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Music composition and generation instruments and music learning systems employing automated music composition engines driven by graphical icon based musical experience descriptors

  • US 10,262,641 B2
  • Filed: 04/17/2017
  • Issued: 04/16/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A portable automated music composition and generation system for scoring videos with custom pieces of digital music, said portable automated music composition and generation system comprising:

  • a compact housing;

    an automated music composition and generation engine, mounted in said compact housing, and driven by graphical-icon based emotion-type musical experience descriptors and graphical-icon based style type musical experience descriptors selected by a system user during a video scoring process; and

    a computing platform, mounted in said compact housing, and supporting a system user interface operably coupled to said automated music composition and generation engine;

    wherein said computing platform includesa processor with program memory for storing a control program, and persistent memory for storing a library of videos and/or other photographic media to be scored by the system user with custom pieces of digital music;

    a touch-screen display panel for displaying a selected video and/or photographic media to be scored by the system user with custom pieces of digital music that have been automatically generated by said automated music composition and generation engine driven by said graphical-icon based emotion-type musical experience descriptors graphical-icon based style-type musical experience descriptors;

    a keyboard allowing the system user to select graphical-icon based emotion-type musical experience descriptors and graphical-icon based style-type musical experience descriptors that emotionally and stylistically characterize custom pieces of digital music to be automatically composed and generated by said automated music composition and generation engine, for scoring segmented scenes of the selected video and/or photographic media;

    an audio speaker for producing audio representations of custom pieces of digital music automatically composed by said automated music composition and generation engine driven by said graphical-icon based emotion-type musical experience descriptors and said graphical-icon based style-type musical experience descriptors selected by the system user; and

    a wireless network adapter, disposed within said compact housing, allowing said computing platform to establish wireless communication with one or more devices operably connected to a wireless data communications network;

    wherein said automated music composition and generation engine automatically generates custom pieces of digital music for scoring segmented scenes in the selected video and/or photographic media, based on and using said graphical-icon based emotion-type musical experience descriptors and said graphical-icon based style-type musical experience descriptors selected by the system user using said keyboard, and provided to said automated music composition and generation engine;

    wherein said touch screen display panel allows the system user to select and load a video and/or photographic media from said library and view segmented scenes of the selected video and/or photographic media, and the system user can then select said graphical-icon based emotion-type musical experience descriptors and said graphical-icon based style-type musical experience descriptors using said keyboard, and supply the selected graphical-icon based emotion-type and style-type musical experience descriptors to said automated music composition and generation engine for use in composing and generating custom pieces of digital music for scoring segmented scenes in the selected video and/or photographic media; and

    wherein said automated music composition and generation engine, once initiated by the system user, automatically transforms said selected graphical-icon based emotion-type and style-type musical experience descriptors into a set of music-theoretic system operating parameters, which are used by said automated music composition and generation engine to automatically compose and generate custom pieces of digital music for scoring the segmented scenes in said selected video and/or photographic media.

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