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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7663051 | Audio processing hardware elements This disclosure describes techniques that make use of a plurality of hardware elements that operate simultaneously to service synthesis parameters generated from one or more audio files, such as musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) files. In one example, a me... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7598448 | Preliminary data producer correlating music data with actual motion, automatic player and musical instrument An automatic player piano is equipped with a preliminary data producer comprising an experimental routine and an editor; a motion controller forces each of the black and white keys to travel on a test trajectory at different values of key velocity so that the black ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7576280 | Expressing music Expressing a musical work includes identifying a series of musical moments in the musical work and electronically specifying values for levels of each musical moment in the series. The electronically-specified values for at least one level are displayed. ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7569762 | RF-based dynamic remote control for audio effects devices or the like Systems and methods are disclosed for providing wireless remote control of devices, where the sensing/transmitting device is worn by, or affixed to, the operator, and responds in real-time to position or movements. The technology enables the operator to control remo... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7541536 | Multi-sound effect system including dynamic controller for an amplified guitar The proposed invention is a portable multi-sound effect system providing a novel and unique solution for processing the electrical audio signals created by a guitar. The innovation according to the present invention is by attaching a signal processing unit along wit... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7538267 | Kernel-mode audio processing modules Multiple kernel-mode audio processing modules or filters are combined to form a module or filter graph. The graph is implemented in kernel-mode, reducing latency and jitter when handling audio data (e.g., MIDI data) by avoiding transfers of the audio data to user-mo... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7525038 | Effect system The disclosure presented here involves an effect device that can easily connect with other effect devices in parallel. A preferred embodiment of this device is equipped with a number of components including an effect add means that adds effects, a mixing means that ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7470855 | Tone control apparatus and method Rendition style parameters for realizing various release rendition styles and/or attack rendition styles are stored in a memory. Operation-related time lengths are detected which pertain to turning-on and/or turning-off operation of a pedal operator. Any one of the ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7432437 | Apparatus and computer program for playing arpeggio with regular pattern and accentuated pattern An arpeggio playing apparatus comprises an arpeggio pattern storing device, an arpeggio pattern readout device and an arpeggio tone processing device. The arpeggio pattern storing device stores at least one arpeggio pattern pair including a regular version pattern a... | 10/07/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7426417 | Method and apparatus for efficiently accounting for the temporal nature of audio processing Some embodiments of the invention provide a computer system for processing an audio track. This system includes at least one DSP for processing the audio track. It also includes an application for editing the audio track. To process audio data in a first interval of... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7423214 | System and method for the creation and playback of animated, interpretive, musical notation and audio synchronized with the recorded performance of an original artist A music application guides a user with some musical experience through the steps of creating and editing a musical enhancement file that enhances and plays in synchronicity with an audio signal of an original artist's recorded performance. This enables others, perha... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420113 | Rendition style determination apparatus and method On the basis of performance event information, at least two notes to be sounded in succession or in an overlapping relation to each other are detected, and a tone pitch difference between the detected at least two notes is detected. Tone pitch difference limitation ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7381880 | Musical instrument recording advanced music data codes for playback, music data generator and music data source for the musical instrument In order to precisely express motion of a key or motion of a hammer, a voice message for the polyphonic key pressure and another voice message for the control change, which stand idle in an automatic player piano, are used to express rough key position or rough hamm... | 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 |
| 7361825 | Electronic keyboard instrument In an electronic keyboard instrument, each key moves from an initial position to a full stroke position via first, second, and third positions sequentially. A velocity detector detects a first key velocity of the key when the key moves from the first position to the... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355109 | Separate automatic player driving keys and pedals of keyboard musical instrument A separate automatic player is independent of a piano, and stands in front of the piano for an automatic playing; the separate automatic player includes a key driver unit, a pedal driver unit and a framework on which the key driver unit and pedal driver unit is carr... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356465 | Perfected device and method for the spatialization of sound The invention relates to a computer device comprising a memory 108 for storing audio signals 114, in part pre-recorded, each corresponding to a defined source, by means of spatial position data 116, and a processing module 110 for process... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7342166 | Method and apparatus for randomized variation of musical data An initial note series is collected from a real-time source of musical input material such as a keyboard or a sequencer playing back musical data, or extracted from musical data stored in memory. The initial note series may be altered to create variations of the ini... | 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 |
