Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Katsumata

Yoshihiro Katsumata 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: 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: 10123122
    Abstract: An electroacoustic transducer, which can be a speaker or a microphone, includes a frame, a housing, and a vibrating body having one or more vertically split cylindrical faces. The opposing sides of the vibrating body is connected to the housing or the frame. A conversion section converts an electrical signal into vibration of the vibrating body or vibration of the vibrating body to an electrical signal. The vibrating body can extend to the side surfaces of the housing or completely wrap around the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Katsumata
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20170105072
    Abstract: An electroacoustic transducer, which can be a speaker or a microphone, includes a frame, a housing, and a vibrating body having one or more vertically split cylindrical faces. The opposing sides of the vibrating body is connected to the housing or the frame. A conversion section converts an electrical signal into vibration of the vibrating body or vibration of the vibrating body to an electrical signal. The vibrating body can extend to the side surfaces of the housing or completely wrap around the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventor: Yoshihiro KATSUMATA
  • Patent number: 9275615
    Abstract: A sound generating system in the embodiment of the invention includes an information processing terminal displaying a screen relating to a setting for controlling an electronic musical instrument determined based on a positional relation with the electronic musical instrument on a display screen and transmitting control information based on an operation performed on a touch sensor, and the electronic musical instrument performing the setting relating to sound generation according to the received control information to generate an audio signal based on the performed setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akie Hinokio, Yoshihiro Katsumata
  • 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: 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
  • Patent number: 8476520
    Abstract: A sound generation control apparatus displays in a loop region a music data image corresponding to music data to be generated as time progresses, such that progression of the music data corresponds to a lengthwise position of the loop region. The sound generation control apparatus outputs time information indicating the time that progresses from a start of generation of music sound. The sound generation control apparatus controls the generation of the music sound based on the music data according to a relationship between a lengthwise position of the loop region and a displayed location of the music data image in the loop region. The sound generation control apparatus displays a plurality of the music data images in the loop region, and simultaneously generates a plurality of music sounds corresponding to the plurality of the music data images as the time progresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Usui, Taishi Kamiya, Yoshihiro Katsumata, Kiyohisa Sugii, Thomas Coulbeaut
  • Publication number: 20120090447
    Abstract: A sound generating system in the embodiment of the invention includes an information processing terminal displaying a screen relating to a setting for controlling an electronic musical instrument determined based on a positional relation with the electronic musical instrument on a display screen and transmitting control information based on an operation performed on a touch sensor, and the electronic musical instrument performing the setting relating to sound generation according to the received control information to generate an audio signal based on the performed setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akie HINOKIO, Yoshihiro KATSUMATA
  • Publication number: 20110209597
    Abstract: A sound generation control apparatus defines a loop region indicating progression of time along lengthwise of the loop region, and displays in the loop region a music data image corresponding to music data to be generated as time progresses, such that progression of the music data corresponds to the lengthwise position of the loop region. The sound generation control apparatus outputs time information indicating a time that progresses from a start of generation of music sound. The sound generation control apparatus controls the generation of the music sound based on the music data corresponding to the music data image and according to a relationship between a lengthwise position of the loop region determined by the time information and a displayed location of the music data image in the loop region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Usui, Taishi Kamiya, Yoshihiro Katsumata, Kiyohisa Sugii, Thomas Coulbeaut
  • Patent number: D555714
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Katsumata, Enrico Bergese
  • Patent number: D565641
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Katsumata, Masaharu Ohno
  • Patent number: D598484
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Katsumata
  • Patent number: D723190
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Kurihara, Yoshitaka Ide, Yoshihiro Katsumata, Eizo Amiya
  • Patent number: D739049
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Kurihara, Yoshitaka Ide, Yoshihiro Katsumata, Eizo Amiya
  • Patent number: D778343
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Katsumata
  • Patent number: D778344
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Katsumata
  • Patent number: D778345
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Katsumata
  • Patent number: D778346
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Katsumata
  • Patent number: D853469
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Katsumata