Patents Assigned to Korg Inc.
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Patent number: 10482855Abstract: To provide a change of sound in response to a player's operation that is close to the change of sound of real hi-hat cymbals. A hi-hat cymbal sound generation apparatus according to the present invention includes an input part, a recording part, a trigger part and a sound volume control part. The input part acquires state information and vibration information. The recording part records data on a foot close sound, data on a foot open sound, and data on a hit sound in each state indicated by the state information. The trigger part checks whether the vibration indicated by the vibration information falls within a predetermined range in which a sound generation procedure is to be started, and starts sound generation procedures for at least all the hit sounds when the trigger part determines that the vibration falls within the range in which a sound generation procedure is to be started.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: KORG INC.Inventors: Haruhiko Motohashi, Masahiko Akino, Tatsuya Nishikawa
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Patent number: 10475430Abstract: A hi-hat cymbal sound generation apparatus according to the present invention includes an input part, a recording part, a trigger part and a sound volume control part. The input part acquires distance information on a distance between a top pad and a bottom pad, state information and vibration information on a vibration of the top pad. The input part acquires the state information by determining the state information based on a corrected distance, which is obtained by adding a distance correction value, which corresponds to a magnitude of the vibration indicated by the vibration information, to the distance indicated by the distance information. The recording part records data on a hit sound in each state indicated by the state information. The trigger part checks whether the vibration indicated by the vibration information falls within a predetermined range in which a sound generation procedure is to be started.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: KORG INC.Inventors: Haruhiko Motohashi, Masahiko Akino, Tatsuya Nishikawa
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Patent number: 10475424Abstract: An electronic drum pad includes a drum shell; a mesh head stretched at the upper opening of the drum shell; a hard-resin sheet disposed adjacent to the rear surface of the mesh head and having a ring shape with an opening made at a center thereof; a cloth disposed adjacent to the rear surface of the hard-resin sheet; a strike absorbing member disposed adjacent to the rear surface of the cloth and formed by overlaying a plurality of sheets; and a tray disposed adjacent to the rear surface of the strike absorbing member and fitted into the lower opening of the drum shell.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignees: KORG, INC., PEARL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CO.Inventors: Haruhiko Motohashi, Tatsuya Nishikawa, Akito Takegawa
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Publication number: 20190213983Abstract: An electronic drum pad includes a drum shell; a mesh head stretched at the upper opening of the drum shell; a hard-resin sheet disposed adjacent to the rear surface of the mesh head and having a ring shape with an opening made at a center thereof; a cloth disposed adjacent to the rear surface of the hard-resin sheet; a strike absorbing member disposed adjacent to the rear surface of the cloth and formed by overlaying a plurality of sheets; and a tray disposed adjacent to the rear surface of the strike absorbing member and fitted into the lower opening of the drum shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2018Publication date: July 11, 2019Applicants: KORG INC., Pearl Musical Instrument Co.Inventors: Haruhiko MOTOHASHI, Tatsuya NISHIKAWA, Akito TAKEGAWA
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Publication number: 20190180727Abstract: A hi-hat cymbal sound generation apparatus according to the present invention includes an input part, a recording part, a trigger part and a sound volume control part. The input part acquires distance information on a distance between a top pad and a bottom pad, state information and vibration information on a vibration of the top pad. The input part acquires the state information by determining the state information based on a corrected distance, which is obtained by adding a distance correction value, which corresponds to a magnitude of the vibration indicated by the vibration information, to the distance indicated by the distance information. The recording part records data on a hit sound in each state indicated by the state information. The trigger part checks whether the vibration indicated by the vibration information falls within a predetermined range in which a sound generation procedure is to be started.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2018Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: KORG INC.Inventors: Haruhiko MOTOHASHI, Masahiko AKINO, Tatsuya NISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20190156798Abstract: To provide a change of sound in response to a player's operation that is close to the change of sound of real hi-hat cymbals. A hi-hat cymbal sound generation apparatus according to the present invention includes an input part, a recording part, a trigger part and a sound volume control part. The input part acquires state information and vibration information. The recording part records data on a foot close sound, data on a foot open sound, and data on a hit sound in each state indicated by the state information. The trigger part checks whether the vibration indicated by the vibration information falls within a predetermined range in which a sound generation procedure is to be started, and starts sound generation procedures for at least all the hit sounds when the trigger part determines that the vibration falls within the range in which a sound generation procedure is to be started.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2018Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: KORG INC.Inventors: Haruhiko MOTOHASHI, Masahiko AKINO, Tatsuya NISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20170103867Abstract: A vacuum tube includes a filament and two pairs of a grid and an anode. The filament is tensioned linearly and emits thermoelectrons. Both of the anodes are formed on a same face on a planar substrate. The filament is arranged parallel to the planar substrate at a position facing both of the anodes. Each of the grids is arranged, such that the grid faces the anode of a same pair at a first predetermined distance from the anode and has a second predetermined distance from the filament, between the anode and the filament. The vacuum tube further includes an intermediate filament fixing part fixing the filament at a position corresponding to an intermediate point between the anodes of the two pairs.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Applicants: NORITAKE ITRON CORPORATION, NORITAKE CO., LIMITED, KORG INC.Inventors: Kazunori TATSUDA, Tadami MAEDA, Misa YAMANAKA, Fumio MIEDA
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Patent number: 9620323Abstract: A vacuum tube includes a filament and two pairs of a grid and an anode. The filament is tensioned linearly and emits thermoelectrons. Both of the anodes are formed on a same face on a planar substrate. The filament is arranged parallel to the planar substrate at a position facing both of the anodes. Each of the grids is arranged, such that the grid faces the anode of a same pair at a first predetermined distance from the anode and has a second predetermined distance from the filament, between the anode and the filament. The vacuum tube further includes an intermediate filament fixing part fixing the filament at a position corresponding to an intermediate point between the anodes of the two pairs.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignees: NORITAKE ITRON CORPORATION, NORITAKE CO., LIMITED, KORG INC.Inventors: Kazunori Tatsuda, Tadami Maeda, Misa Yamanaka, Fumio Mieda
