Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Reexamination Certificate
2008-05-27
2008-05-27
Fletcher, Marlon T (Department: 2837)
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
C084S601000, C084S616000, C084S649000, C084S654000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07378587
ABSTRACT:
MIDI compression and decompression methods that reduce the size of a standard MIDI file and maintains information to play the MIDI music. The exemplary method of the invention makes use of the high correlation and repetitions between a look-ahead MIDI event and previous set of MIDI events. An adjustable size Lempel-Ziv-like MIDI Event Search Window (MESW) is created during the compression and decompression process to allow searching of matched events or event elements in previous window size of MIDI events. Further reduction of the MIDI events can be made by discarding the matched events in the event search window. Therefore, with 4-bit of MIDI event search window, the number of MIDI events stored in the window can be more than 16.
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Fletcher Marlon T
Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP
VTech Telecommunications Limited
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