Patent ID: 8586848

Claim:
A musical-score information generating apparatus comprising: a storing unit for storing music data and image data, wherein the music data contains pitch information for indicating a pitch of each of musical tones composing a musical piece and the time information for indicating a timing of generation of each musical tone in the musical piece, and the image data represents an image of a musical score of the musical piece, the musical score having musical-score composing elements such as part lines, staffs, and bar lines; a measure specifying unit for specifying an area of each measure and the measure number of the measure based on positions of the part lines, the staffs and the bar lines on the musical score; a unit music-data generating unit for dividing the music data based on the time information in the music data to generate plural pieces of unit music data each containing time information and pitch information for one measure; a repeat-mark position specifying unit for specifying a measure where a repeat mark is placed, based on a sort and a position of the repeat mark and the positions of the part lines, the staffs and the bar lines on the musical score; a unit music-data obtaining unit for removing overlapping unit music data form the plural pieces of unit music data generated by the unit music-data generating unit to obtain a final pieces of unit music data, and for associating the obtained final pieces of unit music data with the measure numbers respectively to store said final pieces of unit music data in the storing unit; and a musical-score element data generating unit for generating musical-score element data containing positions on the musical score where the part lines, the staffs and the bar lines are placed, and areas and the measure numbers of the measures, and sorts and positions of the repeats marks, and storing the generated musical-score element data in the storing unit.