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Electronic musical instrument
Assignee: Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co Ltd
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Filing: 1997-03-18
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Granted: 1999-03-23
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Expires: 2017-03-18
Abstract
Abstract An electronic musical instrument having a waveform memory of a relatively small capacity for storing waveform information similar to conventional waveform information, the waveform memory being compatible with any data reading scheme. The waveform information is stored in the form of a plurality of frames. Each frame includes a plurality of pieces of sampled waveform data compressed by ADPCM or the like and decode information for extending the sampled waveform data to be read next to the current frame. Storing the decode information in a frame for extending the sampled waveform data stored in frames before and after that frame makes it possible to extract the necessary decode information from the frame read immediately before regardless of whether the frames are read forward or backward.
Inventors
- 👤 Kiyomi Takauji
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 13:12
CPC Classifications
G; G10; G10H; G10H7/00; G10H7/08; G10H7/12; G10H7/02; G10H2250/00; G10H2250/541; G10H2250/571; G10H2250/591; G10H2250/595
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 21
Claim 1
Independent Claim
99 words
An electronic musical instrument that generates a musical tone waveform signal, the instrument comprising: waveform storing means; and waveform information stored in said waveform storing means; wherein said waveform information stored in said waveform information storing means comprises a plurality of frames, and wherein each of said plurality of frames includes a plurality of pieces of compressed sampled waveform data and decoding information, for extending another plurality of pieces of compressed sampled data contained in another one of said plurality of frames which is read out of the waveform storing means after said each of said plurality of frames.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
99 words
An electronic musical instrument that generates a musical tone waveform signal, the instrument comprising: waveform storing means; and waveform information stored in said waveform storing means; wherein said waveform information stored in said waveform information storing means comprises a plurality of frames, and wherein each of said plurality of frames includes a plurality of pieces of compressed sampled waveform data and decoding information, for extending another plurality of pieces of compressed sampled data contained in another one of said plurality of frames which is read out of the waveform storing means after said each of said plurality of frames.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
48 words
The electronic musical instrument as claimed in claim 1 wherein each of said plurality of frames comprises a plurality of words, each of said plurality of words includes one piece of compressed sampled waveform data and a part of a plurality of bits that constitute said decoding information.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
45 words
The electronic musical instrument as claimed in claim 1, wherein said decoding information comprises a plurality of bits which are stored in a distributed manner in a plurality of words in a frame of said plurality of frames stored in said waveform information storing means.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
62 words
The electronic musical instrument as claimed in claim 1, wherein said plurality of frames continuously store time-sequential sampled values of a tone generated by an acoustic musical instrument, each of said plurality of frames storing decoding information for extending the compressed sampled waveform data stored in another frame of said plurality of frames that precedes said each of said plurality of frames.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
62 words
The electronic musical instrument as claimed in claim 1, wherein said plurality of frames continuously store time-sequential sampled values of a tone generated by an acoustic musical instrument, each of said plurality of frames storing decoding information for extending the compressed sampled waveform data stored in another frame of said plurality of frames that follows said each of said plurality of frames.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
115 words
The electronic musical instrument as claimed in claim 1 further comprising: reading means for reading out the waveform information frame by frame; extracting means for separately extracting the compressed sampled waveform data and the decoding information from the waveform information read out; and extending means for extending the extracted compressed sampled waveform data of said each of said plurality of frames by use of decoding information extracted from a second one of the plurality of frames previously read out, said decoding information extracted from a second one of the plurality of frames previously read out corresponding to said compressed sampled waveform data extracted from the waveform information of said each of said plurality of frames.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
76 words
The electronic musical instrument as claimed in claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of frames includes decoding information for extending the compressed sampled waveform data contained in one of the plurality of frames adjacent said each of the plurality of frames in a forward direction, and decoding information for extending the compressed sampled waveform data contained in one of the plurality of frames adjacent said each of the plurality of frames in a backward direction.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
82 words
The electronic musical instrument as claimed in claim 7 further comprising: extending means for extending the compressed sampled waveform data of said each of the plurality of frames by use of decoding information extracted from a second one of the plurality of frames previously read out, said decoding information extracted from a second one of the plurality of frames previously read out corresponding to said compressed sampled waveform data extracted from the waveform information of said each of the plurality of frames.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
78 words
An electronic musical instrument that for generating a musical tone waveform signal, the instrument comprising: electronic memory for storing waveform information, wherein said waveform information comprises a plurality of frames stored in a sequence in the electronic memory, and wherein each of the plurality of frames includes compressed sampled waveform data and decoding information, the decoding information being adapted to decompress the compressed sampled waveform data contained in another one of the plurality of frames in the sequence.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
78 words
An electronic musical instrument that for generating a musical tone waveform signal, the instrument comprising: electronic memory for storing waveform information, wherein said waveform information comprises a plurality of frames stored in a sequence in the electronic memory, and wherein each of the plurality of frames includes compressed sampled waveform data and decoding information, the decoding information being adapted to decompress the compressed sampled waveform data contained in another one of the plurality of frames in the sequence.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
52 words
The electronic musical instrument according to claim 9 wherein the decoding information contained in said each of the plurality of frames comprises decoding information adapted to decompress the compressed sampled waveform data contained in one of the plurality of frames that precedes said each of the plurality of frames in the sequence.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
52 words
The electronic musical instrument according to claim 9 wherein the decoding information contained in said each of the plurality of frames comprises decoding information adapted to decompress the compressed sampled waveform data contained in one of the plurality of frames that follows said each of the plurality of frames in the sequence.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
78 words
The electronic musical instrument according to claim 9 wherein the decoding information contained in each of the plurality of frames comprises decoding information for decompressing the compressed sampled waveform data contained in one of plurality of frames forward in the sequence from said each of the plurality of frames, and decoding information for decompressing the compressed sampled waveform data contained in one of plurality of frames backward in the sequence from said each of the plurality of frames.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
44 words
The electrical musical instrument according to claim 9 further comprising: decompressing means for decompressing the compressed sampled waveform data of said each of the plurality of frames by use of decoding information extracted from another one of the plurality of frames in the sequence.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
44 words
The electrical musical instrument according to claim 12 further comprising: decompressing means for decompressing the compressed sampled waveform data of said each of the plurality of frames by use of decoding information extracted from another one of the plurality of frames in the sequence.
Claim 17
Independent Claim
133 words
A method for generating a musical tone waveform signal using an electronic musical instrument, the method comprising the steps of: providing waveform information to the electronic musical instrument, wherein the waveform information comprises a plurality of frames in a sequence, each of the plurality of frames including compressed sampled waveform data and decoding information, the decoding information being adapted to decompress the compressed sampled waveform data contained in another one of the plurality of frames in the sequence; storing the waveform information in electronic memory of the electronic musical instrument; reading the waveform information out of the electronic memory; and decompressing the compressed sampled waveform data contained in each of the plurality of frames using the decoding information contained in one of the plurality of frames previously read out of the electronic memory.
Claim 18
Independent Claim
133 words
A method for generating a musical tone waveform signal using an electronic musical instrument, the method comprising the steps of: providing waveform information to the electronic musical instrument, wherein the waveform information comprises a plurality of frames in a sequence, each of the plurality of frames including compressed sampled waveform data and decoding information, the decoding information being adapted to decompress the compressed sampled waveform data contained in another one of the plurality of frames in the sequence; storing the waveform information in electronic memory of the electronic musical instrument; reading the waveform information out of the electronic memory; and decompressing the compressed sampled waveform data contained in each of the plurality of frames using the decoding information contained in one of the plurality of frames previously read out of the electronic memory.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
49 words
The method according to claim 15 wherein the decompressing step comprises decompressing the compressed sampled waveform data contained in each of the plurality of frames using the decoding information contained in one of the plurality of frames that precedes said each of the plurality of frames in the sequence.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
49 words
The method according to claim 15 wherein the decompressing step comprises decompressing the compressed sampled waveform data contained in each of the plurality of frames using the decoding information contained in one of the plurality of frames that follows said each of the plurality of frames in the sequence.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
97 words
The method according to claim 15 wherein the decoding information contained in each of the plurality of frames comprises decoding information for decompressing the compressed sampled waveform data contained in one of plurality of frames forward in the sequence from said each of the plurality of frames, and decoding information for decompressing the compressed sampled waveform data contained in one of plurality of frames backward in the sequence from said each of the plurality of frames, and wherein the decompressing step comprises decompressing the compressed sampled waveform data in either a forward direction or a backward direction.
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