Patents Assigned to Roland Corporation
  • Publication number: 20230209264
    Abstract: A headphone includes: a first switch, switched off while at least one of left and right speakers faces inward, and switched on while both speakers face a predetermined direction; left and right amplifiers, amplifying input left and right audio signals and connecting them to the speakers; a second switch, selecting, as a path of the left and right audio signals, either a first path passing through an amplifier or a second path passing through an amplifier and being amplified with an amplification factor smaller than that of the first path; and a volume adjuster, decreasing volume of the left and right audio signals input to the left and right amplifiers in a first state in which the first path is selected and the first switch is off to be less than the volume in a second state in which the first path is selected and the first switch is on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20230209002
    Abstract: A video processing apparatus is provided, including an audio acquisition part; a video reception part; a video transmission time reception part receiving, from a video output device, a video transmission time, which is a time at which the video received by the video reception part is transmitted from the video output device; a video processing part; a video processing completion time acquisition part acquiring a video processing completion time, which is a time at which processing performed by the video processing part is completed; a delay time calculation part calculating a delay time, which is a time difference between the video processing completion time and the video transmission time; a delayed audio creation part creating delayed audio obtained by delaying the audio acquired by the audio acquisition part by the delay time; and an output part outputting the video processed by the video processing part and the delayed audio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20230209266
    Abstract: A speaker device includes left and right speakers and a correction part. The correction part corrects frequency characteristics of a stereo audio signal supplied to the left and right speakers so that transfer characteristics of the left and right speakers become predetermined transfer characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Naoshi MIYOSHI, Masato UENO
  • Publication number: 20230206889
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an automatic performance apparatus, an automatic performance method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium. Notes to be sounded are stored in chronological order for each beat position which is a sound generation timing in a performance pattern. A probability of generating sound at the beat position is stored for each beat position in a sound generation probability pattern. According to the probability stored in the sound generation probability pattern, it is determined whether to generate sound or not for each beat position of the performance pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichiro NISHI
  • Publication number: 20230206887
    Abstract: In a server 70, usage counts of tone data of an electronic musical instrument 30, such as load counts of times that the tone data are loaded in the electronic musical instrument 30 are stored for each tone data and each user H utilizing the electronic musical instrument 30. When a recommendation information request is received from a portable terminal 50, the server 70 obtains a similar user similar to a request user included in the recommendation information request from the stored usage counts. Tone data to be recorded in the recommendation information are obtained from the usage count of each tone data of the request and the usage count of each tone data of the similar user, and the recommendation information is generated from the obtained tone data. Accordingly, the recommendation information generated by the user 70 can conform to the preference of the request user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke MIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230206200
    Abstract: An electronic equipment is provided. The electronic equipment includes: a content acquisition part for acquiring a content including a non-purchased content, which is a content that has not been purchased; a usage part for using the non-purchased content acquired by the content acquisition part regardless of whether the content has been purchased or not; and a prohibition part for prohibiting the usage part from using a non-purchased content that is the non-purchased content not being purchased after being acquired by the content acquisition part when a predetermined operation is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro NAGATA
  • Patent number: 11688375
    Abstract: Provided is a musical instrument controller capable of accurately controlling a musical sound parameter. This musical instrument controller includes: a reception means for receiving, from a musical performance device, a sound emission start signal transmitted on the basis of a musical performance operation; a sensor for detecting an amount of displacement from a reference position; and a control means for generating a control signal on the basis of the amount of displacement from the reference position and transmitting the control signal to a sound generation device. The control means sets the reference position on the basis of the sound emission start signal received from the musical performance device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Jun-ichi Miki, Akihiro Takeda, Hiroyuki Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11688373
    Abstract: Provided are an electric musical instrument system and a control method thereof. The electric musical instrument system includes a musical sound transmitting means and a musical sound receiving means having a first mode and a second mode that consumes less electric power than the first mode. The musical sound transmitting means has a detecting means for detecting rocking of a musical instrument and a transmitting means that transmits an audio signal emitted from the musical instrument to the musical sound receiving means in the first mode and transmits, when detecting rocking of the musical instruments, detected information to the musical sound receiving means in the second mode. The musical sound receiving means has a controlling means that processes the audio signal received in the first mode and cancels the second mode and changes the mode to the first mode when the detected information is received in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Ueno, Shinji Asakawa, Hiroshi Yamate
  • Patent number: 11682371
    Abstract: To provide an electronic wind instrument capable of accurately detecting the amount of rotation of a transmission member. During an electronic wind instrument performance by a performer, external light (such as light from lighting) may easily shine on the upper surface side of an instrument main body. However, the light-receiving section of an optical sensor faces toward the bottom surface side of the instrument main body therefore external light from the upper surface side of the instrument main body can be prevented from reaching the light-receiving section of the optical sensor. As a result, erroneous detection of the external light by the optical sensor can be suppressed therefore the rotation amount of a transmission member can be accurately detected by the optical sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sato, Ryohei Kanayama
