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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2009

Filed:

Oct. 04, 2006
Applicants:

Mitsuhiro Hikino, Kyoto, JP;

Junya Osada, Kyoto, JP;

Inventors:

Mitsuhiro Hikino, Kyoto, JP;

Junya Osada, Kyoto, JP;

Assignee:

Nintendo Co. Ltd., Kyoto, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 1/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Acceleration data outputted from an acceleration sensor provided in an input device is acquired and a magnitude of an acceleration is calculated. Next, based on the calculated magnitude of the acceleration, at least one piece of track data representing a target music to play is selected from music piece data including a plurality of pieces of track data stored in memory means. Then, based on the selected track data, data for controlling a sound generated from a sound generation device is outputted.


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