Patents by Inventor Goro Sakata
Goro Sakata 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).
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Patent number: 11893968Abstract: An electronic musical instrument according to one embodiment includes playing operators specifying respective pitches, and at least one processor which is configured to execute processing of acquiring string sound data including a fundamental sound component and a harmonic tone component corresponding to a specified pitch, acquiring stroke sound waveform data that does not include the fundamental sound component and the harmonic tone component corresponding to the specified pitch but includes components other than the fundamental sound component and the harmonic tone component, and synthesizing the string sound data and stroke sound data corresponding to the stroke sound waveform data at a set ratio.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro Sakata
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Patent number: 11881196Abstract: An electronic keyboard musical instrument includes a sound source configured to, in response to detection of key-pressing of the first key in damper-off detection, input first excitation signal data corresponding to the first key to a first channel, input first channel output data which is output from the first channel to each of low-register channels corresponding to the respective low-register keys, and output musical sound data which is generated based on respective pieces of low-register channel output data which is output from the respective low-register channels and the first channel output data, as musical sound data corresponding to the first key.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro Sakata
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Patent number: 11764803Abstract: A digital-to-analog conversion device which performs integration processing for integrating a difference between an input signal and a first return signal generated based on the input signal, and outputting an integration result, first quantization processing for quantizing the integration result, and outputting a first quantization signal, first return signal output processing for outputting the first return signal by adding to the first quantization signal a correction value delay signal acquired by a correction value signal outputted based on the integration result being delayed, and output processing for outputting output signals including a signal whose pulse width is asymmetrical to center of a processing period, based on the first quantization signal, in which the correction value signal includes a signal indicating a correction value for correcting a difference between a center of the pulse width asymmetrical to the center of the processing period and the center of the processing period.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro Sakata
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Publication number: 20230215407Abstract: An electronic musical instrument according to one aspect of the invention is configured to generate, in response to an excitation signal corresponding to a specified pitch, a first string signal to be output from one of right and left channels based on a first accumulated signal in which outputs of at least a first closed-loop circuit and a second closed-loop circuit among the first closed-loop circuit, the second closed-loop circuit and a third closed-loop circuit, which are provided to correspond to the specified pitch, are accumulated, and generate a second string signal to be output from the other channel based on a second accumulated signal in which outputs of the second closed-loop circuit and the third closed-loop circuit are accumulated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro SAKATA
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Patent number: 11562723Abstract: According to one aspect, there is an electronic musical instrument including operators which includes a first operator corresponding to a first pitch and a second operator corresponding to a second pitch, and a sound source configured to generate a first output signal from a first close loop and a second output signal from a second close loop, to generate an integration signal, and return a subtraction signal, the subtraction signal being obtained by subtracting a signal circulating through the first close loop from the integration signal, to the first close loop, and then output a musical sound signal including signal components corresponding to the second pitch as a musical sound signal corresponding to the first pitch.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro Sakata
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Publication number: 20220224351Abstract: A digital-to-analog conversion device which performs integration processing for integrating a difference between an input signal and a first return signal generated based on the input signal, and outputting an integration result, first quantization processing for quantizing the integration result, and outputting a first quantization signal, first return signal output processing for outputting the first return signal by adding to the first quantization signal a correction value delay signal acquired by a correction value signal outputted based on the integration result being delayed, and output processing for outputting output signals including a signal whose pulse width is asymmetrical to center of a processing period, based on the first quantization signal, in which the correction value signal includes a signal indicating a correction value for correcting a difference between a center of the pulse width asymmetrical to the center of the processing period and the center of the processing period.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro SAKATA
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Patent number: 11316529Abstract: A digital-to-analog conversion device which performs integration processing for integrating a difference between an input signal and a first return signal generated based on the input signal, and outputting an integration result, first quantization processing for quantizing the integration result, and outputting a first quantization signal, first return signal output processing for outputting the first return signal by adding to the first quantization signal a correction value delay signal acquired by a correction value signal outputted based on the integration result being delayed, and output processing for outputting output signals including a signal whose pulse width is asymmetrical to center of a processing period, based on the first quantization signal, in which the correction value signal includes a signal indicating a correction value for correcting a difference between a center of the pulse width asymmetrical to the center of the processing period and the center of the processing period.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro Sakata
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Publication number: 20210295807Abstract: An electronic musical instrument according to one embodiment includes playing operators specifying respective pitches, and at least one processor which is configured to execute processing of acquiring string sound data including a fundamental sound component and a harmonic tone component corresponding to a specified pitch, acquiring stroke sound waveform data that does not include the fundamental sound component and the harmonic tone component corresponding to the specified pitch but includes components other than the fundamental sound component and the harmonic tone component, and synthesizing the string sound data and stroke sound data corresponding to the stroke sound waveform data at a set ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro SAKATA
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Publication number: 20210295806Abstract: An electronic keyboard musical instrument includes a sound source configured to, in response to detection of key-pressing of the first key in damper-off detection, input first excitation signal data corresponding to the first key to a first channel, input first channel output data which is output from the first channel to each of low-register channels corresponding to the respective low-register keys, and output musical sound data which is generated based on respective pieces of low-register channel output data which is output from the respective low-register channels and the first channel output data, as musical sound data corresponding to the first key.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro SAKATA
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Patent number: 11094307Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a playing operator, and a sound source which performs processing of receiving, in response to a user operation on the playing operator, a sound generation instruction according to playing operation information including the pitch information indicating the certain pitch and sound volume information indicating a certain volume, and generating sound according to the certain pitch and the certain volume, based on excitation data generated by multiplying partial data by a window function, the partial data being included in excitation signal waveform data generated based on a plurality of waveform data items which are respectively different from each other in sound intensity in the certain pitch.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro Sakata
