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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 5389730 | Emphasize system for electronic musical instrument An emphasize system for an electronic musical instrument including filter and control device. The filter extract and output predetermined frequency range component of an input musical tone signal. The control device control the level of an output from the... | 02/14/1995 |
| 4676134 | Electronic string instrument with bend detector An electronic musical instrument of the stringed type wherein bending of a string results in a change in a parameter of the sound produced. At the bridge of the instrument, each string is connected with a leaf spring which is moved towards the nut end of ... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4282787 | Electronic musical instrument simultaneously operable in monophonic and polyphonic modes An electronic musical instrument having combined monophonic and polyphonic sound producing capabilities includes a keyboard simultaneously operating a monophonic tone signal generating circuit and a polyphonic tone signal generating circuit. The tone sign... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4238985 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument of a type capable of producing a musical tone corresponding to the tone pitch of a depressed key by controlling oscillation frequency of a voltage-controlled type oscillator by a pitch voltage corresponding to the tone pit... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4233875 | Electronic musical instrument with automatic trill performance function An electronic musical instrument comprises a keyboard circuit providing a pitch determining voltage signal whose magnitude corresponds to the note of a key depressed, a rectangular wave generation circuit generating a rectangular wave voltage signal, and ... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4085647 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument capable of controlling tone pitch, tone color, volume etc. of a musical tone by a sliding operation to conduct such on effect as portamento. The instrument according to the invention can produce a control signal proportion... | 04/25/1978 |
| 4056996 | Electronic music system A monophonic system includes means for voicing only tones derived in response to depression of a key associated with the highest pitched note when several keys are struck at approximately the same time, regardless of the order in which the keys are struck... | 11/08/1977 |
| 3986426 | Music synthesizer A music synthesizer produces pitch-proportional voltages in a novel resistor network, uses these voltage via keyboard control to generate in a voltage-controlled oscillator a high frequency signal, being a multiple of all the harmonic frequencies desired,... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3978754 | Voltage controlled type electronic musical instrument This invention provides an electronic musical instrument comprising a keyboard circuit for producing a pitch determining voltage signal representing the note of an operated key, a voltage controlled oscillator for producing a tone signal having a tone pit... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3952624 | Electronic musical instrument capable of generating tone signals having pitch frequency, tone color and volume envelope varied with time An electronic musical instrument comprising a voltage controlled oscillator, a voltage controlled filter, a voltage controlled amplifier and envelope generators. An output envelope of the envelope generator has various parameters such as rise time and dec... | 04/27/1976 |
