Patents by Inventor Makoto Danjyo

Makoto Danjyo 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).

  • Publication number: 20190392807
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores a machine-learning trained acoustic model mimicking voice of a singer and at least one processor. When a vocoder mode is on, prescribed lyric data and pitch data corresponding to a user operation of an operation element of the musical instrument are inputted to the trained acoustic model, and inferred singing voice data that infers a singing voice of the singer is synthesized on the basis of acoustic feature data output by the trained acoustic model and on the basis of instrument sound waveform data that are synthesized in accordance with the pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element. When the vocoder mode is off, the inferred singing voice data is synthesized based on the acoustic feature data without using the sound waveform data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto DANJYO, Fumiaki OTA, Masaru SETOGUCHI, Atsushi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190392798
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores a trained acoustic model obtained by performing machine learning on training musical score data and training singing voice data of a singer; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor: in accordance with a user operation on an operation element in a plurality of operation elements, inputs prescribed lyric data and pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element to the trained acoustic model so as to cause the trained acoustic model to output the acoustic feature data in response to the inputted prescribed lyric data and the inputted pitch data, and digitally synthesizes and outputs inferred singing voice data that infers a singing voice of the singer on the basis of the acoustic feature data output by the trained acoustic model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto DANJYO, Fumiaki OTA, Masaru SETOGUCHI, Atsushi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190392799
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores a trained acoustic model obtained by performing machine learning on training musical score data and training singing voice data of a singer; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor: in accordance with a user operation on an operation element in a plurality of operation elements, inputs prescribed lyric data and pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element to the trained acoustic model, and digitally synthesizes and outputs inferred singing voice data that infers a singing voice of the singer on the basis of at least a portion of acoustic feature data output by the trained acoustic model, and on the basis of instrument sound waveform data that are synthesized in accordance with the pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto DANJYO, Fumiaki OTA, Masaru SETOGUCHI, Atsushi NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 10482860
    Abstract: A keyboard instrument includes a processor and a keyboard including first, second and third keys. The first key is associated with first section data corresponding to a first section among a plurality of sections in a piece of music, includes at least two notes and corresponds to a first period of the piece of music. The second key is associated with second section data corresponding to a second section following the first section, includes at least two notes and corresponds to a second period of the piece of music. The third key is not associated with any section data. The processor displays an identifier such that the first and second keys are distinguishable from the third key, outputs the first section data as a musical sound when the first key is operated; and outputs the second section data as a musical sound when the second key is operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Danjyo
  • Publication number: 20190318712
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument in one aspect of the disclosure includes a keyboard, a processor and a memory that stores musical piece data that includes data of a vocal part, the vocal part including at least first and second notes together with associated first and second lyric parts that are to be successively played at the first and second timings, respectively, wherein if while a digitally synthesized first signing voice corresponding to the first note is being output, a user specifies, via keyboard, a third pitch that is different from the first and second notes prior to the arrival of the second timing, the at least one processor synthesizes a modified first singing voice having the third pitch in accordance with the data of the first lyric part, and causes the digitally synthesized modified first singing voice to be audibly output at the third timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi NAKAMURA, Masaru SETOGUCHI, Makoto DANJYO, Fumiaki OTA
  • Publication number: 20190318715
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument in one aspect of the disclosure includes; a plurality of operation elements to be performed by a user for respectively specifying different pitches; a memory that stores musical piece data that includes data of a vocal part, the vocal part including at least a first note with a first pitch and an associated first lyric part that are to be played at a first timing; and at least one processor, wherein if the user does not operate any of the plurality of operation elements in accordance with the first timing, the at least one processor digitally synthesizes a default first singing voice that includes the first lyric part and that has the first pitch in accordance with data of the first note stored in the memory, and causes the digitally synthesized default first singing voice to be audibly output at the first timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto DANJYO, Fumiaki OTA, Masaru SETOGUCHI, Atsushi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190198001
    Abstract: A keyboard instrument includes a processor and a keyboard including first, second and third keys. The first key is associated with first section data corresponding to a first section among a plurality of sections in a piece of music, includes at least two notes and corresponds to a first period of the piece of music. The second key is associated with second section data corresponding to a second section following the first section, includes at least two notes and corresponds to a second period of the piece of music. The third key is not associated with any section data. The processor displays an identifier such that the first and second keys are distinguishable from the third key, outputs the first section data as a musical sound when the first key is operated; and outputs the second section data as a musical sound when the second key is operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventor: Makoto DANJYO
  • Publication number: 20120293554
    Abstract: An image display method for displaying images in layouts having a hierarchic structure of each layout is disclosed. The each layout is geometrically similar each other. A lower layer layout is enlarged to cover and hide an upper layer layout. At least one region of the lowest layout is divided by applying the layout to generate new regions and images are displayed in the new regions. The above process is repeated more than once.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicants: KEIO UNIVERSITY, OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro HARADA, Masahiko INAKAGE, Sayako SUZUKI, Maki SUGIMOTO, Makoto DANJYO, Rika MATSUI, Takashi NAOI
  • Publication number: 20120287155
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes an image generation unit and a display unit. The image generation unit generates an image in which subject shape images shaped along the outer shapes of subjects are superimposed on a parallel image includes an array of multiple images to hide the borders or spaces between the multiple images. The display unit scrolls the image generated by the image generation unit in a direction in which the multiple images are arrayed and continuously and sequentially scroll-displays the multiple images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicants: KEIO UNIVERSITY, OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro HARADA, Masahiko INAKAGE, Rika MATSUI, Maki SUGIMOTO, Makoto DANJYO, Sayako SUZUKI, Takashi NAOI
  • Publication number: 20070275654
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus extracts a bookmark of a data broadcast when a bookmark acquisition switch is turned on while receiving the data broadcast for discriminating program information and content data, and records the bookmark on a memory card. When content data is recorded on the memory card, the receiving apparatus reads the bookmark from the memory card and displays the bookmark on a display section. A cellular phone apparatus is connected to a network in accordance with the bookmark recorded on the memory card, and acquires content data and records the acquired content data on the memory card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Danjyo