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Music > Instruments > Electrical Musical Tone Generation > Data Storage > Digital Memory Circuit (e.g., Ram, Rom, Etc.) > Note Sequence Note SequenceNote Sequence 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.01/17/08 - 20080011148 - Musical composition processing device A scale information inputting section (11) receives an input of scale information of a musical composition. Based on the scale information of the musical composition inputted to the scale information inputting section (11), an appearance probability calculating section (12) calculates appearance probabilities of pitch names included in the scale information ... 01/03/08 - 20080000344 - Method for selecting and recommending content, server, content playback apparatus, content recording apparatus, and recording medium storing computer program for selecting and recommending content A content selecting and recommending method includes a step of generating a log table using information sent as a log from each of a plurality of users' terminals, each user's state being classified into one of a plurality of state patterns, the log table including information indicating a correspondence between ... 11/15/07 - 20070261536 - Method and system for processing music on a computer device A method for processing and playing music. The method includes providing a computing system, an input device, and a display. The method provides a selected music composition in a sequence of music notes. A user input is provided at a selected time as the selected music composition is animated on ... 11/15/07 - 20070261535 - Metadata-based song creation and editing Relating higher-level descriptive musical metadata to lower-level musical elements to enable creation of a song map, song model, backing track, or the like. The musical elements are queried based on input metadata to create a set of musical elements of varying types such as notes, chords, song structures, and the ... 11/08/07 - 20070256544 - 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 sound-processing apparatus comprises: a delay unit DB that generates at least one or more new synchronized sound signal that ... 11/08/07 - 20070256543 - Method and system for assessing a musical performance The invention relates to a method and system for assessing a performance of a musical composition in relation to a model performance of the same composition. In particular, as even a model performance does not follow a score of a composition precisely, the present invention initially correlates the model performance ... 10/25/07 - 20070245883 - 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 the same way twice is provided. The transport control includes a play indicator, e.g., a play button or the like, ... 09/27/07 - 20070221045 - Playback device, contents selecting method, contents distribution system, information processing device, contents transfer method, and storing medium A playback device includes a storing unit storing a contents database in which contents including at least music and tempo information indicating the tempo of the music are correlated with each other; a playback unit for performing playback of the contents; a tempo measuring unit for measuring an exercise tempo ... 09/20/07 - 20070214941 - 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, which is then characterized using a special normalized format. The characterized musical query is then compared in a variety of ... 09/13/07 - 20070209498 - Midi encoding and decoding A method and unit for composing or decomposing a multimedia signal according to the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) protocol. The signal carries events of a first type, which are arranged to carry instructions regarding which predefined patches to use for playback and which predefined notes to play, and events ... 08/23/07 - 20070193436 - System and method for manipulation of sound data using haptic feedback In an embodiment, a device which comprises means for generating an audio signal based on sound data, the audio signal configured to produce sound from an audio producing device; means for generating a haptic command based on the sound data, the haptic command configured to cause a haptic feedback device ... 08/23/07 - 20070193435 - Computer analysis and manipulation of musical structure, methods of production and uses thereof A music modification system is provided and described herein, which includes: a) a computer, b) a music element library, c) at least one part-score database, d) a software code that executes a music modification system on the computer, wherein the music modification system accesses or manipulates the information in the ... 08/16/07 - 20070186753 - Apparatus and method for a food and music matching system An apparatus and method for providing a pleasing and coordinated combination of food and music is provided. In one embodiment, the musical food kit of the present invention combines a prerecorded musical selection or soundtrack in a prepackaged combination with a selected food item or group of foodstuffs and is ... 08/16/07 - 20070186752 - Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing music are provided, particularly systems and methods employing a top-down process, where the user is provided with a musical composition that may be modified and interacted with and played and/or stored (for later play). The system preferably is provided in ... 