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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7396991 | Electronic percussion instrument, system and method with rim shot detection An electronic percussion instrument includes input means, comparison means, and musical tone generation control means. The input means allows for the input of a vibration of a head section and a vibration of a rim section that have been detected by a striking detect... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7285712 | Method of dynamically determining a maximum polyphony number according to operation mode and smoothly changing polyphony number when switching operation modes A method of dynamically determining a maximum polyphony number is used in an electronic device, which has S tone generators. First, an operation mode of the electronic device is detected. Next, a residual computing power of the electronic device is obtained accordin... | 10/23/2007 |
| 6960713 | Portable telephone A portable telephone produces either beep sound or melody sound as incoming call sound. The melody sound is produced based on music data, which are stored in advance or downloaded from the prescribed distribution center, wherein the music data represent the melody o... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6914990 | Volume adjusting apparatus, method and computer program product Herein disclosed a volume adjusting apparatus comprising: a plurality of sound inputting terminals for respectively inputting sound elements; a plurality of volume setting means respectively connected with the sound inputting terminals to respectively set volume lev... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6673995 | Musical signal processing apparatus The characteristic value detection section detects a characteristic value concerning input musical data. The detected characteristic value is converted by a genre information determination section to genre information representing a genre of the contents ... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6541692 | Dynamically adjustable network enabled method for playing along with music Many non-musicians enjoy listening to music, and would like to be able to play along with it, but do not have the talent or the time to learn to play a musical instrument. The system described herein allows non-musicians to follow along with a display tha... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6476305 | Method and apparatus for modifying musical performance data A data modifying apparatus having: a memory that stores modification data for modifying data; a detecting unit for detecting each data group from performance data, the data group being unable to be reproduced at the same time from the viewpoint of music; ... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6472592 | Apparatus for and method of adding sound signal in system having limited number of sound generators In the sound signal adding apparatus in which there is a limitation on the number of reproducible sound sources, a remaining reproduction time determining section and a sound data attenuation controlling section are provided. The remaining reproduction ti... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6326537 | Method and apparatus for generating musical tone waveforms by user input of sample waveform frequency A method and apparatus for generating musical tones are provided. Musical tones are generated based on musical tone waveform samples generated through a plurality of channels, and performance information is input. Control information is input depending on... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6320112 | Procedure and device for the automatic selection of musical and/or tonal compositions A process for the automatic selection of musical or tonal compositions to be replayed from a collection of musical or tonal compositions includes the step of assigning evaluation data to each of said compositions which describe its characteristics. Parame... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6316711 | Musical sound signal generation apparatus A musical sound signal generation apparatus for producing a sound corresponding to an operated key can produce a sound of a newly-operated key even if all the musical sound signal generation means for generating a musical sound signal are in use. On produ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6255578 | Tone color setting device of electronic musical instrument A musical instrument having a signal output function 1 for outputting a given signal in response to a user command, and a mode managing function 2 for managing process modes of an electronic keyboard and compulsorily finishing an arbitrary process mode of... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6069311 | Electronic musical instrument having mother board communicable with plug-in board An electronic musical instrument is constructed on a mother board for editing a parameter of an extension board necessary for generating a music tone while monitoring the parameter according to display information. In the instrument, a display device is p... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6034315 | Signal processing apparatus and method and information recording apparatus A signal processing apparatus is provided with: a music tone judging device for judging a music tone or genre of a music composition composed of an input audio signal: a selecting device for selecting one of a plurality of characteristics prepared in adva... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5959232 | Electronic musical instrument and a method of dynamic channel assignment for solo and non-solo tones An electronic musical instrument having a plurality of tone generation channels includes a solo tone channel assignment means and a non-solo tone channel assignment means. The solo tone channel assignment means preferentially operates to assign a solo ton... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5861567 | Music computer saving abnormal tone generation by hangup In a musical tone synthesis apparatus, a sequencer provides a sequence of event data effective to command generation of musical tones. A generator operates according to the event data to generate the musical tones. A detector detects when either of the se... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5804755 | Electronic musical instrument having channel controller preferentially assigning sound generating channels to resonant sound signals with large magnitude An electronic keyboard musical instrument includes a plurality of sound generating channels selectively assigned to pairs of fundamental sound signals and pairs of resonant sound signals, and a channel controller assigns the sound generating channels to a... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5524074 | Digital signal processor for adding harmonic content to digital audio signals A digital audio signal processor for adding harmonic content to an input audio signal through a non-linear transfer function with discontinuities. The discontinuities are generated by bit shifting each input value by an amount dependent on the sign and ma... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5491298 | Automatic accompaniment apparatus determining an inversion type chord based on a reference part sound An automatic accompaniment apparatus which performs automatic accompaniment with a natural sounding advancement of chords. In the automatic accompaniment apparatus, one of component sounds of a chord which has a particular position in the order of the pit... