Electronic musical apparatus and program for controlling the same

• US 20050150363A1
• Filed: 01/07/2005
• Published: 07/14/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: Yanase, Tsutomu, Shibukawa, Takeo
• Granted Patent: US 7,368,653 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 84/653
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0008 Associated control or indicating means
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/005 Non-interactive screen display of musical or status data graphical user interfaces specifically adapted for electrophonic musical instruments G10H2220/091; fingering displays G10H2220/041

Abstract

An electronic musical apparatus in which operators for changing pages on a musical instrument function-related screen and history pages on a Web screen are shared, so that those pages can be changed using similar operating systems to improve the userfriendliness. A display controller 38 is operable when the Web screen is displayed by the display 19, to change the history pages of the Web screen forward in terms of time in response to operation of a Next switch 47, and the display controller 38 is operable when the Web screen is displayed by the display 19, to change the history pages of the Web screen backward in terms of time in response to operation of a Back switch 48.

Claims

1. An electronic musical apparatus comprising:

a display controller that causes a display to selectively display a musical instrument function-related screen comprising a plurality of pages generated based on display data stored in advance in the electronic musical apparatus or a Web screen comprising history pages generated based on data obtained via a communication network;

a first operator for giving an instruction for changing the pages of the musical instrument function-related screen displayed by the display in a first direction; and

a second operator for giving an instruction for changing the pages of the musical instrument function-related screen displayed by the display in a second direction;

wherein;

said display controller is operable when the Web screen is displayed by the display, to change the history pages of the Web screen forward in terms of time in response to operation of said first operator; and

said display controller is operable when the Web screen is displayed by said display, to change the history pages of the Web screen backward in terms of time in response to operation of said second operator.

2. An electronic musical apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising the display.

3. An electronic musical apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a third operator for selectively designating the musical instrument function-related screen or the Web screen;

and

wherein the musical instrument function-related screen or the Web screen is selectively displayed by the display when said third operator is operated.

4. An electronic musical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein both said first operator and said second operator comprise physical operators.

5. A program executed by a computer, for controlling an electronic musical apparatus comprising a first operator and a second operator, comprising:

a display control module for causing a display to selectively display a musical instrument function-related screen comprising a plurality of pages generated based on display data stored in advance in the electronic musical apparatus or a Web screen comprising history pages generated based on data obtained via a communication network, according to screen display modes including at least a first mode in which the musical instrument function-related screen is displayed and a second mode in which the Web screen is displayed;

a mode determining module for determining whether a present screen display mode is the first mode or the second mode;

an operation accepting module for accepting operations of the first and second operators; and

a change instructing module operable when an operation of one of the first operator and the second operator is accepted by said operation accepting module while said mode determining module determines that the present screen display mode is the first mode, to instruct said display control module to change the pages of the displayed musical instrument function-related screen displayed by the display in one of a first direction and a second direction corresponding to the one operator, and operable when an operation of one of the first operator and the second operator is accepted by said operation accepting module while said mode determining module determines that the present screen display mode is the second mode, to instruct said display control module to change the history pages of the Web screen displayed by the display in one of a forward direction and a backward direction corresponding to the one operator, in terms of time.

6. An electronic musical apparatus comprising:

a display controller that causes a display to display a browser function-related screen;

a browser functional section that generates a first display image for displaying a part of the browser function-related screen based on image data received from a Web site on a communication network;

a data storage device that stores predetermined element image data corresponding to another part of the browser function-related screen, identification information for identifying the predetermined element image data, and arrangement information indicative of a display position of the predetermined element image data in a manner being associated with each other; and

a data supply device that supplies the identification information and the arrangement information stored by said data storage device to said browser functional section, and supplies the predetermined element image data identified by the identification information to said display controller;

wherein said browser functional section supplies the identification information and the arrangement information supplied from said data supply device, to said display controller; and

said display controller generates a second display image for displaying the other part of the browser function-related screen based on the predetermined element image data supplied from said data supply device and the identification information and the arrangement information supplied from said browser functional section, corresponding to the predetermined element image data, and causes the display to display the second display image together with the first display image generated by said browser functional section.

7. An electronic musical apparatus according to claim 6, wherein:

said browser functional section is capable of handling only image data in a format with a data capacity not less than a first data format;

said display controller is capable of handling a second data format with a smaller data capacity than the first data format;

the image data received from the Web site is formed in a data format with a data capacity not less than the first data format; and

the element image data stored by said data storage device is formed in the second data format.

8. An electronic musical apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said display controller is capable of causing the display to display a musical instrument function-related screen generated based on display data stored in advance in the electronic musical apparatus, and wherein said display controller causes the display to selectively display the browser function-related screen and the musical instrument function-related screen.

9. An electronic musical apparatus according to claim 6, wherein:

the electronic musical apparatus is capable of accessing the Web site via the communication network;

the display comprises a main display area and a sub display area;

said display controller causes the display to display the first display image in the main display area of the display according to a Web site which the electronic musical apparatus has accessed; and

said display controller causes the display to fixedly display the second display image in the sub display area of the display irrespective of a Web site which the electronic musical apparatus has accessed.

10. An electronic musical apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said data storage device comprises a read only memory.

11. A program executed by a computer, for controlling an electronic musical apparatus, comprising:

a display control module for causing a display to display a browser function-related screen;

a browser function module for generating a first display image for displaying a part of the browser function-related screen based on image data received from a Web site on a communication network;

a data storing module storing predetermined element image data corresponding to another part of the browser function-related screen, identification information for identifying the predetermined element image data, and arrangement information indicative of a display position of the predetermined element image data in a manner being associated with each other; and

a data supplying module for supplying the identification information and the arrangement information stored by said data storage module to said browser functional module, and supplying the predetermined element image data identified by the identification information to said display control module;

wherein said browser function module supplies the identification information and the arrangement information supplied from said data supplying module, to said display control module; and

said display control module generates a second display image for displaying the other part of the browser function-related screen based on the predetermined element image data supplied from said data supplying module and the identification information and the arrangement information supplied from said browser function module, corresponding to the predetermined element image data, and causes the display to display the second display image together with the first display image generated by said browser function module.