MULTI-FUNCTIONAL TYPE ELECTRONIC MUSIC STAND

• Main Authors: SASAKI SUSUMU, OTA TOSHINORI, NISHIDA TAKEHIKO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 10.02.2005
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ACOUSTICS; ADVERTISING; AIDS FOR MUSIC; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND,DEAF OR MUTE; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DIAGRAMS; DISPLAY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; GLOBES; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; OTHER AUXILIARY DEVICES OR ACCESSORIES FOR MUSIC OR MUSICALINSTRUMENTS; PHYSICS; PLANETARIA; SEALS; SUPPORTS FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide convenience to a player himself or herself or a person going to learn performance by allowing a device to perform the operation to turn over sheets of musical scores in the form of electronic files without the operation to hardware by the hands and feet of a player or an assistant and by recording the performance tones by the player in synchronization with turning over of the sheets of the musical scores, and also to provide a metronome function and a function of measuring the lapse time so as to provide the reference for the performance speed of the player. SOLUTION: The body sign, such as the face expression, of the player is automatically detected by the image processing from an image by a television camera and the page feed or page return of the musical scores is performed by the signal thereof. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI