Handheld musical instrument with gesture control
OwnerArne Schulzeinventor
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Abstract
A handheld musical instrument for playing a variety of audio program, the handheld musical instrument includes a main body portion with one or more sensors, a handle portion engaged with said main body portion, wherein said handle portion includes one or more control buttons to select a type of program to be played by said handheld musical instrument and a gesture detection module for detecting gestures associated with said handheld musical instrument and controlling a tempo associated with said program played by said handheld musical instrument based on said detected gestures.
Claims15
A handheld musical instrument comprising:
- a main body portion with one or more sensors for detecting tap inputs;
- a sensor distribution module comprising a sensor distribution circuitry and one or more of:
- an analog-to-digital converter, a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) sequence loop and drum fill selector, a sound module, a wireless transceiver and an accelerometer;
- a handle portion engaged with said main body portion wherein said handle portion includes one or more control buttons, operatively connected to the sensor distribution module and configured to select a type of program to be played by said handheld musical instrument;
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- a gesture detection module for detecting continuous gestures associated with said handheld musical instrument for synchronization with a live musical performance and converting said gestures to a variable beat-per-minute (BPM) tempo, combining the variable BPM tempo with a constant Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) clock signal to generate a variable MIDI clock tempo dependent time code to control the tempo of supplementing musical or percussion MIDI sequences derived desired tempo, wherein simultaneously triggering supplementing percussion sounds associated with said program generated by said handheld musical instrument.
A method for using a handheld musical instrument, comprising the steps of:
- detecting tap inputs from one or more sensors;
- providing a sensor distribution module;
- providing one or more control buttons, operatively connected to the sensor distribution module;
- selecting a type of program to be played by said handheld musical instrument utilizing said one or more control buttons;
- detecting, via a gesture detection module, continuous gestures of said handheld musical instrument associated with a live musical performance, and
- converting said gestures to a variable beat-per-minute (BPM) tempo, combining the variable BPM tempo with a constant Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) clock signal to generate a variable MIDI clock tempo dependent time code to control the tempo of supplementing musical or percussion MIDI sequences derived desired tempo, wherein simultaneously triggering supplementing percussion sounds associated with said program generated by said handheld musical instrument, and
- wherein said sensor distribution module comprises a sensor distribution circuitry and one or more of:
- an analog-to-digital converter, a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) sequence loop and drum fill selector, a sound module, a wireless transceiver and an accelerometer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.