US 8,805,559 B2 · Electronic music box

Abstract

Music data memory includes pieces of music within a group and other pieces of music outside the group. The next piece to be played is automatically determined by random table among pieces within the group. Favorite or newest piece is weighted to be more frequently played in the group. Piece in music data memory is automatically included into the group by random table. Newly downloaded piece into music data memory is included into the group by priority. Most frequently played piece is excluded from the group in place of newly included piece. Favorite or newest piece may be an exception of exclusion. Next piece is capable of being played in tempo similar to that of preceding piece by means of tempo-adjusted or piece replacement or repetition of the same piece for the purpose of continued baby cradling in synchronism with the same tempo of succeeding pieces.

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Dependent claims

An electronic baby bedside music box comprising:

a music data memory arranged to store data of a limited number of predetermined short pieces of music;
a mobile element for a baby arranged to rotate over a baby bad in conjugation with tune of the short pieces of music;
a random table memory arranged to store a random table;
and
a controller arranged to automatically select a short piece of music among the limited number of predetermined short pieces of music in the music data memory to automatically play the selected short piece of music one by one, the controller being further arranged to automatically determine order of selecting the short piece of music from the music data memory in accordance with the random table in the random table memory, wherein the number of times of continuously selecting the short piece of music is greater than the limited number of the predetermined short pieces of music, whereby the short pieces of music are selected and played repeatedly and in irregular order.

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An electronic baby bedside music box comprising:

a music data memory arranged to store data of a limited number of predetermined short pieces of music within a group and to further store data of short pieces of music other than the limited number of predetermined short pieces of music;
a mobile element for a baby arranged to rotate over a baby bad in conjugation with tune of the short pieces of music;
and
a controller arranged to automatically select a short piece of music among the limited number of predetermined short pieces of music within the group to automatically play the selected short piece of music one by one, the controller being further arranged to automatically and randomly determine order of selecting the short piece of music among the predetermined short pieces of music within the group. wherein the controller is still further arranged to automatically replace data of a short piece of music in the group with another data of a short piece of music outside the group. and wherein the number of times of continuously selecting the short piece of music is greater than the limited number of the predetermined short pieces of music, whereby the short pieces of music are selected and played repeatedly and in irregular order.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Electronic music box

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Electronic music box

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