Match Document Document Title
7375274 Automatic accompaniment apparatus, method of controlling the apparatus, and program for implementing the method  
An automatic accompaniment apparatus that enables an external electronic musical instrument connected thereto to exhibit its accompaniment information generating capability to the maximum and makes...
7375273 Electronic music stand and method of using the same  
An electronic music stand is for displaying at least one sheet of music for a musician. The electronic music stand includes a housing, at least one power source to provide power to the electronic...
7371958 Method, medium, and system summarizing music content  
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, medium, and system for summarizing music. The method includes summarizing a music content by extracting an audio feature value from a...
7368652 Music search system and music search apparatus  
A time-series signal input section 205 inputs a time-series signal whose on state and off state are repeated alternately. A similar rhythm search section 206 searches a plurality of pieces of...
7365263 Intonation training device  
An intonation training device for training musicians in just intonation. As disclosed, the device is a pocket-sized portable device with an audio output and a user interface which includes an LCD...
7365260 Apparatus and method for reproducing voice in synchronism with music piece  
Music piece sequence data are composed of a plurality of event data which include performance event data and user event data designed for linking a voice to progression of a music piece. A...
7366744 File management device and file management method  
The present invention relates to a data recording/reproducing apparatus ( 1 ), which includes a reader ( 3 ) for reading content data recorded in a minidisc ( 2 ), and a controller ( 4 ) for...
7358432 Method and apparatus for teaching rhythm  
An apparatus for teaching rhythm includes a housing having a plurality of tempo indicator lights and a plurality of beat indicator lights corresponding to the tempo indicator lights, such that the...
7351904 Information processing apparatus and method, program and recording medium  
Information processing apparatus and method, program and recording medium are provided. The information processing apparatus including a first generating section for editing tone data made up of a...
7348482 Discriminator for differently modulated signals, method used therein, demodulator equipped therewith, method used therein, sound reproducing apparatus and method for reproducing original music data code  
A nibble stream containing MIDI music data words and synchronous nibbles and an external audio signal are selectively converted to an audio-frequency signal, which in turn is converted to a set of...
7343553 Voice clip identification method  
The present invention provides an interactive method for people to assist one another in identifying titles to songs, artists of songs, or both. The method is preferably performed over a...
7342167 Apparatus and method for generating an encoded rhythmic pattern  
An encoded rhythmic pattern has several groups of velocity values, wherein the velocity values are sorted, such that the groups are included in sequence in an encoded rhythmic pattern. Now, the...
7342165 System, device and method for displaying a conductor and music composition  
The invention provides a musical display system for displaying musical notes to a musician and may include a camera for capturing a conductor image. The system may also include a display structure...
7342166 Method and apparatus for randomized variation of musical data  
An initial note series is collected from a real-time source of musical input material such as a keyboard or a sequencer playing back musical data, or extracted from musical data stored in memory....
7339104 System for transferring information on attribute of, for example, CD  
Title information on music composition data recorded on a reproduction CD is acquired from a title information providing site and recorded on a recording MD together with composition data. A...
7335834 Musical composition data creation device and method  
An apparatus and a method for making music data each perform converting an input audio signal indicative of a music piece into a frequency signal indicative of magnitudes of frequency components at...
7332664 System and method for musical instrument education  
System and method for musical instrument education are provided. The system includes a lesson terminal which has a processor unit configured to evaluate performance musical data inputted from an...
7332666 Performance control system, performance control apparatus, performance control method, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program  
A performance control apparatus which can actually reproduce performance information without a long sounding blank time period being produced even if the performance information includes...
7326847 Methods and systems for dynamic channel allocation  
Methods and systems of dynamic channel allocation. The provided methods and systems can be employed in a music synthesis system comprising a synthesizer. Audio instructions from sources, such as...
7326846 Apparatus providing information with music sound effect  
An information producing apparatus is constructed for producing a combination of object information providing substantial contents and performance information providing a music piece in association...
7323630 Automatic performance system  
An automatic musical performance system stores musical data such as performance patterns and pattern sequences. During performance, the user provides input indicating tones to be added to or...
7321094 Electronic musical instrument  
An electronic musical instrument internally stores automatic performance data. The electronic musical instrument reads automatic performance data to perform an automatic performance, while...
7319185 Generating music and sound that varies from playback to playback  
A method and apparatus for the creation and playback of music, audio and sound; such that each time a composition is played back, a different sound sequence is generated in the manner previously...
7319186 Scrambling method of music sequence data for incompatible sound generator  
A data format of music sequence data represents a music piece and enables a compatible sound generating apparatus to reproduce the music piece at a first quality while allowing a non-compatible...
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...
