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US 2012/0067194 A1Published application
Polyphonic tuner
AssigneeThe TC Group A/S
InventorsSøren Henningsen Nielsen, Esben Skovenborg, Lars Arknæ s-Pedersen, Kim Rishøj Pedersen
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a musical instrument tuner, e.g. a guitar tuner, featuring simultaneous display of monophonic and polyphonic characteristics.
Claims23
A musical instrument tuner comprising:
- an input module,
- a signal analyzer,
- a display comprising one or more display units,
- a housing,
- a user interface,
- the input module, the signal analyzer and the display forming a part of said housing or being comprised in said housing,
- the input module receiving an input signal from a musical instrument,
- the signal analyzer determining at least two characteristics of said input signal,
- the at least two characteristics comprising a monophonic characteristic comprising a representation of a pitch frequency and a polyphonic characteristic comprising representations of multiple pitch frequencies,
- the display enabling displaying of at least two display modes from a group of display modes, the display modes comprising monophonic display mode and polyphonic display mode,
- in the polyphonic display mode displaying said polyphonic characteristic of the input signal, and
- in the monophonic display mode displaying said monophonic characteristic of the input signal,
- the display comprising at least two display zones,
- wherein said at least two display modes are displayed in at least two different display zones at the same time.
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A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium having control logic stored therein for causing a computer to determine and display a characteristic of a musical instrument, the control logic comprising:
- first computer readable program code means for causing the computer to receive an audio signal from said musical instrument;
- second computer readable program code means for causing the computer to determine at least two characteristics of said audio signal from a group of characteristics at least comprising
- one or more monophonic characteristics and
- one or more polyphonic characteristics;
- third computer readable program code means for causing the computer to display an output established on the basis of said at least two characteristics.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.