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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2019
Alphatheta Corporation, Yokohama, JP;
Yuuta Ishii, Yokohama, JP;
Kanta Koda, Yokohama, JP;
Akihide Hasegawa, Yokohama, JP;
Minoru Watanabe, Yokohama, JP;
Hideki Miyata, Yokohama, JP;
ALPHATHETA CORPORATION, Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A playing controller includes: a data acquiring unit configured to acquire audio data associated with information regarding a play position in a music piece and text-related data associated with the information regarding the play position; an operation signal acquiring unit configured to acquire an operation signal indicating an operation for a control of the music piece; an audio data processing unit configured to process, in accordance with the operation signal, the audio data associated with a section within the music piece identified by the information regarding the play position; an image data generating unit configured to generate image data containing a character image based on the text-related data and process the character image showing a lyric in the section based on the information regarding the play position and the operation signal; and a data output unit configured to output the processed audio data and the image data.