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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7678983 | Music edit device, music edit information creating method, and recording medium where music edit information is recorded A music editing apparatus that can accomplish editing of superimposing or connecting whole or part of each of many songs such that their beats adjusted is provided. The music editing apparatus includes a remix processing section which performs a remix process based ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7667120 | Training method using specific audio patterns and techniques A method is disclosed that utilizes specific techniques, based upon empirical study, to significantly increase the ability of a trainee to remain focused on the training materials and subject matter and actually learn and retain the training subject matter. More spe... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7663046 | Pipeline techniques for processing musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) files This disclosure describes techniques for processing audio files that comply with the musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) format. In particular, various tasks associated with MIDI file processing are delegated between software operating on a general purpose p... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7663045 | Music replacement in a gaming system A user of a game system can replace background music from a game with the user's selected background music, while still hearing any other audio streams (e.g. sound effects related to gameplay). A music engine and system audio mixer allow the playback of the user's r... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7659471 | System and method for music data repetition functionality Systems and methods applicable, for example, in music data repetition functionality. Timbral feature calculation and/or pitch feature calculation might, for instance, be performed. One or more self matrices might, for example, be calculated. A combined matrix might,... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7659472 | Method, apparatus, and program for assessing similarity of performance sound A similarity assessment apparatus is provided for assessing a performance sound based on a model performance sound. In the apparatus, a probability density function generating unit divides data of a performance sound into a sequence of frames each having a predeterm... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7649135 | Sound synthesis A device for synthesizing sound having sinusoidal components includes a selector for selecting a limited number of the sinusoidal components from each of a number of frequency bands using a perceptual relevance value. The device further includes a synthesizer for sy... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7649134 | Method for displaying music score by using computer In displaying a music score by using a computer, there is provided a function for matching an in-music position being updated in a computer with an in-music position being played. According to the in-music position, display update is controlled. Space of music score... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7626110 | Energy-based audio pattern recognition An energy-based pattern recognition algorithm receives the input frames of an audio signal and a test frame sequence and returns a best match in the audio signal to the given test frame sequence. The energy of each input frame is computed, and input frames for which... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7626111 | Similar music search method and apparatus using music content summary A similar music search method, including: extracting an audio feature value from a compression zone of a music file and generating a music content summary using the extracted audio feature; classifying a mood and a genre of the music file by using the generated musi... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7612276 | Method and system for synthesizing electronic transparent audio A method and system for synthesizing electronic watermarks is disclosed. The method includes generating electronic watermark sounds for music data by converting harmonic overtones that match the music data into signals. The generated electronic watermark sounds are ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7612275 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing rhythm information from an audio signal An apparatus for providing a beat and tatum tracker includes an accent filter bank, a periodicity estimator, a period estimator and a phase estimator. The accent filter bank is configured to downsample an input audio signal. The periodicity estimator is configured t... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7601905 | Electronic musical apparatus for reproducing received music content A browser portion BR obtains a reproduction manner specifying file from a content distribution server 30, and delivers the same to a reproduction control portion CT. The reproduction control portion CT obtains from the content distribution server 30 a ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7601904 | Interactive tool and appertaining method for creating a graphical music display The invention provides apparatus and a method for creating a visual representation of music that conveys the musical form, structure, event surface, orchestration, and sonic framework of the piece being visualized. The representation comprises visual characters/spri... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7595443 | Music practice supporting appliance A music practice supporting appliance has an input unit that inputs a musical sound of a musical instrument and/or vocal music, converts the musical sound into an electric signal, and outputs the electric signal as an input signal. An amplifying unit amplifies the i... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7592531 | Tone generation system Processor devices functioning as tone-generation-related processing elements, such as a keyboard, tone generator and speaker, are connected to a star-type network. Desired processing elements are logically connected (e.g., a keyboard is logically connected to the in... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7589270 | Musical content utilizing apparatus A musical content utilizing apparatus has a data input portion B11, transformation process portion B13 and utilization process portion B15 implemented via programmed processes. The data input portion B11 inputs musical content data compri... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7582823 | Method and apparatus for classifying mood of music at high speed A method and apparatus for classifying mood of music at high speed. The method includes: extracting a Modified Discrete Cosine Transformation-based timbre feature from a compressed domain of a music file; extracting a Modified Discrete Cosine Transformation-based te... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7576278 | Song search system and song search method A characteristic-data-extraction unit 13 extracts characteristic data containing changing information from song data, then an impression-data-conversion unit 14 uses a pre-learned hierarchical neural network to convert the characteristic data extracted... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7576279 | Musical content utilizing apparatus A musical content utilizing apparatus has a data input portion B11, transformation process portion B13 and utilization process portion B15 implemented via programmed processes. The data input portion B11 inputs musical content data compri... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7569761 | Video editing matched to musical beats Methods and apparatus provide for a clip-beat aligner that identifies musical beats in an audio file. An editing mode is provided to associate the audio file with a media segment according to a timeline. The clip-beat aligner aligns a boundary of the media segment w... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7563972 | Musical instrument signaling system A musical instrument signaling system (10) that is designed to alert a player of a hand-held musical instrument when to commence and stop playing the instrument. Typically, the hand-held musical instrument consists of a handbell as used by members of a bell c... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7563971 | Energy-based audio pattern recognition with weighting of energy matches An energy-based pattern recognition algorithm receives the input frames of an audio signal and a test frame sequence and returns a best match in the audio signal to the given test frame sequence. The energy of each input frame is computed and input frames for which ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7521620 | Method of and system for browsing of music The present invention provides a method of and system for browsing of music. In an embodiment, a method of browsing recorded music comprises steps of: selecting a song from a library; playing at least a portion of the selected song for a user; while the portion of t... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7507894 | Sound data encoding apparatus and sound data decoding apparatus A processing load at the time of playing back sound data having a loop part is reduced. A sound data encoding apparatus comprises a block dividing means that divides the sound data into blocks according to predetermined rules, and an encoding means that encod... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7507895 | Electronic musical instrument Fuel battery generates electric power using a predetermined fuel, and activation and deactivation of the electric power generation can be controlled in accordance with whether or not the fuel should be supplied to the fuel battery. The electric power is supplied to ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7504572 | Sound generating method A sound is output by calculating a change in coordinate data as a vector and generating sound data corresponding to the calculated vector, so that sounds can be freely obtained without being limited by the size of or positions on an input coordinate plane. A sound g... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7501568 | Musical performance system, musical instrument incorporated therein and multi-purpose portable information terminal device for the system A hybrid musical instrument and a PDA form a musical performance system, and a user controls the hybrid musical instrument by means of the PDA; when the user pairs the hybrid musical instrument with the PDA, the musical instrument converts an identification code to ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7498503 | Electronic music apparatus capable of connecting to network An electronic musical apparatus comprises an instructing device that instructs establishment of connection to a network via a communication interface, a first time information obtaining device that obtains time information from a first time information provider conn... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7482526 | Technique for supplying unique ID to electronic musical apparatus Electronic musical apparatus (EMA), e.g. an electronic musical instrument, has a storage area for storing a unique ID; however, unique ID is empty in the storage area in an initial condition, e.g. condition at the time of shipment from a factory. Unique ID is issued... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7473838 | Sound identification apparatus A sound identification apparatus which reduces the chance of a drop in the identification rate, including: a frame sound feature extraction unit which extracts a sound feature per frame of an inputted audio signal; a frame likelihood calculation unit which calculate... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7465865 | Sound generation assignment device, music sound generator and sound generation assignment process program A CPU sets an application of music sound generation to each of plural ports, and a priority to the set application, and further sets the maximum number of channels that assign an arbitrary sound source to each port from plural kinds of sound sources and produce soun... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7456352 | System of electronic musical instrument and mobile wireless terminal set An electronic musical instrument is constructed to treat music information associated to music tones, and can be coupled to a mobile wireless terminal set communicable with a public communication network. In the electronic musical instrument, a main block processes ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7453037 | Musical performance apparatus A musical performance apparatus has an I/O unit including a digital signal processor (DSP) and a plurality of application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC), which are connected together in a cascade connection manner and each of which includes a plurality of shift... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7439439 | Appliance audio notification device A flexible audio tone-generating device for use in a consumer appliance. The device generates pleasing musical tones. The device uses two outputs of a software-executing processor utilizing stored tone data associated with status events of the appliance to drive a t... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439440 | Audio player using sigma-delta pulse-width modulation An audio player using sigma-delta pulse-width modulation includes a Δ-Σ PWM unit, a drive unit, a speaker unit, and an error prediction unit. The Δ-Σ PWM unit receives an input signal and generates a pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal by means of sigma-delta pu... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7435893 | Image display device with built-in karaoke and method for controlling the same An image display device with a built-in karaoke and a method for controlling the same are disclosed, wherein an audio of a broadcasted program is divided into a plurality of elements, so as to be selectively controlled when required. The method for controlling the i... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432434 | Electronic musical apparatus and server computer An electronic musical apparatus M1 transmits apparatus ID information and a common page access signal to a server computer SC. The server computer SC receives the signal and apparatus ID information. On the basis of the apparatus ID information, the server co... | 10/07/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7423213 | Multi-dimensional transformation systems and display communication architecture for compositions and derivations thereof A composition display system produces a display presentation in one of a plurality of formats from an original composition, the formats being created from the original composition responsive to input variables and a selected operating mode. The system is comprised o... | 09/09/2008 |