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Music lesson system with local training terminal and remote supervisory station

US6211451A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 26, 1999
Grant dateApr 3, 2001
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Expiry dateJan 26, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG09B15/04
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A music apparatus is communicable with a supervisory computer through a network for remotely training a user in matching with a skill level. In the music apparatus, an instrument is manually operable by the user for generating a performance. A monitor displays a lesson score in matching with the skill level so that the user is prompted to render the displayed lesson score by operating the instrument for generating a sample performance. A processor compares event data representative of the sample performance with note data representative of the lesson score to locally execute a quantitative evaluation of the sample performance. A transmitter transmits the event data representative of the sample performance to the supervisory computer through the network so that the supervisory computer can work to remotely provide a qualitative evaluation of the sample performance according to the event data to thereby arrange instruction data. The qualitative evaluation is different from the quantitative evaluation and is locally unavailable. A receiver receives the instruction data from the supervisory computer through the network to pass the instruction data to the processor. The processor operat…

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