Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Masako Ono

Junichi Tagawa

Hiroaki Yamane

Masayuki Misaki

Ryoichi Yagi

The present invention provides a music search system for conducting music search, which allows the user to easily listen to music matched to situation. The music search system includes a music data storage section, a location acquisition section, a parameter converting section, a music search section, and a reproducing section. The music data storage section stores a plurality of pieces of music data so as to be associated with a corresponding one of music parameters. The location acquisition section acquires a situation parameter. The parameter converting section converts the situation parameter acquired by the location acquisition section into the music parameter. The music search section uses the music parameter resulted from conversion by the parameter converting section to search through the plurality of pieces of music data stored in the music storage section and selects a piece of music to be reproduced. The reproducing section reproduces the piece of music selected by the music search section.

Music search system

A candidate piece specifying unitspecifies, as a first candidate piece, a musical piece whose musical piece parameter includes a first factor that is larger than a first factor of a musical piece currently being played from among musical pieces, and specifies, as a second candidate piece, a musical piece whose first factor is smaller than the first factor of the musical piece currently being played from among the musical pieces. When data of a musical piece is reproduced by a playback unita display control unitcauses musical piece information regarding the first candidate piece and the second candidate piece to be displayed at positions on a display screen that reflect coordinate positions in an impression space formed by the factors of the musical piece parameter. Upon receiving an input from a user of specifying a musical piece indicated by musical piece information displayed on a display devicea playback control unitcontrols data of the specified musical piece so that the data of the specified musical piece is reproduced by the playback unit.

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Osaka, Japan

Masako Ono