Famous Patents
The ice cream cone was invented at the St. Louis Worlds Fair by Ernest Hamwi in 1904. His waffle booth was next to an ice cream vendor who ran short of dishes. Hamwi rolled a waffle to hold ice cream and the cone was born.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7353167 | Translating a voice signal into an output representation of discrete tones A system and method for creating a ring tone for an electronic device takes as input a phrase sung in a human voice and transforms it into a control signal controlling, for example, a ringer on a cellular telephone. Time-varying features of the input signal are anal... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7286981 | Translating a voice signal into an output representation of discrete tones A system and method for creating a ring tone for an electronic device takes as input a phrase sung in a human voice and transforms it into a control signal controlling, for example, a ringer on a cellular telephone. Time-varying features of the input signal are anal... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7271329 | Computer-aided learning system employing a pitch tracking line A computer-aided learning system to facilitate a human to control the pitch and rhythm of their voice. In a preferred embodiment for learning how to sing a song in tune, a display provides visual, real-time depiction of the singer's actual pitch compared to the “t... | 09/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7030307 | Music teaching device and method Methods and apparatus are provided that help users learn to play one or more instruments by employing simplified note recognition techniques, improved feedback, and a simplified keyboard tablature. In one aspect, users are encouraged to play specified notes within a... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6927331 | Method for the program-controlled visually perceivable representation of a music composition The invention concerns a method for the program-controlled visually perceivable representation of a music composition on the display of an electronic device. For this purpose, the music composition is reproduced on the display by a multitude of pre-determined 2D and... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6617503 | Vocal training device The present invention relates to a system for playing back, via a plurality of speakers, the melody, harmony, and the harmony's components which comprise a song. Specifically, the present invention allows the user to select a song from a plurality of song... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6245985 | Data converter for enhancing resolution, method for converting data codes and keyboard musical instrument equipped with the data converter An automatic player piano has key sensors for producing digital key position signals representative of current key positions and a recording unit for producing pieces of music data information on the basis of the key motions; however, the key sensors have... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6209838 | Recording sensor mounting rail for keyboard operated musical instruments An extruded recording sensor mounting rail for keyboard operated musical instruments, particularly electronic player pianos, which can be used to install recording sensors in a new or existing piano. First and second flanges extend longitudinally along th... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6111174 | Released key velocity estimator, method used therein and information storage medium storing program sequence for it An automatic player piano has a released key velocity estimator for modifying the constant released key velocity of a piece of music data information to a target released key velocity; a memory stores relation between the target key velocity estimator and... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6051762 | Data converter for producing individual music data from standard music data on the basis of the individuality of an automatic player piano learned before conversion An ideal automatic player piano is assumed to reproduce an original performance from fundamental data representative of a fundamental forward key trajectory and a backward key trajectory; however, if an actual automatic player piano reproduces a forward k... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5911169 | Recording sensor mounting rail for keyboard operated musical instrument An extruded recording sensor mounting rail for keyboard operated musical instruments, particularly electronic player pianos, which can be used to install recording sensors in a new or existing piano. First and second flanges extend longitudinally along th... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5905220 | Method and apparatus for sensing pedal motion and actuating pedals in player pianos A piano pedal optical sensor apparatus and method for accurately measuring, recording and reproducing the pedal expression generated during piano performances. A plurality of optical emitter/sensors are mounted on the pedal support assembly of a piano, an... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5546842 | Recording sensor mounting rail for keyboard operated musical instrument An extruded recording sensor mounting rail for keyboard operated musical instruments, particularly electronic player pianos, which can be used to install recording sensors in a new or existing piano and provide for accurate alignment of the sensors with t... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5038658 | Method for automatically transcribing music and apparatus therefore An automatic music transcription method and system for generating a muscial score from an input acoustic signal. The acoustic signal may include vocal songs, vocal humming, and music from musical instruments. The system comprises means for extracting pitc... | 08/13/1991 |
| 4603386 | Apparatus and method for inputting musical sheet data into a musical-sheet-printing system An apparatus for inputting musical sheet data into a musical-sheet-printing system has a piano keyboard which has diatonic tone keys and chromatic tone keys and which generates first coded data, a function keyboard, a random access memory (RAM) for storin... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4182214 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument, in the nature of an organ, employs a plurality of endless magnetic tape cartridges, each continuously playing an endless magnetic tape stored therein, each endless tape having recorded thereon a continuous tone, and a key... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4160399 | Automatic sequence generator for a polyphonic tone synthesizer A sequence generator for a polyphonic tone synthesizer in which a repetitive sequence of musical notes or chords are generated automatically. During a Code mode of operation, each key operated on the keyboard causes an associated data word identifying the... | 07/10/1979 |
