Yamaha Corporation

Kenji Iwamoto

Shigemitsu Yamaoka

Satsuki Kawahashi

Ryuichiro Kuroki

Naoyuki Onozawa

Koichi Ishizaki

Kazuyuki Ito

Kenta Hori

Hidenari Kim

Hidehisa Yasuno

Motoi Nishio

Max Lettau

Shingo Ekuni

Dan Godlovitch

Norm Campbell

Glen Rutledge

Peter Lupini

A stringed musical instrument includes: a musical instrument body configured such that a string is attached thereto; a pickup configured to: i) detect vibration of the string and ii) output a string vibration signal according to the vibration; a detection sensor that is: i) attached to the musical instrument body and ii) configured to output a detection signal according to a force applied to the musical instrument body; and a controller that is attached to the musical instrument body, and is configured to output, based on the detection signal, a control signal configured to control an operation of an effector configured to impart an effect to the string vibration signal.

Stringed musical instrument and acoustic effect device

An acoustic processing device includes: a plurality of loudspeaker units that output sound; and a mechanism that is configured to be capable of changing a distance between the loudspeaker units.

Acoustic processing device

An image processing apparatus sequentially reads image data corresponding to an area to be displayed from an image memory by use of an access address. This image memory stores the image data corresponding to the display area and other image data for other uses. The access address for the image memory is determined by the image processing apparatus such that the access address is increased from the predetermined start address in response to a scanning of a display screen. When the access address reaches at a predetermined boundary address representative of an address of the last image data corresponding to the display area of the image memory, the access address jumps to a predetermined jump destination address (such as the start address). Hence, the display will be started from the jump destination address, whereby the other image data can be prevented from being used for the display or from being destructed.

Image processing apparatus

An image processing apparatus processes image data stored in a memory to thereby display an image on a display screen of a display unit under a control of a central processing unit (CPU). In one aspect of the invention, source data read from a source area of the memory are subjected to a rotation process and a logical operation and then converted to transfer data which will be written in a destination area of the memory by every word. In addition, first and last words within one line on the display screen are masked in accordance with predetermined first and second mask data. In another aspect of the invention, one of a wait mode and a not-wait mode is selected by wait control data outputted from the CPU. In the wait mode, the CPU is subjected to a wait state even in a memory read cycle. In the not-wait mode, the CPU is not subjected to the wait state normally in the memory read cycle. However, the CPU is subjected to the wait state in the not-wait mode while a reading operation of the memory has not been completed.

Apparatus for processing image data for displaying an image on a display

An image processing apparatus designed to interface with different monitors which processes image data read from a video random access memory (VRAM) so as to display an image corresponding to the image data on a screen of a display unit under a control of a central processing unit (CPU). The image processing apparatus at least provides a plurality of registers and a memory for storing several kinds of reference data for several kinds of predetermined modes. When one mode is selected from the predetermined modes, one of a color display and a monochromatic display is selectively performed on a screen of one of a color monitor and a monochromatic monitor or a screen of one of moniters each having different standard. The reference data corresponding to the selected mode are read from the memory and stored in the registers. When the selected mode is changed, reference data stored in requisite registers selected by newly selected mode are automatically rewritten by the reference data selected by the newly selected mode without exchanging programs of the CPU.

Image processing system interfacing with different monitors

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Kenji Iwamoto