7309829 Layered signal processing for individual and group output of multi-channel electronic musical instruments  
System and method for creating rich timbre performance, composition, and recording environments for an electronic musical instrument with multiple vibrating elements providing multi-channel output....
7304228 Creating realtime data-driven music using context sensitive grammars and fractal algorithms  
Musical approaches are applied to the sonification of data. The musical approaches do not require directly mapping data to sound. Data is interpreted and transformed into sound through...
7304231 Apparatus and method for designating various segment classes  
For the segment class designation the temporal position of segments in two candidate segment classes is used for the stanza/refrain selection by means of a segment class designation means, wherein...
7301093 System and method that facilitates customizing media  
The present invention relates to a system and method for customizing media (e.g., songs, text, books, stories, video, audio . . . ) via a computer network, such as the Internet. A system in...
7297858 MIDIWan: a system to enable geographically remote musicians to collaborate  
A system is described to allow musicians to collaborate over a network such as the Internet.
7297860 System and method for determining genre of audio  
Both the beat and genre of music are used to select or generate a dance robot object for display of a robot icon on a computer monitor or for establishing the movements of a three-dimensional...
7291779 Performance information display apparatus and program  
A performance information display apparatus which makes it possible to easily check whether or not automatic performance based on performance data is carried out in accordance with the creator's...
7288712 Music station for producing visual images synchronously with music data codes  
In order to make a tutor give a remote music lesson to a trainee, the audio-visual station transmits MIDI music data codes/time stamp data codes and click time data codes through a packet switching...
7288710 Music searching apparatus and method  
An apparatus and a method for searching for a music piece which includes a storing device for storing first chord progression music data for a plurality of music pieces representing chronological...
7285711 Music player  
A music player has sequencers each including a reading and restoring function unit for reading music information including header information, a delta time, and a message and restoring running...
7282632 Apparatus and method for changing a segmentation of an audio piece  
For changing a segmentation of an audio piece after a segment class assignment, at first a short segment is selected, which has a length shorter than a predetermined minimum length. This short...
7279629 Classification and use of classifications in searching and retrieval of information  
A method and apparatus are provided for classification of information and using the classification information in search and retrieval of information. In one embodiment, musical compositions having...
7273978 Device and method for characterizing a tone signal  
For characterizing a tone signal a sequence of quantized entry times for each of at least two tone sources over time is provided on the basis of a quantization raster. Hereupon, a common period...
7271329 Computer-aided learning system employing a pitch tracking line  
A computer-aided learning system to facilitate a human to control the pitch and rhythm of their voice. In a preferred embodiment for learning how to sing a song in tune, a display provides visual,...
7262359 Digital recording device for electric guitars and the like  
A digital recording device includes a housing that is engageable with a lower curvature of a guitar's frame. The housing includes an arcuate inner surface, an arcuate outer surface coextensively...
7254618 System and methods for automatic DSP processing  
A system and methods for automated DSP processing of media entities to create a persistent data store having DSP processed media entities is provided. In connection with a system that convergently...
7250567 Automatic musical composition classification device and method  
An automatic musical composition classification device and method that allow a plurality of musical compositions to be automatically classified based on the melody similarity. Chord progression...
7247786 Song selection apparatus and method  
A song selection device stores song characteristic quantities of a plurality of songs. A user operates the song selection device to enter personal properties and a sensibility word. The song...
7247784 Musical sound generator, portable terminal, musical sound generating method, and storage medium  
There are provided a musical tone-generating apparatus which neither requires hardware having an increased circuit size nor imposes a heavy burden on a CPU thereof, and a mobile terminal apparatus...
7244885 Server apparatus streaming musical composition data matching performance skill of user  
In a server apparatus, a storage section stores musical composition data representing a plurality of musical compositions. A transmission section transmits musical composition data which represents...
7241946 Method and device for music format switching  
A method and device for music format switching. A tone editor is first selected to compose ring tones in accordance with a first music format. It is determined whether a switch operation has been...
7235733 Musical tone reproducing apparatus and portable terminal apparatus  
There is provided a musical tone reproducing apparatus, which stores tone color parameters in a general-purpose storage means, to thereby shorten the time taken for a tone color changing process. A...
7230177 Interchange format of voice data in music file  
A music apparatus has a data storage, a controller and a sound generator for reproducing a music sound and a voice sound. The data storage stores a music data file containing a music part and a...
7230176 Method and apparatus to modify pitch estimation function in acoustic signal musical note pitch extraction  
In one aspect thereof this invention provides a method to estimate pitch in an acoustic signal. The method includes initializing a function ƒ t and a time t, where t=0, x′ 0 =ƒ 0 (F 0 ), x′...
7227072 System and method for determining the similarity of musical recordings  
A system and method for determining the similarity of music files based on a perceptual metric is disclosed. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic...