PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16196353
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["084", "422300"]

Abstract:
To provide a change of sound in response to a player's operation that is close to the change of sound of real hi-hat cymbals. A hi-hat cymbal sound generation apparatus according to the present invention includes an input part, a recording part, a trigger part and a sound volume control part. The input part acquires state information and vibration information. The recording part records data on a foot close sound, data on a foot open sound, and data on a hit sound in each state indicated by the state information. The trigger part checks whether the vibration indicated by the vibration information falls within a predetermined range in which a sound generation procedure is to be started, and starts sound generation procedures for at least all the hit sounds when the trigger part determines that the vibration falls within the range in which a sound generation procedure is to be started.

Claim (Index 9):
A hi-hat cymbal sound generation method according to  claim 8 , wherein at a time other than the time for the trigger step to start a sound generation procedure,\n (1) if a state change from the close state occurs, the sound volume control step (1-1) controls the sound volume so that the hit sound in the state indicated by the state information after the change is provided as the output signal if the output signal before the change is the hit sound in the close state, and (1-2) controls the sound volume so that the foot open sound is provided as the output signal if the output signal before the change is the foot close sound and a predetermined time has not lapsed from the start of the sound generation procedure, and (2) if a state change from a state other than the close state occurs, the sound volume control step (2-1) controls the sound volume so that the hit sound in the state indicated by the state information after the change is provided as the output signal if there is at least the hit sound in the state indicated by the state information after the change if the output signal before the change is the hit sound in the state indicated by the state information, (2-2) continues providing the foot open sound as the output signal if the output signal before the change is the foot open sound and the change of the state indicated by the state information is not a change toward the close state, and (2-3) controls the sound volume so that the hit sound in the state indicated by the state information after the change is provided as the output signal if there is at least the hit sound in the state indicated by the state information after the change if the output signal before the change is the foot open sound and the change of the state indicated by the state information is a change toward the close state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31429
- Patent Class: 84.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11132596', '14523947', '10383699', '12910500', '13815383']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6659513260663515
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.486274927265981
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6479836861863144
- Mean Citation Score: 228.510088
- Max Citation Score: 246.03584
- Similarity Product: 182.9027739976501

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test