| YAMAHA CORPORATION Patent applications |
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| 20160133243 | MUSICAL PERFORMANCE SYSTEM, MUSICAL PERFORMANCE METHOD AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCE PROGRAM - The present invention allows a user to visually identify musical performance data to be reproduced. The user utilizes a musical performance device ( | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160125861 | PERFORMANCE RECORDING APPARATUS - A performance recording apparatus includes: a performance information acquiring unit which is configured to acquire performance information indicating a performance performed by a performer; a musical score information acquiring unit which is configured to acquire musical score information indicating a musical score that is used in the performance; and a producing unit which is configured to produce a performance file containing the performance information and the musical score information. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160035331 | INSTALLATION STRUCTURE FOR ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - An installation structure for an acoustic transducer for vibrating a vibrated body of a musical instrument in a first direction for permitting the vibrated body to generate sounds, including: the acoustic transducer having a main body and a vibrating portion that vibrates in the first direction; a support portion to be fixed to a housing of the musical instrument for supporting the main body; and a cover member fixed to the support portion for covering the acoustic transducer, wherein the support portion includes a base plate portion to be held in surface contact with the housing so as to be fixed thereto, a first fixing portion to which the main body is fixed and which supports the main body, and a second fixing portion to which the cover member is fixed, and wherein the first and second fixing portions are connected to the base plate portion independently of each other. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20150319550 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, SOUND APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A sound apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires multichannel audio data; a transmission unit that transmits the multichannel audio data to a conversion apparatus via a communication network; a reception unit that receives from the conversion apparatus, two-channel audio data generated by converting the multichannel audio data into a virtual sound source by the conversion apparatus; and an audio reproduction unit that drives two loudspeakers according to the two-channel audio data. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150237441 | Acoustic Processing Device - The present invention provides an acoustic processing device capable of providing a high-quality sound even in a standby through mode. A controller is characterized by supplying power from an auxiliary power supply to a sound signal processing unit in the standby through mode. In the standby through mode, the controller extracts a sound signal included in an input HDMI signal, outputs a high-frequency sound component from an input/output unit to, for example, a television, and outputs a low-frequency sound component from a sound output terminal to a speaker (for example, a subwoofer) with an amplification function. As a result, the user can listen to content with powerful bass on the television, without operating an amplifying circuit, which consumes most of the power consumed by the acoustic processing device, using a main power supply, that is, while suppressing the power consumption of the acoustic processing device. | 08-20-2015 |
| 20150212248 | Light Guide Body, Relay Apparatus, and Speaker Apparatus - In the vicinity of the outgoing-side end portion | 07-30-2015 |
| 20150154979 | AUTOMATED PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGY USING AUDIO WAVEFORM DATA - In order to play waveform data back at a variable performance tempo by using waveform data which complies with a desired reference tempo, the present invention performs a timeline-expansion/contraction control on the waveform data to be played back, according to the relationship between the performance tempo and the reference tempo. The present invention also determines whether to limit the playback of the waveform data according to the relationship between the performance tempo and the reference tempo. In the case that playback is to be limited, the present invention stops playback of the waveform data, or reduces the resolution of playback processing and continues playback of the waveform data. The present invention stops playback of the waveform data when, for example, the relationship between the performance tempo and the reference tempo is a relationship in which the waveform data would be played back at a performance tempo which would cause a processing delay or a deterioration of sound quality. As a result, it is possible to preemptively prevent a system freeze and solve problems such as the generation of music which has a slower tempo than the desired performance tempo, or the generation of music which includes the intermittent cutting out of sound due to noise, or a significant reduction to sound quality. | 06-04-2015 |
| 20150144420 | ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT - A distal end of an inserted pole makes contact with a bottom surface or tapering surface of a portion corresponding to a bottom of an insertion hole. A lever rotates about a pivot shaft, and a pressing surface facing from a recessed portion formed in the insertion hole presses a side surface portion of the pole. The pole pressed by the pressing surface is mainly received by ridge portions, particularly the ridge portions positioned on the opposite side with a central axis therebetween in relation to the pressing surface. The ridge portions are positioned on both sides of the pole with the cross section along the line A-A therebetween as viewed in the axial direction. As the lever is rotatably operated in the tightening direction, the pressing position gradually approaches the central axis, thereby increasing the pressing force. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150092945 | Audio Data Processing Device and Audio Data Processing Method - An audio data processing device includes a mixing unit that mixes first audio data and second audio data to generate mixed audio data, a first output unit that outputs, to a first speaker, audio data not having undergone the mixing, a second output unit that outputs, to a second speaker, the mixed audio data generated by the mixing unit, a processor which is provided between a point of branching to the mixing unit and the first output unit or between the mixing unit and the second output unit and adds an acoustic effect, and a delay unit which is provided between the branching point and the first output unit or between the mixing unit and the second output unit and delays the audio data so that a relationship of timing between input, to the first speaker, of the audio data output from the first output unit and input, to the second speaker, of the audio data output from the second output unit coincides with a relationship of timing of input between the first audio data and the second audio data. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150036464 | MODULATION APPARATUS, DEMODULATION APPARATUS, AUDIO TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND DEMODULATION METHOD - A problem is to increase possibility of extracting data from sound in a system which transmits data using the sound as a transmission medium. Frames are transmitted while shifting the transmission timing among a plurality of frequency bands, whereby tolerance for multipath fading, noise mixing, or the like is obtained and improvement of a substantial transmission rate can be expected compared to a case where one frame is transmitted using only one frequency band. When selecting blocks forming a frame, since a block is selected under a condition that a time period necessary for collecting sound, on which the blocks to be selected are superimposed, becomes shorter, even if a phenomenon, in which a substantial rate of data transmission decreases, occurs, it becomes possible to suppress a decrease in rate. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20140354352 | SELF-OSCILLATING CLASS-D AMPLIFIER AND SELF-OSCILLATING FREQUENCY CONTROL METHOD FOR SELF-OSCILLATING CLASS-D AMPLIFIER - A self-oscillation frequency varying element for varying the self-oscillation frequency of a self-oscillation loop of a self-oscillating class-D amplifier is placed in the self-oscillation loop. Frequency comparison, cycle comparison, or phase comparison is performed between a self-oscillation signal of the self-oscillating class-D amplifier or a signal corresponding to the self-oscillation signal and a reference frequency signal having a prescribed reference frequency. Alternatively, information corresponding to a frequency or a cycle of a self-oscillation signal of the self-oscillating class-D amplifier or a signal corresponding to the self-oscillation signal is compared with information corresponding to a prescribed reference frequency or reference cycle. The self-oscillation frequency varying element is controlled in accordance with a result of the comparison, whereby the frequency of the self-oscillation signal or the signal corresponding to the self-oscillation signal is caused to follow the frequency of the reference frequency signal. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140350706 | Sound Generator Device and Sound Generation Method - A sound generator device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire biological information on a subject user, an estimation unit configured to estimate, based on the biological information, a mind and body state relating to sleep of the subject user. The sound generator also includes a sound generator configured to output a sound signal based on a plurality of control patterns stored in advance and a sound generator control unit configured to select, based on the estimated mind and body state, at least one control pattern among the plurality of control patterns. The sound generator outputs the sound signal based on the at least one control pattern. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140347393 | SERVER APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A server apparatus includes a processor, configured to acquire object specifying information for specifying an object in a reality space captured by a first portable terminal, to acquire condition information including an external condition of the first portable terminal, and to acquire content information associated with the object specifying information and the condition information by referring to a database. The database stores, in association with one another, content information representing a content displayed by being superimposed on an object in a reality space captured by a second portable terminal, object information for identifying the object captured by the second portable terminal, and condition information representing a condition for displaying, in the first portable terminal, the content represented by the content information. The processor of the server apparatus is also configured to transmit the content information to the first portable terminal. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140345437 | Automatic Player Musical Instrument, Automatic Playing System Incorporated Therein and Overheat Protector for Automatic Playing System - An automatic player piano is equipped with solenoid-operated actuators for moving keys in automatic performance without fingering of a human player, and an overheat protector is provided for the solenoid-operated actuators so as to prevent the solenoid-operated actuators from overheat; the overheat protector includes not only a temperature sensor and a rescuer but also an information processor, and a computer program runs on the information processor so as to realize a temperature rise estimator for estimating a solenoid temperature on the basis of the amount of current flowing through the solenoid and an environmental temperature determined through the temperature sensor estimator and an overheat detector so as to find an overheated solenoid, thereby making the rescuer interrupt the current for preventing the solenoid-operated actuator from the overheat. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140344512 | Data Processing Apparatus and Memory Apparatus - A data processing apparatus includes bus masters and a memory controller. Each bus master includes a data buffer, and issues a memory command to specify access to the memory and generates first priority information depending on a free space of the data buffer, wherein the first priority information is associated with the memory command and indicates a priority of the memory command. The memory controller determines a processing order of memory commands which are issued by the plurality of bus masters based on the first priority information corresponding to the memory commands, and executes the respective memory commands transferred from the plurality of bus masters in the processing order determined by the processing order determining unit. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140331793 | STRAIN SENSOR - A strain sensor provided with a substrate that has flexibility; a carbon nanotube (CNT) film that is provided on the surface of the substrate and that has a plurality of CNT fibers oriented in one direction; and a pair of electrodes that are arranged at both ends in the orientation direction of the CNT fibers in the CNT film; in which the CNT film has a plurality of CNT fiber bundles that consist of the plurality of CNT fibers, and a resin layer that covers the peripheral surface of the plurality of the CNT fiber bundles and joins with the surface of the substrate. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140305286 | KEYBOARD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING HALF PERFORMANCE OF PEDAL OR KEY DAMPER ON KEYBOARD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - One half region or point is determined based on a plurality of half pedal regions or points, in a stroke of a pedal, specific to the individual dampers corresponding to keys. When a pedal reproduction event instructs a half region or point, a target trajectory of the stroke of the pedal is generated such that the pedal is positioned at the half region or point specific to the key, and the pedal is driven on the basis of the target trajectory. For each key, a key-damper half region or point in a stroke of the key is identified in advance. In response to a key reproduction event instructing half control, a target trajectory of the stroke of the key is generated such that the key is positioned at the key-damper half region or point specific to the key, and the key is driven based on the target trajectory. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140305285 | KEYBOARD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, AND METHOD FOR RECORDING HALF PERFORMANCE OF PEDAL OR KEY DAMPER ON KEYBOARD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - Dampers provided in corresponding relation to a plurality of keys are each controlled in response to both an operation of a pedal and an operation of the corresponding key. One half region or half point is determined based on a plurality of half pedal regions or half pedal points, in a stroke of the pedal, specific to the individual dampers. Performance data instructing a pedal operation is generated and recorded on the basis of a stroke position detected in response to a pedal operation and the determined one half region or half point. For each of the keys, a key-damper half region or key-damper half point in a stroke of the key is identified in advance. Performance data instructing key operations is generated and recorded on the basis of the key-damper half regions or key-damper half points specific to the keys and stroke positions detected in response to key operations. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140305277 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING KEY-DAMPER HALF REGION OF KEYBOARD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - For each key and without damping action of dampers deactivated by a damper pedal, loads imposed on a portion of the key acting on the damper are measured while the key is moved over one stroke in at least one of key-depressing and key-releasing directions, in association with a plurality of stroke positions in the one stroke of the key. For each key, a key-damper half region is identified on the basis of relationship between the individual stroke positions and the measured loads corresponding to the stroke positions. Then, on the basis of the key-damper half regions identified for the individual keys, a half point is determined separately for each of the keys, or a half point common to a group of a plurality of the keys is determined. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140305276 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING HALF PEDAL REGION IN KEYBOARD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - Each of Dampers provided for each of keys is controlled in response to both an operation of a damper pedal and an operation of the corresponding key. For each of the dampers and over one stroke of the pedal in at least one of depressing releasing directions of the pedal, load information indicative of loads imposed on a portion linked to the damper is acquired in association with individual stroke positions of the pedal. Then, for each of the dampers, a half pedal region is identified on the basis of relationship between the stroke positions and the loads corresponding to the stroke positions. The portion linked to the damper may be any suitable portion related to a damper lever moving in an up-down direction in interlocked relation to both of vertical movement of a lifting rail responsive to an operation of the pedal and an operation of the key. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140298976 | ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - An electronic keyboard musical instrument, including: a housing having a lower casing having a bottom wall and an upper casing having a top wall, left and right walls being formed on at least one of the top wall and the bottom wall; a keyboard portion held by the housing; at least one speaker disposed at at least one end portion of the housing in its key arrangement direction, such that its sound emission surface faces rearward; a sound adjuster disposed in the housing so as to be located outward of the speaker in the left-right direction; and a plurality of protruding portions formed at the one end portion so as to protrude from the at least one of the top and bottom walls, wherein the sound adjuster is held by at least one of the protruding portions. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140298974 | Timbre Selector, Musical Instrument, and Timbre Selecting Method - A timbre selector includes a first signal processing unit, a second signal processing unit and a first switch. The first signal processing unit includes a first input terminal, a first filter and a first output terminal. The first input terminal receives a first tone signal. The first filter processes the first tone signal to generate a first processed signal. The second signal processing unit includes a second input terminal, a second filter and a second output terminal. The second input terminal receives a second tone signal. The second filter processes the second tone signal to generate a second processed signal. The first switch is connected to the first output terminal at the first position. The first switch is connected to the first and second output terminals at the second position. The first switch is connected to the second output terminal at the third position. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140298942 | MANIPULATOR DEVICE - A child unit ( | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140286506 | DIGITAL AUDIO MIXING DEVICE - A mixer includes a plurality of input channels, a plurality of input groups, and a plurality of group strips that adjust values of parameters of the input groups. The mixer preliminarily prepares a plurality of group presets having data required for setup of group modules as presets, and each group preset has attribute information including musical genre, number of input channels, and instrument kind. By selecting a musical genre, a user can change the group presets which are being applied at present to the plurality of input groups to other group presets corresponding to another musical genre while keeping the number of input channels and the instrument kinds which are being used at present between before and after the change of genre. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140285415 | CONTROL SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE AND AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE - A control signal for controlling a light emitting element is generated according to a set value of an amount of light emission. In this event, each of a current value and a duty ratio of the control signal changes according to the set value of the amount of light emission. Further, it is preferable that each of the current value and the duty ratio changes according to the set value when the set value of the amount of light emission is less than a predetermined threshold value, and the current value changes according to the set value whereas the duty ratio is constant when the set value of the amount of light emission is greater than the predetermined threshold value. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140285246 | PLL CIRCUIT - A PLL circuit that operates in synchronization with an operating clock and generates and outputs a generated clock in synchronization with an external clock, including a multi-phase clock generating unit that generates multi-phase clocks including n clocks which have a same frequency and differ in phase one another, one of the clocks in the multi-phase clock being the operating clock, a frequency signal generating unit that outputs a frequency signal based on a phase difference signal from a phase comparator, an oscillating unit that generates and outputs a clock oscillating with a frequency corresponding to the frequency signal, and the phase comparator that measures a time difference between rising times or falling times of the inputted external clock and the oscillating unit based on the n clocks in the multi-phase clocks, and outputs a phase difference signal indicating the time difference based on a result of the measurement. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140285245 | PLL CIRCUIT - A PLL circuit generating a generated clock in synchronization with an external clock by a phase locked loop includes a first detector for detecting whether or not the generated clock is in synchronization with the external clock, and a measuring device for measuring at least one of a high time from a rise to a fall of the external clock and a low time from a fall to a rise thereof. In a state that the generated clock and the external clock are in synchronization, when it is detected that a fluctuation of the high time or the low time becomes equal to or more than a predetermined value, the PLL circuit fixes a frequency of the generated clock to a frequency outputted at this time point, and continues output of the generated clock having the fixed frequency. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140278433 | VOICE SYNTHESIS DEVICE, VOICE SYNTHESIS METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING A VOICE SYNTHESIS PROGRAM STORED THEREON - A voice synthesis device includes a sequence data generation unit configured to generate sequence data including a plurality of kinds of parameters for controlling vocalization of a voice to be synthesized based on music information and lyrics information, an output unit configured to output a singing voice based on the sequence data, and a processing content information acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of processing content information, associated with each of pieces of preset singing manner information. Each of the content information indicates contents of edit processing for all or part of the parameters. The sequence data generation unit generates a plurality of pieces of sequence data, and the sequence data are obtained by editing the all or part of the parameters included in the sequence data, based on the content information associated with one of the pieces of singing manner information specified by a user. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140266252 | ELECTROSTATIC SENSOR AND SLIDE OPERATION APPARATUS - An electrostatic sensor includes a fixed electrode, a movable electrode, an analyzing unit, a sliding member, and a crimping member. The fixed electrode is arranged along a predetermined direction. The movable electrode faces the fixed electrode. The analyzing unit is configured to detect a position of the movable electrode based on capacitance between the movable electrode and the fixed electrode. The sliding member is disposed between the fixed electrode and the movable electrode. The crimping member crimps the fixed electrode and the movable electrode together by a magnetic force. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140262598 | BASS REFLEX PORT AND TUBULAR BODY - A bass reflex port having a tubular shape for air flows, wherein an angle of a first inner radial line with respect to a reference plane including a center axis of the bass reflex port differs from an angle of a second inner radial line with respect to the reference plane, the first line being orthogonal to the center axis and passing a first characteristic point on an inner circumference of the bass reflex port in a first transverse cross section perpendicular to the center axis, the second line being orthogonal to the center axis and passing a second characteristic point corresponding to the first characteristic point and located on the inner circumference in a second transverse cross section perpendicular to the center axis, the first transverse cross section and the second transverse cross section differing form each other in position in a direction of extension of the center axis. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140262597 | TUBULAR BODY, BASS REFLEX PORT, AND ACOUSTIC APPARATUS - A tubular body having an air flow passage, wherein an area of a cross section, in a direction perpendicular to a tube axis, of a space enclosed with an inner wall of the tubular body increases toward an open end thereof, wherein a curvature of the inner wall at an end portion of the tubular body near the open end is repeatedly increased and decreased along a circumferential direction of the inner wall, and wherein, when the inner wall in a cross section of the end portion in the direction perpendicular to the tube axis is viewed from the tube axis, a convex portion at which the inner wall protrudes in a direction away from the tube axis and a concave portion at which the inner wall is recessed in a direction toward the tube axis are repeatedly formed along the circumferential direction. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140260921 | ELECTRONIC PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT - An electronic percussion instrument includes a stand, a pad member with a head, and an impact sensor, a cover member, and a support member (e.g. a stay). The support member has an L-shape including a stand-attaching portion and a pad-attaching portion which are perpendicularly unified together at an inflection point. The stand-attaching portion is attached to the stand while the pad-attaching portion is attached to the pad member. The cover member is attached to the support member such that the cover member will not brought into contact with the pad member via a clearance which is maintained irrespective of an impact applied to the head with a beater. The pad-attaching portion is backwardly deflected about the inflection point relative to the stand-attaching portion due to an impact on the head. Thus, it is possible to reduce sound-box reverberations and to secure noiselessness. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140260920 | ELECTRONIC PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT - An electronic percussion instrument includes a head, a frame, and an impact sensor. The back of the head is divided into a main area (e.g. a main strike area) and an auxiliary area. At least one connecting part is arranged above or below the main area in the back of the head and reduced in thickness compared to the auxiliary area, thus reducing vibration from being transmitted through the head. The impact sensor is attached to the back of the main strike area of the head via a cushion member. When the main strike area of the head is being struck with a beater, a vibration is caused to occur in the head and detected by the impact sensor to produce an electric signal which is used to generate an electronic musical sound while suppressing mechanical noise due to an impact between the beater and the head. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140260919 | ELECTRONIC PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT - An electronic percussion instrument includes a stand, a support member (e.g. a stay), a pad member with a head, and an impact sensor. The support member has an L-shape including a stand-attaching portion and a pad-attaching portion. The stand-attaching portion is fixed to the stand while the pad-attaching portion is extended vertically from the front end of the stand-attaching portion at an inflection point. Owing to the elasticity of the support member, the pad-attaching portion is deflected about the inflection point in the rearward direction in comparison with the stand-attaching portion due to a striking force applied to the head being struck with a beater. Upon detecting an impact applied to the head, the impact sensor generates an electric signal so as to generate a musical sound. Thus, it is possible to suppress floor reverberation by absorbing an impact between the head and the beater via the support member. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140260918 | ELECTRONIC PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT - An electronic percussion instrument includes a head, a frame, and an impact sensor, and a plate serving as a vibration-damping member. The back of the head is divided into a main area (e.g. a main strike area) and an auxiliary area. The plate is ring-shaped sheet, made of a harder material (e.g. a metal) than the head, with an elongated hole and attached to the head to encompass or sandwich the main strike area of the head, thus demonstrating a vibration-damping effect. When the main strike area of the head is being struck with a beater, a vibration is caused to occur in the head and detected by the impact sensor to produce an electric signal which is used to generate an electronic musical sound while the vibration-damping member suppresses vibration being transmitted through the head due to an impact of the beater on the head. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140260917 | ELECTRONIC PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT - An electronic percussion instrument includes a head, a frame, and an impact sensor, and an air ventilation mechanism which includes a pair of cutouts which are distanced from each other and formed in the periphery of the head. The head is attached to the frame such that the periphery of the frame is externally enclosed with the periphery of the head precluding a pair of cutouts. Additionally, a pair of connecting parts with reduced thickness is linearly elongated across the back of the head in parallel. When the head is struck with a beater, a vibration is caused to occur in the head and detected by the impact sensor to produce an electric signal which is used to generate an electronic musical sound, wherein the air ventilation mechanism releases air from the back of the head so as to reliably secure noiselessness while reducing noise. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140260912 | SOUND SIGNAL ANALYSIS APPARATUS, SOUND SIGNAL ANALYSIS METHOD AND SOUND SIGNAL ANALYSIS PROGRAM - A sound signal analysis apparatus | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140260911 | SOUND SIGNAL ANALYSIS APPARATUS, SOUND SIGNAL ANALYSIS METHOD AND SOUND SIGNAL ANALYSIS PROGRAM - A sound signal analysis apparatus | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140260897 | SUPPORTING STRUCTURE FOR ELECTRONIC PAD OF PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT - A supporting structure for an electronic pad of a percussion instrument includes a pad member, a pair of a first engaging part and a second engaging part, and a connecting part which connects a first object (e.g. a leg fixed to a stand) and a second object (e.g. the second engaging part) in a rotatable manner about the rotation center. The connecting part includes a rotation-regulating unit which regulates the rotational displacement of the second object within the regulation range irrespective of a rotational torque less than a predetermined value which is applied to the second object disposed at the initial position relative to the first object. Due to a rotational torque above the predetermined value, the rotation-regulating unit shifts the regulation range so as to shift the initial position, and therefore the second object will be restored to the new initial position. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140254839 | Acoustic Apparatus - An acoustic apparatus includes a vibration part configured to generate an acoustic vibration, a tube having a cavity that faces the vibration part, and at least one open tube connected to the tube via a first open end and a second open end. A length of the at least one open tube is an integer-fold of substantially a half of a wavelength of a standing wave produced in the tube. The first open end is positioned substantially at an anti-node of the standing wave produced in the tube. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140254834 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND PARAMETER ADJUSTING METHOD - An audio signal processing device and a parameter adjusting method, configured such that: a two-channel screen displaying a plurality of parameters for each of two channels allocated to any two channel strips, in accordance with operation of edit buttons of the two channel strips, is displayed on a display; each of a plurality of parameters for one channel, out of the two channels displayed in the two-channel screen, are allocated to a control of each channel strip in a first group; each of a plurality of parameters for the other channel are allocated to a control of each channel strip in a second group; and values of the parameters allocated to the controls are adjusted in accordance with operation of the controls. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140251115 | TONE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - If a pitch bend event is included in a note event, one tone to be sounded in accordance with the note event continuously varies in pitch from a note pitch designated by the note event to another note pitch, as a result of control response to the pitch bend event. For sounding of a note based on an accompaniment pattern, harmony note or the like, the pitch corresponding to the note event is converted in accordance with a designated chord, and thus, not only the note pitch corresponding to the note event but also the other note pitch responsive to the pitch bend event should be converted appropriately. Thus, arrangements are made for accurately determining the pitch-bend-responsive other note pitch that is not identifiable from the note pitch indicated by the note event itself and converting the other note pitch in accordance with a designated chord. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140244262 | VOICE SYNTHESIZING METHOD, VOICE SYNTHESIZING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A voice synthesizing apparatus includes a manipulation determiner configured to determine a manipulation position which is moved according to a manipulation of a user, and a voice synthesizer configured to generate, in response to an instruction to generate a voice in which a second phoneme follows a first phoneme, a voice signal so that vocalization of the first phoneme starts before the manipulation position reaches a reference position and that vocalization from the first phoneme to the second phoneme is made when the manipulation position reaches the reference position. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140238220 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING CHORD - A chord detection apparatus retrieves musical performance data indicative of musical performance played by a user, retrieves musical piece information indicative of a musical piece played by the user, retrieves chord tendency information indicative of degrees of likelihood or unlikelihood of chords appearing in the musical piece, and detects a chord on the basis of the retrieved musical performance data and the retrieved chord tendency information. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140214364 | METHOD OF ESTIMATING OFFSET OF MAGNETIC SENSOR - An offset estimation method calculates attitude data representing an attitude variation of equipment from a reference attitude thereof based on angular velocity data that is outputted from an angular velocity sensor and that represents angular velocity of the equipment. The offset estimation method further calculates an estimation value of the offset minimizing an error between first variable vectors associated to the attitude data and second variable vectors associated to magnetic data that are successively outputted from a magnetic sensor. The first variable vector is obtained by changing a reference variable vector in accordance with the attitude variation represented by the attitude data, the reference variable vector representing geomagnetism when the equipment is placed in the reference attitude, and the second variable vector is obtained by subtracting the estimation value of the offset from the magnetic data. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140202321 | KEYBOARD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A keyboard musical instrument, including: a key; a board; a first member formed of a material different from a material of the board; a first acoustic transducer configured to vibrate the board in accordance with a drive signal supplied thereto; and a second acoustic transducer configured to vibrate the first member in accordance with a drive signal supplied thereto. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140202318 | SOUNDBOARD ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER - A soundboard acoustic transducer, including: a main body; and a vibrator configured to vibrate a soundboard in response to a sound signal input thereto, wherein the main body is supported by a member different from the soundboard, via a fixture formed by a metal plate. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140196758 | THERMOELECTRIC POWER GENERATION UNIT - A thermoelectric power generation unit includes: a bottom plate and a heat exchange member which are made of a thermal conductor; a thermoelectric power generation module and a spacer which are interposed between the bottom plate and the heat exchange member; and a side wall provided to cover a gap between the bottom plate and the heat exchange member. Moreover, a circuit board on which a circuit that is driven by electric power obtained by the thermoelectric power generation module is mounted is stored in a space surrounded by the bottom plate, the heat exchange member, and the side wall. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140196595 | ELECTRIC STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND METHOD OF DESIGNING THE SAME - An electric stringed musical instrument including: a string which vibrates by a performance operation; a body which supports the string via a bridge; a pickup sensor mounted on a portion which vibrates by a vibration of the string, the pickup sensor being configured to detect a vibration having propagated from the string and output an electric signal; and a supporter having a spring structure which supports the bridge with respect to the body to bring a vibration characteristic of the electric stringed musical instrument closer to a vibration characteristic of one acoustic stringed musical instrument. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140196594 | ELECTRIC STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND METHOD OF DESIGNING THE SAME - An electric stringed musical instrument includes: a string which vibrates by a performance operation; a body which supports the string via a bridge; a pickup sensor mounted on a portion which vibrates by a vibration of the string, the pickup sensor being configured to detect a vibration having propagated from the string and output an electric signal; a supporter having a spring structure which supports the bridge with respect to the body; and a damper mounted on a portion which vibrates by a vibration of the string, the damper being configured to damp a vibration of the bridge. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140193004 | EFFECT APPLYING APPARATUS AND EFFECT APPLYING METHOD - When a knob is at a center position, transmission levels of first volumes on a path from a second effector to a first effector, and second volumes on a path from the first effector to the second effector are both zero, and the first effector and the second effector operate independently. When the knob is displaced to right side from the center position, the transmission level of the second volumes is controlled according to the displacement amount, but the transmission level of the first volumes stays at zero. Thus, the second effector is connected in series to the first effector. When the knob is displaced to left side from the center position, the transmission level of the first volumes is controlled according to the displacement amount, but the transmission level of the second volumes stays at zero. Thus, the first effector is connected in series to the second effector. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140182444 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING HALF POINT OF PEDAL ON KEYBOARD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A key depression (i.e., string striking) is performed while a pedal is kept at a set non-key-depressed-state corresponding position (a rest position of a hammer). A string striking velocity immediately before string striking and a string releasing velocity immediately after the string striking are detected, and a coefficient of rebound is calculated on the basis of the detected velocities and stored in association with the current value of the rest position of the hammer. Similar operations are repetitively performed with individual ones of different rest positions of the hammer, wherein each of the different rest positions of the hammer corresponding to each of a plurality of stroke positions within one stroke of the pedal. Thus, a distribution curve of the coefficients of rebound detected in association with the plurality of stroke positions is obtained and a half point of the pedal is identified based on the distribution curve. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140180632 | Motion Analysis Device - A motion analysis device includes an observation data acquisition unit that acquires observation data indicating a trajectory of a target observation point which moves in conjunction with motion of a user (for example, a specified point in a club used by the user); a comparison unit that compares each of a plurality of reference data indicating a predetermined trajectory of the target observation point with the observation data acquired by the observation data acquisition unit; and an audio control unit that generates an audio signal according to a comparison result obtained by using the comparison unit. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140164634 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING BUFFER SIZE OF NETWORK RECEPTION BUFFER, AND NETWORK SESSION SYSTEM - In this system for determining buffer size, the number of times a network reception buffer in which data is accumulated becomes full or empty (the number of occurrence of full or emptiness) in a certain period of time Tr is counted by a full/empty counter CT in response to start of communication with a different session terminal TM to adjust buffer size in accordance with the counted number of occurrence of full or emptiness (S | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140156870 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND SERVER - In a communication system, using source address, source port number, destination address and destination port number, terminals A and B located behind NAT routers A and B, respectively, communicate with each other through the NAT routers A and B. A server SV which is not located behind any NAT routers identifies the NAT router A as a NAT router of a certain type which translates the source port number into a different source port number if the destination port number is changed. The server SV then guesses a port number obtained by adding (or subtracting) a value to (or from) the source port number used for transmission of data from the terminal A through the NAT router A as a port number of the terminal A in a case where the NAT router has been identified as the certain type, and informs the terminal B of the guessed port number. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140153728 | DELAY MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND DELAY MEASUREMENT METHOD FOR NETWORK MUSIC SESSION - In this system, a terminal A retrieves terminal's input delay time Tia from input of an audio signal to start of transmission of the audio signal, transmission delay time Tn from the start of transmission of the audio signal to reception of the audio signal by a partner terminal B, partner's reception buffering delay time Tbfb from reception of the audio signal to output of the audio signal by a reception buffer portion BFb of the partner terminal B, and partner's output delay time Tob from input of the audio signal to output of the audio signal by an audio reproduction portion DRob of the partner terminal B. The terminal A then sums up these delay times to determine input/output delay time Ttab from the input of the audio signal by the terminal A to the output of the audio signal by the audio reproduction portion DRob of the partner terminal B. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140150624 | RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION OF WAVEFORM BASED ON SOUND BOARD VIBRATIONS - In a musical instrument, such as a piano, having a sound board, the sound board vibrates in response to vibrations of a string responsive to depression of a key. A waveform corresponding to such vibrations of the sound board is detected and recorded into a memory for each of the keys. The recorded vibration waveform is usable for reproduction of a sound based on sound board vibrations. In a sound reproduction apparatus, such as a piano, having a sound board, an excitation device physically excitable in response to an input waveform is provided on the sound board. In response to an operation of a key, a sound board vibration waveform corresponding to the operated key is read out from the memory, and the excitation device is driven in accordance with the read-out waveform signal so that the sound board is vibrated. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140150623 | RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION OF WAVEFORM BASED ON SOUND BOARD VIBRATIONS - In a musical instrument, such as a piano, having a sound board, the sound board vibrates in response to vibrations of a string responsive to depression of a key. A waveform corresponding to such vibrations of the sound board is detected and recorded. The recorded vibration waveform is usable for reproduction of a sound based on sound board vibrations. In a sound reproduction apparatus, such as a piano, having a sound board, an excitation device physically excitable in response to an input waveform is provided on the sound board. A signal indicative of a vibration waveform of the sound board is received, and the excitation device is driven in accordance with the received waveform signal so that the sound board is vibrated. Thus, a sound based on the sound board vibrations can be replicated or reproduced with a high quality. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140144235 | ACCELERATION SENSOR - An acceleration sensor achieving improvement of sensitivity and comprehensive miniaturization as a device includes a first sensor. The first sensor is furnished with an electrostatic capacitor that is configured such that a first fixed electrode, a second fixed electrode and a movable electrode are intensively arranged in a row. In the electrostatic capacitor, the first fixed electrode, the second fixed electrode and the movable electrode are arranged adjoining one another in acceleration detection direction (y-axis direction) at a position corresponding to the center of a weight in a plane view of a substrate. At one of longitudinal-side's ends of each electrode (one of ends in x-axis direction), connectors are provided so as to connect the first fixed electrode and the second fixed electrode to the substrate by connectors. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140144229 | Signal Processing Device and Amplifier - A signal processing device includes: an amplifier, a bandwidth of which can be switched, and a controller which is configured to perform control to operate the amplifier in a wide bandwidth for a constant time after start of a signal input to the amplifier and then operate the amplifier in a narrow bandwidth thereafter. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140136207 | VOICE SYNTHESIZING METHOD AND VOICE SYNTHESIZING APPARATUS - A voice synthesizing apparatus includes a first receiver configured to receive first utterance control information generated by detecting a start of a manipulation on a manipulating member by a user, a first synthesizer configured to synthesize, in response to a reception of the first utterance control information, a first voice corresponding to a first phoneme in a phoneme sequence of a voice to be synthesized to output the first voice, a second receiver configured to receive second utterance control information generated by detecting a completion of the manipulation on the manipulating member or a manipulation on a different manipulating member, and a second synthesizer configured to synthesize, in response to a reception of the second utterance control information, a second voice including at least the first phoneme and a succeeding phoneme being subsequent to the first phoneme of the voice to be synthesized to output the second voice. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140133676 | SOUND VOLUME ADJUSTING APPARATUS - A sound volume adjuster includes: a storage which stores a first value of a volume setting value and an allowable maximum change amount; a communication interface which receives a change request indicating a second value of the volume setting value; a comparison device which, when a change amount of the volume setting value between the first value and the second value exceeds the allowable maximum change amount, determines that the change request is an excessive request; and a volume controller which, when the comparison device determines that the change request is the excessive request: changes the first value stored in the storage by a change amount which is equal to or smaller than the allowable maximum change amount to set a third value of the volume setting value; and adjusts a sound volume by the third value. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140133666 | SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing system includes microphone units connected in series and a host device connected to one of the microphone units. Each of the microphone units has a microphone, a temporary storage memory, and a processing section for processing the sound picked up by the microphone. The host device has a non-volatile memory in which a sound signal processing program for the microphone units is stored. The host device transmits the sound signal processing program read from the non-volatile memory to each of the microphone units. Each of the microphone units temporarily stores the sound signal processing program in the temporary storage memory. The processing section performs a process corresponding to the sound signal processing program temporarily stored in the temporary storage memory and transmits the processed sound to the host device. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140130655 | DELAYED REGISTRATION DATA READOUT IN ELECTRONIC MUSIC APPARATUS - A storage stores at least one set of registration data comprising a plurality of tone setting parameters. An instruction section instructs readout of the registration data set from the storage. A controller makes a setting such that the parameters in the registration data set are used in response to an instruction for reading out the registration data set, and makes a setting such that at least one or some of the tone setting parameters in the one set of registration data are used at delayed readout timing later than a time point at which the instruction has been issued. Thus, two or more sub-sets of the parameters in the registration data set can be set to be used at mutually different timing. Namely, a sub-set of the parameters can be set to be used at delayed readout timing later than a time at which a readout instruction has been issued. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140130652 | SIMULATING MUTING IN A DRIVE CONTROL DEVICE FOR STRIKING MEMBER IN SOUND GENERATION MECHANISM - A sound generation mechanism, provided with a string for generating a vibration sound in response to striking by a hammer, is automatically played in accordance with performance data. The performance data include striking data (note-on event data) for designating timing at which the string should be struck by the hammer, velocity data indicative of an intensity of the striking, and muting data (soft pedal data) for controlling muting. A controller determines drive start timing of the hammer in accordance with the velocity data in such a manner that the string is struck by the hammer at the timing designated by the striking data and performs control such that the drive start timing is advanced in accordance with the muting data. Thus, the string is struck at the striking timing designated by the striking data, but also muting control is performed in accordance with the muting data. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140129014 | OPERATION DEVICE - A controller includes a plurality of channel strips to which are allocated any one of a plurality of channels to be handled in a DAW. Each of the channel strips includes a channel strip display section, a movable fader capable of indicating a sound volume level of the allocated channel by means of a knob position of the fader, and a slide operation reception section operable to successively change the allocated channel. During a slide operation on the reception section, a CPU continuously updates only displayed content on the channel strip display section of each of the channel strips by a variation amount corresponding to the slide operation. Upon completion of the slide operation on the reception section, the CPU moves, through automatic control, the knob position of the movable fader of each of the channel strips. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129013 | MUSIC SYSTEM MANAGING METHOD - A management software process establishes management sessions with DAW processes and controllers on a network. Further, control sessions are established between the DAW processes and controllers, respectively. Thus, the control sessions between DAW processes and controllers included in one music system can be managed together by the management software process via a dedicated management session. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129012 | MUSIC SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD - Each of DAW processes and UI devices which are controllers of the DAW processes regularly sends a heartbeat signal including identification information of a music system which the DAW process or UI device belongs to, to a network by broadcast or multicast. The heart beat signal can be transmitted to the network using an Ethernet frame for UDP including the heartbeat signal in the data body, as a heartbeat packet. Based on the received heartbeat signal, it can be distinguished that the DAW process or UI device which sent the heartbeat signal is which of a device or music software process belonging to the relevant music system, a device or music software process belonging to another music system, and a device or music software process not belonging to any music system. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140126753 | Speaker Array Apparatus - A speaker array device includes a first speaker array and a second speaker array. The first speaker array has plural first speaker units arranged in a first surface and output a first sound. The second speaker array has plural second speaker units arranged in a second surface that is different from the first surface and output a second sound. When the second speaker array and the first speaker array are installed in a room having a ceiling, the second speaker array is installed in such a manner that a normal direction to the second surface is match with a direction in which the second sound emitted from the second speaker array reaches, only indirectly, through reflection or diffraction, a sound receiving point or that the normal direction to the second surface is match with a direction in which the second sound reaches the sound receiving point with a predetermined sound volume. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140126750 | OPERATION DEVICE - A controller includes a plurality of channel strips to which are allocated any of a plurality of channels to be handled in a DAW. Each of the channel strips includes a slide operation reception section that receives a slide operation. The slide operation reception sections of the plurality of channel strips are constructed to function as a single slide operation reception unit and to receive a slide operation performed in an arranged direction of the channel strips. Thus, by the slide operation, a user can intuitively and collectively change the allocated channels of the strip channels with a feeling as if merely changing (shifting) the allocated channel of a given channel strip to another channel strip. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140123835 | SOUND GENERATION APPARATUS - A serial memory stores a plurality of waveform samples. A tone generating unit has a plurality of channels operating in time-divisional manner to generate therethrough sound signals based on waveform samples read from the serial memory, each channel issuing a sample request for a waveform sample with specifying a read address of the waveform sample. Upon power on or reset of the tone generating unit, an access unit sets the serial memory to enable n-bit input/output operation. In response to the sample request, the access unit uses an n-bit input/output instruction to read the waveform sample by n bits per clock from a lead address that is the read address specified by the sample request, and supplies the waveform sample read from the serial memory to the tone generating unit. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140122015 | ATTITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - From a first estimation value of attitude of equipment at a first time, a second estimation value of attitude of the equipment at a second time is derived. For this purpose, a predicted value of the attitude at the second time is generated by applying the first estimation value to a state transition model indicating transition of attitude of the equipment. Then, a difference between the predicted value of the attitude and a true value of the attitude of the equipment is calculated based on data outputted from a sensor in the equipment to thereby generate an estimated attitude error between the predicted attitude and true attitude of the equipment. Further, a specific attitude component is extracted from a plurality of attitude components of the estimated attitude error. Lastly, the second estimation value is calculated based on the predicted value of the attitude and the specific attitude component. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140118048 | Offset Cancel Circuit - An offset cancel circuit includes a first amplifying section, a second amplifying section, a third resistor connected between a non-inverting input terminal of the first amplifying section and a non-inverting input terminal of the second amplifying section, and a current source. In the offset cancel circuit, the current source causes a constant current to flow through the third resistor to cancel an offset voltage from output signals of first and second amplifying sections, the constant current corresponding to the offset voltage contained in first and second output signals output from a bridge resistance type sensor. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140116226 | ELECTRIC STRINGED INSTRUMENT - An electric stringed instrument includes: an instrument main body which includes a front surface including a structure configured to hold a string; and a pair of frames which are connected to the instrument body. At least one of the pair of frames is a movable frame rotating toward the other one of the pair of frames with a longitudinal direction of the instrument main body serving as a rotating axis while going around a rear surface side of the instrumental body. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140105560 | Light Guide Body - A light guide body includes: a light incident portion on which light is incident; a light guiding portion which is adapted to guide the light incident on the light incident portion; and a light emitting portion which is adapted to emit the light guided by the light guiding portion. One of the light incident portion and the light guiding portion is extended in a first direction, and the light emitting portion is extended in a second direction which is perpendicular to the first direction. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140105429 | AUDIO SYSTEM AND AUDIO CHARACTERISTIC CONTROL DEVICE - An audio system includes plural speakers including a planar speaker configured to emit a plane wave on the basis of a received audio signal, and a controller configured to supply audio signals to the plural speakers respectively, and to set signal levels of audio signals to be supplied to the planar speaker and at least one speaker, other than the planar speaker, of the plural speakers in accordance with a control signal specifying a perceived distance of sound to be heard by a listener. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140102285 | Recording System for Ensemble Performance and Musical Instrument Equipped With The Same - An automatic player piano is equipped with a recording system equipped with a sequencer, to which event data codes for note-on and note-off events and a digital external audio signal expressing singer's voice are supplied; the sequencer supplements duration data codes to the event data codes, and produces RIFF audio data codes expressing the voice; and respectively stores the event data codes and duration data codes and the RIFF audio data codes in a standard MIDI file and a RIFF file. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140091404 | ACCELERATION SENSOR - A first sensor section installed in an acceleration sensor employs a first elastic member which is elastically movable according to acceleration in the first and third directions and is stiff against acceleration in second direction so as to restrict elasticity in second direction. Thereby, the first sensor section is provided as a biaxial acceleration sensor which detects the first and third directional acceleration according to a change of electrostatic capacity between a first weight (i.e. the first movable electrode) made movable according to acceleration and the first fixed electrode. A second sensor section installed in the acceleration sensor is structurally identical with the first sensor section and configured to detect acceleration in second and third directions. Thereby, such combination of the first sensor section and the second sensor section constitutes a three-dimensional acceleration sensor. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140090544 | Signal Processor for Musical Performance of Wind Instrument Using a Mute - A mute unit | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140086426 | MASKING SOUND GENERATION DEVICE, MASKING SOUND OUTPUT DEVICE, AND MASKING SOUND GENERATION PROGRAM - There is provided a masking sound output device which prevents interference and an echo even in the case where plural apparatus output the same masking sounds. A masking sound generating unit | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140069257 | ACOUSTIC DRUM - An acoustic drum | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140069256 | BASS DRUM - A bass drum | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140063035 | Image Display Apparatus and Method for Displaying Image on Display Device - An image display apparatus is coupled to a nonvolatile memory section, and includes an image processing part configured to display an image on a display device, an initial setting circuit, and a control register configured to control respective parts in the image display apparatus. At power-on or start-up of the image display apparatus, the initial setting circuit reads initialization data from the nonvolatile memory section and sets communication mode for communicating with the nonvolatile memory section to the control register. The communication mode is specified by the initialization data. After the initial setting circuit sets the communication mode to the control register, the image processing part reads image data from the nonvolatile memory section by using the communication mode set in the control register and displays an initial image relating to the image data on the display device. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140047971 | MUSIC INFORMATION DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND MUSIC INFORMATION DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS - A music information display control apparatus includes one or more processors configured to display, on a display device, a musical note sequence image in which a musical note iconic image of each musical note is disposed in a musical score area where a time axis is set. The display controller disposes an operation iconic image which accepts an instruction from a user in a vicinity of the musical note iconic image, and changes a display length or a display position of the musical note iconic image in a direction of the time axis according to an instruction to move the operation iconic image. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140039654 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION RESOLUTION SERVER AND MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - An information providing system includes a sound emission device for emitting, as sound wave, identification information modulated into a sound signal, an identification information resolution server including a mapping table in which the identification information, valid time information and the address information of a content are stored to be associated, and a mobile terminal device for transmitting the identification information demodulated from a picked-up sound wave to the identification information resolution server thereby obtaining address information and accessing the content using the obtained address information. When received the identification information from the mobile terminal device, the identification information resolution server returns the address information of a corresponding content to the mobile terminal device when the time information is within a valid time. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140037081 | AUDIO CONFERENCE DEVICE - An audio conference device receives and emits sounds to perform transmission/reception of audio signals via communications. The device has a speaker array with a plurality of speakers arranged on the lower surface of an elongated main housing, and a microphone array with a plurality of microphones arranged on the side surface of the main housing along the longitudinal direction. Legs are attached to the main body to support the main housing at a prescribed height above the resting surface and to secure good sound emission characteristics of the speaker array. The device further controls directivity of the microphones. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140034413 | Acoustic Structure - An acoustic structure, including a pipe having a plurality of cavities that are partitioned by a partition, each of the plurality of cavities extending in a first direction that is a longitudinal direction of the pipe, wherein the pipe has at least one opening which permits the plurality of cavities to communicate with an exterior of the pipe, a position of each of the at least one opening in the first direction being a first position. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140033902 | TECHNIQUE FOR ANALYZING RHYTHM STRUCTURE OF MUSIC AUDIO DATA - When a music audio to be analyzed is to be divided into a plurality of possible pattern segments based on estimated beat positions, it is divided in a plurality of different ways according to individual division models obtained by sequentially shifting the leading or first beat position of the possible pattern segments. Such division can provide plural sets of possible pattern segments with each of the sets corresponding to one of the division models. For each of the sets, comparison is made between individual possible pattern segments and individual reference performance patterns. For each of the possible pattern segments of the set, at least one reference performance pattern that matches the possible pattern segment is determined. Then, at least one combination of reference performance patterns is identified for each of the sets of possible pattern segments. One optimal combination is selected from among the identified combinations. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140029677 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND CONTENT PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR - A content reproduction apparatus that adopts a content processing method includes a video processor, a video analyzer, and an audio processor for processing audio data and video data input thereto. The video analyzer analyzes video characteristics of video data such as resolutions, compressive distortions, and real frame rates. The video processor processes video data in accordance with video processing, which is determined based on analyzed video characteristics of video data. The audio processor processes audio data in accordance with audio processing, such as dynamic range compression and/or frequency component extension/enhancement, which is determined based on analyzed video characteristics of video data. Thus, it is possible to reproduce sound in an articulate manner depending on the video quality, which is either professional-level video shooting or nonprofessional-level video shooting. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140013928 | CONTENT DATA REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND A SOUND PROCESSING SYSTEM - A reproduction apparatus ( | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140006018 | VOICE PROCESSING APPARATUS | 01-02-2014 |
| 20130322654 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A PC (DAW) records audio signals of input channels outputted from a mixer. When the PC (DAW) newly creates a project for recording, the PC (DAW) obtains channel configuration information from the mixer, creates the same number of tracks as the number of the channels indicated in the channel configuration information, and gives the each track the same name as the corresponding channel indicated in the channel configuration information. It is thereby enabled to easily perform setting at a time of recording. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130322644 | Sound Processing Apparatus - A sound processing apparatus has one or more of processors configured to suppress peaks that exist in a high-order region of a cepstrum of a sound signal and that correspond to a harmonic structure of the sound signal. The processor is further configured to generate a separation mask used to suppress a harmonic component or a nonharmonic component of the sound signal based on a resultant cepstrum in which the peaks of the high-order region have been suppressed. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130315413 | MASKING SOUND GENERATING APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM STORED WITH MASKING SOUND SIGNAL, MASKING SOUND REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - Whereas a high masking effect can be secured in a space to which a masking sound is emitted, the degree of a discomfort a person existing in the space suffers can be reduced. In superimposition processing, a CPU | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130311189 | VOICE PROCESSING APPARATUS - In a voice processing apparatus, a processor performs generating a converted feature by applying a source feature of source voice to a conversion function, generating an estimated feature based on a probability that the source feature belongs to each element distribution of a mixture distribution model that approximates distribution of features of voices having different characteristics, generating a first conversion filter based on a difference between a first spectrum corresponding to the converted feature and an estimated spectrum corresponding to the estimated feature, generating a second spectrum by applying the first conversion filter to a source spectrum corresponding to the source feature, generating a second conversion filter based on a difference between the first spectrum and the second spectrum, and generating target voice by applying the first conversion filter and the second conversion filter to the source spectrum. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130310954 | CONTROLLER AND PROGRAM - A specification of one of a plurality of controls is accepted, a specification of a plurality of items is accepted with respect to parameters, and among the plurality of controls, a plurality of controls to which parameter items are to be assigned are determined with reference to the control for which the specification is accepted. To each of the determined plurality of controls, one of the plurality of items for which the specification is accepted is assigned, and each of the plurality of controls is made to function as a control for operating the set value of the item assigned to this control. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130308793 | Device For Adding Harmonics To Sound Signal - In a harmonic adding device, an input/output function part converts a digital sound signal having an input signal level into a digital sound signal having an output signal level determined according to a input/output function and the input signal level. A parameter storage unit stores at least one inflection point. A controller sets the inflection point to the input/output function to enable the input/output function part to add harmonics to the digital sound signal. The input/output function is defined between a positive maximum point and a negative maximum point. The inflection point is set between the positive maximum point and the negative maximum point. The positive maximum point, the inflection point and the negative maximum point are sequentially connected by linear interpolation to formulate the input/output function. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130307561 | Test Signal Supplying Device and Semiconductor Integrated Circuit - A test signal supplying device includes a first external terminal, a second external terminal being applied with a predetermined electric potential, an internal load, a first terminal that is connected to the first external terminal through the internal load, a second terminal that is connected to the first external terminal without passing through the internal load, a test signal generating section that generates a test signal and supplies the test signal to the second terminal, a detecting section that detects an amplitude of the test signal, and a controlling section that measures an impedance of an external load connected to the first and second external terminals based on the detected amplitude of the test signal. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130305908 | MUSICAL PERFORMANCE-RELATED INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE, SYSTEM INCLUDING MUSICAL PERFORMANCE-RELATED INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - Provided are a musical performance-related information output device and a musical performance system capable of superimposing musical performance-related information on an audio signal without damaging the general versatility of the audio signal. The musical performance-related information output device includes a musical performance-related information acquiring section that is adapted to acquire musical performance-related information related to a musical performance of a performer, a superimposing section that is adapted to superimpose the musical performance-related information on an analog audio signal such that a modulated component of the musical performance-related information is included in a band higher than the frequency component of the analog audio signal generated in accordance with the musical performance manipulation of the performer, and an output section that outputs the analog audio signal on which the superimposing section superimposes the musical performance-related information. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130305907 | ACCOMPANIMENT DATA GENERATING APPARATUS - An accompaniment data generating apparatus has a storage device | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130305904 | Music Analysis Apparatus - A music analysis apparatus calculates a similarity index based on an edit distance between a designated sequence of notes designated by a user and a reference sequence of notes of a reference piece of music. The edit distance is calculated by setting a substitution cost between a first note in the designated sequence of notes and a second note in the reference sequence of notes to a first value when one of the first note and the second note corresponds to any of a plurality of notes contained in a tolerance interval containing the other of the first note and the second note, and by setting the substitution cost to a second value different from the first value when one of the first note and the second note does not correspond to any of the plurality of notes contained in the tolerance interval. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130305902 | ACCOMPANIMENT DATA GENERATING APPARATUS - An accompaniment data generating apparatus has a storing portion | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130290567 | FACILITATING SHARING OF SETTING DATA IN BINARY FORMAT FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device has setting data in binary format formulated according to a specific format suitable to realize a function in the device. In order to share the setting data in binary format with another device, the electronic device converts the setting data in binary format to setting data in text format and transmits (uploads) a set of text data containing the converted setting data in text format to a network communication service provided on a server through a communication network. The network communication service may be a conventional communication service of a web site capable of handling text data. Another electronic device can access the network communication service through communication network, receive (download) the set of text data, and then reversely convert the setting data in text format contained the received set of text data to the original setting data in binary format. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130286998 | Wireless Audio Transmission Method - In a wireless audio system in which both wireless audio signal transmission and communication using other wireless apparatuses are carried out, the transmitter and the receiver transmit audio packets by the following procedure using a plurality of communication channels shared with other wireless communication. The transmitter and the receiver select the same channel; after detecting that the channel has become idle, the transmitter stands by for only a stand-by time T | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130283611 | THERMOELECTRIC MODULE - A thermoelectric module may include a first substrate having a mounting portion and an extension portion and a second substrate facing to the mounting portion. First electrodes are disposed on the mounting portion and have a first surface layer of gold. Second electrodes are disposed on the second substrate and have a second surface layer of gold. Thermoelectric elements are electrically bonded between the first and second arrays of electrodes by solder. A bonding layer is disposed on the extension portion and has a third surface layer of gold. The first surface layer of gold is distanced by a gap from the first surface layer of gold. A metal layer underlies the gap. The metal layer has a solder-wettability that is lower than that of the first and third surface layers of gold. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130283332 | AUTOMATIC PERFORMANCE DEVICE - An automatic performance device includes a performance data receiving unit that receives performance data transmitted from a storage device without passing through a moving image distribution server, the storage device configured to store the performance data having a combination of performance information and time information, the time information indicating the time when the performance indicated by the performance information was carried out; a synchronization signal receiving unit that receives a synchronization signal by using an audio signal transmission path for an audio via the moving image distribution server; and a reproducing unit that reproduces the performance information of the performance data in synchronization with a video distributed at the time when the synchronization signal is distributed, at the timing corresponding to the time indicated by the time information and the time indicated by the synchronization signal. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130279300 | INFORMATION-PROVIDING SYSTEM, PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE, SERVER, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information-providing system whereby a variety of information can be provided using a sound to a portable terminal device used by a user. The information-providing system includes a sound output device outputting, as a sound wave, identifying information modulated into a sound signal, an identifying-information resolution server, connected to an information-communication network, for identifying, based on the identifying information, address information for accessing a content server connected to an information-communication network; and a portable terminal device including a sound receiving section for receiving the sound wave outputted by the sound-emitting device, a demodulating section for demodulating the identifying information from the received sound wave, a resolution section for sending the demodulated identifying information to the identifying-information resolution server and acquiring the address information, and an accessing section for accessing the content server using the acquired address information. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130276620 | PERFORMANCE SYSTEM - A performance system includes a plurality of performance information output devices, a storage device, and a plurality of automatic performance devices. At least one performance information output device transmits performance data having the combination of an identifier, time information, and the performance information to at least one automatic performance device through the storage device without passing through a moving image distribution server. The at least one performance information output device transmits a synchronization signal to the at least one automatic performance device through the moving image distribution server. The at least one automatic performance device reproduces the performance information in synchronization with a video distributed at the time when the synchronization signal is distributed, at the timing corresponding to the time indicated by the time information and the time indicated by the synchronization signal. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130262121 | SOUND SYNTHESIZING APPARATUS - A sound synthesizing apparatus includes a processor coupled to a memory. The processor configured to execute computer-executable units comprising: an information acquirer adapted to acquire synthesis information which specifies a duration and an utterance content for each unit sound; a prolongation setter adapted to set whether prolongation is permitted or inhibited for each of a plurality of phonemes corresponding to the utterance content of the each unit sound; and a sound synthesizer adapted to generate a synthesized sound corresponding to the synthesis information by connecting a plurality of sound fragments corresponding to the utterance content of the each unit sound. The sound synthesizer prolongs a sound fragment corresponding to the phoneme the prolongation of which is permitted in accordance with the duration of the unit sound. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130251156 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE - A postprocessor mixes audio signals for an LSch and an RSch indicating virtual surround sounds generated by a virtual surround processing unit with audio signals of an Rch, an Lch, and a Cch, performs a high-pass filter process, and then outputs the processed audio signals as audio signals for an Rsp and an Lsp which are main speakers. Further, the postprocessor performs phase inversion on the audio signals for the LSch and the RSch indicating the virtual surround sounds generated by the virtual surround processing unit, mixes the processed audio signals with audio signals of the Rch, the Lch, the Cch, and an LFEch, performs a low-pass filter process on the mixed signals, and then outputs the processed audio signals as audio signals for an SW which is a subwoofer. Thus, in a sound field realized by a virtual surround system, an influence of the sounds emitted from the subwoofer on localization of sounds of channels of virtual speakers is reduced. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130247747 | ELECTRONIC PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT SET AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATING APPARATUS - A plurality of pads SN to CY | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130247746 | MUSIC CONTENT DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD - A storage section stores therein a plurality of music content items each including image data of one or more pages. An order is determined of two or more of the music content items stored in the storage section. Page information designating a page to be displayed is acquired, for example, in response to a user's operation. By reference to the storage section, a page arrangement is specified which is indicative of a state in which the image data of the ordered two or more music content items are arranged in a consecutive fashion in accordance with the determined order. A page designated by the acquired page number information is identified in the specified page arrangement. Image data of the acquired page is displayed on a display. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130243211 | SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS - In a sound processing apparatus, a likelihood calculation unit calculates an in-region coefficient and an out-of-region coefficient indicating likelihood of generation of each frequency component of a sound signal inside and outside a target localization range, respectively, according to localization of each frequency component. A reverberation analysis unit calculates a reverberation index value according to the ratio of a reverberation component for each frequency component. A coefficient setting unit generates a process coefficient for suppressing or emphasizing a reverberation component generated inside or outside the target localization range, for each frequency component of the sound signal, on the basis of the in-region coefficient, the out-of-region coefficient and the reverberation index value. A signal processing unit applies the process coefficient of each frequency component to each frequency component of the sound signal. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130233159 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR STRINGED INSTRUMENT - A signal processing apparatus | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130233150 | KEYBOARD APPARATUS - A keyboard apparatus, including: a key that is pivotable by depressing and release operations between: a pivotal movement start position corresponding to a non-key depression state; and a pivotal movement end position corresponding to a key-depression end state; a hammer body that is pivotable between: a pivotal movement start position; and a pivotal movement end position for imparting inertia to the key depressing operation; and an elastic portion to apply elastic force to at least one of the key and the hammer body, wherein the elastic portion is configured not to apply the elastic force to the key and the hammer body in the non-key depression state and configured to start to apply the elastic force in a direction toward the pivotal movement start position to the at least one of the key and the hammer body from a certain point in a forward stroke of the key depressing operation. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130231928 | SOUND SYNTHESIZING APPARATUS, SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND SOUND SYNTHESIZING METHOD - A sound synthesizing apparatus includes a waveform storing section which stores a plurality of unit waveforms extracted from different positions, on a time axis, of a sound waveform indicating a voiced sound, and a waveform generating section which generates a synthesized waveform by arranging the plurality of unit waveforms on the time axis. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130230194 | AUDIO MIXING SYSTEM - An audio mixing system comprises a plurality of input ports and output ports, and a plurality of input channels and output channels for controlling characteristic of input sound signals. Two or more input ports included in the plurality of input ports or two or more output ports included in the plurality of output ports are registered as a plurality of patch ports. By an instruction to collectively patch a port group, the input ports or the output ports registered as the plurality of patch ports are patched to input channels or output channels respectively by an input or an output patch. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130230185 | SOUND GENERATING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE, AND SOUND GENERATING METHOD FOR VEHICLE - Provided is a sound generating device ( | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130227000 | Server Apparatus For Providing Contents To Terminal Devices - In a server apparatus for providing content to terminal devices, a receiver receives from a first terminal device indication information that indicates processing to be performed on content data representing content. An acquisition unit acquires content data of the content as a processing target. A processor performs the processing indicated by the indication information on the content data. A storage unit identifies the content data by identification information, and stores the content data in correspondence to the identification information as unprocessed content data and stores the content data on which the processing has been performed as processed content data. A transmission controller transmits the unprocessed content data identified by the identification information to a second terminal device when the second terminal device requests the content data in order to edit the content. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130220103 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A user designates any one of a plurality of types of key ranges via a key range designating switch and designates, for example via a keyboard, a desired key position to be set as a boundary of the designated key range. In response to such user's operations, an actual key range of the designated key range is determined in accordance with the designated boundary key position, and the keyboard is set in a divided usage state, where the keyboard is usable divided in a plurality of key ranges, on the basis of the determined actual key range. For example, once a left (low-pitch-side) key range is designated, the designated boundary key position defines the upper limit of the left key range, while, once a right (high-pitch-side) key range is designated, the designated boundary key position defines the lower limit of the right key range. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130219521 | MUSIC-CONTENT USING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF MANAGING COPYING OF MUSIC CONTENT, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - When new music content is generated on the basis of replication of original music content, additional information including information indicating that the generated new music content is based on replication and replication source information identifying a replicated-from source of the replicated content is generated and added to the new music content based on the replication. When the new (i.e., replicated) music content is to be used, a search is made for original music content on the basis of information identifying a replicated-from source and use of the new (replicated) music content is permitted only when the c original music content has been successfully found. Such arrangements reliably allow the replicated content to be used by a given person only when the person possesses the original music content. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130215070 | ELECTRONIC ACOUSTIC SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC ACOUSTIC SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD - A device includes a touch panel, a display circuit that displays a manipulator on the touch panel, an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration when a touching action is performed on the manipulator on the touch panel, a storage section that acquires acceleration data that shows the acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor, and saves n number of items of the acceleration data in sequence of newest first; a processing circuit that saves k (wherein k| 08-22-2013 | |
