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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7442869 | Method and electronic device used to synthesise the sound of church organ flue pipes by taking advantage of the physical modeling technique of acoustic instruments The present invention consists in a method and electronic device used to reproduce the sound of church organ flue pipes, by taking advantage of the physical modeling technique of acoustic instruments; it being an audio-digital synthesis system based on digital signa... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7285712 | Method of dynamically determining a maximum polyphony number according to operation mode and smoothly changing polyphony number when switching operation modes A method of dynamically determining a maximum polyphony number is used in an electronic device, which has S tone generators. First, an operation mode of the electronic device is detected. Next, a residual computing power of the electronic device is obtained accordin... | 10/23/2007 |
| 6459030 | Method for preventing polyphony shortage in an electronic organ A method for handling with polyphony limits in an electronic organ, that is provided with at least one keyboard, one pedalboard, a series of organ stops, which can be turned on by a user to determine which voices are assigned to each key and to each pedal... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6369310 | Electronic musical instrument having server section for remote control of settings over a communication channel An electronic musical instrument has a server section to enable instrument settings to be made by remote control from a terminal on a client side through a communications circuit such as the Internet, and thus makes it possible to easily carry out the set... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6005545 | Image processing method and electronic device An electronic device draws pictures with a plurality of color on a monitor 90. A sound making processing unit 108 reads a color displayed at a position commanded by a touch pen 28 and makes sounds corresponding to the read color. A movable body drawing un... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5945620 | Digital tone generator for producing phase synchronized tones The present invention provides an apparatus and method for phase synchronizing tones in an electronic musical instrument. The apparatus includes a microprocessor having an input for receiving a signal representative of a selected note whereupon receipt of... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5508472 | Method and apparatus for emulating the pitch varying effects of pipe organ wind systems and acoustic coupling in an electronic musical instrument Certain effects of pipe organ wind regulators and conductors, as well as certain effects of acoustic coupling of pipes within pipe organs are emulated in an electronic musical instrument. Digital signal processing is used to model the behavior of a pipe o... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5442128 | Digital classic organ with remote control finishing Classic organ sounds are produced by selecting plural loops of predetermined sound components, and combining the components in accordance with parameters readily adjusted by an operator, which parameters are maintained separately from the musical notes wh... | 08/15/1995 |
| 4953437 | Method and apparatus for digitally generating musical notes An electronic musical instrument of the digital synthesis type that uses digital processing techniques to impart not only the desired harmonic structure and pitch, but also to impart the correct amplitude and envelope. Only after all of the harmonic struc... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4423655 | Electronic transfer organ The present invention relates to economically fabricated means for the generation and processing, member selection, and acoustic radiation of pluralities of individual tone currents originating from at least one high frequency source and formed by note-in... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4418602 | Transfer organ The disclosed organ employs keyboard-activated transfer of individualized tone and envelope-generating information from large memories for each distinctive set of a note's harmonics, to small memories in small circuits corresponding to each harmonic set. ... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4416177 | Data input for computer organ Computer organ tone input for alterable stops is achieved by single-key input through a decoded keyboard which is couple to a logic network and optoelectrical output drive circuitry. The decoder circuitry activates selected optical emitters in an array wh... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4393741 | Electronic organ circuit An electronic organ circuit includes a multiplicity of keyers receiving control inputs from plural shift and store registers capable of operating any given keyer at different levels. The inputs for a given keyer are applied on a cyclic basis and for diffe... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4358980 | Electronic musical instrument In an electronic musical instrument, a plurality of component elements of a musical tone are designated by a respective plurality of manual setting elements and preset in a preset memory device. A person operating the device can select a musical tone to b... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4348932 | Musical instrument type-selecting system for an electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument of simple arrangement wherein a plurality of musical tones of different musical instrument types are preset; musical tones of a desired musical instrument type is first selected; musical tones belonging to the selected one... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4157049 | Organ performance supporting device An organ performance supporting device which has means for detecting ON signals of actuating switches of combination units to provide control code signals, means for setting signals indicating the individual operative states of the switches by the switch-... | 06/05/1979 |
| 4108036 | Method of and apparatus for electronically generating musical tones and the like Electronic musical tone generating methods and apparatus such as electronic organs and music synthesizers are described. An impulse response characteristic of the tones is represented by digital signals which are stored at different locations in a digital... | 08/22/1978 |
