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7612275 Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing rhythm information from an audio signal  
An apparatus for providing a beat and tatum tracker includes an accent filter bank, a periodicity estimator, a period estimator and a phase estimator. The accent filter bank is configured to...
7608775 Methods and systems for providing musical interfaces  
Methods for providing a musical user interface are disclosed. A notation window with a musical sign, for example, a note is displayed. Selection of the sign is received. A time duration indicator...
7601906 Methods and systems for automated analysis of music display data for a music display system  
Methods and systems for automated display of music data in a music display system. In one embodiment, a method for distinguishing lyrics and notations of a music data file is provided. In one...
7582822 Metronome and system for maintaining a common tempo among a plurality of musicians  
A method and apparatus provides metronomes capable of wireless synchronization with other similar metronomes. A metronome includes a tactile device capable of conveying the tempo and beat to a user...
7579546 Tempo detection apparatus and tempo-detection computer program  
A user is asked to perform tapping at beat positions by using a tapping detection section while listening to the beginning of a waveform from which beats are to be detected. When a fluctuation...
7534951 Beat extraction apparatus and method, music-synchronized image display apparatus and method, tempo value detection apparatus, rhythm tracking apparatus and method, and music-synchronized display apparatus and method  
A music-synchronized display apparatus includes a beat extractor configured to detect a portion in which a power spectrum in a spectrogram of an input music signal greatly changes and to output a...
7531734 Electronic metronome and method of indicating tempo of electronic metronome  
To provide an electronic metronome making a display similar to the movement of a mechanical metronome or a parabolic movement, an electronic metronome of the present invention includes a timing...
7528316 Musical sound generating vehicular apparatus, musical sound generating method and program  
In order to provide a musical sound generating vehicular apparatus and a program of the same for playing musical sounds based on a status of a vehicle without depending on parameter changes such as...
7528315 Rhythm action game apparatus and method  
A rhythm action game apparatus comprising an audio analyzer adapted to analyze a music track and provide corresponding rhythm data, and a sequence generator adapted to generate game play cues...
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...
7525036 Groove mapping  
The invention provides a method and software for the adjustment of properties of media streams and events, principally timing information, based on a template, i.e., a groove map. The invention...
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...
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...
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...
7485042 Game system capable of evaluating the correlation of user operation on a game machine with displayed operational information and user operation on another game machine  
In a game played by a plurality of game machines through teamwork, an evaluation is performed according to the correlation among operation information obtained through communications with each of...
7462772 Music composition system and method  
A system for music composition including: a display module configured to display data; a graphical user interface module in communication with the music data control module, and configured to...
7427708 Tone color setting apparatus and method  
As the user executes a performance on a preliminary or trial basis, performance data based on the user's performance are evaluated, a performance tendency of the user is extracted as a result of...
7396990 Automatic music mood detection  
A system and methods use music features extracted from music to detect a music mood within a hierarchical mood detection framework. A two-dimensional mood model divides music into four moods which...
7390955 Metronome with wireless transducer  
A metronome for use by a musician or group of musicians generally includes a signal generator for producing an electrical signal according to a desired timing scheme and one or more transducers in...
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...
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...
7317158 Reproduction controller, reproduction control method, program for the same, and recording medium with the program recorded therein  
The sound reproducer ( 100 ) generates and outputs, when any external situation such as a running sound is recognized by an external input rhythm detecting section ( 110 ), generates external...
7314992 Apparatus for analyzing music data and displaying music score  
An apparatus is to analyze music data of a musical performance including note events of triplets as well as note events like triplets, and to display the note events in triplet notation properly in...
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...
7304230 Multiple channel metronome  
A multiple channel metronome for use by a plurality of musicians generally includes a signal generator for producing electrical signals according to desired timing schemes and a plurality of...
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...
7250566 Evaluating and correcting rhythm in audio data  
The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for evaluating and correcting rhythm of audio data. Embodiments of the invention are capable of obtaining preferred rhythm in audio data, and...
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...
7205470 Play data editing device and method of editing play data  
A play data editing device edits play data according to a characteristic of a speaker. The play data editing device includes a dividing unit ( 301 ) for dividing first play data into second play...
7196260 Entry of musical data in a mobile communication device  
Within a mobile communication device ( 100 ), a method ( 300 ) of specifying two or more musical notes for substantially concurrent playback can include receiving ( 302 ) an input specifying a root...
7169997 Method and apparatus for phase controlled music generation  
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....
7148415 Method and apparatus for evaluating and correcting rhythm in audio data  
The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for evaluating and correcting rhythm of audio data. Embodiments of the invention are capable of obtaining preferred rhythm in audio data, and...
7115808 Automatic music mood detection  
A system and methods use music features extracted from music to detect a music mood within a hierarchical mood detection framework. A two-dimensional mood model divides music into four moods which...
7012183 Apparatus for analyzing an audio signal with regard to rhythm information of the audio signal by using an autocorrelation function  
An apparatus for analyzing an audio signal with regard to rhythm information of the audio signal by using an autocorrelation function comprises a filter bank for separating the audio signal into at...
6924426 Automatic expressive intonation tuning system  
A method for the algorithmic expressive intonation tuning (EIT) and performance of electronic, computer and MIDI musical works relies on melodic intervals, rather than on chordal harmony, and acts...
6787689 Fast beat counter with stability enhancement  
A real time, multi-function beat counting system used in machine perception of musical rhythms employs a high speed stable algorithm including down sampling and group summing of the original...
6747201 Method and system for extracting melodic patterns in a musical piece and computer-readable storage medium having a program for executing the method  
A method and system for extracting melodic patterns by first recognizing musical “keywords” or themes. The invention searches for all instances of melodic (intervallic) repetition in a piece...
6618336 Reproducing apparatus  
In a reproducing apparatus of the present invention, an input audio signal is divided into bands and an envelope value of each band is measured. Based on a change of the envelope value, a...
6545209 Music content characteristic identification and matching  
A system and methods for matching media entities to associate closely related media entities are provided. In connection with a system that convergently merges perceptual and digital signal...
6486390 Apparatus and method for creating melody data having forward-syncopated rhythm pattern  
A rhythm pattern is provided to be subjected to forward syncopation processing. The time position of an un-syncopated note in the rhythm pattern is shifted forward to render advanced beating of the...
6476306 Method and a system for recognizing a melody  
The invention relates to a method for recognizing a melody from a set of stored melodies. In the method, an audio sample representing the melody to be recognized is produced to form a first search...
6472591 Portable communication terminal apparatus with music composition capability  
In a portable communication terminal apparatus, a transmitter and receiver conducts either of a transmission and receipt of a message. A tone generator generates a sequence of tones to sound a...
6469240 Rhythm feature extractor  
The invention relates to a method of extracting a representation of its rhythmic structure, from a given signal. The representation is designed to yield a similarity relation between item titles....
6433267 Method for automatically creating dance patterns using audio signals  
A method for automatically creating dance patterns using an audio signal of music, comprising: extracting power feature of an audio signal of each processing window by covering the audio signal...
6417437 Automatic musical composition method and apparatus  
In accordance with a rhythm of a main melody, a auxiliary-melody or counter-melody creating rhythm pattern is supplied which indicates timing of respective hit points of a plurality of tones in the...
6376760 Parameter setting technique for use in music performance apparatus  
In response to user's selection of a desired instrument style such as a piano style, only some of memory-stored automatic performance data sets that belong to the selected instrument style are made...
6344607 Automatic compilation of songs  
A method of automatically producing a compilation mix from a set of songs is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of generating ( 22 ) a beat profile comprising a temporal map representing an...
RE37459 Electronic musical instrument having a ryhthm performance function  
An electronic musical instrument having a rhythm performance function includes a first memory for pre-storing plural rhythm tone kinds, rhythm selecting switches each capable of designating one of...
6294720 Apparatus and method for creating melody and rhythm by extracting characteristic features from given motif  
From a given melody motif is extracted a rhythm pattern consisting of a series of rhythmic alignment of notes without a pitch representing the time positions of the notes constituting the melody....
6245984 Apparatus and method for composing music data by inputting time positions of notes and then establishing pitches of notes  
The display screen displays measure windows corresponding to the first through fourth measures for a melody to be composed. By clicking the play switch on the screen, a background accompaniment...
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