Patent ID: 6911592
Filing Date: 2005-06-28
Classification: G10H,H04M

Abstract:
1. A sound control apparatus provided in a portable terminal, operative of receiving a telephone call from a telephone set, for sounding a music tone to provide a ringing melody in association with operation of the portable terminal, comprising: a storage section that stores music information representing a music tone and configuration information associated to a timbre of the music tone, the music information containing data necessary to determine a pitch and a timing of the music tone, the configuration information containing a set of parameters which are necessary to determine the timbre of the music tone and which are a part of parameters involved in a standard MIDI file format; an information acquiring section that acquires the music information and the configuration information from the storage section upon receipt of the telephone call by the portable terminal; and a tone generating section that is configured by the acquired configuration information to create a timbre specified by the configuration information, and that operates according to the acquired music information to generate the music tone being represented by the music information and having the specified timbre, thereby providing the ringing melody; wherein the tone generating section is configured to create different timbres and is operated to concurrently generate a plurality of music tones having the different timbres.