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| 20080223196 | Semiconductor Device Having Music Generation Function, and Mobile Electronic Device, Mobile Telephone Device, Spectacle Instrument, and Spectacle instrument Set Using the Same - There is provided a semiconductor device having a music generation function for automatically generating music data from image data inputted without preparing music information in advance, and a mobile electronic device, a mobile telephone device, a spectacle instrument, and a spectacle instrument set using the same. The device includes a miniature camera | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080229908 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH ELECTRONIC PROOF SYSTEM, ELECTRIC SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An automatic player musical instrument is a combination of an acoustic piano and an electric system, which serves as an automatic playing system and an electronic proof system, and a controller of the electric system has an information processing capability; when a user instructs the electric system to check performance on the keyboard, a subroutine program for electronic proof starts to run; while the user is fingering a music tune, the controller monitors the keys with key sensors to see whether or not the user correctly plays the music tune; when the user mistakenly depresses a key instead of another key, the controller gives rise to vibrations of the mistakenly de-pressed key so as to give a notice of incorrect fingering to the user. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080229909 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING RECEIVED MUSIC CONTENT - A browser portion BR obtains a reproduction manner specifying file from a content distribution server | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080236363 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CAPABLE OF PRODUCING AFTER-TONES AND AUTOMATIC PLAYING SYSTEM - An automatic player musical instrument includes an acoustic piano and an electronic system for selectively producing acoustic tones and electronic tones as regular tones equivalent to the tones to be produced for the keys moved toward the end positions and after-tones equivalent to the tones to be produced for the keys moved toward the rest positions, and a controller of the electronic system makes the acoustic piano and an electronic tone generating system produce the after-tones alone or together with the regular tones depending upon user's instruction so that the users can perform or reproduce music tunes in various renditions such as, for example, tremolo, syncopation and vibrato. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080295671 | Electronic Musical Instrument Keyboard Apparatus - Mass body unit includes a base section, an elongated member, and a mass concentrating section. The elongated member is formed by a thin sheet metal plate being bent, along its length, into a hollow cross-sectional shape such that an opening portion is defined between left and right longitudinal edges. In a section of the elongated member near a rear end of the member, the left and right longitudinal edges extend in parallel to define an outer wall portion of a U cross-sectional shape. In a section of the elongated member near a boundary position adjacent to the rear end of the member, the opening portion between the left and right longitudinal edges gradually decreases in width. Further, in a section from the boundary position to a front end, the elongated member has a hollow circular cross-sectional shape with the opening portion closed. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090000461 | APPLIANCE AUDIO NOTIFICATION DEVICE - A flexible audio tone-generating device for use in a consumer appliance. The device generates pleasing musical tones. The device uses two outputs of a software-executing processor utilizing stored tone data associated with status events of the appliance to drive a tone circuit for outputting a melody using the tones to notify the user of the existence of one of the status events. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090044685 | ENSEMBLE SYSTEM - An electronic musical instrument is provided, which makes it possible to manage a state of attendance (presence/absence, etc.) of participants and perform easy management on the level of activity on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. According to performance operations on performance terminals | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090114080 | VOICE SIGNAL BLOCKER, TALK ASSISTING SYSTEM USING THE SAME AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - A talk assisting system has a vibration sensor for detecting tones produced through a musical instrument and a signal interrupter connected between a microphone and a sound system; while a player is fingering a music tune on the musical instrument, pieces of vibration data express a wide amplitude of the vibrations, and a tone discriminator changes a state signal to an active high level; and the signal interrupter is responsive to the state signal so as to block the sound system from the voice signal, whereby the tones are not mixed with the voice. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090199697 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, DEVICES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING MUSIC RECOMMENDATION TREKKING - An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided to allow a user to generate a playlist in a game-like manner. A starting song and a target song may be initially selected. The computer system recommends a plurality of songs based on the starting song. The user selects a song from these recommendations. The system then recommends another plurality of songs based on the user-selected song. The user then selects a song from these recommendations and the system recommends yet another plurality of songs based on the new user-selected song. This process continues until the system recommends and the user selects the target song. The user generally desires minimize the steps required to traverse a music collection from the starting song to the target song. The path that the user takes to reach the target song can be stored as a playlist. