Patents Assigned to Yamaha Corporation
  • Patent number: 11869469
    Abstract: An operation panel for an audio processing apparatus includes a plurality of components including a user interface that selects at least one output channel among a plurality of output channels and presents a first processing parameter, which indicates a send level from an input channel to the selected at least one output channel, and a second processing parameter different from the first processing parameter. The audio processing apparatus further includes a link receiver that receives, for at least two components, among the plurality of components, for setting a first link mode and a second link mode independently the first link mode for linking the presented first processing parameter, and the second link mode for linking the presented second processing parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Saito, Shunichi Kamiya, Arata Imai
  • Patent number: 11862134
    Abstract: A key support structure of a keyboard device includes a first member and a second member that supports the first member. The first member is pivotal about a first axis that extends in a first direction and movable with a degree of freedom of movement in a rolling direction, which is a direction of rotation around a second axis extending in a second direction that is substantially orthogonal to the first direction. the second member restricts a movement of the first member in the first direction, while pivotally supporting the first member about the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishimura, Naoki Nishimura, Yuji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11842719
    Abstract: A sound processing method obtains note data representative of a note; obtains an audio signal to be processed; specifies, in accordance with the note, an expression sample representative of a sound expression to be imparted to the note and an expression period, of the audio signal, to which the sound expression is to be imparted to the note; and specifies, in accordance with the expression sample and the expression period, a processing parameter relating to an expression imparting processing for imparting the sound expression to a portion corresponding to the expression period in the audio signal. The method then generates a processed audio signal by performing the expression imparting processing in accordance with the expression sample, the expression period, and the processing parameter to the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Merlijn Blaauw, Jordi Bonada, Ryunosuke Daido, Yuji Hisaminato
  • Patent number: 11842720
    Abstract: An audio processing system and a method thereof generate a synthesis model that can input an audio signal to generate feature data that can be used by a signal generator to generate a modified audio signal. Specifically, a pre-trained synthesis model is first generated using training audio data. Thereafter, a re-trained synthesis model is established by additionally training the pre-trained synthesis model. Based on a received instruction to modify at least one of sounding conditions of an audio signal to be processed, feature data is generated by inputting additional condition data into the re-trained synthesis model. The signal generator generates the modified audio signal from the generated feature data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryunosuke Daido
  • Patent number: 11837205
    Abstract: A music analysis method realized by a computer includes calculating an evaluation index of each of a plurality of structure candidates formed of N analysis points selected in different combinations from K analysis points in an audio signal of a musical piece, and selecting one of the plurality of structure candidates as a boundary of a structure section of the musical piece in accordance with the evaluation index of each of the plurality of structure candidates. N is a natural number greater than or equal to 2 and less than K, and K is a natural number greater than or equal to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Maezawa
  • 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: 11812230
    Abstract: A measurement method includes generating a plurality of second measurement signals by disposing a plurality of first measurement signals corresponding to each of the plurality of speakers in respective different time zones on a time axis, generating a plurality of third measurement signals by copying a portion of a back end of each of the plurality of second measurement signals and adding the portion to a front end of each of the plurality of second measurement signals, outputting sounds according to each of the plurality of third measurement signals from each of the plurality of speakers, collecting the sounds with a microphone, and calculating a plurality of impulse responses corresponding to the plurality of first measurement signals, based on the collected sound signal collected with the microphone and the plurality of third measurement signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11805385
    Abstract: An audio signal processing method includes generating an initial reflected sound control signal according to a geometrical shape of a virtual space, generating a reverberant sound control signal using a reflected sound parameter of the virtual space, calculating timing of connection, the timing of connection being a point in time at which a volume of an initial reflected sound reproducible by the initial reflected sound control signal is a same as a volume of a reverberant sound reproducible by the reverberant sound control signal, based on the geometrical shape of the virtual space, and increasing, in a period of time before the timing of connection, a level of the reverberant sound control signal so as to cause the volume of the reverberant sound to be closer to the volume of the reverberant sound at the timing of connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Watanabe, Dai Hashimoto, Hiroomi Shidoji
  • Patent number: 11805384
