Device for electronically transmitting music notes to music stands and method for achieving it

• US 20060272481A1
• Filed: 06/20/2006
• Published: 12/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Frank
• Original Assignee: Robert Frank
• Inventors: Frank, Robert
• Application Number:
  US11/455,828
• Publication Number:
  US 20060272481A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 84/600
• 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 2220/455 Camera input, e.g. analyzing pictures from a video camera and using the analysis results as control data

Abstract

Display device for music notes and other texts on stands, comprising an image displaying screen, a related image transmitting device and control means for at least successively forwarding text images from said image transmitting device to said image displaying screen. Within the spirit of this invention falls likewise a music stand which includes at least said image displaying screen as well as a method for producing and transferring lines of music notes at a determined speed to said image displaying screen.

Claims

1. Display device for music notes and the like for music stands, comprising an image displaying screen, a related image transmitting device and control means for at least successively forwarding text images from said image transmitting device to said image displaying screen.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein said control means include speed control means for transmitting said images in a speed controlled continuous manner to said screen.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein said control means include speed control means for transmitting said images in a speed controlled intermittent manner to said screen.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein said image displaying screen is a flat, electronic image displaying screen having an image reproducing front face and a rear face, said stand having a desk portion, said screen being housable by its rear face on said desk portion.

5. Music stand for reading music pieces having the length of at least two sheets of written music, said sheets to be successively readable without having to turn by hand each sheet, comprising a desk portion including a substantially flat electronic screen having a visible front face, the surface of which is substantially equivalent to the size of any of said sheets, an image transmitting device in image transmitting relationship with said front face for independently transmitting each of said sheets to said front face and remote control means for independently sending at will each sheet of music to said front face.

6. The music stand of claim 5, wherein said control means is connectable to a plurality of image transmitting devices, each forming part of one of said music stands, thereby simultaneously controlling all of said image transmitting devices.

7. Method for producing and transferring lines of music notes at a determined speed to an electronic image displaying screen, comprising the steps of filming from an existing music text having lines of music notes, said lines in a successive manner, transferring the filmed text to a computer, burning said text onto a DVD disc, inserting said disc into an image transmitting device having control means for adjusting the speed with which said music lines are transferable to an image displaying screen and operating said control means at will.