Patent ID: 7633004
Filing Date: 2009-12-15
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
1. A music reproduction apparatus comprising: a vehicle status information input section for inputting vehicle status information representing a vehicle status; a reproduction section for assigning a plurality of phrases whose types differ from each other to a plurality of tracks to reproduce the phrases in terms of at least one reproduction parameter being controlled with respect to each of the tracks; a control section for controlling the reproduction parameter in response to the vehicle status information with respect to each of the tracks; and a setup value storage for storing a setup value of the reproduction parameter in advance in correspondence with the vehicle status information, wherein the control section reads the setup value from the setup value storage in response to the vehicle status information to control the reproduction parameter based on the read setup value with respect to each of the tracks, wherein the setup value storage stores a setting representing variations of the reproduction parameter in connection with variations of the vehicle status information with respect to each of the phrases, and wherein the control section controls the reproduction parameter of each of the tracks based on the setting and the vehicle status information, so that music is reproduced while following any variation of the reproduction parameter of the phrase of each of the tracks based on the vehicle status information.