Rockin’ Patent – Casio Computer Co Ltd’s “Electronic Musical Instrument, Electronic Musical Instrument Control Method, And Storage Medium”

US Patent No. 10,825,434 - Casio Computer Co Ltd - Electronic Musical Instrument, Electronic Musical Instrument Control Method, And Storage Medium - Patents Rock - Russell IP
  • Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 10,825,434
  • Filed: 15 April 2019
  • In the name of: Casio Computer Co Ltd
  • Title: Electronic Musical Instrument, Electronic Musical Instrument Control Method, And Storage Medium
  • What’s claimed: ”An electronic musical instrument comprising: a performance receiver having a plurality of operation elements to be performed by a user for respectively specifying different pitches of musical notes; a memory that stores musical piece data that includes data of a vocal part, the vocal part including at least first and second notes and respectively associated first and second lyric parts that are to be successively played in the order of the first note and then the second note, wherein the first note has a first pitch and the second note has a second pitch; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor performs the following: when the user specifies, via the performance receiver, the first pitch, digitally synthesizing a first singing voice that includes the first lyric part and that has the first pitch in accordance with data of the first note stored in the memory, and causing the digitally synthesized first singing voice to be audibly output; and if the user specifies, via the performance receiver, a third pitch that is different from the second pitch successively after specifying the first pitch, instead of the second pitch of the second note that should have been specified, synthesizing a modified first singing voice that has the third pitch in accordance with data of the first lyric part, and causing the digitally synthesized modified first singing voice to be audibly output without causing the second lyric part of the second note to be audibly output.” 
  • Why this patent rocks: This patent appears to relate to one of Casio Computer Co Ltd’s voice synthesis technologies. This may relate to the company’s approach to sound generation technology, Vocal Synthesis: The Casiotone CT-S1000V. For more information, see here.

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