08/16/07 - 20070186751 - 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 piece likeliness of each of pieces of processing-unit data that constitute input audio data, based on a result of the ... 08/16/07 - 20070186750 - Apparatus and method for composing music in a portable terminal The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for composing music in a portable terminal. A frequency of a sound input through a microphone is analyzed. A musical scale is distinguished with the analyzed frequency. A musical note is written with the distinguished musical scale. Thus, a user ... 08/02/07 - 20070175316 - Digital music stand A digital music display stand includes an operating unit containing processing structure, memory and a display. ... 07/26/07 - 20070169613 - Similar music search method and apparatus using music content summary A similar music search method, including: extracting an audio feature value from a compression zone of a music file and generating a music content summary using the extracted audio feature; classifying a mood and a genre of the music file by using the generated music content summary; extracting a similarity ... 07/19/07 - 20070163427 - Systems and methods for generating video game content Systems and methods for a creating a music-based video game are described as is a portable music and video device housing a memory for storing executable instructions and a processor for executing the instructions. Creating video game content using musical content supplied from a source other than the game includes ... 07/19/07 - 20070163426 - Automatic musical performance device [Solution] A time period Tv between two points, and a tempo Tmp found based on a time intervals between two-point detection and later two-point detection, are found based on detection signals at the two points and later detection signals at the two points; and a delay time fD(Tv), which is ... 07/19/07 - 20070163425 - Melody retrieval system A music retrieval system which take an input melody as the query. In one embodiment, changes or differences in the distribution of energy across the frequency spectrum over time are used to find breakpoints in the input melody in order to separate it into distinct notes. In another embodiment the ... 07/12/07 - 20070157797 - Taste profile production apparatus, taste profile production method and profile production program A taste profile production apparatus includes a storage section configured to retain one or more music data; a music analysis section configured to analyze the music data using a predetermined music analysis method to classify numerical value meta data, which are successive values for a plurality of individual items representative ... 06/14/07 - 20070131095 - Method of classifying music file and system therefor A method which allows multimedia players to analyze features of a music file so as to classify the music file, and a system therefor are provided. The method of classifying a music file includes pre-processing to decode and normalize at least a part of an input music file, extracting one ... 06/14/07 - 20070131094 - Music information retrieval using a 3d search algorithm According to one embodiment of the present invention, said method is characterized by the steps of recording (S1) said analog audio sequences (102, 300a, 400), extracting (S4a) and analyzing (S4b) various acoustic-phonetic speech characteristics of the speaker's voice and pronunciation from spoken parts (400) of a recorded song's lyrics (102″) ... 05/31/07 - 20070119291 - Musical performance training device and recording medium for storing musical performance training program In a musical performance training device according to the present invention, song data indicating each sound composing a song and including a step that indicates a training mode (self-running mode or wait mode) for each sound is read. When the read song data is in self-running mode, the reading of ... 05/24/07 - 20070113724 - 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 compressed segment of music data, tracking change points of the music content using the extracted audio feature value and re-configuring ... 04/26/07 - 20070089591 - Low-cost, widely-applicable instruction system A system for teaching a student to play a musical instrument has a first portion of a musical score displayed as a first visual example and annotated with a first identifying indicia, a second portion of the musical score following the first portion in the score, as a second visual ... 04/26/07 - 20070089590 - Performance teaching apparatus and program for performance teaching process In an electronic musical instrument 100, CPU confirms a pitch range of music stored in a music memory, and generates a keyboard image as large as possible for display based on marks M1 and M2 on a keyboard and the confirmed pitch range, and sends and displays the generated keyboard ... 04/12/07 - 20070079690 - Dance game machine, method for scoring dance game and computer-readable recording medium A dance game machine has a mode wherein instruction information to guide a player's dance motion is displayed on a display part, and a mode wherein the instruction information is not displayed. If not displayed, a storage part stores music data, step data, screen data, and comment data corresponding to ... 03/29/07 - 20070068368 - 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 to one of parts. A performance data setting portion chooses, under user's direction, one of performance data sets stored in a ... 