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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7164906 | System and method of music generation There is provided herein a system and method for generating music on multiple cell phones or other mobile computing devices, wherein two or more users (to include a user and a computer) acting together may create a joint musical work. The instant methods enable mult... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7067731 | Sound source circuit and telephone terminal using same A sound source circuit is provided for a telephone terminal to reproduce chorus-effect imparted musical tones as incoming call sound or hold sound. Herein, original musical tone data ω c1 are slightly modified in pitches to produce musical tone data ω c2... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7010291 | Mobile telephone unit using singing voice synthesis and mobile telephone system A mobile telephone unit of the invention comprises a storage section for storing karaoke piece data, a controller for reading the karaoke piece data from the storage section, analyzing the karaoke piece data, and fetching melody information and singing voice synthes... | 03/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6867360 | Electronic musical instrument, difference tone output apparatus, a program and a recording medium An electronic musical instrument according to the invention stores a difference tone identifying table which associates musical sounds of different pitches with a difference tone perceived from the musical sounds of different pitches. Receiving an instruction to sim... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6750389 | Musical performance control method, musical performance control apparatus and musical tone generating apparatus When the performance by a piano part is automatically provided based on musical performance information so as to provide an ensemble performance with an automatic performance part by an electronic tone generator, a processing path for the automatic performance part ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6068489 | Karaoke amplifier with variably settable range of parameter to control audio signal A karaoke amplifier is constructed for amplifying an audio signal to sound a karaoke performance while processing the audio signal according to a value of a control parameter to acoustically control the karaoke performance. An analog operating member is m... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5902950 | Harmony effect imparting apparatus and a karaoke amplifier In a karaoke vocal adaptor 100, voice signals to which a harmony effect is imparted by the harmony effect imparting circuit, and voice signals to which the harmony effect is not imparted are output from wet voice output terminals 121 and 122, and dry voic... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5902951 | Chorus effector with natural fluctuation imported from singing voice A chorus apparatus is constructed for creating a chorus sound to accompany a vocal sound which is sung by a singer. In the chorus apparatus, a providing device provides music information including reference pitch information which indicates a regular vari... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5876213 | Karaoke apparatus detecting register of live vocal to tune harmony vocal A karaoke apparatus is constructed to perform a karaoke accompaniment part and a karaoke harmony part for accompanying a live vocal part. A pickup device collects a singing voice of the live vocal part. A detector device analyzes the collected singing voi... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5864079 | Transposition controller for an electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument has a means used by a player to set a key name to which transposition is to be made and a part number to designate a transposition excluding part. Tone data in parts other than the transposition excluding part are exclusiv... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5864080 | Software sound synthesis system An audio signal processing system including an input circuit for inputting musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) commands in real time over a plurality of channels, a computer including a central processing unit (CPU) supplied with the MIDI commands... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5824935 | Music apparatus for independently producing multiple chorus parts through single channel In a music apparatus, a generator device has a plurality of channels for concurrently generating various tones. At least, one channel is assigned to generate chorus tones belonging to a multiple of melody parts arranged in parallel to each other. A provid... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5811708 | Karaoke apparatus with tuning sub vocal aside main vocal A karaoke apparatus is constructed for playing a karaoke song according to song data jointly with a first vocal part and a second vocal part. In the karaoke apparatus, a generator device processes the song data to produce an orchestral accompaniment sound... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5789689 | Tube modeling programmable digital guitar amplification system An electric guitar amplifier which utilizes a digital signal processor to produce vacuum-tube-like distortion without certain unwanted audio artifacts created by previous digital realizations of nonlinear, high-gain functions. By virtue of a microprocesso... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5773744 | Karaoke apparatus switching vocal part and harmony part in duet play A karaoke apparatus mixes a live singing sound with a harmony chorus sound and an orchestral accompaniment sound. A first input terminal is connectable to a microphone to receive therefrom a first vocal signal representative of a first live singing sound.... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5741992 | Musical apparatus creating chorus sound to accompany live vocal sound A chorus apparatus creates an artificial chorus sound in parallel to a live vocal sound. A pickup collects a live vocal sound and converts the collected live vocal sound into a corresponding vocal sound signal. A generator device generates a chorus sound ... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5739452 | Karaoke apparatus imparting different effects to vocal and chorus sounds A karaoke apparatus is provided with a pickup device that collects a singing voice sound to convert the same into a corresponding vocal signal. Further, a music generator device generates a music signal representative of a karaoke accompaniment sound whic... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5719346 | Harmony chorus apparatus generating chorus sound derived from vocal sound A harmony chorus apparatus collects an original of a vocal sound performed after a main melody pattern of a song, and adds a chorus sound derived after a chorus melody pattern of the same song to the vocal sound. A memory stores a main melody data represe... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5686684 | Effect adaptor attachable to karaoke machine to create harmony chorus A harmony adaptor is optionally usable as an attachment to a karaoke apparatus which has a pickup device for collecting a live singing sound and converting the same into a vocal signal, and a mixing device for mixing the vocal signal with a music signal r... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5652797 | Sound effect imparting apparatus A sound effect imparting apparatus, which is employed in the electronic musical instrument in order to impart a variety of sound effects to the musical tones in a variety of manners, is mainly configured by an effect program memory, a sound-effect operati... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5596159 | Software sound synthesis system An audio signal processing system including an input circuit for inputting musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) commands in real time over a plurality of channels, a computer including a central processing unit (CPU) supplied with the MIDI commands... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5583308 | Musical effects apparatus and tone control process for a musical instrument In an automated system for learning to play a musical instrument, music data and tone control data for a musical composition of an exemplary musical instrument is stored in machine readable form. An audio signal generated by a musical instrument being pla... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5550320 | Electronic sound generating device for generating musical sound by adding volume fluctuation to predetermined harmonics An electronic sound generating device is proposed which can generate sound that is complex, profound and high in fidelity to acoustic sound. Sound of the acoustic instruments consists of a plurality of harmonics. Some of the harmonics have swings on their... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5521324 | Automated musical accompaniment with multiple input sensors The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for automating accompaniment to an ensemble's performance. The apparatus is comprised of a plurality of input devices with each input device producing an input signal containing information rela... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5521326 | Karaoke apparatus selectively sounding natural and false back choruses dependently on tempo and pitch A karaoke apparatus operates according to a song data for presenting a karaoke performance composed of an instrumental accompaniment and a back chorus under a designated condition determined in terms of either of a tempo and a pitch. In the karaoke appara... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5473107 | Electronic musical instrument controlling impartment or non-impartment of effect in synchronization with start of tone generation A selector is provided for selecting a predetermined effect. Instruction as to whether this effect should be imparted or not is not made instantly in response to an output of this selector but made in association with instruction of start of tone generati... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5440756 | Apparatus and method for real-time extraction and display of musical chord sequences from an audio signal An apparatus and method are provided for processing an audio signal conveying a musical passage so as to reveal the sequence of musical chords contained within that passage. The signal is amplified, filtered, and converted to digital data, which are then ... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5410097 | Karaoke apparatus with skip and repeat operation of orchestra accompaniment In a Karaoke apparatus, a sound synthesizer reproduces an instrumental accompaniment of a song requested by a singer during the course of a vocal performance of the song by the singer. A whole of the instrumental accompaniment is provisionally divided int... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5393927 | Automatic accompaniment apparatus with indexed pattern searching An automatic accompaniment apparatus is provided with a pattern memory for storing a plurality of accompaniment patterns and a reference memory for storing a plurality of references corresponding to respective accompaniment patterns, each reference being ... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5248842 | Device for generating a waveform of a musical tone A device for generating a waveform of a musical tone, which comprises a waveform data memory for storing data representing the waveforms of a plurality of musical tones, a waveform data selector for selecting any combination of more than two waveform data... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5235124 | Musical accompaniment playing apparatus having phoneme memory for chorus voices A musical accompaniment playing apparatus comprises a MIDI sound source, a phoneme information memory, a playing information memory, a control means, a mixing means and a sound output means. When a user sings a song with a musical accompaniment and a back chor... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5214993 | Automatic duet tones generation apparatus in an electronic musical instrument In an electronic musical instrument for automatically a adding duet note, an apparatus, which can reduce the capacity of a memory for storing data used as a basis for selecting a duet note to be added, is disclosed. A chord depressed at a keyboard is spec... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5214229 | Electronic musical instrument with tone color setting switches An electronic musical instrument capable of generating musical sounds of a plurality of tone colors simply by designating a plurality of tone colors simultaneously in the tone color switches. The tone color switches may be provided in a front panel adjace... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5159142 | Electronic musical instrument with lone modification for polyphonic effect A performance apparatus for producing a mixed musical tone signal having a comparator and a modulator. The comparator detects key data corresponding to musical tones having the same pitch and the same or similar tone colors from key data of musical tones ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5070756 | Ensemble tone color generator for an electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument having a key-depression-detecting circuit for detecting a depressed key on a keyboard and for generating tone-pitch data corresponding to the depressed key, a tone-color-designating circuit for sequentially designating a d... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5060270 | Reverberation circuit A reverberation circuit comprises an amplifier, attenuation circuit, a feedback component, and a delay circuit. The amplifier, delay circuit, and feedback component form a feedback loop. The amplifier amplifies an input signal supplied to an input termina... | 10/22/1991 |
| 4957552 | Electronic musical instrument with plural musical tones designated by manipulators An electronic musical instrument is provided with plural control switches; a musical tone generating circuit having plural musical tone generating channels generating musical tones in accordance with the operation of the plural control switches; a circuit... | 09/18/1990 |
