Electronic musical apparatus and program for controlling the same

• US 7,368,653 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2005
• Issued: 05/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: Yanase, Tsutomu, Shibukawa, Takeo
• Primary Examiner(s): Donovan; Lincoln
• Assistant Examiner(s): Russell; Christina
• Application Number:
  US11/031,324
• Publication Number:
  US 20050150363A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,215 Days
• Field of Search: 846/53, 715/777
• US Class Current: 84/653
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0008 Associated control or indicating means
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/005 Non-interactive screen display of musical or status data graphical user interfaces specifically adapted for electrophonic musical instruments G10H2220/091; fingering displays G10H2220/041

Abstract

An electronic musical apparatus in which operators for changing pages on a musical instrument function-related screen and history pages on a Web screen are shared, so that those pages can be changed using similar operating systems to improve the userfriendliness. A display controller 38 is operable when the Web screen is displayed by the display 19, to change the history pages of the Web screen forward in terms of time in response to operation of a Next switch 47, and the display controller 38 is operable when the Web screen is displayed by the display 19, to change the history pages of the Web screen backward in terms of time in response to operation of a Back switch 48.

Claims

1. An electronic musical apparatus comprising:

a display controller that causes a display to selectively display, in a first display mode, a musical instrument function-related screen comprising a plurality of pages generated based on display data stored in advance in the electronic musical apparatus and, in a second display mode, a Web screen comprising history pages generated based on data obtained via a communication network;

a first operator for instructing the display controller to change the pages of the musical instrument function-related screen displayed by the display in a first direction when the musical instrument function-related screen is displayed in the first display mode, and the history pages of the Web screen forward in terms of history when the Web screen is displayed in the second display mode; and

a second operator for instructing the display controller to change the pages of the musical instrument function-related screen displayed by the display in a second direction when the musical instrument function-related screen is displayed in the first display mode, and to change the history pages of the Web screen backward in terms of history when the Web screen is displayed in the second display mode.

2. An electronic musical apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising the display.

3. An electronic musical apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a third operator for selecting the musical instrument function-related screen in the first display mode and the Web screen in the second display mode.

4. An electronic musical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of said first operator and said second operator comprises a physical operator.

5. A computer-readable medium storing a computer program for controlling an electronic musical apparatus comprising a first operator and a second operator, the computer program comprising instructions for:

selectively displaying in a first display mode when a musical instrument function-related screen comprising a plurality of pages generated based on display data stored in advance in the electronic musical apparatus is displayed on a display and in a second display mode when a Web screen comprising history pages generated based on data obtained via a communication network is displayed on the display;

determining whether the display is in the first display mode or the second display mode;

accepting operations of the first and second operators; and

changing the pages of the displayed musical instrument function-related screen when the display is in the first display mode and the history pages of the Web screen when the display is in the second display mode,

changing when the first operator is accepted, in the first display mode, the pages of the displayed musical instrument function-related screen displayed by the display in a first direction, and in the second display mode, the history pages of the Web screen displayed by the display in a forward direction in terms of history, and

changing when the second operator is accepted, in the first display mode, the pages of the displayed musical instrument function-related screen displayed by the display in a second direction, and in the second display mode, the history pages of the Web screen displayed by the display in a backward direction in terms of history.

6. An electronic musical apparatus comprising:

a display controller that displays a browser function-related screen on a display;

a browser functional section that generates a first display image for displaying a part of the browser function-related screen based on image data received from a Web site on a communication network; and

a data storage device that stores predetermined element image data corresponding to another part of the browser function-related screen, identification information for identifying the predetermined element image data, and arrangement information indicative of a display position of the predetermined element image data in a manner being associated with each other

wherein said display controller generates a second display image for displaying the another part of the browser function-related screen based on the predetermined element image data and the identification information and the arrangement information, corresponding to the predetermined element image data, and displays the second display image together with the first display image on the display.

7. An electronic musical apparatus according to claim 6, wherein:

said browser functional section handles only image data in a format with a data capacity not less than a first data format;

said display controller handles a second data format with a smaller data capacity than the first data format;

the image data received from the Web site is formed in a data format with a data capacity not less than the first data format; and

the element image data stored by said data storage device is formed in the second data format.

8. An electronic musical apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said display controller further causes the display to display a musical instrument function-related screen generated based on display data stored in advance in the electronic musical apparatus, wherein said display controller causes the display to selectively display the browser function-related screen or the musical instrument function-related screen.

9. An electronic musical apparatus according to claim 6, wherein:

the electronic musical apparatus accesses the Web site via the communication network;

the display comprises a main display area and a sub display area;

said display controller causes the display to display the first display image in the main display area of the display according to a Web site which the electronic musical apparatus has accessed; and

said display controller causes the display to fixedly display the second display image in the sub display area of the display irrespective of a Web site which the electronic musical apparatus has accessed.

10. An electronic musical apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said data storage device comprises a read only memory.

11. A computer-readable medium storing a computer program for controlling an electronic musical apparatus, the program comprising instruction for:

displaying a browser function-related screen on a display;

generating a first display image for displaying a part of the browser function-related screen based on image data received from a Web site on a communication network;

storing predetermined element image data corresponding to another part of the browser function-related screen, identification information for identifying the predetermined element image data, and arrangement information indicative of a display position of the predetermined element image data in a manner being associated with each other; and

generating a second display image for displaying the another part of the browser function-related screen based on the predetermined element image data and the identification information and the arrangement information, corresponding to the predetermined element image data, and displaying the second display image together with the first display image on the display.