Dance visualization of music

Details Dance visualization of music Dance visualization of music

2002-08-22

2004-04-06

Nappi, Robert (Department: 2837)

Music

Accessories

Producing color or light effects

C084S47700R, C434S250000, C345S473000, C446S298000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06717042

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to the field of information processing. More specifically the present invention relates to the visualization of music.
2. Background Information
Advances in integrated circuit and computing technology have led to wide spread adoption of computing devices of various forms. Modem day computing devices, including personal ones, are often packed with processors having computing capacities that were once reserved for the most powerful “mainframes”. As a result, increasing number of application user interfaces have gone multi-media, and more and more multimedia applications have become available.
Among the recently introduced multi-media applications are music visualization applications, where various animations are rendered to “visualize” music. To-date, the “visualizations” have been pretty primitive, confined primarily to basic manipulations of simple objects, such as rotation of primitive geometric shapes and the like. Thus, more advance visualizations are desired.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An apparatus is equipped to provide dance visualization of a stream of music. The apparatus is equipped with a sampler to generate characteristic data for a plurality of samples of a received stream of music, and an analyzer to determine a music type for the stream of music using the generated characteristic data. The apparatus is further provided with a player to manifest a plurality of dance movements for the stream of music in accordance with the determined music type of the stream of music.
In various embodiments, the sampler, analyzer and the player are implemented in computer executable instructions, and the apparatus may be a desktop computer, a notebook sized computer, a palm sized computer, a set top box, and other devices of the like.


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