Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Reexamination Certificate
2007-02-27
2007-02-27
Donels, Jeffrey W (Department: 2837)
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
Reexamination Certificate
active
11264327
ABSTRACT:
A system that analyzes music to detect musical beats and to rectify beats that are out of sync with the actual beat phase of the music. The music analysis includes onset detection, tempo/meter estimation, and beat analysis, which includes the rectification of out-of-sync beats.
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Lu Lie
Zhang Hong-Jiang
Donels Jeffrey W
Lee & Hayes PLLC
Microsoft Corporation
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