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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7952013 | Contents reproducer and reproduction method for selecting content to be reproduced based on a moving tempo and tempo informaiton for the content Content is selected on the basis of changes of a walking tempo. The walking tempo is detected (S5). In a state determination process (S7), it is determined whether the walking tempo tends to increase, be constant, or decrease. A walking tempo correctiv... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7435169 | Music playing apparatus, storage medium storing a music playing control program and music playing control method A game apparatus includes a CPU core, and the CPU core executes a music playing game according to a game program. During the game, a player plays a guitar as if he or she plucks the strings displayed on an operation screen while viewing a musical score of a desired ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432436 | Apparatus and computer program for playing arpeggio An arpeggio playing apparatus comprises a musical tone signal generating device including a plurality of arpeggio playing parts, or an automatic music playing device and at least one arpeggio playing part. The arpeggio playing part is capable of playing an automatic... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7373209 | Sound features extracting apparatus, sound data registering apparatus, sound data retrieving apparatus, and methods and programs for implementing the same The present invention implements a method and an apparatus for retrieving a sound data desired by the user on the basis of its subjective impression over the sound data. The subjective impression on the desired sound data is entered by the user and converted to a nu... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7362531 | Controlling hard disk drive based on portable terminal movements A portable wireless communication terminal includes a sensor to detect a movement of the portable wireless communication terminal and output a first signal based on an acceleration of the movement and a second signal based on a velocity of the movement and a control... | 04/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7301092 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing audio and video components of multimedia presentations by identifying beats in a music signal Methods and systems for detecting a fundamental beat frequency in a predetermined time interval of a music signal are disclosed. The frequency may be detected by processing a music signal with the discrete wavelet transform to obtain a set of coefficients. A subset ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7276656 | Method for music analysis A method for music analysis. The method includes the steps of acquiring a music soundtrack, re-sampling an audio stream of the music soundtrack so that the re-sampled audio stream is composed of blocks, applying FFT to each block, deriving a vector from each transfo... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7259316 | Effect system An effect system stored a specified segment of an audio signal and repeats the segment during a specified interval. The segment length may be defined in advance as a musical time interval and the interval in which it is repeated may be defined in advance as a musica... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254455 | System for and method of determining the period of recurring events within a recorded signal The disclosure relates to a method of determining one or more periods of recurring events within a recorded signal, such as, music. This method can include establishing one or more anchor points in the recorded signal where an anchor point is indicative of a beginni... | 08/07/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7211721 | System and methods for memory-constrained sound synthesis using harmonic coding Systems (100 or 300) and methods (400 or 500) are provided for selecting a post-compression waveform from a post-compression waveform table (106) and supplying it to a synthesis engine (108). The post-compression waveform is... | 05/01/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7161079 | Audio signal generating apparatus, audio signal generating system, audio system, audio signal generating method, program, and storage medium An audio signal generating apparatus is provided which makes it possible to supply a new music entertainment that enables users to actively participate in performance of musical compositions based on audio data that is coded in a predetermined format from audio sign... | 01/09/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7111489 | Tone wheel sensor tester An electrical diagnostic tool for in situ testing of a tone wheel sensor mounted in proximity of a rotatable tone wheel. The tone wheel sensor produces a periodic pulse train signal as the rotatable tone wheel is rotated. The tool has a signal conditioning block for... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7105735 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument with which, without difficulty to a user, it is possible to reproduce and save and the like the musical tones that the user has performed and to carry this out in units having musically satisfactory breaks. For each count of one beat... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7102068 | Waveform data analysis method and apparatus suitable for waveform expansion/compression control Filtering is performed on original waveform to remove components of a predetermined frequency band from the waveform, and dividing positions of the original waveform data are determined on the basis of envelope levels of the filtered waveform. The dividing positions... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099827 | Method and apparatus for producing a waveform corresponding to a style of rendition using a packet stream Packet stream is generated by combining a plurality of packets corresponding to style-of-rendition identification information which are selected from among a number of packets usable for producing waveforms corresponding to various styles of rendition. Then, a wavef... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7094965 | Waveform data analysis method and apparatus suitable for waveform expansion/compression control Filtering is performed on original waveform to remove components of a predetermined frequency band from the waveform, and dividing positions of the original waveform data are determined on the basis of envelope levels of the filtered waveform. The dividing positions... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7081582 | System and method for 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... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7081577 | Electronic metronome An electronic metronome has a casing including a display portion for displaying a numerical value of a tempo, a sound emitting device for emitting a sound representing the tempo, a vibration device for generating a vibration representing the tempo, and a vibration l... | 07/25/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7080016 | Audio information reproduction device and audio information reproduction system Audio information is read out of a recording medium which records musical pieces as audio information. The audio information read out is processed to detect BPM values and positions of beats in the musical piece. A musical piece is reproduced from the recording medi... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7069208 | System and method for concealment of data loss in digital audio transmission A system and method for the concealment of errors resulting from missing or corrupted data in the transmission of audio signals in compressed digital packet formats is disclosed. The system utilizes a circular FIFO buffer to store audio frames from the transmitted a... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7050462 | Real time communications of musical tone information A musical tone data communications system having a unit for generating MIDI data of a musical performance by a player, a unit for transmitting the generated MIDI data over a communications network and a unit for receiving the transmitted MIDI data and reproducing mu... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042814 | Information playback apparatus An information playback apparatus is provided to obtain editing effects using an optical disc in the same sense as an analog record disc is manipulated. An audio editing apparatus for playing back an optical disc such as a CD is provided with a rotatable jog dial, d... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7041892 | Automatic generation of musical scratching effects The invention relates to a method for generating electrical sounds and to an interactive music player. According to the invention, an audio signal in digital format, which lasts for a predeterminable length of time, is used as the starting material. The reproduction... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7026536 | Beat analysis of musical signals A system and methods analyze music to detect musical beats and to rectify beats that are out of sync with the actual beat phase of the music. The music analysis includes onset detection, tempo/meter estimation, and beat analysis, which includes the rectification of ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7010371 | Digital audio signal player having a simulated analogue record In a digital audio signal player having a simulated analogue record, a high frequency alternator is provided, which is connected to the microprocessor, and constantly sends out a high-frequency signal; the alternator has an output terminal electrically connected to ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7000200 | Gesture recognition system recognizing gestures within a specified timing Gesture recognition in which timing data is used to temporally segment video data into video clips. The timing data can be beat data extracted from an audio signal. ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6979769 | Data reproducing device, data reproducing method, and information terminal Each of MIDI data, audio data, text data and image data to be received in a data receiving section is SMF-formatted data including event information and event-executing delta time. A data sorting section sorts data based on data type depending upon a delta time of e... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6933434 | Musical tone control system, control method for same, program for realizing the control method, musical tone control apparatus, and notifying device There is provided a musical tone control system which is capable of preventing control not intended by the user even when the user stops moving when controlling the generation of musical tones reflecting motion or physical posture of the user. A motion detecting dev... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6919502 | Musical tone generation apparatus installing extension board for expansion of tone colors and effects A musical tone generation apparatus is basically configured by a main sound source device installing an extension board. Herein, the main sound source device is configured by a CPU, memories, operators, a music synthesizer, a mixer, an effector and a sound system, w... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6751167 | Information playback apparatus An information playback apparatus is provided to obtain sound effects by using an optical disc in much the same way an analog record is manipulated. A pressing pressure applied onto a rotatable jog dial is detected by providing a pressure sensing layer to the jog di... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6750390 | Automatic performing apparatus and electronic instrument An automatic performing apparatus and an electronic instrument with which a user can carry out an automatic musical performance, even for a complicated arrangement, simply by providing external events at certain intervals or corresponding only to a melody. In such a... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6687193 | Audio reproduction apparatus having audio modulation function, method used by the apparatus, remixing apparatus using the audio reproduction apparatus, and method used by the remixing apparatus An audio reproduction apparatus capable of modulating an audio signal with at least one of reproduction factors, including the speed and direction of reproduction, and the sound pressure of the audio signal, an audio reproduction method used by the audio ... | 02/03/2004 |
