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Music > Instruments > Electrical Musical Tone Generation Electrical Musical Tone GenerationElectrical Musical Tone Generation patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.11/08/07 - 20070256541 - Musical video game console and methods therefor A game console capable of operating with a variety of electronic musical instruments is provided. Such a system is especially useful for downloading different musical video games for a variety of musical instruments and capable of changing the level of difficulty during play. In one embodiment, the electronic musical instrument ... 09/20/07 - 20070214940 - Electromagnetic musical instrument frequency conversion systems and related methods A method for generating electromagnetic (EM) music through excitation of an EM Musical Instrument is provided. An input queue, comprised of three sub-queues, receives three input audio queues. An EM excitation signal is generated based on the received input audio queues. The EM excitation signal is applied to the EM ... 05/17/07 - 20070107583 - Method and apparatus for composing and performing music The present invention is method and apparatus for music performance and composition. More specifically, the present invention is an interactive music apparatus comprising actuating a signal that is transmitted to a processing computer that transmits output signals to a speaker that emits sound and an output component that performs an ... 04/19/07 - 20070084333 - Graphical user interface and methods of use thereof in a multimedia player In a portable multimedia device, a method, apparatus, and system for providing user supplied configuration data are described. In one embodiment, a hierarchically ordered graphical user interface are provided. A first order, or home, interface provides a highest order of user selectable items each of which, when selected, results in ... 04/19/07 - 20070084333 - Graphical user interface and methods of use thereof in a multimedia player In a portable multimedia device, a method, apparatus, and system for providing user supplied configuration data are described. In one embodiment, a hierarchically ordered graphical user interface are provided. A first order, or home, interface provides a highest order of user selectable items each of which, when selected, results in ... 04/19/07 - 20070084332 - Crib toy Provided are a method and system for entertaining, educating or calming an infant or other individual, which includes a panel-shaped member having a plurality of user selectable switches by which a user may select musical segments having various musical styles for output by the member. Other user selectable switches permit ... 04/19/07 - 20070084332 - Crib toy Provided are a method and system for entertaining, educating or calming an infant or other individual, which includes a panel-shaped member having a plurality of user selectable switches by which a user may select musical segments having various musical styles for output by the member. Other user selectable switches permit ... 04/19/07 - 20070084331 - Position correction for an electronic musical instrument A system and method for correction of finger positions for an electronic musical instrument. By adding a correction step in the direction of a nearest grid value, the system can perform correction in a manner that allows for gradual position correction while maintaining a vibrato or glissando shape that is ... 04/19/07 - 20070084331 - Position correction for an electronic musical instrument A system and method for correction of finger positions for an electronic musical instrument. By adding a correction step in the direction of a nearest grid value, the system can perform correction in a manner that allows for gradual position correction while maintaining a vibrato or glissando shape that is ... 03/29/07 - 20070068367 - Music replacement in a gaming system A user of a game system can replace background music from a game with the user's selected background music, while still hearing any other audio streams (e.g. sound effects related to gameplay). A music engine and system audio mixer allow the playback of the user's requested replacement music. The game ... 03/08/07 - 20070051227 - 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 configured to display a conductor image and a musical note. A processor may be coupled to the camera ... 01/25/07 - 20070017346 - Tone generator control apparatus and program for electronic wind instrument Flow velocity sensor and a length sensor are provided on or near an edge of the lip plate which the air jet from the embouchure hole impinges against. Jet flow velocity Ue at the edge and a jet-blowout-outlet-to-edge distance d are detected by the sensors. Jet transfer time τe is ... 01/25/07 - 20070017345 - Electromagnetic musical instruments An electromagnetic (EM) musical instrument is provided. The instrument comprises a body comprising a shape and having EM characteristics that differ from one or more EM characteristics of a free space adjacent to the instrument. A port is coupled to the body and configured to receive an excitation signal and ... 01/25/07 - 20070017344 - Electromagnetic musical instrument systems and related methods An electromagnetic (EM) musical instrument system is provided. The system comprises an excitation signal generator configured to generate an excitation signal. An excitation signal applier, coupled to the excitation signal generator, receives the excitation signal and transmits it to an EM musical instrument. The instrument receives the excitation signal and ... 