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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE43379 | Music selecting apparatus and method A music selecting apparatus and method, which are capable to indicate a music piece matching with the sensitivities of the user. A degree of chord change is stored as data for each of a plurality of music pieces, a sensitivity word for music selection is set in acco... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8173883 | Personalized music remixing A personal music mixing system with an embodiment providing beats and vocals configured using a web browser and musical compositions generated from said beats and vocals. Said embodiment provides a plurality of beats and vocals that a user may suitably mix to create... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8143508 | System for providing lyrics with streaming music Methods and systems are disclosed for providing lyrics with streaming music. A music stream is accessed that includes timing information for a song. Lyrics and other textual information such as song title, song artist, and album title are also accessed. A lyric file... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8093483 | Interactive water fountain and a method of interacting with water to provide an auditory or visual effect An interactive water fountain comprising means for providing at least one column or jet (1) of water, means for applying an electrical signal each column or jet (1), detector means (2) for detecting changes in electrical impedance of said water ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8044289 | Electronic music on hand portable and communication enabled devices A portable electronic device having a screen and a numeric keypad, comprises: a sound card for processing sound signals to produce musical tones; a musical synthesizer, associated with said sound card, for electronically synthesizing musical instruments; and a user ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8035020 | Collaborative music creation Methods, systems, and devices are described for collaborative handling of music contributions over a network. Embodiments of the invention provide a portal, the portal being accessible over the network by a plurality of workstations and configured to provide a set o... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8008564 | Harmony hat The Harmony Hat is a musical instrument which greatly improves the portability of an electronic musical instrument by: (1) integrating the keyboard surfaces into the visor of a hat; and (2) deploying a portable battery supply so as to eliminate any need for alternat... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7999167 | Music composition reproduction device and composite device including the same A composite device, including a first control section; a second control section; and a storage section having a common area and a dedicated area, the common area can be accessed by both the first control section and the second control section, and the first control ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7994410 | Music recording comparison engine A method is provided to compare recordings that includes providing a list of a plurality of recordings and selecting at least a first recording and a second recording from the plurality of recordings. The first recording and the second recording have predetermined l... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7985911 | Method and apparatus for generating and updating a pre-categorized song database from which consumers may select and then download desired playlists Apparatus, methods, systems, and data structures for providing a music-subscription service customer with a portable music device that has been preloaded with customer-selected music. A music-subscription service provider receives a customer order to purchase a port... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7985910 | Musical content utilizing apparatus A musical content utilizing apparatus has a data input portion B11, transformation process portion B13 and utilization process portion B15 implemented via programmed processes. The data input portion B11 inputs musical content data compri... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7977559 | Tone generation system controlling the music system In a plurality of rooms, hubs are installed to build a star-shaped LAN, and tone-generation-related devices, such as a keyboard, tone generator device and speaker, are connected to the respective hubs. For example, in an internal network, the keyboard is logically c... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7964782 | Method for operating cue point on lighting ring of digital multimedia audio player A method for operating cue points on a lighting ring of a digital multimedia audio player is revealed. A lighting ring for showing data related to digital music playing now is disposed around a turntable of a multimedia audio player. The lighting ring is arranged wi... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7939740 | Ensemble system An electronic musical instrument is provided, which makes it possible to manage a state of attendance (presence/absence, etc.) of participants and perform easy management on the level of activity on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. According to performance operati... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7935878 | System, method and computer program for ensuring secure use of music playing data files A system, apparatus, or method extracts a music playing data file from a given musical work resource such as an electronic music score data file, a printed sheet of music and an audio signals of a musical performance, to be utilized for playing music automatically b... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7928307 | Karaoke system The system describes a karaoke system that enhances the experience of singing along with music, but without the need to display the lyrics. The system includes a combination of a vocal track reducer and an echo canceller, decision logic for determining when a person... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7888576 | Ensemble system An ensemble system enabling even performer unskilled in playing a musical instrument to easily grasp the difference in tempo from the performance of the facilitator. The circle corresponding to the performance terminal “Facilitator” is indicated fixedly on the c... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7888577 | Instrument amplification system A musical instrument amplification system comprising a footswitch and a main amplification device, its control panel having a variety of controls, such as switches, sliders, dials and the like allowing the user to set a variety of parameters for amplification. A rem... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7880076 | Child development and education apparatus and method using visual stimulation The present disclosure relates to child musical education devices and methods. Various toy instruments are provided which incorporate simplified forms of tonal and rhythmic music visualization. A child of very young age is able to select a certain ‘mood’ or feel... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7868238 | Electronic musical apparatus, server, electronic musical system, and computer-readable medium including program for implementing control method for the apparatus, the server, and the system An electronic musical apparatus which is shared by a plurality of users and is capable of making environmental settings for individual users without imposing burdens on the users. Authentication of biometric information or possession information on each user is perf... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7847174 | Tone generation system controlling the music system In a plurality of rooms, hubs are installed to build a star-shaped LAN, and tone-generation-related devices, such as a keyboard, tone generator device and speaker, are connected to the respective hubs. For example, in an internal network, the keyboard is logically c... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7842873 | Speech-driven selection of an audio file A system and method for detecting a refrain in an audio file having vocal components. The method and system includes generating a phonetic transcription of a portion of the audio file, analyzing the phonetic transcription and identifying a vocal segment in the gener... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7820901 | Information management method, information management program, and information management device A file storage apparatus provides an information management method. The information management method includes correlating one or more electronic files with audible cues relative to audio content reproduced via the file storage apparatus, designating respective time... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7814418 | Display apparatus, display method, and display program Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a display control section configured to cause a display to display an image that contains a plurality of content indication marks each associated with a separate content, each of the plurality of content indication ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7812239 | Music piece processing apparatus and method Storage section has stored therein music piece data sets of a plurality of music pieces, each of the music piece data sets including respective tone data of a plurality of fragments of the music piece and respective character values indicative of musical characters ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7807913 | Motion-based sound setting apparatus and method and motion-based sound generating apparatus and method A motion-based sound setting apparatus and method and motion-based sound generating apparatus and method. The motion-based sound setting apparatus includes a mode selection recognizing unit, a motion sensing unit, a motion pattern recognizing unit, and a sound signa... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7786366 | Method and apparatus for universal adaptive music system The present invention is method and apparatus for assistive music performance. More specifically, the present invention is an interactive wireless music apparatus comprising actuating an event originating on a remote wireless device. The transmitted event received b... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7786367 | Music player connection system for enhanced playlist selection A system compiles a music playlist to accommodate the tastes of various participants in a group setting. A music profile is created for each participant, the profile containing representations of songs that are characteristic of the participant's tastes. A master de... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7777120 | Electromagnetic musical instrument frequency conversion systems and related methods A method for generating electromagnetic (EM) music through excitation of an EM Musical Instrument is provided. An input queue, comprised of three sub-queues, receives three input audio queues. An EM excitation signal is generated based on the received input audio qu... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7777121 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program An information processing apparatus performing a process for generating a playlist defining a reproduction sequence of contents includes: a model information holding part storing therein probability models corresponding to a time series pattern of content feature vo... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7777118 | Electromagnetic musical instrument systems and related methods An electromagnetic (EM) musical instrument system includes an excitation signal generator to generate an excitation signal. The system also includes an excitation signal applier coupled to the excitation signal generator. The excitation signal applier receives the e... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7777119 | Electromagnetic musical instruments Electromagnetic (EM) musical instrument systems and methods for configuring and using the instrument are provided. The EM musical instrument could include an EM resonant body to receive an excitation signal. The excitation signal varies the associated sound produced... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7767896 | Vehicular music replay system There is a need for providing a vehicular music replay system that can allow a car user to select a music source appropriate to the user's character or biological condition even from genres unknown to the user, allow even a first music source to be felt suited for t... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7754955 | Virtual reality composer platform system A virtual reality composer platform and system (VRCPS) includes a plurality of user input/output devices and signal input/output controllers interfaced to a central processing unit complete with plurality of memory means, a butterfly morpheus musical instrument with... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7750227 | Appliance audio notification device A flexible audio tone-generating device for use in a consumer appliance. The device generates pleasing musical tones. The device uses two outputs of a software-executing processor utilizing stored tone data associated with status events of the appliance to drive a t... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7745714 | Recording or playback apparatus and musical piece detecting apparatus Provided is a recording or playback apparatus capable of separating a musical piece from an audio including the musical piece and a speech through a simple arithmetic process. A cut point detector detects, as a cut point, a time point at which an audio signal level ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7745713 | Electronic musical instrument with direct print interface In an electronic musical instrument, an input device inputs performance information. A tone generator operates based on tone setting parameters for generating music sounds according to the performance information. A display is capable of switching a plurality of sce... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7728212 | Music piece creation apparatus and method Music piece data composed of audio waveform data are stored in a memory. Analysis section analyzes the music piece data stored in the memory to determine sudden change points of sound condition in the music piece data. Display device displays individual sound fragme... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7718881 | Method and electronic device for determining a characteristic of a content item The method of determining a characteristic of a content item comprises the steps of selecting (1) data representative of a plurality of sounds from the content item, determining (3) a characteristic of each of the plurality of sounds by analyzing said ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7714222 | Collaborative music creation Methods, systems, and devices are described for collaborative handling of music contributions over a network. Embodiments of the invention provide a portal, the portal being accessible over the network by a plurality of workstations and configured to provide a set o... | 05/11/2010 |
