Musical Score Display Apparatus with Multi-Level Complexity and Timeline Comments

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing musical score display systems cannot display musical scores of multiple parts or all parts of a composition and lack the ability to show comment creation dates and times, failing to satisfy user requests for complexity and information transparency.

Innovation Solution

A musical score display apparatus connected to an external storage system that allows for the selection of display levels, extraction of relevant musical score and comment data based on user preferences, and display of comments sorted by creation date, enabling the display of musical scores from partial to all parts and showing comment creation dates and times.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If only practice part musical scores are displayed to improve musical performance, then musical performance improvement is achieved, but user request for viewing all parts of composition cannot be satisfied

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemusical performance improvementVSAvoiduser request satisfaction
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The display apparatus dynamically adjusts which musical score parts are displayed based on the selected display level. At lower levels, only practice parts are shown to aid performance improvement. At higher levels, all parts of the composition become visible to satisfy users who want to view the complete work, thus adapting to different user needs without compromising the core performance improvement function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of operation

If advice information is displayed without creation date to simplify the interface, then interface simplicity is maintained, but user convenience for knowing comment timing is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinterface simplicityVSAvoidcomment creation timing
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The creation date information is displayed in a temporal dimension separate from the main musical score content. Rather than cluttering the score display with dates, the system uses a timeline or metadata area to show when advice information was created, preserving interface simplicity while preventing information loss about comment timing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Adaptability or versatility

If musical scores of all parts are displayed to satisfy user request, then user request satisfaction is achieved, but display complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser request satisfactionVSAvoiddisplay complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The musical composition is segmented into multiple display levels, where each level represents a different degree of completeness. Users can select from discrete levels (e.g., level 1: practice part only, level 2: multiple parts, level 3: all parts), allowing the system to manage display complexity through structured segmentation rather than presenting all information simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

4Device complexity

If comment data without date information is stored to simplify data structure, then data structure simplicity is maintained, but information transparency about comment newness is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata structure simplicityVSAvoidcomment newness information
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The creation date is automatically recorded and stored with each comment data entry at the time of creation, before the user needs to view it. This preliminary action of capturing temporal information simplifies the data retrieval process while ensuring that information transparency about comment newness is maintained without requiring complex data structures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS8497416B2Musical score display apparatus and program for realizing musical score display method
Publication Date: 2013.07.30 YAMAHA CORP
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AI summary

There is provided a musical score display apparatus which can display a musical score at multiple levels ranging from a partial part to all parts and can display a comment relating to the displayed musical score based on the creation date and time, and a program for realizing a musical score display method. Comment data created in a setting period are displayed on a timeline by using comment icons at positions corresponding to creation date and time. When the highest level button among level selection buttons is operated, the comment icons relating to all parts are displayed on the timeline. When the lowest level button is operated in this state, the comment icon relating to the part to be deleted when the lowest level is selected is also deleted from the timeline in the display musical score of all parts.