SCORE DISPLAYING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20150277731A1
• Filed: 03/26/2015
• Published: 10/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: UEMURA, Norihiro, TAMURA, Motoichi, UMEYAMA, Yasuyuki, FUJISHIMA, Takuya, KATSUMATA, Yoshihiro, NAGATA, Motoji, MAEZAWA, Akira, KASHIWASE, Kazuki
• Granted Patent: US 10,156,973 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/101 for graphical creation, edition or control of musical data or parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/391 Angle sensing for musical purposes, using data from a gyroscope, gyrometer or other angular velocity or angular movement sensing device angles measured by an accelerometer or gravimeter G10H2220/395; angles calculated from 3D position sensing G10H2220/401; player body joint angle sensing G10H2220/321
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/141 Library retrieval matching, i.e. any of the steps of matching an inputted segment or phrase with musical database contents, e.g. query by humming, singing or playing; the steps may include, e.g. musical analysis of the input, musical feature extraction, query formulation, or details of the retrieval process

Abstract

Once obtained a turn-over instruction to proceed a score on one image area to which one grand staff among plural grand staves displayed on a screen of a user I/F belongs, a controller of a score displaying apparatus performs a process of scrolling the image areas upward on the screen of the user I/F, disposing the image area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted at a highest level of the screen of the user I/F, sequentially aligning a plurality of consecutive image areas in a forward direction on a timeline of the score with respect to the image area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted below the image area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted, and displaying the image areas on the screen of the user I/F.

Claims

1. A score displaying method performed on an apparatus, the apparatus including a display and an input portion, the method comprising:

extracting a plurality of consecutive areas starting from an extraction start point, from among a score being sectioned into areas based on a timeline of the score;

displaying the plurality of areas of the score extracted by the extracting on the display;

executing, in response to a turn-over instruction on one area among the plural areas of the score displayed on the display via the input portion, a process including;

shifting the extraction start point by one or a plurality of areas to a forward direction or a backward direction along the timeline of the score;

extracting a plurality of consecutive areas, including the one area on which the turn-over instruction is performed, starting from the shifted extraction start point; and

displaying the extracted plurality of consecutive areas on the display.

2. The score displaying method according to claim 1,

wherein the displaying is displaying the plurality of consecutive areas of the score along the timeline of the score on a screen of the display such that the areas are aligned in an order along the timeline of the score, and

wherein in the processing,

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the forward direction along the timeline such that the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted becomes the shifted extraction start point, and the displaying is displaying an area corresponding to the shifted extraction start point in a portion where an area of the score which exists in the backward direction along the timeline relative to the shifted extraction start point has been displayed and displaying an area newly extracted in the extracting due to the shifting of the extraction start point on the display, or

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the backward direction along the timeline such that the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted becomes an extraction end point in the extracting after the shift, and the displaying is displaying an area corresponding to the extraction end point after the shift in a portion where an area of the score which exists in the forward direction along the timeline relative to the extraction end point after the shift has been displayed and displaying an area newly extracted in the extracting due to the shifting of the extraction start point on the display.

3. The score displaying method according to claim 1,

wherein the displaying is displaying the plurality of consecutive areas of the score along the timeline of the score on a screen of the display such that the areas are aligned in an order along the timeline of the score, and

wherein in the processing,

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the forward direction along the timeline such that the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted becomes the shifted extraction start point, and the displaying is displaying the plurality of areas extracted in the extracting such that the extracted areas are aligned in an order along the timeline and scrolled on the display, or

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the backward direction along the timeline such that the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted becomes an extraction end point in the extracting after the shift, and the displaying is displaying the plurality of areas extracted in the extracting such that the extracted areas are aligned in an order along the timeline and scrolled on the display.

4. The score displaying method according to claim 1,

wherein the displaying is displaying the plurality of consecutive areas of the score along the timeline of the score on a screen of the display such that the areas are aligned in an order along the timeline of the score, and

wherein in the processing,

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the forward direction along the timeline such that the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted becomes the shifted extraction start point, and the displaying is displaying, among the plurality of areas extracted in the extracting, first one or more areas which exist in the forward direction along the timeline with respect to a forwardmost area among the areas being displayed, in place of second one or more areas among the areas being displayed in the backward direction with respect to the areas extracted in the extracting, in an order from the backward direction, or

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the backward direction along the timeline such that the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted becomes an extraction end point in the extracting after the shift, and the displaying is displaying, among the plurality of areas extracted in the extracting, first one or more areas which exist in the backward direction along the timeline with respect to a backwardmost area among the areas being displayed, in place of second one or more areas among the areas being displayed in the backward direction with respect to the areas extracted in the extracting, in an order from the forward direction.

