METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT

• US 20110130204A1
• Filed: 02/11/2011
• Published: 06/02/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: DELORME, DAVID BRUX
• Granted Patent: US 8,502,055 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/37
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/342 for guitar-like instruments with or without strings and with a neck on which switches or string-fret contacts are used to detect the notes being played electric guitars in which the tones are generated by the vibration of strings G10H3/18
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/368 displaying animated or moving pictures synchronized with the music or audio part
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/091 for performance evaluation, i.e. judging, grading or scoring the musical qualities or faithfulness of a performance, e.g. with respect to pitch, tempo or other timings of a reference performance
• 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 2220/096 using a touch screen touch screen note input, e.g. using a displayed keyboard G10H2220/241; personal digital assistant [PDA] G10H2230/015
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/135 Musical aspects of games or videogames; Musical instrument-shaped game input interfaces game background music G10H2210/026; musical game scoring or performance evaluation G10H2210/091
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/131 Library retrieval, i.e. searching a database or selecting a specific musical piece, segment, pattern, rule or parameter set
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/211 Wireless transmission, e.g. of music parameters or control data by radio, infrared or ultrasound beam G10H2220/405
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/251 Mobile telephone transmission, i.e. transmitting, accessing or controlling music data wirelessly via a wireless or mobile telephone receiver, analog or digital, e.g. DECT GSM, UMTS smartphone, PDA or palmtop used for musical purposes G10H2230/015; mobile ringtone G10H2230/021

Abstract

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method for presenting a first portion of the simulated musical instrument on a first presentation device, presenting a second portion of the simulated musical instrument on a second presentation device, presenting at the first presentation device a demonstrative stimulus directed to the first portion, and further presenting at least a portion of the musical score with an indicator providing instruction for stimulating the second portion according to the portion of the musical score where the indicator is located, detecting a stimulus directed to the second portion, and presenting an audible sound corresponding to the demonstrative stimulus directed to the first portion and the stimulus directed to the second portion. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Claims

1. A communication device, comprising a memory coupled to a controller, the controller operable to:

present a first portion of a simulated stringed instrument via a display of the communication device, while a presentation device presents a second portion of the simulated stringed instrument with a demonstrative stimulus directed to the second portion and further presents at least a portion of a musical score with an indicator of a first location in the score, to direct a user of the communication device to stimulate the first portion of the simulated stringed instrument in accordance with the score at the first location;

receive a stimulus directed to the first portion of the simulated stringed instrument; and

submit the stimulus to a media processor communicatively coupled to the presentation device to cause the media processor to generate a sound corresponding to a combination of the stimulus directed to the first portion and the demonstrable stimulus directed to the second portion, and to update the demonstrative stimulus presented at the presentation device so as to present the indicator at a second location in the musical score.

2. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the communication device corresponds to a touch-screen device, and wherein the media processor corresponds to a set-top box.

3. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the controller is operable to transmit the stimulus over an open socket of a transmission control protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) connection between the communication device and the media processor.

4. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the controller is operable to receive from the media processor a mitigation instruction to correct the stimulus responsive to the media processor detecting that the stimulus is inconsistent with an expected stimulus corresponding to the location of the indicator in the musical score.

5. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the simulated stringed musical instrument corresponds to one of a classical guitar, an electric guitar, a violin, a cello, a viola, a bass, a mandolin, and a banjo.

6. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the first portion of the stringed musical instrument corresponds to a sound hole.

7. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the second portion of the stringed musical instrument corresponds to a fret board.

8. A method for presenting a simulated musical instrument, comprising:

presenting a first portion of the simulated musical instrument on a first presentation device;

presenting a second portion of the simulated musical instrument on a second presentation device;

presenting at the first presentation device a demonstrative stimulus directed to the first portion, and further presenting at least a portion of the musical score with an indicator providing instruction for stimulating the second portion according to the portion of the musical score where the indicator is located;

detecting a stimulus directed to the second portion; and

presenting an audible sound corresponding to the demonstrative stimulus directed to the first portion and the stimulus directed to the second portion.

9. The method of claim 8, comprising retrieving the audible sound from a library of sounds indexed according to the combination of the demonstrative stimulus and the detected stimulus.

10. The method of claim 8, comprising presenting at the first presentation device an updated indicator to the musical score and an updated demonstrative stimulus applied to the first portion responsive to detecting the stimulus.

11. The method of claim 8, comprising transmitting the demonstrative stimulus applied to the first portion and the detected stimulus applied to the second portion to a tone generator to generate the audible sound.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the first portion of the simulated musical instrument corresponds to a fret board, and wherein the second portion of the simulated musical instrument corresponds to a sound hole.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the simulated musical instrument corresponds to one of a classical guitar, an electric guitar, a violin, a cello, a viola, a bass, a mandolin, and a banjo.

14. The method of claim 8, comprising processing the musical score according to an extensible markup language (XML).

15. The method of claim 8, comprising establishing communications between the first and second presentation devices according to a transmission control protocol (TCP) session.

16. The method of claim 8, comprising:

detecting that the stimulus does not conform with an expected stimulus determined from the location of the indicator on the musical score; and

presenting at one of the first and second presentation devices a mitigation instruction to assist in correcting the detected non-conformity.

17. The method of claim 8, comprising presenting an audible beat representative of a tempo of the musical score.

18. A computer-readable storage medium, comprising computer instructions to:

present a first portion of a simulated stringed instrument on a first presentation device, while a second presentation device presents a second portion of the simulated stringed instrument with a demonstrative stimulus directed to the second portion, and further present at least a portion of the musical score with an indicator for providing instructions to stimulate the first portion; and

submit to the second presentation device a stimulus directed to the first portion to cause the second presentation device to generate a sound corresponding to a combination of the stimulus directed to the first portion and the demonstrable stimulus directed to the second portion.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, comprising computer instructions to receive from the second presentation device a mitigation instruction to correct the stimulus responsive to the second presentation device detecting that the stimulus is inconsistent with an expected stimulus corresponding to the location of the indicator in the musical score.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, comprising computer instructions to update the demonstrative stimulus presented at the presentation device according to a new location of the indicator on the musical score.