Patents by Inventor Masaru Setoguchi
Masaru Setoguchi 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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Publication number: 20250124902Abstract: A musical sound processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes at least one processor and a memory including a first area. The processor sequentially reads musical sound information of music data, sequentially overwrites and store first musical sound information in the first area on a basis of a sounding timing, rewrites the first musical sound information stored in the first area to two or more pieces of first musical sound information, and gives an instruction on production of a first musical sound corresponding to all pieces of the first musical sound information stored in the first area by operating a performance operator of an electronic musical instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaru SETOGUCHI
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Publication number: 20250124903Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage storing a program; and a processor that performs control in accordance with the program, wherein a sound production timing is a timing of producing a sound of a note, the sound production timing being specified in a musical piece; and an early press period is between an early time point and the sound production timing, the early time point being earlier than the sound production timing by a predetermined time. In a situation that a performance action is detected within the early press period, the processor causes a sound production unit to produce a sound corresponding to the performance action at the sound production timing. In a situation that no performance action is detected within the early press period or at the sound production timing, the processor does not cause the sound production unit to produce a sound at the sound production timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Inventor: Masaru SETOGUCHI
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Patent number: 11854518Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes an operation unit that receives a user performance; and at least one processor. wherein the at least one processor performs the following: in accordance with a user operation specifying a chord on the operation unit, obtaining lyric data of a lyric and obtaining a plurality of pieces of waveform data respectively corresponding to a plurality of pitches indicated by the specified chord; inputting the obtained lyric data to a trained model that has been trained and learned singing voices of a singer so as to cause the trained model to output acoustic feature data in response thereto; synthesizing each of the plurality of pieces of waveform data with the acoustic feature data so as to generate a plurality of pieces of synthesized waveform data; and outputting a polyphonic synthesized singing voice based on the generated plurality of pieces of synthesized waveform data.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Danjyo, Fumiaki Ota, Masaru Setoguchi, Atsushi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20230102310Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes an operation unit that receives a user performance; and at least one processor. wherein the at least one processor performs the following: in accordance with a user operation specifying a chord on the operation unit, obtaining lyric data of a lyric and obtaining a plurality of pieces of waveform data respectively corresponding to a plurality of pitches indicated by the specified chord; inputting the obtained lyric data to a trained model that has been trained and learned singing voices of a singer so as to cause the trained model to output acoustic feature data in response thereto; synthesizing each of the plurality of pieces of waveform data with the acoustic feature data so as to generate a plurality of pieces of synthesized waveform data; and outputting a polyphonic synthesized singing voice based on the generated plurality of pieces of synthesized waveform data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto DANJYO, Fumiaki OTA, Masaru SETOGUCHI, Atsushi NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 11545121Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes at least one processor that, in accordance with a user operation on an operation unit, obtains lyric data and waveform data corresponding to a first tone color; inputs the obtained lyric data to a trained model so as to cause the trained model to output acoustic feature data in response thereto; generates waveform data corresponding to a singing voice of a singer and corresponding to a second tone color that is different from the first tone color, based on the acoustic feature data outputted from the trained model and the obtained waveform data corresponding to the first tone color; and outputs a singing voice based on the generated waveform data corresponding to the second tone color.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Danjyo, Fumiaki Ota, Masaru Setoguchi, Atsushi Nakamura
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Patent number: 11468870Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores lyric data including lyrics for a plurality of timings, pitch data including pitches for said plurality of timings, and a trained model that has been trained and learned singing voice features of a singer; and at least one processor, wherein at each of said plurality of timings, the at least one processor: if the operation unit is not operated, obtains, from the trained model, a singing voice feature associated with a lyric indicated by the lyric data and a pitch indicated by the pitch data; if the operation unit is operated, obtains, from the trained model, a singing voice feature associated with the lyric indicated by the lyric data and a pitch indicated by the operation of the operation unit; and synthesizes and outputs singing voice data based on the obtained singing voice feature of the singer.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Danjyo, Fumiaki Ota, Masaru Setoguchi, Atsushi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20210027753Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes at least one processor that, in accordance with a user operation on an operation unit, obtains lyric data and waveform data corresponding to a first tone color; inputs the obtained lyric data to a trained model so as to cause the trained model to output acoustic feature data in response thereto; generates waveform data corresponding to a singing voice of a singer and corresponding to a second tone color that is different from the first tone color, based on the acoustic feature data outputted from the trained model and the obtained waveform data corresponding to the first tone color; and outputs a singing voice based on the generated waveform data corresponding to the second tone color.