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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8101844 | Automatic analysis and performance of music Methods for automatically analyzing and/or performing music are described. One embodiment concerns a method for assigning chords to a musical score indicative of a sequence of time segments, each time segment comprising at least one note, the method comprising assig... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8097801 | Systems and methods for composing music Generating a musical composition from one or more portions of one or more performances of one or more musical compositions included in a database is disclosed. The method and system include selecting a portion of a pre-recorded composition based on a degree of simil... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8008568 | Information processing device and method, and recording medium The present invention relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a recording medium for analyzing chord progressions more accurately. A featuring quantity extraction unit 41 extracts respectively a probability of given ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8003874 | Portable chord output device, computer program and recording medium To provide a portable chord producing device capable of producing chord sounds by a simple operation. In or on a housing 10 of a portable size, an operation switch 121 with which eight different chord sounds can be designated, and a display scre... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7982122 | Device and method for analyzing an audio datum A device and a method for analyzing an audio datum is described, having a semitone analyzer which is implemented to analyze the audio datum with regard to a volume information distribution over an amount of semitones, and a vector calculator which is implemented to ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7956275 | Music performance training apparatus and method Chord to be performed is presented to a user. Chord is detected based on one or more notes performed by the user. When it is not detected that a chord has been duly established, one of the notes performed by the user is detected as a root note of a chord. Comparison... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7825320 | Electronic keyboard musical instrument for assisting in improvisation A musical keyboard includes a plurality of white keys and black keys. As a number of keys are depressed simultaneously, a pattern of the depressed keys is judged as categorized in a number of predetermined patterns of depressed keys in view of the white keys and the... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7728215 | Playback apparatus and playback method A playback apparatus includes: a first acquiring unit acquiring sound content data; a second acquiring unit acquiring additional information corresponding to the sound content data acquired by the first acquiring unit; and a signal processor performing signal proces... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7605322 | Apparatus for automatically starting add-on progression to run with inputted music, and computer program therefor As a player inputs a performance of a music piece by playing a musical instrument or singing a song, an add-on apparatus automatically starts an add-on progression such as an accompaniment to the music piece, a score and word display of the music piece and a picture... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7601907 | Signal processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium Disclosed herein is a signal processing apparatus, including: removal means for removing, from a sound signal in the form of a stereo signal, a center component which is a component of sound positioned at the center between the left and the right; extraction means f... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7528317 | Harmonic analysis The invention provides methods and apparatuses for creating a two-dimensional graphical representation of music which has been analysed into a chord sequence, by evaluating a first parameter of each chord, e.g. the harmonic root, determining a first display coordina... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7485797 | Chord-name detection apparatus and chord-name detection program When a first bar-division determination section determines that the bass note changes in a bar or when a second bar-division determination section determines that the degree of change in the chord in the bar is large, a chord-name determination section divides the b... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7465866 | Assistive apparatus and computer-readable medium storing computer program for playing music An assistive music playing apparatus plays a music piece with musically acceptable notes even when the player inputs musically unacceptable notes. The apparatus provides a chord progression pattern, and comprises a note conversion device. A chord progression pattern... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7435891 | Method and system for generating musical variations directed to particular skill-levels Various embodiments are directed to an automated method and system component for generating variations of one or more musical selections directed to particular students or to particular skill-levels into which students may be classified. The method and system compon... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7420114 | Method for producing real-time rhythm guitar performance with keyboard A microprocessor-controlled data-processing system is used to process key strokes from a musical keyboard and output a series of note events (e.g., via midi) to a tone-producing device. The microprocessor runs software which splits the keyboard into at least two zon... | 09/02/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7385130 | Music selecting apparatus and method A music selecting apparatus and method, which are capable to indicate a music piece matching with the sensitivities of the user. A degree of chord change is stored as data for each of a plurality of music pieces, a sensitivity word for music selection is set in acco... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7373210 | Effects and recording system An effects and recording system is provided which is capable of recording at least one of a received audio signal and a processed audio signal generated by the application of musical effects to the received audio signal. The audio signal may be captured from any dev... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365263 | Intonation training device An intonation training device for training musicians in just intonation. As disclosed, the device is a pocket-sized portable device with an audio output and a user interface which includes an LCD display and a device such as a push button for selecting an item from ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7351903 | Musical composition data editing apparatus, musical composition data distributing apparatus, and program for implementing musical composition data editing method There is provided a musical composition data editing apparatus which enables the generation of musical composition data using which a user can cause his/her own musical image to be reflected to a high degree in a musical composition performance through simple operat... | 04/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7335834 | Musical composition data creation device and method An apparatus and a method for making music data each perform converting an input audio signal indicative of a music piece into a frequency signal indicative of magnitudes of frequency components at predetermined time intervals; extracting frequency components corres... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7318026 | Encoding apparatus and method, decoding apparatus and method, and recording medium recording apparatus and method An encoding method comprising the steps of forming a difference signal which is the difference between a first channel signal and a second channel signal of an input PCM signal, encoding the difference signal and the second channel signal with a time difference, div... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7297859 | Assistive apparatus, method and computer program for playing music An assistive music playing apparatus is provided for playing a music piece with musically acceptable notes even when the player inputs musically unacceptable notes. The apparatus provides a chord progression pattern, and comprises a note conversion device. A chord p... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7288711 | Chord presenting apparatus and storage device storing a chord presenting computer program CPU 31 reads out plural chord data which are stored in external storage device 34 or the like and represent a series of chords, and presents to a user the chords represented by the chord data. In presenting the chords to the user, display 21 or ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7288710 | Music searching apparatus and method An apparatus and a method for searching for a music piece which includes a storing device for storing first chord progression music data for a plurality of music pieces representing chronological changes in chords in the music pieces. Second chord progression music ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7250567 | Automatic musical composition classification device and method An automatic musical composition classification device and method that allow a plurality of musical compositions to be automatically classified based on the melody similarity. Chord progression pattern data representing a chord progression sequence for each of the p... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7247786 | Song selection apparatus and method A song selection device stores song characteristic quantities of a plurality of songs. A user operates the song selection device to enter personal properties and a sensibility word. The song selection device selects a song having a song characteristic quantity corre... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7241946 | Method and device for music format switching A method and device for music format switching. A tone editor is first selected to compose ring tones in accordance with a first music format. It is determined whether a switch operation has been executed. If the switch operation has been executed, the ring tones ar... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7220909 | Apparatus for displaying musical information without overlap A musical information displaying apparatus is to display musical notes in progression along the time axis on a musical staff together with chords and words based on the respective event data contained in a music performance data file representing a musical performan... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7208670 | System to enable the use of white keys of musical keyboards for scales A method for the use of the white keys of a musical keyboard such as a MIDI keyboard for the playing a selected scale whereby all while keys of the keyboard are remapped to the selected scale such that adjacent keys of the keyboard can be used to play adjacent notes... | 04/24/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7199300 | Information search apparatus, information search method, and information recording medium on which information search program is computer-readably recorded The song search apparatus for searching a song among songs including lyrics and performances, comprises: a song feature information database which stores song feature information indicating acoustic feature of the performances or feature of the lyrics included in th... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197149 | Cellular phone A cellular phone is provided with a melody sound reproducing unit comprising: a speaker for providing specified output in a range between a first frequency and a second frequency; a signal generator for supplying an audio signal to the speaker; a memory for storing ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7196260 | Entry of musical data in a mobile communication device Within a mobile communication device (100), a method (300) of specifying two or more musical notes for substantially concurrent playback can include receiving (302) an input specifying a root note (FIG. 2 ) indicating a position on a neck... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7189914 | Automated music harmonizer In the field of music, good practice in the writing of harmony has been encapsulated in an extensive set of formal rules. It is a difficult and tedious mental task to check music for compliance. However, music so harmonized almost always sounds pleasing. In the pres... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7183478 | Dynamically moving note music generation method A dynamically moving method of triggering musical notes that produces intricate, interwoven note sequences with ease as an aid to musicians. Notes that used to stand still while being played can now effectively move. Note events are programmed to generate or trigger... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7179981 | Music structure detection apparatus and method An apparatus and a method for detecting the structure of a music piece which produces partial music data pieces each including a predetermined number of consecutive chords starting from a position of each chord in chord progression music data; compares the partial m... | 02/20/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7161080 | Musical instrument for easy accompaniment This electronic musical instrument has an extremely simple user-interface that can be played with only three fingers, one at a time. A user selects from among a small set of chords, and chooses a music-ending. This enables novices to extemporaneously produce good, s... | 01/09/2007 |
