Patent ID: 7288712
Filing Date: 2007-10-30
Classification: G09B,G10H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A music station for producing visual images of tones to be produced together with visual images of a performance, comprising: a receiver connected to a communication channel, and receiving pieces of music data representative of said tones to be produced and pieces of first timing data mixed with said pieces of music data; another receiver connected to another communication channel independent of said communication channel, and receiving pieces of video data representative of said performance carried out in synchronism with said tones produced at another station remote from said music station and pieces of second timing data mixed with said pieces of video data and delivered to said another communication channel concurrently with the delivery of said pieces of first timing data to said communication channel, respectively; a timing adjuster connected to said receiver and said another receiver, and eliminating a time lag from between each of said pieces of first timing data and associated one of said pieces of second timing data so as to establish said pieces of video data and said pieces of music data in synchronization with one another; a display unit having plural image producing areas at least two of which are assigned to visual images of said performance and visual images of said tones, respectively; and a display driver connected to said receiver, said another receiver and said display unit, producing an image-carrying signal representative of said visual images of said performance and another image-carrying signal representative of said visual images of said tones, and supplying said image-carrying signal and said another image-carrying signal to said display unit so that said visual images of said performance and said visual images of said tones are produced in the at least two areas, respectively, in correlation with one another.