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...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6492584 | Apparatus and method for generating or controlling tone on the basis of a plurality of tone generator units or tone control units A plurality of units for generating or controlling a tone are used in an electronic musical instrument, the number of which is variable depending on a performance grade of the electronic musical instrument. There is supplied control information for genera... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6452083 | Incremental sequence completion system and method The present invention relates to a method designed to be used to compute music sequences in all possible contexts and situations, including: Internet adaptive radio, Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) with intelligent scheduling, music recommendation system... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6437229 | Equipment and process for music digitalization storage, access, and listening A digital music server, a music digitizing station, and at least one listening stations connected in a network. Each listening station includes an earphone, keyboard, display, and bar code reader. The bar code on a compact disk (CD) is scanned using the b... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6407326 | Electronic musical instrument using trailing tone different from leading tone In an electronic musical apparatus having a generator for generating a tone, a play member is provided for playing a music such that a key-on touch operation and a key-off touch operation are performed on the play member to input a note of the music. A de... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6408129 | Method for processing a plurality of synchronized audio tracks, including phase inversion of a selected track A system for playing a selected one of multiple audio tracks recorded in synchronized fashion with a motion picture on an optical disk. The optical disk has encoded on it a mixing master music and effects ("M&E") track, or a switching master M&E track. In... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6376759 | Electronic keyboard instrument An electronic keyboard instrument is basically configured by a keyboard, a microcomputer, a tone generator and a sound system as well as sensors, switches and foot switches. Each of keys of the keyboard is equipped with a variety of sensors and switches s... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6369311 | Apparatus and method for generating harmony tones based on given voice signal and performance data A harmony tone generating apparatus receives a voice wave signal bearing musical tone pitches such as a singer's or a speaker's human voice signal and a musician's instrumental voice signal, and plural kinds of performance data, each representing a musica... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6348648 | System and method for coordinating music display among players in an orchestra A system and method for coordinated music composition and display among musicians is presented. The system and method enables a conductor, composer or band leader to interactively edit one or more score parts of a composition using a pen-based interface, ... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6320112 | Procedure and device for the automatic selection of musical and/or tonal compositions A process for the automatic selection of musical or tonal compositions to be replayed from a collection of musical or tonal compositions includes the step of assigning evaluation data to each of said compositions which describe its characteristics. Parame... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6316711 | Musical sound signal generation apparatus A musical sound signal generation apparatus for producing a sound corresponding to an operated key can produce a sound of a newly-operated key even if all the musical sound signal generation means for generating a musical sound signal are in use. On produ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6291757 | Apparatus and method for processing music data It is an object of the present invention to, in the music data processing apparatus, reduce the complex processings in each of the computing units and access to the shared region of the main memory unit and to generate more efficiently the music data. Acc... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6281422 | Music performance assisting system for teaching sequential use of fingers, method used therein and information storage medium for computer program representative of the method A music performance assisting system analyzes a set of music data codes representative of a series of notes and rests forming a tune, and selectively assigns the notes to the five fingers of each hand of a player, wherein the music performance assisting s... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6274798 | Apparatus for and method of setting correspondence between performance parts and tracks Settings of a table as to correspondence between performance parts and tracks can be changed as desired through operation by a user. If the settings of the table have been changed when a visual performance guide is to be provided for a given performance p... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6263313 | Method and apparatus to create encoded digital content A method of automatically selecting processing parameters for encoding digital content. Metadata containing the genre of the digital content, receiving the compression level selected for encoding the digital content is received. An algorithm selected for ... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6201176 | System and method for querying a music database A system and method for querying a music database, the database containing a plurality of indexed pieces of music, where the query is performed by forming a database request consisting of a conditional expression relating to the name and/or attributes of ... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6198035 | Musical sound signal generation apparatus There is disclosed a musical sound signal generation apparatus for creating vacant channels by monaural sounding, in which a left/right balance is maintained and the total sound volume can be increased. When there is a key-on, and there is no vacant chann... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6194648 | Electronic musical instrument Embodiments of the instant invention include a plurality of first operators which, together with the assignment of each of the musical tones being possible, designate the start of reproduction of the musical tones that have been assigned in accordance wit... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6166313 | Musical performance data editing apparatus and method The apparatus stores musical performance data of a polychord stringed musical instrument such as a guitar. A series of performance data on each of the plural strings are recorded on each of a plurality of recording tracks provided correspondingly to the p... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6162980 | Electronic upright piano and a method of manufacture thereof To provide an electronic upright piano providing a key touch of an acoustic upright piano. An action load simulation member (2) provided in the electronic upright piano is composed of a wippen (15) rotating and rising when a depressed key (11) is rotated,... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6162983 | Music apparatus with various musical tone effects A music apparatus capable of adding various effects to musical sounds comprises: a processor; a waveform generator; and a program memory storing instructions for causing the processor to execute a musical sound generating process according to first perfor... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6160213 | Electronic music instrument system with musical keyboard An electronic music instrument system, comprising: an electronic music instrument, having selectable groups of reproducible sounds and individually selectable reproducible sounds; a signal generator for energizing an audio amplifier responsive to differen... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6147292 | Data-setting system and method, and recording medium There are provided a data-setting system and method that permit easy operation even with one hand, and are capable of calling or selecting a desired one of functions for setting modes of generation of musical tones, which are associated with respective on... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6143972 | Device and method for playing music from a score A keyboard-based device for simultaneously reading and playing music on the basis of the conventional written score thereof is disclosed. The device includes a microcomputer and a graphic tablet for holding a paper sheet or a set of score sheets to be pro... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6066793 | Device and method for executing control to shift tone-generation start timing at predetermined beat In executing a music performance on the basis of supplied performance data, a feeling of swing can be imparted to the performance by delaying tone-generation start time of a tone, based on the performance data, at each predetermined beat such as upbeat. I... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6034315 | Signal processing apparatus and method and information recording apparatus A signal processing apparatus is provided with: a music tone judging device for judging a music tone or genre of a music composition composed of an input audio signal: a selecting device for selecting one of a plurality of characteristics prepared in adva... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6031174 | Generation of musical tone signals by the phrase A method of generating a musical tone signal having the steps of selecting one of a plurality of phrases in response to manipulation of a phrase select operator by a user, and reading performance data of the selected phrase from performance data pre-store... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6002080 | Electronic wind instrument capable of diversified performance expression There are provided a plurality of keys for designating a pitch and a plurality of sensors for detecting operating states of the keys. Main pitch determination section identifies respective ON/OFF states of the keys on the basis of output values from the s... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5990404 | Performance data editing apparatus A performance data editing apparatus is realized by a computer system and/or an electronic musical instrument to provide rich expressions of an automatic performance by performing a variety of editing processes on performance data. Herein, the performance... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5973253 | Electronic musical instrument for conducting an arpeggio performance of a stringed instrument An electronic musical instrument for conducting an arpeggio performance of a stringed instrument capable of readily producing a pattern for the arpeggio performance as one likes, and also of conducting the arpeggio performance which is perceived as being ... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5962802 | Automatic performance device and method capable of controlling a feeling of groove Groove data for imparting a variation to one or more predetermined factors, such as generation timing, gate time and velocity, of a tone based on the automatic performance data are stored in a memory as a groove template. Further, modification data for mo... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5949012 | Electronic musical instrument and music performance information inputting apparatus capable of inputting various music performance information with simple operation A music performance information inputting apparatus for inputting music performance information to be supplied to an electronic musical instrument is arranged by a switch and a touch panel. This switch is used to select single basic music performance info... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5945620 | Digital tone generator for producing phase synchronized tones The present invention provides an apparatus and method for phase synchronizing tones in an electronic musical instrument. The apparatus includes a microprocessor having an input for receiving a signal representative of a selected note whereupon receipt of... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5922983 | Keyboard musical instrument having key touch controller An electronic keyboard musical instrument stores first key touch data codes representative of a first reaction component and grouped into first data groups by a key velocity, second key touch data codes representative of a second reaction component and gr... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5922982 | Performance data generation apparatus for selectively outputting note on/off data based on performance operation mode A performance data generation apparatus generates performance data for controlling the tone generation condition of a tone to be generated based on a string vibration signal obtained from the string vibration of a stringed instrument. The performance data... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5920024 | Apparatus and method for coupling sound to motion There is described a motion-to-sound apparatus which provides for musical scores and accompaniments, and lyrics and in response to a movement in three-dimensional space along more than one plane. Further disclosed is a motion-to-sound apparatus for produc... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5908997 | Electronic music instrument system with musical keyboard An electronic music instrument system, comprising: an electronic music instrument, having selectable groups of reproducible sounds and individually selectable reproducible sounds; a signal generator for energizing an audio amplifier responsive to differen... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5898118 | Computerized music apparatus composed of compatible software modules A computerized music apparatus utilizes resources including software modules to generate desired musical sound. In the apparatus, a primary storage is loadable with a set of software modules which are selected to perform tasks needed in generation of the ... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5886279 | Switch mechanism of piano with built-in electronic musical instrument A switch mechanism of a piano with a built-in electronic musical instrument, which eliminates the disposition of switches on the surface of a piano to improve the appearance of the piano. An upright piano(1) includes a hammering mechanism(7) which strikes... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5883325 | Musical instrument A musical instrument comprises a plurality of keys (10-19), a processor means (20) connected to said keys and arranged to provide an output signal to be utilized in the generation of notes. A data storage means (22) is connected to said processor means (2... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5880389 | Keyboard musical instrument having key-touch generator changing load exerted on keys depending upon sounds to be produced A keyboard musical instrument is fabricated on the basis of an upright piano, and an electronic sound generating system is incorporated therein so as to selectively generate an acoustic piano sound and an electronic sound; a plurality of leaf spring membe... | 03/09/1999 |
