ELECTRONIC ACOUSTIC SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC ACOUSTIC SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD

• US 20130215070A1
• Filed: 10/24/2012
• Published: 08/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: Sasaki, Naoya
• Granted Patent: US 8,978,672 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0008 Associated control or indicating means
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/241 on touchscreens, i.e. keys, frets, strings, tablature or staff displayed on a touchscreen display for note input purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/395 Acceleration sensing or accelerometer use, e.g. 3D movement computation by integration of accelerometer data, angle sensing with respect to the vertical, i.e. gravity sensing. conductor baton movement sensing G10H2220/206, angle sensing without reference to gravity G10H2220/391; player body joint angle sensing G10H2220/321

Abstract

A device includes a touch panel, a display circuit that displays a manipulator on the touch panel, an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration when a touching action is performed on the manipulator on the touch panel, a storage section that acquires acceleration data that shows the acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor, and saves n number of items of the acceleration data in sequence of newest first; a processing circuit that saves k (wherein k<n) number of the acceleration data items in the storage section, and then selects at least one acceleration data item that matches predetermined conditions from among the n number of acceleration data items that include the k number of acceleration data items; and a sound effect/source circuit that, based on the acceleration data selected by the processing circuit, decides signal characteristics of an acoustic signal that should be generated.

Claims

1. An electronic acoustic signal generating device comprising:

a touch panel;

a display circuit that displays a manipulator on the touch panel;

an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration when a touching action is performed on the manipulator on the touch panel;

a storage section that acquires at predetermined regular intervals acceleration data that shows the acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor, and saves n number of items of the acceleration data in sequence of newest first;

a processing circuit that, after a touching action by a user on the manipulator displayed on the touch panel has been detected, saves k (wherein k<

n) number of items of the acceleration data in the storage section, and then selects at least one item of the acceleration data that matches predetermined conditions from among the n number of items of the acceleration data that include the k number of items of the acceleration data; and

a sound effect/source circuit that, based on the one item of the acceleration data selected by the processing circuit, decides signal characteristics of an acoustic signal that should be generated.

2. The electronic acoustic signal generating device according to claim 1, wherein each of the n values and k values can be altered to desired values provided that the condition k<

n remains in effect.

3. The electronic acoustic signal generating device according to claim 1, wherein the sound source/effect circuit converts the acceleration data selected by the processing circuit into velocity values based on predetermined conversion characteristics, and decides the signal characteristics of the acoustic signal using the converted velocity values.

10. The electronic acoustic signal generating device according to claim 2, wherein the sound source/effect circuit converts the acceleration data selected by the processing circuit into velocity values based on predetermined conversion characteristics, and decides the signal characteristics of the acoustic signal using the converted velocity values.

4. An electronic acoustic signal generating method comprising the steps of:

displaying a manipulator on a touch panel;

detecting an acceleration by an acceleration sensor when a touching action is performed on the manipulator on the touch panel;

acquiring acceleration data that shows the acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor at predetermined regular intervals so as to save in a storage section n number of items of the acceleration data in sequence of newest first;

detecting a touching action of a user on the manipulator displayed on the touch panel;

saving k (wherein k<

n) number of items of the acceleration data in the storage section after the touching action has been detected;

selecting at least one item of the acceleration data that matches predetermined conditions by a processing circuit from among the n number of the items of the acceleration data that include the k number of items of the acceleration data saved in the storage section; and

determining signal characteristics of an acoustic signal that should be generated based on the acceleration data selected by the processing circuit.

5. The electronic acoustic signal generating method according to claim 4, wherein each of the n values and k values can be altered to desired values provided that the condition k<

n remains in effect.

6. The electronic acoustic signal generating method according to claim 4, wherein the step of deciding the signal characteristics of the acoustic signal comprises:

a step in which the selected acceleration data is converted into velocity values based on predetermined conversion characteristics; and

a step in which the signal characteristics of the acoustic signal are decided using the converted velocity values.

11. The electronic acoustic signal generating method according to claim 5, wherein the step of deciding the signal characteristics of the acoustic signal comprises:

a step in which the selected acceleration data is converted into velocity values based on predetermined conversion characteristics; and

a step in which the signal characteristics of the acoustic signal are decided using the converted velocity values.

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing an electronic acoustic signal generating program that causes to be executed on a computer provided with a touch panel and an acceleration sensor the steps of:

displaying a manipulator on the touch panel;

detecting an acceleration by the acceleration sensor when a touching action is performed on the manipulator on the touch panel;

acquiring acceleration data that shows the acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor at predetermined regular intervals so as to save in a storage section n number of items of the acceleration data in sequence of newest first;

detecting a touching action of a user on the manipulator displayed on the touch panel;

saving k (wherein k<

n) number of items of the acceleration data in the storage section after the touching action has been detected;

selecting at least one item of the acceleration data that matches predetermined conditions by a processing circuit from among the n number of the items of the acceleration data that include the k number of items of the acceleration data saved in the storage section; and

determining signal characteristics of an acoustic signal that should be generated based on the acceleration data selected by the processing circuit.

8. The electronic acoustic signal generating program according to claim 7, wherein each of the n values and k values can be altered to desired values provided that the condition k<

n remains in effect.

9. The electronic acoustic signal generating method according to claim 7, wherein the step of deciding the signal characteristics of the acoustic signal comprises:

a step in which the selected acceleration data is converted into velocity values based on predetermined conversion characteristics; and

a step in which the signal characteristics of the acoustic signal are decided using the converted velocity values.

12. The electronic acoustic signal generating method according to claim 8, wherein the step of deciding the signal characteristics of the acoustic signal comprises:

a step in which the selected acceleration data is converted into velocity values based on predetermined conversion characteristics; and

a step in which the signal characteristics of the acoustic signal are decided using the converted velocity values.