03/08/07 - 20070051229 - Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing music are provided, particularly systems and methods employing a top-down process, where the user is provided with a musical composition that may be modified and interacted with and played and/or stored (for later play). The system preferably is provided in ... 03/08/07 - 20070051228 - Method and apparatus for playing in synchronism with a dvd an automated musical instrument The invention disclosed herein is a system and method for playing music sequences, such as MIDI files in synchronization with a DVD. This system utilizes a preauthored music sequence and a controller that listens to the S/PDIF output of a DVD player. Further, this application discloses a method for creating ... 03/01/07 - 20070044640 - Method and apparatus of music obfuscation to limit unauthorized playback A method and apparatus for limiting which player pianos can properly play notes within a media file or stream without playing additional “bad notes” encoded in the stream for disrupting the playback of that musical composition so as to prevent playback on unauthorized systems. Bad notes are encoded within a ... 03/01/07 - 20070044639 - System and method for music creation and distribution over communications network A graphical music creation user interface is used to create and edit user compositions, which may then be transferred to a server and, through a cell phone carrier network, to cell phones or other portable devices. The compositions may be used as cell phone ring tones. Various graphical features allow ... 02/22/07 - 20070039449 - 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 communication channel is transferred to the behavior of the local instrument so that a natural accommodation is made by the musician. This ... 02/01/07 - 20070022866 - Method and system for generating musical variations directed to particular skill-levels Various embodiments are directed to an automated method and system component for generating variations of one or more musical selections directed to particular students or to particular skill-levels into which students may be classified. The method and system component may be included in a wide variety of different music rendering, ... 02/01/07 - 20070022865 - Performance apparatus and tone generation method using the performance apparatus Key switches are arranged to form plural rows, and light emitting elements are provided in corresponding relation to the key switches. For each of the rows, any operated key switch is detected, and, on the basis of such detection, the light emitting elements are sequentially illuminated so that an illuminated ... 01/25/07 - 20070017350 - Simple music performance system, music data supplier and computer program installed in the music data supplier At least one musical instrument, a server computer, a mobile telephone and a communication network form a music performance system; the owner has registered the musical instrument with a client database in the server computer, and a user transmits a request for music data distribution service to the server computer ... 01/25/07 - 20070017349 - Musical performance system, musical instrument incorporated therein and multi-purpose portable information terminal device for the system A hybrid musical instrument and a PDA form a musical performance system, and a user controls the hybrid musical instrument by means of the PDA; when the user pairs the hybrid musical instrument with the PDA, the musical instrument converts an identification code to a machine-recognizable image such as an ... 01/18/07 - 20070012164 - Browser-based music rendering methods Blocks of music and related annotations referred to herein as 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, arranger, and ... 01/04/07 - 20070000372 - System and method for providing a waveform for stimulating biological tissue An implantable programmable stimulator system includes memory that stores waveform data for at least one waveform. A playback system provides at least one output waveform based on the waveform data. ... 12/28/06 - 20060288845 - Preference-weighted semi-random media play Methods, apparatus, and systems that allow random music play, and random selection of other media files, using a non-uniform probability distribution. The likelihood that a particular song, piece, or media file will be played or presented in the future is increased or decreased according to positive and negative user behaviors ... 12/14/06 - 20060278064 - Data management and distribution Data management and distribution are described, including a memory configured to store data, the data being stored in a file and the file is downloaded in response to a signal, and downloading is performed based on a parameter determined by a provider of the file or the system, and a ... 12/07/06 - 20060272484 - Content distributing server, content distributing method, and content distributing program A content distributing server capable of reproducing desired display contents in conformity with reproduction of a desired musical composition. In response to a request from a terminal device, one of musical composition contents stored in a musical composition database is identified, and one of template contents stored in a template ... 12/07/06 - 20060272483 - Player piano system interface A player piano system including a player piano having a core computing device with programming, a storage device installed therein configured to communicate with at least one second computing device such as an Internet server. A remote controller device communicates with the core computing device and provides remote access to ... 11/02/06 - 20060243119 - Online synchronized music cd and memory stick or chips A synchronized music delivery system utilizes either a portable memory device including compact discs (CDs), digital video discs (DVDs) and memory sticks, or on-line or wirelessly delivered content in combination with a lighted keyboard and a sound reproducing system. A synchronized musical work, including music, lyrics and specialized coding, is ... 10/19/06 - 20060230909 - Operating method of a music composing device A method for generating a music file includes receiving a melody from a user through a user interface, and generating a melody file corresponding to the received melody. The method further includes generating a harmony accompaniment file responsive to melody represented by the melody file, and generating a music file ... 10/19/06 - 20060230908 - Method for reproducing music file of mobile communication terminal and mobile terminal implementing the same A method for reproducing a music file of a mobile communication terminal includes outputting a confirmation message for determining whether a music file is to be reproduced if reproduction of the music file is requested during the manner mode of the mobile communication terminal, and reproducing the music file if ... 10/12/06 - 20060225562 - Automatic performance data editing and reproducing apparatus, control method therefor, and program for implementing the control method An automatic performance data editing and reproducing apparatus which can achieve harmony between a copyright holder of automatic performance data and users thereof. At least part of a plurality of pieces of part performance data stored in a storage device that stores automatic performance data comprising a plurality of pieces ... 08/24/06 - 20060185500 - Electronic musical apparatus for displaying character An electronic musical instrument loads, by a program process, automatic performance data representative of a musical piece and text data representative of characters into a RAM 24 to cause a musical tone signal generating circuit 14 to emit musical tone signals on the basis of the automatic performance data to ... 08/17/06 - 20060180006 - Apparatus and method for performing play function in a portable terminal An apparatus and method is provided for performing a play function in a portable terminal. The apparatus and method includes a memory to store a sound combination table in which preset play sounds and their associated key input combination patterns are stored, to reproduce a particular play sound. A keypad ... 08/17/06 - 20060180005 - 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 signaling tone sequences that follow a set of aesthetic music principles. In a system for generating signaling ... 07/20/06 - 20060156906 - 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 performance, either automatically, or with live-controlled user input, and either with or without a score. ... 06/22/06 - 20060130638 - 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 status of the message; a message analyzing and processing function unit for analyzing the header information, consuming a period of time ... 06/15/06 - 20060123980 - Music data processing apparatus and method In a storage section, there are stored a plurality of music data sets of a given first format. Reproduction definition information defines reproducing order of a group of desired music data sets among the plurality of music data sets stored in the storage section. On the basis of the reproduction ... 06/01/06 - 20060112810 - Ordering audio signals A method for ordering a plurality of audio signals into a sequence comprising receiving (104) a user preference, analysing (108) the plurality of audio signals to extract inherent features and ordering (110), independently of user involvement, start into a sequence at least two of the plurality of audio signals based ... 05/18/06 - 20060101984 - Training system The present invention is a training system comprising a user terminal for executing training for user skill acquisition by using music data of an original work; a trainer terminal for generating training information for user skill acquisition; and a server for carrying out communications with the user terminal and the ... 05/11/06 - 20060096446 - Automatic accompaniment apparatus, method of controlling the same, 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. Control information for causing an accompaniment information generator of the external electronic musical instrument to generate accompaniment information is generated and transmitted to the accompaniment information generator ... 04/27/06 - 20060086235 - Electronic musical apparatus system, server-side electronic musical apparatus and client-side electronic musical apparatus A plurality of client-side electronic musical apparatuses 10 are connected to a server-side electronic musical apparatus 30 through a communications network 50. Each of the client-side electronic musical apparatuses 10, which is provided with an ID, attaches the ID to a signal representative of operation of performance operators 11 and ... 