| US 7,495,164 B2 | ||
| Aid for composing words of song | ||
| Tomoyuki Funaki, Hamamatsu (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu-Shi (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 12, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/734,915. | ||
| Application 10/734915 is a division of application No. 09/841211, filed on Apr. 24, 2001, granted, now 6,689,946. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2000-123965 (JP), filed on Apr. 25, 2000. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2004/0123724 A1, Jul. 01, 2004 | ||
| Int. Cl. G04B 13/00 (2006.01); G10H 7/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 84—609 [84/600; 84/601; 84/615; 84/649; 84/653] | 12 Claims |
| 1. A word composing apparatus comprising:
a dictionary storing at least words and parts of speech corresponding to the words;
a search condition designator that designates a part of speech from a plurality of parts of speech as a search condition,
said parts of speech including at least a class of nouns and verbs;
a word search unit that searches for one or more words matching the search condition designated by said search condition designator
from said dictionary;
a display unit that displays one or more words that match the search condition; and
an input processor that selects one of the one or more words displayed that match the search condition and executes a process
of inputting the selected word displayed on said display unit as letters or characters of a song word.
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