US 2008/0167739 A1 · Autonomous robot for music playing and related method

Abstract

An autonomous robot mainly contains an image capturing device, an interpretation device, a synthesis device, and an audio output device. The image capturing device captures pages of graphical images in which appropriate musical information is embedded, and the interpretation device deciphers and recognizes the musical information contained in the captured graphical image. The synthesis device simulates the sound effects of a type of instrument or a human singer by synthesis techniques in accordance with the recognized musical information. The audio output device turns the output of the synthesis device into human audible sounds. The graphical image of appropriate musical information is prepared in a visually recognizable form. The graphical image can also contain special symbols to give instructions to the autonomous robot such as specifying an instrument.

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Dependent claims

An autonomous robot comprising:

an image capturing device capable of obtaining a page of graphical image of a visual trigger presented to said image capturing device, said page of graphical image containing at least a stream of symbols;
an interpretation device capable of recognizing said stream of symbols and extracting time-dependent musical information from said stream of symbols, said time-dependent musical information containing at least a sequence of pitches and the length of time of each pitch;
a synthesis device generating an output signal by simulating a sound source delivering said time-dependent musical information;
and
an audio output device having a loudspeaker converting said output signal into human audible sounds.

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Autonomous robot for music playing and related method

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