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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2008
Keiichiro Hoashi, Saitama, JP;
Hiromi Ishizaki, Saitama, JP;
Fumiaki Sugaya, Saitama, JP;
KDDI Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A query building moduleincludes a query DBfor managing a query vector of a piece of music, which matches a user preference, a similarity calculating unitfor calculating a similarity between the query vectors, which are registered in the query DB, a query vector integrating unitfor integrating a plurality of query vectors similar to each other into one piece of preference information, and a query updating unitfor newly registering the integrated new query vector to the query DBand deleting the integrated two similar query vectors from the query DB, thereby updating the query DB, and builds a query Q in which all of the query vectors having high similarity are integrated and is an aggregation of the query vectors not similar to each other.