Musical instrument, method and recording medium capable of modifying virtual instrument layout information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9514729-B2
Application number	US-201313768889-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 15, 2013
Priority date	Mar 16, 2012
Publication date	Dec 6, 2016
Grant date	Dec 6, 2016

Abstract

A musical instrument includes memory that stores layout information defining regions arranged on a predetermined virtual plane, and a position sensor that detects the position coordinates on the virtual plane of a music playing member that can be held by a player. First, it is determined whether the position coordinates of the music playing member belong to a region arranged on the virtual plane based on the layout information, at a timing at which a specific music playing operations is made. Herein, in a case of having determined as belonging to a region, the generation of sound of a musical note corresponding to this region is instructed, in a case of having determined as not belonging to a region, the layout information stored in the memory is modified in order to modify this region so as to include the position coordinates of the music playing member.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A musical instrument, comprising:
a position sensor that detects position coordinates on a virtual plane of a music playing member that can be held by a player;
a determination unit that determines whether the position coordinates of the music playing member are located within a region at a timing at which a specific music playing operation is made by way of the music playing member, wherein a position and a size of the region, which is arranged on the vir…

Assignees

• Casio Computer Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yoshihama Yuki

Classifications

• G10H1/0008 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G10H2230/281

  Physics · mapped topic

• G10H2220/455

  Physics · mapped topic

• G10H7/00 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic