摘要:
Payment-based audiovisual playback system comprising a microprocessor device associated with a payment device primarily including mass storage means, for storing inter alia the digital compressed visual and sound information to be used. The system is associated through interfaces with digital display means and digital sound playback means which provide a multimedia environment. The invention is characterized in that the digital display means and video monitor are associated with a touch screen associated with an interface programme responsive to outside events, translating them, for the graphic operating system, as mouse events using a library of integrated tools and services, to trigger either a change in the execution of one of the man/machine interface programme modules, or a change in the physical operating parameters of the jukebox.
摘要:
Disclosed is a music apparatus having a central processor, a method and a machine readable medium for use in a music apparatus, all of which are designed for generating a musical sound according to performance information. In the apparatus, a computerized waveform generator creates a digital waveform by successively computing sample values of the digital waveform. The computerized waveform generator is operated to carry out a trial creation of a model digitial waveform while a measurement of the operation speed at which the trial creation is carried out is performed. An optimal sampling frequency is determined which is comparable to the measured operation speed. According to provided performance information, the musical sound is then generated by operating the waveform generator to compute the sample values at the determined sampling frequency.
摘要:
A system for recording and mixing sound that can concurrently process a plurality of audio input files. The device is based upon a Cyrix class CPU microprocessor mounted on a motherboard with at least about 32 MB of RAM. Two or more logical data reservoirs, each having a storage capacity of at least about 450 MB, are connected to the microprocessor by a conventional system bus. The system is configured so that none of the data files, i.e., the MIDI and the *.WAV files, are stored on the first data reservoir, and that all of the MIDI and *.WAV files, but no other files, are stored on the second data reservoir. Conventional sound and video hardware is also connected to the system via a conventional bus as is a conventional mastering unit. The recording device requires a software operating system effective to support the processing of the audio data files and a conventional audio processing software capable of utilizing both MIDI and *.WAV files (or the equivalent of these files) configured to have a DMA value of at least about 25,000.
摘要:
Disclosed is a music apparatus having a central processor, a method and a machine readable medium for use in a music apparatus, all of which are designed for generating a musical sound according to performance information. In the apparatus, a waveform generator creates digital waveforms. It is composed of a software program which can be executed by the central processor in a variable operation mode. This variable operation mode is changed according to the computation capacity available for operation of the waveform generator. The musical sound is then generated based on the created digital waveform.
摘要:
Audiovisual distribution system in which each of the audiovisual units (8) includes means for interactively communicating with the user for selecting a piece or a menu, payment means, a computer network card, a permanent semiconductor memory containing a multitask operating system comprising at least a hard disc access management task. The order for performing a selected piece is processed as a hard disc sequential access task. The hard disc is declared as a peripheral corresponding to the network card of the unit, enabling a request to be sent through the network to a server (9) for processing thereof.
摘要:
Digital home audiovisual information recording and playback apparatus comprising a microprocessor associated, through a digital interface, with display means, through another interface with sound playback means and through a telecommunications interface with means for loadind audio selection or visual selection digital information. The invention is characterized by control means (1021 to 1025) for controlling display means, enabling an operating mode to be selected from a menu of three modes, in which the device either plays back information stored in its mass memory, records new digitalized information in its mass memory or combines analog information from a microphone with digitalized information received from the mass memory.
摘要:
In each of terminal devices (31-35), there is stored user profile information on the corresponding device. The user profile information includes data identifying the user, type and name of the device, information regarding a CPU, memory and operating system (OS) provided in the device, and information regarding various data and program stored in the device. When desired musical information data is to be downloaded from a host computer (10), a request for downloading optimum data is sent to the host computer (10). This permits efficient loading of data most suitable for system conditions. When data or program is to be loaded from a recording medium, such as a CD-ROM, rather than a communication network, efficient loading is permitted in a similar manner.
摘要:
A musical sound generating apparatus creates a waveform to generate a musical sound according to performance information. In the apparatus, a first waveform generator (21,22) is operable for creating a waveform. A second waveform generator (10) is operable independently from the first waveform generator for creating a waveform. An input device (14) provides performance information. A designating device designates at least one of the first waveform generator (21,22) and the second waveform generator (10) in correspondence with the provided performance information. A controller selectively operates the designated one of the first waveform generator (21,22) and the second waveform generator (10) to create the waveform according to the provided performance information. An output device (23) generates the musical sound based on the created waveform. The second waveform generator (10), the input device (14), the designating device and the controller are integrated with each other to constitute a main part composed of a computer, while the first waveform generator (21,22) alone constitutes a supplementary part which is separate from the main part and which is optionally installable in the computer.
摘要:
La présente invention concerne un appareil domestique d'enregistrement et de restitution d'informations audiovisuelles numérisées comportant une unité centrale (106), une interface de télécommunication reliée à un connecteur (118), gérée par l'unité centrale (106), un circuit électronique contrôleur d'entrées (105) gérant une pluralité de moyens de commande et un capteur d'émission infrarouge ou audio (13) provenant d'un boîtier de télécommande (101) émetteur des mêmes ondes, un circuit électronique contrôleur d'extension (107) relié à des connecteurs (116), un circuit électronique contrôleur de son relié à des connecteurs de sorties audio (112) et un connecteur d'entrée micro (113), un circuit électronique contrôleur de vidéo relié à des connecteurs d'appareils périphériques vidéo (114, 115), caractérisé en ce qu'un circuit contrôleur graphique (120) commandant un dispositif d'affichage à cristaux liquides (12) et l'ensemble des circuits électroniques sont gérés par le processeur central (106) à l'aide d'un système d'exploitation multitâche et d'un programme de fonctionnement de la machine mémorisé dans une mémoire non volatile appartenant au circuit électronique de l'unité centrale (106), ladite mémoire non volatile servant de moyens de mémorisation d'au moins une sélection d'informations numériques audiovisuelles.
摘要:
Digital home audiovisual information recording and playback apparatus comprising a microprocessor associated, through a digital interface, with display means, through another interface with sound playback means and through a telecommunications interface with means for loadind audio selection or visual selection digital information. The invention is characterized by control means (1021 to 1025) for controlling display means, enabling an operating mode to be selected from a menu of three modes, in which the device either plays back information stored in its mass memory, records new digitalized information in its mass memory or combines analog information from a microphone with digitalized information received from the mass memory.