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Method of and apparatus for reproducing audio information, program storage device and computer data signal embodied in carrier wave

US6538190B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateAug 3, 2000
Grant dateMar 25, 2003
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Expiry dateAug 3, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S84/12
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An audio information reproducing apparatus reproduces one audio information and reproduces another audio information after said one audio information. The apparatus is provided with: a detecting device for detecting one time period required for one beat of said one audio information, and also detecting another time period for one beat of said another audio information; and a reproducing device for reproducing said another audio information continuously to said one audio information while controlling the detected another time period to be coincident with the detected one time period. Alternatively or additionally, the apparatus is provided with: a detecting device for detecting one beat timing which is a timing of a beat of said one audio information and also detecting another beat timing which is a timing of a beat of said another audio information, so that the reproducing device controls the detected another beat timing to be coincident with the detected one beat timing.

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