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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 1976
Filed:
Jun. 04, 1974
Applicant:
Inventors:
Masahiko Tsunoo, Suita, J;
Kinji Kawamoto, Kyoto, J;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, J;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H / ; G10H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
84-101 ; 84-103 ;
Abstract
A voice keying system for a voice controlled musical instrument comprising a frequency responding circuit for responding to an input signal of audio frequency and generating a control signal which corresponds to each of a plurality of frequency bands of input signal and also to a plurality of notes of a musical scale, and a tone generator for generating an output tone signal corresponding to each of the notes of the musical scale. The input signal is converted into the output tone signal having a smaller rate of frequency increment than that of the input signal in each of the frequency bands thereof.