Patent ID: 6727418
Filing Date: 2004-04-27
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
A musical score display apparatus comprising:a performance progression information supply section that supplies performance progression information in accordance with performance progression of a given music piece; a score information supply section that supplies score information representative of a score of the given music piece; a display progression information supply section that supplies display progression information that divides the score of the music piece into a plurality of displaying portions and supplies display progression information to define a shift, in the displaying portions, of a performed measure based on a repeat sign; a first storage section; a second storage section; a first write section that, on the basis of the score information supplied by said score information supply section, converts score information of a current displaying portion, corresponding to current performance progression of the given music piece, into first score-displaying image data and writes said first score-displaying image data into said first storage section; a determination section that, in accordance with the display progression information, determines a next displaying portion to be displayed following the current displaying portion; a second write section that, on the basis of the score information supplied by said score information supply section, converts score information of the next displaying portion, determined by said determination section, into second score-displaying image data and writes said second score-displaying image data into said second storage section; a detection section that, on the basis of the performance progression information and the display progression information, detects display switching timing at which the current performance progression of the given music piece shifts from the current displaying portion to the next displaying portion; a transfer section that transfers said second score-displaying image data of said second storage section to said first storage section in response to detection, by said detection section, of the display switching timing, so that said first score-displaying image data written in said first storage section are replaced with said second score-displaying image data; and a display section that displays a score portion of the current displaying portion in accordance with said first score-displaying image data written in said first storage section.