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Patent number: 9583300Abstract: The vacuum tube subject to the present invention comprises a filament and two pairs of a grid and an anode. The filament is tensioned linearly and emitting thermoelectrons. Both of the anodes are formed on the same face on a planar substrate. The filament is arranged parallel to the planar substrate at a position facing both of the anodes. Each of the grids is arranged, such that the grid faces the anode in the same pair at a first predetermined distance from the anode and has a second predetermined distance from the filament, between the anode and the filament. The vacuum tube comprises an intermediate filament fixing part fixing the filament at a position corresponding to an intermediate point between the anodes of the two pairs.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignees: NORITAKE ITRON CORPORATION, NORITAKE CO., LIMITED, KORG INC.Inventors: Kazunori Tatsuda, Tadami Maeda, Misa Yamanaka, Fumio Mieda
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Publication number: 20160211106Abstract: The vacuum tube subject to the present invention comprises a filament and two pairs of a grid and an anode. The filament is tensioned linearly and emitting thermoelectrons. Both of the anodes are formed on the same face on a planar substrate. The filament is arranged parallel to the planar substrate at a position facing both of the anodes. Each of the grids is arranged, such that the grid faces the anode in the same pair at a first predetermined distance from the anode and has a second predetermined distance from the filament, between the anode and the filament. The vacuum tube comprises an intermediate filament fixing part fixing the filament at a position corresponding to an intermediate point between the anodes of the two pairs.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2016Publication date: July 21, 2016Applicants: NORITAKE ITRON CORPORATION, NORITAKE CO., LIMITED, KORG INC.Inventors: Kazunori TATSUDA, Tadami MAEDA, Misa YAMANAKA, Fumio MIEDA
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Patent number: 7589272Abstract: A method for generating a bandlimited digital signal, includes generating a sequence of digital samples of a waveform, such as a sawtooth, square, or pulse waveform. The waveform has a discontinuity with a phase within a particular sampling interval. The digital samples in the sequence of digital samples of the waveform around the discontinuity are summed with a set of digital samples of an alias reducing pulse, which is based on the phase and magnitude of the discontinuity. The alias reducing pulse has essentially no DC bias, such as a pulse that is substantially odd symmetric relative to the phase of the discontinuity. The process is used in synthesis of analog synthesizer waveforms, hard sync and other waveform synthesis procedures.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2005Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Korg, Inc.Inventors: Andrew B. Leary, Charles T. Bright
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Patent number: 7488887Abstract: An attachment part is disposed on a part of the edge of a resonance plate, which is made of a metal containing copper, and a weight is attached to the resonance plate at a predetermined distance from the attachment part. Plural vibration pickups are attached to the surface of the resonance plate between the weight and the attachment part. The resonance plate is attached to a percussion instrument at the attachment part. The plural vibration pickups produce electric signals corresponding to the resonant vibrations at their respective positions on the resonance plate, and the electric signals are mixed and output as percussion-instrument-sound signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2006Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: Korg Inc.Inventor: Yasuhiko Mori
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Patent number: 7397303Abstract: A vacuum tube circuit is capable of amplifying an input signal with use of a low source voltage. Ordinarily, the amount of electrons released from a cathode which is heated by a heater is small since a voltage supplied to the heater is low. In the vacuum tube circuit disclosed here, a positive voltage is supplied to a grid terminal, which more effectively attracts the emitted electrons, thereby increasing the amount of electrons arriving at the plate terminal passing through the grid. As a result, a grid current and a plate current flow in the vacuum tube circuit, which achieves an operation for amplifying an input signal from a signal source.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2003Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: Korg, Inc.Inventor: Fumio Mieda
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Publication number: 20070137460Abstract: An attachment part is disposed on a part of the edge of a resonance plate, which is made of a metal containing copper, and a weight is attached to the resonance plate at a predetermined distance from the attachment part. Plural vibration pickups are attached to the surface of the resonance plate between the weight and the attachment part. The resonance plate is attached to a percussion instrument at the attachment part. The plural vibration pickups produce electric signals corresponding to the resonant vibrations at their respective positions on the resonance plate, and the electric signals are mixed and output as percussion-instrument-sound signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2006Publication date: June 21, 2007Applicant: KORG INC.Inventor: Yasuhiko Mori
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Patent number: 7227962Abstract: Provides a one-terminal effector having an input terminal and an output terminal structured as one terminal by providing a circuit that makes input and output of the effector common. The one-terminal effector can avoid complex cable wiring, and can prevent degradation of sound quality. The one-terminal effector includes one input/output terminal, and an effector circuit that executes a predetermined processing on an analog audio signal that is input from the input/output terminal, and outputs the processed analog audio signal from the input/output terminal. The one-terminal effector further includes an input/output signal conversion circuit that converts the input signal and the output signal into mutually different signal forms of voltage signals or current signals.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2002Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignee: Korg Inc.Inventors: Fumio Mieda, Yasuhiko Mori
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Patent number: D778349Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: KORG INC.Inventors: Richard M. Lasner, William Eric Kirkland, Robert Douglas McDonald
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Patent number: D779586Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2015Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: KORG INC.Inventor: Risa Araki
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Patent number: D781267Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: KORG INCInventor: Takayuki Hirabayashi
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Patent number: D807951Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: KORG INC.Inventor: Kyosuke Kobayashi
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Patent number: D969106Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: KORG INC.Inventor: Nobuyuki Kanetaka