Parameter editor and signal processor

• US 8,103,964 B2
• Filed: 03/28/2007
• Issued: 01/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: Okabayashi, Masaaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Bashore, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHANTANA ANGKOOL, DAVID
• Application Number:
  US11/729,764
• Publication Number:
  US 20070229474A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,763 Days
• Field of Search: 715/761, 700/94
• US Class Current: 715/767
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/04 Studio equipment; Interconnection of studios
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2430/01 Aspects of volume control, not necessarily automatic, in sound systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2430/03 Synergistic effects of band splitting and sub-band processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 5/04 Circuit arrangements, e.g. for selective connection of amplifier inputs/outputs to loudspeakers, for loudspeaker detection, or for adaptation of settings to personal preferences or hearing impairments combinations of amplifiers H03F3/68; stereophonic systems H04S

Abstract

A device editing a value of a parameter according to an operation by a user operates in a normal mode and in a detailed edit mode. In the normal mode, according to an operation sensed by a touch panel, the position of a cursor in a main screen displayed on a display panel is controlled, and a parameter to be edited is selected and an operation mode is shifted to the detailed edit mode. In the detailed edit mode, a screen for accepting an edit operation of the parameter selected in the normal mode is displayed on a touch screen and a value of the parameter stored in a current memory is changed according to the operation sensed by the touch panel.

Claims

1. A parameter editor apparatus, comprising:

a first display device that displays a screen of a plurality of blocks;

a touch pad having a second display device to display a pop-up screen and an accepting device that accepts an operation on the touch pad by a user;

a knob that accepts an instruction to adjust values of parameters;

a controller that selectively responds to different user operations in that,

when the touch pad accepts a single click operation on one of the blocks in the screen displayed on the first display device, the controller selects a parameter corresponding to the one block as a parameter to be adjusted according to the instruction accepted by the knob, and

when the touch pad accepts a double click operation on one of the blocks in the screen displayed on the first display device, the controller controls the touch pad to display on the second display device a pop-up screen corresponding to the one block; and

an editor that, during the state when the pop-up screen is displayed on the second display device, changes a value of a parameter displayed on the pop-up screen according to the operation on the touch pad,

wherein the screen of the plurality of blocks displayed on the first display device is maintained independently of any operation on the touch pad during the state when the pop-up screen is displayed on the second display device.

2. The parameter editor according to claim 1,

wherein the respective blocks in the screen displayed on the first display device correspond to information based on current parameter values, and

wherein the pop-up screen on the second display device displays additional information based on additional parameter values.

3. A signal processor apparatus, comprising:

a memory storing values of a plurality of parameters;

a signal processing device performing signal processing based on the values of the parameters stored in the memory;

a first display device displaying a main screen including a plurality of blocks;

a touch pad having a second display device to display a pop-up screen and an accepting device that accepts an operation on the touch pad by a user;

a knob that accepts an instruction to adjust values of parameters; and

a controller that selectively responds to different user operations in that,

when the touch pad accepts a single click operation on one of the blocks in the main screen displayed on the first display device, the controller selects, from the memory, a parameter corresponding to the one block as a parameter to be adjusted according to the instruction accepted by the knob, and

when the touch pad accepts a double click operation on one of the blocks in the main screen displayed on the first display device, the controller controls the touch pad to display on the second display device a pop-up screen corresponding to the one block; and

an editor that, during the state when the pop-up screen is displayed on the second display device, changes a value of a stored parameter corresponding to the block displayed on the pop-up screen in accordance with operations on the touch pad,

wherein the main screen of the plurality of blocks displayed on the first display device is maintained independently of any operation on the touch pad during the state when the pop-up screen is displayed on the second display device.

4. The signal processor according to claim 3,

wherein the respective blocks in the main screen displayed on the first display device correspond to information based on current parameter values of the parameters, and wherein the pop-up screen on the second display device displays additional information based on additional parameter values.