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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2012
Applicant:
Yuji Tabata, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yuji Tabata, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 3/06 (2006.01); G10H 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 1/0008 (2013.01); G10H 2220/061 (2013.01); G10H 2220/185 (2013.01); G10H 2220/201 (2013.01); G10H 2220/395 (2013.01); G10H 2220/455 (2013.01);
Abstract
A musical instrument () includes a stick () to be held by a player and provided with a marker () at a leading end that emits light and switches off; a camera unit () that captures an image of the player holding the stick (); and a center unit () that generates a percussion instrument sound based on a position of the marker () while emitting light in image-capture space captured by the camera unit (), in which the stick () causes the marker () to emit light under the condition of detecting start of a down swing movement by the player, and causes the marker () to switch off under the condition of detecting the end of this movement.