Patents by Inventor Motoichi Tamura

Motoichi Tamura 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).

  • Publication number: 20230262388
    Abstract: A sound processing method includes: receiving, using the communication device, from the remote apparatus, a first sound signal representing first sound generated by a user of the remote apparatus; emitting, using the sound emitting apparatus, the first sound represented by the first sound signal; receiving, using the sound receiving apparatus, sound that includes second sound generated by a user of the sound processing system; generating a second sound signal by sound processing, using processing parameters, a reception sound signal generated by the sound receiving apparatus; transmitting, using the communication device, the second sound signal to the remote apparatus; updating the processing parameters based on the first sound signal or the reception sound signal; and stopping the updating of the processing parameters in a state where musical sound is included in at least one of the first sound or the second sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi UKAI, Takamitsu AOKI, Motoichi TAMURA, Shinya KOSEKI, Hideaki TAKEHISA
  • Publication number: 20230230494
    Abstract: A computer-implemented information processing method includes: determining, based on musical instrument information indicative of a musical instrument, a target part of a body of a first player, the first player playing the musical instrument indicated by the musical instrument information; and acquiring image information indicative of imagery of the determined target part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Rie ITO, Yukako HIOKI, Takamitsu AOKI, Shinya KOSEKI, Motoichi TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210335331
    Abstract: An image control system includes an estimation circuit, an obtaining circuit, and an image control circuit, which circuits can be at least one processor. The estimation circuit receives an output from a trained model in response to an input of an acoustic signal indicating a performance of a musical piece. The estimation circuit estimates musical performance information based on the output. The musical performance information is associated with the performance indicated by the acoustic signal relative to the musical piece. The obtaining circuit obtains manipulation information that is associated with a playback of an image. The image control circuit controls the playback of the image based on the musical performance information. The image control circuit controls the playback of the image based on the manipulation information upon obtaining the manipulation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Akira MAEZAWA, Motoichi TAMURA, Takuya FUJISHIMA, Takashi KIRIYAMA, Noriko KOSHIDA, Toshiyuki KUWABARA, Teruyo UEHIRA, Ryoya USUHA
  • Patent number: 10156973
    Abstract: Once obtained a turn-over instruction to proceed a score on one image area to which one grand staff among plural grand staves displayed on a screen of a user I/F belongs, a controller of a score displaying apparatus performs a process of scrolling the image areas upward on the screen of the user I/F, disposing the image area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted at a highest level of the screen of the user I/F, sequentially aligning a plurality of consecutive image areas in a forward direction on a timeline of the score with respect to the image area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted below the image area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted, and displaying the image areas on the screen of the user I/F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiro Uemura, Motoichi Tamura, Yasuyuki Umeyama, Takuya Fujishima, Yoshihiro Katsumata, Kazuki Kashiwase, Motoji Nagata, Akira Maezawa
  • Patent number: 9940914
    Abstract: A controller of a score displaying apparatus operates in a view mode displaying a score on a screen of a user I/F 12, and a writing mode obtaining information indicating writing on the score via the user I/F 12. In response to one operation specifying one grand staff by a user in the view mode, the controller performs a process of enlarging an image of an image area to which the specified grand staff belongs and displaying the enlarged image on a foreground of a center of the screen, and performs a process of switching a control mode from the view mode to the writing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiro Uemura, Motoichi Tamura, Yasuyuki Umeyama, Takuya Fujishima, Yoshihiro Katsumata, Kazuki Kashiwase, Motoji Nagata, Akira Maezawa
  • Patent number: 9824674
    Abstract: A recording method includes acquiring each piece of acoustic data representing a sound from each of a plurality of portable terminal devices. The each of the plurality of portable terminal devices includes a recording unit configured to generate the piece of acoustic data. The recording method also includes executing synchronization processing for synchronizing the respective pieces of acoustic data and executing mixing processing for mixing a plurality of pieces of acoustic data for which the synchronization processing has been executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Takahashi, Kazunobu Kondo, Motoichi Tamura
  • Patent number: 9460203
    Abstract: A sound processing apparatus communicates with a terminal apparatus through a communication network and includes a main storage device, and an auxiliary storage device that stores a management program and a sound processing program. A management element is implemented by making the management program resident in the main storage device. The management element receives audio data transmitted from the terminal apparatus by a streaming method and stores the received audio data in the main storage device. The management element acquires, from the main storage device, processed data generated by performing sound processing on the audio data and transmits the processed data to the terminal apparatus by a streaming method. A sound processing element is implemented by making the sound processing program resident in the main storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Koike, Motoichi Tamura
  • Patent number: 9275616
