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US 7,682,893 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for providing an instrument playing service
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSun-Gi Lee, Kook-Jun Kim, Dong-Ik Park, Kang-Hoon Lee, Cheong-Sun Lee, Dae-Hyun Sim
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing an instrument playing service in a portable terminal. In the method, an image of an instrument is projected. User finger movements on the projected instrument image are detected and sound source information corresponding to the user finger movements is read. Thereafter, an audio signal corresponding to the sound source information is output.
Claims8
An apparatus for providing an instrument playing service, comprising:
- an instrument playing user interface for projecting an image of an instrument, photographing a user's finger movements on the projected instrument image, detecting positions of the user's fingers from the photographed finger movements, and outputting finger movement information according to the detected positions;
- a memory for storing information about the instrument image and sound source information corresponding to the finger movement information on the instrument image;
- a user interface for interfacing with the user;
- a controller for reading the instrument image information, providing the instrument image information to the instrument playing user interface, receiving finger movement information from the instrument playing user interface, reading the sound source information corresponding to the finger movement information from the memory, and providing the read sound source information to a sound source chip;
- the sound source chip for receiving the provided sound source information and outputting an audio signal according to the provided sound source information;
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- a speaker for outputting the audio signal received from the sound source chip.
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