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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8138409 | Interactive music training and entertainment system Embodiments of a music training and entertainment system are described that allows a user to input a selection of source music in a native format, and isolates a desired vocal or instrument component within the source music. The user selects the component of the sou... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8101845 | Information processing apparatus, method, and program The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, method, and program that are capable of analysing a waveform of a tune involving a modulation with a reduced operation amount. A beat feature extraction section 41 extracts a feature relate... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8076567 | Music piece reproducing apparatus and music piece reproducing method A music piece reproducing apparatus has: a sound collecting unit collecting noise data of an ambient environment; an analyzing unit performing a frequency analysis to the noise data collected by the sound collecting unit and extracting a feature amount showing a fea... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8067682 | Music score recognition method and system thereof A music score recognition method and a system thereof are provided. In the present method, a music score is detected and at least one measure in the music score is obtained by searching bar lines, so as to plan a recognition order according to the position of each m... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8017854 | Dynamic musical part determination Described are methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer program products, for dynamically determining a musical part performed by a player of a rhythm-action game. In one aspect of a rhythm-action game, microphones are not tied to a particular part and t... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7985915 | Musical piece matching judging device, musical piece recording device, musical piece matching judging method, musical piece recording method, musical piece matching judging program, and musical piece recording program Characteristic amounts are calculated from each of multiple musical piece contents, and then time points when the characteristic amounts exceed a threshold are detected as cut points. Information on the cut point concerning each of the multiple musical piece content... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7919705 | Music training system A method and apparatus for displaying a sheet of music, which may include providing an image of the sheet of music on an electronic storage media; transmitting the image from the electronic storage media into a system processor; showing the image on a display; and e... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7910820 | Information processing apparatus and method, program, and record medium An information processing apparatus is disclosed. An analyzing section chronologically continuously analyzes sound data which chronologically continue in each of predetermined frequency bands. A continuous characteristic quantity extracting section which extracts a ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7897864 | Band extension reproducing apparatus Signals in two different bands (band components) are extracted from an input signal by an HPF and a BPF, and frequency-shift processing is performed by an MPY. Further, in order to adjust levels of an interface between the band components of shifted frequency to a h... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7888581 | Method and apparatus for adjusting the cadence of music on a personal audio device Disclosed is an audio device that adjusts the cadence of played songs. All songs in a playlist may be adjusted to match the cadence of a particular song. First, the desired cadence of a reference song is determined by low pass filtering a digital representation of t... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7858869 | Sound analysis apparatus and program A sound analysis apparatus employs tone models which are associated with various fundamental frequencies and each of which simulates a harmonic structure of a performance sound generated by a musical instrument, then defines a weighted mixture of the tone models to ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7847175 | Musical score recognition device and computer program thereof The part template including information that is necessary to set after the image of the musical score read out by the scanner is recognized, is stored beforehand, and the part template corresponding to the read out musical score by the scanner is selected from a plu... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7842878 | System and method for predicting musical keys from an audio source representing a musical composition A system and method thereof for determining the musical key of a musical composition. The system includes a database of reference musical works, defined by both a root musical key and a note strength profile, and a musical key estimation system that detects the musi... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7777125 | Constructing a table of music similarity vectors from a music similarity graph A “Music Mapper” automatically constructs a set coordinate vectors for use in inferring similarity between various pieces of music. In particular, given a music similarity graph expressed as links between various artists, albums, songs, etc., the Music Mapper ap... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7754958 | Sound analysis apparatus and program A sound analysis apparatus stores sound source structure data defining a constraint on one or more of sounds that can be simultaneously generated by a sound source of an input audio signal. A form estimation part selects fundamental frequencies of one or more of sou... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7667125 | 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... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7667126 | Method of establishing a harmony control signal controlled in real-time by a guitar input signal The invention relates to a method of establishing a harmony control signal controlled in real-time by a guitar audio input signal (GAS), comprising the steps of providing a first input harmony input control signal (FIH) on the basi... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7619155 | Method and apparatus for determining musical notes from sounds This method and apparatus extract symbolic high-level musical structure resembling that of a music score. Humming or the like is converted with this invention into a sequence of notes that represent the melody that the user (usually human, but potentially animal) is... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7598447 | 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... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7498505 | Storage medium storing breath blowing determining program, breath blowing determining apparatus, breath blowing determining method, storage medium storing game program, game apparatus, and game control method A game apparatus includes an operating switch and a microphone. A player operates a player object through intuition by the operating switch or inputting a sound. The number of zero crossings contained in waveform of a sound input through the microphone is detected, ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7470853 | Musical composition processing device A scale information inputting section receives an input of scale information of a musical composition. Based on the scale information of the musical composition inputted to the scale information inputting section, an appearance probability calculating section calcul... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7378588 | Melody-based music search A music search engine is invented to find a desired song in the database by comparing the melodies. This invention comprises two major parts: a client-end and a server-end. The client-end converts various input formats into a note sequence and sends it to the server... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7378587 | Method for fast compressing and decompressing music data and system for executing the same MIDI compression and decompression methods that reduce the size of a standard MIDI file and maintains information to play the MIDI music. The exemplary method of the invention makes use of the high correlation and repetitions between a look-ahead MIDI event and prev... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7371954 | Tuner apparatus for aiding a tuning of musical instrument A tuner apparatus 10 causes a user to designate a musical instrument that is to be tuned and a reference pitch that is a standard upon tuning, by a process at a setting portion 110. A pitch detecting portion 130 detects a pitch of a performed no... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7371958 | Method, medium, and system summarizing music content Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, medium, and system for summarizing music. The method includes summarizing a music content by extracting an audio feature value from a compressed segment of music data, tracking change points of the music conte... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373018 | Method and system for object recognition using fractal maps A method for recognizing an object in an image is disclosed wherein a fractal map of the image is generated by estimating the fractal dimension of each pixel in the image. The fractal map may be segmented by thresholding and locations of candidate objects are determ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7353167 | Translating a voice signal into an output representation of discrete tones A system and method for creating a ring tone for an electronic device takes as input a phrase sung in a human voice and transforms it into a control signal controlling, for example, a ringer on a cellular telephone. Time-varying features of the input signal are anal... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348482 | Discriminator for differently modulated signals, method used therein, demodulator equipped therewith, method used therein, sound reproducing apparatus and method for reproducing original music data code A nibble stream containing MIDI music data words and synchronous nibbles and an external audio signal are selectively converted to an audio-frequency signal, which in turn is converted to a set of PCM codes for storing it in a compact disc; and the audio frequency s... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345233 | Apparatus and method for grouping temporal segments of a piece of music For grouping temporal segments of an audio piece, which is structured into main parts repeatedly occurring in the audio piece, into various segment classes, at first a similarity representation for the segments is provided, wherein the similarity representation for ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342168 | Sound effecter, fundamental tone extraction method, and computer program The present invention provides a technique for shifting pitch to target pitch without detecting the original pitch directly, and for extracting the pitch of the audio waveform exactly. A phase compensator extracts 2 or more frequency channels each having frequency c... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343363 | Methods and apparatus for grouping elements of element pairs into element sets Methods and apparatus for grouping elements of element pairs into element sets are disclosed. A master processor transmits number pairs corresponding to the element pairs to worker processors, selectively assigns processing of one or more of the number pairs to the ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339105 | Automatic musical performance device Provide an automatic musical performance device, which is capable of giving a concert magic function in an acoustic instrument with a feeling of normally playing the acoustic instrument. A time period Tv between two points, and a tempo Tmp found based on a ti... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7326848 | System and methods for providing automatic classification of media entities according to tempo 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... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323631 | Instrument performance learning apparatus using pitch and amplitude graph display In an instrument performance learning apparatus, a storage section stores model performance waveform data representing a time series of individual performance sounds of a model performance. An input section inputs real performance waveform data representing a time s... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7323629 | Real time music recognition and display system Systems and methods for performing simple and quick real time single music note recognition algorithm based on fuzzy pattern matching are disclosed. In one aspect, the systems and methods use a 256-point FFT and fuzzy pattern identification and recognition method. T... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321094 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument internally stores automatic performance data. The electronic musical instrument reads automatic performance data to perform an automatic performance, while incrementing melody tone pitch data contained in the automatic performance da... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7309827 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument provides a player with an assisted performance to offer him/her the pleasure of performing on a musical instrument, and to help him/her in practicing the electronic musical instrument on which a tone pitch of a musical tone to be gen... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304231 | Apparatus and method for designating various segment classes For the segment class designation the temporal position of segments in two candidate segment classes is used for the stanza/refrain selection by means of a segment class designation means, wherein the highest-order segment class is designated as refrain segment clas... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295864 | Methods and apparatuses for programming user-defined information into electronic devices A device for programming user-defined information into an electronic device is provided. The programmer allows a user to program customized information, such as user-selected audio, video, or Internet access information into his or her programmable device. Such elec... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295977 | Extracting classifying data in music from an audio bitstream The method of the present invention utilizes machine-learning techniques, particularly Support Vector Machines in combination with a neural network, to process a unique machine-learning enabled representation of the audio bitstream. Using this method, a classifying ... | 11/13/2007 |