5. The score displaying method according to claim 1, further comprising

detecting an attitude of the display portion;

obtaining, via the input portion, an enlargement factor indicating in which size the score is to be displayed on the display; and

deciding an effective mode among a plurality of modes for displaying the score being sectioned into areas based on the attitude detected in the detecting and the enlargement factor obtained in the obtaining, wherein units of the sectioning of the score varies for each mode.

6. The score displaying method according to claim 1, wherein

the process further comprising deciding by how many areas the extraction start point is shifted in the shifting based on a type of the accepted turn-over instruction.

7. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium containing program instructions executable by a computer and enabling the computer to control a display and an input portion and perform a method comprising:

extracting a plurality of consecutive areas starting from an extraction start point, from among a score being sectioned into areas based on a timeline of the score;

displaying the plurality of areas of the score extracted by the extracting on the display;

executing, in response to a turn-over instruction on one area among the plural areas of the score displayed on the display via the input portion, a process including;

shifting the extraction start point by one or a plurality of areas to a forward direction or a backward direction along the timeline of the score;

extracting a plurality of consecutive areas, including the one area on which the turn-over instruction is performed, starting from the shifted extraction start point; and

displaying the extracted plurality of consecutive areas on the display.

8. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium according to claim 7,

wherein the displaying is displaying the plurality of consecutive areas of the score along the timeline of the score on a screen of the display such that the areas are aligned in an order along the timeline of the score, and

wherein in the processing,

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the forward direction along the timeline such that the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted becomes the shifted extraction start point, and the displaying is displaying an area corresponding to the shifted extraction start point in a portion where an area of the score which exists in the backward direction along the timeline relative to the shifted extraction start point has been displayed and displaying an area newly extracted in the extracting due to the shifting of the extraction start point on the display, or

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the backward direction along the timeline such that the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted becomes an extraction end point in the extracting after the shift, and the displaying is displaying an area corresponding to the extraction end point after the shift in a portion where an area of the score which exists in the forward direction along the timeline relative to the extraction end point after the shift has been displayed and displaying an area newly extracted in the extracting due to the shifting of the extraction start point on the display.

9. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium according to claim 7,

wherein the displaying is displaying the plurality of consecutive areas of the score along the timeline of the score on a screen of the display such that the areas are aligned in an order along the timeline of the score, and

wherein in the processing,

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the forward direction along the timeline such that the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted becomes the shifted extraction start point, and the displaying is displaying the plurality of areas extracted in the extracting such that the extracted areas are aligned in an order along the timeline and scrolled on the display, or

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the backward direction along the timeline such that the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted becomes an extraction end point in the extracting after the shift, and the displaying is displaying the plurality of areas extracted in the extracting such that the extracted areas are aligned in an order along the timeline and scrolled on the display.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium according to claim 7,

wherein the displaying is displaying the plurality of consecutive areas of the score along the timeline of the score on a screen of the display such that the areas are aligned in an order along the timeline of the score, and

wherein in the processing,

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the forward direction along the timeline such that the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted becomes the shifted extraction start point, and the displaying is displaying, among the plurality of areas extracted in the extracting, first one or more areas which exist in the forward direction along the timeline with respect to a forwardmost area among the areas being displayed, in place of second one or more areas among the areas being displayed in the backward direction with respect to the areas extracted in the extracting, in an order from the backward direction, or

the shifting is shifting the extraction start point to the backward direction along the timeline such that the one area on which the turn-over instruction is accepted becomes an extraction end point in the extracting after the shift, and the displaying is displaying, among the plurality of areas extracted in the extracting, first one or more areas which exist in the backward direction along the timeline with respect to a backwardmost area among the areas being displayed, in place of second one or more areas among the areas being displayed in the backward direction with respect to the areas extracted in the extracting, in an order from the forward direction.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium according to claim 7, further comprising

detecting an attitude of the display portion;

obtaining, via the input portion, an enlargement factor indicating in which size the score is to be displayed on the display; and

deciding an effective mode among a plurality of modes for displaying the score being sectioned into areas based on the attitude detected in the detecting and the enlargement factor obtained in the obtaining, wherein units of the sectioning of the score varies for each mode.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium according to claim 7, wherein

the process further comprising deciding by how many areas the extraction start point is shifted in the shifting based on a type of the accepted turn-over instruction.