04/13/06 - 20060075882 - Electronic musical apparatus An electronic musical instrument is configured to store music data including performance data on a plurality of tracks and receive designation of a track or tracks so that when a test-listen button for receiving instruction of test-listen of the designated track(s) is pressed, the electronic musical instrument plays the performance ... 04/13/06 - 20060075881 - Method and device for a harmonic rendering of a melody line In order to implement the melody extraction or the automatic clearly more stable or to improve the transcription result, respectively, at the resulting segments or trajectories, respectively, of a melody line gained from a spectrogram of the audio signal a harmony mapping is performed such that a follower segment directly ... 03/30/06 - 20060065105 - 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 rhythm data stored in a data storage section for rhythm data having the same fluctuation pattern as or a ... 03/30/06 - 20060065104 - Transport control for 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 the same way twice is provided. The transport control includes a play indicator, e.g., a play button or the like, ... 03/23/06 - 20060060066 - Electronic music apparatus and music-related data display method There are provided a first storage section that stores text files each including at least text data, and a second storage section that stores registration data including predetermined performance environment setting information and text file selection information specifying a text file associated with a performance environment set on the basis ... 03/16/06 - 20060054006 - Automatic rendition style determining apparatus and method Once performance event information is supplied in real time in accordance with a progression of a performance, a time indicative of temporal relationship between at least two notes to be generated in succession is measured on the basis of the performance event information supplied in real time. Comparison is made ... 03/16/06 - 20060054005 - Playback apparatus and playback method A playback apparatus includes: a first acquiring unit acquiring sound content data; a second acquiring unit acquiring additional information corresponding to the sound content data acquired by the first acquiring unit; and a signal processor performing signal processing on the sound content data acquired by the first acquiring unit on ... 02/09/06 - 20060027079 - 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 information indicative of a long sounding blank time period. Performance data md-A including at least key-on event data KON and time data TIME that defines ... 02/09/06 - 20060027078 - 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 sound generating apparatus to reproduce the music piece at a second quality different from the first quality. The music ... 01/19/06 - 20060011044 - Method of composing music on a handheld device A musical sequence is formed on the keypad of a handheld electronic device. The numbered keys on the keypad of the handheld device are mapped directly to corresponding notes in an octave. The sequence of musical notes is entered by depressing at least one numbered key on the keypad and ... 11/24/05 - 20050257667 - Apparatus and computer program for practicing musical instrument An electronic musical instrument stores plural pieces of voice data (i.e., voice waveform data) indicating plural syllables (a, i, u, etc., or do, re, mi, etc.) and automatic performance data indicating a performed music piece. The automatic performance data is composed of a series of note data and information indicating ... 11/24/05 - 20050257666 - Automatic performance apparatus An automatic performance apparatus reproduces, by a program process executed on a computer, automatic performance data comprising a series of performance data which is assigned to one channel of a plurality of channels and to which a channel number representative of the assigned channel is added. The automatic performance data ... 11/03/05 - 20050241463 - Song search system and song search method The present invention is a song map that is self-organized map that comprises a plurality of neurons that include characteristic vectors made up of data corresponding to a plurality of evaluation items that indicate the characteristics of the song data, and the index-evaluation items are preset from among the evaluation ... 10/13/05 - 20050223878 - 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 preference database storing user's preference data. The center receives this preference data, and retrieves music composition information meeting the ... 06/09/05 - 20050120867 - Interactive voice response method and apparatus An interactive voice response method and system comprising a VoiceXML browser for processing an interaction with a user. A music score (for example a MIDI file) describing background music for playing during the interaction, and a music synthesizer for generating background music from the music score and from acoustic parameters ... 06/09/05 - 20050120866 - Computing device to allow for the selection and display of a multimedia presentation of an audio file and to allow a user to play a musical instrument in conjunction with the multimedia presentation Disclosed is a computing device to allow for the selection and display of a multimedia presentation of an audio file to a user. An interface device couples the musical instrument to the computing device by performing A/D conversion of the musical instrument's analog audio signal to create a digitized audio ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |