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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:
Feb. 29, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Youjiro Takabayashi, Hamamatsu, JP;
Assignee:
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63H / ; G04B / ; G10H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
84609 ; 84615 ;
Abstract
A method of generating a musical tone signal having the steps of selecting one of a plurality of phrases in response to manipulation of a phrase select operator by a user, and reading performance data of the selected phrase from performance data pre-stored by the phrase to generate a musical tone signal of the read performance data.