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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7402743 | Free-space human interface for interactive music, full-body musical instrument, and immersive media controller “Method and apparatus entraining interactive media players into a sustained experience of “Kinesthetic Spatial Sync,” defined as a perceived simultaneity and spatial superposition between a non-tactile, full body (“free-space”) input control process and im... | 07/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7253349 | Engineers piano with bisymmetrical manuals and accompanying musical notation system A 2 manual musical keyboard with the pitch progression on one of the manuals reversed. The keys on these manuals are segregated into 2 groups of 2 different heights in the same way as a standard musical keyboard. The key configurations on these manuals have 12 semi-... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7247785 | Electronic musical instrument and method of performing the same The electronic musical instrument comprises a plurality of slide-type faders (1), an interval setup device (5, 6), and a sound synthesis device (20). The slide-type faders are provided correspondingly to a plurality of tones included an interval... | 07/24/2007 |
| 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 |
| 6973152 | Exploiting shortest path for improved network clock distribution Apparatus and methods are provided for exploiting the existence of a shortest path between a source device and a destination device by identifying the shortest path and using the signal which has taken the shortest path in preference to delayed transmissions or dela... | 12/06/2005 |
| 5883327 | Keyboard system for an electric musical instrument in which each key is provided with an independent output to a processor A keyboard system for an electronic musical instrument includes: a keyboard having a number of keys; a keyboard central processing unit (CPU) coupled to the keyboard; a switch connected to each key on the keyboard; a pull-up resistor serially connected to... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5177311 | Musical tone control apparatus The musical tone control apparatus includes at least a sensor for detecting a movement of a player and a control circuit for controlling a tone element of a musical tone to be generated based on the detected movement of the player. The sensor may be equip... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5025703 | Electronic stringed instrument An electronic stringed instrument employs a plurality of sensors or monitors for instrument performance. Preferred sensors or monitors include a detector for detecting that a string of the instrument is vibrated, an apparatus for evaluating a string-vibra... | 06/25/1991 |
| 4961363 | Control unit for electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument can be provided with a control unit capable of arbitrarily shifting a tone pitch of a key within a keyboard from its reference tone pitch. This control unit includes a plurality of pitch-bend switches to which predetermine... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4716804 | Interactive music performance system An interactive music performance system employs a synthesizer, a programmable computer, and at least one performance device for permitting a user input. The computer is programmed with algorithms which automatically generate controls and interpret a perfo... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4662260 | Sound producing ball A sound producing device producing different notes when rotated. Three orthagonally mounted gravity switches produce signals corresponding to their orientation to a reference. A multiplexer or programmable counter coupled to the switches selects one outpu... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4635516 | Tone generating glove and associated switches A tone generating glove includes switches and a tone generating circuit. The switches are connected to the tone generating circuit, and both the switches and the tone generating circuit are mounted in the glove. The tone generating circuit produces a tone... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4498363 | Just intonation electronic keyboard instrument A just intonation electronic keyboard instrument comprises a plurality of tonality selection switches for selecting each key from among twenty-four just intonation keys, a control circuit for determining one or a plurality of just intonation keys accordin... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4481852 | Sound generating circuit for timepiece A sound generating circuit for a timepiece including a sound base signal generator, a program divider, a dividing ratio selecting counter a sound interval base signal generator and a sound producer, whereby the sounding action of frequencies which repeate... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4468997 | Fretboard to synthesizer interface apparatus Apparatus for detecting note selection on a guitar fretboard including a differential amplifier for detecting voltage drops across successive fret pairs, a multiplexer for connecting successive fret pairs to the differential amplifier, counters for mainta... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4438674 | Musical expression pedal An expression pedal assembly for a musical instrument with conventional electromechanical control means of the pedal being replaced by proximity control means. The pedal assembly is comprised of a casing which houses a proximity detector plate, a proximit... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4419917 | Power saving device for an electronic musical instrument A power saving device for an electronic musical instrument in which when the electronic musical instrument is idle, or no key operation by an operator takes place for a given period of time, a power source is automatically turned off to thereby prevent wa... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4307645 | Electronic apparatus for teaching and reading music An electronic apparatus for teaching and reading music comprises: a tone generator connected, via logic control gates, to a system for reproducing the sound; a keyboard for selecting the notes of the scale to be generated each key of which may be compared... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4294154 | Music tone generating system In a music tone generating system, of entry data keyed in by a plurality of entry keys related to the music tones, the entry data falling within the maximum digits which can be displayed by a display device are displayed by setting up one mode selected. W... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4287804 | Electronic musical instrument with timbre selection A timbre-select type electronic musical instrument in which the application of a sound effect unsuitable for the selected timbre is automatically blocked. This instrument includes means for detecting that a certain timbre is selected and means responsive ... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4250788 | Register arrangement for electronic musical instruments A register arrangement for electronic organs wherein the programs which are stored in data storages of distributor circuits on one insertable card can be transferred into the storages of distributor circuits on another insertable card. The one card can be... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4248123 | Electronic piano An electronic musical instrument using continuous tone generators capable of simulating the sounds of a conventional acoustical piano. The instrument includes a gating circuit featuring a timed switch travel circuit having a double-time constant for impro... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4246827 | Device for teaching music A device for teaching music comprising, in combination, a set of pegs or keys subdivided into seven groups corresponding to the seven musical notes, a set of cards obtained by a sheet material, each card containing a musical passage consisting of coded ho... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4228713 | Programmable current source for filter or oscillator In order to tune the frequency characteristics of a filter or oscillator as an exponential function of the position of a note on a musical scale, a pulse stream with an exponentially scaled duty cycle is used to gate an on-off switch which controls an ele... | 10/21/1980 |
| 4215618 | Apparatus for presetting musical tone effects in electronic musical instrument An arrangement for presetting musical tone effects in an electronic musical instrument in which a first system is provided with a plurality of tablet-shaped switches which are connected through respective memory elements in a memory circuit to respective ... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4214501 | Musical composer instrument and electronic player (electronic composer) This invention relates to electric or electronic musical instruments for the production of audible musical composition ranging from quite simple to very complex arrangements. More particularly this invention is a device for the creation and editing of a m... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4205578 | Electronic musical instrument signal generator An AC keying transient is simulated in a DC keyed electronic musical instrument by gating a pseudorandom frequency noise source output to the audio output circuit of the instrument during a brief time interval initiated by a legato pulse. The level of the... | 06/03/1980 |
| 4203338 | Trumpet and synthesizer apparatus capable of polyphonic operation There is disclosed a trumpet incorporating rotary potentiometers which are controlled by means of circular wheels coupled to the shaft of the potentiometers. By rotating the wheel, the musician can vary the resistance of the potentiometer to thereby contr... | 05/20/1980 |
| 4202239 | Tone generator keyer control system A limited number of top octave synthesizer tone generating circuits for producing various tones are used in an electronic organ. Each of the top octave synthesizer circuits is capable of producing any tone which can be produced by the organ. An assignment... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4195544 | Electronic musical instrument with external sound control function A musical sound controlling apparatus preferably incorporated into a music synthesizer type electronic music instrument and capable of generating a musical sound controlling signal in accordance with vocal signals or musical sound signals produced by musi... | 04/01/1980 |
| 4194425 | Key code generator In a key code generator which has key code generator circuits, each corresponding to one of a plurality of key switches and composed of a memory circuit for storing the status of the key switch with a master clock pulse, a circuit for detecting the status... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4186636 | Digital chord generation for electronic musical instruments An electrical musical instrument having a digital circuit which automatically generates selected chordally related tone signals in response to manual selection of a root note. A root encoder provides a binary code representative of the root note in respon... | 02/05/1980 |
| 4186642 | Programmable circuits for electronic musical instruments A time-shared electronic musical instrument is provided with programmable wave-form generating and tone coloring circuits in order to maintain the musical characteristics regardless of pitch. The circuits comprise programmable keyers and wave-shapers, pro... | 02/05/1980 |
| 4182211 | Information transmission system An information transmission system for N information signals for the transmission of either N parallel signals, or of only one information signal from a signal range of M signals with MࣘN at the upper or lower range boundary. N signal transmission gates... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4179968 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument comprises a circuits for generating two kinds of voltages of tone pitch voltages and control voltages both of which correspond to respective keys but are independent of each other. In the control voltage generating circuit... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4127048 | Pedal tone generator having means for automatically producing tone patterns based on tonic note A pedal tone generator for an electronic musical instrument, such as an electronic organ, having the capability of automatically producing bass rhythm patterns based on a tonic note, includes a memory for storing a plurality of rhythm patterns which has a... | 11/28/1978 |
| 4126071 | Apparatus for an automatic musical performance An arrangement for providing an automatic musical performance in which a digital signal indicating a root tone is obtained by depression of a key, and is added in sequential order with digital signals obtained from a memory circuit. The latter is driven b... | 11/21/1978 |
| 4106383 | Register arrangement for an electronic musical instrument A register arrangement is provided for an electronic musical instrument (such as an electronic organ) whereby the various functional units of the instrument are actuated by electronic selector switches each one of which in turn has a control conductor to ... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4085645 | Instantly retunable tone generator for an electronic musical instrument DC programmable counters with DC switching provide instant retuning of an entire keyboard of a programmable electronic musical instrument to any one of a plurality of different scales.... | 04/25/1978 |
