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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1993
Kazuo Nakashima, Kawasaki, JP;
Masahiro Nakada, Kawasaki, JP;
Toshikatsu Narumi, Kawasaki, JP;
Kazunori Naito, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for making a musical database including a converting unit for converting musical information representing a music piece into note data items, each of note data items being a set of values associated with a period of a single sound denoted by a musical note and a scale level of the single sound denoted by the musical note, a position unit for producing position data items for the note data items, the position data items representing positions at which the note data items are positioned in the musical information, a unit for producing an index indicating relationships between the note data items and the position data items, and a storage unit for storing the index. A retrieval apparatus retrieves a string of note data items from a musical database using the index stored in the storage unit.