Patents Assigned to Yamaha Corporation
  • Patent number: 11966662
    Abstract: An acoustic processing system for audio signal processing includes a first apparatus including a first memory that stores a first parameter for the audio signal processing and a user interface that receives an operation for changing the first parameter, a second apparatus including a second memory that stores a second parameter synchronized with the first parameter and a first CPU that performs system control, and a third apparatus including a second CPU that performs the audio signal processing. The first CPU sends, to the third apparatus, control information for controlling the audio signal processing based on the second parameter, and the second CPU receives the control information, and performs the audio signal processing based on the control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kotaro Terada, Shintaro Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11967302
    Abstract: An information processing method includes generating performance data that represent a performance of a musical piece that reflects a change caused by a factor that alters the performance of the musical piece, by inputting musical score data, which represent a musical score of the musical piece, and variability data, which represent the factor, into a trained model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Maezawa
  • Patent number: 11961498
    Abstract: An electronic keyboard musical instrument includes a keyboard that receives a musical performance operation. The electronic keyboard musical instrument further includes a plurality of operation units that receive an operation except for the musical performance operation with respect to the electronic keyboard musical instrument, and a disabler that disables operational input in at least one operation unit among the plurality of operation units when a connection with a tablet for inputting an operation with respect to the electronic keyboard musical instrument is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Yanagawa
  • Patent number: 11961499
    Abstract: A sound signal generation method for a keyboard including a pedal and a key, the method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises generating a first sound signal and a second sound signal different from the first sound signal based on first operation data corresponding to an operation of the key, and adjusting a relationship between the first sound signal and the second sound signal to sound at respective timings according to a physical quantity of a key pressing operation of the key to control a decay rate of the first sound signal to be different from a decay rate of the second sound signal based on a key release operation of the key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Oba, Akihiko Komatsu, Michiko Tanoue
  • Patent number: 11956606
    Abstract: An audio signal processing method includes receiving an audio signal corresponding to a voice of a talker, obtaining an image of the talker, estimating posture information of the talker using the image of the talker, generating a correction filter according to the estimated posture information, performing filter processing on the audio signal using the generated correction filter, and outputting the audio signal on which the filter processing has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Ukai, Ryo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11955104
    Abstract: An accompaniment sound generating device includes a specifier, an accompaniment sound generator, and an accompaniment sound outputter. The specifier specifies a plurality of musical performance parts for which accompaniment sounds are generated based on an input musical performance sound. The accompaniment sound generator generates the accompaniment sounds that belong to the plurality of specified musical performance parts for each musical performance sound. The accompaniment sound outputter outputs the accompaniment sounds generated for the plurality of musical performance parts with timing for generating the accompaniment sounds aligned with timing for generating musical performance sounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Daichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11942071
    Abstract: An information processing system includes at least one memory storing a program and at least one processor. The at least one processor implements the program to input a piece of sound source data obtained by encoding a first identification data representative of a sound source, a piece of style data obtained by encoding a second identification data representative of a performance style, and synthesis data representative of sounding conditions into a synthesis model generated by machine learning, and to generate, using the synthesis model, feature data representative of acoustic features of a target sound of the sound source to be generated in the performance style and according to the sounding conditions, and to generate an audio signal corresponding to the target sound using the generated feature data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryunosuke Daido, Merlijn Blaauw, Jordi Bonada
  • Patent number: 11942106
    Abstract: An apparatus for analyzing audio includes a feature acquirer, an output apparatus, at least one memory, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to execute a program stored in the at least one memory. The at least one processor is also configured to cause the feature acquirer to acquire a series of feature amounts of an audio signal. The at least one processor is also configured to generate boundary data by inputting the acquired series of feature amounts into a boundary estimation model that has learned relationships between: (i) a series of feature amounts, and (ii) boundary data representative of boundaries, each of the boundaries being between consecutive periods in each of which a chord is continuous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Kouhei Sumi
  • Patent number: 11937046
