Electronic musical instrument system

• US 7,485,794 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2007
• Issued: 02/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: Koizumi, Tomonori
• Primary Examiner(s): Warren; David S.
• Application Number:
  US11/724,877
• Publication Number:
  US 20070234883A1
• Time in Patent Office: 691 Days
• Field of Search: 84600-602, 846/15, 846/22, 846/45, 844/77.R, 844/78, 844/831, 844/832
• US Class Current: 84/601
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0083 using wireless transmission, e.g. radio, light, infrared
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/18 Selecting circuits
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/24 for selecting plural preset register stops
• 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 2240/091 Info, i.e. juxtaposition of unrelated auxiliary information or commercial messages with or between music files metadata G10H2240/075
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/305 Internet or TCP/IP protocol use for any electrophonic musical instrument data or musical parameter transmission purposes

Abstract

An RF tag having stored therein equipment setting information related to a performance, by an electronic musical instrument, of a given music piece is attached to a music-piece-related information having music-piece-related information of the given music piece presented thereon. Electronic musical instrument includes an information acquisition information that communicates with the RF tag to acquire the equipment setting information from the tag, and an automatic setting section that automatically sets various settings and states of the musical instrument in accordance with the acquired equipment setting information. The musical instrument may further include a trigger section that triggers the acquisition section to acquire the equipment setting information from the RF tag. When the acquisition section has acquired new equipment setting information in response to triggering by the trigger section, states of the electronic musical instrument are set in accordance with the new equipment setting information.

Claims

1. An electronic musical instrument system comprising:

a music-piece-related information object having music-piece-related information of a given music piece presented thereon, said music-piece-related information object also having attached thereto an RF tag that has stored therein equipment setting information related to a performance, by an electronic musical instrument, of the given music piece; and

an electronic musical instrument having a performance operation section operable by a user to execute a performance, said electronic musical instrument further comprising;

an information acquisition information that communicates with the RF tag to acquire the equipment setting information from the RF tag; and

an automatic setting section that automatically sets various settings and states of the electronic musical instrument in accordance with the equipment setting information acquired by said information acquisition information.

2. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the music-piece-related information object is a printed material having at least one of a musical score and lyrics of the given music piece visibly printed thereon.

3. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said electronic musical instrument includes a storage section having automatic performance data of a plurality of music pieces stored therein,

the equipment setting information includes musical number identification information indicative of a name of the given music piece presented on the music-piece-related information object, and

said automatic setting section extracts the musical number identification information from the equipment setting information acquired from the RF tag, searches said storage section to search out automatic performance data of the given music piece on the basis of the extracted musical number identification information, reads out the searched-out automatic performance data from said storage section, and performs setting such that said electronic musical instrument executes an automatic performance based on the read-out automatic performance data.

4. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 3 wherein the RF tag further has stored therein URL information of a server that supplies the automatic performance data of the given music piece, and

wherein, when the automatic performance data of the given music piece could not be searched out from said storage section on the basis of the extracted musical number identification information, said automatic setting section reads out the URL information from the RF tag, acquires, from a server on a network, the automatic performance data corresponding to the extracted musical number identification information, and performs setting such that said electronic musical instrument executes an automatic performance based on the acquired automatic performance data.

5. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the equipment setting information includes function setting data for setting various functions of an electronic musical instrument related to a performance of the given music piece, and

said automatic setting section of the electronic musical instrument extracts function setting data from the equipment setting information acquired from the RF tag, and sets the various functions of the electronic musical instrument on the basis of the extracted function setting data.

6. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 5 wherein the function setting data includes data for setting tone characteristics, such as a tone color and effect.

7. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 6 wherein said automatic setting section reads said data for setting tone characteristics, such as a tone color and effect, and generates parameters for setting tone characteristics, such as a tone color and effect, of a tone to be generated by said electronic musical instrument.

8. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 3 wherein, when the automatic performance data of the given music piece could not be searched out from said storage section on the basis of the extracted musical number identification information, said automatic setting section identifies automatic performance data similar to the automatic performance data indicated by the musical number identification information, reads out the identified similar automatic performance data from said storage section, and performs setting such that said electronic musical instrument executes an automatic performance based on the read-out automatic performance data.

9. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 5 wherein, when said electronic musical instrument can not be set to a function indicated by the extracted function setting data, said automatic setting section sets said electronic musical instrument to a function similar to the function indicated by the extracted function setting data.

10. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 5 wherein said automatic setting section sets said electronic musical instrument to functions suitable for said electronic musical instrument, by reading the function setting data.

11. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 5 wherein the RF tag further has stored therein URL information of a server that supplies performance technique information related to the given music piece,

said electronic musical instrument includes a display device, and

said automatic setting section reads out the URL information from the RF tag, acquires, from a server on a network, the performance technique information, and displays the acquired performance technique information on said display device.

12. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the equipment setting information includes performance position data indicative of a particular performance position in the given music piece, and

said automatic setting section sets, in accordance with the performance position data included in the acquired equipment setting information, an automatic performance position or performance guide position of the given music piece to be performed by said electronic musical instrument.

13. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 12 wherein, when new equipment setting information has been acquired during a course of an automatic performance or performance guide of the given music piece, and once the automatic performance or performance guide progresses to a predetermined breakpoint, said automatic setting section updates, in accordance with the performance position data included in the acquired equipment setting information, an automatic performance position or performance guide position of the given music piece to be performed by said electronic musical instrument and sets the updated automatic performance position or performance guide position.

14. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the music-piece-related information object includes a plurality of the RF tags, and

said information acquisition section communicates with one of the RF tags to acquire the equipment setting information from the one RF tag.

15. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 14 wherein the music-piece-related information object is in a form of a book comprising a plurality of pages, and each of the RF tags is provided on a different one of the pages, and

said information acquisition section communicates with the RF tag in a currently-opened page of the music-piece-related information object.

16. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said electronic musical instrument further comprises a trigger section that triggers said information acquisition section to acquire the equipment setting information from the RF tag, and

when said information acquisition section has acquired new equipment setting information in response to triggering by the trigger section, said automatic setting section sets states of said electronic musical instrument in accordance with the acquired new equipment setting information.

17. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 16 wherein the music-piece-related information object comprises a plurality of double-page spreads with the RF tag provided on each of the double-page spreads, each of the RF tags having stored therein equipment setting information related to a progression of a music piece on a corresponding one of the double-page spreads, and

said trigger section of said electronic musical instrument detects updating of the double-page spread of the RF tag and triggers said information acquisition section to acquire the equipment setting information from the RF tag in the updated double-page spread.

18. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 16 wherein the equipment setting information includes performance position data indicative of a particular performance position in the given music piece, and

wherein, when said information acquisition section has acquired new equipment setting information in response to triggering by said trigger section, said automatic setting section sets, in accordance with the performance position data included in the acquired new equipment setting information, an automatic performance position or performance guide position of the given music piece to be performed by said electronic musical instrument.

19. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 18 wherein said electronic musical instrument has a function for executing an automatic performance on the basis of automatic performance data, and

wherein, when the new equipment setting information has been acquired during a course of an automatic performance or performance guide based on the automatic performance data, and once the automatic performance or performance guide progresses to a predetermined breakpoint, said automatic setting section updates, in accordance with the performance position data included in the new equipment setting information, the automatic performance position or performance guide position of the given music piece to be performed by said electronic musical instrument and sets the updated automatic performance position or performance guide position.

20. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 19 which is a training electronic musical instrument system, and wherein said electronic musical instrument is an electronic musical instrument for a trainee, and the automatic performance or performance guide based on the automatic performance data is for a training purpose.

21. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 16 wherein the equipment setting information includes function setting data for setting various functions in relation to a performance position in the given music piece, and

wherein, when said information acquisition section has acquired new equipment setting information in response to triggering by said trigger section, said automatic setting section sets, in accordance with the function setting data included in the acquired new equipment setting information, various functions of the electronic musical instrument in relation to the performance position.

22. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 17 wherein said electronic musical instrument includes a display device, and the equipment setting information includes musical score data of the given music piece, and

wherein, when said information acquisition section has acquired new equipment setting information in response to triggering by said trigger section, said automatic setting section displays, on the display device, a musical score corresponding to the updated double-page spread on the basis of the musical score data included in the acquired new equipment setting information.

23. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 16 wherein said trigger section includes a sensor that detects that the music-piece-related information object has been set in or on a predetermined position of said electronic musical instrument.

24. An electronic musical instrument system as claimed in claim 16 wherein said trigger section includes a switch and instructs, on the basis of an output of the switch, said information acquisition section to acquire the equipment setting information from the RF tag.

25. A computer-readable storage medium containing a group of instructions for causing a computer, provided in an electronic musical instrument system, to execute a setting program, the electronic musical instrument system comprising:

a music-piece-related information object having music-piece-related information of a given music piece presented thereon, the music-piece-related information object also having attached thereto an RF tag that has stored therein equipment setting information related to a performance, by an electronic musical instrument, of the given music piece; and

an electronic musical instrument having a performance operation section operable by a user to execute a performance,

said setting program comprising;

an acquisition step of communicating with the RF tag to acquire the equipment setting information from the RF tag; and

a setting step of said electronic musical instrument automatically setting various settings and states of the musical instrument in accordance with the equipment setting information acquired by said acquisition step.

26. A computer-readable storage medium as claimed in claim 25 wherein said setting program further comprises a step of triggering said electronic musical instrument to acquire the equipment setting information from the RF tag, and

wherein, when said electronic musical instrument has acquired new equipment setting information in response to triggering by said step of triggering, said setting step sets states of said electronic musical instrument in accordance with the acquired new equipment setting information.