Patents Examined by Christina M Schreiber
  • Patent number: 11893304
    Abstract: A display control method includes causing a display device to display a processing image in which a first image representing a note corresponding to a synthesized sound and a second image representing a sound effect are arranged in an area, in which a pitch axis and a time axis are set, in accordance with synthesis data that specify the synthesized sound generated by sound synthesis and the sound effect added to the synthesized sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Tachibana
  • Patent number: 11893968
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument according to one embodiment includes playing operators specifying respective pitches, and at least one processor which is configured to execute processing of acquiring string sound data including a fundamental sound component and a harmonic tone component corresponding to a specified pitch, acquiring stroke sound waveform data that does not include the fundamental sound component and the harmonic tone component corresponding to the specified pitch but includes components other than the fundamental sound component and the harmonic tone component, and synthesizing the string sound data and stroke sound data corresponding to the stroke sound waveform data at a set ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Goro Sakata
  • Patent number: 11887567
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques for adjusting notes of a first musical piece based on chord data of a second musical piece. A first musical piece is accessed, wherein the first musical piece comprises a plurality of notes. Chord data associated with a second musical piece is accessed. One or more of the plurality of notes are compared to the chord data. An aspect of the one or more of the plurality of notes is changed based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Epic Games, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Brosius, Ryan William Challinor, Paul Burrowes
  • Patent number: 11887566
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of generating a piece of music is disclosed. The method comprises: determining an initial sequence of notes for the piece of music; determining at least one probability distribution for selecting at least one subsequent note from a set of candidate notes; generating a biasing output based on data of the initial sequence of notes; and extending the initial sequence of notes with at least one subsequent note selected from the set of candidate notes according to the probability distribution and the biasing output, wherein the biasing output biases the selection so as to affect the likelihood of the selection resulting in a repeat of a musical element formed by the initial sequence of notes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Gabriele Medeot, Srikanth Cherla, Katerina Kosta, Matt Mcvicar, Samer Abdallah, Marco Selvi, Ed Newton-Rex, Kevin Webster
  • Patent number: 11887569
    Abstract: A performance system can include a primary unit and a secondary unit. The secondary unit is provided for an electronic musical instrument that can be set to a first mode that enables performance by a single individual and a second mode that enables performance by a plurality of individuals, has connecting portions enabling connection of one or a plurality of receivers having at least a receiving function, and is able to communicate with the primary unit. The performance can also include an determining portion for determining whether or not a plurality of the receivers is connected to the connecting portion, and a transmitting portion for transmitting, to the primary unit, a notification that the second mode has been set, upon determining that a plurality of the receivers has been connected to the connecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Torimura, Tsuyoshi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11881196
    Abstract: An electronic keyboard musical instrument includes a sound source configured to, in response to detection of key-pressing of the first key in damper-off detection, input first excitation signal data corresponding to the first key to a first channel, input first channel output data which is output from the first channel to each of low-register channels corresponding to the respective low-register keys, and output musical sound data which is generated based on respective pieces of low-register channel output data which is output from the respective low-register channels and the first channel output data, as musical sound data corresponding to the first key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Goro Sakata
  • Patent number: 11875763
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of digital music composition that creates a digital multi-genre musical composition track by downloading a host digital music track of a first genre and two or more separate donor multi-genre musical tracks, and then selectively modulating the instruments and rhythmic patterns of the donor musical tracks by manipulating the rhythmic patterns. The manipulation includes manipulating at least one of the intensities, frequency, sound, beat, and rhythm of the rhythmic pattern. The manipulated donor musical tracks are then integrated into the host musical track to create a combined digital multi-genre musical composition track, which can be downloaded, saved in a file, and replayed as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventor: Syntheria F. Moore
  • Patent number: 11875764
    Abstract: A media composition application, such as a musical scorewriter or a digital audio workstation, provides in situ suggestions for continuation or completion of a media composition. The suggestions are based on some or all of the portion of the composition already composed or are based on a corpus of compositions, such as those by a particular composer or those of a specific genre. The length of the suggestions is specified by the user. The suggestions are provided within a graphical user interface of the application and displayed as a possible direct continuation of the composition within a musical stave. If the user rejects the suggestion, additional suggestions are automatically displayed in situ. Reductive, most-probable suggestions may be offered as well as exploratory suggestions that facilitate a creative compositional interaction between user and application. Data filters enable selected aspects of a data source to be used for suggestion generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Joseph Plazak
  • Patent number: 11869465
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided that accurately estimates a point at which a musical performance is started by a player. The apparatus includes the musical performance analysis unit 32, and the musical performance analysis unit 32 obtains action data that includes a time series of feature data representing actions made by a player during a musical performance for a reference period and estimating a sound-production point based on the action data at an estimated point using a learned model L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Maezawa, Bochen Li
  • Patent number: 11854521
    Abstract: In an electronic musical instrument that can output stored lyrics of a song in accordance with operations by a user, a processor determines whether a pedal is on or off, and if the pedal is off, the lyric is advanced in accordance with a user operation of a keyboard, and if the pedal is on, the lyric is not advanced in accordance with a user operation of a keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Danjyo, Fumiaki Ota, Atsushi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11842712
