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US 12,512,084 · App. 18/563,654 · Granted Dec 30, 2025

Sound device, program, and control method

Inventors: Tatsuya Nakagoshi (Yokohama, JP); Hisashi Kokawa (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: ALPHATHETA CORPORATION
G10H1/0008G10H2210/056G10H2220/101
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,512,084
App. No.
18/563,654
Granted
Dec 30, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is an audio device for performing control related to a separation process of separating audio data of a music piece into multiple parts, the multiple parts being included in the music piece, the audio device including: a display controlling module configured to cause a display to display labels representing the respective multiple parts; an operation acquiring module configured to acquire information indicating a user operation of selecting at least a portion of the labels; and a selecting module configured to select at least one part included in the multiple parts based on the information indicating the user operation.

Claims (12)

1 . An audio device for performing control related to a separation process of separating audio data of a music piece into multiple parts, the multiple parts being comprised in the music piece, the audio device comprising a processor that is configured to:

cause a display to display labels representing the respective multiple parts separated in the separation process;

acquire information indicating a user operation of selecting at least a portion of the labels and editing the at least the portion of the labels selected; and

output, to a device configured to hold a result of the separation process, the at least the portion of the labels that has been edited by the user operation, together with information identifying a part associated with the at least the portion of the labels that has been edited, of the multiple parts.

2 . The audio device according to claim 1 , wherein

the multiple parts comprise a first part whose audio data of the music piece has been separated in the separation process that has been executed and a second part whose audio data of the music piece has not been separated in the separation process, and

the processor is configured to cause the display to display a label representing the first part and a label representing the second part in different expressions.

3 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program configured to cause a computer to operate as the audio device according to claim 1 .

4 . A control method to be executed by an audio device for performing control related to a separation process of separating audio data of a music piece into multiple parts, the multiple parts being comprised in the music piece, the control method comprising:

causing a display to display labels representing the respective multiple parts separated in the separation process;

acquiring information indicating a user operation of selecting at least a portion of the labels and editing the at least the portion of the labels selected; and

outputting, to a device configured to hold a result of the separation process, the at least the portion of the labels that has been edited by the user operation, together with information identifying a part associated with the at least the portion of the labels that has been edited, of the multiple parts.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 22, 2023
From: NAKAGOSHI, TATSUYA; KOKAWA, HISASHI
To: ALPHATHETA CORPORATION
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Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240249706A1 · Jul 25, 2024
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