Patent ID: 7902449
Filing Date: 2011-03-08
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
1. A music performance system for a music performance, comprising: plural musical instruments, each of said plural musical instruments including a communication channel connected to the communicators of said plural musical instruments, and propagating said pieces of performance data and said other pieces of performance data between said each of said plural musical instruments and said another of said plural musical instruments; a prospective data producer provided in association with said data producer of said each of said plural musical instruments or said data producer of said another of said plural musical instruments so as to make said data producer produce said pieces of performance data expressing said prospective movements or said other pieces of performance data expressing said prospective movements instead of said pieces of performance data expressing said real movements or said other pieces of performance data expressing said real movements or in association with said signal producer of said each of said plural musical instruments or said signal producer of said another of said plural musical instruments for producing the other pieces of performance data expressing said prospective movements or said pieces of performance data expressing said prospective movements from said pieces of other performance data expressing said real movements or said pieces of performance data expressing said real movements, wherein said prospective data producer presumes the prospective movements of said plural manipulators at a time later than the time at which said real movements take place by a predetermined time period on the basis of said pieces of performance data expressing said real movements or said other pieces of performance data expressing said real movements, thereby producing said pieces of performance data expressing said prospective movements or said other pieces of performance data expressing said prospective movements; and a delay measuring module connected to said communicator and said prospective data producer, supplying a piece of inquiry data to said another of said plural musical instrument through said communicator, receiving a piece of reply data from said another of said plural musical instruments through said communicator and determining said predetermined time period on the basis of said piece of inquiry data and said piece of reply data.