Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Reexamination Certificate
2007-04-03
2007-04-03
Fletcher, Marlon (Department: 2837)
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
C084S609000, C084S615000, C084S616000, C084S47700R
Reexamination Certificate
active
11011020
ABSTRACT:
The song search apparatus for searching a song among songs including lyrics and performances, comprises: a song feature information database which stores song feature information indicating acoustic feature of the performances or feature of the lyrics included in the songs; an input unit which inputs a search word representing the song to be searched and formed of a word representing a subjectivity; a search song feature information database which stores search song feature information indicating the acoustic feature or the feature of the lyrics of the songs; a search process unit which compares input search song feature information corresponding to the inputted search word with each of the stored song feature information, extracts a song most similar to the input search song feature information, and makes a display display an image indicating the input search song feature information and an image indicating the song feature information of the extracted song.
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Kodama Yasuteru
Odagawa Satoshi
Shioda Takehiko
Suzuki Yasunori
Fletcher Marlon
Ladas & Parry LLP
Pioneer Corporation
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