| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 084733000 | Capacitive | 7 |
| 20080236374 | Instrument having capacitance sense inputs in lieu of string inputs - An electronic system can generate music related data based on capacitive sensed inputs. The system can include a plurality of capacitance sensor inputs for receiving connection to a plurality of capacitance sensors. At least one activation input can be included for receiving at least one activation signal generated in response to a physical action on the system. A control section can be coupled to the capacitive sensor inputs and the at least one activation input, the control section including at least one processor for sensing the capacitance at each capacitive sense input and generating sense position information therefrom. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20110290099 | Intuitive Electric Guitar Switching for Selecting Sounds of Popular Guitars - A guitar-family-characteristic-sound selector switch ( | 12-01-2011 |
| 20120152089 | Amplifier with selectable master control - An amplifier for electric guitar including a Cut control for attenuating high frequencies whose operation is expanded via a switch to alternately function as a Master Volume control. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20130068087 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH ONE SIDED THIN FILM CAPACITIVE TOUCH SENSORS - Touch sensitive musical instruments are described herein including embodiments having: one-sided capacitive touch sensors with conductive ground planes, one-sided capacitive touch sensors with air gaps, one-sided capacitive touch sensors with separating material, and/or one-sided capacitive touch sensors including a combination of conductive ground planes, air gaps, and/or separating material. Embodiments of touch sensitive musical instruments simulating string instruments such as guitars are described. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20140060290 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH ONE SIDED THIN FILM CAPACITIVE TOUCH SENSORS - Touch-sensitive musical instruments with one or more strum sensors and one or more fret sensors, wherein each of the one or more strum sensors and the one or more fret sensors includes a capacitive touch sensor. The touch sensitive musical instrument has an audio module configured to generate an audio signal in response to triggering of the one or more strum sensors, the one or more fret sensors, or a combination thereof. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140260923 | HANDHELD MUSICAL PRACTICE DEVICE - A micro-practicing device emulates a portion of a full size instrument. The micro-practicing device includes a fingerboard with fret wires dividing the fingerboard into frets. In order to emulate the portion of the full size instrument, a length of each fret substantially matches lengths of frets of full size instruments. At the same time, the fingerboard is sized to enable increased portability. The device includes capacitive sensors adapted to detect the longitudinal and transverse positions of the user's fingers on the frets, and to communicate that positional information to a body portion. The body portion transmits the positional information to an external musical module, which converts the positional information into musical tones. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20150143980 | HANDHELD MUSICAL PRACTICE DEVICE - A micro-practicing device emulates a portion of a full size instrument. The micro-practicing device includes a fingerboard with fret wires dividing the fingerboard into frets. In order to emulate the portion of the full size instrument, a length of each fret substantially matches lengths of frets of full size instruments. At the same time, the fingerboard is sized to enable increased portability. The device includes capacitive sensors adapted to detect the longitudinal and transverse positions of the user's fingers on the frets, and to communicate that positional information to a body portion. The body portion transmits the positional information to an external musical module, which converts the positional information into musical tones. | 05-28-2015 |