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto DANJYO, Fumiaki OTA, Masaru SETOGUCHI, Atsushi NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20210012758Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores lyric data including lyrics for a plurality of timings, pitch data including pitches for said plurality of timings, and a trained model that has been trained and learned singing voice features of a singer; and at least one processor, wherein at each of said plurality of timings, the at least one processor: if the operation unit is not operated, obtains, from the trained model, a singing voice feature associated with a lyric indicated by the lyric data and a pitch indicated by the pitch data; if the operation unit is operated, obtains, from the trained model, a singing voice feature associated with the lyric indicated by the lyric data and a pitch indicated by the operation of the operation unit; and synthesizes and outputs singing voice data based on the obtained singing voice feature of the singer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto DANJYO, Fumiaki OTA, Masaru SETOGUCHI, Atsushi NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 10825433Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores a trained acoustic model obtained by performing machine learning on training musical score data and training singing voice data of a singer; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor: in accordance with a user operation on an operation element in a plurality of operation elements, inputs prescribed lyric data and pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element to the trained acoustic model so as to cause the trained acoustic model to output the acoustic feature data in response to the inputted prescribed lyric data and the inputted pitch data, and digitally synthesizes and outputs inferred singing voice data that infers a singing voice of the singer on the basis of the acoustic feature data output by the trained acoustic model.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Danjyo, Fumiaki Ota, Masaru Setoguchi, Atsushi Nakamura
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Patent number: 10825434Abstract: An electronic musical instrument in one aspect of the disclosure includes a keyboard, a processor and a memory that stores musical piece data that includes data of a vocal part, the vocal part including at least first and second notes together with associated first and second lyric parts that are to be successively played at the first and second timings, respectively, wherein if while a digitally synthesized first signing voice corresponding to the first note is being output, a user specifies, via keyboard, a third pitch that is different from the first and second notes prior to the arrival of the second timing, the at least one processor synthesizes a modified first singing voice having the third pitch in accordance with the data of the first lyric part, and causes the digitally synthesized modified first singing voice to be audibly output at the third timing.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Masaru Setoguchi, Makoto Danjyo, Fumiaki Ota
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Patent number: 10810981Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores a trained acoustic model obtained by performing machine learning on training musical score data and training singing voice data of a singer; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor: in accordance with a user operation on an operation element in a plurality of operation elements, inputs prescribed lyric data and pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element to the trained acoustic model, and digitally synthesizes and outputs inferred singing voice data that infers a singing voice of the singer on the basis of at least a portion of acoustic feature data output by the trained acoustic model, and on the basis of instrument sound waveform data that are synthesized in accordance with the pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Danjyo, Fumiaki Ota, Masaru Setoguchi, Atsushi Nakamura
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Patent number: 10789922Abstract: An electronic musical instrument in one aspect of the disclosure includes; a plurality of operation elements to be performed by a user for respectively specifying different pitches; a memory that stores musical piece data that includes data of a vocal part, the vocal part including at least a first note with a first pitch and an associated first lyric part that are to be played at a first timing; and at least one processor, wherein if the user does not operate any of the plurality of operation elements in accordance with the first timing, the at least one processor digitally synthesizes a default first singing voice that includes the first lyric part and that has the first pitch in accordance with data of the first note stored in the memory, and causes the digitally synthesized default first singing voice to be audibly output at the first timing.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Danjyo, Fumiaki Ota, Masaru Setoguchi, Atsushi Nakamura
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Patent number: 10629179Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores a machine-learning trained acoustic model mimicking voice of a singer and at least one processor. When a vocoder mode is on, prescribed lyric data and pitch data corresponding to a user operation of an operation element of the musical instrument are inputted to the trained acoustic model, and inferred singing voice data that infers a singing voice of the singer is synthesized on the basis of acoustic feature data output by the trained acoustic model and on the basis of instrument sound waveform data that are synthesized in accordance with the pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element. When the vocoder mode is off, the inferred singing voice data is synthesized based on the acoustic feature data without using the sound waveform data.