    Abstract: An audio signal processing method includes obtaining an audio signal of a sound source, performing first filter processing on the audio signal to generate an imaginary sound source of a virtual space, performing second filter processing on the audio signal to adjust a tone of the imaginary sound source, and outputting an initial reflected sound control signal generated by using the audio signal on which the first filter processing and the second filter processing have been performed, in a first case where the first filter processing is performed before the second filter processing, the first filter processing is performed on the audio signal, and the second filter processing is performed on the audio signal on which the first filter processing has been performed, and in a second case where the second filter processing is performed before the first filter processing, the second filter processing is performed on the audio signal, and the first filter processing is performed on the audio signal on which the seco
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Watanabe, Dai Hashimoto, Hiroomi Shidoji
  • Patent number: 11804202
    Abstract: An electronic wind instrument includes a breath sensor, an operating element, a speaker, and an acoustic tube. The operating element receives an instruction related to a pitch. The speaker outputs a sound based on musical performance information obtained from at least one of the breath sensor and the operating element. The speaker has an inner space therein. The acoustic tube that has an inner space therein. The inner space of the acoustic tube is continuous with the inner space of the speaker. The acoustic tube extends in a direction away from the speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Kashiwase, Ryo Tabata, Hiroshi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11790913
    Abstract: A computer-implemented information providing method includes: storing, at an information providing apparatus, a plurality of pieces of related information in association with a same identification information in a storage device, wherein each of the plurality of the pieces of the related information is representative of a content of a corresponding one of a series of a plurality of speech voices uttered to a first device; and in response to a request from a second device that receives the identification information, causing, at the information providing apparatus, a communication device to transmit to the second device one or more of the plurality of the pieces of the related information associated with the same identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Iwata, Yuki Seto
  • Patent number: 11790879
    Abstract: An impact detection device includes: a body configured to be struck; a vibration sensor that detects vibration of the body; a support base that supports the vibration sensor; a first elastic body sandwiched between the vibration sensor and the body; and a second elastic body sandwiched between the vibration sensor and the support base. A dimension of each of the first elastic body and the second elastic body is smaller than a dimension of the vibration sensor when viewed from an arrangement direction in which the first elastic body, the vibration sensor, and the second elastic body are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keizo Harada, Kazuo Masaki, Emi Tanabe
  • 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: 11785385
    Abstract: A shoulder-mounted speaker comprises an electronic controller including at least one processor. The electronic controller is configured to execute a plurality of modules including an attitude data detection module that is configured to detect an attitude of a body region on which the shoulder-mounted speaker is placed and is configured to acquire body region attitude data obtained by digitizing the attitude of the body region, an attitude data correction module that is configured to correct the acquired body region attitude data so as to be head attitude data, and a sound image localization processing module that is configured to use a head-related transfer function that corresponds to the head attitude data corrected by the attitude data correction module to subject an audio signal to sound image localization processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Konagai
  • Patent number: 11778399
    Abstract: A headphone volume control method calculates a level of a sound signal, which is captured by a microphone, during a first period, determines a target value of a sound volume based on the above-mentioned level, and gradually changes a reproduction volume of content to be reproduced to the above-mentioned target value over a second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriyuki Ohashi
  • Patent number: 11767873
    Abstract: A fastening structure for fastening a to-be-fastened component to a wooden component by using a screw, wherein the wooden component is made of wood having a specific gravity of 0.08 g/cm3 to 0.85 g/cm3 inclusive, the screw has a nominal diameter of 0.8 mm to 3.5 mm inclusive, and the distance between a neutral position in a longitudinal direction of an effective screw part, which is the portion where the wooden component and a male screw part formed in a shaft part of the screw mesh together, and the surface of the wooden component that comes into contact with the to-be-fastened component is 1 mm to 15 mm inclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Kaoru Fujishiro, Ichiro Osuga
  • Patent number: 11765505
    Abstract: A correction method of acoustic characteristics of a plurality of speakers installed in a room, the correction method groups speakers, among the plurality of speakers, having identical attachment condition to the above-mentioned room, measures each of output characteristics of the grouped speakers, calculates an average characteristic of the output characteristics of the grouped speakers, and corrects each of the output characteristics of the grouped speakers based on the average characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Watanabe, Akihiro Miwa
  • Patent number: 11763785
    Abstract: A percussion instrument pedal apparatus includes a footboard and a transmission mechanism connectable to the footboard. A beater, which is mountable to a pivot shaft, strikes a bass drum in response to pivoting of the pivot shaft. The transmission mechanism includes two adjusting mechanisms for adjusting the motion characteristics of the footboard and for adjusting the footboard angle. The transmission mechanism can be interchanged with different types, such as a chain-drive transmission mechanism and a direct-drive transmission mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fumihiro Shigenaga
  • Patent number: D1003347
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masafumi Futo
  • Patent number: D1010726
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshihide Suzuki