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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7947892 | Volume control device The volume control device temporarily alters the loudness of an electric musical instrument by allowing all (or part) of the audio signal to leak through a photosensitive resistor to ground. A light source is positioned so as to affect the value of the photosensitiv... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7888582 | Sound sequences with transitions and playlists A home theater system includes construction, presentation, and commerce in, songs. Presentation includes at least one of: metadata about songs or sounds, a function capable of transitioning from one song to a next song, and user preferences; and can determine in wha... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7605323 | Ensemble system, audio playback apparatus and volume controller for the ensemble system An audio playback apparatus, an automatic player musical instrument and a voltage controller form an ensemble system for producing music tunes in ensemble between the audio playback apparatus and the automatic player musical instrument, and the voltage controller is... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7446252 | Music information calculation apparatus and music reproduction apparatus A music information calculation apparatus recognizing a structure of a piece of music based on an acoustic signal. The apparatus includes: an acoustic signal input for inputting the acoustic signal of the piece of music; an acoustic parameter calculator for calculat... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7390957 | Information processing apparatus and sound volume control method An information processing apparatus comprises an operating member used for changing a sound volume, a display device which displays volume data of the sound volume changed in response to an operation of the operating member and a controller which changes the volume ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7381880 | Musical instrument recording advanced music data codes for playback, music data generator and music data source for the musical instrument In order to precisely express motion of a key or motion of a hammer, a voice message for the polyphonic key pressure and another voice message for the control change, which stand idle in an automatic player piano, are used to express rough key position or rough hamm... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7381882 | Performance control apparatus and storage medium A performance control apparatus which can reflect operations carried out by a user on variations in dynamics in real time to achieve performance expressions such as crescendo and decrescendo. A keyboard generates performance timing information in response to perform... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7361825 | Electronic keyboard instrument In an electronic keyboard instrument, each key moves from an initial position to a full stroke position via first, second, and third positions sequentially. A velocity detector detects a first key velocity of the key when the key moves from the first position to the... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356465 | Perfected device and method for the spatialization of sound The invention relates to a computer device comprising a memory 108 for storing audio signals 114, in part pre-recorded, each corresponding to a defined source, by means of spatial position data 116, and a processing module 110 for process... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7294777 | Electronic tone generation system and batons therefor An electronic tone generation system including a plurality of separate, portable, handheld transmitters, or batons, that are provided as “instruments” to one or more players. Each baton can be activated to send a signal, preferably a wireless signal, to a single... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7238875 | Electronic musical instrument There is provided an electronic musical instrument which is capable of muting by a simple operation. A plurality of fret operating elements are provided on a fingerboard, for determining the pitch. Six stringed operating elements for determining sounding timing are ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7060886 | Music playback unit and method for correcting musical score data A music playback unit corrects the frequency characteristics of a speaker installed in a portable telephone, without using an equalizer. The musical score data is stored in a first memory, and data for correcting the velocity of musical score data for each velocity ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7024358 | Recovering an erased voice frame with time warping An approach to reduce the quality impact due to lost voiced frame data is presented. The decoder reconstructs the lost frame using the pitch track from a directly prior frame. When the decoder receives the next frame data, it makes a copy of the reconstructed frame ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7002069 | Balancing MIDI instrument volume levels A system, method and computer readable medium for adjusting volume levels of a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) sound file for optimizing play on a sound device. The method on an information processing system includes calculating a first set of loudness l... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6970822 | Accessing audio processing components in an audio generation system An application program provides a performance manager and an audio rendition manager to produce a rendition corresponding to an audio source. The performance manager receives audio data from the audio source and instantiates audio data processing components to proce... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6960715 | Music instrument system and methods A system and methods which allow even a novice performer to easily play music which is not disharmonious and which is pleasing to the performer and his or her audience. The music is preferably created by a performer breaking one or more beams of light, which are emi... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6951977 | Method and device for smoothing a melody line segment A tone smoothing is performed such that to each time section of a melody line segment a number is associated such that for all groups of directly neighboring time sections, to which the same spectral component is associated by the melody line segment, the numbers as... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6931124 | Soft mute circuit A soft mute circuit includes a programmable amplifier controlled by a register. Data is stored in the register from an adder that combines the current data in the register with a second number for increasing or decreasing the gain of the amplifier. A summation circu... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6919503 | Musical tone generation control system, musical tone generation control method, and program for implementing the method There is provided a musical tone generation control system that, even if the player moves, enables him/her to listen to good musical tones at a location to which the player has moved without the necessity of making adjustments by himself/herself. Information on a po... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6895290 | Limiting the damaging effects of loud music from audio systems, particularly from automobile audio systems Minimizing the damaging effects of loud music but with minimal reduction in aesthetic quality of the music. When music presented through an audio is sampled in order to determine average frequency, music having very low average frequencies is predictably likely to b... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6803512 | Musical tone generating apparatus, plucked string instrument, performance system, electronic musical instrument, musical tone generation control method, and program for implementing the method There is provided a musical tone generating apparatus which enables beginners inexperienced in musical performance and like players to play a musical instrument such as an electronic harp without practicing repeatedly. The musical instrument has a plurality of opera... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6759585 | Musical-file-processing apparatus, musical-file-processing method and musical-file-processing method program The present invention relates to a musical-file-processing apparatus, a musical-file-processing method and a musical-file-processing method program. The present invention can be applied to a case in which, for example, musical files are stored typically in a persona... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6756532 | Waveform signal generation method with pseudo low tone synthesis A method generates waveform signals from a plurality of channels to sound a music tone through an electro-acoustic converter in response to sounding instruction information. The method is carried out by a receipt process of receiving the sounding instruction informa... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6646644 | Tone and picture generator device There is provided a database storing motion components, each of which includes motion information representative of a performance motion trajectory corresponding to a subdivided performance pattern for each musical instrument or part along with sounded po... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6583347 | Method of synthesizing musical tone by executing control programs and music programs A music apparatus has a central processor, a plurality of generator modules, and a program memory storing instructions for causing the central processor to execute a process of synthesizing a musical tone signal with the generator modules. The process inc... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6534700 | Automated compilation of music During mixing of two musical tracks, the variations in combined output volume are reduced by analyzing either the intrinsic amplitude at which each track was mastered or the output amplitude (i.e. subsequent to amplification of the audio signal), and modi... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6531652 | Method and apparatus for producing a waveform based on a style-of-rendition module Style-of-rendition identification information representing a style of rendition of a performance tone is received, and reference is made to a predetermined table on the basis of the received style-of-rendition identification information to thereby obtain,... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6365818 | Method and apparatus for producing a waveform based on style-of-rendition stream data Waveform corresponding to a tone performed with desired styles of rendition is produced from vector data generated on the basis of received style-of-rendition stream data. The style-of-rendition stream data describes a series of performance tones by a com... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6362410 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument having a single-tone priority function includes touch detection value storage means for storing a touch detection value that pertains to an ON key, priority key selection means for selecting the first priority key out of O... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6232539 | Music organizer and entertainment center A music organizer and entertainment center provides a center having a microprocessor, sound card functions and high-volume data storage and retrieval units for playing back music according to a variety of predetermined categories. Music can be played back... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6166316 | Automatic performance apparatus with variable arpeggio pattern An automatic performance apparatus that is responsive to a manual player of an input implement for producing either an arpeggio performance or a pattern performance in a modified form. Specifically, the present invention includes: a sequencer block that i... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6153820 | Communication technologies for musical tone signals A musical tone signal communications apparatus having: a timing adjusting unit for adjusting a timing of a digital musical tone signal at each channel; a level adjusting unit for adjusting a level of the digital musical tone signal at each channel; a rece... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6140565 | Method of visualizing music system by combination of scenery picture and player icons A method is designed for displaying a visual image of a music system that is constructed to play at least one performance part with a particular timbre and that is applied with an acoustic effect, an accompaniment style and the like. The method is carried... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6111183 | Audio signal synthesis system based on probabilistic estimation of time-varying spectra The present invention describes methods and means for estimating the time-varying spectrum of an audio signal based on a conditional probability density function (PDF) of spectral coding vectors conditioned on pitch and loudness values. Using this PDF a t... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6101469 | Formant shift-compensated sound synthesizer and method of operation thereof For use in a synthesizer having a wave source that produces a periodic wave, frequency shifting circuitry for frequency-shifting the periodic wave and waveshaping circuitry for transforming the periodic wave into a waveform containing a formant, the frequ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6064743 | Wavetable audio synthesizer with waveform volume control for eliminating zipper noise A digital wavetable audio synthesizer is described. The synthesizer can generate up to 32 high-quality audio digital signals or voices, including delay-based effects, at either a 44.1 KHz sample rate or at sample rates compatible with a prior art wavetabl... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5990404 | Performance data editing apparatus A performance data editing apparatus is realized by a computer system and/or an electronic musical instrument to provide rich expressions of an automatic performance by performing a variety of editing processes on performance data. Herein, the performance... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5977470 | Electronic musical instrument with independent control of expression and effect An electronic musical instrument has a processing circuit for adding a reverberation tone after volume control using expression data generated upon operation of an expression pedal to generate tone data which does not vary the attenuation characteristics ... | 11/02/1999 |