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Danjyo, Fumiaki Ota, Masaru Setoguchi, Atsushi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20190392798Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores a trained acoustic model obtained by performing machine learning on training musical score data and training singing voice data of a singer; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor: in accordance with a user operation on an operation element in a plurality of operation elements, inputs prescribed lyric data and pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element to the trained acoustic model so as to cause the trained acoustic model to output the acoustic feature data in response to the inputted prescribed lyric data and the inputted pitch data, and digitally synthesizes and outputs inferred singing voice data that infers a singing voice of the singer on the basis of the acoustic feature data output by the trained acoustic model.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto DANJYO, Fumiaki OTA, Masaru SETOGUCHI, Atsushi NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20190392807Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores a machine-learning trained acoustic model mimicking voice of a singer and at least one processor. When a vocoder mode is on, prescribed lyric data and pitch data corresponding to a user operation of an operation element of the musical instrument are inputted to the trained acoustic model, and inferred singing voice data that infers a singing voice of the singer is synthesized on the basis of acoustic feature data output by the trained acoustic model and on the basis of instrument sound waveform data that are synthesized in accordance with the pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element. When the vocoder mode is off, the inferred singing voice data is synthesized based on the acoustic feature data without using the sound waveform data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto DANJYO, Fumiaki OTA, Masaru SETOGUCHI, Atsushi NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20190392799Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores a trained acoustic model obtained by performing machine learning on training musical score data and training singing voice data of a singer; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor: in accordance with a user operation on an operation element in a plurality of operation elements, inputs prescribed lyric data and pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element to the trained acoustic model, and digitally synthesizes and outputs inferred singing voice data that infers a singing voice of the singer on the basis of at least a portion of acoustic feature data output by the trained acoustic model, and on the basis of instrument sound waveform data that are synthesized in accordance with the pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto DANJYO, Fumiaki OTA, Masaru SETOGUCHI, Atsushi NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20190318715Abstract: An electronic musical instrument in one aspect of the disclosure includes; a plurality of operation elements to be performed by a user for respectively specifying different pitches; a memory that stores musical piece data that includes data of a vocal part, the vocal part including at least a first note with a first pitch and an associated first lyric part that are to be played at a first timing; and at least one processor, wherein if the user does not operate any of the plurality of operation elements in accordance with the first timing, the at least one processor digitally synthesizes a default first singing voice that includes the first lyric part and that has the first pitch in accordance with data of the first note stored in the memory, and causes the digitally synthesized default first singing voice to be audibly output at the first timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto DANJYO, Fumiaki OTA, Masaru SETOGUCHI, Atsushi NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20190318712Abstract: An electronic musical instrument in one aspect of the disclosure includes a keyboard, a processor and a memory that stores musical piece data that includes data of a vocal part, the vocal part including at least first and second notes together with associated first and second lyric parts that are to be successively played at the first and second timings, respectively, wherein if while a digitally synthesized first signing voice corresponding to the first note is being output, a user specifies, via keyboard, a third pitch that is different from the first and second notes prior to the arrival of the second timing, the at least one processor synthesizes a modified first singing voice having the third pitch in accordance with the data of the first lyric part, and causes the digitally synthesized modified first singing voice to be audibly output at the third timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi NAKAMURA, Masaru SETOGUCHI, Makoto DANJYO, Fumiaki OTA
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Publication number: 20190304327Abstract: A singing practice device includes a memory having stored thereon a musical piece data of a musical piece that includes an accompaniment and a vocal part to be sung by a user and at least one processor, wherein when a first segment of the vocal part to be sung by the user during a first time interval arrives while the accompaniment is being played back, the at least one processor determines whether an utterance is input by the user through an audio input device during the first time interval and causes the accompaniment to continue being played back until a point in time immediately before the next time interval only when the utterance was input by the user during the first time interval.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaru SETOGUCHI
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Patent number: 10431193Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided an electronic musical instrument that allows a player to learn a certain range covering a key of correct pitch and to feel as if he or she were playing the music. The instrument includes a controller to perform a pitches determination process of, based upon first timing and first pitch included in music data, determining pitches within a fixed range from the first pitch, which is allowed to be designated in accordance with the first timing, a display process of displaying an identifier to identify the pitches determined, and an automatic playing process of advancing automatic playing of the music data by producing sound corresponding to the first pitch from a sound producing unit when one of the pitches identified by the identifier displayed by the display process is designated.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaru Setoguchi