  • Patent number: 11682372
    Abstract: An effector mounting plate is provided, which can protect wiring when carried while enabling work on the wiring. A back surface side of a plate is covered by a back case, and wiring (not shown) can be stored in a space formed between the plate and the back case. Therefore, when the plate and the back case are used as an effect pedal or carried, an external force can be prevented from acting on the wiring. Therefore, the wiring (jack) can be prevented from falling off an effector or from being forcibly bent and broken. By removing fastening screws, the back case can be removed from the plate to open the back surface side of the plate. Therefore, work on the wiring such as work of connecting/disconnecting the wiring to/from the effector and work of checking the wiring before performance can be easily performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Fukuda, Norihiko Wada
  • Publication number: 20230186876
    Abstract: An information processing device executes: a process of generating, from inputted data of a musical piece, a plurality of intensity data in a predetermined time interval, each of the plurality of intensity data indicating a timing governing a beat of the musical piece and a power at the timing; a process of calculating a cycle and a phase of the beat of the musical piece by using the plurality of intensity data for each of the time intervals; a process of detecting a generation timing of a beat sound based on the calculated cycle and the calculated phase of the beat of the musical piece; and a process of setting one of a wide range and a narrow range narrower than the wide range as a BPM range to be used for calculation of the cycle and the phase of the beat for each of the time intervals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi KUSAKABE, Takahiro MURAI, Junjiro KOMATSU
  • Patent number: 11670272
    Abstract: An amplifier and a method of outputting a waveform of a music signal capable of outputting a waveform of a music signal exceeding a power supply voltage is provided. An amplifier includes a power supply, an input terminal for a music signal, an amplifying circuit which amplifies the music signal using the power supply, and a jumping-up circuit which is connected to an output end of the amplifying circuit and outputs a waveform exceeding a voltage value of the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo Shida, Yoshinobu Morimoto, Kosuke Takada
  • Publication number: 20230169944
    Abstract: A frame body fixed to a membrane 10 is divided into multiple long-side frame bodies 11 and a short-side frame body aligned in a peripheral direction of a frame 3. Tension is applied to the frame body 10 by pulling each frame body 11, 12. Accordingly, it is not necessary to make the shape of each frame body 11, 12 consistent with the frame 3 (support part 30) in a complicated polygonal shape, and the shape of each frame body 11, 12 can be formed as a linear shape. Therefore, the shape of each frame body 11, 12 hardly varies. In addition, even if the shape of each frame body 11, 12 varies, tension can be uniformly applied to the membrane 10, as it is configured that each frame body 11, 12 is pulled to apply tension to the membrane 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventor: Kiyoshi YOSHINO
  • Patent number: 11663999
    Abstract: A wireless communication device and a wireless communication method capable of curbing occurrence of latency even when performing wireless communication at predetermined time intervals are provided. MIDI data is transmitted and received by communication (B) performed through a wireless module during an intermission between communications (A) performed at predetermined time intervals through the wireless module. Accordingly, a communication speed for wireless communication is improved. Therefore, compared to a case in which wireless communication is performed by only the communication (A), MIDI data can be quickly transmitted and received, and thus occurrence of latency can be curbed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20230147370
    Abstract: An electronic device and a data usage method are provided. An electronic musical instrument confirms whether respective sound data stored in a timbre memory or a wave memory can be used or cannot be used based on management information acquired from a server. A sound data determined to be usable in the management information is validated so that it can be used for loading or writing. On the other hand, a sound data determined to be unusable in the management information is invalidated so that it cannot be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okamura, Akihiro Nagata, Tokio Takahashi, Yusuke Miyama, Ichiro Yazawa
  • Publication number: 20230143525
    Abstract: An electronic device, a data usage method, and an electronic device program are provided. In an electronic musical instrument, in a case where a livelock flag has been turned on by an operation on a setting key by a user, a sound data is validated or invalidated according to a usable or unusable state of the sound data stored in a content state table immediately before the livelock flag has been turned on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20230144216
    Abstract: This information processing device comprises: a control unit which receives an input of information indicating one or more timings in a playback time of a piece of music, and generates a file including information pertaining to a timbre control performed from each of the one or more timings; and a transmission unit which transmits an audio signal of the piece of music and the information pertaining to the timbre control in the file to a device which outputs a synthesized sound of the playback sound of the piece of music and the playing sound of a musical instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroya Kurio, Masato UENO, Shinji ASAKAWA
  • Patent number: 11647353
    Abstract: A system including: an electronic memory device and a processor. The processor is configured to: control a communication device to receive first input information indicating a first instruction, the first instruction corresponding to control of sound associated with at least one first sound source; control a transmitter of the communication device to transmit first information to an audio output device, the first information corresponding to the first input information indicating the first instruction; control the communication device to receive second input information indicating a second instruction corresponding to control of sound associated with the at least one second sound source; and control the transmitter to transmit second information to the audio output device, the second information including or corresponding to an audio signal associated with the at least one second sound source and processed according to the second input information indicating the second instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Ueno
  • Patent number: D987673
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Watanabe, Atsushi Hoshika, Makoto Mitsumori, Kenji Yamada
  • Patent number: D988397
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Takeo Shirato, Akihito Kimura, Toshiaki Inoue, Takayuki Hirabayashi, Peter Brown