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7514624 Portable telephony apparatus with music tone generator  
A sound control apparatus is provided in a portable terminal for sounding a music tone in association with operation of the portable terminal, which is controlled by a main CPU. In the sound...
7435893 Image display device with built-in karaoke and method for controlling the same  
An image display device with a built-in karaoke and a method for controlling the same are disclosed, wherein an audio of a broadcasted program is divided into a plurality of elements, so as to be...
7328272 Apparatus and method for adding music content to visual content delivered via communication network  
A server receives an acquisition request for visual content, such as desired text or image content, from a client terminal via a communication network, and retrieves, from a database, data of the...
7323631 Instrument performance learning apparatus using pitch and amplitude graph display  
In an instrument performance learning apparatus, a storage section stores model performance waveform data representing a time series of individual performance sounds of a model performance. An...
7312390 Automatic music playing apparatus and computer program therefor  
An external storage device stores automatic music playing data files, each file including data of a progression of musical notes constituting a performance of a music piece, and registration data...
7304229 Method and apparatus for karaoke scoring  
A karaoke scoring apparatus includes a memory element, a feature extraction element, a similarity measurement element, and a scoring element. The karaoke system includes a reference audio input to...
7184701 Stringed musical instrument learning aid and methods  
A learning aid and a method of making and using it are disclosed, and relate to the configuring of chord indicia in an ordered sequence to designate groups of chords for certain given musical keys....
7164076 System and method for synchronizing a live musical performance with a reference performance  
In a music video game, a player's performance is digitally sampled while the player performs a musical composition. The player's performance is compared with a reference performance of the musical...
7141733 Karaoke apparatus, content reproducing apparatus, method of managing music piece data for a karaoke apparatus, and method of managing content data for content reproducing apparatus  
Music piece data of so-called managed music pieces, each of which requires allowance of performance for each karaoke apparatus are stored in a hard disk in the same manner as music piece data of...
7134876 Sound system with dedicated vocal channel  
A karaoke sound system had a mixer that combines the singer's real-time voice signal from a microphone with the pre-recorded background song/music signal from a player, an amplifier that receives...
7122732 Apparatus and method for separating music and voice using independent component analysis algorithm for two-dimensional forward network  
Provided is an apparatus and method for separating music and voice using an independent component analysis method for a two-dimensional forward network. The apparatus of separating music and voice...
7058889 Synchronizing text/visual information with audio playback  
A method of synchronizing visual information with audio playback includes the steps of selecting a desired audio file from a list stored in memory associated with a display device, sending a signal...
7053915 Method and system for enhancing virtual stage experience  
The present invention is a system and method for increasing the value of the audio-visual entertainment systems, such as karaoke, by simulating a virtual stage environment and enhancing the user's...
7003496 Terminal apparatus, information service center, transmitting system, and transmitting method  
A transmitting system is provided in which a data once downloaded in a memory means of a terminal apparatus from an information service center is returned to the information service center while...
6987222 Determining similarity between artists and works of artists  
A method of determining a numerical value of similarity as between a pair of artists is set forth. In the method, for each artist, a list of artist style values is calculated, where each artist...
6979769 Data reproducing device, data reproducing method, and information terminal  
Each of MIDI data, audio data, text data and image data to be received in a data receiving section is SMF-formatted data including event information and event-executing delta time. A data sorting...
6971882 Method and apparatus for providing interactive karaoke entertainment  
An interactive karaoke system includes a microphone developing an audio input from at least one karaoke performer; a camera producing a series of video frames including the at least one karaoke...
6967275 Song-matching system and method  
A song-matching system, which provides real-time, dynamic recognition of a song being sung and providing an audio accompaniment signal in synchronism therewith, includes a song database having a...
6945784 Generating a musical part from an electronic music file  
Generating a pitched musical part from an electronic music file comprised of instrumental parts includes generating a control stream that indicates which of the instrumental parts has a highest...
6931377 Information processing apparatus and method for generating derivative information from vocal-containing musical information  
An information processing apparatus for separating input musical number information into a vocal information part containing lyrics in a first language and an accompaniment information part, and...
6928037 Method for playing back recording medium  
A method for playing a recording medium, in particular an optical storage disc, used to access titles more quickly. Stored in a run-in area of the recording medium is at least one address area that...
6889193 Method and system for smart cross-fader for digital audio  
The present invention provides an improved system and method for cross-fading digital audio files. The method includes determining a plurality of characteristics for a first and a second digital...
6875021 Interactive communication system for communicating video game and karaoke software  
A communication system is proposed for transmitting at least one of the data, the program, and a combination of them from a host facility to a communicator such as a communication terminal device....
6851952 Karaoke device with built-in microphone and microphone therefor  
A karaoke device with built-in microphone includes a main body microphone, and converts an audio signal from the microphone into audio data by an A/D converter, and writes the audio data into a...
6843726 Game system  
A game system is provided with a converting means including a voice input member, such as a microphone, for allowing the game player or his/her friend to input voices and for converting the...
