MUSIC GENERATING DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20090217805A1
• Filed: 12/21/2006
• Published: 09/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lim, In Jae, Lee, Jeong Soo
• Application Number:
  US12/092,902
• Publication Number:
  US 20090217805A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 84/611
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0025 Automatic or semi-automatic music composition, e.g. producing random music, applying rules from music theory or modifying a musical piece automatically producing a series of tones G10H1/26
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/38 Chord
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/40 Rhythm
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/111 Automatic composing, i.e. using predefined musical rules
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/576 Chord progression
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/261 Numeric keypad used for musical purposes, e.g. musical input via a telephone or calculator-like keyboard
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2230/021 Mobile ringtone, i.e. generation, transmission, conversion or downloading of ringing tones or other sounds for mobile telephony; Special musical data formats or protocols herefor mobile telephone transmission specifically adapted for electrophonic musical tools or instruments G10H2240/251
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2250/455 Gensound singing voices, i.e. generation of human voices for musical applications, vocal singing sounds or intelligible words at a desired pitch or with desired vocal effects, e.g. by phoneme synthesis formant synthesis G10H2250/481; parcor synthesis G10H2250/505; modulation effects G10H2210/195; ensemble effects G10H2210/245; speech synthesis in general G10L13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2250/471 General musical sound synthesis principles, i.e. sound category-independent synthesis methods details of musical waveform synthesis G10H2250/541; special instrument [spint] G10H2230/045; sound category-specific synthesis G10H2250/315
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 7/006 using two or more algorithms of different types to generate tones, e.g. according to tone color or to processor workload
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/00 Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems

Abstract

Provided is a music generating device. The device includes a user interface, a lyric processing module, a melody generating unit, a harmony accompaniment generating unit, and a music generating unit. The user interface receives lyrics and melody from a user, and the lyric processing module generates a voice file corresponding to the received lyrics. The melody generating unit generates a melody file corresponding to the received melody, and the harmony accompaniment generating unit analyzes the melody file to generate a harmony accompaniment file corresponding to the melody. The music generating unit synthesizes the voice file, the melody file, and the harmony accompaniment file to generate a music file.

Claims

1. A music generating device comprising:

a user interface for receiving lyrics and melody from a user;

a lyric processing module for generating a voice file corresponding to the received lyrics;

a melody generating unit for generating a melody file corresponding to the received melody;

a harmony accompaniment file for analyzing the melody file to generate a harmony accompaniment file corresponding to the melody; and

a music generating unit for synthesizing the voice file, the melody file, and the harmony accompaniment file to generate a music file.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the user interface detects pressing/release of a button corresponding to a note of a set musical scale to receive the melody from the user.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the user interface displays a score on an image display part, and receives the melody by allowing the user to manipulate a button to set a note pitch and a note duration.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the harmony accompaniment generating unit selects a chord corresponding to each measure for measures constituting the melody.

5. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a rhythm accompaniment generating unit for analyzing the melody file to generate a rhythm accompaniment file corresponding to the melody.

6. The device according to claim 5, wherein the music generating unit synthesizes the voice file, the melody file, the harmony accompaniment file, and the rhythm accompaniment file to generate a second music file.

7. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a storage for storing at least one of the voice file, the melody file, the harmony accompaniment file, the music file, and an existing composed music file.

8. The device according to claim 7, wherein the user interface receives and displays one of the lyrics and the melody of a file stored in the storage, and receives a modify request for one of the lyrics and the melody from the user to edit one of the lyrics and the melody.

9. The device according to claim 1, wherein the user interface receives the lyrics and the melody from a song sung by the user.

10. The device according to claim 1, wherein the user interface receives the lyrics by allowing the user to input characters.

11. The device according to claim 1, wherein the lyric processing module comprises:

a character processing part for dividing enumeration of characters of the received lyrics into one of words and phrases; and

a voice converting part for generating the voice file corresponding to the received lyrics with reference to results processed at the character processing part.

