ELECTRONIC MUSIC STAND PERFORMER SUBSYSTEMS AND MUSIC COMMUNICATION METHODOLOGIES

• US 20120057012A1
• Filed: 08/02/2011
• Published: 03/08/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/1996
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OL Security LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: David H Sitrick
• Inventors: Sitrick, David H., Fling, Russell T.
• Granted Patent: US 8,754,317 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/77
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 15/023 Electrically operated
• 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

Abstract

An electronic music stand system and methodologies relating thereto are presented. The electronic music stand system is comprised of a performer subsystem comprising a processing subsystem, librarian logic, performance logic, and communications management logic. The communications management logic provides management of communication via the communications interface with external apparatus responsive to the performance logic and the librarian logic. The user input apparatus and the display apparatus can be integrated into a touch-screen input display. The user input apparatus can alternatively be at least one of a touch-tablet, a stylus-based writing tablet, a mouse, a keyboard, a joystick, a game controller, and a switch. In a preferred embodiment, the librarian logic, the performance logic and the communications management logic are defined by program data stored in the data storage apparatus, and the processor is responsive to the program data for managing data formatting, displaying music, and management of communications of data with the external apparatus. In one embodiment, two Performer subsystems are operable alternatively as one of a single appliance as a linked set a linked mode and as two independent appliances a stand-alone mode, wherein in the linked mode each of the two Performer subsystems operate cooperatively with each other as a linked set to provide a two page display on the video presentation, and wherein in the stand alone mode each of the two Performer subsystems operates independently and mutually exclusive of the other to provide two independent and mutually exclusive single page displays on the video presentation. The present invention also relates to a method for providing for video display of music responsive to the music data stored in a music database. The method is comprised of defining a page of music image data from the music database; defining ordered logical sections; storing the mapping in a memory for selective retrieval; and providing for the video display of the music responsive to the mapping and the storing.

Claims

1-86. -86. (canceled)

87. A system for conveying body movements, the system comprising:

an optical capturing unit configured to sense body movements relative to a reference frame within discrete ranges of motion;

a library of data mapping body movements to discrete instructions associated with the body movements; and

a video processing subsystem coupled to the optical capturing unit and configured to identify a discrete instruction associated with a sensed body movement from the data in the library at least in part by comparing body movements sensed by the optical capturing unit over a time period to data in the library.

88. The system of claim 87 wherein the library contains data corresponding to musical conducting gestures.

89. The system of claim 87 wherein the optical capturing unit is configured to sense body movements by detecting the position of sensors positioned on a body.

90. The system of claim 89 wherein the optical capturing unit is configured to sense the position of the sensors at a plurality of time intervals throughout a musical performance.

91. The system of claim 90 wherein the plurality of time intervals throughout the musical performance comprises consecutive time periods throughout the musical performance.

92. The system of claim 87 wherein the optical capturing unit comprises a camera.

93. The system of claim 87 wherein the library contains data corresponding to musical performance gestures.

94. The system of claim 87, further comprising:

a display subsystem configured to display a graphic representation of corresponding discrete instructions associated with body movements sensed by the optical capturing unit.

95. The system of claim 94 wherein the body movements correspond to body movements performed by a musical conductor and wherein the display subsystem is further configured to display the graphic representation to a plurality of musicians.

96. The system of claim 94 wherein the library contains data corresponding to musically significant body movements and wherein the display subsystem is further configured to display the graphic representation if the body movements substantially match a musically significant body movement.

97. The system of claim 94 wherein the display subsystem is further configured to display to a performer the graphic representation.

98. The system of claim 97 wherein the display subsystem comprises a plurality of displays coupled to the video processing subsystem.

99. The system of claim 94 wherein the display subsystem is further configured to display a video display responsive to composition data, the system further comprising:

a delivery subsystem configured to determine a sector of the display subsystem in which to display the graphic representation.

100. The system of claim 99 wherein the delivery subsystem is responsive to performance data that includes an indication of a currently viewed region of the composition data and is further configured to display the graphic representation in a sector of the display subsystem configured to display composition data.

101. The system of claim 94 wherein the display subsystem has a plurality of displays coupled to the video processing subsystem, the system further comprising:

input means configured to receive input from an operator directing the display subsystem to display the graphical representation on at least a subset of the plurality of displays.

102. The system of claim 94 wherein the display subsystem comprises a plurality of displays coupled to the video processing subsystem and wherein the library includes data related to system instructions configured to direct a graphical representation of at least one instruction to a first subset of the plurality of displays.

103. The system of claim 102 wherein the system is configured to recognize a system instruction movement and direct the graphical representation corresponding to a previous body movement to a second subset of the plurality of displays.

104. The system of claim 103 wherein the system is configured to recognize a system instruction movement and direct the graphical representation corresponding to a simultaneous body movement to a third subset of the plurality of displays.

105. A computer-readable storage device comprising instructions that, when executed by a computing system having a processor, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

receiving an indication of a plurality of body movements within discrete ranges of motion;

interpreting the plurality of body movements into a plurality of discrete performance instructions corresponding to the discrete ranges of motion; and

causing a virtual performance of music based on the plurality of discrete performance instructions corresponding to the discrete ranges of motion.

106. A computer-readable storage device comprising instructions that, when executed by a computing system having a processor, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

sensing a plurality of body movements within discrete ranges of motion;

interpreting the plurality of body movements into a plurality of discrete performance instructions corresponding to the discrete ranges of motion; and

permitting a virtual performance of music based at least in part on the plurality of discrete performance instructions corresponding to the discrete ranges of motion.

107. A method performed by a computing system having a processor, the method comprising:

storing, in a library, performance instructions associated with body movements;

receiving, from a sensor device, an indication of a sensed body movement;

identifying, with the processor, a performance instruction stored in the library and corresponding to the sensed body movement; and

transmitting for display a graphic representation of the identified performance instruction.

108. The method of claim 107 wherein the performance instructions represent performance cues.

109. The method of claim 108 wherein the storing comprises storing performance cues associated with musical conducting gestures.

110. The method of claim 108 wherein the storing comprises storing performance cues associated with musical performance gestures.

111. The method of claim 108 wherein the indication of the sensed body movement is received from a capture device configured to capture body movements by detecting the position of sensors positioned on a body.

112. The method of claim 111 wherein the sensors are optical markers.

113. The method of claim 111 wherein the sensors are disposed in clothing wearable by a musical conductor.

114. The method of claim 107 wherein the indication of the sensed body movement is received from a sensor glove.

115. A system for conveying body movements, the system comprising:

means for sensing a plurality of body movements within discrete ranges of motion;

means for interpreting the plurality of body movements into a plurality of discrete performance instructions corresponding to the discrete ranges of motion; and

means for displaying a graphic representation of the plurality of performance instructions associated with the plurality of body movements.