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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8022289 | Harmonic sound generator and a method for producing harmonic sound A first harmonic sound generating unit 1 generates a first harmonic sound signal as a product of a multiplication of a signal of a specific frequency and a signal including frequency components of odd multiples of a music signal. Then, frequency components of... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7977563 | Overdubbing device A CPU of an overdubbing device plays back a music file recorded in a memory card of the device and outputs the file as a played-back audio signal while mixing the played-back audio signal with an external audio signal input from the outside, to thus perform overdubb... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7956276 | Method of distributing mashup data, mashup method, server apparatus for mashup data, and mashup apparatus A method of distributing mashup data for mashing up at least a first content and a second content. The method includes the step of distributing to a user, through a network, a data file having first data for dividing the first content and the second content into a p... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7790977 | Component tone synthetic apparatus and method a computer program for synthesizing component tone The component tone signal commonly shared by a plurality of keys does not turn to a release signal if one of the keys is released to stop a tone and also while tones of other keys are sustained; the on-data of each key of the keyboard is multiplied in multiplier by ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7745719 | Electronic keyboard musical instrument An electronic keyboard musical instrument which can realize natural sounds with favorable sound quality as an acoustic piano. A sound board (33) made of a plate member is vibrated so as to generate musical tones. A first performance signal generator (22 | 06/29/2010 |
| 7652208 | Signal processing for cross-flanged spatialized distortion This invention provides a signal processing and signal synthesis technique from a family of signal processing and signal synthesis techniques designed to readily interwork or be used individually in creating new forms of rich musical timbres. A multi-channel cross-f... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7572970 | Digital piano apparatus, method for synthesis of sound fields for digital piano, and computer-readable storage medium A digital piano apparatus includes an input unit including a plurality of keys and a plurality of pedals, a sound source unit, a sound field synthesizing unit, and a speaker unit. The sound field synthesizing unit includes virtual sound source spot signal generating... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7557289 | Music delivering apparatus and music reproducing apparatus A music delivering apparatus includes a storing unit that stores musical data, a sound collecting unit that collects a voice from outside to output audio data, a reading unit that reads the musical data from the storing unit, a mixer that mixes the audio data with t... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7470854 | Electronic music apparatus Electronic music apparatus includes: a tone generator section for generating a tone signal in response to operation of a performance operator unit; an external input section for receiving a tone signal from the outside; a mixer section for generating mixed tone sign... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7442870 | Method and apparatus for enabling advanced manipulation of audio A method and apparatus are provided for representing, storing, and rendering audio data. An audio file enables users to store and exchange sampled audio waveform data along with additional data used to generate or synthesize an audio output closely approximating the... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440577 | Methods and apparatus for automatic mixing of audio signals Methods and apparatus for automatically mixing a plurality of audio channels by adjusting respective gains of the audio channels using a control signal based on an aggregate of input levels of respective audio signals of the audio channels; and reducing the gain of ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436970 | Multi-mode led indicators for recording devices A method and apparatus for indicating the status of a track in a multi-track recorder is described. An indicator light capable of outputting different colored lights is used to indicate the status of a track in the multi-track recorder. The color and the blinking se... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432435 | Tone synthesis apparatus and method Dynamics value is acquired intermittently at predetermined time periods, and a waveform data set for a sustain tone, corresponding to the acquired dynamics value, is specified from among waveform data sets stored in a memory. To generate a tone waveform while switch... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433745 | Digital mixing system with dual consoles and cascade engines A method is designed for controlling a total mixing system including a first mixing system and a second mixing system, which are operated in a linked manner. In the method, the first mixing system stores first scene data specifying contents of a mixing process match... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7425674 | 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... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7396992 | Tone synthesis apparatus and method Determination is made, in accordance with acquired performance information, as to whether a crossfade characteristic should be changed or not, and a crossfade characteristic of crossfade synthesis having already been started at the time of the acquisition of the per... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7332668 | Wavetable audio synthesis system The present invention relates to an audio synthesis system for performing wavetable audio synthesis. The system comprises an instrument database, an analysis module, a memory, a judgment module, and a synthesis module. The instrument database is used for storing dat... | 02/19/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7319764 | Method and apparatus for controlling volume Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for controlling the volume of an audio track. This method represents the volume of an audio track with a graph. This graph is defined along two axes, with one axis representing time and the other representing the vo... | 01/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7317958 | Apparatus and method of additive synthesis of digital audio signals using a recursive digital oscillator A method of performing additive synthesis of digital audio signals using a novel recursive digital oscillator includes the step of receiving digital audio signal frames wherein each digital audio signal frame includes a set of frequency, amplitude, and phase compone... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7314993 | Automatic performance apparatus and automatic performance program An automatic performance apparatus which enables expressive ensemble performance to be carried out with a sense of uniformity. Operation signals according to operation by at least one operator, and identification information for identifying a plurality of operating ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7309829 | Layered signal processing for individual and group output of multi-channel electronic musical instruments System and method for creating rich timbre performance, composition, and recording environments for an electronic musical instrument with multiple vibrating elements providing multi-channel output. The instrument produces at least one group instrument output signal ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305097 | Controlling fading and surround signal level Systems and techniques for controlling a surround sound system having multiple input signals and multiple spatially diverse transducers may include defining a first control region and a second control region. When operating in the first control region, a first set o... | 12/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7262358 | Portable voice studio system and method A portable voice studio apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a microphone, a music generation device, a processing unit, and a headphone. The processing unit is contained in a single housing. The processing unit is electrically coupled with the microphone a... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7253352 | Music playing/processing device and method for playing music file according to playing order of tones The present invention relates to a music playing/processing device for playing a musical file in a wireless communication device and determining the playing order of a plurality of tones of the musical file. The music playing/processing device comprises: an analysis... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251596 | Method and device for analyzing a wave signal and method and apparatus for pitch detection The present invention provides a unique wave-trigon transformation (WTT) method for performing transformation process over a wave signal. The present invention also provides a pitch detecting method and apparatus for detecting pitch based on the WTT process as well ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251271 | Digital filter design Method and apparatus for designing digital filters are provided. One method includes the steps of determining a real-valued discrete-frequency representation of a desired digital filter and transforming this discrete-frequency representation into a corresponding dis... | 07/31/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7230177 | Interchange format of voice data in music file A music apparatus has a data storage, a controller and a sound generator for reproducing a music sound and a voice sound. The data storage stores a music data file containing a music part and a voice part, the music part containing a sequence of music generation eve... | 06/12/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7217879 | Reverberation sound generating apparatus A reverberation apparatus is designed for generating a reverberation sound from an input sound with use of an impulse response based on an instruction. In the reverberation apparatus, a first storage section stores first impulse response data representative of a fir... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7208672 | System and method for structuring and mixing audio tracks A system for creating a variation of an audio track from audio building blocks is presented, where track variation may be created during a live performance. Two or more of the presented systems may be coupled to automatically maintain a beat mix between two or more ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209146 | Methods and apparatuses for the automated display of visual effects Methods and apparatuses for the generation of visual effects according to the elapsed time for real time display. One embodiment of the present invention provides an automated mechanism for displaying visual effects (e.g., fade to or from a target color) through adj... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206419 | Guitar preamlifier system with controllable distortion A musical instrument preamplifier system is provided which comprises a filtering means for splitting an input signal into two or more separate frequency bands comprising a similar phase response for each frequency band, two or more non-linear circuits, each of which... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206370 | Clock recovery circuit A clock recovery circuit comprises a phase comparator detecting phase differences between input data and sampling clocks and outputs them as pulse signals of two values of advanced and delayed, a low-pass filter reducing frequencies of the pulse signals outputted fr... | 04/17/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7164772 | Setting update apparatus of scene data in audio mixer An apparatus is designed for updating setting of parameters so as to control an audio signal. In the apparatus, a holding section holds current values of the parameters effective to control the audio signal. A storing section stores a plurality of scene data, each s... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7151793 | Method for synchronizing a receiver, a positioning system, a receiver and an electronic device A method for performing synchronization operations of a receiver to a received code-modulated spread spectrum signal whereby at least one reference code (r(x))is used. This reference code corresponds to a code used in the modulation. The frequency shift of the recei... | 12/19/2006 |
