Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Korg Incorporated

Yasuhiko Mori

Fumio Mieda

Takeshi Tanaka

Rajesh Ramanathan

Taketoshi Yoshida

Ryogo Kanatani

Shinji Morimitsu

Hirofumi Mitoma

Erez Kikin Gil

Christopher Hugh Pratley

Yoshihiro Suzuki

Christopher Chinwen Yu

Liang Jeff Chen

Burns M Montgomery

Michael Anthony Faoro

Makoto Fukuda

Juan Dai

Valerie Rosen

Kristian L M Andaker

Haruhiko Motohashi

Fumiaki Yagi

Yusuke Bou

Kazuhide Oigo

Keiichi Yokoyama

Yoshiaki Hara

Kenzaburo Tamaru

Koichi Nakajima

William Arthur Steward Buxton

Mikio Nagashima

Eric Matthew Bell

Iwao Hamaura

David Mark Alexander

Display screen with icon

A user interface suited for use on mobile devices for entering characters which may require one or more modifiers is disclosed. The interface may be implemented utilizing a touch screen interface on which a user engages the interface, is provided feedback, and removes the user's touch to enter a character. The interface presents a series of main, supplemental and modifier keys. Touching an interface button or main key presents a series of 'petals' or supplemental keys emanating from the main key. Each petal or supplemental key may in turn present one or more sub petals or modifier keys emanating from the supplemental key. Each petal or sub-petal may represent another character or a modifier action. The characters and/or actions on the supplemental keys and modifier keys provide options for characters or modifiers which are dependent or related to the main input key.

User character input interface with modifier support

Systems, methods, and computer media for selecting characters through touchscreen input are provided. A user selection of a first character, such as a Japanese kana character, displayed on a touchscreen is received. A plurality of additional characters syllabically related to the first character are identified. A presentation order of the plurality of additional characters is identified. In response to receiving the user selection of the first character, at least a first and a second additional character from the plurality of syllabically related additional characters are displayed. The first additional character is displayed adjacent to the first character, and the second additional character is displayed adjacent to the first additional character. The displayed first and second additional characters are selectable by a user touch input.

Touchscreen japanese character selection through sliding input

To provide a user with better experience of cooperation between an electronic business card processing program and a communication program when exchanging electronic business cards. Electronic business cards are stored in a DB server, which is one of storages for a communication program, as well as an electronic business card local file. Thus, even if a PC is a company's PC, for example, the electronic business cards can be viewed by accessing the DB server from another PC or the like outside an office. Further, the electronic business card processing program operates with the communication program as backend, however, the electronic business card processing program may not be installed on a PC in some cases. Even in such a case, the communication program alone can display received electronic business cards that are stored in the communication program local file on the screen of a display.

Electronic business card exchange system and method

A novel information processing system, information processing method, program, and recording medium related to electronic business cards are provided. An information processing system for generating data of an electronic business card, stores personal information, and stores one or more presentation method data. Each of the presentation method data specifies a method for presenting the personal information in the electronic business card. The information processing system generates the data of the electronic business card by using the personal information and one of the presentation method data, when an instruction to use the data of the electronic business card is inputted.

Information processing system, information processing method, program, and recording system

A hierarchical address book for an organization is implemented where employees are represented by user objects and departments are represented by department objects. Computer-readable media include executable instructions for displaying and navigating the hierarchical address book. Computer-readable media also include executable instructions for ordering a list of recipients of an electronic mail message as a function of the seniority rating of an object in the hierarchical address book.

Integrated address book based on departmental hierarchy

An attachment part is disposed on a part of the edge of a resonance plate, which is made of a metal containing copper, and a weight is attached to the resonance plate at a predetermined distance from the attachment part. Plural vibration pickups are attached to the surface of the resonance plate between the weight and the attachment part. The resonance plate is attached to a percussion instrument at the attachment part. The plural vibration pickups produce electric signals corresponding to the resonant vibrations at their respective positions on the resonance plate, and the electric signals are mixed and output as percussion-instrument-sound signals.

Percussion-instrument pickup and electric percussion instrument

The present invention provides an electronic business card processing device and an electronic business card processing method which can effectively utilize information relating to electronic business cards. A business card is displayed on a display on the basis of stored information. When a cursor is positioned on the displayed business card, a tool bar is displayed on the displayed business card. The tool bar has one or a plurality of buttons. By using information unique to the displayed business card, processing corresponding to a selected button is executed. In another embodiment, in response to positioning of the cursor of the pointing device on a predetermined text field of the business card, a selectable tag is displayed on the displayed business card. An application program associated with the selected tag is started, and the information unique to the text field on which the cursor has been positioned is supplied to the started application program.

Electronic business card processing device and method

Provides a one-terminal effector having an input terminal and an output terminal structured as one terminal by providing a circuit that makes input and output of the effector common. The one-terminal effector can avoid complex cable wiring, and can prevent degradation of sound quality. The one-terminal effector includes one input/output terminal, and an effector circuit that executes a predetermined processing on an analog audio signal that is input from the input/output terminal, and outputs the processed analog audio signal from the input/output terminal. The one-terminal effector further includes an input/output signal conversion circuit that converts the input signal and the output signal into mutually different signal forms of voltage signals or current signals.

One-terminal effector

A high pass filterhaving a cut-off frequency of 200 Hz and a cut-off response of +12 dB/OCT and a low pass filterhaving a cut-off frequency of 400 Hz and a cut-off response steeper than &#x2212;24 dB/OCT are used to pick out components in a double overtone region of 200&#x2dc;400 Hz of a bass musical instrument such as a base or a bass drum from an input audio signal. The component which is picked out is input to distortion applying meanshaving an input-output response which is a non-linear response having no point symmetry with respect to 0 point, thus applying a distortion to cause even-numbered overtone components to be produced. An output from the distortion applying meansand the input audio signal are summed in a summerto be delivered. Natural tones which have boosted bass tones and which are free from impurity are obtained.

Acoustic effect apparatus and method and program recorded medium therefor

The output signal converter for a tube amplifier includes semiconductor devices for amplifying or attenuating an output signal of the tube amplifier while maintaining the output properties of the tube amplifier. The output signal converter according to one embodiment has an output transformer (TR) having an input terminal (TRa); a first circuit branch (C,) connected between the input terminal (TRa) and an output terminal of the tube amplifier and a second circuit branch (C,) connected to the input terminal (TRa) of the output transformer (TR) and in parallel to the first circuit branch and including components that produce an electric current proportional to a current level in the first circuit branch. The first and second circuit branches are located between the tube amplifier and the output transformer (TR) and include semiconductor devices so that the output signal from the tube amplifier is amplified while maintaining the output properties of the tube amplifier.

Output signal converter for ampliciation or attenuation of tube amplifier output while maintaining output properties

The output signal converter for a tube amplifier includes semiconductor devices for amplifying or attenuating an output signal of the tube amplifier while maintaining output properties of the tube amplifier. The output signal converter in preferred embodiments has an output transformer (,) connected to the tube amplifier, a current amplifier and a voltage amplifier serially connected with each other via a node, and a speaker (,). The current amplification factor (Ac) of the current amplifier (,) and the voltage amplification factor (Av) of the voltage amplifier (,) are related according to the following equation: Ac*Av&equals;&minus;k, wherein k is a constant.

Output signal converter for tube amplifiers

The vibration of a vibratory element, caused by applying thereto a shock, is detected by a vibration sensor and provided as an electric shock signal to a resonance circuit. The resonance frequencies and resonance decay time of the resonance circuit can freely be adjusted. By setting the resonance frequencies and resonance decay time of the resonance circuit to arbitrary values, desired frequency components are extracted from the electric shock signal and output as a sound signal of an electronic musical instrument.

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Yasuhiko Mori