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| 20080204408 | AUDIO REPRODUCING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND AUDIO REPRODUCING METHOD, ALLOWING EFFICIENT DATA SELECTION - An image display field, a whole map display field, a cursor are displayed on the music data selection screen. In the image display field is displayed an array of images which belong to one partition that can be displayed at a time and which are included in an array of images which represent whole audio data and is defined fixedly in advance. In the whole map display field is displayed a whole map indicating a display-area guide which shows where a partition being displayed now is located in the whole array and indicating a trajectory line which represents the trajectory of the cursor in the past. A plurality of pieces of music data represented by an image, which the cursor indicates, and images located around the image are reproduced concurrently. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080228299 | Audio Reproducing Apparatus And Audio Reproducing Method, Allowing Efficient Data Selection - In a music selection mode, a reproduction object deciding unit in an audio reproducing apparatus selects a plurality of pieces of candidate music from music data stored in a storage unit and has a reproducing unit reproduce them simultaneously. An assigned position deciding unit controls an audio processing unit in such a manner as to assign the sound images of the pieces of candidate music respectively to different positions. An input by which one unit of sound is selected from among a plurality of sounds that a user hears from the different positions is entered to an input unit. Then the reproduction object deciding unit determines that music data corresponding to the sound has been selected. This causes a changeover to a normal mode and the selected music data only is reproduced. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080259745 | Document Recording Medium, Recording Apparatus, Recording Method, Data Output Apparatus, Data Output Method and Data Delivery/Distribution System - It is made possible to appreciate a material such as a single musical composition, a single video, and the like in various states. There is provided an optical head | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080269930 | Audio Processing Apparatus and Audio Processing Method | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080276793 | BEAT ENHANCEMENT DEVICE, SOUND OUTPUT DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OUTPUTTING BEATS - In a sound output device, a sound input unit acquires a sound signal reproduced by a reproduction device. A beat extractor extracts a beat component of the sound signal based on a spectrogram, and generates a beat waveform having information of a beat timing and a beat intensity. An output signal generator amplifies the sound signal with the beat waveform being a gain, using the beat timing and beat intensity which the beat waveform has. A sound output unit outputs the beat enhanced sound signal as a sound by performing D/A conversion on the beat enhanced sound signal. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080288095 | Apparatus and Method of Creating Content - Audio content data is used in various modes as materials to easily create a new high-quality audio content. Multiple pieces of audio content data used as material data are prepared in advance in a material data storage device | 11-20-2008 |
| 20090003802 | Content Playback Method and Content Playback Apparatus - By allowing the movement of a user to affect the playback of content, the entertainment characteristic or uplifting spirits derived from content playback itself can be enhanced. The timing at which the user places his/her foot on the ground while walking or the timing at which the user shakes or changes from swinging in one direction to swinging to another direction is detected. Then, content, such as a music piece or moving pictures, is played back by allowing the timing of beats or bars of the music piece or the timing of scene changes or cut changes of the moving pictures to be synchronized with the timing of the movement of the user. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090024233 | AUDIO REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AUDIO REPRODUCING METHOD, AND AUDIO REPRODUCING PROCESSING PROGRAM - An easy-to-use and user-friendly apparatus is provided that displays motivation for exercise to a user to allow the user to continue comfortably exercising. An audio signal output processor reproduces audio data and a music sound is thus emitted from a loudspeaker. The user practices exercise, such as walking or jogging, in synchronization with the tempo of the music sound. At the start of exercise, an exercise information analyzer calculates an amount of exercise of the user based on personal profile information relating to the body of the user, including the body weight, the body height, age and sex of the user received via a keyboard, and characteristic information, such as play time and tempo of reproduced music data acquired via a communication I/F and a controller. The controller outputs the amount of exercise to a display to notify the user of the amount of exercise. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090044689 | MUSIC EDIT DEVICE, MUSIC EDIT INFORMATION CREATING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM WHERE MUSIC EDIT INFORMATION IS RECORDED - A music editing apparatus that can accomplish editing of superimposing or connecting whole or part of each of many songs such that their beats adjusted is provided. The music editing apparatus includes a remix processing section which performs a remix process based on both meta data that are pre-generated corresponding to song data and that contain at least a time-based beat position and a file for deciding a remix pattern; a synchronizing reproduction controlling section which generates a master beat, sends the master beat to the remix processing section, and reproduces a plurality of songs based on individual entries of the meta data according to the remix process that the remix processing section has designated corresponding to the remix pattern and the meta data; and a mixing section which mixes songs reproduced by the synchronizing reproduction controlling section. The remix processing section performs the remix process based on a remix pattern file structured as hierarchical layers each of which has a control parameter portion and a data entity portion. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090046991 | Contents Replay Apparatus and Contents Replay Method - To enable a lot of audio data and image data such as a still image and a moving image to be effectively and efficiently used. When audio data accumulated in a material database | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090056526 | BEAT EXTRACTION DEVICE AND BEAT EXTRACTION METHOD - Upon receiving a digital audio signal recorded in a .wav file, a beat extraction processing unit | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090069917 | AUDIO PLAYER AND AUDIO FAST-FORWARD PLAYBACK METHOD CAPABLE OF HIGH-SPEED FAST-FORWARD PLAYBACK AND ALLOWING RECOGNITION OF MUSIC PIECES - Audio data to be played back is associated with meta data indicating the timing of beat that serves as a basis for a rhythm of a music piece. In a fast-forward playback mode, the associated meta data is read. A portion of the audio data containing the timing of beat is determined as a playback portion A and the remaining portion in a beat-to-beat interval C is determined as a non-playback portion B. Only the playback portion A is sequentially played back and output. The relative duration of a playback portion A and a non-playback portion B is determined according to a playback speed required in fast-forward playback. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090088877 | Musical Content Reproducing Device and Musical Content Reproducing Method - An apparatus is provided which is capable of easily reconstructing (arranging) a piece of music depending on, for example, a feeling of a user listening to the piece of music. First acquisition means acquires data of a specific music content to be played back, from a music content data storage unit in which data of a plurality of music contents are stored. Second acquisition means acquires attribute information associated with the music content in units of music constituent elements from an attribute information storage unit. Third acquisition means acquires arrangement information associated with the music content and associated with the music construction information. In accordance with an arrangement request command issued by the user, the data of the music content being output as audio playback output data is reconstructed on the basis of the music construction information acquired by the second acquisition means and the arrangement information acquired by the third acquisition means. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090131071 | Data Communication Apparatus, Data Communication Method, and Data Communication Packet - A data communication apparatus capable of creating a new type of communication is provided. Motion information obtaining means | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090133568 | MUSIC EDIT DEVICE AND MUSIC EDIT METHOD - A remix processing section performs a remix process based on both meta data that are pre-generated corresponding to song data and that contain at least a time-based beat position and a file for deciding a remix pattern. A synchronous reproduction controlling section generates a master beat, sends the master beat to the remix processing section, and reproduces a plurality of songs based on individual entries of the meta data according to the remix process which the remix processing section has designated corresponding to the remix pattern and the meta data. A mixing section mixes songs reproduced by the synchronous reproduction controlling section. A music editing apparatus that can accomplish editing of overlaying or connecting whole or part of each of many songs recorded in a record medium such as a hard disk or a flash memory with their beats matched is provided. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090249945 | MUSIC COMPOSITION DATA RECONSTRUCTION DEVICE, MUSIC COMPOSITION DATA RECONSTRUCTION METHOD, MUSIC CONTENT REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND MUSIC CONTENT REPRODUCTION METHOD - An apparatus that allows a musical piece to be recomposed by reflecting, for example, the mood, preference, and ambient environment of a listening user in the musical piece in real time. The apparatus includes a rhythm master unit and a rhythm slave unit. The rhythm master unit generates synchronization signals containing a signal having a period corresponding to a measure of a musical piece and a signal having a period corresponding to a beat of the musical piece and also generates musical-piece recomposition information in synchronization with the synchronization signals. The rhythm slave unit recomposes musical-piece data of input music content in accordance with the synchronization signals and the musical-piece recomposition information, generates output musical-piece data, and outputs the musical-piece data to the rhythm slave unit. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090272253 | MUSIC EDIT DEVICE AND MUSIC EDIT METHOD - A music editing apparatus is provided that uses so-called time line meta data that describe a beat and melody structure of a song to automatically accomplishes an automatic DJ remix play with a low load. The apparatus also includes a synchronous reproduction controlling section which sends a master beat to the remix processing section and reproduces a plurality of songs corresponding to a remix process which the remix processing section designates corresponding to a remix pattern and the meta data and a mixing section which mixes the songs reproduced by the synchronous reproduction controlling section. The synchronous reproduction controlling section also includes a phase comparator which compares a phase of a beat synchronous signal generated from the meta data supplied from the remix processing section with that of the master beat signal; an integrating circuit which integrates a phase compared output of the phase comparator; and a correcting section which corrects a tempo based on an integrated output of the integrating circuit. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100142728 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS PROCESSING NOTIFICATION SOUND AND AUDIO-BASED CONTENTS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - In a user terminal, a reproducing unit reads out from a music file memory unit a music file selected and input by a user and reproduces the music file. In a normal reproduction, an output unit outputs the reproduced sound as an audio. When a notification information reception unit receives information that needs to be noticed such as an e-mail or a phone call, a notification information analysis unit analyzes the setting of the information or notification sound and determines the degree of importance. A frequency band allocation unit selects from allocation patterns of frequency bands stored in an allocation information memory unit a pattern for the music and for the notification sound according to the degree of importance and the frequency band of the notification sound. An audio processing unit extracts and synthesizes the components of the frequency bands allocated to music and the notification sound, and the output unit outputs accordingly. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100222904 | AUDIO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD - A user selects a plurality of pieces of music data desired to be reproduced concurrently, at an input unit of an audio processing apparatus, from music data stored in a storage device. A reproducing apparatus reproduces selected music data respectively and generates a plurality of audio signals under the control of a control unit. An audio processing unit performs allocation of frequency band, extraction of a frequency component, time-division, periodic modulation, processing and allocation of a sound image, to respective audio signals under the control of the control unit. Then the audio processing unit attaches segregation information of audio signals and information on the degree of emphasis to respective audio signals. The down mixer mixes a plurality of audio signals and outputs as an audio signal having a predetermined number of channels, then an output unit outputs the signal as sounds. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100287202 | USER TERMINAL AND CONTENT SEARCHING AND PRESENTATION METHOD - A content searching and presentation method in a terminal of an original user having a playlist includes the steps of accessing a playlist of a different user from the terminal and obtaining the playlist of the different user; computing a similarity between the obtained playlist of the different user and the playlist of the original user, which is a playlist owned by the terminal, in accordance with a predetermined computation equation; and presenting, as a searched result, content that is contained in the playlist of the different user and that is not contained in the playlist owned by the terminal when the computed similarity exceeds a predetermined threshold value. | 11-11-2010 |
