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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7390959 | Tone control device and program for electronic wind instrument A tone control device applied to an electronic wind instrument realizes an octave-changeover-blowing technique in which the same note is produced with different octaves respectively by use of the same fingering state, thus increasing controllable ranges with regard ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7369668 | Method and system for processing directed sound in an acoustic virtual environment An acoustic virtual environment is processed in an electronic device. The acoustic virtual environment comprises at least one sound source (300). In order to model the manner in which the sound is directed, a direction dependent filtering arrangement (306,... | 05/06/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7319186 | Scrambling method of music sequence data for incompatible sound generator A data format of music sequence data represents a music piece and enables a compatible sound generating apparatus to reproduce the music piece at a first quality while allowing a non-compatible sound generating apparatus to reproduce the music piece at a second qual... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319187 | Tone generation control program and electronic keyboard instrument using the tone generation control program There is provided a procedure for generating tone-generation controlling key-on and key-off signals, which is applicable to either a first-type key operation detection device that, in response to depressing operation of a key, generates detection signals in correspo... | 01/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7289633 | System and method for integral transference of acoustical events A sound system for capturing and reproducing sounds produced by a plurality of sound sources. The system comprises a device for receiving sounds produced by the plurality of sound sources and converting the separately received sounds to a plurality of separate audio... | 10/30/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7276656 | Method for music analysis A method for music analysis. The method includes the steps of acquiring a music soundtrack, re-sampling an audio stream of the music soundtrack so that the re-sampled audio stream is composed of blocks, applying FFT to each block, deriving a vector from each transfo... | 10/02/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7247787 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument is composed of a main body portion and parts such as an upper keyboard, a lower keyboard, and so on that are selected from among parts of a high-grade and low-grade in accordance with the model thereof and placed in the main body por... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7238873 | Automatic player musical instrument exactly reproducing performance and automatic player used therein An automatic player piano is equipped with solenoid-operated pedal actuators for driving the pedals in a playback; since a large quantity of induction is coupled to the solenoid, the driving signal is delayed due to long time constant so that the pedals behave diffe... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7176373 | Interactive performance interface for electronic sound device An Interactive Performance Interface for use with an audio system uses at least one performance mode to provide access to control rate and audio rate signals activated by interaction rate signals synthesized by interactive control envelopes. Audio signals, control r... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7169997 | Method and apparatus for phase controlled music generation 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... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7138576 | Sound system and method for creating a sound event based on a modeled sound field A sound system and method for modeling a sound field generated by a sound source and creating a sound event based on the modeled sound field is disclosed. The system and method captures a sound field over an enclosing surface, models the sound field and enables repr... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7096211 | Apparatus and method for image/position display An information processing apparatus and an information processing method as well as a program storage medium by which a large amount of image data is managed readily and displayed plainly are disclosed. A film window and a map window are displayed on a display scree... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7094965 | Waveform data analysis method and apparatus suitable for waveform expansion/compression control Filtering is performed on original waveform to remove components of a predetermined frequency band from the waveform, and dividing positions of the original waveform data are determined on the basis of envelope levels of the filtered waveform. The dividing positions... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7088835 | Wavetable audio synthesizer with left offset, right offset and effects volume control A digital wavetable audio synthesizer is described. A synthesizer volume generator, which has several modes of controlling the volume, adds envelope, right offset, left offset, and effects volume to the data. The data can be placed in one of sixteen fixed stereo pan... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7060885 | Music reproduction system, music editing system, music editing apparatus, music editing terminal unit, music reproduction terminal unit, method of controlling a music editing apparatus, and program for executing the method There is provided a music reproduction system which enables music editing and acoustic effect application by simple operations, for realizing a desired musical concept in an operator's mind. An operating terminal that can be carried by an operator generates motion i... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7030311 | System and method for delivering a multimedia presentation to a user and to allow the user to play a musical instrument in conjunction with the multimedia presentation Disclosed is a system and method to deliver a multimedia presentation of an audio file to a computing device for display to a user and further to allow the user to play a musical instrument in conjunction with the multimedia presentation. In response to a user selec... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7026539 | Musical effect customization system This invention provides a system for customizing musical instrument signal processing enabling users to produce different tonal characteristics in created musical pieces. In order to create such tonal characteristics, a new mathematical model of tonal characteristic... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7019205 | Entertainment system, entertainment apparatus, recording medium, and program A music information processing means comprises a music editing means for assigning an arbitrary sound pattern selected from a plurality of sound patterns in a sound buffer to at least one track, a sound presentation trial processing means for outputting the sound pa... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6998528 | Multi-channel nonlinear processing of a single musical instrument signal Multiple channels simultaneously provide multiple, modified digital audio signals, respectively, based on the same digital audio input signal. Each channel has a respective nonlinear effects section to apply a nonlinear transfer function, such as one that emulates a... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6969798 | Apparatus, method and computer program for imparting tone effects to musical tone signals A music performance data signal contains tone effect control messages to control the tone signal processor for imparting tone effects to the produced musical tones in a high-ranked model of tone producing apparatus in which many and complicated tone effects are avai... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6968472 | Serial data interface Serial Data Interface. A method of serial communication is provided with an integrated circuit. The operation of the integrated circuit is first interrupted on at least one input/output associated with the operation of the integrated circuit. Serial data is then tra... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6946594 | Method for reproducing the sound of an accordion electronically Method for electronically reproducing the sound of an acoustic accordion, that is provided with a number of keys/buttons, which can be pressed individually so as to excite a corresponding number of reeds that are coupled with every single key/button; for electronica... | 09/20/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6909041 | Sound field control method and sound field control system Reverberation characteristics of an original sound field and a reproduction sound field are measured and a difference between the reverberation characteristics is obtained. A reflected sound pattern added to reproduction sound is calculated so that the reverberation... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6881891 | Multi-channel nonlinear processing of a single musical instrument signal Multiple channels simultaneously provide multiple, modified digital audio signals, respectively, based on the same digital audio input signal. Each channel has a respective nonlinear effects section to apply a nonlinear transfer function, such as one that emulates a... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6881890 | Musical tone generating apparatus and method for generating musical tone on the basis of detection of pitch of input vibration signal A vibration signal (e.g. a human voice) is generated at a desired pitch corresponding to a tone pitch of a musical tone desired to be generated, and is input via a microphone. The pitch of the input vibration signal and an amplitude (volume) level thereof are detect... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6872877 | 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 performance. ... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6839675 | Real-time monitoring system for codec-effect sampling during digital processing of a sound source A digital processing system for monitoring sound effects produced by codecs during a signal processing session is provided. The digital processing system comprises, a sound source for producing signals for processing, a sound monitor having at least two channels for... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6798427 | Apparatus for and method of inputting a style of rendition Score of a given music piece is visually shown on a display. When a particular style of rendition is to be imparted to a desired note on the musical score, a user selects a desired one of style-of-rendition icons and designates a desired note location on the musical... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6797873 | Music data performance system and method, and storage medium storing program realizing such method A musical data performance system comprises a first changing pattern generator that generates a first changing pattern by combining a plurality of note lengths and an effect giving device that gives an effect to a tone signal in accordance with the generated first c... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6723910 | Reverberation generation processor A reverberation generation processor. The reverberation generation processor generates a specific auditory signal according to a predetermined virtual environment having characteristics of spatial dimension, sound reflection, and decline. The natural sequence genera... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6664460 | System for customizing musical effects using digital signal processing techniques This invention provides a system for customizing musical instrument signal processing enabling users to produce different tonal characteristics in created musical pieces. In order to create such tonal characteristics, a new mathematical model of tonal cha... | 12/16/2003 |