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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1994
Takeshi Kikuchi, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
A recognition apparatus interprets a musical score to produce musical performance data. An image reader is operated for providing score image data representative of the musical score. A memory device is composed of a plurality of memory units, each memory unit being arranged to store a predetermined volume of score image data. The provided score image data is sequentially written into the plurality of the memory units volume by volume. A processor successively retrieves each volume of the written score image data from the memory units and processes the same to interpret the musical score so as to produce the musical performance data. The processor is allowed to write another volume of the score image data into a vacant one of the memory units in parallel to processing the score image data.