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5410099 | Channel assigning system for use in an electronic musical instrument A channel assigning system which effects an assignment of a channel other than a predetermined number channels which are preferentially assigned to any part of a piece of music, to a part thereof. To thus ensure an efficient use of the channels. Further, ... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5380949 | Key assigner for an electronic musical instrument having multiple tone channels and priority level value data A key assigner for an electronic musical instrument having multiple tone channels for tone signals generated by tone signal generator means controlled by a tone signal generation instruction input device. The key assigner includes a random access memory h... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5322967 | Method and device for executing musical control with a pedal for an electronic musical instrument According to the invention, a pedal operation is permitted independently for each group in a keyboard, and thus various ways of sounding musical tones can be realized. More specifically, a plurality of designation elements for designating the sounding of ... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5315059 | Channel assigning system for electronic musical instrument A preferential order of channel vacating is determined according to a musical character of musical tones having assigned channels, thus permitting a channel assignment which does not depart from the harmony of the musical tone. The greater the number of t... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5280129 | Assigning device which assigns new musical tones to tone-generating channels based upon a successive strike relation among the channels An assigning device of an electronic musical instrument for selecting a musical tone-generating channel to assign a new musical tone is disclosed. The object of the invention is to minimize the sense of incongruity in a musical performance upon determinin... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5270478 | Damp control in an electronic musical When a new tone is to be assigned to a certain channel, an amplitude level of a preceding tone signal which is being produced in this channel is detected and a damp rate is determined on the basis of the detected amplitude level. Tone volume of the preced... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5171929 | Operational history control device for an electronic musical instrument The invention provides an electronic musical instrument having a plurality of musical control functions, each musical control function having corresponding musical control data, wherein musical control is effected by designating the musical control data o... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5167179 | Electronic musical instrument for simulating a stringed instrument In order to accurately simulate the sounding system of the stringed instrument such as the violin and cello, an electronic musical instrument provides a performance unit such as a keyboard and a multi-channel sound source unit. As the sound source unit, t... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5159144 | Electronic musical instrument employing tone generator selection based on integrated residual envelope volume An electronic musical instrument allots musical tone-generating channels to new musical tones by calculating an integrated residual generated volume or a substitute values corresponding thereto for each current musical tones; and determining which of musi... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5107747 | Channel assigning device An electronic musical instrument with a channel assigning device which includes a characteristic information generating unit for generating characteristic information of musical tone envelopes, a sound radiation instructing unit for generating each musica... | 04/28/1992 |
| 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 |
| 5042355 | Electronic musical instrument having an automatic rhythm performance function An electronic musical instrument efficiently uses plural tone generation channels to generate both manual performance tones and automatic rhythm performance tones. The tone generation channels normally are used for manual performance tone generation. Tone... | 08/27/1991 |
| 5036745 | Defaultless musical keyboards for woodwind styled electronic musical instruments A decoder assigns key values according to a system of mathematical weight values in terms of whole and semi-tone intervals of the musical scale, each key contributing its assigned value to the sum when depressed. Any interval along the scale can be reache... | 08/06/1991 |
| 4969385 | Reassignment of digital oscillators according to amplitude A method for operating a digital synthesizer type of electronic musical instrument to rapidly make available digital oscillators to produce newly keyed notes even when all digital oscillators are currently active with previous assignments. The method cont... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4722259 | Keyswitch actuation detector for an electronic musical instrument A keyboard operated musical instrument is disclosed in which the number of tone generators can be less than the number of keyswitches in a keyboard array of keyswitches. A binary-tree search is programmed to search subsets of the keyswitches to find keysw... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4706538 | Electronic musical instrument with automatic musical accompaniment playing system An electronic musical instrument automatically plays a musical accompaniment utilizing a minimized number of tone signal generating channels. The electronic musical instrument has a plurality of tone signal generating channels each for generating a tone s... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4704932 | Electronic musical instrument producing level-controlled rhythmic tones An electronic musical instrument allows the performer to control tone volume of a rhythmic tone by a simple manipulation of keys of a keyboard. The electronic musical instrument comprises a rhythmic tone generator including a plurality of tone sources, to... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4499807 | Key data entry system for an electronic musical instrument A key data entry system for an electronic musical instrument comprises a keyboard having a plurality of user operable chord specification keys, a detector for detecting the key operation state of the chord specification keys, a first specifying device for... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4495847 | Combined tone generation on a single keyboard for an electronic musical instrument A keyboard operated electronic musical instrument is disclosed in which an independent monophonic tone synthesizer is operated from the same keyboard that controls the generation of tone from a polyphonic tone generation system. The highest frequency note... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4481851 | Tone generator assignment system for an electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument includes a keyboard having a plurality of keys, each depressed key being identified by a uniquely developed multibit code. Each of a plurality of tone generators, substantially less in number than the number of keys charac... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4475428 | Pedal capture keyer system The present invention relates to a keyer capture system for an electronic keyboard musical instrument, such as an electronic organ. The system is particularly adapted for the situation wherein a relatively low number of notes are required to be captured a... | 10/09/1984 |
