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).
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Patent number: 12142250Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignees: YAMAHA CORPORATION, TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTSInventors: Akira Maezawa, Motoichi Tamura, Takuya Fujishima, Takashi Kiriyama, Noriko Koshida, Toshiyuki Kuwabara, Teruyo Uehira, Ryoya Usuha
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Publication number: 20230262388Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Satoshi UKAI, Takamitsu AOKI, Motoichi TAMURA, Shinya KOSEKI, Hideaki TAKEHISA
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Publication number: 20230230494Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Rie ITO, Yukako HIOKI, Takamitsu AOKI, Shinya KOSEKI, Motoichi TAMURA
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Publication number: 20210335331Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Akira MAEZAWA, Motoichi TAMURA, Takuya FUJISHIMA, Takashi KIRIYAMA, Noriko KOSHIDA, Toshiyuki KUWABARA, Teruyo UEHIRA, Ryoya USUHA
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Patent number: 10156973Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 26, 2015Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Norihiro Uemura, Motoichi Tamura, Yasuyuki Umeyama, Takuya Fujishima, Yoshihiro Katsumata, Kazuki Kashiwase, Motoji Nagata, Akira Maezawa
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Patent number: 9940914Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 26, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Norihiro Uemura, Motoichi Tamura, Yasuyuki Umeyama, Takuya Fujishima, Yoshihiro Katsumata, Kazuki Kashiwase, Motoji Nagata, Akira Maezawa
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Patent number: 9824674Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 15, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Yu Takahashi, Kazunobu Kondo, Motoichi Tamura
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Patent number: 9460203Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 22, 2014Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Koike, Motoichi Tamura
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Patent number: 9275616Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Norihiro Uemura, Dan Sasai, Motoichi Tamura
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Publication number: 20150277731Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Norihiro UEMURA, Motoichi TAMURA, Yasuyuki UMEYAMA, Takuya FUJISHIMA, Yoshihiro KATSUMATA, Kazuki KASHIWASE, Motoji NAGATA, Akira MAEZAWA
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Publication number: 20150279342Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Norihiro UEMURA, Motoichi TAMURA, Yasuyuki UMEYAMA, Takuya FUJISHIMA, Yoshihiro KATSUMATA, Kazuki KASHIWASE, Motoji NAGATA, Akira MAEZAWA
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Publication number: 20150179156Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2014Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventors: Norihiro UEMURA, Dan SASAI, Motoichi TAMURA
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Publication number: 20150104043Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventors: Yu TAKAHASHI, Kazunobu KONDO, Motoichi TAMURA
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Publication number: 20140336802Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Yuji KOIKE, Motoichi TAMURA
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Publication number: 20110118861Abstract: 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 theType: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji KOIKE, Motoichi TAMURA
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Patent number: 7579545Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 24, 2007Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Motoichi Tamura, Yasuyuki Umeyama
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Publication number: 20090025537Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2007Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Motoichi Tamura, Yasuyuki Umeyama
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Patent number: 7432435Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 19, 2007Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Motoichi Tamura, Yasuyuki Umeyama
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Patent number: 7396992Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 26, 2006Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Motoichi Tamura, Yasuyuki Umeyama
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Patent number: 7381879Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 25, 2005Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventor: Motoichi Tamura