The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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. 19, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1987
Eisaku Okamoto, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yasunao Abe, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
For use in or with an electronic musical instrument, an automatic accompaniment apparatus has a keyboard, a chord detector detecting a chord played on the keyboard, a judging circuit judging chord establishment of the detector chord, and a chord accompaniment tone generator producing, in accordance with an automatic rhythm pattern, chord tones for the detected chord when chord establishment is judged. This apparatus further comprises a tone generator for producing the tones of arbitrarily depressed keys when chord establishment is not judged. Thus, automatic accompaniment and manual performance are automatically selected according to the state of key depressions.