Patents by Inventor Masafumi Mizoguchi

Masafumi Mizoguchi 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: 4646611
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument is provided with a temporal variation circuit of SCF parameters for temporally varying the filter characteristic of a switched capacitor filter circuit, a control circuit for digitally controlling the temporal variation circuit and a touch response circuit for detecting, by scanning, touch response data in performance, whereby temporal variations of a musical waveform signal are digitally controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1987
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Yoichi Nagashima, Tatsunori Kondo, Kiyomi Takauji, Mineo Kitamura, Tadashi Matsushima, Eiji Nagashima, Masafumi Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 4638706
    Abstract: In an electronic musical instrument which generates a musical waveform by calculating the waveform amplitude value at each sample point through Fourier synthesis, note-range variations of the musical waveform and its timbre variations in accordance with a touch response are controlled with respect to readout addresses for reading out a set of harmonic coefficient data for the Fourier synthesis from a memory having stored therein a plurality of sets of such harmonic coefficient data, thereby changing the component ratio of a harmonic coefficient which will ultimately be used as a Fourier coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Yoichi Nagashima, Tatsunori Kondo, Kiyomi Takauji, Mineo Kitamura, Tadashi Matsushima, Eiji Nagashima, Masafumi Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 4638709
    Abstract: In an electronic musical instrument which generates a musical waveform by calculating the waveform amplitude value at each sample point through Fourier synthesis, temporal variations of the musical waveform and its timbre variations in accordance with a touch response are controlled with respect to readout addresses for reading out a set of harmonic coefficient data for the Fourier synthesis from a memory having stored therein a plurality of sets of such harmonic coefficient data, thereby changing the component ratio of a harmonic coefficient which will ultimately be used as a Fourier coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Yoichi Nagashima, Tatsunori Kondo, Kiyomi Takauji, Mineo Kitamura, Tadashi Matsushima, Eiji Nagashima, Masafumi Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 4612838
    Abstract: In an electronic musical instrument which generates a musical waveform by calculating the waveform amplitude value at each sample point through Fourier synthesis, there is provided a musical waveform generator for caculating and synthesizing a temporally varying musical waveform at a plurality of sample points, memory circuits for storing two kinds of musical waveforms obtained by the musical waveform generator one after the other and an interpolation circuit for interpolating the two musical waveforms at time intervals shorter than the time intervals used in the musical waveform generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1986
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Yoichi Nagashima, Tatsunori Kondo, Kiyomi Takauji, Mineo Kitamura, Tadashi Matsushima, Eiji Nagashima, Masafumi Mizoguchi