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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8445769 | Performance apparatus and electronic musical instrument A performance apparatus 11 extends in its longitudinal direction to be held by a player with his or her hand, and is provided with an acceleration sensor 23 for detecting an acceleration sensor value and an angular rate sensor 22 for detecting a... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8309837 | Tone generation control apparatus A tone generation apparatus detects a position of a mouthpiece section having been pressed by a human player holding the mouthpiece section in his or her mouth. The tone generation apparatus identifies a tone pitch on the basis of the detected position and human pla... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8278546 | Mobile terminal having jog dial and controlling method thereof A mobile terminal having a disc-like interface and a controlling method thereof allows various functions to be controlled and pre-stored sound effects are outputted when performing music playback music such that an improved user interface and more intuitive control ... | 10/02/2012 |
| 8148624 | Acoustic guitar control unit A control unit for a musical instrument having a keypad and/or touch pad areas for controlling a signal processing unit. The control unit is preferably formed in a thin and elastic layered structure whereby touching electrode surfaces of the structure generates a ch... | 04/03/2012 |
| 7799986 | Stringed instrument for connection to a computer to implement DSP modeling Disclosed is a stringed instrument that includes a plurality of strings and a pickup to which each of the plurality of strings is respectively coupled that is connectable to a computer to implement DSP modeling. A serial interface circuit is coupled to the pickup an... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7786374 | Pianoforte instrument exhibiting an additional delivery of energy into the sound board, and method for influencing the sound of a pianoforte instrument Disclosed is a pianoforte instrument comprising a musical mechanism with keys. Also provided are strings which are struck via a mechanism when the keys are actuated and are made to vibrate. The vibrations of the strings are transmitted to a sound board. A device is ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7572972 | System and method for simulation of acoustic feedback The invention describes an apparatus for software or hardware emulation of acoustic feedback effects. The invention comprises an analog to digital interface (200) for the input, whose output is summed (202) with a feedback of this digital signal passin... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7521628 | Electrical musical instrument with user interface and status display A string musical instrument, such as an electric guitar, comprises a plurality of sound pickups and a user interface which allows the user rapid access to various configurations of pickup settings and connections. An embodiment of the musical instrument has a user i... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7501571 | Lighting display responsive to vibration A lighting display master controller responds to an electronic vibration signal produced by a sensor when an instrument is played, to selectively energize light sources of different colors in a predefined pattern. The master controller energizes specific light sourc... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7482531 | Integrated digital control for stringed musical instrument Embodiments of the present invention provide an integrated digital control apparatus (10) for a stringed musical instrument. In some embodiments, the apparatus (10) generally includes an input (26) coupled with at least a portion of the musical ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7435895 | Automatic playing system used for musical instruments and computer program used therein for self-teaching An automatic playing system is independent of acoustic pianos, and is designed to perform music tunes expressed by sets of MIDI music data codes on the acoustic pianos; since the acoustic pianos have their own individualities, control parameter table, which were pre... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7427711 | Particle based touch interaction for the creation of media streams Methods and apparatus for manipulating physical objects to produce sounds that are correlated with the feel of the objects being manipulated. Example devices called the PebbleBox, CrumbleBag and ScrubberGlove each use the manipulation of physical objects of arbitrar... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426417 | Method and apparatus for efficiently accounting for the temporal nature of audio processing Some embodiments of the invention provide a computer system for processing an audio track. This system includes at least one DSP for processing the audio track. It also includes an application for editing the audio track. To process audio data in a first interval of... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7381885 | Electronic percussion instrument and percussion tone control program An electronic percussion instrument which is capable of accurately discriminating roll performance to thereby electronically produce percussion tones closer to tones produced by a natural percussion instrument. A waveform memory 6 stores waveform data of perc... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7381884 | Sound generating hand wear A glove includes a body that is positional about a user's hand. Speakers are embedded within the body and are coupled to the amp. Mechanisms are included for sensing external forces on each finger and for generating control signals when the external forces are detec... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7378589 | Portable rhythm sensible tool A sound determination unit previously divides sound into a low sound range for first sound, a middle sound range for second sound, and a high sound range for third sound by its frequency band. When sound information detected by the microphone is inputted to the soun... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7361827 | Transducer free from aged deterioration, musical instrument using the same and method used therein An electronic system, which serves as a recorder and an automatic player, is installed in an automatic player piano, and hammer sensors, which are implemented by photo couplers, report current hammer positions through analog signals to a data processor so that the d... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356151 | Microphone system A system remotely controls a microphone through a remote control unit. The remote control unit includes a frequency modulator that modulates a control signal. A cable conductor that is used to provide phantom power also conveys a frequency-modulated control signal. ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7339107 | Method of and system for controlling audio effects An audio effects control for and method of controlling the application of special audio effects applied to an audio signal, comprises a sensor configured to sense movement associated with the generation of the audio signal, wherein the sensor produces a control sign... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339106 | Electric stringed musical instrument equipped with single vibration sensor provided inside of body An electric contrabass has a bridge structure on a body in which an inner space is defined, and the body is further formed with a slit under the bridge structure so that the lid of the body vibrates like a cantilever; a vibration sensor is provided inside the body, ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7332662 | Stringed musical instrument and method The stringed musical instrument may be a guitar including a guitar body optionally defining a soundboard, an elongated neck extending from the guitar body and having a distal end, a headstock disposed at the distal end of the neck, and a plurality of strings each se... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7323632 | Percussion transducer A ring-shaped percussion transducer for converting a striking impact into a representative electrical pulse triggering signal is suitable for mounting on the center axis of a percussion instrument. In a preferred embodiment, the transducer is formed of a piezo elect... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319187 | Tone generation control program and electronic keyboard instrument using the tone generation control program There is provided a procedure for generating tone-generation controlling key-on and key-off signals, which is applicable to either a first-type key operation detection device that, in response to depressing operation of a key, generates detection signals in correspo... | 01/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7297863 | Electro-acoustically amplified drum mixer An electro-acoustically amplified drum mixer or sound level adjuster for amplifying a hollow drum shell having at least one open end, a drumhead spaced from the open end of the said drum shell and supported thereon. One or more microphones are supported on, and posi... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7294777 | Electronic tone generation system and batons therefor An electronic tone generation system including a plurality of separate, portable, handheld transmitters, or batons, that are provided as “instruments” to one or more players. Each baton can be activated to send a signal, preferably a wireless signal, to a single... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7285715 | Velocity estimator for manipulators and musical instrument using the same An automatic player piano is a combination between an acoustic piano and an electronic system serving as a recorder and an automatic player; while a user is fingering a piece of music on the acoustic piano, the player strongly depresses some keys and softly depresse... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7279631 | Stringed instrument with embedded DSP modeling for modeling acoustic stringed instruments Disclosed is a stringed instrument with embedded DSP modeling capabilities to model an acoustic stringed instrument. The stringed instrument has a body and a plurality of strings and each of the plurality of strings is respectively coupled to a pickup to detect a vi... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7262359 | Digital recording device for electric guitars and the like A digital recording device includes a housing that is engageable with a lower curvature of a guitar's frame. The housing includes an arcuate inner surface, an arcuate outer surface coextensively shaped with the inner surface, and a padded member conjoined to the ext... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7241948 | Stringed musical instrument device A stringed musical instrument device that functions as a peripheral for a computer or computing device, whereby electronic transducers placed inside and/or outside the instrument convert the vibrations of the strings and/or the instrument body from an analog electri... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7183480 | Apparatus and method for detecting performer's motion to interactively control performance of music or the like Performance interface system includes a motion detector provided for movement with a performer, and a control system for receiving detection data transmitted from the motion detector and controlling a performance of a tone in response to the received detection data.... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7169998 | Sound generation device and sound generation program A sound generation device is composed of a main unit and a game cartridge storing a sound generation program. The game cartridge includes an XY-axes acceleration sensor for detecting a tilt in two respective directions of a game device housing. When a button of the ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7166795 | Method and apparatus for simulating a mechanical keyboard action in an electronic keyboard An electronic keyboard simulates the keyboard action of one or more acoustic pianos and/or organs. Sensors associated with each key capture the force exerted on the key, the speed of the key and the position of the key to compute an amount of force to apply in feedb... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7138574 | Drumhead tightening and tuning apparatus An apparatus for tightening a drumhead having a rim and a skin set on a drum body portion. The apparatus utilizes an annular member having a track. A fastener is also employed for holding the annular member relative to the drum body. A retainer is provided and inclu... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7138576 | Sound system and method for creating a sound event based on a modeled sound field A sound system and method for modeling a sound field generated by a sound source and creating a sound event based on the modeled sound field is disclosed. The system and method captures a sound field over an enclosing surface, models the sound field and enables repr... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7135637 | Apparatus and method for detecting performer's motion to interactively control performance of music or the like Performance interface system includes a motion detector provided for movement with a performer, and a control system for receiving detection data transmitted from the motion detector and controlling a performance of a tone in response to the received detection data.... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7112738 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument which can realize a choking effect by a simple operation. The electronic musical instrument is constructed such that a neck provided with a fingerboard is fixed to a body. A plurality of (twelve) fret operating elements are provided ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7112739 | Electronic percussion instrument An electronic percussion instrument modifies the effect applied to note generated in response to a strike based on the intensity of the strike. A plurality of patches are stored in the waveform memory. Each patch includes settings for the effects applied to each pad... | 09/26/2006 |
