Analyzing Captured Sound and Seeking a Match Based on an Acoustic Fingerprint for Temporal and Geographic Presentation and Navigation of linked Cultural, Artistic, and Historic Content

An index for conceptual, navigational, and physical organization of music related materials, comprising:

• a processor configured as a registry for maintaining relationships between a plurality of data objects comprising descriptions of music, its history, and culture, which establish each object's context with respect to a set of canonical categories, either directly or via its connections in a network;
• said canonical categories comprising any of time, location, genre, and artist;
• each data object comprising one or more parent objects through which an ancestry can be traced that leads to one or more instances of said canonical categories;
• wherein a data object comprises a source of a search when tracing said ancestry to said canonical categories;
• wherein results of said search are specified by a type of data object that is to be returned;
• wherein results for said type are obtained by ascertaining which data objects so classified share ancestry with the data object that is the source of the search in said canonical categories;
• and
• wherein ancestry of said index with respect to said canonical categories provides a plurality of core filters for data object search and retrieval;
• a facility for capturing a song fragment;
• a facility that determines an acoustic fingerprint for said song fragment;
• wherein said processor uses said acoustic fingerprint to access a music database to identify a song that corresponds to the captured fragment;
• wherein said processor receives from said music database music identification information for said song;
• wherein said processor provides said music identification information to a navigation facility;
• and
• wherein said processor provides said navigation facility for selection of a combination of all of said canonical categories in connection with collections of music and said music-related information;
• wherein said processor generates and presents to a user, in response to said music identification information for said song, a corresponding map or animated mural that includes images of music, its history, and culture with regard to said collections of music and music-related information;
• and
• wherein said culture presented on said map or mural in response to said music identification information for said song comprises results that include images of fashion, film, literature, music, and news.

An extensible framework for classification, curatorship, and navigation of music and its supporting media, history, and culture, comprising:

• a processor implementing a data model namespace of supporting element names which define predicates in a semantic music ontology;
• said processor providing a map or mural which exposes said semantic music ontology with regard to collections of music and music-related information;
• said processor providing a facility by which said semantic music ontology is navigated;
• a facility for capturing a song fragment;
• a facility that determines an acoustic fingerprint for said song fragment;
• said processor using said acoustic fingerprint to access a music database to identify a song that corresponds to the captured fragment;
• said processor receiving from said music database music identification information for said song;
• said processor providing said music identification information to said navigation facility;
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• said processor generating for display said map or mural, in response to music identification information for said song, via said semantic music ontology with said navigation facility, said map or mural comprising any of images of music, its history, and culture with regard to said collections of music and music-related information;
• wherein culture presented on said map or mural in response to said music identification information for said song comprises results that include images of any of fashion, film, literature, music, and news;
• and
• wherein said images further comprise any of regions, cities, artists, news items, fashion trends, movies, books, and genres of art.

A computer implemented method for temporal and geographic presentation and navigation of linked cultural, artistic, and historic content, comprising:

• a processor receiving speech commands from a user;
• providing a facility that recognizes said speech commands;
• said processor using said recognized speech to access a database to identify a song that corresponds to the user's speech commands;
• said processor receiving from said database music identification information for said song;
• said processor providing said music identification information as a query to a navigation facility;
• said processor registering collections of music and music-related information in said database;
• said processor making said collections of music and music-related information available to users;
• said processor classifying said collections of music and music-related information in said database by all of time, location, genre, and artist;
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• said processor providing said navigation facility for selection of a combination of all of time, location, genre, and artist in connection with said collections of music and said music-related information;
• said processor generating and presenting to a user, in response to receiving said music identification information for said song, a corresponding map that includes independent images of all of music, its history, and culture with regard to said collections of music and music-related information;
• said processor presenting said culture on said map in response to said music identification information for said song, said culture comprising results that include independent images of fashion, film, literature, music, and news;
• said processor generating and presenting to said user at least one animated mural comprising said images depicting a fundamental combination of time, place, genre, artist, and culture in connection with said music-related information;
• wherein said animated mural comprises a dynamically animated selection of said images derived from said music identification information for said song;
• and
• wherein said images further comprise any of regions, cities, artists, news items, fashion trends, movies, books, and genres of art.

A computer implemented method for temporal and geographic presentation and navigation of linked cultural, artistic, and historic content, comprising:

• capturing a song fragment;
• providing a facility that determines an acoustic fingerprint for said song fragment;
• a processor using said acoustic fingerprint to access a music database to identify a song that corresponds to the captured fragment;
• said processor receiving from said music database music identification information for said song;
• and
• said processor providing a navigation facility for user selection of a combination of time, location, genre, and artist in connection with said music identification information;
• said processor generating and presenting to said user in response thereto a corresponding map or mural that includes images of all of music, history, and culture with regard to said music-related information, said map or mural depicting a fundamental combination of time, location, genre, a n d artist in connection with said music-related information;
• wherein said culture presented on said map or mural in response to said user selection comprises results that include independent images of fashion, film, literature, music, and news;
• and
• wherein said images further comprise any of regions, cities, artists, news items, fashion trends, movies, books, and genres of art.