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090260504 | AUTOMATIC AUDIO PLAYING DEVICE - The automatic audio playing device mainly contains a hollow body member, a control unit housed inside the body member, a plug member and a speaker as integral parts of the body member, an adaptor, and a remote controller. The control unit has a radio reception circuit for receiving control signals from the remote controller. The control signal is forwarded to a signal processing circuit, which in turn triggers a microprocessor in accordance with the control signals. The microprocessor instructs an audio playing circuit to play an appropriate digital audio file via the speaker. The plug member could be plugged into a conventional lamp socket for a light bulb, or the plug member is first plugged into the adaptor and the adaptor is then plugged into a conventional wall socket. Once this is done, the automatic audio playing device could be turned on and off by switches of existing wiring. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090301286 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - An electronic musical instrument includes a keyboard having a plurality of keys, a top board located in the rear of the keyboard and having a space for placing external equipment, a music stand that is erected on the top board, and a plurality of connection terminals that are located in the rear of the music stand and on a top surface of the top board, and that are freely connected with and disconnected from the external equipment. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100043625 | MUSICAL COMPOSITION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A GENERATION OF A MUSICAL COMPOSITION - A musical composition system, includes a plurality of tokens ( | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100107855 | System and methods for the creation and performance of enriched musical composition - A System and method for the creation and performance of enriched musical composition. One aspect of the invention allows a composer to associate content with one or more triggers, and to define behavior characteristics that control the functioning of each trigger. Another aspect of the invention provides a variety of user interfaces through which a performer can cause content to be presented to an audience. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100236383 | Living organism controlled music generating system - A music synthesising system wherein the musical output is responsive to the normal activities of a living organism. In one example, electrical activity within the cells of a living plant is used to trigger and modulate a music synthesiser. In another example, the movements of a bird in a cage as sensed by a video camera are used to trigger and modulate a music synthesiser. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100307320 | FLEXIBLE MUSIC COMPOSITION ENGINE - An apparatus, method and system for generating music in real time are provided. A pipeline for coordinating generation of a musical piece is created. At least one producer is loaded into the pipeline, the at least one producer for producing at least one high level musical element of the musical piece, independent of other producers in the pipeline. At least one generator is called by the at least one producer, the at least one generator for generating at least one low level music element of the musical piece. The at least one low level musical element and the at least one high level musical element are integrated, such that the musical piece is generated in real time. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110017048 | DROP TUNE SYSTEM - A tuning device receives the electrical output of an instrument that reflects sound at a first tone level. The tuning device digitizes electrical output. The user has switches operable to generate control signals that are processed to effect a bypass of the device or to digitally drop the tone level in half steps up to an octave and to selectively mix the drop tone level with the input tone level. The user may then broadcast one of the bypassed signal, the drop tone signal or a mixed signal of the drop tone and the input tone level. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110174137 | TONE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - Watermark information indicative of content of music piece performance data to be reproduced in synchronism with a first audio signal is embedded into the first audio signal, and the resultant signal is acquired as a second audio signal. In parallel to the above-mentioned processing, the watermark information is decoded from the second audio signal, the content of music piece performance data to be reproduced is identified on the basis of the decoded watermark information, and then a tone signal based on the music piece performance data is reproduced in accordance with the identified content. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20120006181 | PERFORMANCE APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A performance apparatus | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120017749 | TONE GENERATION CONTROL APPARATUS - A tone generation apparatus detects a position of a mouthpiece section having been pressed by a human player holding the mouthpiece section in his or her mouth. The tone generation apparatus identifies a tone pitch on the basis of the detected position and human player's operation on a piston control. Also, the tone generation apparatus detects a pressure of breath blown by the human player into the mouthpiece section and generates a tone signal of a wind instrument having the identified tone pitch, and audibly reproduces the tone signal after amplifying the tone signal in accordance with a tone volume level corresponding to the detected pressure of breath. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120024128 | PERFORMANCE APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A performance apparatus | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120152087 | PERFORMANCE APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A performance apparatus | 06-21-2012 |
| 20150302841 | HAPTIC CONTROLLER SUITABLE FOR CONTROLLING A SOUND CHARACTERISTIC - The invention relates to a haptic controller comprising a base ( | 10-22-2015 |
| 20160196813 | SMART DRUMSTICKS | 07-07-2016 |
| 20160203806 | INTERACTIVE INSTRUMENTS AND OTHER STRIKING OBJECTS | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160203807 | INTERACTIVE INSTRUMENTS AND OTHER STRIKING OBJECTS | 07-14-2016 |
| 20180025711 | PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT | 01-25-2018 |