01/18/07 - 20070012163 - Content acquisition apparatus, content acquisition method and content acquisition program The present invention provides a music purchasing/transfer system allowing contents to be acquired in a remarkably efficient manner. In the system, a content acquisition apparatus, and method and program thereof are provided. The apparatus includes a content storage section used for storing contents; an output section for outputting the identification ... 01/11/07 - 20070006716 - On-board electric guitar tuner A guitar tuner imbedded into an electric guitar, with the display hidden underneath a control knob. The display, a clear plastic cylinder containing a single character LCD and a tri-color LED, is revealed, and the activated, when said knob is pulled outwards from the guitar. ... 12/28/06 - 20060288843 - Internet-based music system A system for having separate recordings of instruments playing the same song. A user is able to choose which instruments will be combined so that a final song can be created by merging the selected instruments together. In this way, the user can obtain a song that is missing at ... 12/07/06 - 20060272481 - Device for electronically transmitting music notes to music stands and method for achieving it Display device for music notes and other texts on stands, comprising an image displaying screen, a related image transmitting device and control means for at least successively forwarding text images from said image transmitting device to said image displaying screen. Within the spirit of this invention falls likewise a music ... 12/07/06 - 20060272480 - Method and system for time-shortening songs A method and system for time-shortening one or more songs to generate time-shortened versions of the one or more songs are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a song editor time-shortens one or more songs and provides the time-shortened versions to a music provider. The music provider can then distribute one ... 10/26/06 - 20060236845 - Universal method and apparatus for mutual sound and light correlation Method and apparatus utilizing the method for continuous correlation of sound to light and light to sound, and more particularly a method based on a universal equation such that it can be applied to all wavelengths of light and sound seamlessly without any intuition or subjective inputs. Within this method, ... 09/21/06 - 20060207411 - Performance guide apparatus and program Two-dimensional display section is provided near a keyboard, and, in accordance with performance data, this display section is caused to effect a dynamic display moving, in a given two-dimensional trajectory, from a first display position corresponding to a key to be currently depressed to a second display position corresponding to ... 09/21/06 - 20060207410 - Cup and cup-like container A cup-like container made of one or more of a plurality of materials. A sensor unit is provided for sensing a conducting current caused by a specific resistance depending on a state and component of contents that are filled into the container. A circuit unit is provided for storing melodies ... 09/21/06 - 20060207409 - Control of functions and sounds using electronic hand glove An apparatus for remotely controlling a selectively operable device is provided. The apparatus includes a glove assembly (102) comprising a material (104) worn on a hand. The apparatus also includes sensors (116a-d) mounted to the glove assembly (102), each of the sensors generating at least one response signal in response ... 09/14/06 - 20060201310 - Information processing apparatus, information recording/playback system and contents transfer method One embodiment of the invention is useful when updating data of a database which is configured to take in data through a network, has a part to be updated, and takes in information of media stored in a local storage, and characterized by that a storage place assumed to have ... 08/10/06 - 20060174753 - Musical instruments and components manufactured from conductively doped resin-based materials Musical instruments are formed of a conductively doped resin-based material. The conductively doped resin-based material comprises micron conductive powder(s), conductive fiber(s), or a combination of conductive powder and conductive fibers in a base resin host. The percentage by weight of the conductive powder(s), conductive fiber(s), or a combination thereof is ... 07/27/06 - 20060162533 - Cooperative musical instrument A series of musical vehicles form a cooperative musical instrument. Each musical vehicle may be outfitted with a musical tone generator and horn, or loud speaker that plays a particular note on a music scale. Each musical vehicle may have multiple horns or speakers having a predetermined tonal separation between ... 07/27/06 - 20060162532 - Network based triggering in an instrument system Techniques for network based triggering in an instrument system that enable instruments to effectively signal events without hardwired trigger lines. An instrument system according to the present teachings includes a first instrument and a second instrument coupled to a local area network. The first instrument is capable of performing an ... 07/20/06 - 20060156905 - Previous event feedback system for electronic player piano systems A method of utilizing previous event feedback information from historical derived hammer velocity data, such as associated with a MIDI record function, for providing non-real-time feedback when controlling actuators. The use of non-real-time feedback within the present invention provides a number of advantages over the use of conventional real-time feedback ... 06/29/06 - 20060137514 - Vibration-activated musical toy The present disclosure generally relates to a vibration-activated musical toy and methods for operating a vibration-activated musical toy. In one exemplary embodiment, a vibration-activated musical toy is described in which two separate modules are independently moved, shaken, struck, or otherwise manipulated in a particular order and in a particular rhythm ... 