    Abstract: An improved tuning method for fixed interval musical instruments is provided. This Precise Temperament tuning method provide mathematically consistent intervals between notes to prevent dissonance within chords while retaining the esthetics of pure tones associated with Western music.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Crown Sterling Limited, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Edward Grant
  • Patent number: 11830462
    Abstract: An information processing method includes generating a change parameter relating to a process in which a temporal relationship between a first motion and a second motion changes, by inputting, into a trained model, first time-series data that represent a content of the first motion, and second time-series data that represent a content of the second motion in parallel to the first motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Maezawa
  • Patent number: 11830465
    Abstract: To provide an electronic wind instrument capable of accurately detecting the amount of rotation of a transmission member. An electronic wind instrument whereby contact with an optical sensor by a flat surface of a rear section can be suppressed even when at least a prescribed amount of a reed is bitten, as a result of the flat surface rotating in a direction away from the optical sensor when the rear section of the transmission member rotates in conjunction with displacement of the reed. As a result, the spacing between the facing flat surface and the optical sensor can be set comparatively narrowly in the initial state and the detection sensitivity at the optical sensor increased, thereby enabling accurate detection of the rotation amount of the transmission member (the amount of the reed that is bitten).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sato, Ryohei Kanayama
  • Patent number: 11830466
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for generating color sets based on musical concepts of pitch intervals and harmony. Color sets are derived via a music-to-hue process which analyzes musical pitch data associated with musical input to determine pitch intervals included in the music. Pitch interval angles associated with the pitch intervals are applied to a tuned hue index to identify hue note ordered within the index which are separated by a hue interval angle similar to the pitch angle associated with the analyzed pitch data. The systems and methods provide for the creation of color sets which are analogous to musical chords in that they include multiple hue notes selected based on hue interval angles derived from musical interval angles associated with the received musical input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventor: James K. Beasley
  • Patent number: 11817070
    Abstract: An arbitrary signal insertion method and an arbitrary signal insertion system, capable of inserting a transmittable arbitrary signal (insertion information M) at a predetermined insertion timing into an acoustic sound played in real time. An insertion timing is previously associated with a predetermined time code with master rhythm information. An acoustic sound into which insertion information will be inserted is music sound generated by a real-time performance unit and is accompanied by a second rhythm. The insertion information is inserted into the music sound generated by the real-time performance unit at the insertion timing after the rhythm of master rhythm information and the rhythm of the music sound generated by the real-time performance unit are synchronized. The synchronization is achieved by a rhythm transmitter which notifies a player of a rhythm session musical instrument of the rhythm of the master rhythm information with sound or light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventor: Masuo Karasawa
  • Patent number: 11810540
    Abstract: A musical sound that is rich in amusement can be provided. A musical sound control device includes: a plurality of operators; a musical sound processing part configured to repeat a process of controlling a musical sound in each of a plurality of steps in accordance with control information set by the plurality of operators; and a control part configured to stop an operation of the musical sound processing part in a case in which the process of controlling a musical sound of the plurality of all the steps using the musical sound processing part has gone through one cycle in a case in which a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Kai, Yukio Shigeno
  • Patent number: 11810541
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument is provided and includes: a musical tone processing circuit processing a musical tone signal; an output jack for connecting the musical tone signal to an amplifier; a phone jack for connecting the musical tone signal to a phone; a switch for turning power supply ON or OFF; and a control circuit that determines whether power supply is necessary and selects power supply from among first, second and third power based on information indicating each power receiving state of the first to third power (respectively from AC adapter, USB cable, and battery), information indicating whether an output plug is inserted into the output jack, a phone plug is inserted into the phone jack, the USB cable is connected to USB jack, and an ON or OFF operation of the switch is performed, and information indicating a power supply ON or OFF state of the electronic musical instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Mitsuhashi, Hideaki Koyama
  • Patent number: 11798523
    Abstract: A method includes displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) for a step sequencer in a digital audio workstation. The GUI includes a sequence of user interface elements corresponding to a portion of a roll for an audio composition. Each user interface element in the sequence of user interface elements represents a respective time interval for a note. The sequence of user interface elements. The method includes receiving a user input interacting with a first user interface element. The method includes, in response to the user input: splitting a played note represented by the first user interface element into two or more played notes. The method further includes providing the audio composition for playback by a speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Soundtrap AB
    Inventors: Jonas Lundquist, Joakim Persson, Nikhil Nair, Jacqueline Sibert
  • Patent number: 11790877
    Abstract: A sound signal conversion device includes a supplier. The supplier supplies a periodic change to an input sound signal and outputs the sound signal to which the periodic change is supplied. The supplier includes a phase determiner that determines a phase at which the periodic change supplied to the sound signal starts based on initial phase information when receiving a start instruction for starting supply of the periodic change to the sound signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Yamada, Takashi Mori
  • Patent number: 11776516
    Abstract: Systems and methods for mapping parts in a digital sheet music file for a harmony. The method may include receiving a selection of a music segment for part mapping, receiving a digital sheet music representation of the selected music segment, and determining a plurality of plausible part mapping for the digital sheet music representation. A part mapping identifies one or more distinct musical parts in the digital sheet music representation, each of said one or more distinct musical parts corresponding to a performer of the harmony. The method may also include analyzing one or more features of the plurality of plausible part mapping to identify a highest probability part mapping based on previously stored information, and outputting the highest probability part mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: HARMONY HELPER, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Goren, Michael Holroyd, Robert McClure