| 7335833 | Music performance system A method and apparatus for producing a musical output is disclosed. The method and apparatus permit the creation, storage and retrieval of a first data structure representing a musical piece. The first data structure includes digital music information that represent... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334010 | Feedback digital filter A digital filter includes a data storage section, a filter coefficient storage section, a multiplier, an accumulative adder section, a data output section and a control section. The data storage section stores the latest multiple input data for every channel and out... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7326847 | Methods and systems for dynamic channel allocation Methods and systems of dynamic channel allocation. The provided methods and systems can be employed in a music synthesis system comprising a synthesizer. Audio instructions from sources, such as MIDI players, are received. Available channels provided by the synthesi... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323630 | Automatic performance system An automatic musical performance system stores musical data such as performance patterns and pattern sequences. During performance, the user provides input indicating tones to be added to or deleted from the musical performance, and the stored musical data is update... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7314995 | Data acquisition system preparing inner force sense data for inner sense controller A data acquisition system is used in the transplantation of the piano key touch from an acoustic piano to an electronic piano, and the function thereof is broken down into a table producer, a motion controller and a servo-controller; a table, which expresses relatio... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7309828 | Hysteresis waveshaping 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. Synthetic hysteresis wa... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304232 | Joystick gain control for dual independent audio signals A joystick control (20) mounted on the body (12) of an electric guitar (11) adjacent to the customarily picked section of the strings (16) provides convenient simultaneous independent gain control of two pickup signals. A pick may be held... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7290216 | Method and apparatus for implementing a scene-graph-aware user interface manager One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that enables a user interface manager to modify a scene graph for an application. During operation, the system receives the scene graph for the application, wherein the scene graph defines visual attributes f... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7285718 | Keyboard musical instrument and other-type musical instrument, and method for generating tone-generation instructing information Detector detects movement of a hammer (driven member) that strikes a string (abutted member) by moving in response to operation of a key. On the basis of detection outputs of the detector and a given abutment-presuming reference value, it is presumed that the hammer... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287235 | Method of simplifying a circuit for equivalence checking A method of simplifying a logic circuit for enabling cycle-by-cycle equivalence checking is provided. To accomplish this, first, a logic circuit is identified to be a variable delay circuit or a fixed delay circuit. If the logic circuit is a variable delay circuit, ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7279630 | Automatic player musical instrument, automatic player used therein and method for exactly controlling keys An automatic playing system creates a feedback control loop for the keys incorporated in an acoustic piano; key sensors, which are provided under the front portions of the keys, informs a motion controller of current positions, and the motion controller periodically... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7273978 | Device and method for characterizing a tone signal For characterizing a tone signal a sequence of quantized entry times for each of at least two tone sources over time is provided on the basis of a quantization raster. Hereupon, a common period length underlying the at least two tone sources is determined using the ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7271331 | Musical synthesizer with expressive portamento based on pitch wheel control The present invention is a musical synthesizer that can respond to a pitch wheel control by generating realistic slide-step-slide and slide-step portamento pitch curves. The musical synthesizer responds to a pitch wheel control in a context sensitive manner. When a ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271330 | Rendition style determination apparatus and computer program therefor There is provided a rendition style selector operable by a user to select a desired rendition style from among a plurality of rendition styles associated with a plurality of portions of tones. In response to selecting operation via the selector, a rendition style is... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7265281 | Automatic player musical instrument having playback table partially prepared through transcription from reference table and computer program used therein An automatic player piano is only equipped with key sensors, and the automatic player is expected to give rise to hammer motion to be varied together with the loudness of tones; the manufacturer prepared not only a velocity conversion table expressing a relation bet... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7247786 | Song selection apparatus and method A song selection device stores song characteristic quantities of a plurality of songs. A user operates the song selection device to enter personal properties and a sensibility word. The song selection device selects a song having a song characteristic quantity corre... | 07/24/2007 |