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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8415549 | Time compression/expansion of selected audio segments in an audio file A computer implemented method allows a user to adjust tracks in a musical arrangement. The method involves a user selecting a musical position of an audio track, which the user desires to adjust in time, either by compressing it or expanding it, by indicating with a... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8153882 | Time compression/expansion of selected audio segments in an audio file A computer implemented method allows a user to adjust tracks in a musical arrangement. The method involves a user selecting a musical position of an audio track, which the user desires to adjust in time, either by compressing it or expanding it, by indicating with a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 7750230 | Automatic rendition style determining apparatus and method Once performance event information is supplied in real time in accordance with a progression of a performance, a time indicative of temporal relationship between at least two notes to be generated in succession is measured on the basis of the performance event infor... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7692088 | Musical sound waveform synthesizer The present invention is directed to a waveform synthesizer apparatus that synthesizes a waveform of a musical sound based on musical performance event information. In particular, a music synthesizer includes an overlap detector that detects whether a first and seco... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7674970 | Multifunctional digital music display device Herein described are at least a method and a system for assisting a musician in playing an instrument by way of using an intelligent multifunctional digital music display device (MDMDD). The multifunctional digital music display device (MDMDD) may be used to assist ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7396992 | Tone synthesis apparatus and method Determination is made, in accordance with acquired performance information, as to whether a crossfade characteristic should be changed or not, and a crossfade characteristic of crossfade synthesis having already been started at the time of the acquisition of the per... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7373209 | Sound features extracting apparatus, sound data registering apparatus, sound data retrieving apparatus, and methods and programs for implementing the same The present invention implements a method and an apparatus for retrieving a sound data desired by the user on the basis of its subjective impression over the sound data. The subjective impression on the desired sound data is entered by the user and converted to a nu... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7276655 | Music synthesis system The invention relates to a music synthesis system for synthesizing a corresponding digital music output according to commands from a music data file. The music data file comprises a plurality of music data units. Each music data unit records related information of t... | 10/02/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7259315 | Waveform production method and apparatus Performance event data designating rendition style modules are supplied in order of time. When a given performance event data at a given time is to be processed in accordance with the supplied performance event data, another performance event data related to one or ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7253352 | Music playing/processing device and method for playing music file according to playing order of tones The present invention relates to a music playing/processing device for playing a musical file in a wireless communication device and determining the playing order of a plurality of tones of the musical file. The music playing/processing device comprises: an analysis... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7241947 | Singing voice synthesizing method and apparatus, program, recording medium and robot apparatus A singing voice synthesizing method and a singing voice synthesizing apparatus in which the singing voice is synthesized using performance data such as MIDI data. The performance data entered is analyzed as the musical information of the sound pitch, sound duration ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7189915 | Singing voice synthesizing method, singing voice synthesizing device, program, recording medium, and robot A singing voice synthesizing method for synthesizing the singing voice from performance data is disclosed. The input performance data are analyzed as the musical information of the pitch and the length of sounds and the lyric (S2 and S3). A track as th... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7183482 | Singing voice synthesizing method, singing voice synthesizing device, program, recording medium, and robot apparatus A singing voice synthesizing method synthesizes the singing voice by exploiting performance data, such as MIDI data. The input performance data are analyzed as the musical information including the pitch and the length of the sounds and the lyric (S2 and S... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7149682 | Voice converter with extraction and modification of attribute data An apparatus is constructed for converting an input voice signal into an output voice signal according to a target voice signal. In the apparatus, an input device provides the input voice signal composed of original sinusoidal components and original residual compon... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7135636 | Singing voice synthesizing apparatus, singing voice synthesizing method and program for singing voice synthesizing A method for synthesizing a natural-sounding singing voice divides performance data into a transition part and a long sound part. The transition part is represented by articulation (phonemic chain) data that is read from an articulation template database and is outp... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7096186 | Device and method for analyzing and representing sound signals in the musical notation Sound signal is received which contains sound characteristics to be represented in musical notation. The characteristics, such as a volume level of the sound signal, are extracted out of the received sound signal, and various parameters for use in subsequent analysi... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7016841 | Singing voice synthesizing apparatus, singing voice synthesizing method, and program for realizing singing voice synthesizing method A singing voice synthesizing apparatus is provided, which enables achievement of a natural sounding synthesized singing voice with a good level of comprehensibility. A phoneme database stores a plurality of voice fragment data formed of voice fragments each being a ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6953568 | Targeting of molecules to large vessel endothelium using EPCR Endothelial protein C receptor (EPCR) is found primarily on endothelial cells of large vessels. EPCR translocates from the plasma membrane surface to the nucleus. Molecules which bind to EPCR can be carried from the plasma membrane surface to the nucleus. These mole... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6946595 | Performance data processing and tone signal synthesizing methods and apparatus Each time a predetermined type of note controlling performance data (e.g., note-on event data) is detected from among a series of performance data, deviation values for a plurality of channels, varying in deviation state among the channels, are set such that a contr... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6931124 | Soft mute circuit A soft mute circuit includes a programmable amplifier controlled by a register. Data is stored in the register from an adder that combines the current data in the register with a second number for increasing or decreasing the gain of the amplifier. A summation circu... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6911591 | Rendition style determining and/or editing apparatus and method Rendition style determining apparatus detects at least one of duration of a first note to be performed at a given time point and time interval between the first note and a second note to be performed following the first note, in order to automatically impart music p... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6835886 | Tone synthesis apparatus and method for synthesizing an envelope on the basis of a segment template Basic envelope is produced for at least one tone on the basis of performance information. In response to a free selection by a user, a segment template including a characteristic variation curve is supplied, and the characteristic variation curve of the segment temp... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6675141 | Apparatus for converting reproducing speed and method of converting reproducing speed A method and apparatus for converting the reproducing speed of an acoustic signal where, of the acoustic signals held in a data recording section 1, the input acoustic signal s1 (sampled for max. pitch cycle×2) is read from a process-start position P. A ... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6611592 | Incoming-call tone generation device A incoming-call tone generation device comprises: a first storage unit 1, for storing an effect calculation formula for incoming-call tone data; a second storage unit, for storing incoming-call tone data that consist of data for original sounds; a control... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6452082 | Musical tone-generating method A method of generating musical tones and a storage medium storing a program for executing the method are provided. Musical piece data is decomposed into phrases, the musical piece data being formed of pieces of performance data arranged in the order of pe... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6426456 | Method and apparatus for generating percussive sounds in embedded devices A percussive sound contains both harmonic and non-harmonic frequency spectral content. To reproduce a particular percussive sound, such as the sound of a drum or cymbal or hand clap, for example, the harmonic and non-harmonic content are determined empiri... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6365818 | Method and apparatus for producing a waveform based on style-of-rendition stream data Waveform corresponding to a tone performed with desired styles of rendition is produced from vector data generated on the basis of received style-of-rendition stream data. The style-of-rendition stream data describes a series of performance tones by a com... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6255576 | Device and method for forming waveform based on a combination of unit waveforms including loop waveform segments Sets of waveform data of unit waveforms stored in a memory each include first and second loop waveform segments at both ends of a non-loop waveform segment and any one of the unit waveform data sets can be selectively readout from the memory. The waveform... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6148086 | Method and apparatus for replacing a voice with an original lead singer's voice on a karaoke machine A voice replacing method and system that uses the volume of the karaoke user's voice to control the volume of the lead singer's original vocal outputted to the audience. The volume of an original lead singer's voice is determined by the volume or vocal-am... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6121533 | Method and apparatus for generating random weighted musical choices 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... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6111183 | Audio signal synthesis system based on probabilistic estimation of time-varying spectra The present invention describes methods and means for estimating the time-varying spectrum of an audio signal based on a conditional probability density function (PDF) of spectral coding vectors conditioned on pitch and loudness values. Using this PDF a t... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6101469 | Formant shift-compensated sound synthesizer and method of operation thereof For use in a synthesizer having a wave source that produces a periodic wave, frequency shifting circuitry for frequency-shifting the periodic wave and waveshaping circuitry for transforming the periodic wave into a waveform containing a formant, the frequ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6091012 | Tone effect imparting apparatus There are provided a tone source for generating tone signals in plural channels independently and effect impartment sections, provided in corresponding relations to the channels, for imparting individual effects to the tone signals of the channels generat... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6064743 | Wavetable audio synthesizer with waveform volume control for eliminating zipper noise A digital wavetable audio synthesizer is described. The synthesizer can generate up to 32 high-quality audio digital signals or voices, including delay-based effects, at either a 44.1 KHz sample rate or at sample rates compatible with a prior art wavetabl... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6051770 | Method and apparatus for composing original musical works A system and method for creating and composing musical works by selecting existing musical elements and applying modification modules to them. Existing musical selections reside in a database as metrics, or targets for the composition of new pieces. The p... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6011213 | Synthesis of sounds played on plucked string instruments, using computers and synthesizers A sound synthesizer for a plucked string instrument simulates noises and transients produced before and after and during the transitions between notes. A particularly convincing synthesis of a plucked string instrument is produced by combining the transie... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5998725 | Musical sound synthesizer and storage medium therefor A musical sound synthesizer generates a predetermined singing sound based on performance data. A compression device determines whether each of a plurality of phonemes forming the predetermined singing sound is a first phoneme to be sounded in accordance w... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5977469 | Real-time waveform substituting sound engine A sound engine in a processor-based system utilizing real-time synthesis optimizes synthesis time, maximizes the number of fully-synthesized sound requests and preserves currently excessive sound requests. During synthesis, the sound engine attempts to fu... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5949011 | Configurable tone generator chip with selectable memory chips A tone generator chip is formed of a semiconductor substrate and is configurable under different operation modes in combination with memories accessible via external buses for generating a tone by using the memories. In the tone generator chip, a sound so... | 09/07/1999 |
