Electronic apparatus with magnetic recording and reproducing device

• US 4,615,024 A
• Filed: 03/14/1983
• Issued: 09/30/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/1982
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Usui, Minoru
• Primary Examiner(s): Richardson, Robert L.
• Application Number:
  US06/475,109
• Time in Patent Office: 1,296 Days
• Field of Search: 369/6, 369/14, 369/59, 369/63, 84/1.03, 84/1.28, 84/DIG. 29, 84/1.01, 84/462, 360/4, 360/32, 360/55, 360/72.1, 360/72.2, 360/137
• US Class Current: 369/59.1
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/005 on magnetic tape
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 84/29 Tape

Abstract

Tone data produced by operating a keyboard is stored in a RAM to be saved into a tape recorder through an interface. Of a plurality of music numbers saved in the tape recorder a selected one is loaded into the RAM through the interface. A tone generator converts the tone data from the RAM into a tone signal which is sounded from a loudspeaker. The save and load operations are all controlled by a CPU.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a keyboard for generating plural series of tone data;

a title data input means for generating title data corresponding to each said series of tone data;

a memory means coupled to said keyboard and to said title data input means for storing said tone data and said title data;

a tone signal generating means for generating a tone signal corresponding to tone data stored in said memory means;

an accoustic converter means coupled to said tone signal generating means for converting said tone signal into sound;

means coupled to said memory means for recording and reproducing on a recording medium a plurality of sets of said tone data and said title data stored in said memory means such that each set includes a series of tone data and its corresponding title data; and

control means coupled to said title data input means, said memory means, said tone signal generating means and said recording and reproducing means, for scanning said recording medium to identify a selected title data from said recorded sets and for transmitting the series of tone data from the set to which said selected title data belongs from the recording medium to the memory means.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said title data input means includes means for converting a speech signal obtained from a microphone into a digitized signal to provide said title data.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said title data input means includes a plurality of character keys for generating characters of titles.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control means controls the recording and reproducing means to sequentially reproduce at preset intervals only the title data from each of said sets recorded on the recording medium and for supplying the reproduced title data to a display means to display a title corresponding to such reproduced title data, and means for reproducing a series of tone data corresponding to the title data displayed during a given interval from the recording medium and for storing such tone data into the memory means.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 4, wherein upon completion of the storage of tone data reproduced during said given intervals, said control means sequentially retrieves the stored series of tone data and supplies these to the tone signal generating means.