| 20130213447 | THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION MODULE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION MODULE - A thermoelectric conversion module includes a pair of substrates, electrodes formed on the facing surfaces of a pair of the electrodes, a thermoelectric element disposed between the electrodes, and a joining layer that joins the electrodes and the thermoelectric element, in which the thickness of the joining layer is 30 μm or more, and is formed by sintering paste including metal particles smaller than 100 nm. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130205974 | KEYBOARD DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A keyboard device includes hammers | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130205973 | KEYBOARD DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A keyboard device includes hammers | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130205972 | KEYBOARD DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A keyboard device includes plural white and black keys | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130205971 | KEYBOARD DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A keyboard device includes plural white and black keys | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130205970 | KEYBOARD DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A keyboard device includes plural white and black keys | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130204628 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND AUDIO GUIDE PROGRAM - In an electronic apparatus, a function selection unit selects a function to be executed. A storage unit stores a table defining correspondence between a plurality of functions and a plurality of audio data. An audio data specifying unit specifies audio data corresponding to the function selected by the function selection unit with reference to the table. A search target determination unit determines whether or not a source of the audio data exists as a search target. A search unit searches the source for the audio data specified by the audio data specifying unit when the search target determination unit determines that the source exists. A playback unit plays back the audio data located by the search unit. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130204623 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND FUNCTION GUIDE METHOD THEREOF - In an electronic apparatus having a plurality of functions, a connecting unit connects the electronic apparatus to an external device which presents text information in a form recognizable by a visually impaired user. A function selection unit selects a function to be executed. A storage unit stores a table defining correspondence between the plurality of functions and a plurality of text files each containing text information. A text file selection unit selects a text file corresponding to the selected function with reference to the table. An acquisition unit acquires file information from the selected text file. A transmission unit transmits the acquired file information to the external device. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130202133 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM - An audio signal processing system for recording a sound inputted into a channel of a mixer which receives a plurality of audio signals, processes the audio signals in a plurality of channels and outputs the processed signals, and reproducing the recorded audio signal for adjusting parameters of the mixer is provided. The audio signal processing system records, when record is instructed a channel is selected, an audio signal inputted to the selected channel with relation information indicating the selected channel, and reproduces, when reproduction is instructed and a channel is selected, an audio signal which has been stored with relation information indicating the selected channel. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130199356 | KEYBOARD APPARATUS - A keyboard apparatus wherein a hammer body having movable and stationary engagement portions is configured such that, in its pivotal movement in a forward direction, a click feeling in a key depression touch is generated when the movable engagement portion comes into contact with and gets over the stationary engagement portion, wherein a distance from a hammer pivot shaft to the movable engagement portion at a certain key stroke position in a key depression stroke becomes smaller with an increase in a pressing drive force, and wherein the movable engagement portion comes into contact with the stationary engagement portion in the pivotal movement in the forward direction where a magnitude of the pressing drive force is less than a prescribed value, and the movable engagement portion does not come into contact with the same where the magnitude of the force is equal to or larger than the prescribed value. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130192448 | PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A STATE OF TONE GENERATION APPARATUS - An electronic musical instrument is capable of generating tones in correspondence with individual ones of a plurality of sound generation parts and allocating desired sound colors and pitch ranges to the individual sound generation parts. A display area for displaying information related to the plurality of sound generation parts is presented on a display device. The individual sound generation parts are set either in a sound generating state or in a non-sound-generating state. The display area is divided in order to set sub display areas corresponding to one or more of the sound generation parts having been set in the sound generating state. The information related to the sound generation parts, having been set in the sound generating state, is displayed in the corresponding sub display areas. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130192445 | MUSIC ANALYSIS APPARATUS - A music analysis apparatus has a feature extractor and an analysis processor. The feature extractor generates a time series of feature values from a sequence of notes which is designated as an object of analysis. The analysis processor computes an evaluation index value which indicates a probability that the designated sequence of notes is present in each of a plurality of reference music pieces by applying a probabilistic model to the time series of the feature values generated from the designated sequence of notes. The probabilistic model is generated by machine learning of the plurality of reference music pieces using time series of feature values obtained from the reference music pieces. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130188810 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND RECORDING METHOD - A processing apparatus communicatively connected with a mixer apparatus and having an audio recording function is capable of recording in real time audio signals of one or more channels output from the mixer apparatus. When a snapshot change is to be made for collectively changing a state of a set of signal-processing setting data, the mixer apparatus transmits, to the processing apparatus, a command for setting a given parameter. Upon receipt of the command, the processing sets and records the given parameter, instructed by the received command, into a project that is recording in real time the audio signals of one or more channels. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130182866 | SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SOUND PROCESSING METHOD - A sound processing apparatus includes an inputting section that inputs a sound signal, an analyzing section that analyzes the input sound signal, a storing section that stores a general-purpose masking sound, a masking sound producing section that, based on a result of the analysis by the analyzing section, processes the general-purpose masking sound stored in the storing section to produce an output masking sound, and an outputting section that outputs the output masking sound. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130180391 | DAMPER DRIVE DEVICE FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - An elongated lifting rail is displaceable to collectively pivot a plurality of damper levers. An actuator is provided beside or underneath the lifting rail for automatically displacing the lifting rail. The lifting rail is displaced, in response to driving of the actuator, to displace the damper levers so that the dampers are moved away from contact with sounding members. Further, a position sensor is provided for detecting a displaced position of the lifting rail, so that position data detected by the position sensor is used for operating position control and/or operating position recording of the dampers. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130180387 | SPEAKER UNIT FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A speaker unit used for a musical instrument and configured to generate music sounds based on a performance operation in a main body of the musical instrument, including: an electrostatic speaker; and a stationary portion which is a portion fixed to the main body of the musical instrument or which is a member attachable to the main body of the musical instrument, wherein the electrostatic speaker is supported by the stationary portion such that at least one of a position and a posture of the electrostatic speaker with respect to the stationary portion is variable. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130180377 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT EQUIPPED WITH A PEDAL, AND METHOD THEREFOR - In a player piano, a position sensor is provided cm an end portion of a lifting rail for detecting a vertical position of the lifting rail. In storing performance data of dampers, a signal output from the position sensor and indicative of a vertical position of the lifting rail is converted into a digital signal, and a position value indicative of the position of the lifting rail is generated on the basis of the digital signal and stored into a buffer. A conversion section converts the position value into a vertical position of a pedal rod connected to a damper pedal, and the thus-converted vertical position is converted, into a control value which a control change message of the damper pedal in MIDI-format data can take. The control value obtained in the aforementioned manner can be recorded into a recording medium as performance information. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130180376 | DRIVE MECHANISM OF LIFTING RAIL FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT INCLUDING THE SAME - A drive mechanism of a lifting rail for a musical instrument including a lifting rail, the drive mechanism including: a connection member connected to the lifting rail; and a movement-force giving mechanism configured to move the lifting rail via the connection member, wherein the lifting rail includes: a hollow portion opening at one end; and a through-hole formed through an upright wall portion of the lifting rail, wherein the connection member includes: an insertion member having an attachment hole corresponding to the through-hole; a fixing member for connecting the lifting rail and the connection member; and a contact portion configured to come into contact with the one end of the lifting rail when the insertion member is inserted in the hollow portion by a prescribed distance so as to prevent the insertion member from being further inserted in the hollow portion, thereby positioning the attachment hole relative to the through-hole. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130176984 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, WIRELESS DEVICE, PROVIDER SERVER, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless access point superimposes establishment information used for establishing a wireless communication channel between a communication terminal and the own device on a sound signal, and emits a sound wave corresponding to the sound signal to a speaker. The communication terminal acquires the sound signal representing the sound wave detected by a microphone, and extracts the establishment information from the acquired sound signal. The communication terminal transmits the extracted establishment information to the wireless access point to establish the wireless communication channel between the communication terminal and the wireless access point, and conducts a communication through the established wireless communication channel. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130174718 | MUSICAL PERFORMANCE APPARATUS - A musical performance apparatus is provided with a tone generation circuit | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130174716 | WAVEFORM DATA GENERATING APPARATUS AND WAVEFORM DATA GENERATING PROGRAM - The waveform data generating apparatus has a waveform data generating circuit WP which inputs a digital signal formed of a plurality of bits which form a control signal for controlling an external apparatus, and generates waveform data indicative of a waveform of a control tone which corresponds to the input digital signal, is formed of tones corresponding to respective values of the bits of the input digital signal, and is formed of frequency components included in a certain high frequency band. The waveform data generating circuit WP has a basic waveform data extraction portion WP | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130174715 | MUSICAL PERFORMANCE APPARATUS AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCE PROGRAM - The musical performance apparatus has a ROM | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130174714 | MUSICAL PERFORMANCE APPARATUS - A musical performance apparatus has a waveform memory WM in which sample values indicative of waveforms of a plurality of tones are stored so that the sampling periods correspond to addresses. The musical performance apparatus also has a tone generation circuit | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130173262 | VOICE CLARIFICATION APPARATUS - The voice clarification apparatus includes a plurality of band-pass filters that respectively extract a plurality of band components, which are included in a voice band, from an input audio signal; a gain determination unit that determines a gain according to the level of a signal of a band component which is extracted by at least one band-pass filter of the plurality of band-pass filters; a level adjustment unit that adjusts the levels of signals of the plurality of band components which are extracted by the plurality of band-pass filters using the gain; and a first addition unit that adds a signal which is based on the audio signal to a signal in which the gain is adjusted by the level adjustment unit, and outputs a signal obtained through the addition. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130170658 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, AUDIO PROCESSOR, AUDIO PROCESSING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - An audio processor acquires processed sound data, which is obtained by processing original sound data according to a content of processing defined such that first sound is emitted under the standard sound emission condition, in association with a sound emission device, acquires a control signal, and acquires a device sound emission condition. In order to make second sound emitted by the sound emission device under the acquired device sound emission condition close to the first sound, the audio processor identifies the correction content of the processed sound data based on a difference between the device sound emission condition and the standard sound emission condition, the control signal, and the processed sound data acquired in association with the sound emission device. The audio processor corrects the processed sound data according to the correction content, and supplies the corrected processed sound data to the sound emission device. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130170655 | AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICE AND AUDIO OUTPUT METHOD - A audio output device includes: a speaker position detecting unit which detects the position of a speaker; a masking sound producing section which produces a masking sound; a plurality of loudspeakers which output the masking sound; and a localization controlling section which controls a localization position of the masking sound based on the speaker position detected by the speaker position detecting unit, and which supplies a sound signal relating to the masking sound to at least one of the plurality of loudspeakers. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130170650 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, AUDIO PROCESSOR, AUDIO PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND VIDEO GAME PROGRAM - An information processor includes a generator that is adapted to generate original sound data indicating an original sound as a basis for a processed sound to be heard by a user and a parameter indicating a content of processing on the original sound data, an original sound data output section that is adapted to output the original sound data generated by the generator from any channel of a plurality of channels, and a control signal output section that is adapted to output a control signal including the parameter and a correspondence relationship between the parameter and the channel for the original sound data to be processed by means of the parameter. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130166478 | Content Management Apparatus - When modification information acquired by an acquisition unit indicates that content is a modification of other content, a computation unit calculates charge of the content by summing a charge of the other content and a price of the content and stores charge information indicating the calculated charge in a storage unit in correspondence to the content. When the modification information corresponding to used content indicates that the used content is a modification of other content, an addition unit adds a price of the other content to a distributed amount allocated to a creator who creates the other content. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130163786 | MIXING SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MIXING SIGNAL PROCESSING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - User is allowed to designate a desired mode defining the respective numbers of channels and mixing buses, and processing for mixing input signals of the number of channels corresponding to the designated mode is performed repetitively to generate signals for the individual buses. The time of arrival of the last step in the mixing processing for the number of channels, corresponding to the designated mode, is detected to output an accumulation result obtained at the last step, and new accumulation is started with a digital audio signal inputted at a step following the last step. Digital audio signals processed by a first signal processing circuit are stored into a memory and transmitted to a second signal processing circuit via a cascade-connection. The second signal processing circuit adds the audio signal, processed for each of the steps, to audio signals input via the cascade-connection and writes added signal into the memory. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130163782 | Sound Processing Apparatus and Sound Processing Method - A sound processing apparatus includes an information acquisition unit which acquires control information including at least one of mode information for designating a reproduction mode of the sound processing apparatus and attribute information for designating an attribute of an audio content represented by a sound signal, a frequency band expansion unit which performs frequency band expansion processing for adding an expanded component generated from the sound signal to the sound signal, and a control unit which changes parameters to be applied to the frequency band expansion processing in accordance with the control information acquired by the information acquisition unit. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130162649 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - A control section analyzes sound data to acquire data indicative of a plurality of attributes, such as pitch and volume, and displays, on a display screen, graphics indicative of the acquired pitch and volume. At that time, the control section displays, on the display screen, a pitch curve where a value of pitch is represented by the vertical axis while the passage of time is represented by the horizontal axis. Also, at a position on the display screen based on a displayed position of the pitch curve, the control section displays a volume graphic where a level of volume is represented by a length or distance or width, in the vertical-axis direction, of the volume graphic. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130156236 | Audio Apparatus and Method of Changing Sound Emission Mode - An audio apparatus includes a main body, a plurality of speakers provided in the main body, a storage section configured to store a conversion table which indicates a correspondence between postures of the main body and control contents of audio signals to be supplied to the speakers, and a control section configured to refer to the conversion table of the storage section, and control the audio signals to be supplied to the speakers in accordance with a posture of the main body. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130156228 | Sound Processing Apparatus, Sound System and Sound Processing Method - A sound processing apparatus processes a first sound signal and a second sound signal. The sound processing apparatus includes a first adjustor which adjusts a volume of the first sound signal, a second adjustor which adjusts a volume of the second sound signal, and a control unit which causes the first adjustor and the second adjustor to adjust the first sound signal gradually changed over a first gradually-change time and the second sound signal gradually changed over a second gradually-change time, wherein the second gradually-change time is shorter than and included in the first gradually-change time. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130151556 | SOUND DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - For each performance part, a database stores therein a plurality of part performance data. The part performance data for each part includes a sound generation pattern and tone data corresponding thereto. A query pattern indicative of a sound generation pattern to be made an object of search is input by a user. A search is made through the database for part performance data including a sound generation pattern matching the query pattern. In response to a user's operation, one part performance data is identified from among searched-out results, and the sound generation pattern of the identified part performance data is instructed as a new query pattern. Then, a further search is made through the database for part performance data including a sound generation pattern matching the new query pattern. The searched-out pattern can be edited by the user and a further search can be made based on the edited pattern. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130146389 | Speaker - A speaker, including: a casing having a baffle plate; and a sound source fixed to the baffle plate of the casing, wherein at least one cutout is formed in the baffle plate, the at least one cutout having a configuration in which a width of the at least one cutout increases with an increase in a distance from the sound source. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130145922 | Signal Processing Device - A signal processing device is designed to automatically calculate a transfer characteristic representing sound-box resonance of a guitar due to acoustic excitation of vibration which may occur due to white noise. White noise emitted toward the guitar causes vibration propagating via strings so as to produce an audio signal via a pickup. A transfer characteristic is calculated based on an audio signal and a white-noise signal. A filter performs convolution, using the transfer characteristic, on audio data representing user's playing sound of the guitar, thus reproducing sound-box resonance indicating distinctive peaks which may appear in a low-frequency range of guitar's sound. It is possible to store a plurality of transfer characteristics in memory, whereby any user may be allowed to select a desired transfer characteristic among transfer functions stored in memory or to utilize a transfer characteristic actually calculated by the signal processing device. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130131841 | Remote Control System and Method - When a controlled device receives a change command from a control device, the controlled device changes a real current memory, generates a change notification that includes first data indicative of the control device having transmitted the change command and second data indicative of the change result in response to the change command, and transmits the generated change notification to the plurality of control devices. Each control device receives a change notification from the controlled devices, changes a virtual current memory based on the second data of the change notification if the first data of the change notification does not indicate the control device. Each control device does not change the virtual current based on the second data included in the change notification if the first data indicates the control device. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130129121 | ELECTROSTATIC LOUDSPEAKER AND METHOD OF PRODUCING ELECTROSTATIC LOUDSPEAKER - An electrostatic loudspeaker includes: a first electrode; a second electrode which is opposed to the first electrode; and a vibrating member which is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and in which an insulation membrane and a conductive membrane are stacked, the insulation membrane being disposed on both end faces of the vibrating member in a direction of the stacking. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130129099 | SOUND PROCESSING DEVICE - In a sound processing device, an index value calculation unit calculates a first index value that follows change of a sound signal at a first following degree and a second index value that follows the change of the sound signal at a second following degree which is lower than the first following degree. An adjustment value calculation unit calculates an adjustment value effective to adjust a reverberation component of the sound signal based on difference between the first index value and the second index value. A reverberation adjustment unit applies the adjustment value to the sound signal. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130126268 | Acoustic Structure - An acoustic structure (e.g. an acoustic tuning panel) includes a plurality of boards and a plurality of resonance tubes with a plurality of openings. The openings are formed at different positions on the side faces of the resonance tubes. One resonance tube may be interposed in and supported by a pair of boards, or one board may be interposed in and supported by a pair of resonance tubes. The resonance tubes are mutually movable in the axial direction so as to independently adjust the opening area of the opening of the resonance tube. With this behavior, it is possible to adjust a ratio of the opening area of the resonance tube to the sectional area of the internal cavity of the resonance tube, thus adjusting the bandwidth of a band causing a sound-absorbing effect and a sound-scattering effect in an acoustic space (e.g. a sound chamber). | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130125734 | MUSICAL SOUND GENERATOR AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MUSICAL SOUND BASED ON ELEMENT DATA - In a musical sound generator that generates plural element tones based on plural pieces of element data and generates a musical sound by combining the generated element tones, a selector selects, upon detecting a sound generation control event, one or more pieces of element data among the plural pieces of element data according to the sound generation control event and in the way corresponding to the sound generation type of each of the plural pieces of element data, and a generator generates, in accordance with each of the element data selected by the selector, an element tone having sound characteristics corresponding to the parameter included in the detected sound generation control event and the characteristic control data included in each of the selected element data. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130125733 | MUSICAL SOUND GENERATOR AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MUSICAL SOUND BASED ON ELEMENT DATA - In a musical sound generator that generates plural element tones based on plural pieces of element data and generates a musical sound by combining the generated element tones, a selector selects, upon detecting a sound generation control event, one or more pieces of element data among the plural pieces of element data according to the sound generation control event and in the way corresponding to the sound generation type of each of the plural pieces of element data, and a generator generates, in accordance with each of the element data selected by the selector, an element tone having sound characteristics corresponding to the parameter included in the detected sound generation control event and the characteristic control data included in each of the selected element data. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130123390 | CURING AGENT COMPOSITION FOR EPOXY RESIN ADHESIVE FOR POROUS MATERIAL - An adhesive for a porous material is made of a curing agent composition and a principal component including an epoxy resin. The curing agent composition for the epoxy resin adhesive includes a water-based polyaminoamide curing agent or a water-based polyamide curing agent, having both a hydrophilic group and lipophilic group, tertiary amine, and water. The water-based polyaminoamide curing agent or the water-based polyamide curing agent is a condensate which is produced via a condensation reaction of polyaminoamide or polyamide with a dimer acid or trimer acid. The adhesive for a porous material precluding formaldehyde indicates a long pot life while demonstrating high adhesion in a short period of time. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130118333 | KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT - In response to an operation of a key, a drive signal indicating a sound waveform corresponding to the key is supplied to an excitation unit provided on a soundboard. The soundboard is vibrated in response to a mechanical vibration generated by the excitation unit and generates an actively-vibrated-soundboard sound as well as an acoustic effect generated by propagation of the vibration of the soundboard to a string. The excitation unit has a voice coil excited by the drive signal. The length of the voice coil is equal to or smaller than a sum of a magnetic path width (mw) of a magnetic path space and a double of a maximum deflection amount (sw) of the vibration member connected to the soundboard. In this way, an effective drive force for exciting the soundboard can be obtained and an enhanced responsiveness in a high frequency band can be obtained. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130118267 | Strain Sensor - A strain sensor includes a flexible substrate, a CNT film made of a plurality of CNT fibers aligned in an orientation direction, a pair of electrodes, and a protective coat. The electrodes are formed at the opposite ends of the CNT film in a perpendicular direction to the orientation direction of the CNT fibers. The protective coat protecting the CNT film is made of a resin, a water-based emulsion, or an oil-based emulsion. The protective coat is placed in contact with at least part of the CTN fibers on the surface of the CNT film. The strain sensor including the protective coat is able to prevent damage/breakage of the CNT film and to prevent foreign matters from entering into gaps between CNT fibers, thus improving durability in maintaining adequate sensing functionality. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130113837 | Parameter Controlling Apparatus - By user's pinching operation on a slider | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130112062 | MUSIC DATA DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - A display area, in which a note is displayed on two-axis coordinates configured by a tone pitch axis and a time axis, is displayed on a display device. A display magnification ratio used in the display area is variable. A note image of a given note is displayed in the display area to be arranged in correspondence with a tone pitch and a tone generation time of the note. The size of the note image is varied with the display magnification ratio. Relevant information is displayed in association with the note image displayed in the display area in such a manner that the relevant information is arranged inside the note image of the note in a first display state and the relevant information is arranged outside the note image of the note in a second display state with a display magnification ratio lower than that of the first display state. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130111757 | METHOD OF FABRICATING BOW STICK OF STRINGED INSTRUMENTAND BOW STICK OF STRINGED INSTRUMENT - A method of fabricating a bow stick includes winding a prepreg, in which a fiber is impregnated with a resin, on a mandrel with a diameter gradually decreasing toward a distal end, setting a semi-fabricated product, in which the prepreg is wound on the mandrel, into a mold and molding the semi-fabricated product in a shape corresponding to a cavity formed between the mold and the mandrel by heating and pressurizing the semi-fabricated product in the mold, and taking out the mandrel from a molded product molded in the shape corresponding to the cavity to acquire a long and hollow stick body. When adjusting at least one of a weight distribution, a center of gravity, and a weight of the stick body, the volume of the cavity is changed using the mandrel of which the diameter or the diameter variation is gradually changed in an axis direction. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130110451 | STATE ESTIMATION APPARATUS | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130108087 | ELECTROSTATIC LOUDSPEAKER | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130108086 | ELECTROSTATIC LOUDSPEAKER | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130108057 | Sound Processing Apparatus | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130108056 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130092007 | KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT - In a predetermined sound generation mode, a drive signal having a frequency characteristic corresponding to an operated key is supplied to excitation units provided on a soundboard. The soundboard is vibrated in response to a mechanical vibration generated by the excitation units to generate an acoustic sound by the vibration of the soundboard. The frequency characteristics of the drive signal to be supplied to each of the excitation units is set in association with the vibration characteristics of the soundboard at a position of a vibration member of each excitation unit connected to the soundboard. For example, the frequency characteristics of the drive signal is set to characteristics capable of suppressing resonance of the soundboard. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130086622 | Input Switching Apparatus and Input Switching Method of Audio/Video Signal, and Audio/Video System - An input switching apparatus includes a plurality of AV signal input units; a communication unit that communicates with another AV device; an input selection unit that selects one of the plurality of AV signal input units; and a selection control unit that switches selection of the input selection unit in accordance with a switching request message for requesting switching of the input selection unit from an origin position to a destination position when the communication unit receives the switching request message. While the input position holding mode is activated, the selection control unit holds the selection of the input selection unit even when the switching request message is received, and transmits a message for causing another device to perform a switching from the destination position to the origin position. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130083937 | Speaker Device, Sound Source Simulation System, and Echo Cancellation System - A speaker device includes an enclosure provided with a speaker unit and a bass reflex port, wherein the bass reflex port has an outer opening opened to outside of the enclosure and an inner opening opened to inside of the enclosure, and has a tubular body whose hollow cross-sectional area is gradually reduced along an axial direction of the bass reflex port from its ends to its center, and the tubular body is formed so that a length of the hollow cross-section in one direction does not change along the axial direction, and wherein the inner opening of the bass reflex port is located opposite to the speaker unit, with the bass reflex port sandwiched therebetween. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130082951 | TOUCH SENSOR, AND CONTROLLER PROVIDED WITH THE TOUCH SENSOR - One electrode and another electrode adjoining an upper end region of the one electrode in an operating direction of a fader sensor are divided by a boundary line extending zigzag in a generally M shape transversely relative to the operating direction, so that upper and lower apex portions of the one electrode and the other electrode bite into each other. Similarly, the one electrode and another electrode adjoining a lower end region of the one electrode each other are divided by a boundary line extending zigzag in a generally M shape transversely relative to the operating direction. As a finger touches the fader sensor, the finger simultaneously touches the three electrodes, and corresponding output signals are output therefrom. A weighted average of the output signals is calculated so that position information of the finger having touched the sensor can be acquired with a high resolution. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130079910 | UPDATING MUSIC CONTENT OR PROGRAM TO USABLE STATE IN COOPERATION WITH EXTERNAL ELECTRONIC AUDIO APPARATUS - A storage section stores therein one or more sets of music content and/or function executing programs, at least a part of the sets of music content and/or function executing programs being set in a non-usable state at least in an initial state. An audio signal containing additional information is received from an external electronic audio apparatus, and a determination is made as to whether the additional information satisfies a predetermined condition. If the additional information satisfies the predetermined condition, any of the sets of music content and/or function executing programs, stored in the storage section, that is currently set in the non-usable state is updated to a usable state. A model of the external electronic audio apparatus is identified, and any of the sets of music content and/or function executing programs that corresponds to the identified model is updated to the usable state. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130077447 | DISPLAYING CONTENT IN RELATION TO MUSIC REPRODUCTION BY MEANS OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS INDEPENDENT OF MUSIC REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - A music reproduction apparatus includes: a reproduction section for reproducing user-selected music piece data; a generation section for generating control information including music piece information identifying a music piece reproduced by the reproduction section and reproduced position information indicative of a currently-reproduced position; a modulation section for outputting, on the basis of the generated control information, an audio signal of a predetermined frequency band for carrying the control information; and an output section for transmitting to outside the audio signal generated by the modulation section. An information processing apparatus stores a plurality of sets of displaying content, receives the audio signal, demodulates the control information from the received audio signal to extract the music piece information and reproduced position information, identifies displaying content from the extracted music piece information, and displays a part of the identified displaying content in accordance with the extracted reproduced position information. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130076542 | CONTROLLER PROVIDED WITH TOUCH DETECTION DEVICE - A controller includes an operating member operable by user's depression, and a touch detection device constructed to detect a depressing touch on the operating member. The touch detection device includes a movable contact pattern provided on the lower surface of the operating member, and a fixed contact pattern disposed underneath the operating member. One of the fixed and movable contact patterns is a coil-shaped contact pattern while the other of the fixed and movable contact patterns is a uniform surface pattern, at least one of the fixed and movable contact patterns has flexibility, and at least one of the fixed and movable contact patterns has a surface slanted from the center of the coil toward the outer peripheral edge of the coil. The coil-shaped contact pattern comprises first and second contact elements constituting a dual coil pattern. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130073701 | Information Processing System, Setting Alteration Method and Computer Program - A manufacturer's in-house server receives serial numbers from BD players, and transmits the received serial numbers to an SCM server. The SCM server collates the serial numbers into a control table, and transmits information to the manufacturer's in-house server such as information showing which dispatch destination and sales outlet each BD player passed through before being installed in a user's home (i.e., distribution information). In accordance with the collated control table, the manufacturer's in-house server then transmits flags that are used to make settings appropriate to each BD player. Each BD player then alters its own settings in accordance with its received flag. For example, a setting may be made to start up an application for an information delivery service (i.e., a delivery service for contents such as moving pictures and the like) that the BD player is to be connected to. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073253 | STATE ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND OFFSET UPDATE METHOD - A state estimation apparatus has a plurality of sensors including a three-dimensional magnetic sensor for detecting magnetic components. A Kalman filter is used to update a state vector based on an observation residual. The state vector has components representing a plurality of state variables which include a state variable for estimating an offset of the magnetic data. A central point calculation unit assumes that coordinates indicated by a predetermined number of the magnetic data probabilistically distribute in the vicinity of a spherical surface, and calculates a central point of the spherical surface. The Kalman filter updates the state variable for estimating an offset of the magnetic data using the central point of the spherical surface. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130068084 | ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - An electronic keyboard musical instrument, including: a key; a mass body driven by a depressed key for pivotally moving in a movement region between a rest position and an end position; a back check portion to back check the mass body; a position detecting portion to detect a position of the mass body; and a controller for controlling silencing of a tone, such that the currently generated tone is silenced when the mass body reaches a preset tone silencing position in its movement from the end position to the rest position, wherein the controller is configured to change the tone silencing position on the basis of respective times required for the mass body to pass through first and second sub regions of the movement region in the movement of the mass body, the second sub region being located nearer to the rest position than the first sub region. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130062139 | Audio Apparatus - An audio apparatus includes a housing including a space which is enclosed at least one pair of opposite surfaces, and an open pipe including a first open end and a second open end positioned in the space. The open pipe has a pipe length of integral multiple of a substantially half wavelength of a stationary wave which is generated in the space. The first open end of the open pipe is disposed at a position of a substantial loop of the stationary wave which is generated in the space. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130061900 | THERMOELECTRIC DEVICE - A thermoelectric device absorbs heat from an object coming into contact with a heat absorber, moves the heat absorbed via a thermoelectric module to a radiator, and radiates the heat from the radiator. The support member has a lower surface that is bonded to a radiator upper surface, and a side surface that is placed so as to face the side surface of the heat absorber. The support member forms a tilling region between the support member and the side surface, and a sealing member fills the filling region. The thermoelectric module is placed in an internal space | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130061734 | ACOUSTIC EFFECT IMPARTMENT APPARATUS, AND PIANO - An acoustic effect impartment apparatus detects striking of any one of strings by a corresponding hammer in an acoustic piano like a grand piano, and vibrates a vibration section with a driving waveform signal obtained by synthesizing sine wave signals of the fundamental frequency and harmonic frequency of the hammer-struck string. Such vibration of the vibration section is transmitted to the keys via a soundboard and bridge of the piano. Thus, vibration is excited in the hammer-struck string by the striking with the hammer but also by the driving waveform signal, so that an acoustic effect corresponding to the driving waveform signal is imparted. Because the driving waveform signal is a simple signal using the sine wave signals corresponding to the fundamental frequency of the string, a natural feeling of the acoustic piano will not be lost even when the acoustic effect is imparted. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130061733 | KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT - In a predetermined sound generation mode, a drive signal having a frequency characteristic corresponding to an operated key is supplied to an excitation unit provided on a soundboard. In response to a mechanical vibration generated by the excitation unit, the soundboard is vibrated so as to generate an acoustic vibration sound corresponding to the operated key. The excitation unit is supported by a supporting unit such that less or no load of the excitation unit except a vibration member vibrated in response to the drive signal is applied to the soundboard. Thus, only a load of the vibration member which is a very light portion of the excitation unit is applied to the soundboard, thereby vibration characteristics of the soundboard being hardly affected. When a sound damping mode is selected, a stopper is permitted to prevent a hammer from striking a sounding body. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130060470 | GEOMAGNETISM MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - In a geomagnetism measurement apparatus, a magnetic sensor detects magnetic data, and a storage unit stores the magnetic data sequentially output from the magnetic sensor. An ellipsoid generation unit calculates each ellipsoidal central point of first, second and third ellipsoids each of which has in the vicinity thereof a plurality of the magnetic data stored in the storage unit. An ellipsoidal central point decision unit decides whether or not a distance between respective ellipsoidal central points is equal to or less than a threshold value. A correction value generation unit calculates an ellipsoidal correction matrix for converting coordinates on an ellipsoid into coordinates on a sphere based on a coefficient matrix representing a shape of one of the first, second and third ellipsoids according to the decision result. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060364 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A MIXER VIA EXTERNAL CONTROLLER - A system includes at least one controller device connectable to a computer where a mixer function is implemented by application software. The controller device includes: a communication interface connectable to the computer; a plurality of faders capable of remote-controlling parameters of channels assigned thereto; a channel shift button; and a bank shift button. The channels assigned to the faders are collectively shifted by one channel in response to an instruction given via the channel shift button, or collectively shifted by the one bank in response to an instruction given via the bank shift button. For each of the controller devices, identification information of the controller device and information of a first channel of all of the assigned channels is stored so that the stored information is used at the time of activation of the software for restoring previous settings stored at the time of last deactivation of the software. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130059528 | Wireless Terminal Installation Device - A wireless terminal installation device on which a wireless terminal is to be installed includes a housing and a substrate provided at an inside of the housing. The substrate includes at least a printed board, a mounting part that is provided on the printed board and mounted with a conductor, a conductor-free part which is an area that excludes a conductor, and a parasitic antenna that is provided on the conductor-free part to re-emit a radio wave received. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130047821 | ACCOMPANIMENT DATA GENERATING APPARATUS - An accompaniment data generating apparatus has a phrase waveform data storing portion for storing sets of phrase waveform data each indicative of a phrase of accompaniment tones preformed at a reference tempo and each corresponding to a different reference note. The accompaniment data generating apparatus obtains a reproduction tempo, obtains the first reference note, selects a set of phrase waveform data corresponding to the second reference note whose tone pitch is different from a tone pitch of the first reference note, and reads out the selected phrase waveform data set at a speed by which the tone pitch of the second reference note of the selected phrase waveform data set agrees with the tone pitch of the first reference note of a case where a set of phrase waveform data corresponding to the first reference note is reproduced at the reference note. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130038321 | INSPECTION APPARATUS AND INSPECTION METHOD OF MAGNETIC SENSOR - A magnetic sensor inspection apparatus has a rectangular frame including a stage, a probe card, and a plurality of magnetic field generating coils. A wafer-like array of magnetic sensors is mounted on the stage, which is movable in horizontal and vertical directions. The probe card includes a plurality of probes which are brought into contact with a plurality of magnetic sensors encompassed in a measurement area. The magnetic field generating coils are driven to generate a magnetic field toward the stage. A plurality of magnetic field environment measuring sensors is arranged in the peripheral portion of the probe card surrounding the probes. A magnetic field controller controls magnetic fields generated by the magnetic field generating coils based on the measurement result of the magnetic field environment measuring sensors. Thus, it is possible to concurrently inspect a wafer-like array of magnetic sensors with the probe card. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130035174 | GOLF CLUB MEASURING SYSTEM AND GOLF CLUB MEASURING METHOD - A golf club measuring system is designed to dynamically measure physical values of a golf club shaft during its swinging motion. A sensor wiring substrate includes a flexible board (e.g. polyethylene terephthalate material), a connector, a plurality of couplers, and a plurality of wires. A plurality of sensors is connected to the sensor wiring substrate via a plurality of couplers. The sensor wiring substrate is helically wound about the golf club shaft such that the flexible board is slightly warped and closely attached to the curved surface of a golf club shaft, thus reducing air resistance occurring on the golf club shaft being swung. An external device (e.g. a strain measuring device) is connected to the connector of the sensor wiring substrate so as to receive signals representing physical values (e.g. strain values), occurring on the golf club shaft being swung, from a plurality of sensors. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130010968 | Sound Processing Apparatus - In a sound processing apparatus, a matrix factorization unit acquires a non-negative first basis matrix including a plurality of basis vectors that represent spectra of sound components of a first sound source, and acquires an observation matrix that represents time series of a spectrum of a sound signal corresponding to a mixed sound of the first sound source and a second sound source different from the first sound source. The matrix factorization unit generates a first coefficient matrix, a second basis matrix and a second coefficient matrix from the observation matrix by non-negative matrix factorization using the first basis matrix. A sound generation unit generates either of a sound signal according to the first basis matrix and the first coefficient matrix or a sound signal according to the second basis matrix and the second coefficient matrix. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130010647 | Audio Network System and Display Method - In a top row on an audio network view screen, device images corresponding to devices composing a basic network are displayed in such a manner as to be arranged in a horizontal direction according to a connection order along with connection cable images indicative of connections between the device images according to connections between devices in the network. In display rows subsequent under the top row, other device images corresponding to devices composing another network which is connected to a connection node in the basic network with a full bridge are displayed in such a manner as to be arranged in the horizontal direction in a connection order along with connection cable images indicative of connections between the device images according to connections in the other network. As for a network connected to the basic network with a partial bridge setting, a partial bridge image is displayed in a display rows. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130008296 | LID OPENING/CLOSING MECHANISM FOR KEYBOARD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A lid opening/closing mechanism for a keyboard musical instrument, including: a main body including a casing and a keyboard; a lid attached to the casing so as to be movable between a closed position for covering the keyboard and an open position for uncovering the keyboard; and a connecting mechanism for connecting a side wall portion in the casing and an end portion of the lid and opposed to the side wall portion, wherein the connecting mechanism is configured such that, during a movement of the lid from the closed position to the open position, a rear end portion of the lid slidingly moves only in a direction from a rear end portion of the main body toward a front end portion thereof or moves in the direction from the rear end portion of the main body toward the front end portion thereof and in an upward direction. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130003983 | HEADPHONE - A headphone includes: a pair of earphone units each of which includes a speaker and a plurality of microphones which are arranged at a back side of the speaker in a given pattern and through which external sounds are picked up; a sound pickup signal generator configured to generate a plurality of sound pickup signals, each of which has a given directivity, by using a plurality of signals outputted from the plurality of microphones; an external source sound input section through which an external source sound signal from an external source is inputted; and a sound emission signal generator configured to generate sound emission signals, which are to be inputted to the speakers of the earphone units and each of which has a directivity, by using the external source sound signal and the plurality of sound pickup signals. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20120328130 | Parameter Controlling Apparatus - A parameter controlling apparatus has a CPU | 12-27-2012 |
