Yamaha Corporation

Hiroyuki Iwase

Takuro Sone

Takahiro Iwata

Yuki Seto

Akira Iizuka

Shota Moriguchi

Mitsuru Fukui

Hiromu Miyamoto

Takuya Nakata

Shinya Sakurada

Hitoshi Akiyama

Tetsuro Ishida

Yumiko Ochi

Takashi Suzuki

Takeo Shibukawa

Shinya Koseki

Kei Nakayama

Fukutaro Okuyama

Masahiko Hasebe

Yoshihisa Ito

Shinji Koezuka

Makoto Takahashi

Takeshi Sakai

Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

Toshiyuki Hata

Tomoyuki Kumagai

Kenichiro Saito

Kouichi Kashiwazaki

Tatsuya Nonaka

Hirotsugu Kamiya

Kazuyuki Ito

Takuya Nakada

Takashi Maruyama

Masashi Gompei

Kazuhiko Shuto

Kazuhito Mishima

An information provision device transmits, by near field communication, fixed phrase information, of guidance information that guides a user, representative of a fixed phrase and insertion phrase information selected from among a plurality of pieces of insertion phrase information representative of different insertion phrases to be inserted in the fixed phrase, to a terminal device capable of presenting, to the user, presentation information corresponding to the guidance information where the insertion phrase represented by the insertion phrase information is inserted in the fixed phrase represented by the fixed phrase information.

Information provision device, terminal device, information provision system, and information provision method

A terminal apparatus receives identification information for events transmitted sequentially in conjunction with occurrence of events; sequentially identifies estimated time points at which each event is estimated to occur; determines whether progress of the plurality of events has stopped depending on whether it receives identification information for each event at a corresponding estimated time point for each event; in each of a plurality of event groups obtained by temporally dividing events, when an estimated time point is reached for an earliest event among at least one event belonging to each event group, causes a playback device to play related information for the at least one event belonging to each event group, and when progress of events is determined to have stopped, defers update of related information, which the playback device caused to play, and then resumes update of played related information when identification information is received after the determination.

Information processing method and terminal apparatus

A terminal device includes: a sound receiving device configured to receive a sound emitted according to an audio signal to generate a received-audio signal, the audio signal including an audio signal that represents a guide voice and including a modulated signal that includes identification information of the guide voice; an information extractor configured to extract the identification information from the received-audio signal generated by the sound receiving device; a transmitter configured to transmit an information request that includes the identification information extracted by the information extractor; an acquisitor configured to acquire, from among multiple pieces of related information that correspond to multiple pieces of identification information, a piece of related information that corresponds to the identification information in the information request; and an output device configured to output the piece of related information acquired by the acquisitor.

Terminal device, information providing system, information presentation method, and information providing method

An information providing system () has a sound receiver () that receives a guidance voice and generates a sound signal (S); a text identifier () that identifies, from among registered texts representing contents of utterances of different guidance voices, a registered text that is similar to an uttered text (L) that represents a content of an utterance of one of the guidance voices (V), the uttered text having been obtained by analyzing the sound signal (S) by use of speech recognition, and a sound outputter () that transmits distribution information (D) that indicates the registered text identified by the text identifier () to a terminal device capable of presenting to a user (U) guidance information (G) corresponding to the distribution information (D) from among pieces of guidance information (G) that correspond to the respective guidance voices.

Information providing system, information providing method, and computer-readable recording medium

An information providing system includes a sound emission device for emitting, as sound wave, identification information modulated into a sound signal, an identification information resolution server including a mapping table in which the identification information, valid time information and the address information of a content are stored to be associated, and a mobile terminal device for transmitting the identification information demodulated from a picked-up sound wave to the identification information resolution server thereby obtaining address information and accessing the content using the obtained address information. When received the identification information from the mobile terminal device, the identification information resolution server returns the address information of a corresponding content to the mobile terminal device when the time information is within a valid time.

Information providing system, identification information resolution server and mobile terminal device

Provided is an information-providing system whereby a variety of information can be provided using a sound to a portable terminal device used by a user. The information-providing system includes a sound output device outputting, as a sound wave, identifying information modulated into a sound signal, an identifying-information resolution server, connected to an information-communication network, for identifying, based on the identifying information, address information for accessing a content server connected to an information-communication network; and a portable terminal device including a sound receiving section for receiving the sound wave outputted by the sound-emitting device, a demodulating section for demodulating the identifying information from the received sound wave, a resolution section for sending the demodulated identifying information to the identifying-information resolution server and acquiring the address information, and an accessing section for accessing the content server using the acquired address information.

