Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Patent
1995-06-30
1997-11-18
Shoop, Jr., William M.
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
84645, 84464R, G10H 700
Patent
active
056890788
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for generating music from color input data is disclosed. Color data extracted from a selected portion of a still or moving picture image displayed on a color graphical output means is converted by a central processing unit into a signal comprising musical information which is played by a sound output means. The images are retrieved from a storage device. The image portion converted into musical information corresponds to the location of a cursor displayed over the image. The central processing unit is programmed and controlled by a keyboard and mouse to move the cursor to varying positions on the displayed image and to generate different musical information depending on the color data at each position. The apparatus and method can also be used to transform audio input from a musical device and a MIDI interface into color data for display as an image on a color graphical output means.
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Donels Jeffrey W.
Hologramaphone Research, Inc.
Shoop Jr. William M.
Spatz, Esq. William J.
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