Patents by Inventor Thomas Koritke

Thomas Koritke 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).

  • Musical tone generating apparatus and musical tone generating computer program
    Patent number: 7186910
    Abstract: A plurality of play style dependence tone colors belonging to one kind of musical instrument tone color but being different from one another in terms of play styles are respectively assigned to different values of velocity and note number. For example, play style dependence tone colors such as open soft and open middle of a steel guitar are assigned to tone pitch ranges C2 to B5, and the play style dependence tone colors are respectively assigned to different velocity values. Play style dependence tone colors such as strumming and fret noise of a steel guitar are assigned to tone pitch ranges C6 to G8, and the play style dependence tone colors are respectively assigned to different note number values. By setting the note number and velocity values in note-on event data in various ways, musical tone signals of various play style dependence tone colors are generated even if the program change and bank select data are not changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Sakurai, Thomas Koritke
  • Musical tone generating apparatus and musical tone generating computer program
    Publication number: 20030172799
    Abstract: A plurality of play style dependence tone colors belonging to one kind of musical instrument tone color but being different from one another in terms of play styles are respectively assigned to different values of velocity and note number. For example, play style dependence tone colors such as open soft and open middle of a steel guitar are assigned to tone pitch ranges C2 to B5, and the play style dependence tone colors are respectively assigned to different velocity values. Play style dependence tone colors such as strumming and fret noise of a steel guitar are assigned to tone pitch ranges C6 to G8, and the play style dependence tone colors are respectively assigned to different note number values. By setting the note number and velocity values in note-on event data in various ways, musical tone signals of various play style dependence tone colors are generated even if the program change and bank select data are not changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Applicant: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Sakurai, Thomas Koritke