Patents by Inventor Junko Sano

Junko Sano 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).

  • Music production apparatus and method of producing music by combining plural music elements
    Patent number: 8558100
    Abstract: A music production apparatus includes a melody data storage operative to store music data for a plurality of melody elements forming music, a condition storage operative to store a condition for combining melody elements and a condition related to an attribute applicable when playing the melody element, an element selector operative to determine, at a predetermined point of time, whether a melody element should be allocated to a track where no melody elements are allocated, and to select, when it is determined that a melody element should be allocated to the track, a melody element that should be allocated to the track by referring to the condition for combining melody elements stored in the condition storage, an attribute determination unit operative to determine an attribute applicable when playing the selected melody element, and a sound production unit operative to read music data for the selected melody element from the melody data storage, to apply the attribute determined by the attribute determination
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yamaguchi, Isamu Terasaka, Junko Sano
  • MUSIC PRODUCTION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PRODUCING MUSIC BY COMBINING PLURAL MUSIC ELEMENTS
    Publication number: 20090318225
    Abstract: A music production apparatus includes a melody data storage operative to store music data for a plurality of melody elements forming music, a condition storage operative to store a condition for combining melody elements and a condition related to an attribute applicable when playing the melody element, an element selector operative to determine, at a predetermined point of time, whether a melody element should be allocated to a track where no melody elements are allocated, and to select, when it is determined that a melody element should be allocated to the track, a melody element that should be allocated to the track by referring to the condition for combining melody elements stored in the condition storage, an attribute determination unit operative to determine an attribute applicable when playing the selected melody element, and a sound production unit operative to read music data for the selected melody element from the melody data storage, to apply the attribute determined by the attribute determination
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yamaguchi, Isamu Terasaka, Junko Sano