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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8080723 | Rhythm matching parallel processing apparatus in music synchronization system of motion capture data and computer program thereof Computation time of correlation comparison between rhythm features obtained from motion capture (MoCap) data and rhythm features obtained from music data is shortened. A rhythm matching parallel processing apparatus includes a feature holding unit which holds beat i... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8076566 | Beat extraction device and beat extraction method Upon receiving a digital audio signal recorded in a .wav file, a beat extraction processing unit 12 extracts coarse beat position information from this digital audio signal and outputs the result as metadata recorded in an .mty file. In addition, a beat align... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8022287 | Music composition data reconstruction device, music composition data reconstruction method, music content reproduction device, and music content reproduction method An apparatus that allows a musical piece to be recomposed by reflecting, for example, the mood, preference, and ambient environment of a listening user in the musical piece in real time. The apparatus includes a rhythm master unit and a rhythm slave unit. The rhythm... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8017851 | System and method for physically interactive music games A system and method of capturing an image of an object, where the object is associated with a musical feature, generating the musical feature once the object is detected in the image, detecting a change of a position of an the object in a series of images, and alter... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7999168 | Robot A robot includes: a sound collecting unit collecting and converting a musical sound into a musical acoustic signal; a voice signal generating unit generating a self-vocalized voice signal; a sound outputting unit converting the self-vocalized voice signal into a sou... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7982121 | Drum loops method and apparatus for musical composition and recording One of many possible embodiments includes a method of recording and organizing drum sequences for use in composing music. The method includes recording a drum performance, separating the recorded drum performance into drum loops, organizing the drum loops into a son... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7964783 | System and method for evolving music tracks Systems and methods of evolving music tracks are disclosed. One example method providing a plurality of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Each of the ANNs uses a time signature input. The method also includes producing a rhythm from each of the plurality of ANNs. T... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7872188 | Method and apparatus for personal exercise trainer Determining a plurality of heart rate sections for an individual, and selecting a plurality of songs, wherein each of the plurality of songs has an average beats per minute approximately equal to an average beats per minute of one of the plurality of heart rate sect... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7790975 | Synchronizing a musical score with a source of time-based information Disclosed is a method of synchronizing a musical score with a source of time-based information. The method comprises deriving a mapping between rhythmic positions associated with the musical score and a reference time base; and synchronizing the musical score and th... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7667122 | Motion data generation device, motion data generation method, and recording medium for recording a motion data generation program To generate motion data of a motion in synchronization with a melody of music. As an embodiment of the present invention, when motion pattern data corresponding to a predetermined motion pattern is stored, music data is analyzed to detect a beat of music based on th... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7608775 | Methods and systems for providing musical interfaces Methods for providing a musical user interface are disclosed. A notation window with a musical sign, for example, a note is displayed. Selection of the sign is received. A time duration indicator at a selected sign is displayed. User manipulation of the time duratio... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7601906 | Methods and systems for automated analysis of music display data for a music display system Methods and systems for automated display of music data in a music display system. In one embodiment, a method for distinguishing lyrics and notations of a music data file is provided. In one embodiment, the lyrics are automatically shown in a different color or oth... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7579546 | Tempo detection apparatus and tempo-detection computer program A user is asked to perform tapping at beat positions by using a tapping detection section while listening to the beginning of a waveform from which beats are to be detected. When a fluctuation calculation section determines that tapping fluctuation falls in a predet... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7534951 | Beat extraction apparatus and method, music-synchronized image display apparatus and method, tempo value detection apparatus, rhythm tracking apparatus and method, and music-synchronized display apparatus and method A music-synchronized display apparatus includes a beat extractor configured to detect a portion in which a power spectrum in a spectrogram of an input music signal greatly changes and to output a detection output signal that is synchronized in time to the changing p... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7528315 | Rhythm action game apparatus and method A rhythm action game apparatus comprising an audio analyzer adapted to analyze a music track and provide corresponding rhythm data, and a sequence generator adapted to generate game play cues according to said rhythm data. There is also disclosed a music processor c... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7525036 | Groove mapping The invention provides a method and software for the adjustment of properties of media streams and events, principally timing information, based on a template, i.e., a groove map. The invention further provides methods by which the templates can be created, edited, ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7396990 | Automatic music mood detection A system and methods use music features extracted from music to detect a music mood within a hierarchical mood detection framework. A two-dimensional mood model divides music into four moods which include contentment, depression, exuberance, and anxious/frantic. A m... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7390955 | Metronome with wireless transducer A metronome for use by a musician or group of musicians generally includes a signal generator for producing an electrical signal according to a desired timing scheme and one or more transducers in wireless communication with the signal generator. Each transducer, wh... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7358433 | Automatic accompaniment apparatus and a storage device storing a program for operating the same An automatic accompaniment apparatus includes: a storage unit for storing accompaniment style data including basic accompaniment data for automatic accompaniment and replacement accompaniment data to be reproduced in place of the basic accompaniment data; and a repr... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358432 | Method and apparatus for teaching rhythm An apparatus for teaching rhythm includes a housing having a plurality of tempo indicator lights and a plurality of beat indicator lights corresponding to the tempo indicator lights, such that the beat indicator lights can be selectively illuminated to indicate a de... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355111 | Electronic musical apparatus having automatic performance feature and computer-readable medium storing a computer program therefor In an automatic performance system, song and style data DAi and DCj (i:1 through n, j:1 through m) contains tempo and meter data TPa, TMa; TPc, TMc, respectively, so that the style data DCj whose tempo and meter data matches with those of the song data DAi is reprod... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7342167 | Apparatus and method for generating an encoded rhythmic pattern An encoded rhythmic pattern has several groups of velocity values, wherein the velocity values are sorted, such that the groups are included in sequence in an encoded rhythmic pattern. Now, the velocity values concentrated at the beginning of the encoded rhythmic pa... | 03/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7319185 | Generating music and sound that varies from playback to playback A method and apparatus for the creation and playback of music, audio and sound; such that each time a composition is played back, a different sound sequence is generated in the manner previously defined by the artist. During composition creation, the artist's defini... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317158 | Reproduction controller, reproduction control method, program for the same, and recording medium with the program recorded therein The sound reproducer (100) generates and outputs, when any external situation such as a running sound is recognized by an external input rhythm detecting section (110), generates external rhythm information concerning the recognized running sound. When... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7314992 | Apparatus for analyzing music data and displaying music score An apparatus is to analyze music data of a musical performance including note events of triplets as well as note events like triplets, and to display the note events in triplet notation properly in view of the general rhythmic tendency of the musical performance. Mu... | 01/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7304230 | Multiple channel metronome A multiple channel metronome for use by a plurality of musicians generally includes a signal generator for producing electrical signals according to desired timing schemes and a plurality of transducers in communication with the signal generator. Each transducer, wh... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304229 | Method and apparatus for karaoke scoring A karaoke scoring apparatus includes a memory element, a feature extraction element, a similarity measurement element, and a scoring element. The karaoke system includes a reference audio input to be compared with a target audio input for giving a score. The referen... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7273978 | Device and method for characterizing a tone signal For characterizing a tone signal a sequence of quantized entry times for each of at least two tone sources over time is provided on the basis of a quantization raster. Hereupon, a common period length underlying the at least two tone sources is determined using the ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7250566 | Evaluating and correcting rhythm in audio data The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for evaluating and correcting rhythm of audio data. Embodiments of the invention are capable of obtaining preferred rhythm in audio data, and strategically correcting the portions of audio data resulting an enhanci... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7227072 | System and method for determining the similarity of musical recordings A system and method for determining the similarity of music files based on a perceptual metric is disclosed. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic components are generated for each of the music files. The dimensionality of t... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7223911 | Portable telephone set with reproducing and composing capability of music A music apparatus is provided in a portable terminal set having a plurality of controls. In the music apparatus, a storage stores a plurality of performance patterns. An allocating section allocates the plurality of the performance patterns to the plurality of the c... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7220911 | Aligning and mixing songs of arbitrary genres A “music mixer”, as described herein, provides a capability for automatically mixing arbitrary pieces of music, regardless of whether the music being mixed is of the same music genre, and regardless of whether that music has strong beat structures. In automatica... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7212213 | Color display instrument and method for use thereof A method for graphically displaying on a display device, a musical note in a range of notes within an octave, in a range of octaves. The method including, determining the display attributes of a reference octave selected from the range of octaves, receiving a musica... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7205470 | Play data editing device and method of editing play data A play data editing device edits play data according to a characteristic of a speaker. The play data editing device includes a dividing unit (301) for dividing first play data into second play data per channel; a classifying unit (302) for classifying ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7200813 | Performance information edit and playback apparatus The computer-implemented system stores user performance data representing multiple parts. The system also stores style data representing various different musical accompaniments that are displayed in a style data window. The user selectively copies constituent parts... | 04/03/2007 |