    Abstract: A sound diffuser includes a first annular control member, a second annular control member, and a third annular control member. The first annular control member includes a first communication hole and an annular inclined plate that surrounds the first communication hole and is inclined relative to an axial direction of the first communication hole. The second annular control member includes a second communication hole and an annular inclined plate that surrounds the second communication hole, houses the first annular control member therein, and is inclined relative to an axial direction of the second communication hole. The third annular control member has a plurality of third communication holes and surrounds the second annular control member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Ioku, Masumi Adachi
  • Patent number: 11937044
    Abstract: A sound emission control device comprises a plurality of guides. The guides each include an inlet connected to a branching portion that is configured to oppose a vibrating surface inside an acoustic device, an outlet communicated to the inlet, and a horn-shaped inner wall surrounding a space between the inlet and the outlet. The guides are configured to guide sound that is emitted from the vibrating surface and branched by the branching portion to the outlets that are configured to be communicated to sound emission holes that are provided in the acoustic device and face mutually different directions, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Ioku, Masumi Adachi
  • Patent number: 11929050
    Abstract: A strainer device for a drum includes a fixing portion attachable to a shell of the drum, an operation portion, a movable portion moved with respect to the fixing portion to change a snare wire between an ON state and an OFF state, a pressing member, a cam portion including a cam surface, and a follower configured to be relatively displaced with respect to the cam portion between a first position and a second position in the cam portion while the pressing member is pressing against the cam surface. A direction of a force acting on the follower with respect to the cam portion is directed to: a side of the first position within the cam portion in a state where the follower is disposed in the first position, and a side of the second position in a state where the follower is disposed in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Uchida, Norihiko Ishimatsu
  • Patent number: 11922933
    Abstract: Voice processing method and device includes obtaining a probability value of an audio signal representing sound, collected by a first microphone on a near-end side, including a person's voice, determining a gain of the audio signal based on the determined probability value, processing the audio signal based on the determined gain of the audio signal, and sending the processed audio signal to a far-end side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuto Kawai
  • Patent number: 11922912
    Abstract: An instrument playing apparatus has: a movable member configured to be displaced responsive to a playing operation of a user; a detection part formed from a magnetic or conductive body and disposed on the movable member; and a filter that includes a coil. The filter has a frequency response that changes depending on a distance between the detection part and the coil, and generates a detection signal from a reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michiko Tanoue, Fukutaro Okuyama
  • Patent number: 11917382
    Abstract: An in-vehicle acoustic system includes a first amplifier that outputs a first audio signal to a first mid-range speaker; a second amplifier that outputs a second audio signal to a second mid-range speaker; a third amplifier that outputs a third audio signal to a first high-range speaker and a first low-range speaker; and a fourth amplifier that outputs a fourth audio signal to a second high-range speaker and a second low-range speaker, in which the third audio signal is inputted to the first high-range speaker, the fourth audio signal is inputted to the second high-range speaker, the first audio signal is inputted to a deep-bass speaker, the third audio signal is inputted to the first low-range speaker, the fourth audio signal is inputted to the second low-range speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya Hirano, Tomokazu Hikida, Takakazu Nakashima
  • Patent number: 11917393
    Abstract: A sound field support method for an audio reproducing apparatus for simulating sound emitting from a sound source, the method includes selecting either position information on the sound source to be set in a virtual space or localization information of the sound source, in a case where sound from the sound source is to be simulated sound emitted from a speaker to be set in a target space, generating a first sound signal based on the position information in a state where the selecting has selected the position information, generating a second sound signal based on the localization information in a state where the selecting has selected the localization information, and adjusting sound image localization of an input audio signal from the sound source to be output to the speaker using the first sound signal and the second sound signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Watanabe, Dai Hashimoto, Hiroomi Shidoji
  • Patent number: 11906374
    Abstract: Provided is a measurement method including measuring, by using a piezoelectric sheet sensor in contact with a measurement object, vibration transmitted from the measurement object to the piezoelectric sheet sensor and measuring pressing force between the measurement object and the piezoelectric sheet sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoya Miyata
  • Patent number: 11900913
    Abstract: A sound signal processing method includes: obtaining a plurality of sound signals respectively collected by a plurality of microphones arranged in a space; adjusting respective levels of the plurality of sound signals in accordance with respective positions of the plurality of microphones; mixing the plurality of sound signals having the adjusted respective levels to thereby obtain a mixed signal; and generating a reflected sound by using the obtained mixed signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Watanabe, Dai Hashimoto
  • Patent number: D1015414
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masafumi Ito
  • Patent number: D1018498
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sena Otsuka
  • Patent number: D1021866
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kunihiro Takei