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...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6835887 | Methods and apparatus for providing an interactive musical game An interactive electronic drum system and training techniques suitable for use in a coin-operated environment such as an arcade are described. Electronic drum pads, audio speakers, a visual display, training lights and an overall control system are combined to simul... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6782299 | Method and apparatus for digital signal processing, method and apparatus for generating control data, and medium for recording program Audio control data extracted from SMF data by a data decoder section is supplied to an audio decoder section. The audio decoder section receives the audio control signal and generates a tone as an audio output in accordance with the audio control signal. If the deco... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6758756 | Method of controlling video game, video game device, and medium recording video game program The present invention relates to a method for controlling a novel video game in which dancing is used as a factor in the behavior of a character, a machine for the video game, and a medium in which a program for the video game is recorded, and makes it possible to d... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6702585 | 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 beco... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6702584 | 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 rin... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6702677 | Entertainment system, entertainment apparatus, recording medium, and program An entertainment system includes a sound presentation trial processing unit for displaying an object relatively moving on at least one track displayed on a display unit, allowing the user to try to acquire the object with a control input, and outputting a... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6703551 | Musical scale recognition method and apparatus thereof A musical scale recognition apparatus includes an analog/digital converter and a processor, and can determine by the processor how close an input analog audio signal is to a musical scale of a musical tone to be recognized by repeatedly performing a calcu... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6692259 | 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 e... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6659873 | Game system, game device capable of being used in the game system, and computer-readable memory medium Data link-up between multiple game devices can be more flexibly achieved. A game system (1) comprises a game device for business (2) and a game device for use at home (3), which execute games in accordance with predetermined programs, it being possible to... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6657114 | Apparatus and method for generating additional sound on the basis of sound signal Sound signal indicative of a human voice or musical tone is input, and the pitch of the input sound signal is detected. Then, a scale note pitch is determined which is nearest to the detected pitch of the input sound signal. In the meantime, a scale note ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6657116 | Method and apparatus for scheduling music for specific listeners A music system selects a music library containing multiple music albums, in which each music album contains multiple songs. The system identifies listener preferences associated with a first listener and identifies listener preferences associated with a s... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6645067 | Music staging device apparatus, music staging game method, and readable storage medium A CPU controls a graphic controller based on control programs within a main RAM to extract a series of rhythm sound data for each of multiple mimic percussion instruments from a graphic RAM and correlates these in a time-axial direction for display on a m... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6632992 | System and method for distributing music data with advertisement A music data providing apparatus comprises a memory that stores a plurality of music data and a plurality of advertisement data, a receiver that receives a request for a desired music data from a user via a network, an advertisement appending device that ... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6607446 | Music game system, game control method for the game system, and computer-readable memory medium Disclosed is a music game system in which the attraction of a game is increased by effectively using limited music data. The music game system comprises an input device 4 for outputting signals in correspondence with the operation states of push-switches ... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6598230 | Multimedia box network The invention relates to a multimedia box network consisting of a data server comprising a mass storage device, on which digital pieces of music and/or videos are stored, and of a plurality of multimedia boxes, with one multimedia box in each case compris... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6582235 | Method and apparatus for displaying music piece data such as lyrics and chord data Display device displays a character string of lyrics and accompaniment information. Characters or unit words of the lyrics corresponding to a current performance position and a next performance position are displayed in different display styles, in accord... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6572381 | Computer system and karaoke system A computer system includes storage device for storing a plurality of object files, each file including a program and information on the genre of music, and said computur system selecting an object file from the storage device and executing a program store... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6570080 | Method and system for supplying contents via communication network The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for making sample contents from music contents whereby server and user are connected with each other via a communication network, whereby the server supplies non-sample regular contents including... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6563038 | Karaoke system A karaoke system which can be conveniently used by children and youths and help to enhance their creative power and thinking power. The karaoke system includes a main unit connectable to a display unit through a wire or by wireless. The main unit feeds th... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6552254 | Method and system for supplying contents via communication network The transmission of sample or regular content such as audio data from a server to a single client over a communication network for test-listening or purchase is disclosed. A user may choose a musical selection for test-listening. The sample content may be... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6537078 | System and apparatus for a karaoke entertainment center An entertainment system for storing, transmitting and displaying music, pictures and sound from videos and audios in any format for users to sing or act along with. The entertainment system includes an entertainment center having a central computer and se... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6535269 | Video karaoke system and method of use Method and system for customizing a motion film selection by selecting a film clip including a video track and a sound track comprising one or more actor voice tracks and a background track, modifying the sound track to remove a selected actor voice track... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6525251 | Method of displaying the title and words of songs on a digital music player A method of displaying the title and words of songs on a portable digital music player includes the steps of using an editing software to edit words of songs into pages, storing the pages of words of the songs in the hard diskdrive of a computer for enabl... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6520776 | Portable karaoke microphone device and karaoke apparatus A portable karaoke microphone device and karaoke apparatus in which accompanying melody data and character data such as lyrics, etc. are written into a first memory that consists of an EEPROM such as a flash memory, etc. This first memory is detachably co... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6516323 | Telecom karaoke system A telecom karaoke system is configured by linking a musical data receiving terminal for receiving from a host base station necessary data for musical performance and a WWW page access terminal for accessing a page or a document on WWW via a WWW server. In... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6514083 | 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 performer; and a karaoke processor system including a video environme... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6488508 | 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 beco... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6477506 | Terminal apparatus, information service center, transmitting system, and transmitting method A transmitting system in which a data once downloaded in a memory 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 of the terminal apparatus, and a ... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6461239 | Music action game machine, performance operation instructing system for music action game and storage device readable by computer The music action game machine comprises: a main body; an operation input device disposed on a front side of the main body so as to be adjacent to hands of a player facing the front side of the main body, the operation input device having a plurality of op... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6450888 | Game system and program Disclosed is a game system which matches a player's tastes. In a game system operating in time with music, it is possible to select an edit mode for editing timing data which define timings of operations. In the edit mode, an edit window having a predeter... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6437228 | Method and apparatus for storing audio data When audio data are to be stored into a large-capacity memory such as a hard disk device, a shared storage section is set in the memory so as to be used both for storing audio data of one or more songs and for storing song management data for each of the ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6429366 | Device and method for creating and reproducing data-containing musical composition information To musical composition information such as a standard MIDI file, there are added accessory data, such as message or text data, and setting information for the accessory information which are both unrelated to the musical composition information. These acc... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6423892 | Method, wireless MP3 player and system for downloading MP3 files from the internet A method, wireless MP3 player and system for downloading MP3 files from MP3 content sites that are in data communication with the Internet. The method comprises the steps of providing a wireless application protocol network in data communication with the ... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6379244 | Music action game machine, performance operation instructing system for music action game and storage device readable by computer The music action game machine comprises: a main body; an operation input device disposed on a front side of the main body so as to be adjacent to hands of a player facing the front side of the main body, the operation input device having a plurality of op... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6369311 | Apparatus and method for generating harmony tones based on given voice signal and performance data A harmony tone generating apparatus receives a voice wave signal bearing musical tone pitches such as a singer's or a speaker's human voice signal and a musician's instrumental voice signal, and plural kinds of performance data, each representing a musica... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6369313 | Method and apparatus for simulating a jam session and instructing a user in how to play the drums An interactive electronic drum system and training techniques suitable for use in a coin-operated environment such as an arcade are described. Electronic drum pads, audio speakers, a visual display, training lights and an overall control system are combin... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6352432 | Karaoke apparatus A karaoke apparatus is provided in which a plurality of singers can sing at a time and superiority/inferiority of singing voices can be matched. One karaoke music piece is performed, and two persons sing the music piece at a time by using different microp... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6351540 | Digital echo circuit An input musical sound signal is converted into a digital signal by an A/D converter (10), and then supplied to a feed back loop (22) having a digital delay circuit (16), so that an echo is produced. A distortion-adding block (28) is disposed in the feed ... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6331669 | Broadband communication karaoke A broadband communication karaoke includes a tuner, a transceiver, a decoder, a video conditioner, a karaoke signal processor, a microprocessor and an IR receiver, wherein the tuner is connected to a cable of CATV systems while the microprocessor is used ... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6328570 | Portable karaoke unit A portable, programmable karaoke unit that is flexible in its use. Data may be stored and retrieved in compressed digital data format from an internal memory or a removable storage medium. The unit is operable by remote control and transmits audio data ov... | 12/11/2001 |