    Abstract: The method analyzes, on the basis of the musical score image data, an image note sequence that is a time series of a plurality of notes included in the image of a musical score of a given music piece, acquires, on the basis of a logical musical score data, a logical note sequence that is a time series of a plurality of notes included in the musical score of the given music piece, and then identifies correspondence relationship between the individual notes in the image note sequence and the individual notes in the logical note sequence by comparing the image note sequence and the logical note sequence. Further, the method displays the musical score image of the given music piece on the basis of the musical score image data, and controls a display state of the displayed image of the musical score by use of the identified correspondence relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiro Uemura, Dan Sasai, Motoichi Tamura
  • Publication number: 20150277731
    Abstract: Once obtained a turn-over instruction to proceed a score on one image area to which one grand staff among plural grand staves displayed on a screen of a user I/F belongs, a controller of a score displaying apparatus performs a process of scrolling the image areas upward on the screen of the user I/F, disposing the image area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted at a highest level of the screen of the user I/F, sequentially aligning a plurality of consecutive image areas in a forward direction on a timeline of the score with respect to the image area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted below the image area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted, and displaying the image areas on the screen of the user I/F.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Norihiro UEMURA, Motoichi TAMURA, Yasuyuki UMEYAMA, Takuya FUJISHIMA, Yoshihiro KATSUMATA, Kazuki KASHIWASE, Motoji NAGATA, Akira MAEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20150279342
    Abstract: A controller of a score displaying apparatus operates in a view mode displaying a score on a screen of a user I/F 12, and a writing mode obtaining information indicating writing on the score via the user I/F 12. In response to one operation specifying one grand staff by a user in the view mode, the controller performs a process of enlarging an image of an image area to which the specified grand staff belongs and displaying the enlarged image on a foreground of a center of the screen, and performs a process of switching a control mode from the view mode to the writing mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Norihiro UEMURA, Motoichi TAMURA, Yasuyuki UMEYAMA, Takuya FUJISHIMA, Yoshihiro KATSUMATA, Kazuki KASHIWASE, Motoji NAGATA, Akira MAEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20150179156
    Abstract: The method analyzes, on the basis of the musical score image data, an image note sequence that is a time series of a plurality of notes included in the image of a musical score of a given music piece, acquires, on the basis of a logical musical score data, a logical note sequence that is a time series of a plurality of notes included in the musical score of the given music piece, and then identifies correspondence relationship between the individual notes in the image note sequence and the individual notes in the logical note sequence by comparing the image note sequence and the logical note sequence. Further, the method displays the musical score image of the given music piece on the basis of the musical score image data, and controls a display state of the displayed image of the musical score by use of the identified correspondence relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Norihiro UEMURA, Dan SASAI, Motoichi TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20150104043
    Abstract: A recording method includes acquiring each piece of acoustic data representing a sound from each of a plurality of portable terminal devices. The each of the plurality of portable terminal devices includes a recording unit configured to generate the piece of acoustic data. The recording method also includes executing synchronization processing for synchronizing the respective pieces of acoustic data and executing mixing processing for mixing a plurality of pieces of acoustic data for which the synchronization processing has been executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Yu TAKAHASHI, Kazunobu KONDO, Motoichi TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20140336802
    Abstract: A sound processing apparatus communicates with a terminal apparatus through a communication network and includes a main storage device, and an auxiliary storage device that stores a management program and a sound processing program. A management element is implemented by making the management program resident in the main storage device. The management element receives audio data transmitted from the terminal apparatus by a streaming method and stores the received audio data in the main storage device. The management element acquires, from the main storage device, processed data generated by performing sound processing on the audio data and transmits the processed data to the terminal apparatus by a streaming method. A sound processing element is implemented by making the sound processing program resident in the main storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Yuji KOIKE, Motoichi TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20110118861
    Abstract: A sound processing apparatus that communicates with a terminal apparatus through a communication network, includes: a main storage device; an auxiliary storage device that stores a management program and a sound processing program; a management element being implemented by making the management program resident in the main storage device, the management element that receives audio data transmitted from the terminal apparatus by a streaming method and that stores the received audio data in the main storage device, the management element that acquires, from the main storage device, processed data generated by performing sound processing on the audio data and that transmits the processed data to the terminal apparatus by a streaming method; and a sound processing element being implemented by making the sound processing program resident in the main storage device, the sound processing element that performs the sound processing on the audio data to generate the processed data when the management element stores the
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji KOIKE, Motoichi TAMURA
  • Patent number: 7579545
    Abstract: A plurality of blocks of waveform data are stored in a memory, which also stores, for each of the blocks, synchronizing information representative of a plurality of cycle synchronizing points that are indicative of periodic specific phase positions where the block of waveform data should be synchronized in phase with another block of waveform data. Two blocks of waveform data (e.g., harmonic and nonharmonic components) are read out from the memory, along with the synchronizing information. On the basis of the synchronizing information, the readout of two blocks of waveform data is controlled using the synchronizing information. There is stored, for each of the blocks, at least one piece of synchronizing position information indicative of a specific position where the block should be synchronized with another block, and the readout of the individual blocks of waveform data is controlled so that the blocks are synchronized with each other using the synchronizing position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Motoichi Tamura, Yasuyuki Umeyama
  • Publication number: 20090025537
    Abstract: A plurality of blocks of waveform data are stored in a memory, which also stores, for each of the blocks, synchronizing information representative of a plurality of cycle synchronizing points that are indicative of periodic specific phase positions where the block of waveform data should be synchronized in phase with another block of waveform data. Two blocks of waveform data (e.g., harmonic and nonharmonic components) are read out from the memory, along with the synchronizing information. On the basis of the synchronizing information, the readout of two blocks of waveform data is controlled using the synchronizing information. There is stored, for each of the blocks, at least one piece of synchronizing position information indicative of a specific position where the block should be synchronized with another block, and the readout of the individual blocks of waveform data is controlled so that the blocks are synchronized with each other using the synchronizing position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2007
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Motoichi Tamura, Yasuyuki Umeyama
  • Patent number: 7432435
    Abstract: Dynamics value is acquired intermittently at predetermined time periods, and a waveform data set for a sustain tone, corresponding to the acquired dynamics value, is specified from among waveform data sets stored in a memory. To generate a tone waveform while switching to the specified waveform, a waveform switching time is used which is modified suitably in accordance with a dynamics value variation amount from a predetermined time earlier than the current dynamics value acquisition time to the current dynamics value acquisition time. Such arrangements not only can variably control a tone, having a tone-color-variation realizing characteristic, in accordance with the input dynamics value but also permits a tone color variation with an enhanced responsiveness without causing the tone color variation to impart a feeing of undesired step-like unsmoothness, thereby synthesizing a tone with a high quality faithfully reproducing a desired tone color variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Motoichi Tamura, Yasuyuki Umeyama
  • Patent number: 7396992
    Abstract: Determination is made, in accordance with acquired performance information, as to whether a crossfade characteristic should be changed or not, and a crossfade characteristic of crossfade synthesis having already been started at the time of the acquisition of the performance information was acquired are automatically changed in accordance with a result of the determination. Because the crossfade characteristic is automatically changed during the course of the crossfade synthesis, the time length of the crossfade synthesis can be expanded or contracted as compared to the time length that had been preciously set at the beginning of the crossfade synthesis, and thus, the time position of a succeeding one of rendition style modules to be time-serially combined in accordance with the acquired performance information can be allotted to a time position displaced by an amount corresponding to the expanded or contracted time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Motoichi Tamura, Yasuyuki Umeyama
  • Patent number: 7381879
    Abstract: In a sound waveform synthesizer, a waveform data supplying section reads the waveform data from a storage medium for supplying the waveform data to a waveform buffer in response to a first transfer request. A waveform data processing section retrieves the waveform data from the waveform buffer in response to a second transfer request. The waveform data processing section performs sound waveform synthesis based on the retrieved waveform data and given control parameters, while notifying a state and progress of the sound waveform synthesis to a control data processing section. The control data processing section issues the first transfer request based on the notified progress of the sound waveform synthesis. The control data processing section receives waveform control information from an outside and creates the control parameters based on the waveform control information and the notified state of the sound waveform synthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Motoichi Tamura
  • Publication number: 20070256542
    Abstract: Dynamics value is acquired intermittently at predetermined time periods, and a waveform data set for a sustain tone, corresponding to the acquired dynamics value, is specified from among waveform data sets stored in a memory. To generate a tone waveform while switching to the specified waveform, a waveform switching time is used which is modified suitably in accordance with a dynamics value variation amount from a predetermined time earlier than the current dynamics value acquisition time to the current dynamics value acquisition time. Such arrangements not only can variably control a tone, having a tone-color-variation realizing characteristic, in accordance with the input dynamics value but also permits a tone color variation with an enhanced responsiveness without causing the tone color variation to impart a feeing of undesired step-like unsmoothness, thereby synthesizing a tone with a high quality faithfully reproducing a desired tone color variation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Motoichi Tamura, Yasuyuki Umeyama