Patent ID: 7167725
Filing Date: 2007-01-23
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
1. A telephony terminal apparatus comprising: a communication unit that transmits a signal to a remote location and receives a signal from the remote location; a memory unit that stores data including score data which represents a music piece; and a music reproduction unit that can reproduce a music piece in association with the signal, wherein the music reproduction unit includes: a score data memory that has a limited space for storing a part of score data, which represents a music piece and which can be provided from the memory unit; an interface that can be operated to load the score data from the memory unit into the score data memory; a tone generator of a frequency modulation type settable with parameters for generating harmonics by frequency modulation to synthesize a tone; a performance controller that sequentially retrieves the score data from the score data memory so as to set the tone generator with the parameters according to the retrieved score data; and a memory monitor that detects when a vacant area is created in the limited space of the score data memory upon sequential retrieval of the score data for operating the interface to load another part of the score data into the vacant area, thereby enabling the tone generator to continue the synthesizing of the tones of the music piece.