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"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
David Sarnoff, American radio pioneer ; 1921
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7304232 | Joystick gain control for dual independent audio signals A joystick control (20) mounted on the body (12) of an electric guitar (11) adjacent to the customarily picked section of the strings (16) provides convenient simultaneous independent gain control of two pickup signals. A pick may be held... | 12/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7199301 | Freely specifiable real-time control Systems, and related methods, for graphical visualization and real-time motion control of virtual or real objects for the purpose of generating or influencing image or tone sequences in real time by interactive control commands of a user. ... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7081579 | Method and system for music recommendation An artificial intelligence song/music recommendation system and method is provided that allows music shoppers to discover new music. The system and method accomplish these tasks by analyzing a database of music in order to identify key similarities between different... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6812394 | Method and device for determining rhythm units in a musical piece A method for determining rhythm units (beats per minute or BPM) in (digital) audio data forming a musical piece. The audio data is split among a plurality of determination paths wherein it is subdivided into predetermined frequency bands. The data is analyzed for tr... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6797873 | Music data performance system and method, and storage medium storing program realizing such method A musical data performance system comprises a first changing pattern generator that generates a first changing pattern by combining a plurality of note lengths and an effect giving device that gives an effect to a tone signal in accordance with the generated first c... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6472592 | Apparatus for and method of adding sound signal in system having limited number of sound generators In the sound signal adding apparatus in which there is a limitation on the number of reproducible sound sources, a remaining reproduction time determining section and a sound data attenuation controlling section are provided. The remaining reproduction ti... | 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 |
| 6433267 | Method for automatically creating dance patterns using audio signals A method for automatically creating dance patterns using an audio signal of music, comprising: extracting power feature of an audio signal of each processing window by covering the audio signal with the processing window for analyzing the audio signal at ... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6362413 | Automatic accompaniment apparatus displaying the number of bars in an insert pattern An apparatus has an insert pattern play instruction unit (54) for selecting a desired insert pattern and instructing to play the selected pattern, and a bar count display unit (57) for displaying the number of bars of the selected insert pattern upon play... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6297439 | System and method for automatic music generation using a neural network architecture A system and method are disclosed for automatically generating music on the basis of an initial sequence of input notes, and in particular to such a system and method utilizing a recursive artificial neural network (RANN) architecture. The aforementioned ... | 10/02/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6177626 | Apparatus for selecting music belonging to multi-genres A music apparatus is constructed for selecting style data of a music piece by designating a style name of the music piece among a plurality of music pieces, which are sorted by genres. In the music apparatus, a style selection table is provided for record... | 01/23/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6011212 | Real-time music creation A system, and related method, for creating music in real time includes an input device and a real-time music generator. The input device is used by a user to provide rhythm-related signals and pitch-related signals to the real-time music generator. The re... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5736665 | Holonic rhythm generator for generating a rhythmic vibration state described by a nonlinear vibration equation To present a holonic rhythm generator capable of generating rhythm following free changes by transmitting the intent of tempo change from the action of man to rhythm generator in real time, or, to the contrary, guiding the action rhythm of man gradually b... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5502275 | Automatic accompaniment apparatus implementing smooth transition to fill-in performance When a switching operation from a normal pattern to a special pattern is instructed while an automatic accompaniment operation is being executed using normal pattern data, the pattern to be read out is switched from the normal pattern to the special patte... | 03/26/1996 |