6838608 Lyric display method, lyric display computer program and lyric display apparatus  
Performance data and lyric data stored in an external storage device 35 is read out in accordance with the progression of a song. The performance data is sent to a tone generator 36 , so that...
6835887 Methods and apparatus for providing an interactive musical game  
An interactive electronic drum system and training techniques suitable for use in a coin-operated environment such as an arcade are described. Electronic drum pads, audio speakers, a visual...
6782299 Method and apparatus for digital signal processing, method and apparatus for generating control data, and medium for recording program  
Audio control data extracted from SMF data by a data decoder section is supplied to an audio decoder section. The audio decoder section receives the audio control signal and generates a tone as an...
6758756 Method of controlling video game, video game device, and medium recording video game program  
The present invention relates to a method for controlling a novel video game in which dancing is used as a factor in the behavior of a character, a machine for the video game, and a medium in which...
6703551 Musical scale recognition method and apparatus thereof  
A musical scale recognition apparatus includes an analog/digital converter and a processor, and can determine by the processor how close an input analog audio signal is to a musical scale of a...
6659873 Game system, game device capable of being used in the game system, and computer-readable memory medium  
Data link-up between multiple game devices can be more flexibly achieved. A game system ( 1 ) comprises a game device for business ( 2 ) and a game device for use at home ( 3 ), which execute games...
6657116 Method and apparatus for scheduling music for specific listeners  
A music system selects a music library containing multiple music albums, in which each music album contains multiple songs. The system identifies listener preferences associated with a first...
6657114 Apparatus and method for generating additional sound on the basis of sound signal  
Sound signal indicative of a human voice or musical tone is input, and the pitch of the input sound signal is detected. Then, a scale note pitch is determined which is nearest to the detected pitch...
6645067 Music staging device apparatus, music staging game method, and readable storage medium  
A CPU controls a graphic controller based on control programs within a main RAM to extract a series of rhythm sound data for each of multiple mimic percussion instruments from a graphic RAM and...
6632992 System and method for distributing music data with advertisement  
A music data providing apparatus comprises a memory that stores a plurality of music data and a plurality of advertisement data, a receiver that receives a request for a desired music data from a...
6607446 Music game system, game control method for the game system, and computer-readable memory medium  
Disclosed is a music game system in which the attraction of a game is increased by effectively using limited music data. The music game system comprises an input device 4 for outputting signals...
6598230 Multimedia box network  
The invention relates to a multimedia box network consisting of a data server comprising a mass storage device, on which digital pieces of music and/or videos are stored, and of a plurality of...
6582235 Method and apparatus for displaying music piece data such as lyrics and chord data  
Display device displays a character string of lyrics and accompaniment information. Characters or unit words of the lyrics corresponding to a current performance position and a next performance...
6572381 Computer system and karaoke system  
A computer system includes storage device for storing a plurality of object files, each file including a program and information on the genre of music, and said computur system selecting an object...
6570080 Method and system for supplying contents via communication network  
The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for making sample contents from music contents whereby server and user are connected with each other via a communication network, whereby...
6563038 Karaoke system  
A karaoke system which can be conveniently used by children and youths and help to enhance their creative power and thinking power. The karaoke system includes a main unit connectable to a display...
6537078 System and apparatus for a karaoke entertainment center  
An entertainment system for storing, transmitting and displaying music, pictures and sound from videos and audios in any format for users to sing or act along with. The entertainment system...
6525251 Method of displaying the title and words of songs on a digital music player  
A method of displaying the title and words of songs on a portable digital music player includes the steps of using an editing software to edit words of songs into pages, storing the pages of words...
6520776 Portable karaoke microphone device and karaoke apparatus  
A portable karaoke microphone device and karaoke apparatus in which accompanying melody data and character data such as lyrics, etc. are written into a first memory that consists of an EEPROM such...
6516323 Telecom karaoke system  
A telecom karaoke system is configured by linking a musical data receiving terminal for receiving from a host base station necessary data for musical performance and a WWW page access terminal for...
6461239 Music action game machine, performance operation instructing system for music action game and storage device readable by computer  
The music action game machine comprises: a main body; an operation input device disposed on a front side of the main body so as to be adjacent to hands of a player facing the front side of the main...
6450888 Game system and program  
Disclosed is a game system which matches a player's tastes. In a game system operating in time with music, it is possible to select an edit mode for editing timing data which define timings of...
6437228 Method and apparatus for storing audio data  
When audio data are to be stored into a large-capacity memory such as a hard disk device, a shared storage section is set in the memory so as to be used both for storing audio data of one or more...
6429366 Device and method for creating and reproducing data-containing musical composition information  
To musical composition information such as a standard MIDI file, there are added accessory data, such as message or text data, and setting information for the accessory information which are both...
6369311 Apparatus and method for generating harmony tones based on given voice signal and performance data  
A harmony tone generating apparatus receives a voice wave signal bearing musical tone pitches such as a singer's or a speaker's human voice signal and a musician's instrumental voice signal, and...
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