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 1):
A hi-hat cymbal sound generation apparatus that generates a sound of hi-hat cymbals based on information on an operation to a top pad, which corresponds to a top cymbal, and a bottom pad, which corresponds to a bottom cymbal, the top pad and the bottom pad being attached to a hi-hat stand with a pedal,\n wherein a distance between the top pad and the bottom pad is capable of being changed by an operation of the pedal, state information is information that indicates which of a predetermined number of states a state is, the state being determined by the distance between the top pad and the bottom pad, of the states, a state in which the top pad and the bottom pad are closest to each other is designated as a close state, and the hi-hat cymbal sound generation apparatus comprises: an input part that acquires at least the state information and vibration information, which is information on a vibration of the top pad; a recording part that records data on a foot close sound that corresponds to a sound in the close state generated by the top cymbal and the bottom cymbal coming into contact with each other in response to an operation of the pedal, data on a foot open sound that corresponds to a sound in a state other than the close state generated by the top cymbal and the bottom cymbal coming into contact with each other in response to an operation of the pedal, and data on the predetermined number of hit sounds that correspond to sounds generated by hitting in the states indicated by the state information; a trigger part that 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; and a sound volume control part that generates an output signal by controlling a sound volume of each sound whose sound generation procedure is being performed based on the current state information and information on a change of the distance between the top pad and the bottom pad.

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): 0.6658633704316638
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4867158614746354
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.647948619535961
- Mean Citation Score: 228.510088
- Max Citation Score: 246.03584
- Similarity Product: 181.79273065834045

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