Abstract: An assistive music playing apparatus plays a music piece with musically acceptable notes even when the player inputs musically unacceptable notes. The apparatus provides a chord progression pattern, and comprises a note conversion device. A chord progression pattern defines a series of chords, which are presented one after another in time for a music progression. As the player plays music, inputting potentially unacceptable notes, the inputted notes will be converted to musically acceptable notes with reference to the currently presented chord in the chord progression. The note conversion rules are prepared different for a melody note range, a chord note range and a bass note range. Overlap of converted notes are avoided. Depending on the conditions of the player's note input, i.e.

Abstract: An assistive music playing apparatus plays a music piece with musically acceptable notes even when the player inputs musically unacceptable notes. The apparatus provides a chord progression pattern, and comprises a note conversion device. A chord progression pattern defines a series of chords, which are presented one after another in time for a music progression. As the player plays music, inputting potentially unacceptable notes, the inputted notes will be converted to musically acceptable notes with reference to the currently presented chord in the chord progression. The note conversion rules are prepared different for a melody note range, a chord note range and a bass note range. Overlap of converted notes are avoided. Depending on the conditions of the player's note input, i.e.

Abstract: An assistive music playing apparatus is provided for playing a music piece with musically acceptable notes even when the player inputs musically unacceptable notes. The apparatus provides a chord progression pattern, and comprises a note conversion device. A chord progression pattern defines a series of chords, which are presented one after another in time for a music progression. As the player plays music, inputting potentially unacceptable notes, the inputted notes will be converted to musically acceptable notes with reference to the currently presented chord in the chord progression. The note conversion rules are prepared different for a melody note range, a chord note range and a bass note range. Overlap of converted notes are avoided. Depending on the conditions of the player's note input, i.e.

Abstract: Terminals 10 operate under the control of a computer program. An instruction made by a reproduction/stop switch BL1 causes a data inputting portion BL2 to input streamed moving picture data in which a plurality of moving picture data sets respectively representative of moving picture items shot from respectively different viewpoints, are combined. The data inputting portion BL2 then writes the input moving picture data into a reproduction buffer BL3 successively. A rendering processing portion BL4 successively converts the moving picture data stored in the reproduction buffer BL3 to rendering data for rendering on a display unit 18, and then successively writes the converted data into a rendering buffer BL5. A display controlling portion BL7 successively retrieves, from the rendering buffer BL5, only rendering data corresponding to a viewpoint selected by a viewpoint switch BL6, and writes the retrieved data into a display buffer BL8 that controls display on the display unit 18.