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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 04, 2006
Marcus Petrus Hendrica Vossen, De Bilt, NL;
Steffen Clarence Pauws, Eindhoven, NL;
Wilhelmus Franciscus Johannes Verhaegh, Eindhoven, NL;
Marcus Petrus Hendrica Vossen, De Bilt, NL;
Steffen Clarence Pauws, Eindhoven, NL;
Wilhelmus Franciscus Johannes Verhaegh, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for automatically generating a target sequence of a plurality of elements selected in accordance with a plurality of user-defined constraints such as a play list of songs. The apparatus comprises a user interface () for inputting a plurality of user-defined constraints, a storage device () for storing a plurality of elements or music files; and a processor () for automatically generating the target sequence or play list by an iterative process in which a solution sequence is found at each iteration to best fit the user-defined constraints. A small, random or biased change is made to the sequence found and if this improves the solution, the new solution is used for the next iteration. The biased change is used to help predict a better result for user-defined constraints which are, ordinarily, difficult to satisfy.