Eiichiro Aoki
98Patents
22h-index
44Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 30, 1976 → Nov 27, 2015
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5290964A | Musical tone control apparatus using a detector | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 129 | Expired |
| US4399731A | Apparatus for automatically composing music piece | Physics | 94 | Expired |
| US5736663A | Method and device for automatic music composition employing music template information | Physics | 56 | Expired |
| US6245984A | Apparatus and method for composing music data by inputting time positions of notes and then establishing pitches of notes | Physics | 45 | Expired |
| US6576828B2 | Automatic composition apparatus and method using rhythm pattern characteristics database and setting composition conditions section by section | Physics | 43 | Expired |
| USRE40543E1 | Method and device for automatic music composition employing music template information | General | 41 | Expired |
| US5081896A | Musical tone generating apparatus | Physics | 40 | Expired |
| US6075193A | Automatic music composing apparatus and computer readable medium containing program therefor | Physics | 40 | Expired |
| US5403970A | Electrical musical instrument using a joystick-type control apparatus | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US6175072A | Automatic music composing apparatus and method | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 36 | Expired |
| US5661253A | Control apparatus and electronic musical instrument using the same | Physics | 36 | Expired |
| US6252152A | Automatic composition apparatus and method, and storage medium | Physics | 36 | Expired |
| US6124543A | Apparatus and method for automatically composing music according to a user-inputted theme melody | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US6162982A | Automatic composition apparatus and method, and storage medium therefor | Physics | 32 | Expired |
| US6395970B2 | Automatic music composing apparatus that composes melody reflecting motif | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US4217804A | Electronic musical instrument with automatic arpeggio performance device | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 29 | Expired |
| US6756533B2 | Automatic music composing apparatus and automatic music composing program | Physics | 28 | Expired |
| US5492049A | Automatic arrangement device capable of easily making music piece beginning with up-beat | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 26 | Expired |
| US6143971A | Automatic composition apparatus and method, and storage medium | Physics | 26 | Expired |
| US4539884A | Electronic musical instrument of waveshape memory type with expression control | Physics | 26 | Expired |
| US4461199A | Electronic musical instruments | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US6472591B2 | Portable communication terminal apparatus with music composition capability | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 23 | Expired |
| US4489636A | Electronic musical instruments having supplemental tone generating function | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 19 | Expired |
| US6294720A | Apparatus and method for creating melody and rhythm by extracting characteristic features from given motif | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 17 | Expired |
| US5525749A | Music composition and music arrangement generation apparatus | Physics | 16 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.