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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8106281 | Music difficulty level calculating apparatus and music difficulty level calculating method CPU 11 reads from RAM 13 pitch information of each of musical notes composing the music, fingering information for playing the musical notes, and time information of the musical notes, thereby calculating a difficulty level of music. CPU 11 calc... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8101842 | Music comparing system and method A music comparing system determines whether a first song is same as a second song. Notes of the first and second songs are transcribed. A number of pitch differences between two adjacent notes of the first and second songs are recorded, and the pitch differences of ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8088986 | Electronic percussion instrument presenting pad chain performance An electronic percussion musical instrument comprises a plurality of playing pads for playing music by striking the face of each pad. The pads are configured to provide ungrouped pad zones, each constituted by an individual playing pad and grouped pad zones, each co... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090242 | Method for selectively reproducing title A method and apparatus for reproducing titles are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes determining if at least one title satisfies a criterion, using an average length information of a plurality of titles recorded on a recording medium; and rep... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8088985 | Visual presentation system and related methods A control interface for a visual presentation system. Implementations include a graphical interface including a plurality of parallel lines and plurality of spaces between and adjacent to the plurality of lines that define at least one visual staff. One or more visu... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8084677 | System and method for adaptive melodic segmentation and motivic identification The present invention comprises a system and method, modeled on research observations in human perception and cognition, capable of accurately segmenting primarily (although not exclusively) melodic input in performance data and encoded digital audio data, and minin... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8080722 | Preventing an unintentional deploy of a bonus in a video game Described are methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer program products, for preventing an unintentional deploy of a bonus in a video game. In one aspect this is accomplished by displaying, on a display in communication with a game platform, a target mu... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8076565 | Music-responsive entertainment environment An electronic entertainment system provides an entertainment environment wherein music in the form of a storable music sequence is processed to determine, in advance or in real-time, a set of musical events of interest, and associating elements of the entertainment ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8058544 | Flexible music composition engine An apparatus, method and system for generating music in real time are provided. A pipeline for coordinating generation of a musical piece is created. At least one producer is loaded into the pipeline, the at least one producer for producing at least one high level m... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8049093 | Method and apparatus for best matching an audible query to a set of audible targets During operation, a “coarse search” stage applies variable-scale windowing on the query pitch contours to compare them with fixed-length segments of target pitch contours to find matching candidates while efficiently scanning over variable tempo differences and ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8044290 | Method and apparatus for reproducing first part of music data having plurality of repeated parts A method and apparatus for reproducing a first part of music data having a plurality of repeated parts includes a method and an apparatus allowing a user to listen to more songs including the repeated parts by searching for a boundary between the first and second pa... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8035022 | Method and system for delivering signaling tone sequences In a method for delivering signaling tones to signaling devices or signaling systems, a signaling tone sequence is selected from a set of undelivered signaling tone sequences. The selected signaling tone sequence is removed from the set of undelivered signaling tone... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8026436 | Method and apparatus for producing audio tracks A system for automatically manipulating prerecorded audio data to produce an audio track synchronized to a target video track. The system allows a user to select a music source from multiple music sources stored in a music library. Each music source includes multipl... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8022286 | Sound-object oriented analysis and note-object oriented processing of polyphonic sound recordings A method of sound-object oriented analysis and of note-object oriented processing a polyphonic digitized sound recording present in the form of a time signal F(A, t) includes the following analytical and processing steps: portion-wise readouts of the time signal F(A... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8017850 | Electronic musical instrument having ad-lib performance function and program for ad-lib performance function The ROM 101 stores a chord scale note table composed of a plurality of scale by 12 notes starting from a chord tone in which C note is given as a root note and arranging a chord scale note as an inverted form of a chord in which the note is given as the lowes... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013230 | Method for music structure analysis Methods for music structure analysis of a piece of music includes determining predetermined features for a plurality of sections of the piece of music. The sections are longer than a shortest time span corresponding to a meaningful part of the piece of music. At lea... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8013229 | Automatic creation of thumbnails for music videos There is provided a method for automatically creating a music video thumbnail (50) from a music video signal (12). The music video signal is separated into a music signal (16) and a video signal (18). The music signal is analysed by detec... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8008566 | Methods, systems and computer program products for detecting musical notes in an audio signal Methods, system and/or computer program products for detection of a note include receiving an audio signal and generating a plurality of frequency domain representations of the audio signal over time. A time domain representation is generated from the plurality of f... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8003872 | Facilitating interaction with a music-based video game A simulated musical instrument may be used to alter the audio of a video game, the video aspects of video game, or both. Use of a controller simulating a musical instrument allows a rhythm-action game can be enjoyed in a manner closer to a realistic state of playing... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7994411 | Computer-readable storage medium having music playing program stored therein and music playing apparatus At a time T0, prior read reproduction is started with a volume of 0. Upon starting the prior read reproduction, MIDI events containing note events are sequentially generated. Each time each of the note events is generated, note data is generated based on thes... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7985912 | Dynamically generating musical parts from musical score A method of processing music data is disclosed. The method comprises storing score data providing a representation of a musical score and storing part data defining a musical part derived from the score, the part data including data specific to the part. The score d... | 07/26/2011 |
| RE42565 | MIDIwan: a system to enable geographically remote musicians to collaborate A system is described to allow musicians to collaborate over a network such as the Internet. ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7985913 | Braille music systems and methods Methods and systems for converting digital music scores to Braille, and vice versa and for creating Braille and digital music scores directly from music keyboard entry. The system and methods are embodied in computer programs which can extract note data from a digit... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7982118 | Musical data input Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for entering or editing musical note data. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a user input selecting a scale; receiving a user input of notes; determining whether each note is in the scale... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7982119 | Music transcription Methods, systems, and devices are described for automatically converting audio input signal data into musical score representation data. Embodiments of the invention identify a change in frequency information from the audio signal that exceeds a first threshold valu... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7982120 | Performance apparatus and storage medium therefor A performance apparatus capable of reproducing music pieces while making changeover between the music pieces without disturbing the rhythm of exercise, dance, or the like performed by a user to the rhythm of music. A beat position is acquired that will appear in a p... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7977560 | Automated generation of a song for process learning Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to ad hoc music creation to facilitate learning and provide a method, system and computer program product for the automated generation of a song for process learning. In an embodiment of... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7973230 | Methods and systems for providing real-time feedback for karaoke Systems and methods for providing real-time feedback to karaoke users are provided. The systems and methods for providing users with real-time feedback while they are singing karaoke generally relate to receiving the user's vocals, determining whether the user is si... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7968783 | 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... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7943842 | Methods for generating music using a transmitted/received music data file Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing music are provided, particularly systems and methods employing a top-down process, where the user is provided with a musical composition that may be modified and interacted with and played and... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7939741 | Electronic musical system and control method for controlling an electronic musical apparatus of the system An electronic musical system by which settings on tone generators can be carried out without discontinuing a user's music production. The electronic musical system is comprised of a musical control apparatus including control operating elements and an electronic mus... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7935880 | Dynamically displaying a pitch range Described are methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer program products, for dynamically displaying a pitch range in a rhythm-action game. In one aspect this is accomplished by a game platform dividing a musical composition into a plurality of portions ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7915511 | Method and electronic device for aligning a song with its lyrics A method of aligning a song with lyrics of the song which comprises the steps of aligning each lyrics fragment of a group of similar lyrics fragments (C) in the lyrics of the song with an audio fragment of a group of similar audio fragments (A4) of the so... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7910819 | Selection of tonal components in an audio spectrum for harmonic and key analysis An audio signal is processed to extract key information by selecting (102) tonal components from the audio signal. A mask is then applied (104) to the selected tonal components to discard at least one tonal component. Note values of the remaining tonal... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7902447 | Automatic composition of sound sequences using finite state automata In one embodiment, a method for the automatic composition of music is disclosed. The method begins by receiving a plurality of input sound sequences containing sound frequencies with corresponding time duration. The method continues with converting the plurality of ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7893338 | Method of composing music on a handheld device A musical sequence is formed on the keypad of a handheld electronic device. The numbered keys on the keypad of the handheld device are mapped directly to corresponding notes in an octave. The sequence of musical notes is entered by depressing at least one numbered k... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7893339 | Audio reproduction apparatus and method and storage medium Audio reproduction apparatus and method for controlling audio data reproduction in accordance with a user operation or input extracts a predetermined musical characteristic, such as a rhythm, melody, etc., from audio data and generates a time information string indi... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7888578 | Electronic musical score display device An electronic musical score display device comprises an electronic display panel displaying at least one page of musical score data; a manipulator that will transmit a page turn signal wirelessly, generated from a pressure contact such as the pressing of a foot; and... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7884274 | Adaptive personalized music and entertainment A method and system for providing a personalized entertainment experience that is customized for each user. The history of user control actions (such as “forward” and “back”) associated with each played composition are captured as positive or negative user f... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7863510 | Method, medium, and system classifying music themes using music titles A method, medium, and system classifying a music theme for music by using a corresponding music title, by generating a theme class vector in association with the music theme, generating a music title class vector in association with the music title, calculating simi... | 01/04/2011 |
