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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7152739 | Dental appliance storage assembly A dental appliance storage assembly includes a base, a floss dispenser, and a tubular storage assembly having a conical bottom surface for holding a toothbrush in a non-vertical orientation within the tubular storage assembly. ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154472 | Force-feedback input device A force-feedback input device includes an operation section to be operated by an operator; a position detection section for detecting the operating state of the operation section; a force-feedback generation section for applying force feedback to the operation secti... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151214 | Interactive multimedia apparatus The apparatus (1) comprises a guitar (3) having strings (42) operable by a user to generate electric signals, a control unit (2), storage means for a simulation backing track in any desired multi-media file format and audio/audio-visual e... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7152061 | Methods and systems for providing a response to a query Methods and systems for providing a response to a user's query based on other users' picks. For one embodiment of the invention, user responses are correlated to determine an affinity among users. User affinity is then used to modify the presentation of the search r... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149471 | Portable cellular phone Music data stored in a data card 101 is input into a portable cellular phone 110, and also a plurality of pieces of application software (131, 133) suitable for a music data format defined in connection with the music data is selected by a user ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149469 | Method and system for receiving audio broadcasts via a phone A method and system for providing radio, TV audio, and other broadcasts over a telephone. The preferred method allows a listener to telephonically access an automated system capable of connecting to a plurality of broadcasting stations, permits the listener to selec... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149316 | Microcontroller having an on-chip high gain amplifier A microcontroller includes a wide band, high gain amplifier on-chip capable of driving a 32 ohm speaker. The amplifier is controllable by the microcontroller processor to either enable or disable the amplifier and switch between multiple modes of power. In one embod... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149319 | Telecommunication system, speech recognizer, and terminal, and method for adjusting capacity for vocal commanding Time-limited electrical audio signals are fed to an electromechanical output transducer in addition to the signals from the hearing aid input. Some of the time-limited audio signals are user-defined. The process is implemented in a hearing aid having an electromecha... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7140534 | Data recording medium, reading device, recording device, and methods thereof There are provided a data recording medium, a reading device for reading the data recording medium, a recording device for reading the data recording medium and recording data to other media, and methods thereof able to prevent forgery without comparing visible info... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142934 | Audio converter device and method for using the same An audio converter device and a method for using the same are provided. In one embodiment, the audio converter device receives the digital audio data from a first device via a local area network. The audio converter device decompresses the digital audio data and con... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142908 | Device and method for measurement of electrical characteristics of tissue Apparatus for measuring electrical characteristics of biological tissues includes an autonomous capsule with an external surface having openings, a plurality of electrodes located within the openings, and a processor in communication with the plurality of electrodes... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7141733 | Karaoke apparatus, content reproducing apparatus, method of managing music piece data for a karaoke apparatus, and method of managing content data for content reproducing apparatus Music piece data of so-called managed music pieces, each of which requires allowance of performance for each karaoke apparatus are stored in a hard disk in the same manner as music piece data of other karaoke music pieces. A ROM (20), which has stored therein... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142807 | Method of providing Karaoke service to mobile terminals using a wireless connection between the mobile terminals A method of providing a Karaoke service to mobile terminals through wireless connection between them. The mobile terminals are grouped as a service group and one of them is designated as a master mobile terminal and the other mobile terminals as slave mobile termina... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7134876 | Sound system with dedicated vocal channel A karaoke sound system had a mixer that combines the singer's real-time voice signal from a microphone with the pre-recorded background song/music signal from a player, an amplifier that receives the mixed signal from the mixer to provide amplification or gain boost... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7135637 | Apparatus and method for detecting performer's motion to interactively control performance of music or the like Performance interface system includes a motion detector provided for movement with a performer, and a control system for receiving detection data transmitted from the motion detector and controlling a performance of a tone in response to the received detection data.... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7135636 | Singing voice synthesizing apparatus, singing voice synthesizing method and program for singing voice synthesizing A method for synthesizing a natural-sounding singing voice divides performance data into a transition part and a long sound part. The transition part is represented by articulation (phonemic chain) data that is read from an articulation template database and is outp... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7135635 | System and method for musical sonification of data parameters in a data stream One embodiment of a musical sonification system and method receives a data stream including different data parameters. The sonification system may apply different sonification processes to the different data parameters to produce a musical rendering of the data stre... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133924 | Personalized audio system and method A personalized audio system and method that overcomes many of the broadcast-type disadvantages associated with conventional radio stations. According to one embodiment, the personalized audio system includes the following: (1) a user interface that enables a user of... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133531 | Device using analog controls to mix compressed digital audio data Device includes a disc jockey mixing console with analog controls, crossfader and scratchpad and is used to mix audio tracks from compressed digital audio data sound recordings. One device substitutes for mixing console, turntables and records. For compressed digita... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7132596 | Automatic music selecting system in mobile unit An automatic music selecting system is provided which can select a piece of music more suitable for an occupant of a mobile unit. It includes a music data storing section that stores music data corresponding to a plurality of pieces of music; a navigation system for... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130860 | Method and system for generating sequencing information representing a sequence of items selected in a database A method and a system for generating sequencing information representing a sequence of items selected in a database. Similarity relation techniques are applied between the items. ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130892 | Method and system for music distribution According to the first aspect, the present invention provides a music distribution method for downloading, in response to a request from a user, music data for one or more musical pieces included in the latest hit charts from a server storing a lot of music data, co... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7129406 | Automatic performance apparatus An automatic performance apparatus reproduces, by a program process executed on a computer, automatic performance data comprising a series of performance data which is assigned to one channel of a plurality of channels and to which a channel number representative of... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7129407 | Apparatus and computer program for practicing musical instrument A model music data inputting unit inputs model music data containing music score display data representing a music score to be displayed of a model music piece for practice, performance data representing a musical performance which coincides with the music score to ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7129408 | Separate-type musical performance system for synchronously producing sound and visual images and audio-visual station incorporated therein A separate-type music performance system has a master audio-visual station and a slave audio-visual station remote from the mater audio-visual station and connected through two communication channel independently of each other; MIDI music data codes and click time d... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7129405 | Method and apparatus for composing and performing music The present invention is method and apparatus for music performance and composition. More specifically, the present invention is an interactive music apparatus comprising actuating a signal that is transmitted to a processing computer that transmits output signals t... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7126051 | Audio wave data playback in an audio generation system An audio generation system includes MIDI track components that generate event instructions for MIDI audio data received from a MIDI audio data source, and includes audio wave track components that generate playback instructions for audio wave data maintained in an a... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7124084 | Singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus and storage medium There are provided a singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus capable of performing synthesis of natural singing voices close to human singing voices based on performance data being input in real time. Performance data is inputted for each phonetic unit const... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7122731 | Musical information processing terminal, control method therefor, and program for implementing the method There is provided a musical information processing terminal that enables reproducing performance data and audio data that are transmitted and received between the musical information processing terminal such as a terminal for a teacher and a terminal for students th... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120629 | Prospects harvester system for providing contact data about customers of product or service offered by business enterprise extracting text documents selected from newsgroups, discussion forums, mailing lists, querying such data to provide customers who confirm to business profile data A system and method for providing profile data representing profiles of potential customers of a business enterprise. The system is based on an application service provider architecture, where the business enterprise accesses the profile data via the Internet using ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120859 | Device for producing multimedia presentation A device for producing a multimedia presentation consisting of content includes a memory, a setting unit, an extraction unit, a requesting unit, a receiving unit, and a combiner. The memory stores first digital media classified by time of creation. The setting unit ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120162 | System and method for processing audio and video data in a wireless handset A system for processing audio and video data for a wireless handset is provided. The system includes an audio sampler receiving audio data and converting the audio data into digitally encoded audio data. The system also includes a digital imager receiving image data... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120509 | Sound and image producing system An invented sound and image producing system is disclosed. The system may include a cartridge that stores, processes and controls data representative of sound and/or images, and a player that provides the interface, annunciation and transduction of sound and/or imag... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7117439 | Advertising using a combination of video and banner advertisements In a system that includes a processor and a display device on which video programming can be displayed, a method for transitioning to a video advertisement by displaying a related banner advertisement. The method includes generating, on the display device, a display... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117516 | Method and system for providing a customized media list A method and system is described for providing a customized media list to a user over a data network. The method comprises providing a personalized data of the user to a computer system, generating a customized media list by the computer system for the user based on... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7112736 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument enables a phrase that is stored as audio waveform data to be played back at an arbitrary tempo. The instrument includes an operator that allows the performer to change the readout position of the waveform data manually, enabling the ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110838 | Method and apparatus for downloading data to portable devices There are provided a download system and a download control method for portable players, which enable a user to download music data to the portable player by a simple operation, and a storage medium that stores a program for executing the download control method. Th... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7109406 | System and method for dynamic note assignment for musical synthesizers The invention is a method and system for assigning notes to be played by a musical synthesizer to a predetermined number of channels of said musical synthesizer, so that the musical synthesizer may emulate the note allocation of a live orchestra section. The method ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7109407 | Chord presenting apparatus and storage device storing a chord presenting computer program CPU 31 reads out plural chord data which are stored in external storage device 34 or the like and represent a series of chords, and presents to a user the chords represented by the chord data. In presenting the chords to the user, display 21 or ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7105733 | Musical notation system An integrated system and software package for creating and performing a musical score including a user interface that enables a user to enter and display the musical score, a database that stores a data structure which supports graphical symbols for musical characte... | 09/12/2006 |
