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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7368652 | Music search system and music search apparatus A time-series signal input section 205 inputs a time-series signal whose on state and off state are repeated alternately. A similar rhythm search section 206 searches a plurality of pieces of rhythm data stored in a data storage section for rhythm data... | 05/06/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7337175 | Method of storing data in a multimedia file using relative timebases The invention concerns a method for storing data in a multimedia file, the multimedia file containing an absolute time base indicator and at least a track wherein the data are stored. Said data comprise time values. The method is characterised in that it consists in... | 02/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7326848 | System and methods for providing automatic classification of media entities according to tempo properties In connection with a classification system for classifying media entities that merges perceptual classification techniques and digital signal processing classification techniques for improved classification of media entities, a system and methods are provided for au... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7193148 | 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... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191128 | Method and system for distinguishing speech from music in a digital audio signal in real time The present invention relates to method and system for distinguishing speech from music in a digital audio signal in real time. A method for distinguishing speech from music in a digital audio signal in real time for the sound segments that have been segmented from ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7176372 | Interactive digital music recorder and player A digital multi-media device provides features for a user unskilled in musical arts or sound handling techniques that provides automatic musical score composition in accordance with contained composition instructions. Stored sound samples and interfaces for obtainin... | 02/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7169996 | Systems and methods for generating music using data/music data file transmitted/received via a network Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing music are provided, particularly systems and methods employing a top-down process, where the user is provided with a musical composition that may be modified and interacted with and played and... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7148415 | Method and apparatus for 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... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7112736 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument enables a phrase that is stored as audio waveform data to be played back at an arbitrary tempo. The instrument includes an operator that allows the performer to change the readout position of the waveform data manually, enabling the ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7102069 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing music are provided, particularly systems and methods employing a top-down process, where the user is provided with a musical composition that may be modified and interacted with and played and... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7078609 | Interactive digital music recorder and player A digital multi-media device provides features for a user unskilled in musical arts or sound handling techniques that provides automatic musical score composition in accordance with contained composition instructions. Stored sound samples and interfaces for obtainin... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076035 | Methods for providing on-hold music using auto-composition Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing music are provided, particularly systems and methods employing a top-down process, where the user is provided with a musical composition that may be modified and interacted with and played and... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071402 | Automatic soundtrack generator in an image record/playback device An Automatic Soundtrack Generator permits merger of a sound track that is independent of the external sound source, while either recording or playing a video sequence. The Automatic Soundtrack Generator integrates in a video recorder or player a module that generate... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7058462 | Entertainment system, entertainment apparatus, recording medium, and program An audio data processing means registers one of audio data extracted from a music CD as one of sound sources for an entertainment apparatus. The audio data processing means has an audio data extracting means for sampling desired audio data from the audio data introd... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7026534 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions A method of adjusting an externally supplied audio signal as part of internally generated music data using a computing system is disclosed. At least one music generation algorithm is provided, which consists of at least one music rule associated with a set of accept... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7022906 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing music are provided, particularly systems and methods employing a top-down process, where the user is provided with a musical composition that may be modified and interacted with and played and... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7019205 | Entertainment system, entertainment apparatus, recording medium, and program A music information processing means comprises a music editing means for assigning an arbitrary sound pattern selected from a plurality of sound patterns in a sound buffer to at least one track, a sound presentation trial processing means for outputting the sound pa... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020498 | Portable telephone A portable telephone downloads from the music download center the music data that contain tone color data, tempo data, and a series of note data and rest data with respect to at least a single musical tune. A CPU outputs to an interface the tone color data, and the ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7015389 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions A method for embedding algorithmic musical data into MIDI format using pitch is disclosed. Program instructions are executed and one or more music composition algorithms are applied to song data in accordance with a song data structure to generate music output for t... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012183 | Apparatus for analyzing an audio signal with regard to rhythm information of the audio signal by using an autocorrelation function An apparatus for analyzing an audio signal with regard to rhythm information of the audio signal by using an autocorrelation function comprises a filter bank for separating the audio signal into at least two sub-band signals. The sub-band signals are examined with r... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6979767 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions A method for playing a song employing a musical controller is disclosed. Program instructions are executed, and one or more music composition algorithms are applied to song data in accordance with a song data structure to generate music output for the song. User inp... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977335 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions A method for electronically generating a song is disclosed. At least one parameter value representing a range of note pitch values associated with a musical instrument is accessed and program instructions are executed. One or more music composition algorithms are ap... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6972363 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions A method for playing a song in a handheld device is disclosed. A visual representation for a plurality of musical components is provided. The visual representation includes a plurality of lanes, with each lane corresponding to one of the musical components. User inp... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6960714 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions A method for playing a song of a particular musical style is disclosed. Program instructions are executed, and one or more music composition algorithms are applied to song data in accordance with a song data structure to generate music output for the song. A plurali... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6958441 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions A method of playing music using a computing system in which MIDI events are synchronized with samples is disclosed. A sequence of MIDI events is provided. At least one of the MIDI events includes delta time parameter data, and the MIDI events are provided to a digit... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6916978 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions A method for playing a song employing a song data structure is disclosed. Program instructions are executed, and one or more music composition algorithms are applied to song data in accordance with a song data structure to generate music output for the song, and var... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6576828 | Automatic composition apparatus and method using rhythm pattern characteristics database and setting composition conditions section by section Automatic composition apparatus and method are provided which are capable of modifying a rhythm pattern to provide a wide variety of rhythm patterns only through simple setting, and a storage medium that accomplishes this function is provided. Characteris... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6469240 | Rhythm feature extractor The invention relates to a method of extracting a representation of its rhythmic structure, from a given signal. The representation is designed to yield a similarity relation between item titles. There is thus provided a method of extracting the numeric r... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6429365 | Performance control apparatus and method capable of shifting performance style during performance During reproduction of performance data in a particular performance style, an instruction can be given for shifting the reproduction to another performance style. In response to such a performance style shift instruction, the performance data of one or mo... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6376760 | Parameter setting technique for use in music performance apparatus In response to user's selection of a desired instrument style such as a piano style, only some of memory-stored automatic performance data sets that belong to the selected instrument style are made selectable. On the other hand, a tonal characteristic for... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6344607 | Automatic compilation of songs A method of automatically producing a compilation mix from a set of songs is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of generating (22) a beat profile comprising a temporal map representing an ideal rate of repeat of the dominant beat for the compilatio... | 02/05/2002 |
