number of three or more digits can be indicated using an existing display portion that is designed to indicate ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6969797 | Interface device to couple a musical instrument to a computing device to allow a user to play a musical instrument in conjunction with a multimedia presentation Disclosed is an interface device to couple a musical instrument to a computing device to allow a user to play a musical instrument in conjunction with a multimedia presentation. The interface device comprises a processor, a D/A converter, and a digital audio interfa... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6967275 | Song-matching system and method A song-matching system, which provides real-time, dynamic recognition of a song being sung and providing an audio accompaniment signal in synchronism therewith, includes a song database having a repertoire of songs, each song of the database being stored as a relati... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967276 | 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... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965659 | Device and method for detecting a period of an input signal A device and method for detecting a period of an input signal including a count value setting portion; an A/D converter; a zero cross point detecting portion to detect a symbol change of digital values received from the A/D converter; a arithmetic processing unit; a... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6945784 | Generating a musical part from an electronic music file Generating a pitched musical part from an electronic music file comprised of instrumental parts includes generating a control stream that indicates which of the instrumental parts has a highest value for a period of time, selecting one of the instrumental parts for ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6940982 | Adaptive noise cancellation (ANC) for DVD systems An apparatus comprising an input, a noise cancellation circuit, an audio circuit and a mixing circuit. The input may be configured to receive one or more input signals. The noise cancellation circuit may be configured to generate a first processed audio signal havin... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6931377 | Information processing apparatus and method for generating derivative information from vocal-containing musical information An information processing apparatus for separating input musical number information into a vocal information part containing lyrics in a first language and an accompaniment information part, and for producing second musical number information made of the accompanime... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6931021 | Multichannel digital data sending device and method, information organizing device and method, and multichannel digital data managing device and method An information source management system 11 performs inventory management for CDs and a material information management progress programming system 12 performs programming. An material information registration system 13 compresses the musical num... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6928433 | Automatic hierarchical categorization of music by metadata A method, performed by software executing on the processor of a portable music playback device, that automatically files tracks according to hierarchical structure of categories to organize tracks in a logical order. A user interface is utilized to change the hierar... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6928037 | Method for playing back recording medium A method for playing a recording medium, in particular an optical storage disc, used to access titles more quickly. Stored in a run-in area of the recording medium is at least one address area that includes at least one address of a beginning of a title stored on th... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6924425 | Method and apparatus for storing a multipart audio performance with interactive playback A computer-readable medium stores a data structure that encodes an audio performance for interactive playback. The data structure includes a virtual instrument pool, which encodes an interactive part of the audio performance. Audio content of the interactive part is... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6913536 | Game machine and program therefor Game machines automatically change the difficulty level of the game operation in the middle of the game based on an evaluation made on a player's game operation. A game machine determines, at least in terms of timing and type, whether the player's inputted button op... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6911592 | 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... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6909451 | Method for generating video programs, variants, and system for realizing this method The invention relates to television, interactive television, user interfaces, video conferences and may be used in the creation of video programs with interactive interaction between participants of video programs and objects generated by a computer program. The tec... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6907189 | Apparatus for recording and/or playing back catalog information A storage medium which stores catalog information and a catalog information recording and/or playback apparatus and method therefor. Using the method, catalog information including a still picture and additional information together with audio data are recorded on a... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6904230 | Storage medium storing catalog information A storage medium which stores catalog information and a catalog information playback apparatus and method therefor. Using the method, catalog information including a still picture and additional information together with audio data are recorded on a storage medium s... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6889193 | Method and system for smart cross-fader for digital audio The present invention provides an improved system and method for cross-fading digital audio files. The method includes determining a plurality of characteristics for a first and a second digital audio files; associating the plurality of characteristics with the firs... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6875021 | Interactive communication system for communicating video game and karaoke software A communication system is proposed for transmitting at least one of the data, the program, and a combination of them from a host facility to a communicator such as a communication terminal device. In this communication system, the data or the program becomes unable ... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6851952 | Karaoke device with built-in microphone and microphone therefor A karaoke device with built-in microphone includes a main body microphone, and converts an audio signal from the microphone into audio data by an A/D converter, and writes the audio data into a ring buffer by mixing with the data already stored in the ring buffer. I... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6843726 | Game system A game system is provided with a converting means including a voice input member, such as a microphone, for allowing the game player or his/her friend to input voices and for converting the inputted voices into electrical signal data, a sound data storage for storin... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6838608 | Lyric display method, lyric display computer program and lyric display apparatus Performance data and lyric data stored in an external storage device 35 is read out in accordance with the progression of a song. The performance data is sent to a tone generator 36, so that melody and accompaniment tones are reproduced by use of the p... | 01/04/2005 |
