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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7985917 | Automatic accompaniment for vocal melodies A graphical user interface for facilitating generation of an accompaniment for a recorded audio melody is described. A Hidden Markov Model, trained with blended chord transition matrices and melody observation matrices, is used for providing the accompaniment for th... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7705231 | Automatic accompaniment for vocal melodies A method for generating an accompaniment for a recorded audio melody includes providing a recorded audio melody that includes segments; performing a frequency analysis of the recorded audio melody; summing the total duration of each fundamental frequency within a se... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7504575 | Intonation training device An intonation training device for training musicians in just intonation. As disclosed, the device is a pocket-sized portable device with an audio output and a user interface which includes an LCD display and a device such as a push button for selecting an item from ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7411125 | Chord estimation apparatus and method A chord estimation apparatus includes: frequency-component extraction means for extracting a frequency component from an input music signal; scale-component information generation means for mapping the frequency component extracted by the frequency-component extract... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7385130 | Music selecting apparatus and method A music selecting apparatus and method, which are capable to indicate a music piece matching with the sensitivities of the user. A degree of chord change is stored as data for each of a plurality of music pieces, a sensitivity word for music selection is set in acco... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7365263 | Intonation training device An intonation training device for training musicians in just intonation. As disclosed, the device is a pocket-sized portable device with an audio output and a user interface which includes an LCD display and a device such as a push button for selecting an item from ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7288711 | Chord presenting apparatus and storage device storing a chord presenting computer program CPU 31 reads out plural chord data which are stored in external storage device 34 or the like and represent a series of chords, and presents to a user the chords represented by the chord data. In presenting the chords to the user, display 21 or ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7288710 | Music searching apparatus and method An apparatus and a method for searching for a music piece which includes a storing device for storing first chord progression music data for a plurality of music pieces representing chronological changes in chords in the music pieces. Second chord progression music ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7250567 | Automatic musical composition classification device and method An automatic musical composition classification device and method that allow a plurality of musical compositions to be automatically classified based on the melody similarity. Chord progression pattern data representing a chord progression sequence for each of the p... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7238876 | Method of automated musical instrument finger finding A computerized automated method for determining fingering of musical instruments from digitized scored music or tablature. The computerized automated finger finder method determines fingering such that hand movement is minimized on a specified instrument for maximum... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7215328 | Multimedia keyboard A multimedia console incorporating an alphanumeric keyboard, and a musical key-bed is described for generating multimedia work product conveniently when coupled with a digital personal computer or optionally as a stand alone music equipment. The musical key-bed is o... | 05/08/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7199299 | Apparatus and computer program for displaying a musical score An electronic musical instrument displays a musical score including lyric character strings on a displayer 21, using music data stored in a storage device 43, by program-processing by a computer main unit 42. The music data includes a series of ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7199298 | Apparatus, method and computer program for controlling music score display to meet user's musical skill Based on music performance data, music score display data are composed for displaying a music score representing the music performance. A user inputs his/her musical skill to the apparatus. Referring to a musical skill level versus music score item correspondence ta... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7189914 | Automated music harmonizer In the field of music, good practice in the writing of harmony has been encapsulated in an extensive set of formal rules. It is a difficult and tedious mental task to check music for compliance. However, music so harmonized almost always sounds pleasing. In the pres... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7179981 | Music structure detection apparatus and method An apparatus and a method for detecting the structure of a music piece which produces partial music data pieces each including a predetermined number of consecutive chords starting from a position of each chord in chord progression music data; compares the partial m... | 02/20/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7164076 | System and method for synchronizing a live musical performance with a reference performance In a music video game, a player's performance is digitally sampled while the player performs a musical composition. The player's performance is compared with a reference performance of the musical composition provided by the music video game. Performance feedback is... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7129407 | Apparatus and computer program for practicing musical instrument A model music data inputting unit inputs model music data containing music score display data representing a music score to be displayed of a model music piece for practice, performance data representing a musical performance which coincides with the music score to ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7109407 | Chord presenting apparatus and storage device storing a chord presenting computer program CPU 31 reads out plural chord data which are stored in external storage device 34 or the like and represent a series of chords, and presents to a user the chords represented by the chord data. In presenting the chords to the user, display 21 or ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7094960 | Musical score display apparatus A musical score display apparatus reads note data and lyric data, and displays the read note data and lyric data on a displayed musical score. In the case where the lyric data are displayed to match the displayed note data, a position where character strings of the ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7053292 | Device comprising a sound signal generator and method for forming a call signal This device (1) enables the user to personalize the call signal (ringing) which it is called on to deliver. This personalization consists of transforming a melody (FIG. 1) which the user hums into his microphone in order to transform it into a polyphon... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7041893 | Electronic musical instrument with customization of auxiliary capability An electronic musical instrument is operable to provide a music play and an associated capability utilized by users in association with the music play under different modes customized to the respective users. In the electronic musical instrument, an ID setting secti... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7026535 | Composition assisting device The composition assisting device of the present invention allows a user to input a melody, for example 10 melodic events, and the device outputs a series of new melodies. The new melodies have the same number of melodic events as the inputed event, but the order of ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6924426 | Automatic expressive intonation tuning system A method for the algorithmic expressive intonation tuning (EIT) and performance of electronic, computer and MIDI musical works relies on melodic intervals, rather than on chordal harmony, and acts by desirably modifying the pitch of a note slightly (compared to equa... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6852918 | 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... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6791021 | Automatic chord progression correction apparatus and automatic composition apparatus For both an automatic chord correction and an automatic composition, it is required to correct a part of a series of given chords in order to have a musically natural connection between adjacent chords. A series of chords “a”, “b”, “c”, “d”, “e”,... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6777607 | Moving tempered music scale method and apparatus A musical instrument and a method of operating it. An instrument and method which retunes and adjusts volumes in response to the chord being sustained and the way that chord is voiced. The instrument is capable of producing tones, the intervals between which are equ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6410839 | Apparatus and method for automatic musical accompaniment while guiding chord patterns for play A musical instrument and a method for automatically playing a musical accompaniment by guiding smoother and easier chord patterns to play. The present invention indicates chord forms which realize smoothest fingering after analyzing a chord following the ... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6380475 | Chord detection technique for electronic musical instrument A chord detection apparatus for an electronic musical instrument has a hand keyboard for hand operation, a foot keyboard for foot operation, a hand-keyboard detection unit for detecting a temporary hand-keyboard chord root and a temporary hand-keyboard ch... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6346666 | Apparatus and method for practice and evaluation of musical performance of chords A chord performance training system is realized on a personal computer having a display and a keyboard in accordance with music application software. The display provides a user with three types of windows on a screen, namely a main window for displaying ... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6313389 | Automatic accompaniment apparatus adjusting sound levels for each part of a plurality of patterns when one pattern is switched to another pattern An automatic accompaniment apparatus has a storage unit (53) for storing information on a variation pattern selection state and the mute setup state of each part of each variation, and a control unit (55) for controlling to make each part in a tone genera... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6307140 | Music apparatus with pitch shift of input voice dependently on timbre change A music apparatus is constructed for receiving an input signal composed of either of a voice signal and a tone signal and for processing the input signal based on a timbre change command signal to generate at least one channel of an output signal. In the ... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6201178 | On-the-fly note generation and a musical instrument A method and apparatus for performing music on an electronic instrument in which individual chord progression chords can be triggered in real-time, while various individual notes of the chord, and/or possible scale notes and non-scale notes to play along ... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6153821 | Supporting arbitrary beat patterns in chord-based note sequence generation A performance engine selects note patterns from a pattern style containing a plurality of note patterns. The note patterns are categorized by embellishment type and by ranges of playback levels. In addition, a beat pattern is specified for each note patte... | 11/28/2000 |
