Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8183452 | Tone generation apparatus Waveform data stored in an external memory are transferred from the external memory to an internal waveform memory and read out from the waveform memory to reproduce a tone. Transfer instruction is generated each time data readout from the waveform memory progresses... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8030563 | Electronic audio playing apparatus and method An audio playing method is provided. The method includes: accessing an audio file from a data storage; transmitting the audio file to a decoder to decode and outputting the decoded audio file through the audio output unit; determining whether a skipping command is r... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7932456 | Music replay circuit A music replay circuit is provided which includes a header analyzing unit which analyzes a header included in each of a plurality of frames in a data stream which are compressed music data and extracts bitrate information included in the header, a decoder which deco... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7683249 | Device and method for controlling playback devices for digital information, especially music information The invention relates to a playback control unit which is connected with a playback device for CDs or records, wherein these provide coded information by means of which the playback device can be controlled. In this way, in addition to the playback speed, further fu... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7663047 | System for generating musical sounds within a vehicle System for generating musical sounds. Structure adapted for mounting within a vehicle includes a plurality of spatially separated, touch-sensitive sensors for activation by an occupant of the vehicle. A memory module stores a plurality of musical sounds and a microc... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7433745 | Digital mixing system with dual consoles and cascade engines A method is designed for controlling a total mixing system including a first mixing system and a second mixing system, which are operated in a linked manner. In the method, the first mixing system stores first scene data specifying contents of a mixing process match... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7432435 | Tone synthesis apparatus and method Dynamics value is acquired intermittently at predetermined time periods, and a waveform data set for a sustain tone, corresponding to the acquired dynamics value, is specified from among waveform data sets stored in a memory. To generate a tone waveform while switch... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7429699 | Electronic musical instrument and recording medium that stores processing program for the electronic musical instrument In an electronic musical instrument, when a musical tone delay time T1 read from a delay time table TBL depending on a velocity generated by a key being pressed has elapsed, a hammer string-striking sound is generated from musical tone waveform data selected ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7402746 | Training apparatus for learning to play the guitar A training apparatus for guiding and independently teaching a user to quickly play a guitar by interpreting stored encoded MIDI music data to guide the user's hands by illuminating sequences of desired finger positions on the frets of a guitar to play the music.... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7394010 | Performance apparatus and tone generation method therefor A Plurality of key switches for tone-generating are arranged two-dimensionally. Mode setting section sets a tone adjusting mode in which the key switches are caused to function as tone-adjusting operators. In the tone adjusting mode, adjustment of a predetermined to... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7369665 | Method and apparatus for mixing sound signals A system and method for mixing sound signals is provided in which a mixer buffer stores sample values for three or more sound channels, each sound channel including a main sound component and one or more auxiliary sound components. Send paths are provided for sendin... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7368652 | Music search system and music search apparatus A time-series signal input section 205 inputs a time-series signal whose on state and off state are repeated alternately. A similar rhythm search section 206 searches a plurality of pieces of rhythm data stored in a data storage section for rhythm data... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7361824 | Method and device for storing main information with associated additional information incorporated therein To store main information with associated additional information incorporated therein, data constituting the additional information is divided into a plurality of small-size data pieces of, e.g., one bit. Then, the respective values of particular ones of predetermin... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359521 | Aliasing cancellation in audio effects algorithms A method for effecting aliasing cancellation in an audio effects algorithm using a delay modulated signal, derived from interpolation of a delay modulator at an instantaneous sampling frequency, including: determining the instantaneous sampling frequency 1/Tisf... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7342166 | Method and apparatus for randomized variation of musical data An initial note series is collected from a real-time source of musical input material such as a keyboard or a sequencer playing back musical data, or extracted from musical data stored in memory. The initial note series may be altered to create variations of the ini... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339104 | System for transferring information on attribute of, for example, CD Title information on music composition data recorded on a reproduction CD is acquired from a title information providing site and recorded on a recording MD together with composition data. A recording/reproducing apparatus (100) transmits TOC information acqu... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7335833 | Music performance system A method and apparatus for producing a musical output is disclosed. The method and apparatus permit the creation, storage and retrieval of a first data structure representing a musical piece. The first data structure includes digital music information that represent... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7319764 | Method and apparatus for controlling volume Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for controlling the volume of an audio track. This method represents the volume of an audio track with a graph. This graph is defined along two axes, with one axis representing time and the other representing the vo... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7289633 | System and method for integral transference of acoustical events A sound system for capturing and reproducing sounds produced by a plurality of sound sources. The system comprises a device for receiving sounds produced by the plurality of sound sources and converting the separately received sounds to a plurality of separate audio... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7285712 | Method of dynamically determining a maximum polyphony number according to operation mode and smoothly changing polyphony number when switching operation modes A method of dynamically determining a maximum polyphony number is used in an electronic device, which has S tone generators. First, an operation mode of the electronic device is detected. Next, a residual computing power of the electronic device is obtained accordin... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283881 | Extensible kernel-mode audio processing architecture An extensible kernel-mode audio (e.g., MIDI) processing architecture is implemented using multiple modules that together comprise a module graph. The module graph is implemented in kernel-mode, reducing latency and jitter when handling audio data by avoiding transfe... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283954 | Comparing audio using characterizations based on auditory events A method for determining if one audio signal is derived from another audio signal or if two audio signals are derived from the same audio signal compares reduced-information characterizations of said audio signals, wherein said characterizations are based on auditor... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7279628 | Editing apparatus of setting information for electronic music apparatuses An electronic music apparatus has a tone generator settable by setting information to generate a music tone signal and an open memory area accessible for storing identification information of the electronic music apparatus and setting information specific to the ele... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277362 | Audio signal reproduction apparatus having scratch reproducing function An audio signal reproduction apparatus for reproducing scratch sound from an optical disk. Scratch reproduction operation is performed through use of a jog dial and a turntable. When either the jog dial or the turn table has been actuated, a rotational operation sig... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276655 | Music synthesis system The invention relates to a music synthesis system for synthesizing a corresponding digital music output according to commands from a music data file. The music data file comprises a plurality of music data units. Each music data unit records related information of t... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7260669 | Semiconductor integrated circuits When a peripheral LSI has a memory space which is other than the memory space of a CPU, access is made without one of the memory spaces being aware of the other memory spaces. A flexible bus controller BSC makes address translation according to information on the re... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259311 | Mobile communication terminal with audio tuning function A mobile communication terminal provided with a tuning function, which saves a player the trouble of carrying around a tuning meter or the like and facilitates the tuning of instruments. A user designates a reference pitch stored in a memory, and inputs the sound of... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256340 | Compressed data structure and apparatus and method related thereto Compressed waveform data structure is proposed which is suited for segmentation of a plurality of samples of compressed waveform data into a plurality of frames and subsequent storage of each of the frames. The number of bits per sample of the compressed waveform da... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7247784 | Musical sound generator, portable terminal, musical sound generating method, and storage medium There are provided a musical tone-generating apparatus which neither requires hardware having an increased circuit size nor imposes a heavy burden on a CPU thereof, and a mobile terminal apparatus including the musical tone-generating apparatus, as well as a musical... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249147 | Combination compact disc recorder and player system The combination recorder and player system includes a recorder/player unit and a remote control unit. The recorder/player unit includes a recorder/player computer system and recorder/player software that is operable to cause the recorder/player to record, play, and ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7247781 | Interactive music application apparatus and electronic musical instrument and programs therefor Electronic musical instrument interactively connected with a music application apparatus automatically returns a response signal when a predetermined identification request signal is received from the music application apparatus. Upon receipt of the response signal ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7241946 | Method and device for music format switching A method and device for music format switching. A tone editor is first selected to compose ring tones in accordance with a first music format. It is determined whether a switch operation has been executed. If the switch operation has been executed, the ring tones ar... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7235733 | Musical tone reproducing apparatus and portable terminal apparatus There is provided a musical tone reproducing apparatus, which stores tone color parameters in a general-purpose storage means, to thereby shorten the time taken for a tone color changing process. A CPU 10 registers a tone color parameter group that has been r... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235732 | Device and method for controlling playback devices for digital information, especially music information The invention relates to a playback control unit which is connected with a playback device for CDs or records, wherein these provide coded information by means of which the playback device can be controlled. In this way, in addition to the playback speed, further fu... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7223911 | Portable telephone set with reproducing and composing capability of music A music apparatus is provided in a portable terminal set having a plurality of controls. In the music apparatus, a storage stores a plurality of performance patterns. An allocating section allocates the plurality of the performance patterns to the plurality of the c... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7214870 | Method and device for generating an identifier for an audio signal, method and device for building an instrument database and method and device for determining the type of an instrument In a method for generating an identifier for an audio signal including a tone generated by an instrument, a discrete amplitude-time representation of the audio signal is generated at first, wherein the amplitude-time representation, for a plurality of subsequent poi... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212469 | Mixing recorder, control method therefore, and computer-readable medium including program for implementing the control method There is provided a mixing recorder which enables the user to readily produce music using overdubbing and/or other recording techniques while suppressing degradation of sound quality to the minimum and enables the user to easily find out his/her desired mixing resul... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7203286 | Method and apparatus for combining ambient sound effects to voice messages A voice-mail platform in which a voice message can be combined with a sound sample such that the combined message contains background noise to enhance the persuasiveness of the message. The voice message and the sound sample may be stored either together or separate... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200728 | Electronic apparatus and program for controlling computer An electronic apparatus which is capable of preventing loss of edited operation data even if a user fails to perform a saving operation on the edited operation data. A set of operation data is recalled from either the original storage or the shadow storage to the cu... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196259 | Performance data transmission controlling apparatus and electronic musical instrument capable of acquiring performance data An electronic organ 1 and a personal computer 2 are connected with a MIDI cable. The personal computer 2 is connected to a server 4 via a communication network 3. The personal computer 2 downloads a controlling program from ... | 03/27/2007 |
