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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 21, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Zhenya Yourlo, Roseville, AU;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 7/00 ; G10H 1/18 ; G10H 1/26 ; G10H 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 7/00 ; G10H 1/18 ; G10H 1/26 ; G10H 5/00 ;
Abstract
A system and method for querying a music database, the database containing a plurality of indexed pieces of music, where the query is performed by forming a database request consisting of a conditional expression relating to the name and/or attributes of the desired piece of music. Associated features are derived from the database query, and compared with corresponding features for the other pieces of music in the database. A desired piece of music is determined by searching for a minimum distance between the database query features and those associated with the pieces of music in the database.