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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2002
Hiromu Ueshima, Shiga, JP;
Shuhei Kato, Shiga, JP;
SSD Company Limited, Shiga, JP;
Abstract
A musical scale recognition apparatus includes an analog/digital converter and a processor, and can determine by the processor how close an input analog audio signal is to a musical scale of a musical tone to be recognized by repeatedly performing a calculation of a cumulative value As to find a coefficient of a Fourier sine series of the audio signal on the basis of a frequency f and digital data D, a cumulative value Ac to find a coefficient of a Fourier cosine series of the audio signal on the basis of the frequency f and the digital data D, and a frequency power spectrum effective value A of the audio signal on the basis of the cumulative value As and the cumulative value Ac, wherein the digital data into which the input analog audio signal is converted by the analog/digital converter is D, the frequency (musical scale) of the musical tone to be recognized is f, and a current time is t. At this time, A is a value which shows how close the input audio signal is to the musical sound to be recognized, and it is shown that the larger the value A becomes, the closer the both sides are.