Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Reexamination Certificate
1999-05-21
2001-09-11
Witkowski, Stanley J. (Department: 2837)
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
C084S609000, C084S626000, C084S645000, C084S478000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06288317
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is concerned with the real time transmission of keyboard music performances performed by a musician at one venue or location to one or more remote venues. For example, a performance by a noted pianist can be recreated at a plurality of remote sites or venues in real time and presented to the audience at the different venues as if they were at the actual performance.
The accurate and precise sensing of a musical keyboard actuation and MIDI thereof is disclosed in my U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,440,072, 5,459,282 and in my pending application Ser. No. 08/679,926 which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 5,763,806 on Jun. 9, 1998. In those prior patents and pending application, I disclose a system for effectively transforming the musician's fingers and finger actuation of keyboards into electrical signals in a cost-effective and expeditious way.
In accordance with the present invention, midified signals from a keyboard equipped with key actuation sensors (which sense key actuation and key actuation expression effects) is coupled to a modem which, in turn, couples the signals via transmission medium (telephone, including wires, fiber, satellites, etc.) to a remote venue or site where the MIDI signals are coupled to a sequencer used to reproduce the identical piano performance by the musician at remote sites, respectively, in real time with the original piano performance by the pianist or musician. Thus, the basic objective of the invention is to cause the performance of a keyboard musician at one location or venue to be reproduced in real time at one or more remote sites or venues. At the same time, video cameras may be trained on the musician to convey live images to the sites of the remote venues for visual presentation. This, it will be recognized, is in direct contrast to video performances which are video transmitted because, in those performances, the actual sound is converted to a soundtrack with the video and transmitted. In the present case, only the images are transmitted and the actual reproduction or musical sound is produced live at the remote site or venue as if they were at the site where the performance was actually created by the musician.
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Witkowski Stanley J.
Zegeer Jim
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