Method for creating a database index for a piece of music and for retrieval of piece of music
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsWerner Kriechbaum, Gerhard Stenzel
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Abstract
A method for creating a database index and for storing of a piece of music in a database includes extracting at least one property of the piece of music from a digital score of the piece of music, and creating the database index for the piece of music using the property.
Claims19
A method for creating a database index for a piece of music, comprising:
- extracting at least one property of the piece of music from a digital score of the piece of music;
- and
- creating the database index for the piece of music using the at least one property.
A method for retrieval of a piece of music from a database having a database index for each piece of music stored in the database, comprising:
- selecting a first piece of music;
- finding one or more similar pieces of music by searching best matches for an index of the first piece of music in the database;
- and
- selecting a second piece of music from the similar pieces of music.
A computer program product, comprising:
- means for extracting at least one property of the piece of music from a digital score of the piece of music;
- and
- means for creating the database index for the piece of music using the at least one property.
A database server computer, comprising logic for executing method acts comprising:
- extracting at least one property of the piece of music from a digital score of the piece of music;
- and
- creating the database index for the piece of music using the at least one property.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.