Patent application number | Description | Published |
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20100090702 | IN SITU BATTERY TESTER - A battery tester is described that can measure the life of a battery without requiring direct access to or removal of the battery from the musical instrument or effects box in which the battery is installed. | 04-15-2010 |
20110088536 | FOOT-OPERATED CONTROLLER - Highly expressive and flexibly programmable foot-operated controllers are described. Specific implementations are intended for musical applications and allow musicians an unprecedented degree of control of a wide variety of musical components and subsystems for recording and/or performance. | 04-21-2011 |
20110303075 | COMPUTER INTERFACE FOR POLYPHONIC STRINGED INSTRUMENTS - An interface device is described that allows the audio signals from a polyphonic stringed instrument to be introduced into a personal computer environment for feature extraction and signal processing. | 12-15-2011 |
20130239787 | MULTI-TOUCH PAD CONTROLLER - A highly configurable controller is described that includes a number of different types of control mechanisms that emulate a wide variety of conventional control mechanisms using pressure and location sensitive sensors that generate high-density control information which may be mapped to the controls of a wide variety of devices and software. | 09-19-2013 |
20140096668 | PICKUP AND SUSTAINER FOR STRINGED INSTRUMENTS - A bridge pickup for stringed musical instruments is described that incorporates piezoelectric pickups and an integrated magnetic sustain system. | 04-10-2014 |
20140222243 | FOOT-OPERATED CONTROLLER - Highly expressive and flexibly programmable foot-operated controllers are described. Specific implementations are intended for musical applications and allow musicians an unprecedented degree of control of a wide variety of musical components and subsystems for recording and/or performance. | 08-07-2014 |