Claims
- 1. An automatic performance apparatus comprising:
- memory means for storing performance data of a musical composition together with audio and video data to be reproduced in accordance with a performance based on the performance data of the musical composition;
- performance means for giving a performance by generating musical tones in accordance with the performance data;
- audio reproducing means for reproducing the audio data in accordance with the performance given by said performance means; and
- video reproducing means for reproducing the video data in accordance with the performance given by said performance means.
- 2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said audio reproducing means includes means for reproducing the audio data stored in said memory means in synchronism with a sampling timing.
- 3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said video reproducing means includes means for reproducing the video data stored in said memory means as still pictures in synchronism with a video change timing of the video data.
- 4. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the video data reproduced by said video reproducing means is data representing a musical piece to be performed, the video data changing in units of a predetermined number of measures of the musical piece.
- 5. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said video reproducing means includes means for reproducing the video data stored in said memory means as motion pictures in synchronism with a video change timing of the video data.
- 6. An automatic performance apparatus comprising:
- memory means for performing read/write operations and adapted to store performance data of a musical composition together with audio and video data to be reproduced in accordance with a performance based on the performance data of the musical composition;
- performance inputting/reproducing means for causing said memory means to store the performance data of the musical composition and giving a performance by generating musical tones in accordance with the performance data of the musical composition;
- audio storing/reproducing means for causing said memory means to store the audio data and reproducing the audio data in accordance with the performance given by said performance inputting/reproducing means; and
- video storing/reproducing means for causing said memory means to store the video data and reproducing the video data in accordance with the performance given by said performance inputting/reproducing means.
Priority Claims (4)
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2-236719 |
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3-96754 |
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3-119853 |
May 1991 |
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO THE RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 871,241 filed on Apr. 20, 1992, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,519,684, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 690,710 filed on Apr. 24, 1991, now abandoned.
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Divisions (1)
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Continuation in Parts (1)
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