Patents by Inventor Motoji NAGATA

Motoji NAGATA 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: 10885806
    Abstract: A musical score processing method that is realized by a computer includes receiving a control data related to displaying of a musical piece from a music processor that executes a process related to the musical piece and that is realized by a music processing program, using inter-application communication, based on a musical score processing program, and executing a display control process by displaying a musical score of the musical piece on a display device and controlling the displaying in accordance with the control data that has been received, based on the musical score processing program. The music processing program is separate from the musical score processing program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Fujishima, Katsumi Ishikawa, Shinya Sakurada, Toshiyuki Hata, Norihiro Uemura, Takashi Otsuka, Motoji Nagata
  • Publication number: 20190333406
    Abstract: A musical score processing method that is realized by a computer includes receiving a control data related to displaying of a musical piece from a music processor that executes a process related to the musical piece and that is realized by a music processing program, using inter-application communication, based on a musical score processing program, and executing a display control process by displaying a musical score of the musical piece on a display device and controlling the displaying in accordance with the control data that has been received, based on the musical score processing program. The music processing program is separate from the musical score processing program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Takuya FUJISHIMA, Katsumi ISHIKAWA, Shinya SAKURADA, Toshiyuki HATA, Norihiro UEMURA, Takashi OTSUKA, Motoji NAGATA
  • Patent number: 10325513
    Abstract: Musical score acquisition section acquires musical score information representing a musical score of a music piece to be practiced by a user. Target portion setting section sets a plurality of portions of the music piece as target portions for training, respectively. Target musical score acquisition section acquires target musical score information indicative of partial musical scores of the respective target portions for training set by the target portion setting section. Display control section controls, on the basis of the target musical score information acquired by the target musical score acquisition section, a display device to display two or more of target musical scores in a side-by-side arrangement. Thus, a user can easily grasp the plurality of target portions for training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiro Uemura, Akira Maezawa, Motoji Nagata
  • 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: 9934768
    Abstract: A musical score display device and method employing a controller that is configured to control a display to display a musical score and, with the musical score, a first time axis corresponding to a performance of the musical score in which at least one repeat part of the musical score is played during the performance, or a second time axis corresponding to the musical score including at least one repeat sign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiro Uemura, Motoji Nagata
  • Publication number: 20170287454
    Abstract: A musical score display device and method employing a controller that is configured to control a display to display a musical score and, with the musical score, a first time axis corresponding to a performance of the musical score in which at least one repeat part of the musical score is played during the performance, or a second time axis corresponding to the musical score including at least one repeat sign.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Norihiro UEMURA, Motoji NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20170221377
    Abstract: Musical score acquisition section acquires musical score information representing a musical score of a music piece to be practiced by a user. Target portion setting section sets a plurality of portions of the music piece as target portions for training, respectively. Target musical score acquisition section acquires target musical score information indicative of partial musical scores of the respective target portions for training set by the target portion setting section. Display control section controls, on the basis of the target musical score information acquired by the target musical score acquisition section, a display device to display two or more of target musical scores in a side-by-side arrangement. Thus, a user can easily grasp the plurality of target portions for training.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Norihiro UEMURA, Akira MAEZAWA, Motoji NAGATA
  • Patent number: 9639966
    Abstract: A control section analyzes sound data to acquire data indicative of a plurality of attributes, such as pitch and volume, and displays, on a display screen, graphics indicative of the acquired pitch and volume. At that time, the control section displays, on the display screen, a pitch curve where a value of pitch is represented by the vertical axis while the passage of time is represented by the horizontal axis. Also, at a position on the display screen based on a displayed position of the pitch curve, the control section displays a volume graphic where a level of volume is represented by a length or distance or width, in the vertical-axis direction, of the volume graphic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Oshima, Motoji Nagata
  • 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