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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:
Sep. 28, 1982
Filed:
Sep. 25, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
Steven C Bass, Stockwell, IN (US);
Assignee:
Kimball International, Inc., Jasper, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H / ; G10H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
84-121 ; 84DI / ; 84DI / ;
Abstract
A tone generation system intended primarily for use in electronic musical instruments wherein a digital representation of a harmonically rich waveform is sampled, and a musical tone is produced therefrom. The stored waveform could be the four term Blackman-Harris window function, which has negligible side lobes and thus greatly attenuated higher harmonics. The stored function is read out at a fixed rate, but the time periods between successive readings of the waveform are varied to thereby vary the frequency of the output signal.