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Publication number: 20210090539Abstract: According to one aspect, there is an electronic musical instrument including operators which includes a first operator corresponding to a first pitch and a second operator corresponding to a second pitch, and a sound source configured to generate a first output signal from a first close loop and a second output signal from a second close loop, to generate an integration signal, and return a subtraction signal, the subtraction signal being obtained by subtracting a signal circulating through the first close loop from the integration signal, to the first close loop, and then output a musical sound signal including signal components corresponding to the second pitch as a musical sound signal corresponding to the first pitch.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro SAKATA
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Publication number: 20200111463Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a playing operator, and a sound source which performs processing of receiving, in response to a user operation on the playing operator, a sound generation instruction according to playing operation information including the pitch information indicating the certain pitch and sound volume information indicating a certain volume, and generating sound according to the certain pitch and the certain volume, based on excitation data generated by multiplying partial data by a window function, the partial data being included in excitation signal waveform data generated based on a plurality of waveform data items which are respectively different from each other in sound intensity in the certain pitch.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro SAKATA
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Patent number: 10515618Abstract: A waveform data structure includes a plurality of types of frames having different data sizes. Each of the plurality of types of frames includes an auxiliary information area and a data area. The auxiliary information area includes an area for storing common effective-bit length data for a section of waveform samples, and an area for storing an identifier for identifying one of the plurality of types of frames. The data area is an area for storing extracted waveform samples which are extracted from the waveform samples based on the common effective-bit length. The number of the extracted waveform samples is determined based on the common effective-bit length.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro Sakata
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Publication number: 20190372588Abstract: A digital-to-analog conversion device which performs integration processing for integrating a difference between an input signal and a first return signal generated based on the input signal, and outputting an integration result, first quantization processing for quantizing the integration result, and outputting a first quantization signal, first return signal output processing for outputting the first return signal by adding to the first quantization signal a correction value delay signal acquired by a correction value signal outputted based on the integration result being delayed, and output processing for outputting output signals including a signal whose pulse width is asymmetrical to center of a processing period, based on the first quantization signal, in which the correction value signal includes a signal indicating a correction value for correcting a difference between a center of the pulse width asymmetrical to the center of the processing period and the center of the processing period.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2018Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro SAKATA
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Publication number: 20190139524Abstract: A waveform data structure includes a plurality of types of frames having different data sizes. Each of the plurality of types of frames includes an auxiliary information area and a data area. The auxiliary information area includes an area for storing common effective-bit length data for a section of waveform samples, and an area for storing an identifier for identifying one of the plurality of types of frames. The data area is an area for storing extracted waveform samples which are extracted from the waveform samples based on the common effective-bit length. The number of the extracted waveform samples is determined based on the common effective-bit length.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2019Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro SAKATA
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Patent number: 10249279Abstract: A digital-to-analog converter performs a ?? computation process to start the ?? computation based upon the second clock signal with respect to the digital data of music sound if the ?? computation is not under execution when the control signal is outputted by the signal output process, a control process to inhibit the ?? computation based upon the second clock signal from being started with respect to the digital data of music sound until the ?? computation is not under execution when the ?? computation is under execution, and an output process to convert a computation result of the ?? computation process into an analog signal and output the analog signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro Sakata
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Publication number: 20190096376Abstract: A digital-to-analog converter performs a ?? computation process to start the ?? computation based upon the second clock signal with respect to the digital data of music sound if the ?? computation is not under execution when the control signal is outputted by the signal output process, a control process to inhibit the ?? computation based upon the second clock signal from being started with respect to the digital data of music sound until the ?? computation is not under execution when the ?? computation is under execution, and an output process to convert a computation result of the ?? computation process into an analog signal and output the analog signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro SAKATA
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Patent number: 10233823Abstract: Provided is a thermostat monitor (36) comprising a thermostat open failure detecting part (38) for detecting an open failure of a thermostat when a condition is such that a radiator heat radiation amount (14) radiated from a radiator on a radiator-side cooling water channel is larger than a heater core heat radiation amount (12) radiated from a heater core on a heater core-side cooling water channel, and that a difference between the radiator heat radiation amount and the heater core heat radiation amount is equal to or more than a predetermined value A. Based on a temperature of engine cooling water detected by a temperature sensor positioned in the vicinity of an outlet of an in-engine cooling water channel, it is possible to detect the open failure of the thermostat relatively easily with certainty.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Kikuchi, Susumu Takano, Shin Miura, Goro Sakata
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Patent number: 10210854Abstract: A waveform data structure includes a plurality of types of frames having different data sizes. Each of the plurality of types of frames includes an auxiliary information area and a data area. The auxiliary information area includes an area for storing common effective-bit length data for a section of waveform samples, and an area for storing an identifier for identifying one of the plurality of types of frames. The data area is an area for storing extracted waveform samples which are extracted from the waveform samples based on the common effective-bit length. The number of the extracted waveform samples is determined based on the common effective-bit length.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro Sakata
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Patent number: RE47705Abstract: A first contact and a second contact are provided at each of a plurality of keys, and are successively closed in accordance with a key press operation. On the basis of respective closed sense signals from the first contact and the second contact, a duration from when the first contact is closed until the second contact is closed is counted as a first count value and then a duration after this counting has ended is counted as a second count value. An attainment duration value and the second count value are compared, and when a predetermined condition is satisfied, a control signal is outputted. When this control signal is received, sound emission information instructing an emission of a sound by a sound emission controller is sent. The sound emission information includes touch information based on the first count value.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Goro Sakata