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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8115089 | Apparatus and method for creating singing synthesizing database, and pitch curve generation apparatus and method Waveform data representative of singing voices of a singing music piece are analyzed to generate melody component data representative of variation over time in fundamental frequency component presumed to represent a melody in the singing voices. Then, through machin... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8106286 | Waveform generating apparatus In a synthesizer 10, when a function of a tone generation module 312 provided by an external tone generation server 310 is usable, a tone generator control module 102 assigns a necessary number of sound generation channels among sound gen... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8067683 | Method and apparatus for electronically sustaining a note from a musical instrument A sensed signal corresponding to a note played on a musical instrument is electronically sustained by electronically combining the sensed signal with a synthesized signal whenever a sustain control switch is activated. The set of characteristics of the synthesized s... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8030566 | Envelope-controlled time and pitch modification This invention provides a signal processing and signal synthesis technique from a family of signal processing and signal synthesis techniques designed to readily interwork or be used individually in creating new forms of rich musical timbres. Amplitude-envelope cont... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8030565 | Signal processing for twang and resonance This invention provides a signal processing and signal synthesis technique from a family of signal processing and signal synthesis techniques designed to readily interwork or be used individually in creating new forms of rich musical timbres. A plurality of audio si... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8008569 | Musical sound generating device and storage medium storing musical sound generation processing program Upon activation by a power-on operation, a CPU transfers part of waveform data items of predetermined tone colors from a waveform data storage to a waveform RAM, and after this, transfers data items including the remaining waveform data to be transferred. Thereby, a... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7999169 | Sound synthesizer A sound synthesizer has a storage unit, a setting unit and a sound synthesis unit. The storage unit stores a plurality of sound data respectively representing a plurality of sounds collected by different sound collecting points corresponding to the plurality of the ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7977562 | Synthesized singing voice waveform generator Various technologies for generating a synthesized singing voice waveform. In one implementation, the computer program may receive a request from a user to create a synthesized singing voice using the lyrics of a song and a digital file containing its melody as input... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7960639 | Electronic music apparatus and tone control method First display object associated with a control operating member and a second display object associated with a tone color effect parameter are displayed, and variation of a displayed position of the first display object is controlled in accordance with operation of t... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7893342 | Information processing terminal and music information generating program An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing terminal that specifies emotions from a voice and audio outputs music suitable for the specified emotions to enable the emotions of a loudspeaker who uttered the voice to be recognized readil... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7868241 | Waveform generating apparatus, sound effect imparting apparatus and musical sound generating apparatus A synthesizer 10 is configured such that when a PC 30 is connected thereto, the synthesizer 10 accepts selection of a tone used for sound generation from among a tone included in an internal tone generation unit 16 and a tone included in ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7858870 | System and methods for the creation and performance of sensory stimulating content Systems and methods for creating and presenting sensory stimulating content. One aspect of the invention allows a composer to associate content with one or more triggers, and to define behavior characteristics which control the functioning of each trigger. Another a... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7847176 | Digital signal processor and a method for producing harmonic sound In a digital signal processor to perform digital signal process with respect to a music signal and to suppress a signal level to a maximum value when the signal level over the maximum value of processable values is generated by the digital signal processor, a first ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7825321 | Methods and apparatus for use in sound modification comparing time alignment data from sampled audio signals A digitised audio signal, such as an amateur's singing, and a digital guide audio signal are supplied to a time alignment process that produces a time-aligned new signal, time-aligned to the guide signal. Pitch along the time-aligned new signal and along the guide s... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7825322 | Method and apparatus for audio mixing A method, apparatus and computer program product for mixing audio is presented. A plurality of tracks is displayed in a user interface, each track of the plurality of tracks including at least one audio clip. Each audio clip is designated as either a foreground clip... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7816599 | Tone synthesis apparatus and method Either a tone generation priority mode or a quality priority mode can be set. If the currently-set mode is the tone generation priority mode when a connecting tone is to be generated for connecting between two successive notes, the joint-portion waveform data is sel... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7799985 | Electronic musical apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium storing instructions for implementing the method An electronic musical apparatus which makes it possible to execute functions provided in advance in the electronic musical apparatus. Contents data including link information indicative of a link to a file in which at least one command for executing at least one pre... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7781665 | Sound synthesis A device (1) is arranged for synthesizing sound represented by sets of parameters, each set comprising noise parameters (NP) representing noise components of the sound and optionally also other parameters representing other components, such as transients and ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7767899 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic music instrument includes a musical-tone control that generates operation information of keys and a damper pedal to serve as musical-tone control information; a musical-tone generator simultaneously generating a plurality of musical tones according to ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7728217 | Sound generator for producing a sound from a new note A sound generator including a plurality of synthesis generators each configured to generate a sound from a note, and a dynamic voice allocation circuit configured to select a new note to be supplied to the plurality of synthesis generators depending on a priority th... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7667127 | Electronic musical apparatus having automatic performance feature and computer-readable medium storing a computer program therefor In an automatic performance system, song and style data DAi and DCj (i:1 through n, j:1 through m) contains tempo and meter data TPa, TMa; TPc, TMc, respectively, so that the style data DCj whose tempo and meter data matches with those of the song data DAi is reprod... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7642445 | Music sound generator A music sound generator imitates released key string vibration sounds (RKSV) and cabinet resonances of an acoustic piano. When a key is pressed, waveform is readout from a normal music sound waveform memory 15. The normal sound waveform is inputted into a fil... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7544882 | Waveform generating apparatus and waveform generating program A correspondence relationship between virtual logical oscillators, including a master oscillator and at least one slave oscillator, provided for each sound production channel generating a musical tone waveform, and a plurality of physical oscillators for actually ge... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7534952 | Performance data processing apparatus and program Special-type tone generators are capable of tone generation corresponding to rendition-style designating data, while ordinary-type tone generators are incapable of such tone generation corresponding to rendition-style designating data. When performance data for the ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7514624 | Portable telephony apparatus with music tone generator A sound control apparatus is provided in a portable terminal for sounding a music tone in association with operation of the portable terminal, which is controlled by a main CPU. In the sound control apparatus, a memory memorizes music information representing a musi... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7495165 | Method and apparatus for editing performance data with modification of icons of musical symbols A performance data editing system is actualized by a computer system (or electronic musical instrument) which is equipped with a display and a mouse. The system initially provides a score window containing various types of execution icon layers onto which execution ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7442868 | Apparatus and method for processing ringtone Provided are an apparatus and a method for processing a ringtone in a wireless terminal. Position data of sound source samples corresponding to ringtone contents are extracted in advance and then used to play the ringtone. Musical score data are parsed from ringtone... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7442869 | Method and electronic device used to synthesise the sound of church organ flue pipes by taking advantage of the physical modeling technique of acoustic instruments The present invention consists in a method and electronic device used to reproduce the sound of church organ flue pipes, by taking advantage of the physical modeling technique of acoustic instruments; it being an audio-digital synthesis system based on digital signa... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7432435 | Tone synthesis apparatus and method Dynamics value is acquired intermittently at predetermined time periods, and a waveform data set for a sustain tone, corresponding to the acquired dynamics value, is specified from among waveform data sets stored in a memory. To generate a tone waveform while switch... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7429699 | Electronic musical instrument and recording medium that stores processing program for the electronic musical instrument In an electronic musical instrument, when a musical tone delay time T1 read from a delay time table TBL depending on a velocity generated by a key being pressed has elapsed, a hammer string-striking sound is generated from musical tone waveform data selected ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7427709 | Apparatus and method for processing MIDI Provided are an apparatus and a method for processing MIDI in a wireless terminal capable of controlling a volume of sound source samples when the MIDI is played. According to the method, a plurality of notes, volume levels, volume section information, and note play... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7427708 | Tone color setting apparatus and method As the user executes a performance on a preliminary or trial basis, performance data based on the user's performance are evaluated, a performance tendency of the user is extracted as a result of the extraction, and then, performance tendency information, indicative ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7421434 | Apparatus and method for musical tune playback control on digital audio media A musical tune playback control apparatus adapted to a music playback apparatus performs prescribed musical tune playback controls on a digital audio medium (or a digital storage medium, e.g., a CD and a MD) in association with a storage device such as a hard disk d... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7414187 | Apparatus and method for synthesizing MIDI based on wave table An apparatus and a method for synthesizing a MIDI based on a wave table are provided. According to the method, sound samples of a plurality of instruments stored in a wave table are compressed and stored so as to reduce the storage space required by the wave table. ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7394010 | Performance apparatus and tone generation method therefor A Plurality of key switches for tone-generating are arranged two-dimensionally. Mode setting section sets a tone adjusting mode in which the key switches are caused to function as tone-adjusting operators. In the tone adjusting mode, adjustment of a predetermined to... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7390954 | Electronic musical apparatus system, server-side electronic musical apparatus and client-side electronic musical apparatus A plurality of client-side electronic musical apparatuses 10 are connected to a server-side electronic musical apparatus 30 through a communications network 50. Each of the client-side electronic musical apparatuses 10, which is provided ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7381882 | Performance control apparatus and storage medium A performance control apparatus which can reflect operations carried out by a user on variations in dynamics in real time to achieve performance expressions such as crescendo and decrescendo. A keyboard generates performance timing information in response to perform... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7381881 | Simulation of string vibration A method of simulating a string using a wave equation relates movement of the string in time to force acting on the string, wherein the force acting on the string simulates a stream of a fluid medium flowing relative to the string. The simulated string is supported ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7375274 | Automatic accompaniment apparatus, method of controlling the apparatus, and program for implementing the method An automatic accompaniment apparatus that enables an external electronic musical instrument connected thereto to exhibit its accompaniment information generating capability to the maximum and makes it possible to set tone color data and accompaniment data adapted to... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7371959 | System, method and computer program for ensuring secure use of music playing data files In the system of the invention, a music playing data file is extracted from a given musical work resource such as an electronic music score data file, a printed sheet of music and an audio signals of a musical performance, to be utilized for playing music automatica... | 05/13/2008 |
