Heuristic organization and playback system
AssigneeHarman International Industries, Incorporated
InventorDaniel Benyamin
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Abstract
A multimedia organization and playback system intelligently organizes media objects, such as music files, and plays back their contents. The system considers and analyzes multiple media object attributes to determine groups of similar songs. As a result, the system delivers a consistent selection of media to the listener despite wide variations in media characteristics and without overburdening the listener with complicated configuration input. The listener may play back grouped songs based on the similarities between songs. Successive selections may be more or less similar to a current selection based on the organization of the music objects.
Claims27
A product comprising:
- a computer readable medium;
- and
- logic stored on the computer readable medium operable to:
- determine a first media object location of a first media object mapped into an n-dimensional space;
- identify a first media object group in the n-dimensional space that includes the first media object;
- determine a distance measure value;
- and
- choose a subsequent media object mapped into the n-dimensional space that lies within the distance measure value of the first media object location and within the first media object group.
A product comprising:
- a computer readable medium;
- and
- logic stored on the computer readable medium operable to:
- obtain an initial partition of media objects into a first group and a second group;
- iteratively reassign media objects between the first group and the second group until a clustering criteria is met;
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- present a first selectable channel corresponding to the first group and a second selectable channel corresponding to the second group on a user interface.
A method for delivering media objects comprising:
- obtaining a first media object location for a first media object in an n-dimensional media object space;
- evaluating a distance metric for the n-dimensional space to obtain a distance measure value;
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- selecting a second media object that lies within the distance measure value of the first media object location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.