Patents by Inventor Yutaka Tohgi
Yutaka Tohgi 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: 8148623Abstract: An apparatus is to assist an unskilled player in playing a musical instrument by detecting the quantity of the player's manipulation against the instrument, modifying the detected manipulation quantity with reference to a recommended manipulation to a degree according to a given assistance coefficient, and actuating the instrument with the modified manipulation quantity. For a brass instrument, the apparatus comprises an embouchure sensor and a breath pressure sensor to detect the embouchure and the breath pressure of the player as he/she plays the brass instrument. The detected embouchure and breath pressure are then modified with reference to a recommended embouchure and breath pressure weighted by a given assistance coefficient. The apparatus actuates the brass instrument based on the modified embouchure and breath pressure.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2009Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Hideyuki Masuda, Junji Fujii, Yutaka Tohgi
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Patent number: 7985910Abstract: A musical content utilizing apparatus has a data input portion B11, transformation process portion B13 and utilization process portion B15 implemented via programmed processes. The data input portion B11 inputs musical content data comprising different kinds of content material data about music and content definition data defining the handling of the content material data. The transformation process portion B13 transforms the content definition data in accordance with stylesheets stored in a stylesheet storage portion B14 in order to enable the utilization process portion B15 to utilize the content material data. The utilization process portion B15 generates musical tones or displays images in accordance with the input content material, providing a user with musical content. As a result, a piece of musical content is able to be shared among various different types of musical content utilizing apparatuses, i.e., various platforms.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2008Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Yutaka Tohgi, Ken'ichi Yamauchi, Gary Gregson
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Publication number: 20090288549Abstract: An apparatus is to assist an unskilled player in playing a musical instrument by detecting the quantity of the player's manipulation against the instrument, modifying the detected manipulation quantity with reference to a recommended manipulation to a degree according to a given assistance coefficient, and actuating the instrument with the modified manipulation quantity. For a brass instrument, the apparatus comprises an embouchure sensor and a breath pressure sensor to detect the embouchure and the breath pressure of the player as he/she plays the brass instrument. The detected embouchure and breath pressure are then modified with reference to a recommended embouchure and breath pressure weighted by a given assistance coefficient. The apparatus actuates the brass instrument based on the modified embouchure and breath pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2009Publication date: November 26, 2009Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki MASUDA, Junji FUJII, Yutaka TOHGI
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Patent number: 7605324Abstract: An apparatus is to assist an unskilled player in playing a musical instrument by detecting the quantity of the player's manipulation against the instrument, modifying the detected manipulation quantity with reference to a recommended manipulation to a degree according to a given assistance coefficient, and actuating the instrument with the modified manipulation quantity. For a brass instrument, the apparatus comprises an embouchure sensor and a breath pressure sensor to detect the embouchure and the breath pressure of the player as he/she plays the brass instrument. The detected embouchure and breath pressure are then modified with reference to a recommended embouchure and breath pressure weighted by a given assistance coefficient. The apparatus actuates the brass instrument based on the modified embouchure and breath pressure.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2006Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Hideyuki Masuda, Junji Fujii, Yutaka Tohgi
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Patent number: 7589270Abstract: A musical content utilizing apparatus has a data input portion B11, transformation process portion B13 and utilization process portion B15 implemented via programmed processes. The data input portion B11 inputs musical content data comprising different kinds of content material data about music and content definition data defining the handling of the content material data. The transformation process portion B13 transforms the content definition data in accordance with stylesheets stored in a stylesheet storage portion B14 in order to enable the utilization process portion B15 to utilize the content material data. The utilization process portion B15 generates musical tones or displays images in accordance with the input content material, providing a user with musical content. As a result, a piece of musical content is able to be shared among various different types of musical content utilizing apparatuses, i.e., various platforms.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2008Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Yutaka Tohgi, Ken'ichi Yamauchi, Toshihisa Sadakata, Gary Gregson
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Patent number: 7576279Abstract: A musical content utilizing apparatus has a data input portion B11, transformation process portion B13 and utilization process portion B15 implemented via programmed processes. The data input portion B11 inputs musical content data comprising different kinds of content material data about music and content definition data defining the handling of the content material data. The transformation process portion B13 transforms the content definition data in accordance with stylesheets stored in a stylesheet storage portion B14 in order to enable the utilization process portion B15 to utilize the content material data. The utilization process portion B15 generates musical tones or displays images in accordance with the input content material, providing a user with musical content. As a result, a piece of musical content is able to be shared among various different types of musical content utilizing apparatuses, i.e., various platforms.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2008Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Yutaka Tohgi, Ken'ichi Yamauchi, Gary Gregson
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Patent number: 7430564Abstract: There is provided a performance information reproducing apparatus that is capable of realizing desired synchronized reproduction of a plurality of types of data, such as music and images with ease. An external storage device stores a musical tone data file, in which musical tone information is recorded, and at least one media data file, in which at least one other type of media information is recorded, together with a management file in which reading manners of the musical tone data file and the media data files are recorded. A CPU generates, based on the musical tone data file and the management file, reproduction data that designates the musical tone information and the media data file to be reproduced, using designation information in a same format as the musical tone information.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2004Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Yutaka Tohgi, Ken'ichi Yamauchi
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Publication number: 20080161956Abstract: A musical content utilizing apparatus has a data input portion B11, transformation process portion B13 and utilization process portion B15 implemented via programmed processes. The data input portion B11 inputs musical content data comprising different kinds of content material data about music and content definition data defining the handling of the content material data. The transformation process portion B13 transforms the content definition data in accordance with stylesheets stored in a stylesheet storage portion B14 in order to enable the utilization process portion B15 to utilize the content material data. The utilization process portion B15 generates musical tones or displays images in accordance with the input content material, providing a user with musical content. As a result, a piece of musical content is able to be shared among various different types of musical content utilizing apparatuses, i.e., various platforms.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2008Publication date: July 3, 2008Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka TOHGI, Ken'ichi YAMAUCHI, Gary GREGSON
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Publication number: 20080156172Abstract: A musical content utilizing apparatus has a data input portion B11, transformation process portion B13 and utilization process portion B15 implemented via programmed processes. The data input portion B11 inputs musical content data comprising different kinds of content material data about music and content definition data defining the handling of the content material data. The transformation process portion B13 transforms the content definition data in accordance with stylesheets stored in a stylesheet storage portion B14 in order to enable the utilization process portion B15 to utilize the content material data. The utilization process portion B15 generates musical tones or displays images in accordance with the input content material, providing a user with musical content. As a result, a piece of musical content is able to be shared among various different types of musical content utilizing apparatuses, i.e., various platforms.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2008Publication date: July 3, 2008Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka TOHGI, Ken'ichi YAMAUCHI, Toshihisa SADAKATA, Gary GREGSON
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Publication number: 20080156174Abstract: A musical content utilizing apparatus has a data input portion B11, transformation process portion B13 and utilization process portion B15 implemented via programmed processes. The data input portion B11 inputs musical content data comprising different kinds of content material data about music and content definition data defining the handling of the content material data. The transformation process portion B13 transforms the content definition data in accordance with stylesheets stored in a stylesheet storage portion B14 in order to enable the utilization process portion B15 to utilize the content material data. The utilization process portion B15 generates musical tones or displays images in accordance with the input content material, providing a user with musical content. As a result, a piece of musical content is able to be shared among various different types of musical content utilizing apparatuses, i.e., various platforms.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2008Publication date: July 3, 2008Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka TOHGI, Ken'ichi YAMAUCHI, Gary GREGSON
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Patent number: 7371956Abstract: A musical content utilizing apparatus has a data input portion B11, transformation process portion B13 and utilization process portion B15 implemented via programmed processes. The data input portion B11 inputs musical content data comprising different kinds of content material data about music and content definition data defining the handling of the content material data. The transformation process portion B13 transforms the content definition data in accordance with stylesheets stored in a stylesheet storage portion B14 in order to enable the utilization process portion B15 to utilize the content material data. The utilization process portion B15 generates musical tones or displays images in accordance with the input content material, providing a user with musical content. As a result, a piece of musical content is able to be shared among various different types of musical content utilizing apparatuses, i.e., various platforms.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2004Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Yutaka Tohgi, Ken'ichi Yamauchi, Toshihisa Sadakata, Gary Gregson
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Patent number: 7294776Abstract: Client apparatus (10, 11, 12, . . . ) receives, from a server (20) or CD-ROM, content data and first management information that enables trial use of the content data and store the received content data and first management information in an HDD. When a user of the client apparatus desires normal use of the stored content data, the client apparatus (10, 11, 12, . . . ) issues a normal use request to the server (20). Then, the client apparatus receives, from the server, second management information that authorizes the normal use of the content data. Thus, only the client apparatus, to which an authorization for the normal use, is allowed to reproduce the content data in a normal mode with no reproduction function limitation on the basis of the second management information. In this way, the inventive arrangements permit efficient delivery of trial and purchasing content, but also can enhance security against unfair use, such as unauthorized copying, of the content.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2004Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Yutaka Tohgi, Toshihisa Sadakata, Gary Gregson
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Publication number: 20070068372Abstract: An apparatus is to assist an unskilled player in playing a musical instrument by detecting the quantity of the player's manipulation against the instrument, modifying the detected manipulation quantity with reference to a recommended manipulation to a degree according to a given assistance coefficient, and actuating the instrument with the modified manipulation quantity. For a brass instrument, the apparatus comprises an embouchure sensor and a breath pressure sensor to detect the embouchure and the breath pressure of the player as he/she plays the brass instrument. The detected embouchure and breath pressure are then modified with reference to a recommended embouchure and breath pressure weighted by a given assistance coefficient. The apparatus actuates the brass instrument based on the modified embouchure and breath pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2006Publication date: March 29, 2007Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki Masuda, Junji Fujii, Yutaka Tohgi
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Publication number: 20040159215Abstract: Client apparatus (10, 11, 12, . . . ) receives, from a server (20) or CD-ROM, content data and first management information that enables trial use of the content data and store the received content data and first management information in an HDD. When a user of the client apparatus desires normal use of the stored content data, the client apparatus (10, 11, 12, . . . ) issues a normal use request to the server (20). Then, the client apparatus receives, from the server, second management information that authorizes the normal use of the content data. Thus, only the client apparatus, to which an authorization for the normal use, is allowed to reproduce the content data in a normal mode with no reproduction function limitation on the basis of the second management information. In this way, the inventive arrangements permit efficient delivery of trial and purchasing content, but also can enhance security against unfair use, such as unauthorized copying, of the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2004Publication date: August 19, 2004Inventors: Yutaka Tohgi, Toshihisa Sadakata, Gary Gregson
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Publication number: 20040148300Abstract: There is provided a performance information reproducing apparatus that is capable of realizing desired synchronized reproduction of a plurality of types of data, such as music and images with ease. An external storage device stores a musical tone data file, in which musical tone information is recorded, and at least one media data file, in which at least one other type of media information is recorded, together with a management file in which reading manners of the musical tone data file and the media data files are recorded. A CPU generates, based on the musical tone data file and the management file, reproduction data that designates the musical tone information and the media data file to be reproduced, using designation information in a same format as the musical tone information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2004Publication date: July 29, 2004Applicant: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Yutaka Tohgi, Ken?apos;ichi Yamauchi
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Publication number: 20040148516Abstract: There is provided a contents processing apparatus, according to which services for use of contents can be easily controlled according to users to ensure desired security. A contents information storage stores contents, a contents management file for managing licenses for the contents, and plug-in modules for executing processing of the contents. A plug-in setting device sets plug-in modules corresponding to contents to be processed. An operation recognition device recognizes unlimited operations relating to execution of processing of the contents from the contents management file corresponding to the contents. A plug-in function permission device permits use of functions corresponding to the recognized operations among functions of the set plug-in modules. A contents processing execution device executes processing of the contents according to the functions of the permitted plug-in modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2004Publication date: July 29, 2004Applicant: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Yutaka Tohgi, Toshihisa Sadakata, Gary Gregson
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Publication number: 20040139845Abstract: A musical content utilizing apparatus has a data input portion B11, transformation process portion B13 and utilization process portion B15 implemented via programmed processes. The data input portion B11 inputs musical content data comprising different kinds of content material data about music and content definition data defining the handling of the content material data. The transformation process portion B13 transforms the content definition data in accordance with stylesheets stored in a stylesheet storage portion B14 in order to enable the utilization process portion B15 to utilize the content material data. The utilization process portion B15 generates musical tones or displays images in accordance with the input content material, providing a user with musical content. As a result, a piece of musical content is able to be shared among various different types of musical content utilizing apparatuses, i.e., various platforms.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2004Publication date: July 22, 2004Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka Tohgi, Kenichi Yamauchi, Toshihisa Sadakata, Gary Gregson
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Patent number: 6703549Abstract: There are provided a performance data generating apparatus and method which is capable of automatically converting original performance data providing an expressionless performance into performance data that enable a variety of musically excellent performances, by means of a novel expression adding converter using various modularized rules and procedures to add expressions based on temporal changes such as tempo and timing, as well as a storage medium that stores a program for executing the method.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2000Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Tetsuo Nishimoto, Masahiro Kakishita, Yutaka Tohgi, Toru Kitayama, Toshiyuki Iwamoto, Norio Suzuki, Akane Iyatomi, Akira Yamauchi
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Patent number: 6211451Abstract: A music apparatus is communicable with a supervisory computer through a network for remotely training a user in matching with a skill level. In the music apparatus, an instrument is manually operable by the user for generating a performance. A monitor displays a lesson score in matching with the skill level so that the user is prompted to render the displayed lesson score by operating the instrument for generating a sample performance. A processor compares event data representative of the sample performance with note data representative of the lesson score to locally execute a quantitative evaluation of the sample performance. A transmitter transmits the event data representative of the sample performance to the supervisory computer through the network so that the supervisory computer can work to remotely provide a qualitative evaluation of the sample performance according to the event data to thereby arrange instruction data.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Yutaka Tohgi, Akane Iyatomi, Masaki Hara, Tomoyuki Hirose
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Patent number: RE38477Abstract: A performance information analyzer wherein one of tone pitch information data applied thereto in response to progress of performance of a musical tune is analyzed into one of plural performance parts on a basis of a difference in tone pitch between the one of the tone pitch information data and a reference tone pitch information data previously assigned to a predetermined part of the plural performance parts during prior analysis of the tone pitch information and the other tone pitch information data are analyzed into the other performance parts on a basis of a difference in tone pitch between the analyzed tone pitch information data and each of the other tone pitch information data.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1998Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventor: Yutaka Tohgi