Score displaying method and storage medium

• US 10,156,973 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2015
• Issued: 12/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: Uemura, Norihiro, Tamura, Motoichi, Umeyama, Yasuyuki, Fujishima, Takuya, Katsumata, Yoshihiro, Kashiwase, Kazuki, Nagata, Motoji, Maezawa, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): Bashore, William L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Parcher, Daniel W
• Application Number:
  US14/669,190
• Publication Number:
  US 20150277731A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,363 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G10G 1/00 Means for the representation of music
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0008 Associated control or indicating means
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/015 Musical staff, tablature or score displays, e.g. for score reading during a performance. graphical musical score editing G10H2220/121; musical score displays resulting from a transcription G10H2210/086
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/101 for graphical creation, edition or control of musical data or parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/391 Angle sensing for musical purposes, using data from a gyroscope, gyrometer or other angular velocity or angular movement sensing device angles measured by an accelerometer or gravimeter G10H2220/395; angles calculated from 3D position sensing G10H2220/401; player body joint angle sensing G10H2220/321
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/141 Library retrieval matching, i.e. any of the steps of matching an inputted segment or phrase with musical database contents, e.g. query by humming, singing or playing; the steps may include, e.g. musical analysis of the input, musical feature extraction, query formulation, or details of the retrieval process

Abstract

Once obtained a turn-over instruction to proceed a score on one image area to which one grand staff among plural grand staves displayed on a screen of a user I/F belongs, a controller of a score displaying apparatus performs a process of scrolling the image areas upward on the screen of the user I/F, disposing the image area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted at a highest level of the screen of the user I/F, sequentially aligning a plurality of consecutive image areas in a forward direction on a timeline of the score with respect to the image area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted below the image area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted, and displaying the image areas on the screen of the user I/F.

Claims

1. A score displaying method performed on an apparatus, the apparatus including a display and an input portion, the method comprising:

extracting a first plurality of consecutive areas starting from an extraction start point, from among a score sectioned into areas based on a timeline of the score, the first plurality of consecutive areas of the score including three or more sectioned areas;

displaying the first plurality of consecutive areas of the score extracted by the extracting on the display;

executing, in response to a turn-over instruction, received via the input portion, on one area among the first plurality of consecutive areas of the score displayed on the display, a process including;

shifting the extraction start point by one or a plurality of areas to a forward direction or a backward direction along the timeline of the score such that the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted becomes the shifted extraction start point in a case where the extraction start point is shifted to the forward direction, and the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted becomes an extraction end point and another area from among the score becomes the shifted extraction start point in a case where the extraction start point is shifted to the backward direction;

extracting a second plurality of consecutive areas, including the one area on which the turn-over instruction is performed, starting from the shifted extraction start point, from among the score sectioned into areas based on the timeline of the score, the second plurality of consecutive areas of the score including three or more sectioned areas; and

displaying the extracted second plurality of consecutive areas on the display such that display of the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted is gradually moved to an end position of a display region on the display in which the score is to be displayed, and an area among the second plurality of consecutive areas which is to be newly displayed appears on the display accompanying the movement.

2. The score displaying method according to claim 1,

wherein the displaying is displaying the first plurality of consecutive areas of the score along the timeline of the score on a screen of the display such that the first plurality of consecutive areas are aligned in an order along the timeline of the score, and

wherein in the process,

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the forward direction along the timeline, and the displaying the extracted second plurality of consecutive areas is displaying an area corresponding to the shifted extraction start point in the end position on a backward side along the timeline and displaying an area newly extracted in the extracting the second plurality of consecutive areas due to the shifting of the extraction start point on the display, or

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the backward direction along the timeline, and the displaying the extracted second plurality of consecutive areas is displaying an area corresponding to the extraction end point after the shift in the end position on a forward side along the timeline and displaying an area newly extracted in the extracting the second plurality of consecutive areas due to the shifting of the extraction start point on the display.

3. The score displaying method according to claim 1,

wherein the displaying is displaying the first plurality of consecutive areas of the score along the timeline of the score on a screen of the display such that the first plurality of consecutive areas are aligned in an order along the timeline of the score, and

wherein in the process,

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the forward direction along the timeline, and the displaying the extracted second plurality of consecutive areas is displaying the plurality of areas extracted in the extracting the second plurality of consecutive areas such that an area corresponding to the shifted extraction start point is displayed in the end position on a backward side and that the extracted areas are aligned in an order along the timeline and scrolled on the display, or

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the backward direction along the timeline, and the displaying the extracted second plurality of consecutive areas is displaying the plurality of areas extracted in the extracting the second plurality of consecutive areas such that an area corresponding to the extraction end point after the shift is displayed in the end position on a forward side and that the extracted areas are aligned in an order along the timeline and scrolled on the display.

