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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7626113 | Tone data generation method and tone synthesis method, and apparatus therefor Based on the understanding that time-varying characteristics of a tone element, such as an amplitude and pitch, in waveform data acquired through a live performance of a musical instrument include a variation component intended or controllable by a human player and ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7534953 | Method for simulation and digital synthesis of an oscillating phenomenon A method for digital simulation of a non-linear interaction between an excitation source and a wave in a resonator, and is particularly applicable, to real-time synthesis of digital signals representing an oscillating phenomenon such as the sound produced by a music... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7442869 | Method and electronic device used to synthesise the sound of church organ flue pipes by taking advantage of the physical modeling technique of acoustic instruments The present invention consists in a method and electronic device used to reproduce the sound of church organ flue pipes, by taking advantage of the physical modeling technique of acoustic instruments; it being an audio-digital synthesis system based on digital signa... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433745 | Digital mixing system with dual consoles and cascade engines A method is designed for controlling a total mixing system including a first mixing system and a second mixing system, which are operated in a linked manner. In the method, the first mixing system stores first scene data specifying contents of a mixing process match... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7381881 | Simulation of string vibration A method of simulating a string using a wave equation relates movement of the string in time to force acting on the string, wherein the force acting on the string simulates a stream of a fluid medium flowing relative to the string. The simulated string is supported ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7373210 | Effects and recording system An effects and recording system is provided which is capable of recording at least one of a received audio signal and a processed audio signal generated by the application of musical effects to the received audio signal. The audio signal may be captured from any dev... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7353167 | Translating a voice signal into an output representation of discrete tones A system and method for creating a ring tone for an electronic device takes as input a phrase sung in a human voice and transforms it into a control signal controlling, for example, a ringer on a cellular telephone. Time-varying features of the input signal are anal... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7321094 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument internally stores automatic performance data. The electronic musical instrument reads automatic performance data to perform an automatic performance, while incrementing melody tone pitch data contained in the automatic performance da... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319186 | Scrambling method of music sequence data for incompatible sound generator A data format of music sequence data represents a music piece and enables a compatible sound generating apparatus to reproduce the music piece at a first quality while allowing a non-compatible sound generating apparatus to reproduce the music piece at a second qual... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317958 | Apparatus and method of additive synthesis of digital audio signals using a recursive digital oscillator A method of performing additive synthesis of digital audio signals using a novel recursive digital oscillator includes the step of receiving digital audio signal frames wherein each digital audio signal frame includes a set of frequency, amplitude, and phase compone... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7309827 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument provides a player with an assisted performance to offer him/her the pleasure of performing on a musical instrument, and to help him/her in practicing the electronic musical instrument on which a tone pitch of a musical tone to be gen... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7309829 | Layered signal processing for individual and group output of multi-channel electronic musical instruments System and method for creating rich timbre performance, composition, and recording environments for an electronic musical instrument with multiple vibrating elements providing multi-channel output. The instrument produces at least one group instrument output signal ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7309828 | Hysteresis waveshaping This invention provides a signal processing and signal synthesis technique from a family of signal processing and signal synthesis techniques designed to readily interwork or be used individually in creating new forms of rich musical timbres. Synthetic hysteresis wa... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7271331 | Musical synthesizer with expressive portamento based on pitch wheel control The present invention is a musical synthesizer that can respond to a pitch wheel control by generating realistic slide-step-slide and slide-step portamento pitch curves. The musical synthesizer responds to a pitch wheel control in a context sensitive manner. When a ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7247787 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument is composed of a main body portion and parts such as an upper keyboard, a lower keyboard, and so on that are selected from among parts of a high-grade and low-grade in accordance with the model thereof and placed in the main body por... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7247784 | Musical sound generator, portable terminal, musical sound generating method, and storage medium There are provided a musical tone-generating apparatus which neither requires hardware having an increased circuit size nor imposes a heavy burden on a CPU thereof, and a mobile terminal apparatus including the musical tone-generating apparatus, as well as a musical... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7176373 | Interactive performance interface for electronic sound device An Interactive Performance Interface for use with an audio system uses at least one performance mode to provide access to control rate and audio rate signals activated by interaction rate signals synthesized by interactive control envelopes. Audio signals, control r... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7135635 | System and method for musical sonification of data parameters in a data stream One embodiment of a musical sonification system and method receives a data stream including different data parameters. The sonification system may apply different sonification processes to the different data parameters to produce a musical rendering of the data stre... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7135636 | Singing voice synthesizing apparatus, singing voice synthesizing method and program for singing voice synthesizing A method for synthesizing a natural-sounding singing voice divides performance data into a transition part and a long sound part. The transition part is represented by articulation (phonemic chain) data that is read from an articulation template database and is outp... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7091410 | Apparatus and computer program for providing arpeggio patterns Various arpeggio patterns are provided for an automatic arpeggio performance in an electronic musical apparatus, in which arpeggio notes are sounded in various timbres and appropriate arpeggio types are selected for the respective timbres. For each of a plurality of... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7065380 | Software partition of MIDI synthesizer for HOST/DSP (OMAP) architecture A system and method implements optimal task partitioning between a general purpose processor (GPP) and a digital signal processor (DSP) to replace a fixed function ASIC solution with an OMAP software solution to implement a 3G phone that uses OMAP and requires MIDI ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7030309 | Electronic musical apparatus and program for electronic music There is provided an electronic musical apparatus that is capable of providing listenable performance by using data reflecting the intention of the user among usable data, as well as a program for electronic music. A tone generator device is capable of sounding musi... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7026538 | Tone generation apparatus to which plug-in board is removably attachable and tone generation method therefor To a tone generation apparatus is removably attachable a plug-in board for generating a tone on the basis of performance information and extending the tone generating function of the tone generation apparatus. Tone color name information and tone color parameter nam... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6995307 | Self-playing musical device Apparatus and methods for a self-playing musical device configured to present a realistic music service as part of a musical wind instrument. The device may be fitted inside the sound pipe of a musical instrument to play music. If desired, the device is shaped and c... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6992245 | Singing voice synthesizing method A frequency spectrum is detected by analyzing a frequency of a voice waveform corresponding to a voice synthesis unit formed of a phoneme or a phonemic chain. Local peaks are detected on the frequency spectrum, and spectrum distribution regions including the local p... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6974901 | Kernal-mode audio processing modules Multiple kernel-mode audio processing modules or filters are combined to form a module or filter graph. The graph is implemented in kernel-mode, reducing latency and jitter when handling audio data (e.g., MIDI data) by avoiding transfers of the audio data to user-mo... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6969798 | Apparatus, method and computer program for imparting tone effects to musical tone signals A music performance data signal contains tone effect control messages to control the tone signal processor for imparting tone effects to the produced musical tones in a high-ranked model of tone producing apparatus in which many and complicated tone effects are avai... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6965069 | Programmable melody generator A digital system and method of operation is provided in which musical notes and melodies are synthesized. The operation done for music synthesis is based on time domain processing of prerecorded waveforms, referred to as analysis waveforms. The computations are done... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6953887 | Session apparatus, control method therefor, and program for implementing the control method There is provided a session apparatus that enables the user to freely start and enjoy a music session with another session apparatus without being restricted by a time the session should be started. A session apparatus is connected to at least one other session appa... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6924425 | Method and apparatus for storing a multipart audio performance with interactive playback A computer-readable medium stores a data structure that encodes an audio performance for interactive playback. The data structure includes a virtual instrument pool, which encodes an interactive part of the audio performance. Audio content of the interactive part is... | 08/02/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6915224 | Method for optimum spectrum analysis In a method of spectrum analysis, a sample signal, which is obtained by sampling an original signal at an original sampling rate within a sampling period, is transformed into a spectrum to be measured according to a frequency range scale. An optimum graduation inter... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6872877 | Musical tone-generating method A method of generating musical tones and a storage medium storing a program for executing the method are provided. Musical piece data is decomposed into phrases, the musical piece data being formed of pieces of performance data arranged in the order of performance. ... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6849794 | Multiple channel system A server stores audio and coordinated video digital files in a library, and upon requests supplies individual files to multiple dedicates processors under sole control of the server. Music files have separate vocal and specific instrument channels. The processor sup... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6849795 | Controllable frequency-reducing cross-product chain This invention provides a signal processing and signal synthesis technique from a family of signal processing and signal synthesis techniques designed to readily interwork or be used individually in creating new forms of rich musical timbres. A real-time controllabl... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6826435 | Tone data processing device and method Tone generator LSI generates a subframe start signal to be interruptively given to a microprogram, by which the microprogram is activated to issue an interrupt signal to a device driver. In response to the interrupt signal, the device driver prepares control data fo... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6816833 | Audio signal processor with pitch and effect control An audio processing apparatus is constructed for generating an auxiliary audio signal based on an original audio signal and mixing the auxiliary audio signal to the original audio signal. In the apparatus, a control section designates a pitch of the auxiliary audio ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6806413 | Oscillator providing waveform having dynamically continuously variable waveshape An oscillator for digital music synthesis that provides a smooth waveform that is rich in harmonic content and whose shape is continuously and dynamically variable over a wide range of harmonically rich shapes. The oscillator is efficient in that it generates the sh... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6770806 | Tone signal processing apparatus with intermittent clock supply A music apparatus is constructed for processing a music tone signal in response to a clock signal at each sampling period. In the music apparatus, a clock generator generates the clock signal. A signal processor is operable in synchronization to the clock signal for... | 08/03/2004 |
| RE38554 | Method of extending capability of music apparatus by networking A network system is constructed for operating a music apparatus having a function as an electronic musical instrument under control by a local terminal which is communicable with a host computer through a network. In the system, the host computer is installed with a... | 07/13/2004 |
