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. 15, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1996
Ryo Kamiya, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
A musical tone-generating method and apparatus therefor are provided. Musical tones are generated by reading waveform data from a waveform table at a predetermined sampling frequency and carrying out arithmetic operations on the waveform data read from the waveform table to generate musical tone waveform samples, by the use of a processing unit. A first sampling frequency or a second sampling frequency lower than the first sampling frequency is selected as the predetermined sampling frequency. Interpolation of the waveform data read from the waveform table is effected by a second interpolation method which is lower in accuracy than a first interpolation method employed when the first sampling frequency is used, or alternatively the interpolation is inhibited, when the second sampling frequency is selected as the predetermined sampling frequency.