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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7858867 | Metadata-based song creation and editing Relating higher-level descriptive musical metadata to lower-level musical elements to enable creation of a song map, song model, backing track, or the like. The musical elements are queried based on input metadata to create a set of musical elements of varying types... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7842874 | Creating music by concatenative synthesis Automated creation of new music by listening is disclosed. A method to create new music may comprise listening to a plurality of music, learning from the plurality of music, and performing concatenative synthesis based on the listening and the learning to create the... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7842875 | Scheme for providing audio effects for a musical instrument and for controlling images with same A method for use with a musical instrument includes receiving a signal representative of a sound produced by the musical instrument, receiving a selection of an audio effect from a wireless controller, applying the audio effect to the signal representative of a soun... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7838755 | Music-based search engine Methods, systems, and devices are described for music-based searching. Embodiments of the invention receiving music queries that specify music elements, the queries using textual, audio, and/or score data. The music queries may be used to generate search parameters ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7838754 | Performance system, controller used therefor, and program A performance system capable of improving operability of switching local-on/off of performance terminals. T performance system comprises a performance terminal and a controller capable of communicating with each other. The performance terminal is comprised of a perf... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7834260 | Computer analysis and manipulation of musical structure, methods of production and uses thereof A music modification system is provided and described herein, which includes: a) a computer, b) a music element library, c) at least one part-score database, d) a software code that executes a music modification system on the computer, wherein the music modification... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7834261 | Music composition reproducing device and music composition reproducing method First, an extracting unit extracts chord progression of a tune to be reproduced. Then, a timing detector detects the timing of variation of the chord progression extracted by the extracting unit. Subsequently, an add-tone reproducing unit combines an add-tone with t... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7820902 | Music performance system for music session and component musical instruments Automatic player pianos and internet form a music performance system for a music session on the automatic player pianos through data communication between the automatic player pianos, and a communication time lag and mechanical time lag are unavoidably introduced be... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7812240 | Fragment search apparatus and method Analysis section divides waveform data of a given music piece into waveform data of a plurality of fragments and divides the waveform data of each of the fragments into one or more events of sound, and obtains a character value indicative of a character of the wavef... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7807916 | Method for generating music with a website or software plug-in using seed parameter values 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... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7790974 | Metadata-based song creation and editing Relating higher-level descriptive musical metadata to lower-level musical elements to enable creation of a song map, song model, backing track, or the like. The musical elements are queried based on input metadata to create a set of musical elements of varying types... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7783623 | System and method for recommending songs A system and method, operable by a processor running on a computing device and stored on a tangible computer readable medium, the system and method creating continuous, fixed duration, fixed size, or other such playlists for use on an individual listener's portable ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7777123 | Method and device for humanizing musical sequences A method for humanizing a music sequence (S), the music sequence (S) comprising a multitude of sounds (s1, . . . , sn) occurring on times (t1, . . . , tn) comprises the steps generating, ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7777122 | Musical note speedometer An electronic device that receives a signal indicative of the sound made my a musical instrument in order to determine the instantaneous rate of play of melodic notes on that instrument in terms of notes played per second and display the rate in real time via a disp... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7772478 | Understanding music There are disclosed methods and apparatus for understanding music. A classifier machine may be trained for each of a plurality of selected terms using a first plurality of music samples. The classifier machines may then be tested using a second plurality of music sa... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7767897 | Beat matching for portable audio Beat matching for two audio streams extracts beats from each, computes a conversion ratio from one stream to the other stream by an initial beat alignment plus a stability-maintaining beat alignment. A variable resampling converter or time scale modifier adjusts one... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7756874 | System and methods for providing automatic classification of media entities according to consonance properties In connection with a classification system for classifying media entities that merges perceptual classification techniques and digital signal processing classification techniques for improved classification of media entities, a system and methods are provided for au... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7743049 | Content data retrieval apparatus The present invention provides a content data retrieval apparatus capable of appropriately narrowing down the range of search targets even in the case where a distribution of attribute values of a group of contents regarded as search targets is uneven. The co... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7741554 | Apparatus and method for automatically creating music piece data A plurality of template data files are provided, each designating a structure and conditions of a music piece, and having a plurality of tracks, each track being assigned to a particular instrument group and defining a time progression structure of music to be perfo... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7732697 | Creating music and sound that varies from playback to playback A method and apparatus for the creation and playback of music and/or sound; such that each time a composition is played back, a different sound sequence may be generated. In one embodiment, during composition creation, artist(s) may define how the composition may va... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7732698 | Electronic keyboard instrument having a key driver An electronic keyboard instrument with a key driver stores automatic performance data including a first event and first timing data and key-driving data including a second event and second timing data that precedes the first timing data for a predetermined time, and... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7728213 | System and method for dynamic note assignment for musical synthesizers An embodiment of the invention creates a method and system for assigning notes to be played by a musical synthesizer to a predetermined number of instrument voices available to be sounded by said musical synthesizer, so that the musical synthesizer may emulate the s... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7723602 | System, computer program and method for quantifying and analyzing musical intellectual property A method is provided for converting one or more electronic music files into an electronic musical representation. A song framework is provided that includes a plurality of rules and associated processing steps for converting an electronic music file into a song fram... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7718883 | Complete orchestration system The present invention provides a complete orchestration system to generate melodic lines of any length in real time to provide a new musical accompaniment with no repeated phrases each time a particular style is played, and which can generate accompaniment styles pl... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7705229 | Method, apparatus and programs for teaching and composing music A method and apparatus for the construction and teaching of music is described. The method involves a user following a supported sequence of tasks that guide their creativity in order to construct a musical Arrangement. The musical Arrangement constructed from build... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7700866 | Electronic musical apparatus displaying network service items for selection and computer program therefor An electronic musical apparatus is of a data processing type and is connectable to an external server via a communication network. The apparatus comprises a display screen, item selecting keys arranged around the display screen, and a communication device to connect... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7696426 | Recombinant music composition algorithm and method of using the same The present invention provides a retrograde recombinant composition algorithm that creates new musical compositions based on existing musical compositions that are preferably written in software and is suitable for implementation in electro-mechanical and electronic... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7683250 | Electronic musical apparatus An electronic musical instrument is configured to store music data including performance data on a plurality of tracks and receive designation of a track or tracks so that when a test-listen button for receiving instruction of test-listen of the designated track(s) ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7674966 | System and method for realtime scoring of games and other applications The invention provides a software framework that allows real-time computer-generated music to be used in interactive applications, particularly video games, by “modularizing” music-producing and music-modifying computer procedures into musically logical and prog... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7671266 | System and method for speech therapy The present disclosure relates to speech therapy and voice training methods. A system is provided which utilizes tonal and rhythm visualization components to allow a person to “see” their words as they attempt to improve or regain their ability to speak clearly.... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7671267 | Melody generator The invention relates to a method for automatic generation of melodies where from one step to a following a new parameter value is generated that is sent to a unit emitting sound. The parameters comprise a new note pitch, a new window width, a life span for the wind... | 03/02/2010 |
