Yamaha Corporation

Gary Gregson

Yutaka Tohgi

Ken'ichi Yamauchi

Toshihisa Sadakata

Kenichiro Saito

Yasuhiko Okamura

There are provided a terminal apparatus by which media content relating to a connected electronic equipment can be easily acquired, an electronic equipment which can easily acquire media content relating to the electronic equipment itself, and a program. When a user actually operates an electronic music instrument and changes an operation state, a media content providing server receives state data indicating the operation state after the change from the electronic music instrument through a client terminal, receives a list of media content relating to the electronic music instrument and coincident with a present operation state of the electronic music instrument among a lot of stored media content from many media content storage servers on a communication network based on the state data, and displays it on a display of the client terminal. When the user selects one of media content from the list and instructs acquisition thereof, the media content providing server acquires corresponding media content data from a media content storage server storing it and transmits it to the client terminal.

Terminal apparatus and electronic equipment communicable with media content providing server and media content storage sites, and a non-transitory medium storing a program therefor

There is provided a musical score display apparatus which can display a musical score at multiple levels ranging from a partial part to all parts and can display a comment relating to the displayed musical score based on the creation date and time, and a program for realizing a musical score display method. Comment data created in a setting period are displayed on a timeline by using comment icons at positions corresponding to creation date and time. When the highest level button among level selection buttons is operated, the comment icons relating to all parts are displayed on the timeline. When the lowest level button is operated in this state, the comment icon relating to the part to be deleted when the lowest level is selected is also deleted from the timeline in the display musical score of all parts.

Musical score display apparatus and program for realizing musical score display method

A musical content utilizing apparatus has a data input portion B, transformation process portion Band utilization process portion Bimplemented via programmed processes. The data input portion Binputs musical content data comprising different kinds of content material data about music and content definition data defining the handling of the content material data. The transformation process portion Btransforms the content definition data in accordance with stylesheets stored in a stylesheet storage portion Bin order to enable the utilization process portion Bto utilize the content material data. The utilization process portion Bgenerates musical tones or displays images in accordance with the input content material, providing a user with musical content. As a result, a piece of musical content is able to be shared among various different types of musical content utilizing apparatuses, i.e., various platforms.

Musical content utilizing apparatus

Client apparatus (, . . . ) receives, from a server () or CD-ROM, content data and first management information that enables trial use of the content data and store the received content data and first management information in an HDD. When a user of the client apparatus desires normal use of the stored content data, the client apparatus (, . . . ) issues a normal use request to the server (). Then, the client apparatus receives, from the server, second management information that authorizes the normal use of the content data. Thus, only the client apparatus, to which an authorization for the normal use, is allowed to reproduce the content data in a normal mode with no reproduction function limitation on the basis of the second management information. In this way, the inventive arrangements permit efficient delivery of trial and purchasing content, but also can enhance security against unfair use, such as unauthorized copying, of the content.

Content supply method and apparatus

In an automatic play apparatus for electronic music system, it is often desired to expand its function in universal and easy way. In this invention, at steps , the sequencer module records music performance data provided from an external device or it reproduces them. Sometimes it does both at the same time. In a series of processing at steps , the queue processing and are introduced. In each queue processing, a part of the music performance data is memorized temporarily in Temporary Memory Area and , and the pointer, as an argument, corresponding to the memorized part of the music performance data is transferred to various plug-in programs which work as function expansion modules. The plug-in programs are thus enabled to read out the music performance data and write them, respectively from and in Temporary Memory Area and

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Gary Gregson