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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2014
Applicant:
Todd A. Peterson, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Inventor:
Todd A. Peterson, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 1/18 (2006.01); G10H 1/20 (2006.01); G10H 1/00 (2006.01); G10H 1/055 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 1/20 (2013.01); G10H 1/0008 (2013.01); G10H 1/0066 (2013.01); G10H 1/18 (2013.01); G10H 1/0558 (2013.01); G10H 2220/241 (2013.01);
Abstract
An electronic musical instrument includes a plurality of touch sensors each configured to generate an electrical signal representative of a musical note in response to being touched by a user, one or more proximity sensors each configured to generate an electrical signal representative of a musical key based on a distance between the user and the sensor, a controller configured to generate electrical signals representative of sound based on the electrical signals from the plurality of touch sensors and one or more proximity sensors, and one or more transducers configured to generate sound based on the electrical signals generated by the controller.