Method and system for presenting a musical instrument

• US 8,502,055 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2011
• Issued: 08/06/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Delorme, David Brux
• Primary Examiner(s): FLETCHER, MARLON T
• Application Number:
  US13/025,215
• Publication Number:
  US 20110130204A1
• Time in Patent Office: 907 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 84/477.R
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/342 for guitar-like instruments with or without strings and with a neck on which switches or string-fret contacts are used to detect the notes being played electric guitars in which the tones are generated by the vibration of strings G10H3/18
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/368 displaying animated or moving pictures synchronized with the music or audio part
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/091 for performance evaluation, i.e. judging, grading or scoring the musical qualities or faithfulness of a performance, e.g. with respect to pitch, tempo or other timings of a reference performance
• 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 2220/096 using a touch screen touch screen note input, e.g. using a displayed keyboard G10H2220/241; personal digital assistant [PDA] G10H2230/015
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/135 Musical aspects of games or videogames; Musical instrument-shaped game input interfaces game background music G10H2210/026; musical game scoring or performance evaluation G10H2210/091
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/131 Library retrieval, i.e. searching a database or selecting a specific musical piece, segment, pattern, rule or parameter set
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/211 Wireless transmission, e.g. of music parameters or control data by radio, infrared or ultrasound beam G10H2220/405
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/251 Mobile telephone transmission, i.e. transmitting, accessing or controlling music data wirelessly via a wireless or mobile telephone receiver, analog or digital, e.g. DECT GSM, UMTS smartphone, PDA or palmtop used for musical purposes G10H2230/015; mobile ringtone G10H2230/021

Abstract

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method for presenting a first portion of the simulated musical instrument on a first presentation device, presenting a second portion of the simulated musical instrument on a second presentation device, presenting at the first presentation device a demonstrative stimulus directed to the first portion, and further presenting at least a portion of the musical score with an indicator providing instruction for stimulating the second portion according to the portion of the musical score where the indicator is located, detecting a stimulus directed to the second portion, and presenting an audible sound corresponding to the demonstrative stimulus directed to the first portion and the stimulus directed to the second portion. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Claims

1. A communication device, comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor, responsive to executing the instructions, performs operations comprising;

presenting a first portion of a simulated stringed instrument via a display of the communication device, while a presentation device presents a second portion of the simulated stringed instrument with a demonstrative stimulus directed to the second portion and further presents a portion of a musical score with an indicator of a first location in the score to direct a user of the communication device to stimulate the first portion of the simulated stringed instrument in accordance with the score at the first location, wherein the display of the communication device comprises a touch-sensitive screen, wherein the presentation device comprises a television without a touch-sensitive screen;

receiving a stimulus directed to the first portion of the simulated stringed instrument; and

submitting the stimulus to a media processor communicatively coupled to the presentation device to cause the media processor to generate a sound corresponding to a combination of the stimulus directed to the first portion and the demonstrable stimulus directed to the second portion; and

to update the demonstrative stimulus presented at the presentation device so as to present the indicator at a second location in the musical score, wherein the media processor comprises a set-top box.

2. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the processor further performs operations comprising transmitting the stimulus over an open socket of a transmission control protocol/Internet Protocol connection between the communication device and the media processor.

3. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the processor further performs operations comprising receiving a mitigation instruction from the media processor to correct the stimulus responsive to the media processor detecting that the stimulus is inconsistent with an expected stimulus corresponding to the location of the indicator in the musical score.

4. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the simulated stringed instrument corresponds to one of a classical guitar, an electric guitar, a violin, a cello, a viola, a bass, a mandolin, or a banjo.

5. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the first portion of the simulated stringed instrument corresponds to a sound hole.

6. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the second portion of the simulated stringed instrument corresponds to a fret board.

7. A method, comprising:

presenting, by a system comprising a processor, a first portion of a simulated musical instrument on a first presentation device;

presenting, by the system, a demonstrative stimulus directed to the first portion at the first presentation device, and further presenting, by the system, a portion of a musical score with an indicator providing instruction for stimulating a second portion according to the portion of the musical score where the indicator is located;

detecting, by the system, a stimulus directed to a second portion of the simulated musical instrument that is being presented on a second presentation device;

retrieving, by the system, an audible sound from a library of sounds indexed according to a combination of the demonstrative stimulus and the stimulus that is detected; and

presenting, by the system, the audible sound, an updated indicator to the musical score, and an updated demonstrative stimulus applied to the first portion at the first presentation device responsive to detecting the stimulus, wherein the system is a set-top box, and wherein the second portion of the simulated musical instrument is presented at the second presentation device by a mobile communication device.

8. The method of claim 7, comprising transmitting, by the system, the demonstrative stimulus that applied to the first portion and the stimulus that is directed to the second portion to generate the audible sound at a tone generator.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the first portion of the simulated musical instrument corresponds to a fret board, and wherein the second portion of the simulated musical instrument corresponds to a sound hole.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the simulated musical instrument corresponds to one of a classical guitar, an electric guitar, a violin, a cello, a viola, a bass, a mandolin, or a banjo.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the simulated musical instrument corresponds to one of a classical) The method of claim 7, comprising processing the musical score according to an extensible markup language.

12. The method of claim 7, comprising establishing communications, by the system, between the first presentation device and the second presentation device according to a transmission control protocol session.

13. The method of claim 7, comprising:

detecting, by the system, that the stimulus does not conform with an expected stimulus determined from the location of the indicator on the musical score to identify a non-conformity; and

providing, by the system, mitigation instruction to one of the first presentation device or the second presentation device for presentation to assist in correcting the non-conformity.

14. The method of claim 7, comprising presenting, by the system, an audible beat representative of a tempo of the musical score.

15. A tangible computer-readable storage medium, comprising instructions which, responsive to being executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

presenting a first portion of a simulated stringed instrument on a first presentation device, while a second presentation device presents a second portion of the simulated stringed instrument with a demonstrative stimulus directed to the second portion, and further presenting a portion of a musical score with an indicator for providing instructions to stimulate the first portion, wherein the first presentation device comprises a television without a touch-sensitive screen and wherein the second presentation device comprises a non-touch-sensitive screen;

receiving a stimulus directed to the first portion of the simulated stringed instrument; and

submitting to the second presentation device a stimulus directed to the first portion to cause the second presentation device to generate a sound corresponding to a combination of the stimulus directed to the first portion and the demonstrable stimulus directed to the second portion, wherein the indicator in the musical scored and the demonstrative stimulus are updated at the first presentation device.

16. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, comprising instructions that cause the processor to further perform operations comprising receiving a mitigation instruction from the second presentation device to correct the stimulus responsive to the second presentation device detecting that the stimulus is inconsistent with an expected stimulus corresponding to a location of the indicator in the musical score.

17. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the demonstrative stimulus presented at the presentation device is updated according to a new location of the indicator on the musical score.