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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7772477 | Electronic music apparatus with data loading assist An electronic music apparatus has a sound generator for generating a music sound signal according to music data and a display device for displaying information associated with music data. In the electronic music apparatus, a storage medium stores a plurality of musi... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7589271 | Musical notation system An integrated system and software package for creating and performing a musical score including a user interface that enables a user to enter and display the musical score, a database that stores a data structure which supports graphical symbols for musical characte... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7579543 | Electronic musical apparatus and lyrics displaying apparatus An electronic music apparatus comprises an extractor that extracts lyrics data from music data for reproduction of music and comprising the lyrics data representing lyrics of the music, a transmitter that transmits the extracted lyrics data to an external device, a ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7563973 | Method for making electronic tones close to acoustic tones, recording system for the acoustic tones, tone generating system for the electronic tones A grand piano generates acoustic tones through vibrations of strings and sound board so that the acoustic tones are converted to analog audio signals at recording points over the sound board, and a group of waveform data sets are produced from the analog audio signa... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7547839 | Performance data processing apparatus, performance data processing method, and computer readable medium containing program for implementing the method An automatic performance data processing apparatus which makes it possible to simply convert a plurality of automatic performance data into digital audio data in a batch. Each of a plurality of automatic performance data in an order designated by a playlist data sto... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7547840 | Method and apparatus for outputting audio data and musical score image A method and apparatus for outputting audio data and a musical score image, displaying a musical score image corresponding to reproduced audio data, and outputting audio data corresponding to a musical score image are provided, in which a tone is extracted, the tone... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7518051 | Method and apparatus for remote real time collaborative music performance and recording thereof An improved method and apparatus are disclosed to permit real time, distributed performance by multiple musicians at remote locations, and for recording that collaboration. The latency of the communication channel is transferred to the behavior of the local instrume... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7507896 | Simple music performance system, music data supplier and computer program installed in the music data supplier At least one musical instrument, a server computer, a mobile telephone and a communication network form a music performance system; the owner has registered the musical instrument with a client database in the server computer, and a user transmits a request for musi... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7485794 | Electronic musical instrument system An RF tag having stored therein equipment setting information related to a performance, by an electronic musical instrument, of a given music piece is attached to a music-piece-related information having music-piece-related information of the given music piece prese... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7473839 | Method and system for time-shortening songs A method and system for time-shortening one or more songs to generate time-shortened versions of the one or more songs are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a song editor time-shortens one or more songs and provides the time-shortened versions to a music provider... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7468481 | Method of displaying directory structure of recorded data The present invention relates to a method of displaying directories differently based on attributes of files included therein. The present method examines a directory structure and the attributes of data files recorded on a recording medium, generates a mark for vis... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7447986 | Multimedia information encoding apparatus, multimedia information reproducing apparatus, multimedia information encoding process program, multimedia information reproducing process program, and multimedia encoded data There is provided a multimedia information encoding apparatus and a multimedia information reproducing apparatus which enables synchronzied reproduction of multimedia information such as audio data, video data, and text data and performance information such as MIDI ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7439441 | Musical notation system An integrated system and software package for creating and performing a musical score including a user interface that enables a user to enter and display the musical score, a database that stores a data structure which supports graphical symbols for musical characte... | 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 |
| 7429699 | Electronic musical instrument and recording medium that stores processing program for the electronic musical instrument In an electronic musical instrument, when a musical tone delay time T1 read from a delay time table TBL depending on a velocity generated by a key being pressed has elapsed, a hammer string-striking sound is generated from musical tone waveform data selected ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7423214 | System and method for the creation and playback of animated, interpretive, musical notation and audio synchronized with the recorded performance of an original artist A music application guides a user with some musical experience through the steps of creating and editing a musical enhancement file that enhances and plays in synchronicity with an audio signal of an original artist's recorded performance. This enables others, perha... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420116 | Music data modifier for music data expressing delicate nuance, musical instrument equipped with the music data modifier and music system A music data modifier receives pieces of original music data from a master hybrid piano, and partially modifies the pieces of original music data to pieces of modified music data for a slave hybrid piano; each piece of original music data contains a series of values... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7408106 | Tele-karaoke A system and method of tele-karaoke that enables a user to perform and record karaoke using a terminal such as a cellular telephone. The karaoke performance is recorded as an MMS message which subsequently allows a user to send the recorded performance to others. Th... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7405354 | Music ensemble system, controller used therefor, and program A music ensemble system that enables changing the assignment of playing parts to performance terminals with a simpler operation. The music ensemble system comprising a plurality of performance terminals and a controller capable of communicating with the performance ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7390954 | Electronic musical apparatus system, server-side electronic musical apparatus and client-side electronic musical apparatus A plurality of client-side electronic musical apparatuses 10 are connected to a server-side electronic musical apparatus 30 through a communications network 50. Each of the client-side electronic musical apparatuses 10, which is provided ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388144 | Method and device for storing main information with associated additional information incorporated therein To store main information with associated additional information incorporated therein, data constituting the additional information is divided into a plurality of small-size data pieces of, e.g., one bit. Then, the respective values of particular ones of predetermin... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7381882 | Performance control apparatus and storage medium A performance control apparatus which can reflect operations carried out by a user on variations in dynamics in real time to achieve performance expressions such as crescendo and decrescendo. A keyboard generates performance timing information in response to perform... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7378587 | Method for fast compressing and decompressing music data and system for executing the same MIDI compression and decompression methods that reduce the size of a standard MIDI file and maintains information to play the MIDI music. The exemplary method of the invention makes use of the high correlation and repetitions between a look-ahead MIDI event and prev... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375274 | Automatic accompaniment apparatus, method of controlling the apparatus, and program for implementing the method An automatic accompaniment apparatus that enables an external electronic musical instrument connected thereto to exhibit its accompaniment information generating capability to the maximum and makes it possible to set tone color data and accompaniment data adapted to... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7368652 | Music search system and music search apparatus A time-series signal input section 205 inputs a time-series signal whose on state and off state are repeated alternately. A similar rhythm search section 206 searches a plurality of pieces of rhythm data stored in a data storage section for rhythm data... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7361824 | Method and device for storing main information with associated additional information incorporated therein To store main information with associated additional information incorporated therein, data constituting the additional information is divided into a plurality of small-size data pieces of, e.g., one bit. Then, the respective values of particular ones of predetermin... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355110 | Stringed musical instrument having a built in hand-held type computer An apparatus and method is disclosed for storing, editing, deleting and visually displaying personal information within a stringed musical instrument. A hand-held type computer (34) located in and forming a portion of the envelope or housing of the stringed m... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7348483 | Kernel-mode audio processing modules Multiple kernel-mode audio processing modules or filters are combined to form a module or filter graph. The graph is implemented in kernel-mode, reducing latency and jitter when handling audio data (e.g., MIDI data) by avoiding transfers of the audio data to user-mo... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7343321 | Method of administering licensing of use of copyright works In a method an owner of copyright in a copyright work uses computer equipment to transmit digital signal containing information regarding the copyright work to physically remote computer equipment of a licensing administrator. The licensing administrator uses the co... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7335833 | Music performance system A method and apparatus for producing a musical output is disclosed. The method and apparatus permit the creation, storage and retrieval of a first data structure representing a musical piece. The first data structure includes digital music information that represent... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330769 | Parameterized interactive control of multiple wave table sound generation for video games and other applications In the context of a video game, multimedia presentation or other application, multiple sound sample files are read out simultaneously and mixed together. The volumes and/or pitches of the wave tables are parameterized to allow a single parameter (e.g., power, intens... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327942 | Apparatus for recording and/or playing back catalog information A storage medium which stores catalog information and a catalog information playback apparatus and method therefor. Using the method, catalog information including a still picture and additional information together with audio data are recorded on a storage medium s... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7326847 | Methods and systems for dynamic channel allocation Methods and systems of dynamic channel allocation. The provided methods and systems can be employed in a music synthesis system comprising a synthesizer. Audio instructions from sources, such as MIDI players, are received. Available channels provided by the synthesi... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7320643 | Game controller simulating a musical instrument A simulated musical instrument may be used to alter the audio of a video game, the video aspects of video game, or both. Use of a controlled simulating a musical instrument allows a rhythm-action game can be enjoyed in a manner closer to a realistic state of playing... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7312390 | Automatic music playing apparatus and computer program therefor An external storage device stores automatic music playing data files, each file including data of a progression of musical notes constituting a performance of a music piece, and registration data files, each file including data of a set of parameters to determine th... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313571 | Auto playlist generator A system and method for generating a list is provided. The system includes a seed item input subsystem, an item identifying subsystem, a descriptive metadata similarity determining subsystem and a list generating subsystem that builds a list based, at least in part,... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7302468 | Local area preference determination system and method A preference determination system allows a music provider, like a band or disc jockey, to determine the musical preferences of the members at a gathering. As many members of a gathering use electronic devices, like cellular telephones, that include music and video p... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296031 | Auto playlist generator A system and method for generating a list is provided. The system includes a seed item input subsystem, an item identifying subsystem, a descriptive metadata similarity determining subsystem and a list generating subsystem that builds a list based, at least in part,... | 11/13/2007 |
