Method and apparatus for determining musical notes from sounds

Details Method and apparatus for determining musical notes from sounds Method and apparatus for determining musical notes from sounds

2003-09-25

2009-11-17

Donels, Jeffrey (Department: 2832)

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

C084S609000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07619155

ABSTRACT:
This method and apparatus extract symbolic high-level musical structure resembling that of a music score. Humming or the like is converted with this invention into a sequence of notes that represent the melody that the user (usually human, but potentially animal) is trying to express. These retrieved notes each contain information such as a pitch, the start time and duration and the series contains the relative order of each note. A possible application of the invention is a music retrieval system whereby humming forms the query to some search engine.

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