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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2002
Eiichiro Aoki, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
An automatic music composing apparatus is provided, which is capable of generating music with a high degree of completion in synchronization with images and in a time that matches the length of images. The automatic music composing apparatus automatically creates musical compositions to be reproduced as a background for images. A number of bars of a musical composition that corresponds to a time period required by each of sections of images is calculated. Bar number-corresponding data necessary to generate the musical composition and corresponding to the calculated number of bars is acquired. The musical composition based on the acquired bar number-corresponding data is generated. The generated musical composition is outputted according to each of the sections of the images.