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Musical score recognition device and computer program thereof

Assignee: Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co Ltd
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Filing: 2008-10-09
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Granted: 2010-12-07
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Expires: 2028-10-09
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Abstract

Abstract The part template including information that is necessary to set after the image of the musical score read out by the scanner is recognized, is stored beforehand, and the part template corresponding to the read out musical score by the scanner is selected from a plurality of the part templates. And then, with the selected part template, setting (correcting) is to be performed automatically for the musical score read out by the scanner. Accordingly, it is possible to make the settings, which the user performs after a musical score is recognized, fewer than conventionally, and it is possible to increase the recognition rate of the musical score higher than conventionally.

Inventors

  • 👤 Seiji Nakano

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction US
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-11-09 10:39
CPC Classifications
G; G09; G09B; G09B15/00; G09B15/02; G09B15/023; G06; G06V; G06V30/00; G06V30/10; G06V30/30; G06V30/304

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 14
Claim 1
Independent Claim 182 words
A musical score recognition device, comprising: a first obtaining unit obtaining an image including information of a paper based musical score by an image readable unit; a recognizing unit recognizing the musical score including the image obtained by said first obtaining unit; a storing unit storing a part template including setting information to need to set for the musical score after recognized; a second obtaining unit obtaining a part template corresponding to the musical score included in the image read out by the readable unit from a part template stored in said storing unit; and a setting unit setting automatically for the musical score included in the image read out by the readable unit using the template obtained by said second obtaining unit, wherein the part template includes: part template identification information to identify the part template; transposition musical instrument setting information regarding a transposition musical instrument as an application subject of the part template; clef information regarding a clef as an application subject of the part template; and tablature information regarding a tablature as an application subject of the part template.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 182 words
A musical score recognition device, comprising: a first obtaining unit obtaining an image including information of a paper based musical score by an image readable unit; a recognizing unit recognizing the musical score including the image obtained by said first obtaining unit; a storing unit storing a part template including setting information to need to set for the musical score after recognized; a second obtaining unit obtaining a part template corresponding to the musical score included in the image read out by the readable unit from a part template stored in said storing unit; and a setting unit setting automatically for the musical score included in the image read out by the readable unit using the template obtained by said second obtaining unit, wherein the part template includes: part template identification information to identify the part template; transposition musical instrument setting information regarding a transposition musical instrument as an application subject of the part template; clef information regarding a clef as an application subject of the part template; and tablature information regarding a tablature as an application subject of the part template.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 87 words
The musical score recognition device according to claim 1 , wherein said storing unit stores the part template beforehand corresponding to a musical instrument ID to identify a means for performance; and said second obtaining unit distinguishes the musical instrument ID for the part of the musical score based on the part name obtained by which at least a portion of the musical score is recognized by said recognizing unit and obtains the template corresponding to the distinguished musical instrument ID every part of the musical score.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 118 words
The musical score recognition device according to claim 1 , further comprising: a display unit displaying information indicating the part template obtained by said second obtaining unit every part of the musical score; an accepting unit accepting at least one change of the part template obtained by said second obtaining unit based on a user's operation for information indicating the part template displayed by said display unit; and wherein said storing unit updates the part template accepted by said accepting unit based on the user' operation; and said display unit displays information indicating updated part template instead of information indicating the part template obtained by said second obtaining unit when the part template updated by said storing unit.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 53 words
The musical score recognition device according to claim 3 , further comprising: a restricting unit restricting update by said storing unit of the part template accepted by said accepting unit, and wherein said storing unit updates the part template whose change is not restricted by said restricting unit based on the user's operation.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 29 words
The musical score recognition device according to claim 4 , wherein said restricting unit restricts update on the part template of which an MIDI program number changes by update.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 36 words
The musical score recognition device according to claim 1 , wherein said setting unit corrects a recognition result of the musical score by said recognizing unit using the part template obtained by said second obtaining unit.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 76 words