4. The score displaying method according to claim 1, further comprising

detecting an attitude of the display portion;

obtaining, via the input portion, an enlargement factor indicating in which size the score is to be displayed on the display; and

deciding an effective mode among a plurality of modes for displaying the score sectioned into areas based on the attitude detected in the detecting and the enlargement factor obtained in the obtaining, wherein units of the sectioning of the score vary for each mode.

5. The score displaying method according to claim 1, wherein display of the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted is gradually moved to the end position on the display only after display of an area among the first plurality of consecutive areas on which the turn-over instruction is not performed is reduced.

6. The score displaying method according to claim 1, wherein display of the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted is gradually moved to the end position on the display and the area among the second plurality of consecutive areas which is to be newly displayed appears on the display accompanying the movement while continuing to display an area among the first plurality of consecutive areas on which the turn-over instruction is not performed.

7. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium containing program instructions executable by a computer and enabling the computer to control a display and an input portion and perform a method comprising:

extracting a first plurality of consecutive areas starting from an extraction start point, from among a score sectioned into areas based on a timeline of the score, the first plurality of consecutive areas of the score including three or more sectioned areas;

displaying the first plurality of consecutive areas of the score extracted by the extracting on the display;

executing, in response to a turn-over instruction, received via the input portion, on one area among the first plurality of consecutive areas of the score displayed on the display, a process including;

shifting the extraction start point by one or a plurality of areas to a forward direction or a backward direction along the timeline of the score such that the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted becomes the shifted extraction start point in a case where the extraction start point is shifted to the forward direction, and the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted becomes an extraction end point and another area from among the score becomes the shifted extraction start point in a case where the extraction start point is shifted to the backward direction;

extracting a second plurality of consecutive areas, including the one area on which the turn-over instruction is performed, starting from the shifted extraction start point, from among the score sectioned into areas based on the timeline of the score, the second plurality of consecutive areas of the score including three or more sectioned areas; and

displaying the extracted second plurality of consecutive areas on the display such that display of the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted is gradually moved to an end position of a display region on the display in which the score is to be displayed, and an area among the second plurality of consecutive areas which is to be newly displayed appears on the display accompanying the movement.

8. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium according to claim 7,

wherein the displaying is displaying the first plurality of consecutive areas of the score along the timeline of the score on a screen of the display such that the first plurality of consecutive areas are aligned in an order along the timeline of the score, and

wherein in the process,

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the forward direction along the timeline, and the displaying the extracted second plurality of consecutive areas is displaying an area corresponding to the shifted extraction start point in the end position on a backward side along the timeline and displaying an area newly extracted in the extracting the second plurality of consecutive areas due to the shifting of the extraction start point on the display, or

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the backward direction along the timeline, and the displaying the extracted second plurality of consecutive areas is displaying an area corresponding to the extraction end point after the shift in the end position on a forward side along the timeline and displaying an area newly extracted in the extracting the second plurality of consecutive areas due to the shifting of the extraction start point on the display.

9. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium according to claim 7,

wherein the displaying is displaying the first plurality of consecutive areas of the score along the timeline of the score on a screen of the display such that the first plurality of consecutive areas are aligned in an order along the timeline of the score, and

wherein in the process,

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the forward direction along the timeline, and the displaying the extracted second plurality of consecutive areas is displaying the plurality of areas extracted in the extracting the second plurality of consecutive areas such that an area corresponding to the shifted extraction start point is displayed in the end position on a backward side and that the extracted areas are aligned in an order along the timeline and scrolled on the display, or

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the backward direction along the timeline, and the displaying the extracted second plurality of consecutive areas is displaying the plurality of areas extracted in the extracting the second plurality of consecutive areas such that an area corresponding to the extraction end point after the shift is displayed in the end position on a forward side and that the extracted areas are aligned in an order along the timeline and scrolled on the display.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium according to claim 7, wherein the method further comprises:

detecting an attitude of the display portion;

obtaining, via the input portion, an enlargement factor indicating in which size the score is to be displayed on the display; and

deciding an effective mode among a plurality of modes for displaying the score sectioned into areas based on the attitude detected in the detecting and the enlargement factor obtained in the obtaining, wherein units of the sectioning of the score vary for each mode.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium according to claim 7, wherein display of the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted is gradually moved to the end position on the display only after display of an area among the first plurality of consecutive areas on which the turn-over instruction is not performed is reduced.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium according to claim 7, wherein display of the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted is gradually moved to the end position on the display and the area among the second plurality of consecutive areas which is to be newly displayed appears on the display accompanying the movement while continuing to display an area among the first plurality of consecutive areas on which the turn-over instruction is not performed.