| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 084644000 | Constructional details | 7 |
| 20080229914 | Foot operated transport controller for digital audio workstations - A foot-operated programmable transport controller for use in conjunction with a sound and music-editing software application while connecting a musical instrument. The controller comprises a keyboard comprising a plurality of keys; each key for performing at least one function pertaining to the software application. The controller further comprises a user interface for creating, editing, storing, and retrieving different profiles; the profile being a complete set of all functions assigned to all the keys and their combinations. The user interface is provided through a host computer system. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20100224052 | SIGNAL DISTRIBUTION WITHIN MODULAR STRUCTURES FACILITATING AGGREGATED AND FIELD-CUSTOMIZED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS - A signal distribution system for a customizable aggregated musical instrument is described. The signal distribution system interfaces with a plurality of individual musical modules secured in a mounting frame having a plurality of mounting locations, each mounting location adapted to receive an individual musical module, and includes at least one instrument interface adapted to transmit interface signals to an external system and a signal routing infrastructure. Outgoing instrument interface signals include at least one of an outgoing audio signal, MIDI control signal, computer data signal, and video signal. Incoming instrument interface signals include at least one of an audio signal, MIDI control signal, computer data signal, and video signal. The musical instrument also includes at least one of an audio signal processing element, audio signal mixing element, audio sound production element, control signal processing element, control signal merging element, and controllable audio signal synthesizer element. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20120297960 | SOUND SHOE STUDIO - A sound shoe having multiplicity of musical instruments, said instruments being one or more of a tambourine, jingles, Djembe shakers, a spoke to play a guiro, cymbals or cowbells, a bell, claps, wooden clackers generate. The shoe being able to mix sound generated by the shoe with other musical sounds and record them at the same time. This shoe allows for adjusting, amplifying and controlling of the music and audio generated within the shoe. The shoe performing equalization, reverberation and editing of the waveforms and MIDI sounds. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20130047824 | CUSTOMIZABLE ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND USER INTERFACE - A customizable electronic musical instrument comprising a mounting frame for securing a plurality of user-installable electronic musical modules of various types including a type for generating at least one real-time control signal responsive to user operation, a type for generating audio signals, responsive to a real-time control signal, and a for processing audio signals responsive to at least one of a real-time control signal. The instrument can transmit electrical signals to an external system and can include internal sound amplification. The instrument can include one or more of a keyboard, touchpad, strumpad, impact sensor, slider control, expression wheel, joystick, ribbon controller, button, switch, pressure sensor, multiple-position selector, knob potentiometer, and music synthesizer elements. Signals may be routed among modules by a switch or bus. | 02-28-2013 |
| 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 |
| 20140109753 | MODULAR APPROACH TO LARGE STRING ARRAY ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS SUCH AS SPECIALIZED HARPS, ZITHERS, SYMPATHETIC STRING ARRAYS, PARTCH KITHARA AND HARMONIC CANNON - A modular approach to large string array electronic musical instruments such as specialized harps, zithers, sympathetic string arrays, the Harry Partch Kithara, the Harry Partch Harmonic Cannon, and other large string array electronic musical instruments is presented. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20150356961 | INSTALLATION STRUCTURE FOR ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER - An installation structure for an acoustic transducer for vibrating a vibrated body in a first direction includes a magnetic-path forming portion; a movable unit having an electromagnetic coupling portion and configured to vibrate in the first direction; an attachment portion which attaches the magnetic-path forming portion to a fixed portion; a connector connected to the vibrated body and connecting the movable unit to the vibrated body; and a displacement permitting mechanism configured to permit electromagnetic coupling between the magnetic-path forming portion and the electromagnetic coupling portion to be maintained and to permit the vibration of the movable unit to be transmitted to the vibrated body when the connector is displaced with respect to the fixed portion within a predetermined range in an intersecting direction that intersects the first direction. The displacement permitting mechanism is provided at at least one of the attachment portion, the movable unit, and the connector. | 12-10-2015 |
