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7619155 Method and apparatus for determining musical notes from sounds  
This method and apparatus extract symbolic high-level musical structure resembling that of a music score. Humming or the like is converted with this invention into a sequence of notes that...
7615702 Automatic recognition and matching of tempo and phase of pieces of music, and an interactive music player based thereon  
A method of matching the tempo and phase in pieces of music which allows the conjunction of the pieces of music to form a continuous stream of music. The interactive music player which digitally...
7615701 Method for keying human voice audio frequency  
A method for keying human voice audio frequency includes the steps of setting the human factor of the singer; recording the singing of the singer; calculating the audio frequency by an audio...
7612279 Methods and apparatus for structuring audio data  
An audio formatting process identifies a musical score of audio information operable to be rendered by a rendering application. The audio formatting process enumerates aspects of the score such...
7612278 System and methodology for image and overlaid annotation display, management and communication  
An electronic image visualization system, such as a music stand system and display, management and communications methodologies relating thereto are presented. The electronic music stand system is...
7612277 Method and apparatus for playing in synchronism with a CD an automated musical instrument  
The invention disclosed is a system for playing a music sequence such as a MIDI file in synchronization with a prerecorded CD. The synchronization is accomplished by using the digital media sample...
7601907 Signal processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium  
Disclosed herein is a signal processing apparatus, including: removal means for removing, from a sound signal in the form of a stereo signal, a center component which is a component of sound...
7592532 Method and apparatus for remote voice-over or music production and management  
A desktop application and supporting web site for recording voice-over or music sessions is introduced, wherein the production staff and talent may be in separate remote locations. The application...
7589727 Method and apparatus for generating visual images based on musical compositions  
The present invention generates 3D moving images representing various aspects of a musical performance that can be synchronized, as necessary, to the changing tempo of a live or recorded...
7589273 Musical instrument and automatic accompanying system for human player  
An automatic accompanist produces tones for an accompaniment in synchronism with tones of melody produced through fingering of a human player; cue note data codes, which express tones produced in...
7586031 Method for generating a ringtone  
A method for generating a ringtone for efficiently generating an individualized melodic ringtone specific to each unique phone number. The method for generating a ringtone generally includes...
7582824 Tempo detection apparatus, chord-name detection apparatus, and programs therefor  
There is provided a tempo detection apparatus capable of detecting, from the acoustic signal of a human performance of a musical piece having a fluctuating tempo, the average tempo of the entire...
7579543 Electronic musical apparatus and lyrics displaying apparatus  
An electronic music apparatus comprises an extractor that extracts lyrics data from music data for reproduction of music and comprising the lyrics data representing lyrics of the music, a...
7572969 Method for making electronic tones close to acoustic tones, recording system for the acoustic tones, tone generating system for the electronic tones  
A grand piano generates acoustic tones through vibrations of strings and sound board so that the acoustic tones are converted to analog audio signals at recording points over the sound board, and a...
7572968 Electronic musical instrument  
The present invention enables a user to select and control on an electronic musical instrument, just by selecting a registration data set, the mode for generating musical tones, automatic...
7570770 Mixing apparatus for audio data, method of controlling the same, and mixing control program  
There are provided a mixing apparatus that enables a user who is mixing and the like to be positively engaged in the performance of a musical composition at a low cost by simple operations, a...
7560636 Method and system for generating signaling tone sequences  
In a method for generating signaling tones, a plurality of raw data sequences is generated using at least one recursive system. The plurality of raw data sequences is converted into a plurality of...
7557288 Tone synthesis apparatus and method  
In a storage section, there are stored special connecting waveform data for connecting between at least two notes to be generated in succession. The special connecting waveform data contain only a...
7554027 Method to playback multiple musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) and audio sound files  
The present invention is method for the playback of multiple MIDI and audio files. More specifically, it is an interactive music playback method that enables real time synchronization,...
7547841 Music composition instruction system  
A music composition introduction system consists of a user's audio system and a center for managing music composition information, both of which communicate with each other. The audio system has a...
7544881 Music-piece classifying apparatus and method, and related computer program  
A bibliographic-information impression word is generated from a bibliographic information segment about selected one of music pieces. An acoustic feature quantity of an audio signal representing...
7544879 Tone generation processing apparatus and tone generation assignment method therefor  
A plurality of tone generator devices include respective waveform data memories, and each of the waveform data memories is exclusively usable by the corresponding tone generator device, not...
7541535 Initiating play of dynamically rendered audio content  
A transport control, e.g., for use with an audio content playing device, the transport control for initiating play of dynamically rendered audio content selections that are rarely, if ever, played...
7541534 Methods and apparatus for rendering audio data  
An audio management application includes a recombiner and aggregation rules to manipulate and recombine segments of a musical piece such that the resulting finished composition includes parts...
7538267 Kernel-mode audio processing modules  
Multiple kernel-mode audio processing modules or filters are combined to form a module or filter graph. The graph is implemented in kernel-mode, reducing latency and jitter when handling audio data...
7538266 Electronic musical apparatus for training in timing correctly  
An electronic musical apparatus for training to play the apparatus in correct timing comprises a play timing notifying device which notifies reference time points in a music progression for...
7531737 Music processing apparatus and management method therefor  
As a music equipment is connected to a music processing apparatus, necessary communication ports corresponding to the connected music equipment are automatically set in the processing apparatus....
7531735 Musical piece extraction program, apparatus, and method  
Disclosed herein is a musical piece extraction program stored in a computer-readable storage medium, the program causing a computer to perform a process including the steps of, detecting a musical...
7528317 Harmonic analysis  
The invention provides methods and apparatuses for creating a two-dimensional graphical representation of music which has been analysed into a chord sequence, by evaluating a first parameter of...
7528313 Motion data generation device, motion data generation method, and recording medium for recording a motion data generation program  
To generate motion data of a motion in synchronization with a melody of music. As an embodiment of the present invention, when motion pattern data corresponding to a predetermined motion pattern is...
7525037 System and method for automatically beat mixing a plurality of songs using an electronic equipment  
A method, device and application for combining one or more multimedia content sources (e.g., songs) together and rendering the composite output to a user in a user sensible format that is audibly...
7525035 Musical performance self-training apparatus  
The apparatus of the present invention improves training efficiency, and monotonous repetition of training is avoided. A unit acceptance judgment section ( 4 ) judges whether all performance of the...
7525033 Karaoke system which displays musical notes and lyrical content  
A karaoke system which displays and highlights musical notes and tablature, in addition to lyrics, as they are to be played or sung, with a view to helping an aspiring musician learn to play their...
7521622 Noise-resistant detection of harmonic segments of audio signals  
Respective pitch values are estimated for an audio signal. Candidate harmonic segments of the audio signal are identified from the estimated pitch values. Respective levels of harmonic content in...
7518053 Beat matching for portable audio  
Beat matching for two audio streams extracts beats from each, computes a conversion ratio from one stream to the other stream by an initial beat alignment plus a stability-maintaining beat...
7518052 Musical theme searching  
A musical information retrieval system and process is presented. The system and process generally involves a user employing a unique graphic user interface (GUI) to enter a musical theme query,...
7518051 Method and apparatus for remote real time collaborative music performance and recording thereof  
An improved method and apparatus are disclosed to permit real time, distributed performance by multiple musicians at remote locations, and for recording that collaboration. The latency of the...
7514622 Musical sound production apparatus and musical  
A control unit controls to access the beat guide file for timings of beats, cues, lyrics, and messages of musical sound data to be reproduced, and controls an image processing unit to display beat...
7507899 Automatic music transcription apparatus and program  
An automatic music transcription apparatus that can automatically transcribe a monophonic or polyphonic signal produced by a single musical instrument is provided. The apparatus includes an input...
7507898 Music reproduction device, method, storage medium, and integrated circuit  
An operational information obtaining section of a music reproduction device obtains operational information which corresponds to a user's operation and represents an instruction on an action of a...
7507897 Dictionary-based compression of melody data and compressor/decompressor for the same  
A data format for a dictionary-based compressed melody data includes a command part and a data part. The command part includes an index for designating an indexed dictionary entry in a dictionary...
7504573 Musical tone signal generating apparatus for generating musical tone signals  
A tone generating portion has a performance play capability for concurrently generating, on the basis of a set of performance information, musical tone signals having various voices each assigned...
7498504 Cellular automata music generator  
The Cellular Automata Music Generator (CAMG) is a software platform, application and engine that generates and modifies musical compositions in real-time using a system of networked modules that...
7495166 Sound processing apparatus, sound processing method, sound processing program and recording medium which records sound processing program  
A sound-processing apparatus is provided that is capable of creating a sound effect without having to worry about changes in parameters such as the beat of the input sound source. The...
7495164 Aid for composing words of song  
A piano roll score, a word input/edit area and a word continuous display area are displayed. Note bars corresponding to notes of a melody are displayed on the piano roll score. The word input/edit...
7491879 Storage medium having music playing program stored therein and music playing apparatus therefor  
Acceleration data outputted from an acceleration sensor provided in an input device is acquired and a magnitude of an acceleration is calculated. Next, based on the calculated magnitude of the...
7491878 Method and apparatus for automatically creating musical compositions  
A music generation engine automatically generates musical compositions by accessing musical sections and corresponding properties including similarity factors that provide a quantified indication...
7488886 Music information retrieval using a 3D search algorithm  
A music information retrieval system and method that involve a query-by-humming (QbH) database system for processing queries in the form of analog audio sequences which encompass recorded parts of...
7485797 Chord-name detection apparatus and chord-name detection program  
When a first bar-division determination section determines that the bass note changes in a bar or when a second bar-division determination section determines that the degree of change in the chord...
7485796 Apparatus and method for providing music file search function  
An apparatus and a method for providing music file search function. The apparatus includes an input unit that receives an input of an attribute of a music file to be played, an extract unit that...