Information-providing system, portable terminal device, server, and program

A reproduction apparatus () collects sounds on which spread codes are superimposed with a microphone () to calculate correlation values between the collected sound signals and the same spread codes as those of an apparatus which performed the superimposition to identify content reproduced by a reproduction apparatus () in accordance with the intensity of the peaks of the calculated correlation values. A control portion () identifies content which is correlated with the identified content and is necessary for the reproduction apparatus (). The control portion () reads out the identified content data from a content data storage portion () to output the musical score data and the audio data to a display portion () and a reproduction portion (), respectively. The display portion () displays the input musical score data on a screen, while the reproduction portion () reproduces the input audio data to generate sound signals.

Musical score device that identifies and displays a musical score from emitted sound and a method thereof

Provided are a musical performance-related information output device and a musical performance system capable of superimposing musical performance-related information on an audio signal without damaging the general versatility of the audio signal. The musical performance-related information output device includes a musical performance-related information acquiring section that is adapted to acquire musical performance-related information related to a musical performance of a performer, a superimposing section that is adapted to superimpose the musical performance-related information on an analog audio signal such that a modulated component of the musical performance-related information is included in a band higher than the frequency component of the analog audio signal generated in accordance with the musical performance manipulation of the performer, and an output section that outputs the analog audio signal on which the superimposing section superimposes the musical performance-related information.

Musical performance-related information output device, system including musical performance-related information output device, and electronic musical instrument

A modulation device includes: a spread code generation unit which generates a spread code having a predetermined cycle; an audio signal input unit to which an audio signal is input; a first modulation unit which phase-modulates the spread code in each cycle on the basis of a data code; and a combining unit which combines the audio signal with a modulation signal which has been generated on the basis of the phase-modulated spread code and distributed in a frequency range higher than a predetermined frequency to output a combined signal.

Modulation device and demodulation device

An audio signal processing device includes multiple input reception units to which analog audio signals, on which watermark information indicating identification information is superimposed, are input, an extraction unit that is adapted to extract the identification information from each of the analog audio signals input to the multiple input reception units, and a display unit for performing display depending on the identification information extracted by the extraction unit in correspondence with the input reception unit to which the analog audio signal, from which the identification information is extracted, is input, or signal processing unit for performing signal processing depending on the identification information extracted by the extraction unit for the analog audio signal, from which the relevant identification information is extracted, and outputting the processed analog audio signal.

Audio signal processing device, audio signal processing system, and audio signal processing method

A reproduction apparatuscollects sounds on which spread codes are superimposed with a microphoneto calculate correlation values between the collected sound signals and the same spread codes as those of an apparatus which performed the superimposition to identify content reproduced by a reproduction apparatusin accordance with the intensity of the peaks of the calculated correlation values. A control portionidentifies content which is correlated with the identified content and is necessary for the reproduction apparatus. The control portionreads out the identified content data from a content data storage portionto output the musical score data and the audio data to a display portionand a reproduction portion, respectively. The display portiondisplays the input musical score data on a screen, while the reproduction portionreproduces the input audio data to generate sound signals.

Content data reproduction apparatus and a sound processing system

In response to detection of a note-on instruction, a CPU assigns a tone generating unit comprising two tone generating channels and sets tone color control data of the assigned tone generating unit into tone generator registers. The tone color control data includes a parameter common to the two channels. Once the CPU gives a tone generation start instruction to a tone generator, the tone generator accumulates a frequency number common to the two channels to thereby generate a progressive phase common to the two channels. Waveform readout section reads out left-channel and right-channel waveform data from a waveform memory on the basis of the phase and waveform selecting information of the left and right channels. Tone characteristics of the read-out left- and right-channel waveform data are controlled by a characteristic control section on the basis of a characteristic control parameter common to the two channels.

Tone generation apparatus

Video picture signals are received via at least three channels. At least three control instructing operators are provided in correspondence with the channels. Each control instructing operator is operable to give a signal control instruction for the corresponding channel in accordance with an operated amount of the operator. Controller performs signal control on the video picture signals of the channels on the basis of the respective signal control instructions given via the control instructing operators. Synthesizer synthesizes the video picture signals of the channels having been subjected to the signal control by the controller. Video picture signals of two desired channels are designated, and a contact-type operator gives signal control instructions, corresponding to a predetermined position of the operator contacted by a human operator, with respect to the video picture signals of the designated two channels. By the signal control instructions, signal control is performed on the video picture signals of the designated two channels to thereby synthesize the video picture signals.

Video mixer apparatus

In an image controlling apparatus, an image data input from an image reproducing deviceto a motion picture recording unitis stored in a RAMby making the image data corresponding to an event by a pad operation in a recording mode RM. Also, in a play mode PM, a data reading unitselectively reads the image data from the RAMin accordance with an event by a pad operation. In an external controlling mode, an image data is selectively read from the RAMin accordance with detection of an event from an external input signal. An image controlling unitgenerates an image signal in accordance with the read image data, adds an image effect, synthesizes with a real time image signal from the image reproducing device, and displays a corresponding image on an image display

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Hiroyuki Iwase