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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2005
Kosei Yamashita, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasushi Miyajima, Kanagawa, JP;
Motoyuki Takai, Tokyo, JP;
Yoichiro Sako, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiro Terauchi, Tokyo, JP;
Toru Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Sakai, Kanagawa, JP;
Kosei Yamashita, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasushi Miyajima, Kanagawa, JP;
Motoyuki Takai, Tokyo, JP;
Yoichiro Sako, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiro Terauchi, Tokyo, JP;
Toru Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Sakai, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus that allows a musical piece to be recomposed by reflecting, for example, the mood, preference, and ambient environment of a listening user in the musical piece in real time. The apparatus includes a rhythm master unit and a rhythm slave unit. The rhythm master unit generates synchronization signals containing a signal having a period corresponding to a measure of a musical piece and a signal having a period corresponding to a beat of the musical piece and also generates musical-piece recomposition information in synchronization with the synchronization signals. The rhythm slave unit recomposes musical-piece data of input music content in accordance with the synchronization signals and the musical-piece recomposition information, generates output musical-piece data, and outputs the musical-piece data to the rhythm slave unit.