| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 084735000 | Tone synthesis or timbre control | 21 |
| 20090183627 | ELECTRONIC PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT - An electronic percussion instrument can carry out the control of the musical tones that is intended by the performer. The instrument includes electronic controls that set a vibration flag when the instrument is struck and a determination is made as to whether or not a timer has timed a specified time period. If the timer has timed the specified time period, the vibration flag that is stored in the flag memory is reset. If the time period has not been reached, the displacement sensor processing ends and the routine returns to the main processing. In those cases where the vibration flag is not set, or in those cases where the resetting of the vibration flag has completed, a determination is made as to whether or not the upper cymbal has shifted from an open position to the closed position. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090320671 | Method and apparatus for electronically sustaining a note from a musical instrument - A sensed signal corresponding to a note played on a musical instrument is electronically sustained by electronically combining the sensed signal with a synthesized signal whenever a sustain control switch is activated. The set of characteristics of the synthesized signal are, initially, substantially the same as the set of characteristics of the sensed signal, but may be varied over time. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100175543 | Processing Audio Signals with Portable Handheld Computing Devices - Systems and methods for processing a signal of an electric guitar are provided. An input guitar signal is received by a portable handheld computing device. The input guitar signal is processed using the digital signal. The combined guitar output is transmitted. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100313740 | Stringed Instrument for Connection to a Computer to Implement DSP Modeling - Disclosed is a stringed instrument that includes a plurality of strings and a pickup to which each of the plurality of strings is respectively coupled that is connectable to a computer to implement DSP modeling. A serial interface circuit is coupled to the pickup and to a digital connector that formats each digital string vibration signal received from the pickup into a digital serial protocol. A computer is coupled by a serial link to the digital connector such that the computer receives each serially formatted digital string signal (SFDSS). The computer operates at least one audio DSP-based software module to process each received SFDSS wherein each SFDSS is processed in order to emulate a corresponding string tone of one of a plurality of stringed instruments to create an emulated digital string tone signal (EDSTS). Each EDSTS is then transmitted back over the serial link to the stringed instrument for playback. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110146480 | DIGITAL AUDIO CONNECTIONS FOR PORTABLE HANDHELD COMPUTING DEVICES - Systems and methods for processing a signal of an electric guitar are provided. An input guitar signal is received by a portable handheld computing device. The input guitar signal is processed using the digital signal. The combined guitar output is transmitted through the portable handheld computing device. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110219942 | AUDIO COUPLING DEVICE TO COUPLE AN ELECTRIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TO A HANDHELD COMPUTING DEVICE - An audio coupling device is disclosed that includes a connector for an electric musical instrument, a connector for a handheld computing device, and a connector for headphones. The device may also include electrical decoupling and shielding mechanisms. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110226118 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND STRINGED INSTRUMENT - A signal processing device is composed of an acquiring unit, a filter unit and a changing unit. The acquiring unit acquires a signal indicating vibration of a string. The filter unit performs convolution operation on the signal acquired by the acquiring unit according to a filter coefficient and outputs a resulting signal. The filter coefficient is set such that the resulting signal has a frequency response containing a plurality of peak waveforms associated with resonance of a body of a stringed instrument within a specific frequency range. The changing unit changes the filter coefficient so as to change a peak value of each of the peak waveforms while maintaining a width of each of the peak waveforms in the frequency response. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20120227574 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - Provided are an electronic musical instrument, computer storage device, and method generating tones for held notes. Indication is made of held notes having pitches as held in response to receiving note-on information for the held notes from an input device of an electronic musical instrument while receiving hold information from a hold device of the electronic musical instrument. Note-on information is received for a received note having a pitch while generating the pitches for the held notes. Selection is made of one of the held notes to release according to a first selection criteria in response to determining that the pitch difference of the received note and at least one of the held notes does not exceed the predetermined number of tones or selection is made according to a second selection criteria if the pitch difference exceeds the predetermined number of tones. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120227575 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - Provided is an electronic musical instrument comprising: an input device for inputting sound generation instructions of tones at predetermined pitches; a tone generation device that generates tones with predetermined pitches based on sound generation instructions inputted by the input device; a specifying device that specifies a plurality of sound generation instructions inputted by the input device in a predetermined period as a sound generation instruction group; a sorting device that sorts the plurality of sound generation instructions composing the sound generation instruction group specified by the specifying device in a predetermined pitch order; and a control device that controls generation of tones by the tone generation device such that tones corresponding to the sound generation instruction group are generated in the order sorted by the sorting device. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120227576 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - Provided are an electronic musical instrument, computer storage device, and method for generating tone. A sound source in an electronic musical instrument generates a first tone at a first pitch in response to a first tone generation instruction received by an input device of the electronic musical instrument. A second tone generation instruction is received to generate a second tone at a second pitch while generating the first tone at the sound source. A determination is made of a pitch difference of the first and the second pitches. The sound source is controlled to generate the second tone and to not generate the first tone in response to determining that the pitch difference does not exceed a predetermined number of tones. The sound source is controlled to generate the second tone in response to determining that the pitch difference exceeds the predetermined number of tones. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120247309 | PIANO WITH ELECTRONIC TONE GENERATOR - A piano with an electronic tone generator capable of outputting musical sound signals of a reverberation and/or a resonance, in accordance with whether an external output is performed or not. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20140190337 | ELECTRONIC STRINGED INSTRUMENT, MUSICAL SOUND GENERATION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140190338 | ELECTRONIC STRINGED INSTRUMENT, MUSICAL SOUND GENERATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An electronic stringed instrument | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140373702 | TIMBRE PROCESSING ADAPTER SOCKET FOR ELECTRIC GUITAR - A timbre processing adapter socket for electric guitar is provided, including a socket body and a fixing unit. The socket body includes a groove seat and an assembling seat connected with each other. The groove seat has an accommodation groove, and a signal transmitter is arranged on an inner end portion of the accommodation groove. A timbre processor is accommodated in the accommodation groove and further electrically connected to the signal transmitter. The assembling seat is provided with an audio input hole, a timbre processing signal output hole, at least one speaker and at least one battery connected with each other electrically. The fixing unit fixes the socket body detachably on an external end portion of the electric guitar. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150317966 | PICKUP WITH ONE OR MORE INTEGRATED CONTROLS - A musical instrument pickup, having a pickup body, a tone shaping circuit, and at least one integrated control in and/or on the pickup body. Embodiments of the present disclosure may utilize one or more techniques, alone or in combination, to adjust, e.g., the tone of a musical instrument by changing the frequency response of a pickup with the one or more integrated controls. One exemplary technique utilizes a plurality of knobs to selectively control the gain, resonant frequency, and/or circuit Q of the pickup. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150348525 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, METHOD OF CONTROLLING SOUND GENERATION, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic musical instrument is provided with a voice sensor for detecting a voice uttered by a user, when the user blows into the musical instrument with a voice, a breath sensor for detecting at least one of a blow pressure and a blow volume in a body of the musical instrument, when the user blows into the musical instrument with a voice, and a musical tone controlling unit for controlling generation of a musical tone based on at least one of outputs of the voice sensor and the breath sensor. | 12-03-2015 |
| 084736000 | Filtering | 5 |
| 20110226119 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND STRINGED INSTRUMENT - A signal processing device is composed of a signal acquisition unit and a signal processing unit. The signal acquisition unit acquires a signal corresponding to a vibration propagated from a string attached to a stringed instrument from a pickup element that picks up the signal corresponding to the vibration. The signal processing unit includes a filter that performs convolution operation using a filter coefficient set in the filter, the signal processing unit applying the convolution operation to the acquired signal through the filter and outputting a processed signal. The filter is set with the filter coefficient corresponding to a transfer function which has a frequency response developing a plurality of peak waveforms corresponding to resonance of a body of another stringed instrument different from the stringed instrument within a specific frequency range and which allows components of the peak waveforms to decay more rapidly than a component of a fundamental sound in the vibration of the string in the processed signal. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20120192702 | Electronic Signal Processor - An electronic signal processor for processing signals includes a complex first filter, one or more gain stages and a second filter. The first filter is characterized by a frequency response curve that includes multiple corner frequencies, with some corner frequencies being user selectable. The first filter also has at least two user-preset gain levels which may be alternately selected by a switch. Lower frequency signals are processed by the first filter with at least 12 db/octave slope, and preferably with 18 db/octave slope to minimize intermodulation distortion products by subsequent amplification in the gain stages. A second filter provides further filtering and amplitude control. The signal processor is particularly suited for processing audio frequency signals. Related methods include filtering the input signal with an input filter of the second or third order high pass type, amplifying the filtered signal and further filtering the | 08-02-2012 |
| 20130061736 | VIBRATION GENERATOR - From analog music information in which the sounds of a plurality of musical instruments are mixed, sound data corresponding to the register of the reproduced sound of a bass guitar and sound data corresponding to the register of the reproduced sound of a drum are extracted using a band-pass filter. A drive pulse with a low frequency is generated within the periods of data sections in which the former sound data reaches a predetermined level or higher, and a drive pulse with a high frequency is generated within the periods of data sections in which the latter sound data reaches a predetermined level or higher. A vibrating body in a vibration mechanism unit is resonated by two drive pulses with frequencies, thereby causing vibration according to the reproduced sound of music. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130233159 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR STRINGED INSTRUMENT - A signal processing apparatus | 09-12-2013 |
| 20140290468 | Electronic Signal Processor - An electronic signal processor for processing signals includes a complex first filter, one or more gain stages and a second filter. The first filter is characterized by a frequency response curve that includes multiple corner frequencies, with some corner frequencies being user selectable. The first filter also has at least two user-preset gain levels which may be alternately selected by a switch. Lower frequency signals are processed by the first filter with at least 12 db/octave slope, and preferably with 18 db/octave slope to minimize intermodulation distortion products by subsequent amplification in the gain stages. A second filter provides further filtering and amplitude control. The signal processor is particularly suited for processing audio frequency signals. | 10-02-2014 |
