The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 25, 2006
Isao Otsuka, Tokyo, JP;
Hidetsugu Suginohara, Tokyo, JP;
Isao Otsuka, Tokyo, JP;
Hidetsugu Suginohara, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is to provide a method of efficiently detecting music scenes from television broadcasts. A music-segment detection method according to the present invention includes a data input step of inputting data including an audio and video signals; a plurality of candidate-music-segment detection steps of detecting candidate music-segments from the audio signal based on criteria different from each other; and a music-segment detection step of detecting a music segment based on the plurality of detected candidate music-segments. Thereby, high detection accuracy can be ensured for a wide variety of music with various tones, such as rock, popular ballad, and classic.