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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:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jean Laroche, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Luke Dahl, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Assignee:
Creative Technology Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 1/40 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 1/40 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus that allows a musician or disk-jockey to jump to selected beats while playing a digital music file. Numeric pads on a user interface access beat pointers which point to the location of a selected jump beat in the file. The jump beat then replaces or overlays the beat currently being played. Alternatively, a pattern of beats can be selected to overlay the song as it is played.