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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5739457 | 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... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5739452 | Karaoke apparatus imparting different effects to vocal and chorus sounds A karaoke apparatus is provided with a pickup device that collects a singing voice sound to convert the same into a corresponding vocal signal. Further, a music generator device generates a music signal representative of a karaoke accompaniment sound whic... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5735744 | Interactive communication system for communicating video game and karaoke software An interactive communication system is proposed for communicating software of video games or karaoke music from a host facility or distributor to end users. The system includes a communication terminal device provided at the end user. The communication te... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5726373 | Video-song accompaniment apparatus using a compact disc as a recording medium A CD video-song accompaniment apparatus reproduces information from a compact disc and contains a CD reproducing portion, a CD-OK reproducing portion, and audio selector, and a main controller. The CD reproducing portion reads audio data from the compact ... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5725383 | Data transmission system In a karaoke system, a central terminal and a plurality of karaoke terminals are connected by a coaxial cable. A polling modem modulates a polling signal to a predetermined channel signal and transmits it to a karaoke terminal and also receives a response... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5719346 | Harmony chorus apparatus generating chorus sound derived from vocal sound A harmony chorus apparatus collects an original of a vocal sound performed after a main melody pattern of a song, and adds a chorus sound derived after a chorus melody pattern of the same song to the vocal sound. A memory stores a main melody data represe... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5719344 | Method and system for karaoke scoring A Karaoke system scoring method and system (10) is provided based on detecting, for example, frame energy (19 or 19') of the Karaoke singer and the frame energy of the original artist (29 or 29'). The frame energy is quantized (41 and 43) and compared (45... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5715179 | Performance evaluation method for use in a karaoke apparatus A performance evaluation method for use in a karaoke apparatus evaluates a singing performance of a karaoke singer by measuring differences between the karaoke singer's vocal rendition and an accompanying music produced by an audiovisual device. Digitized... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5703308 | Karaoke apparatus responsive to oral request of entry songs A Karaoke apparatus responds to a request message for performing an entry song. The Karaoke apparatus has a music data storage for storing music data representative of a plurality of entry songs, and a reference data storage for storing reference data rep... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5691494 | Centralized system providing karaoke service and extraneous service to terminals A Karaoke apparatus, a host apparatus and a management apparatus are interconnected to each other through a communication line to constitute a centralized system. The host apparatus receives an entry code requesting a Karaoke service of a desired song fro... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5690496 | Multimedia product for use in a computer for music instruction and use A multimedia product for use for use in a multimedia computer to assist a student to learn to play a given musical work previously recorded on a master recording. A method of making the product is described which ensures that multimedia representations of... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5689081 | Network karaoke system of broadcast type having supplementary communication channel In a network karaoke system, a center station transmits song data, and a plurality of karaoke terminals communicate with the center station to receive therefrom the song data so that each karaoke terminal can provide a karaoke service based on the receive... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5686684 | Effect adaptor attachable to karaoke machine to create harmony chorus A harmony adaptor is optionally usable as an attachment to a karaoke apparatus which has a pickup device for collecting a live singing sound and converting the same into a vocal signal, and a mixing device for mixing the vocal signal with a music signal r... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5684261 | Karaoke device capable of wirelessly transmitting video and audio signals to a television set A karaoke device includes a song memory unit for storing digital audio data therein; a processing unit operable to retrieve the digital audio data from the song memory unit; an audio synthesizer unit for receiving the digital audio data and for generating... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5683253 | Disk recording medium and video-song accompaniment apparatus adopting the same A song program and a motion picture background image suitable for the mood of the song program are recorded on a recording medium. A video-song accompaniment apparatus employs the recording medium to reproduce the song program and the motion picture backg... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5672838 | Accompaniment data format and video-song accompaniment apparatus adopting the same A video-song accompaniment apparatus displaying a lyrics signal sequence in accordance with an accompaniment signal sequence includes a controller responsive to lyrics display control information which is loaded on a channel message of a selected instrume... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5663515 | Online system for direct driving of remote karaoke terminal by host station A karaoke online system is composed of a karaoke station and a karaoke terminal telecommunicable with the karaoke station. The karaoke station has a database for storing a plurality of performance data files corresponding to a plurality of karaoke songs, ... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5663516 | Karaoke apparatus having physical model sound source driven by song data In a karaoke apparatus responsive to a request for producing a karaoke accompaniment according to performance data, a sound source of a physical model type is controlled according to shape data which characterizes an acoustic vibration of a model musical ... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5649234 | Method and apparatus for encoding graphical cues on a compact disc synchronized with the lyrics of a song to be played back A method and apparatus for simplifying the steps needed to produce a graphical cue to words being displayed as they are to be sung by a performer such as in Karaoke. The production of a CD-Graphics (CD-G) product containing compact disc ("CD") audio accom... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5648628 | Cartridge supported karaoke device A karaoke device for playing music stored on replaceable solid state memory cartridges with a console having controls for enabling the user to select the musical pieces to be played. The device features an LCD screen for displaying the title and lyrics of... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5641927 | Autokeying for musical accompaniment playing apparatus A Karaoke (10) apparatus with autokeying is provided by measuring the average pitch (28) of the singer or user over a predetermined time period, comparing (29) the pitch of the singer or user voice to that of a reference pitch to provide a signal represen... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5634798 | Compact disk player-incorporated television receiver having a monitor power control function A compact disk player incorporated television receiver includes a television signal receiver, a compact disk player having a song accompaniment function, a video signal processor for selectively receiving and processing a video signal output by the televi... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5635657 | Recording medium for video-song accompaniment and video-song accompaniment apparatus adopting the same A recording medium records multilingually written lyrics data along with accompaniment data corresponding thereto, and a video-song accompaniment apparatus adopts the recording medium. The lyrics data is written in each language by having a font look-up t... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5631433 | Karaoke monitor excluding unnecessary information from display during play time A karaoke apparatus sounds a karaoke accompaniment and displays visual information to perform karaoke play. An audio generator responds to a request for generating an audio signal. A sound component is switchable from an inactive state to an active state ... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5621182 | Karaoke apparatus converting singing voice into model voice In a karaoke apparatus, a memory device stores song data containing at least accompaniment information representative of a karaoke accompaniment of a desired song and vocal information representative of a model singing voice of the song performed by a mod... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5619425 | Data transmission system The memory device 13 in the center 3 stores a plurality of information data categorized in a plurality of genres. The input device 43 of the terminal 5 selects an information data desired to be obtained, out of the plurality of information data stored in ... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5616876 | System and methods for selecting music on the basis of subjective content An interactive network provides music to subscribers. A "more like" function allows a subscriber to use a seed song to identify other songs that are similar to the seed song, and to add the new songs to the current playlist. The similarity between songs i... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5613909 | 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... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5611693 | Image karaoke device A compact image karaoke device with only a small number of image disks which provides the impression of having a great many background images. Two players are provided for reading background images from image disks. Background images are selected from at ... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5613192 | One-way data transmission device with two-way data transmission function When a song data group of a requested song comes in the normal mode ("Yes" in S230, ) the terminal 5 picks up that song data D5 in S240. When the song data group of the requested song does not arrive ("No" in S230,) the terminal first judges in S250 wheth... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5609486 | Karaoke reproducing apparatus A Karaoke apparatus in which after one Karaoke play was finished, a show-up effect according to the next Karaoke playing music piece is obtained for a period of time until the start of the next Karaoke play. Control information of a plurality of music pie... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5609487 | Audio visual karaoke system using audio cassette An audio visual karaoke system using a karaoke audio cassette to which high frequency signals have been added containing specific data information. In the audio player, these high frequency signals are separated from the audio signals by a high pass filte... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5606143 | Portable apparatus for transmitting wirelessly both musical accompaniment information stored in an integrated circuit card and a user voice input A portable apparatus is used to transmit wirelessly both musical accompaniment information, which includes music data of a plurality of music pieces and which is stored in an integrated circuit card, and a voice input from a user for reception and reprodu... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5588842 | Karaoke control system for a plurality of karaoke devices When images of the image genre most suitable for the selected song are being reproduced (Yes in S14), the karaoke terminal picks up those image data from a channel over which they are transmitted. If images of that image genre are not being reproduced (No... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5587546 | Karaoke apparatus having extendible and fixed libraries of song data files In a karaoke apparatus for playing a karaoke song designated by a request, a first storage rewriteably stores a plurality of song data files corresponding to a plurality of karaoke songs to form an extendible library which can be updated. Further, a secon... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5574239 | Video-song accompaniment apparatus and method for displaying reserved song A method of displaying a title and lyrics of the first measure of a reserved song before the end of a currently performed song includes steps for calculating remaining time by comparing total performance time with an elapsed time of a currently performed ... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5574243 | Melody controlling apparatus for music accompaniment playing system the music accompaniment playing system and melody controlling method for controlling and changing the tonality of the melody using the MIDI standard A melody controlling apparatus is provided with: a reproducing device for reproducing first digital sound source controlling information and melody controlling information related to the first digital sound source controlling information; a memory for sto... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5567162 | Karaoke system capable of scoring singing of a singer on accompaniment thereof In a karaoke system capable of scoring a singing of singer on an accompaniment thereof, when a voice signal of the singer is inputted, an energy detector generates a first basic frequency signal with respect to a voice signal section and inputs the first ... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5557056 | Performance evaluator for use in a karaoke apparatus A karaoke apparatus evaluates a singer's performance by employing: a microphone for converting the singer's voice into a electrical voice signal; a first analogue to digital (A/D) converter for converting the electrical voice signal into a digitized voice... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5542000 | Karaoke apparatus having automatic effector control A karaoke apparatus operates in response to a song request for sounding an automatic accompaniment mixed with a singing voice to produce a karaoke performance involving an additional effect. The karaoke apparatus is supplied with a composite song data con... | 07/30/1996 |
