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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:
Apr. 19, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2004
Applicants:
Lie LU, Beijing, CN;
Hong-jiang Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Po Yuan, Renton, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H007/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Systems and methods for extracting a music snippet from a music stream are described. In one aspect, one or more music sentences are extracted from the music stream. The one or more sentences are extracted as a function of peaks and valleys of acoustic energy across sequential music stream portions. The music snippet is selected based on the one or more music sentences.