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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8035021 | Tone generation apparatus With no interrupt to a CPU, waveform data stored in a NAND-type flash memory are read out on a page-by-page basis to supply a buffer of a waveform memory with waveform sample data. A series of waveform data are prestored in successive pages of the intermediate buffe... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7579545 | Apparatus and method for synthesizing a plurality of waveforms in synchronized manner A plurality of blocks of waveform data are stored in a memory, which also stores, for each of the blocks, synchronizing information representative of a plurality of cycle synchronizing points that are indicative of periodic specific phase positions where the block o... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7482527 | Method of utilizing a touch sensor for controlling music playback and related music playback device A method of controlling music playback includes providing a sensor array comprising first sensors arranged adjacent to one another, receiving data output from first sensors of the sensor array, the data including activation times during which each of the first senso... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7394731 | Information playback apparatus An information playback apparatus is provided to obtain editing effects using an optical disc in the same sense as an analog record disc is manipulated. An audio editing apparatus for playing back an optical disc such as a CD is provided with a rotatable jog dial, d... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7385132 | Electronic music apparatus and music-related data display method There are provided a first storage section that stores text files each including at least text data, and a second storage section that stores registration data including predetermined performance environment setting information and text file selection information sp... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7370204 | Watermark data embedding apparatus and extracting apparatus By a program process, CPU 31 embeds a watermark data into a waveform data stored in wave memory 41a. The program includes a step for detecting a characterizing part (attack part and loop part) of a waveform data that represents a waveform of a m... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7321094 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument internally stores automatic performance data. The electronic musical instrument reads automatic performance data to perform an automatic performance, while incrementing melody tone pitch data contained in the automatic performance da... | 01/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7309827 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument provides a player with an assisted performance to offer him/her the pleasure of performing on a musical instrument, and to help him/her in practicing the electronic musical instrument on which a tone pitch of a musical tone to be gen... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7302396 | System and method for cross-fading between audio streams A system and method of the present invention cross-fade a first transmitted audio stream to a second transmitted audio stream, wherein both first and second audio streams represent the same original audio signal, but at different quality levels. A client computer re... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7257072 | Digital audio data reproducing system A digital audio data reproducing system includes a digital audio data reproducing apparatus having a record medium, a detection part for the record medium and a processing unit; an analog record player; and a rotation detecting apparatus for sensing the speed and se... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7233832 | Method and apparatus for expanding audio data Systems implementing the invention allow a user to time stretch an audio track without changing the pitch of the sound, and to produce optimal audible qualities of the output signal. The approach utilized in the invention relies on providing several time stretching ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7211721 | System and methods for memory-constrained sound synthesis using harmonic coding Systems (100 or 300) and methods (400 or 500) are provided for selecting a post-compression waveform from a post-compression waveform table (106) and supplying it to a synthesis engine (108). The post-compression waveform is... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7194555 | Compression and remote storage apparatus for data, music and video A method for compressing digital content from a source, using a compression scheme selected from a group of available compression schemes, storing the compressed content at a central location, and retrieving the compressed content at a remote location. The method us... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7189913 | Method and apparatus for time compression and expansion of audio data with dynamic tempo change during playback A method and apparatus implement time compression and expansion of audio data, with dynamic tempo change during playback. Dynamic changes in tempo are implemented at specific points in the audio signal corresponding to local minimums in the fade-in and fade-out char... | 03/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7161079 | Audio signal generating apparatus, audio signal generating system, audio system, audio signal generating method, program, and storage medium An audio signal generating apparatus is provided which makes it possible to supply a new music entertainment that enables users to actively participate in performance of musical compositions based on audio data that is coded in a predetermined format from audio sign... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7151215 | Waveform adjusting system for music file A waveform adjusting system for a music file suitable in hand held devices is described. A music file includes a plurality of tones, and the waveform adjusting system includes a maximum magnitude estimating module and an adjusting module. The waveform adjusting syst... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7130913 | System and methods for accelerated data storage and retrieval Systems and methods for providing accelerated data storage and retrieval utilizing lossless data compression and decompression. A data storage accelerator includes one or a plurality of high speed data compression encoders that are configured to simultaneously or se... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7122731 | Musical information processing terminal, control method therefor, and program for implementing the method There is provided a musical information processing terminal that enables reproducing performance data and audio data that are transmitted and received between the musical information processing terminal such as a terminal for a teacher and a terminal for students th... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120803 | Portable appliance for reproducing a musical composition, power saving method, and storage medium therefor There are provided a mobile device that is equipped with a musical composition-reproducing section and capable of curtailing the battery drain as much as possible, and a mobile device that prevents the quality of reproduced musical tones from being degraded even if ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7099704 | Music player applicable to portable telephone terminal A music playback device applicable to a portable telephone terminal device uses a sequence data FIFO memory and a waveform data FIFO memory both having limited storage capacities. A system CPU performs successive transfer of sequence data and waveform data in respon... | 08/29/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7072249 | Digital audio signal playback apparatus with scratch effect control device In a scratch effect control device for a digital audio signal playback apparatus, a control unit controls output of digital audio data recorded in a data recording medium and read by a data reading device in accordance with a first control signal representative of a... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068596 | Interactive data transmission system having staged servers Methods and apparatus for use in a network including a local server coupled to a central server, the local server being coupled to a plurality of network devices, for interactively controlling from one of the plurality of network devices a flow of audio visual data ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7054806 | Speech synthesis apparatus using pitch marks, control method therefor, and computer-readable memory The distance between the first two pitch marks of a voiced portion of speech data to be processed is calculated. The difference between the adjacent inter-pitch-mark distances is calculated. The respective calculation results are stored and managed in a file. ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7042814 | Information playback apparatus An information playback apparatus is provided to obtain editing effects using an optical disc in the same sense as an analog record disc is manipulated. An audio editing apparatus for playing back an optical disc such as a CD is provided with a rotatable jog dial, d... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7041892 | Automatic generation of musical scratching effects The invention relates to a method for generating electrical sounds and to an interactive music player. According to the invention, an audio signal in digital format, which lasts for a predeterminable length of time, is used as the starting material. The reproduction... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7031781 | Recording apparatus, recording method and recording medium This invention relates to a recording apparatus for recording digital data compressively encoded by use of a predetermined scheme having: receiving means for receiving a transport stream from an external unit connected through a digital bus; extracting means for ext... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7012184 | Disc for use in an apparatus for signal processing and such an apparatus The invention relates to a disc for use in an apparatus for signal processing, which apparatus comprises a digital audio source and a record player with a turntable and an arm carrying a pick-up element which is arranged to play a conventional record. The disc durin... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010371 | Digital audio signal player having a simulated analogue record In a digital audio signal player having a simulated analogue record, a high frequency alternator is provided, which is connected to the microprocessor, and constantly sends out a high-frequency signal; the alternator has an output terminal electrically connected to ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6961289 | Digital audio signal player having a simulated analogue record In a digital audio signal player having a simulated analogue record, a voltage dividing circuit is provided that consists of a first, and a second leads connected to a respective one of two separate wound wires of a control element; the control element can be turned... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6928261 | Music data distribution system and method, and storage medium storing program realizing such method A music data distribution system for distributing music data to an external device connected to a network, comprises: a storage device that stores first music data; a receiver that receives a music data distribution request from the external device connected to the ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6925340 | Sound reproduction method and sound reproduction apparatus An apparatus and method for recording and reproducing a sound (i.e. audio) signal corresponding to a video signal at a higher than normal speed. The method delimits a sound signal reproduced at a recording medium at a speed higher than a normal speed into successive... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6751167 | Information playback apparatus An information playback apparatus is provided to obtain sound effects by using an optical disc in much the same way an analog record is manipulated. A pressing pressure applied onto a rotatable jog dial is detected by providing a pressure sensing layer to the jog di... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6541690 | Scratch effect controller There is provided a rotary encoder having the physical characteristics of a vinyl phonograph disc on a properly prepared turntable. A disc jockey (DJ) may intuitively use this encoder in a virtually identical manner to a conventional record to create scra... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6509519 | 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... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6506968 | Sound source device The present invention relates to a sound source device, and more particularly, it aims at providing a sound source device, in which a sufficient sound emitting quantity can be attained, capable of obtaining a reproduced sound of musically rich expression.... | 01/14/2003 |
