Patents by Inventor Itsuma Tsugami

Itsuma Tsugami has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5499922
    Abstract: A backing chorus reproducing device is disclosed wherein human backing chorus is PCM coded and then combined with MIDI Standard based instrumental sound to produce karaoke music. In reproduction, the instrumental sound and the chorus sound are played back with no out-of-synchronization therebetween. The backing chorus reproducing device comprises a communications controller, an input/output device for inputting an instruction for a music number and a change of scale, a memory for storing karaoke information received, a main controller for analyzing the karaoke information read from the memory to decompose it into header information, song's words information, and musical information, while outputting in synchronism the electronic musical sound data and the backing chorus data of the musical information according to the processing type of the control data included in the header information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1996
    Assignees: Ricoh Co., Ltd., Ricos Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Umeda, Itsuma Tsugami