Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130047823 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT THAT GENERATES ELECTRONIC SOUND, LIGHT-EMISSION CONTROLLER USED IN THIS MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, AND CONTROL METHOD OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A musical instrument ( | 02-28-2013 |
20130228062 | MUSICAL PERFORMANCE DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MUSICAL PERFORMANCE DEVICE AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An object of the present invention is to provide a musical performance device by which layout information, such as information regarding the arrangement of a virtual musical instrument set, can be quickly and easily changed during musical performance and whereby the variety of musical performance can be increased. In the present invention, a CPU identifies a musical tone associated with a virtual pad in an area where the position coordinates of a marker section are located in an image captured by a camera unit section at a shot timing by a drumstick section, and emits the identified musical tone. When the position coordinates of the marker section in an image captured at a shot timing are within the area of a control pad on a virtual plane, the CPU switches processing target set layout information to other set layout information among a plurality of set layout information. | 09-05-2013 |
20130239780 | MUSICAL PERFORMANCE DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MUSICAL PERFORMANCE DEVICE AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An object of the present invention is to provide a musical performance device by which the arrangement of a virtual musical instrument set is suitably changed based on the position of the instrument player, and whereby the instrument player need not play in an uncomfortable position. In the present invention, set layout information includes standard set layout information that serves as reference for the arrangement of a plurality of virtual pads, and a CPU judges whether an operation to form a square has been performed with a pair of drumstick sections. When judged that this operation has been performed, the CPU uniformly adjusts the arrangement of the virtual pads based on preset position coordinates on a captured image plane corresponding to the standard set layout information and the position coordinates of the drumstick sections on the captured image plane at the time of the operation to form a square. | 09-19-2013 |
20130239783 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, METHOD OF CONTROLLING MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM | 09-19-2013 |
20130239784 | PERFORMANCE APPARATUS, A METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE PERFORMANCE APPARATUS AND A PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - A performance apparatus prevents a player's unintentional motion from being detected as a playing, thereby generating no sound, when the player plays a virtual musical instrument. The performance apparatus has a player operated stick, a ROM for storing layout information, which correlates plural areas set on a pickup-image plane to tone colors, respectively, an image sensor for continuously taking pickup images of a subject including the stick, and a CPU | 09-19-2013 |
20130239785 | MUSICAL PERFORMANCE DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MUSICAL PERFORMANCE DEVICE AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An object of the present invention is to provide a musical performance device capable of changing layout information, such as information regarding the arrangement of a virtual musical instrument set, by an intuitive operation. In the present invention, when position coordinates detected at a shot timing are within one of the areas of a plurality of virtual pads, a CPU designates a virtual pad in this area as a target of positional change. Then, the CPU determines a position where the virtual pad designated as a target of positional change is placed by this positional change, based on position coordinates detected at shot timings, and changes the position of the virtual pad designated as a target of positional change to the determined position. | 09-19-2013 |
20130239789 | SOUND-GENERATION CONTROLLING APPARATUS, A METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SOUND-GENERATION CONTROLLING APPARATUS, AND A PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic drum set is provided, which allows a user to give a performance, feeling as if the user is playing acoustic drums. The electronic drum set DS is provided with a foot board, a potentiometer, and CPU. The foot board is pressed down by the user. When the user presses the foot board down, the potentiometer mounted on the foot board obtains an angular rate and angular acceleration of the foot board. CPU determines based on the obtained angular acceleration, a timing, at which an instruction of generating a musical tone is given. Further, CPU controls based on the obtained angular rate, a generating state of a musical tone, the generation of which is instructed. | 09-19-2013 |
20130255476 | PLAYING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - A sensor obtains an angular rate of a stick member. A sound source map includes plural areas disposed in a virtual space. CPU presumes a direction of a turning axis of the stick member based on the angular rate obtained by the sensor, while a user is operating the stick member, calculates an angular rate of a top of the stick member based on the angular rate obtained by the sensor with the angular rate in the longitudinal direction of the stick member removed, calculates a position of the holding member in the virtual space after a predetermined time, based on the recent direction of the turning axis of the stick member and recent angular rate of the top of the stick member, and sends a sound generating unit a note-on event of a musical tone assigned to an area corresponding to the calculated position among the plural areas. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262021 | ORIENTATION DETECTION DEVICE, ORIENTATION DETECTION METHOD AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - In the preset invention, in an initial stationary state of a drumstick section, a CPU stores acceleration that occurs due to gravity and is obtained by an acceleration sensor in a RAM, obtains, at every predetermined timing, acceleration that occurs due to a motion provided to the drumstick section and is obtained by the acceleration sensor at a predetermined timing, accumulates the accelerations each obtained at the predetermined timing for each predetermined interval, and conforms the accelerations obtained by accumulation to the acceleration stored in the RAM. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262024 | ORIENTATION DETECTION DEVICE, ORIENTATION DETECTION METHOD AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - In the preset invention, in an initial stationary state of a drumstick section, a CPU stores each axis component of geomagnetism obtained by a magnetic sensor in a RAM, and obtains each axis component of geomagnetism obtained by the magnetic sensor which is changed by a motion provided to the drumstick section at every predetermined timing. Then, the CPU accumulates each axis component of geomagnetism obtained at every predetermined timing, for each predetermined interval, and conforms each axis component of geomagnetism accumulated thereby to each axis component of geomagnetism stored in the RAM. | 10-03-2013 |