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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5899699 | Karaoke network system with endless broadcasting of song data through multiple channels A karaoke network system is composed of a central station for serving a plurality of song data pieces, and a karaoke terminal connected to the central station through a communication network having multiple channels for selectively receiving therefrom one... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5898119 | Method and apparatus for generating musical accompaniment signals, and method and device for generating a video output in a musical accompaniment apparatus In a method and apparatus for generating audio-visual musical accompaniment signals corresponding to a musical program, there is provided a recording medium which has an audio storage unit, a lyric storage unit and a video storage unit separate from the a... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5890910 | Method of managing information files in a communication karaoke apparatus and a communication karaoke apparatus A storing unit of a communication karaoke apparatus has a newly released music file storing area, an information file storing area, a necessary information file list storing area, and the like. Information files are used for displaying information such as... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5889224 | Karaoke scoring apparatus analyzing singing voice relative to melody data A scoring apparatus is constructed for evaluating a live vocal performance which is voiced by a singer along with a karaoke music synthetically reproduced from melody data. A first detector sequentially detects the live vocal performance to extract theref... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5889223 | Karaoke apparatus converting gender of singing voice to match octave of song In a karaoke apparatus, a tone generator responds to a request of a karaoke song for generating musical tones of the karaoke song having a given gender so as to accompany a live singing voice having an actual gender. A voice changer is provided for select... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5886275 | Transporting method of karaoke data by packets A method is designed for feeding karaoke data representative of karaoke performance to a karaoke apparatus having an audio section and a video section. The method is conducted by the following steps. The initial step is formatting the karaoke data contain... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5885085 | Drive-in interactive system A drive-in interactive performance system including a parking space in which at least a car can be parked and an interactive performance apparatus associated with the parking space and operable from within the car. The drive-in interactive performance sys... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5880388 | Karaoke system for synchronizing and reproducing a performance data, and karaoke system configuration method A first reading unit reads first performance data from a first storage medium, and outputs it to a reproducing unit. A second reading unit reads second performance data from a second storage medium, and outputs it to the reproducing unit. The reproducing ... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5876213 | Karaoke apparatus detecting register of live vocal to tune harmony vocal A karaoke apparatus is constructed to perform a karaoke accompaniment part and a karaoke harmony part for accompanying a live vocal part. A pickup device collects a singing voice of the live vocal part. A detector device analyzes the collected singing voi... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5863206 | Apparatus for reproducing video, audio, and accompanying characters and method of manufacture An apparatus for reproducing video, audio and accompanying characters, suitable for use as a sing-along or karaoke apparatus, uses pre-stored display patterns, such as animal figures, instead of video segments. Thus, the apparatus does not have to rely up... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5857856 | Apparatus and system for generating sound based upon waveform data and system-sequence data A sound producing apparatus which implements a sound output process based on waveform data, corresponding to sound generated by the apparatus, and system-sequence data including information for processing the waveform data. The apparatus comprises a read-... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5850500 | Recording medium comprising a plurality of different languages which are selectable independently of each other A reproduction apparatus is designed to select and decode speech and subtitles (characters) in a given language from a disk on which various types of information are recorded in different languages. This system arrangement makes it possible to standardize... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5847699 | Karaoke data processing system and data processing method A simply-constructed data processing system for a karaoke machine can process data to display a plurality of languages. A data processing apparatus processes data composed of one-byte or two-byte character codes, each representing a character. A display c... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5847303 | Voice processor with adaptive configuration by parameter setting A voice processing apparatus modulates an input voice into an output voice according to a parameter set. In the voice processing apparatus, a microphone inputs an audio signal which represents an input voice having a frequency spectrum specific to the inp... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5833469 | Method of operating a karaoke network system with system program distribution and karaoke network system A karaoke network system includes a host computer and a plurality of karaoke stations connected to the host computer via a communication line. When a new karaoke station is added to the karaoke network system or when a system program to be used by each of... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5834670 | Karaoke apparatus, speech reproducing apparatus, and recorded medium used therefor A karaoke apparatus, a speech reproducing apparatus and a medium on which is recorded a computer program used therefor which output narration of synthesized speech including a requested song name, a requester's name or the like together with an introducti... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5827990 | Karaoke apparatus applying effect sound to background video A karaoke apparatus provides audio and video to support live karaoke play based on karaoke data. In the karaoke apparatus, a first sound device operates according to the karaoke data for generating a musical sound as a part of the audio so as to accompany... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5824934 | Karaoke system including host apparatus that downloads information file based on list of necessary information files A host apparatus stores all of music-piece files and information files, and also stores lists information files (information file lists) required for a plurality of areas where communication karaoke apparatuses are located. When music-piece files are down... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5820384 | Sound recording A recording method and system that provides optional and controllable song lyric acoustical promptings and music for Karaoke participants which is also capable of providing phonetic instruction for formative bilingual skill development. The acoustical pro... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5817965 | Apparatus for switching singing voice signals according to melodies A switching apparatus is constructed for discriminating a plurality of singing voices from each other based on a reference melody in order to pass the discriminated singing voices to different audio processes. In the apparatus, a plurality of input device... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5810603 | Karaoke network system with broadcasting of background pictures A karaoke network system includes a central station for serving karaoke data and image data, and a group of karaoke terminals connected to the central station through a communication line having a common channel and a plurality of parallel channels for lo... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5808224 | Portable downloader connectable to karaoke player through wireless communication channel A karaoke system has a player for presenting a karaoke accompaniment according to a song data selected in response to a request, and a loader coupled to the player for downloading thereinto a song data. The loader is comprised of a casing having a first f... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5808223 | Music data processing system with concurrent reproduction of performance data and text data A music data processing system having: a storage unit for storing performance data and text data or auxiliary data in a first storage format or in a second storage format; a first data search unit for searching the text data or auxiliary data stored in th... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5803747 | Karaoke apparatus and method for displaying mixture of lyric words and background scene in fade-in and fade-out manner A karaoke apparatus has an information source for providing a performance data containing musical tone designation information, lyric indication information and fading control information according to progression of a karaoke song in response to a request... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5804752 | Karaoke apparatus with individual scoring of duet singers The karaoke apparatus is constructed for accompanying a karaoke music on a singer according to music information. In the karaoke apparatus, a providing device provides the music information containing accompaniment data and at least first reference data a... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5797752 | System and method for notifying a time limit and extension of used period of a karaoke apparatus A management apparatus stores a use start time and a use period of each of karaoke apparatuses. When the remaining time of any one of the karaoke apparatuses is 10 minutes or less, time limit information message is transmitted to the karaoke apparatus. Th... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5796913 | Video disk and video reproduction device which automatically extracts reproduction control data from a disk and subsequently modifies a control program which was stored in a ROM A CPU 38 retrieves the reproduction control program from a header portion of a video disk. The CPU stores the program into a RAM 35. The CPU controls disk players 34a and 34b to reproduce video data from video disks, based on the program stored in a ROM 3... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5782692 | Time-segmented multimedia game playing and authoring system An interactive system is provided for playing a game, educational or instructional sequence in conjunction with a prerecorded multimedia presentation consisting of at least motion video, sound and accompanying text. The multimedia presentation is partitio... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5777252 | Atmosphere data generator and karaoke machine A CPU (10) reads coordinate data within an emotional expression data base (25) in accordance with lyrics data within a RAM. The CPU (10) also sequentially reads performance data and generates a parameter (VP) corresponding to the volume of a piece of musi... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5773744 | Karaoke apparatus switching vocal part and harmony part in duet play A karaoke apparatus mixes a live singing sound with a harmony chorus sound and an orchestral accompaniment sound. A first input terminal is connectable to a microphone to receive therefrom a first vocal signal representative of a first live singing sound.... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5773743 | Effect control method, an effect control device and a karaoke system using such method and device An effect control method, an effect control device with the following configuration is provided on a karaoke system, which is one of audio regenerator or synthesizer systems. That is, a commander 200 is provided on the karaoke system and comprises a readi... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5770813 | Sound reproducing apparatus provides harmony relative to a signal input by a microphone A sound reproducing apparatus used in Karaoke and the like uses a record medium or a communication medium on which an accompaniment sound signal, data indicative of a scale, and song standard information are recorded. The sound reproducing apparatus inclu... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5770811 | Music information recording and reproducing methods and music information reproducing apparatus A music information reproducing method and apparatus for reproducing music information containing character codes for displaying a plurality of characters on an optionally selected display screen of the apparatus and containing MIDI signals formatted on a... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5768396 | Online karaoke system with flying start performance A karaoke system of an online type is comprised of a karaoke station for sounding a karaoke performance according to a performance data, and a host station for supplying the performance data to the karaoke station in response to a request. The host statio... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5766018 | Disc playback system, karaoke system and disc playback method It is an object of this invention to provide a low-cost disc playback system which reduces the time the user has to wait for a disc to be played back. To achieve this objective, the system mounts a disc, added to the rack 1, onto the player 2, reads the b... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5753844 | Music play apparatus with advance resetting for subsequent playing A music play apparatus has a data supply unit for providing performance data and initialization data associated to a desired music piece, and a sound source unit for reproducing the music piece according to the performance data and the initialization data... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5753845 | Karaoke apparatus creating vocal effect matching music piece In a karaoke apparatus, a pickup device picks up a live singing voice of a music piece to convert the same into a vocal signal. A music source device provides a music signal representative of a karaoke accompaniment of the music piece to accompany the liv... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5750912 | Formant converting apparatus modifying singing voice to emulate model voice In a voice modifying apparatus for modifying a singing voice to emulate a model voice, a microphone collects the singing voice created by a singer. An analyzer sequentially analyzes the collected singing voice to extract therefrom actual formant data repr... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5746605 | Method and system for music training A method of and computer system for training a student to play a musical work having an identifiable rhythm structure, the musical work being decomposable into a plurality of variations each maintaining the identifiable rhythm structure. According to the ... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5741992 | Musical apparatus creating chorus sound to accompany live vocal sound A chorus apparatus creates an artificial chorus sound in parallel to a live vocal sound. A pickup collects a live vocal sound and converts the collected live vocal sound into a corresponding vocal sound signal. A generator device generates a chorus sound ... | 04/21/1998 |
