IP Library Granted Patent US 11,176,915
Granted Patent B2
US 11,176,915 · App. 16/642,232 · Granted Nov 16, 2021

Song analysis device and song analysis program

Inventors: Hajime Yoshino (Yokohama, JP); Kei Sakagami (Yokohama, JP); Toshihisa Sabi (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: ALPHATHETA CORPORATION
G10H1/0008G10H2210/056G10H2210/076
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,176,915
App. No.
16/642,232
Granted
Nov 16, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A music piece analyzer includes: a beat-position-acquiring-unit configured to detect beat positions in music piece data; a snare drum detector configured to detect sounding positions of a snare drum in the music piece data; a bass drum detector configured to detect sounding positions of a bass drum in, the music piece data; a one-beat-shift-determination-unit configured to determine whether a bar beginning of the music piece data is shifted by one beat based upon the sounding positions of the snare drum detected by the snare drum detector; a two-beat-shift-determination-unit configured to determine whether the bar beginning of the music piece data is shifted by two beats on a basis of the sounding positions of the bass drum detected by the bass drum detector; and a bar-beginning-setting-unit configured to set the bar beginning of the music piece data on a basis of results determined by the one-beat-shift-determination-unit and the two-beat-shift-determination-unit.

Claims (26)

1. A music piece analyzer comprising:

a beat position acquiring unit configured to detect beat positions in music piece data or acquire the beat positions detected by an external device;

a snare drum position detector configured to detect sounding positions of a snare drum in the music piece data or acquire the sounding positions of the snare drum detected by an external device;

a bass drum position detector configured to detect sounding positions of a bass drum in the music piece data or acquire the sounding positions of the bass drum detected by an external device;

a bass drum position extractor configured to extract the sounding positions of the bass drum positioning one beat before the sounding positions of the snare drum; and

a bar beginning setting unit configured to set, as a bar beginning, a first sounding position from a beginning of the music piece data, the first sounding position being one of the extracted sounding positions of the bass drum, at which position a sound power of the bass drum is above a predetermined threshold.

2. A music piece analyzer comprising:

a beat position acquiring unit configured to detect beat positions in music piece data or acquire the beat positions detected by an external device;

a snare drum detector configured to detect sounding positions of a snare drum in the music piece data or acquire the sounding positions of the snare drum detected by an external device;

a bass drum detector configured to detect sounding positions of a bass drum in the music piece data or acquire the sounding positions of the bass drum detected by an external device;

a one-beat shift determination unit configured to determine whether a bar beginning of the music piece data is shifted by one beat on a basis of the sounding positions of the snare drum detected by the snare drum detector;

a two-beat shift determination unit configured to determine whether the bar beginning of the music piece data is shifted by two beats on a basis of the sounding positions of the bass drum detected by the bass drum detector; and

a bar beginning setting unit configured to set the bar beginning of the music piece data on a basis of results determined by the one-beat shift determination unit and the two-beat shift determination unit.

3. The music piece analyzer according to claim 2 , wherein

the one-beat shift determination unit determines whether the sounding positions of the snare drum are at second and fourth beats or first and third beats, and

the two-beat shift determination unit determines whether the sounding positions of the bass drum are at the first beat or the third beat.

4. The music piece analyzer according to claim 2 , wherein

the two-beat shift determination unit performs the determination at an accuracy of an interval of a semiquaver.

5. A computer-readable medium that stores a program code configured to enable a computer to function as:

when read and run by the computer,

a beat position acquiring unit configured to detect beat positions in music piece data or acquire beat positions detected by an external device;

a snare drum detector configured to detect sounding positions of a snare drum in the music piece data or acquire the sounding positions of the snare drum detected by an external device;

a bass drum detector configured to detect sounding positions of a bass drum in the music piece data or acquire the sounding positions of the bass drum detected by an external device;

a one-beat shift determination unit configured to determine whether a bar beginning of the music piece data is shifted by one beat on a basis of the sounding positions of the snare drum detected by the snare drum detector;

a two-beat shift determination unit configured to determine whether the bar beginning of the music piece data is shifted by two beats on a basis of the sounding positions of the bass drum detected by the bass drum detector; and

a bar beginning setting unit configured to set the bar beginning of the music piece data on a basis of results determined by the one-beat shift determination unit and the two-beat shift determination unit.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 5, 2020
From: PIONEER DJ CORPORATION
To: ALPHATHETA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 052849/0913 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 26, 2020
From: YOSHINO, HAJIME; SAKAGAMI, KEI; SABI, TOSHIHISA
To: PIONEER DJ CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 051941/0576 →
Continuity (1)
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