06/29/06 - 20060137513 - Mobile telecommunication apparatus comprising a melody generator This apparatus comprises a melody generator (19) known as synthesizer. This synthesizer allows working with a multitude of channels C1, C2, . . . C9 and at least one of these channels is assigned to process vocal signals particularly coming from a microphone (17). The elaborated melody may be sent ... 06/22/06 - 20060130636 - Electronic music on hand portable and communication enabled devices A portable electronic device having a screen and a numeric keypad, comprises: a sound card for processing sound signals to produce musical tones; a musical synthesizer, associated with said sound card, for electronically synthesizing musical instruments; and a user interface for interfacing said musical synthesizer to a user via said ... 06/15/06 - 20060123978 - Musical instrument signaling system A musical instrument signaling system (10) that is designed to alert a player of a hand-held musical instrument when to commence and stop playing the instrument. Typically, the hand-held musical instrument consists of a handbell as used by members of a bell choir. The system (10) is disclosed in five ... 06/15/06 - 20060123977 - Digital audio/video playing device A digital audio/video playing device includes a support plate forming a plurality of depressible tabs. Each tab is formed by forming an elongate slit surrounding the tab with a small connection with the support plate to form a cantilever, elastically deflectable tab. A plurality of switch units and a touch ... 06/15/06 - 20060123976 - System and method for video assisted music instrument collaboration over distance A novel system and method of video assisted music instrument collaboration over distance. The system and method enable a musician to play a music instrument at one location and have the played music recreated by a music instrument at another location is provided. The system and method can be used ... 06/15/06 - 20060123975 - Systems and methods for creating personalized or tailored compositions Personalizing or tailoring techniques for creative compositions are provided. Methods and systems consistent with the present invention may create personalized or tailored audio and/or video compositions. Methods and systems consistent with the present invention may collect audio and/or visual tailoring requests from one individual or a plurality of individuals. The ... 03/30/06 - 20060065103 - Musical instrument, music data producer incorporated therein and method for exactly discriminating hammer motion In an automatic player piano, hammer sensors monitor associated hammers so as to report current positions on the hammer trajectories, and a data processor analyzes the hammer motion for producing pieces of music data representative of the performance on the acoustic piano; the aged deterioration is influential in the relative ... 03/30/06 - 20060065102 - Summarizing digital audio data An embodiment is related to automatic summarization for digital audio raw data (12), more specifically, for identifying pure music and vocal music (40,60) from digital audio data by extracting distinctive features from music frames (73,74,75,76), designing a classifier and determining the classification parameters (20) using adaptive learning/training algorithm (36), and ... 03/16/06 - 20060054004 - Electronic musical instrument and tone generator apparatus connectable thereto Tone generation control signal and sound signal are communicated between an electronic musical instrument and an external apparatus, using a communication interface capable of bidirectionally communicating one or more types of signals via a common communication path in accordance with a common communication standard. Thus, where the electronic musical instrument ... 03/09/06 - 20060048633 - Method and system for synthesizing electronic transparent audio A method and system for synthesizing electronic watermarks is disclosed. The method includes generating electronic watermark sounds for music data by converting harmonic overtones that match the music data into signals. The generated electronic watermark sounds are then synthesized into the music data. The synthesized electronic watermark sounds and the ... 03/09/06 - 20060048632 - Browser-based music rendering apparatus method and system Atomic music segments are visually and sonically rendered within a browser window as directed by a set of interface controls thus providing the ability to directly control various performance parameters while also communicating the intentions of the composer and arranger in a manner similar to traditional sheet music. In certain ... 03/02/06 - 20060042453 - Electronic music apparatus capable of connecting to network An electronic musical apparatus comprises an instructing device that instructs establishment of connection to a network via a communication interface, a first time information obtaining device that obtains time information from a first time information provider connected to the network, a second time information obtaining device that obtains time information ... 02/16/06 - 20060032361 - Wind turbine assembly A wind turbine including a frame, a driveshaft rotatably mounted on the frame, and a body adapted to be driven by a wind. The body includes one or more spiral vanes attached to the driveshaft. The vanes may be assembled from a number of vane layers. The axis of rotation ... 02/09/06 - 20060027077 - Electronic musical apparatus for reproducing received music content A browser portion BR obtains a reproduction manner specifying file from a content distribution server 30, and delivers the same to a reproduction control portion CT. The reproduction control portion CT obtains from the content distribution server 30 a music content file designated by a reproduction content list in the ... 