Patents by Inventor Hidemasa Togai

Hidemasa Togai 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).

  • Patent number: 12039961
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes an instrument body and a plurality of keys, each of which has an operation surface operated by a player's finger is provided on an external surface of the instrument body. Among the plurality of keys, at least two keys are disposed to be adjacent to each other, and the operation surfaces of the at least two keys are configured to be inclined to descend toward between the at least two keys when viewed from a left-right direction of the electronic musical instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Terada, Hidemasa Togai
  • Publication number: 20230326439
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes an instrument body and a plurality of keys, each of which has an operation surface operated by a player's finger is provided on an external surface of the instrument body. Among the plurality of keys, at least two keys are disposed to be adjacent to each other, and the operation surfaces of the at least two keys are configured to be inclined to descend toward between the at least two keys when viewed from a left-right direction of the electronic musical instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji TERADA, Hidemasa Togai
  • Patent number: 11741924
    Abstract: An electronic wind instrument and key operation detection method are provided. The electronic wind instrument includes an instrument body and a plurality of keys which have an operation surface operated by a player's finger and are provided on an external surface of the instrument body. Among the plurality of keys, at least two keys disposed to sandwich or surround a predetermined region comprise restriction parts formed on the operation surfaces. The restriction parts restrict escape of the player's finger from between the at least two keys having the restriction parts formed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Terada, Hidemasa Togai
  • Patent number: 11600251
    Abstract: A musicality information provision method includes acquiring first performance data from a performance of a given composition, calculating, with respect to a combination of a plurality of parameters indicating musicality, which are included in the first performance data, respective distances between the first performance data and a plurality of sets of second performance data that are acquired from performances of the given composition and that are compared with the first performance data, and outputting determination information for determining the musicality of the first performance data, the determination information including information indicating the distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, ROLAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Yamagiwa, Yoshinobu Kawahara, Hidemasa Togai, Yoshiyasu Kitagawa, Ikuo Tanaka, Tomoko Nakai
  • Publication number: 20210065666
    Abstract: An electronic wind instrument and key operation detection method are provided. The electronic wind instrument includes an instrument body and a plurality of keys which have an operation surface operated by a player's finger and are provided on an external surface of the instrument body. Among the plurality of keys, at least two keys disposed to sandwich or surround a predetermined region comprise restriction parts formed on the operation surfaces. The restriction parts restrict escape of the player's finger from between the at least two keys having the restriction parts formed thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji TERADA, Hidemasa TOGAI
  • Publication number: 20210043172
    Abstract: A musicality information provision method includes acquiring first performance data from a performance of a given composition, calculating, with respect to a combination of a plurality of parameters indicating musicality, which are included in the first performance data, respective distances between the first performance data and a plurality of sets of second performance data that are acquired from performances of the given composition and that are compared with the first performance data, and outputting determination information for determining the musicality of the first performance data, the determination information including information indicating the distances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Shinichi Yamagiwa, Yoshinobu Kawahara, Hidemasa Togai, Yoshiyasu Kitagawa, lkuo Tanaka, Tomoko Nakai
  • Patent number: D805126
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Yoji Inagaki, Fumihiko Miura, Hidemasa Togai, Akihiro Nagata
  • Patent number: D823934
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Hidemasa Togai, Fumihiko Miura