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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:
Mar. 29, 1994
Filed:
Jun. 04, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert C Bliss, Soquel, CA (US);
Assignee:
E-mu Systems, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H / ; G10H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
84603 ; 84627 ; 84661 ; 84663 ; 84DI / ;
Abstract
Data compression apparatus and corresponding method used for decaying musical instrument sounds in a digital sampling instrument. The data compression technique according to the present invention provides for data compression of decaying musical instrument sounds that is designed to be stored in a small space, provide for adequate musical reproduction of the sound, and be reproduced using current data sample playback technology.