Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of playing chord inversions on a virtual instrument
- Patent Title (中): 在虚拟乐器上弹奏和弦的方法
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Application No.: US13787734Application Date: 2013-03-06
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Publication No.: US09129584B2Publication Date: 2015-09-08
- Inventor: Alec H. Little , Eli T. Manjarrez
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Main IPC: A63H5/00
- IPC: A63H5/00 ; G10H1/00 ; G10H1/38 ; G10H7/00 ; G06F3/01 ; G10H1/057 ; G10H1/02 ; G10H1/28

Abstract:
A user interface implemented on a touch-sensitive display for a virtual musical instrument comprising a plurality of chord touch regions configured in a predetermined sequence, each chord touch region corresponding to a chord in a musical key and being divided into a plurality of separate touch zones, the plurality of chord touch regions defining a predetermined set of chords, where each of the plurality of separate touch zones in each region is associated with one or more preselected MIDI files stored in a computer-readable medium. In some embodiments, the touch zones are configured to provide different harmonic configurations of a base chord associated with the chord touch region. Some harmonic configurations provide progressively wider harmonic ranges across each adjacent touch zone. Other harmonic configurations can provide chords with a progressively higher relative pitch across each adjacent touch zone.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140137721A1 METHOD OF PLAYING CHORD INVERSIONS ON A VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT Public/Granted day:2014-05-22
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