The musical score recognition device according to claim 6 , wherein said setting unit executes a correcting process of the recognition result of the musical score by said recognizing unit with information of one part of the musical score recognized by said recognizing unit, and executes a correcting process of the recognition result of the musical score by said recognizing unit with information of plural parts of the musical score recognized by said recognizing unit separately.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 192 words
A computer-readable medium for storing a program for executing: a first obtaining step obtaining an image including information of a paper based musical score by image readable unit; a recognizing step recognizing the musical score included in the image obtained by said obtaining step; a storing step storing a part template including setting information to need to set for the music score after the musical score recognized in a storing medium; a second obtaining step obtaining the part template corresponding to a musical score included in an image read out by a readable step from the part template stored by said storing step; and a setting step setting a setting for the music score included in the image read out by the readable step using the part template obtained by said second step, wherein the part template includes: part template identification information to identify the part template: transposition musical instrument setting information regarding a transposition musical instrument as an application subject of the part template; clef information regarding a clef as an application subject of the part template; and tablature information regarding a tablature as an application subject of the part template.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim 192 words
A computer-readable medium for storing a program for executing: a first obtaining step obtaining an image including information of a paper based musical score by image readable unit; a recognizing step recognizing the musical score included in the image obtained by said obtaining step; a storing step storing a part template including setting information to need to set for the music score after the musical score recognized in a storing medium; a second obtaining step obtaining the part template corresponding to a musical score included in an image read out by a readable step from the part template stored by said storing step; and a setting step setting a setting for the music score included in the image read out by the readable step using the part template obtained by said second step, wherein the part template includes: part template identification information to identify the part template: transposition musical instrument setting information regarding a transposition musical instrument as an application subject of the part template; clef information regarding a clef as an application subject of the part template; and tablature information regarding a tablature as an application subject of the part template.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim 228 words
A musical score recognition device, comprising: a first obtaining unit obtaining an image including information of a paper based musical score by an image readable unit; a recognizing unit recognizing the musical score including the image obtained by said first obtaining unit; a storing unit storing a part template including setting information to need to set for the musical score after recognized; a second obtaining unit obtaining a part template corresponding to the musical score included in the image read out by the readable unit from a part template stored in said storing unit; a setting unit setting automatically for the musical score included in the image read out by the readable unit using the template obtained by said second obtaining unit, a display unit displaying information indicating the part template obtained by said second obtaining unit every part of the musical score; an accepting unit accepting at least one change of the part template obtained by said second obtaining unit based on a user's operation for information indicating the part template displayed by said display unit; and wherein said storing unit updates the part template accepted by said accepting unit based on the user' operation; and said display unit displays information indicating updated part template instead of information indicating the part template obtained by said second obtaining unit when the part template updated by said storing unit.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim 228 words
A musical score recognition device, comprising: a first obtaining unit obtaining an image including information of a paper based musical score by an image readable unit; a recognizing unit recognizing the musical score including the image obtained by said first obtaining unit; a storing unit storing a part template including setting information to need to set for the musical score after recognized; a second obtaining unit obtaining a part template corresponding to the musical score included in the image read out by the readable unit from a part template stored in said storing unit; a setting unit setting automatically for the musical score included in the image read out by the readable unit using the template obtained by said second obtaining unit, a display unit displaying information indicating the part template obtained by said second obtaining unit every part of the musical score; an accepting unit accepting at least one change of the part template obtained by said second obtaining unit based on a user's operation for information indicating the part template displayed by said display unit; and wherein said storing unit updates the part template accepted by said accepting unit based on the user' operation; and said display unit displays information indicating updated part template instead of information indicating the part template obtained by said second obtaining unit when the part template updated by said storing unit.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim 53 words
The musical score recognition device according to claim 9 , further comprising: a restricting unit restricting update by said storing unit of the part template accepted by said accepting unit, and wherein said storing unit updates the part template whose change is not restricted by said restricting unit based on the user's operation.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim 29 words
The musical score recognition device according to claim 10 , wherein said restricting unit restricts update on the part template of which an MIDI program number changes by update.

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