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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7390955 | Metronome with wireless transducer A metronome for use by a musician or group of musicians generally includes a signal generator for producing an electrical signal according to a desired timing scheme and one or more transducers in wireless communication with the signal generator. Each transducer, wh... | 06/24/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7304230 | Multiple channel metronome A multiple channel metronome for use by a plurality of musicians generally includes a signal generator for producing electrical signals according to desired timing schemes and a plurality of transducers in communication with the signal generator. Each transducer, wh... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7227072 | System and method for determining the similarity of musical recordings A system and method for determining the similarity of music files based on a perceptual metric is disclosed. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic components are generated for each of the music files. The dimensionality of t... | 06/05/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6747201 | Method and system for extracting melodic patterns in a musical piece and computer-readable storage medium having a program for executing the method A method and system for extracting melodic patterns by first recognizing musical “keywords” or themes. The invention searches for all instances of melodic (intervallic) repetition in a piece (patterns). This process generally uncovers a large number of patterns,... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6561908 | Gaming device with a metronome system for interfacing sound recordings The present invention involves a gaming device with a metronome system. The metronome system includes a CPU which reads game state data on ticks determined by a check-back rate. The CPU can cause sound file changes to occur at any time any tick occurs, th... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6486390 | Apparatus and method for creating melody data having forward-syncopated rhythm pattern A rhythm pattern is provided to be subjected to forward syncopation processing. The time position of an un-syncopated note in the rhythm pattern is shifted forward to render advanced beating of the note to make a forward-syncopated rhythm pattern. The not... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6472591 | Portable communication terminal apparatus with music composition capability In a portable communication terminal apparatus, a transmitter and receiver conducts either of a transmission and receipt of a message. A tone generator generates a sequence of tones to sound a music melody of a song in association with either of the trans... | 10/29/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6417437 | Automatic musical composition method and apparatus In accordance with a rhythm of a main melody, a auxiliary-melody or counter-melody creating rhythm pattern is supplied which indicates timing of respective hit points of a plurality of tones in the auxiliary or counter melody. Predetermined important hit ... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6294720 | Apparatus and method for creating melody and rhythm by extracting characteristic features from given motif From a given melody motif is extracted a rhythm pattern consisting of a series of rhythmic alignment of notes without a pitch representing the time positions of the notes constituting the melody. Also extracted from the given melody motif are the pitches ... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6225547 | Rhythm game apparatus, rhythm game method, computer-readable storage medium and instrumental device Sound generation control and instruction operation evaluation is performed by sound group selection and a sound generation instruction, with a mimic guitar having selection buttons for selecting one of a plurality of sound groups bearing a series of sound... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6177623 | Music reproducing system, rhythm analyzing method and storage medium In a music reproducing system, each of characters is allocated in advance a favorite rhythm component and a peculiar figure expressing ability. A sound pressure data producing section produces sound pressure data for each of a pluralty of frequency bands ... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6162982 | Automatic composition apparatus and method, and storage medium therefor There are provided an automatic composition apparatus and a method for automatically composing a piece of music, which enable a user to generate a large number of melodies having different atmospheres using a reduced number of melody generating templates,... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6080926 | Automatic accompanying apparatus and automatic accompanying method capable of simply setting automatic accompaniment parameters In an automatic accompanying apparatus and an automatic accompanying method, the respective part structures of a plurality of basic variation patterns used as a basic accompanying pattern of rhythm are arbitrarily set by a music player. When the music pla... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6040517 | Rhythmic tone generator A rhythmic tone generator includes a casing that houses a rhythm signal generating circuit, a battery and a tone generating device, and that is positioned and held on the concha by an attaching device, so that the rhythmic tone generator is attached to th... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5942711 | Roll-sound performance device and method A unique note length is allocated to each of a plurality of operating positions provided on a ribbon controller. In response to a position-selecting operation by a human operator, time data is generated which is representative of the note length allocated... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5890116 | Conduct-along system A conduct-along system that can give expressions to sounds and/or images, in which expressions are added to sounds and/or images following the playback of sounds and/or images in real-time based on any one or any combination of parameters, such as tempo, ... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5859379 | Method of and apparatus for composing a melody by switching musical phrases, and program storage medium readable by the apparatus for composing a melody An apparatus for composing a melody by switching musical phrases sequentially corresponding to key input signals, and playing the switched musical phrases smoothly. The apparatus selects musical phrase data, which consists of note data and phrase change i... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5763804 | Real-time music creation An electronic music system has an input device, one or more computer storage media, a rhythm generator, a pitch selector, and a sound generator. The input device generates rhythm-related input signals and pitch-related input signals in response to manipul... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5714705 | Arpeggiator An arpeggiator scans key-pushing data and produces in sequence a plurality of playing data according to results of the scanning. The arpeggiator includes a rhythm pattern table having at least one step which stores therein a time interval of a rhythm, a s... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5663517 | Interactive system for compositional morphing of music in real-time A system suitable for effecting musical morphing in real time. The system comprises a computer comprising a programmable memory for storing a program. The program comprises the steps of selecting a first musical sequence of events; and identifying a famil... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5596160 | Performance-information apparatus for analyzing pitch and key-on timing A performance-information analyzing apparatus, which is employed by an electronic musical instrument, is provided to analyze performance information which represents at least a pitch and a key-on timing with respect to each sound to be produced. A note le... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5300726 | Electronic rhythm instrument with tone pitch and tone volume control An electronic rhythm instrument having two or more rhythm switches which correspond to rhythmical sounds, and which generates rhythmical sounds corresponding to the rhythm switch operated. In the electronic rhythm instrument, one of the rhythmical sounds ... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5247128 | Electronic musical instrument with selectable rhythm pad effects An electronic musical instrument provides at least one pad to which a desirable musical tone such as a percussion instrument tone is assigned. When operating the pad, the corresponding musical tone is to be generated. Thereafter, when the pad operation is... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5179240 | Electronic musical instrument with a melody and rhythm generator An electronic musical instrument provides a keyboard providing plural keys, memories for storing necessary programs and data, a musical tone signal generating circuit providing plural channels and a control unit such as a micro computer. A melody tone is ... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5099740 | Automatic composer for forming rhythm patterns and entire musical pieces A automatic composer automatically forms a rhythm pattern. Reference rhythm patterns representing a sequence of a plurality of tone durations are generated, and a pulse scale source provides a pulse scale of pulse points having weights for joining or disj... | 03/31/1992 |
| 4757736 | Electronic musical instrument having rhythm-play function based on manual operation A plurality of pad operating means for manual operation are provided on a keyboard panel of an electronic keyboard musical instrument. When an operator operates the pad operating means using the keyboard during melody play, an operation signal is supplied... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4706538 | Electronic musical instrument with automatic musical accompaniment playing system An electronic musical instrument automatically plays a musical accompaniment utilizing a minimized number of tone signal generating channels. The electronic musical instrument has a plurality of tone signal generating channels each for generating a tone s... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4685370 | Automatic rhythm playing apparatus having plurality of rhythm patterns for a rhythm sound A plurality of different kinds of rhythm playing pattern data corresponding to each of the different rhythm sounds being used to play specified rhythms is stored in a rhythm pattern memory section (1). When a particular kind of rhythm is being played auto... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4672876 | Rhythm tone source assigning apparatus for use in electronic musical instrument A rhythm tone source assigning apparatus for use in an electronic musical instrument comprises a memory having a plurality of storing regions corresponding to a plurality of input operating manipulators each being comprised of a keyboard key or a switch. ... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4656911 | Automatic rhythm generator for electronic musical instrument Every time a new chord signal is supplied to a chord memory circuit, a previous chord signal is supplied to a chord comparison and calculation circuit together with the new chord signal to obtain a chord change signal representing a degree of change betwe... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4630519 | Device for rhythmically driving an electromechanical vibrator An electromechanical vibrator driving device comprising a rhythm signal generator to produce rhythmic pulses in a pattern corresponding to a beat pattern of a selected music rhythm, the rhythmic pulses being amplified and then applied to the vibrator so t... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4520707 | Electronic organ having microprocessor controlled rhythmic note pattern generation A system for automatically generating an accompaniment note pattern and a bass pattern programmed therein by the player. The system includes a programmable microprocessor wherein two patterns, one sounding in the frequency range of the solo and accompanim... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4467690 | Automatic rhythm performance device An automatic rhythm performance device is constructed of a rhythm pattern memory, an instrument memory and a rhythm tone generator. The rhythm pattern memory delivers a variety of rhythm patterns corresponding to the selected rhythm. The instrument memory... | 08/28/1984 |