01/19/06 - 20060011042 - Audio file format with mapped vibrational effects and method for controlling vibrational effects using an audio file format An audio file format is provided, which includes definitions for one or more instruments, and definitions for one or more notes, that are associated with one or more vibrational element groupings, where each vibrational element grouping includes one or more vibration sources. Received commands present in the audio file, and ... 11/03/05 - 20050241462 - Musical performance data creating apparatus with visual zooming assistance In an apparatus for creating musical performance data according to operations of a user, a screen display section displays an input screen having a data input area for use in inputting of musical performance data. A position indication section operates when a first operation is taken by the user for ... 11/03/05 - 20050241461 - Keyboard musical instrument having sensor unit exactly located by means of plural locators A hybrid keyboard musical instrument is fabricated on a piano, and a hammer stopper and an electronic tone generating system are installed in the piano; the electronic tone generating system includes hammer sensors arranged on a framework secured to a shank flange rail by means of stud bolts, and the ... 10/27/05 - 20050235808 - Musical performance apparatus A musical performance apparatus has an I/O unit including a digital signal processor (DSP) and a plurality of application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC), which are connected together in a cascade connection manner and each of which includes a plurality of shift registers. The DSP produces drive signals for driving a plurality ... 10/13/05 - 20050223877 - Sound system and method for creating a sound event based on a modeled sound field A sound system and method for modeling a sound field generated by a sound source and creating a sound event based on the modeled sound field is disclosed. The system and method captures a sound field over an enclosing surface, models the sound field and enables reproduction of the modeled ... 10/06/05 - 20050217459 - Content providing apparatus, content providing system, web site changing apparatus, web site changing system, content providing method, and web site changing method Apparatus in which, with respect to a vague search request, content, such as a musical piece matching a user's mood at that time, can easily be searched for with a simple operation. A content providing apparatus includes a content storage section in which a plurality of pieces of content are ... 09/29/05 - 20050211069 - Appliance audio notification device A flexible audio tone-generating device for use in a consumer appliance. The device generates pleasing musical tones. The device uses two outputs of a software-executing processor utilizing stored tone data associated with status events of the appliance to drive a tone circuit for outputting a melody using the tones to ... 09/29/05 - 20050211068 - Method and apparatus for making music and article of manufacture thereof A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for making music with any physical or virtual object, including any article of manufacture or object of nature, wherein one or more sensors communicate with a synthesizer or other signal processing device. The sensors may be in any physical arrangement to the object ... 09/22/05 - 20050204901 - 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 intention. Performance data includes sounding designation data which designates sounding starting timing and sounding ending timing of each of musical tones ... 09/22/05 - 20050204900 - Note collection utility The present invention is directed to computer software for a note collection utility that satisfies the need for a utility to facilitate the creation and maintenance of easily accessed tools to create notes regarding certain types of observations or transactions in a highly efficient and reliable way. The notes are ... 08/11/05 - 20050172786 - Systems for per persona processing media content-associated metadata Various systems and methods described above permit a user's content experience (e.g. music playing experience) to be monitored and for metadata describing this experience to be collected. This metadata can be dynamically updated as a user experiences media content and then used to impart to the user a personalized experience ... 07/14/05 - 20050150358 - Electronic music apparatus, control method therefor, and program for implementing the control method An electronic music apparatus which can simplify the operating procedure for reproduction of sample contents. When a user designates a sample content as an object for download distribution using a setting operator, the sample content is distributed by download distribution and received by the electronic music apparatus. The received sample ... 06/09/05 - 20050120865 - Music session support method, musical instrument for music session, and music session support program A music session support method which enables each of players in a music session which is performed via a network to immediately recognize whether or not the other players are in the state of being able to participate in the session. A session support apparatus 10 transmits sets of status ... 06/02/05 - 20050115381 - 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 Lindemayer-systems or other methods. Where fractals are used in the interpretation and transformation of data to sounds the use of fractals provided ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |