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Patent No.:

US 8937237 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 06, 2013

Determining the characteristic of a played note on a virtual instrument

Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Alec H. Little, Woodside, CA (US);

Eli T. Manjarrez, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

Primary Examiner:

Jeffrey Donels

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63H 5/00 (2006.01); G04B 13/00 (2006.01); G10H 7/00 (2006.01); G10H 1/00 (2006.01); G10H 1/057 (2006.01); G10H 1/38 (2006.01); G10H 1/02 (2006.01); G10H 1/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 1/0066 (2013.01); G10H 7/00 (2013.01); G10H 1/0008 (2013.01); G10H 1/0575 (2013.01); G10H 1/386 (2013.01); G10H 1/02 (2013.01); G10H 1/28 (2013.01); G10H 1/38 (2013.01); G10H 7/008 (2013.01); G10H 2210/095 (2013.01); G10H 2220/096 (2013.01); G10H 2220/106 (2013.01); G10H 2220/241 (2013.01); G10H 2220/201 (2013.01);
Abstract

A user interface implemented on a touch-sensitive display for a virtual musical instrument comprising a plurality of chord touch regions configured in a predetermined sequence, each chord touch region corresponding to a chord in a musical key and being divided into a plurality of separate touch zones, the plurality of chord touch regions defining a predetermined set of chords, where each of the plurality of separate touch zones in each region is associated with one or more preselected MIDI files stored in a computer-readable medium. Each of the plurality of touch zones is configured to detect one or more of a plurality of touch gesture articulations including at least one of a legato articulation, a pizzicato articulation, or a staccato articulation. The one or more of the plurality of touch gesture articulations determines the preselected MIDI file associated with each of the plurality of separate touch zones.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Little, Alec. (2015). Determining the characteristic of a played note on a virtual instrument (U.S. Patent No. 8937237). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8937237

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