Musical instrument, method of controlling musical instrument, and program recording medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8969699-B2
Application number	US-201313794317-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 11, 2013
Priority date	Mar 14, 2012
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

A CPU ( 31 ) of a musical instrument ( 1 ) calculates distances between central positions of a plurality of virtual pads ( 81 ) and a position of a marker unit ( 15 ), by making adjustment such that a distance is shorter as a size associated with the virtual pad ( 81 ) is larger. The CPU 31 identifies a virtual pad ( 81 ) corresponding to the shortest distance among the distances calculated, as a virtual pad ( 81 ) for outputting sound. The CPU ( 31 ) identifies a tone corresponding to the virtual pad ( 81 ) for outputting sound by referring to set layout information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A musical instrument, comprising:
a musical performance member that is operated by a performer;
an operation detection unit that detects a predetermined operation performed by the musical performance member;
an image capturing unit that captures an image including the musical performance member;
a position detection unit that detects a position of the musical performance member on a plane of the image captured;
a storage unit that stores layout infor…

Assignees

• Casio Computer Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tabata Yuji
• Hayashi Ryutaro

Classifications

• G10H2240/211

  Physics · mapped topic

• G10H2230/281

  Physics · mapped topic

• G10H2230/015

  Physics · mapped topic

• G10H2220/455

  Physics · mapped topic

• G10H1/0008 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic