Patents by Inventor Zenon Q. Anderson

Zenon Q. Anderson 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-instrument controller with triad-forming note-trigger convergence points
    Publication number: 20040060422
    Abstract: A musical instrument controller provides an array keyboard in which most note triggers form major 3rd, minor 3rd, and perfect fifth intervals at line segment boundaries with adjacent note triggers, and form major and minor triads at vertices or other convergence points where three note triggers meet. The segments and vertices provide for single-finger triggering of intervals and triads. After-pressure and movement in the array plane (even crossing trigger boundaries) provide for three dimensions of per-key continuous control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Clifton L. Anderson, Zenon Q. Anderson
  • Musical-instrument controller with triad-forming note-trigger convergence points
    Patent number: 6670535
    Abstract: A musical instrument controller provides an array keyboard in which most note triggers form major 3rd, minor 3rd, and perfect fifth intervals at line segment boundaries with adjacent note triggers, and form major and minor triads at vertices or other convergence points where three note triggers meet. The segments and vertices provide for single-finger triggering of intervals and triads. After-pressure and movement in the array plane (even crossing trigger boundaries) provide for three dimensions of per-key continuous control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Inventors: Clifton L. Anderson, Zenon Q. Anderson
  • Musical-instrument controller with triad-forming note-trigger convergence points
    Publication number: 20030209130
    Abstract: A musical instrument controller provides an array keyboard in which most note triggers form major 3rd, minor 3rd, and perfect fifth intervals at line segment boundaries with adjacent note triggers, and form major and minor triads at vertices or other convergence points where three note triggers meet. The segments and vertices provide for single-finger triggering of intervals and triads. After-pressure and movement in the array plane (even crossing trigger boundaries) provide for three dimensions of per-key continuous control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2002
    Publication date: November 13, 2003
    Inventors: Clifton L. Anderson, Zenon Q. Anderson