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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.

Patent No.:

US 9418645 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 30, 2015

Method of playing chord inversions 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:

David Warren

Assistant Examiner:

Christina Schreiber

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63H 5/00 (2006.01); G10H 1/00 (2006.01); G10H 1/38 (2006.01); G10H 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G10H 1/34 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G10H 1/057 (2006.01); G10H 1/02 (2006.01); G10H 1/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 7/00 (2013.01); G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/041 (2013.01); G10H 1/0008 (2013.01); G10H 1/0066 (2013.01); G10H 1/02 (2013.01); G10H 1/0575 (2013.01); G10H 1/28 (2013.01); G10H 1/34 (2013.01); G10H 1/38 (2013.01); G10H 1/386 (2013.01); G10H 7/008 (2013.01); G10H 2210/095 (2013.01); G10H 2220/096 (2013.01); G10H 2220/106 (2013.01); G10H 2220/201 (2013.01); G10H 2220/241 (2013.01); G10H 2230/015 (2013.01); G10H 2230/021 (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. In some embodiments, the touch zones are configured to provide different harmonic configurations of a base chord associated with the chord touch region. Some harmonic configurations provide progressively wider harmonic ranges across each adjacent touch zone. Other harmonic configurations can provide chords with a progressively higher relative pitch across each adjacent touch zone.

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