12. A music generating device comprising:

a user interface for receiving lyrics and melody from a user;

a lyric processing module for generating a voice file corresponding to the received lyrics;

a melody generating unit for generating a melody file corresponding to the received melody;

a chord detecting unit for analyzing the melody file to detect a chord for each measure constituting the melody;

an accompaniment generating unit for generating a harmony/rhythm accompaniment file corresponding to the melody with reference to the detected chord; and

a music generating unit for synthesizing the voice file, the melody file, and the harmony/rhythm accompaniment file to generate a music file.

13. The device according to claim 12, further comprising a storage for storing at least one of the voice file, the melody file, the chord for each measure, the harmony/rhythm accompaniment file, the music file, and an existing composed music file.

14. The device according to claim 13, wherein the user interface receives and displays one of the lyrics and the melody of a file stored in the storage, and receives a modify request for one of the lyrics and the melody from the user to edit one of the lyrics and the melody.

15. A portable terminal comprising:

a user interface for receiving lyrics and melody from a user; and

a music generating module for generating a voice file corresponding to the received lyrics, generating a melody file corresponding to the received melody, analyzing the generated melody file to generate a harmony accompaniment file corresponding to the melody, and synthesizing the voice file, the melody file, and the harmony accompaniment file to generate a music file.

16. A portable terminal comprising:

a user interface for receiving lyrics and melody from a user; and

a music generating module for generating a voice file corresponding to the received lyrics, generating a melody file corresponding to the received melody, analyzing the melody file to detect a chord for each measure constituting the melody, generating a harmony/rhythm accompaniment file corresponding to the melody with reference to the detected chord, and synthesizing the voice file, the melody file, and the harmony/rhythm accompaniment file to generate a music file.

17. A mobile communication terminal comprising:

a user interface for receiving lyrics and melody from a user; and

a music generating module for generating a voice file corresponding to the received lyrics, generating a melody file corresponding to the received melody, analyzing the generated melody file to generate an accompaniment file having harmony accompaniment corresponding to the melody, synthesizing the voice file, the melody file, and the accompaniment file to generate a music file;

a bell sound selecting unit for selecting the music file generated by the music generating module as a bell sound; and

a bell sound reproducing unit for reproducing the music file selected by the bell sound selecting unit as the bell sound when communication is connected.

18. A method for operating a music generating device, the method comprising:

receiving lyrics and melody via a user interface;

generating a voice file corresponding to the received lyrics and generating a melody file corresponding to the received melody;

analyzing the melody file to generate a harmony accompaniment file suitable for the melody; and

synthesizing the voice file, the melody file, and the harmony accompaniment file to generate a music file.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein the analyzing of the melody file to generate the harmony accompaniment file comprises selecting a chord corresponding to each measure for measures constituting the melody.

20. The method according to claim 18, further comprising generating a rhythm accompaniment file corresponding to the melody through analysis of the melody file.

21. The method according to claim 20, further comprising synthesizing the voice file, the melody file, the harmony accompaniment file, and the rhythm accompaniment file to generate a second music file.

22. The method according to claim 18, wherein the user interface receives the lyrics and the melody from a song sung by the user.

23. The method according to claim 18, wherein the user interface receives the lyrics by allowing the user to input characters.

24. A method for operating a music generating device, the method comprising:

receiving lyrics and melody via a user interface;

generating a voice file corresponding to the received lyrics and generating a melody file corresponding to the received melody;

analyzing the melody file to generate a harmony/rhythm accompaniment file suitable for the melody; and

synthesizing the voice file, the melody file, and the harmony/rhythm accompaniment file to generate a music file.

25. A method for operating a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:

receiving lyrics and melody through a user interface;

generating a voice file corresponding to the received lyrics and generating a melody file corresponding to the received melody;

analyzing the melody file to generate an accompaniment file having harmony accompaniment suitable for the melody;

synthesizing the voice file, the melody file, and the accompaniment file to generate a music file;

selecting the generated music file as a bell sound; and

when communication is connected, reproducing the selected music file as the bell sound.