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Display apparatus for electronic musical instrument
Assignee: Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co Ltd
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Filing: 1991-09-26
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Granted: 1993-09-28
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Expires: 2011-09-26
Abstract
Abstract A display apparatus for an electronic musical instrument according to the first invention has a display section including multiple indicators provided in association with multiple tone parts, each indicator having multiple LEDs, a register section for reading out lighting time information from a memory which has lighting time information of the LEDs stored, and a counter section for performing a countdown operation in a predetermined time interval with the lighting time information in the register section as an initial value. When generation of a musical tone is instructed, the LEDs of the indicators which are associated with tone parts of the musical tone and whose quantity corresponds to volume information of the musical tone, are lit. When a count value of the counter section reaches zero, one of the LEDs is turned off or on, and the lighting time information in the register section is reset in the counter section to re-start a countdown operation. The tone levels for the individual parts are also displayed. A display apparatus for an electronic musical instrument according to the second invention has a display section including multiple indicators provided in association with multiple tone parts, each indicator having multiple LEDs. At the time of displaying the tone level, the activation/deactivation of the LEDs is controlled display in a first display mode. At the time of displaying the volume level associated with a change in volume, the activation/deactivation of the LEDs is controlled display in a second display mode.
Inventors
- 👤 Shinya Konishi
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-05 05:02
CPC Classifications
G; G10; G10H; G10H1/00; G10H1/0008
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 18
Claim 1
Independent Claim
225 words
A display apparatus for an electronic musical instrument, comprising: display means including a predetermined plurality of indicators, each indicator of said predetermined plurality of indicators representing a predetermined tone part such as melody, bass, and the like, and each indicator of said predetermined plurality of indicators having a plurality of display elements; storage means for storing lighting time information for each display element of said plurality of display elements, in association with multiple timbres; register means for reading out said lighting time information from said storage means and registering said lighting time information when a predetermined timbre is selected; counter means for performing a counting operation in a predetermined time interval with said lighting time information registered in said register means as an initial value; and control means for, when generation of a musical tone is instructed, lighting a predetermined quantity of display elements of said plurality of display elements which are associated with said tone parts of said predetermined tone parts, said predetermined quantity of display elements corresponding to volume information of said musical tone, and for turning off a predetermined quantity of display elements of said plurality of display elements when a count value of said counter means reaches a predetermined value and thereafter re-setting said lighting time information held in said register means in said counter means to re-start a counting operation.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
225 words
A display apparatus for an electronic musical instrument, comprising: display means including a predetermined plurality of indicators, each indicator of said predetermined plurality of indicators representing a predetermined tone part such as melody, bass, and the like, and each indicator of said predetermined plurality of indicators having a plurality of display elements; storage means for storing lighting time information for each display element of said plurality of display elements, in association with multiple timbres; register means for reading out said lighting time information from said storage means and registering said lighting time information when a predetermined timbre is selected; counter means for performing a counting operation in a predetermined time interval with said lighting time information registered in said register means as an initial value; and control means for, when generation of a musical tone is instructed, lighting a predetermined quantity of display elements of said plurality of display elements which are associated with said tone parts of said predetermined tone parts, said predetermined quantity of display elements corresponding to volume information of said musical tone, and for turning off a predetermined quantity of display elements of said plurality of display elements when a count value of said counter means reaches a predetermined value and thereafter re-setting said lighting time information held in said register means in said counter means to re-start a counting operation.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
30 words
A display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said lighting time information is stored in said storage means, as part of multiple pieces of timbre information associated with multiple timbres.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
43 words
A display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein for each envelope information, said lighting time information is stored in said storage means, as part of envelope information selected by a predetermined information included in multiple pieces of timbre information associated with multiple timbres.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
90 words
A display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control means, when generation of said musical tone of an attenuating sound system is instructed, lights predetermined display elements which are associated with said tone parts of said musical tone and whose quantity corresponds to said volume information of said musical tone, and turns off one of said display elements when said count value of said counter means reaches said predetermined value and re-sets said lighting time information held in said register means in said counter to re-start said counting operation.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
99 words
A display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control means, when generation of said musical tone of a sustain sound system is instructed, lights predetermined display elements which are associated with said tone parts of said musical tone and whose quantity corresponds to said volume information of said musical tone, and, when said tone-OFF of said musical tone is instructed, turns off one of said display elements when said count value of said counter means reaches said predetermined value and re-sets said lighting time information held in said register means in said counter to re-start said counting operation.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
27 words
A display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said counter means performs said counting operation in synchronism with an interrupt signal generated in a predetermined time interval.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
18 words
A display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said multiple display elements of said display means are LEDs.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
102 words
A display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said lighting time information held in said register means is envelope information, and said control means, when generation of a musical tone is instructed, lights predetermined display elements which are associated with said tone parts of said musical tone and whose quantity corresponds to said envelope information, and turns off or on one of said display elements in accordance with said envelope information when said count value of said counter means reaches a predetermined value, and re-sets said envelope information held in said register means in said counter means to re-start a counting operation.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
17 words
A display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said envelope information includes attach, decay and release information.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
27 words
A display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said counter means performs said counting operation in synchronism with an interrupt signal generated in a predetermined time interval.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
20 words
A display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein each display element of said plurality of display elements is an LED.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
111 words
A display apparatus for an electronic musical instrument, comprising: a display means; said display means including a plurality of indicators; each indicator of said plurality of indicators associated with an individual tone part of a musical tone; each indicator of said plurality of indicators including a plurality of display elements; first control means for controlling activation/deactivation of individual display elements of said plurality of display elements to provide a display in a first display mode according to a tone level; and second control means for controlling activation/deactivation of individual display elements of said plurality of display elements to permit a display in a second display mode according to a volume level.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
111 words
A display apparatus for an electronic musical instrument, comprising: a display means; said display means including a plurality of indicators; each indicator of said plurality of indicators associated with an individual tone part of a musical tone; each indicator of said plurality of indicators including a plurality of display elements; first control means for controlling activation/deactivation of individual display elements of said plurality of display elements to provide a display in a first display mode according to a tone level; and second control means for controlling activation/deactivation of individual display elements of said plurality of display elements to permit a display in a second display mode according to a volume level.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
28 words
A display apparatus according to claim 12, wherein in said first display mode, a predetermined number of display elements which correspond to said tone-ON level are continuously lit.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
21 words
A display apparatus according to claim 12, wherein said second control means is activated according to a change in volume information.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
28 words
A display apparatus according to claim 12, wherein in said second display mode, a predetermined number of display elements which correspond to said volume level are continuously lit.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
35 words
A display apparatus according to claim 12, wherein said second display mode is a mode in which that number of said display elements which corresponds to an amount of change in volume are continuously lit.
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