Apparatus and method for creating content comprising a combination of text data and music data

• US 20010037721A1
• Filed: 04/25/2001
• Published: 11/08/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: Koezuka, Shinji, Hasegawa, Yutaka, Terada, Kosei
• Granted Patent: US 6,441,291 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 84/609
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0041 in coded form
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/021 Background music, e.g. for video sequences or elevator music
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/081 Genre classification, i.e. descriptive metadata for classification or selection of musical pieces according to style
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/125 Library distribution, i.e. distributing musical pieces from a central or master library
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/305 Internet or TCP/IP protocol use for any electrophonic musical instrument data or musical parameter transmission purposes

Abstract

Supplied text data set is classified into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with the substance of the supplied text data set, and a musical composition data set is selected or generated which corresponds to the category of the text data. Content information contains first position information indicative of a stored position, such as an URL, of the supplied text data set, and second position information indicative of a stored position, such as an URL, of the selected or generated musical composition data set. One set of the content may include a plurality of text data sets and a plurality of musical composition data sets, and these text data sets and musical composition data sets may be reproduced in sequence.

Claims

1. A content creation apparatus comprising:

a classification device that classifies a supplied text data set into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with substance of the supplied text data set;

a music selection device that selects or generates a musical composition data set which corresponds to the category of the text data set classified by said classification device; and

a content information generation device that generates content information containing first position information indicative of a stored position of the supplied text data set and second position information indicative of a stored position of the musical composition data set selected or generated by said music selection device.

2. A content creation apparatus as claimed in

claim 1

which further comprises a transmitter that delivers, onto a communication network, the content information generated by said content information generation device.

3. A content creation apparatus as claimed in

claim 1

wherein the text data set is a file of text data or a file of text and number data.

4. A content creation apparatus as claimed in

claim 1

wherein each of the categories corresponds to a genre which the substance of the text data set belongs to.

5. A content creation apparatus as claimed in

claim 1

wherein each of said first position information and said second position information is URL information.

6. A content creation apparatus comprising:

a classification device that classifies a supplied text data set into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with substance of the supplied text data set; and

a music selection device that selects or generates a musical composition data set which corresponds to the category of the text data set classified by said classification device,

wherein said music selection device randomly selects a musical composition data set of any one of a plurality of music pieces which correspond to one of the categories.

7. A content creation apparatus comprising:

a classification device that classifies a supplied text data set into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with substance of the supplied text data set; and

a music selection device that selects or generates a musical composition data set which corresponds to the category of the text data set classified by said classification device,

wherein said classification device searches the supplied text data set for predetermined keywords pertaining to individual ones of the categories and identifies the category of the supplied text data set on the basis of frequencies of occurrence of the keywords searched for within the text data set.

8. A content creation apparatus comprising:

a classification device that classifies a supplied text data set into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with substance of the supplied text data set; and

a music selection device that selects or generates a musical composition data set which corresponds to the category of the text data set classified by said classification device,

wherein the musical composition data set selected or generated by said music selection device is associated with the supplied text data set, to thereby generate content that contains information representative of the text data set and information representative of the musical composition data set, and

wherein one set of the content contains information representative of a plurality of text data sets to be sequentially reproduced and information representative of a plurality of musical composition data sets corresponding to the plurality of text data sets.

9. A content creation apparatus comprising:

a classification device that classifies a supplied text data set into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with substance of the supplied text data set; and

a music selection device that selects or generates a musical composition data set which corresponds to the category of the text data set classified by said classification device,

wherein the musical composition data set selected or generated by said music selection device is associated with the supplied text data set, to thereby generate content that contains information representative of the text data set and information representative of the musical composition data set, and

wherein one set of the content contains a plurality of text data sets, a plurality of musical composition data sets, and table data descriptive of correspondency between the text data sets and the musical composition data sets and order of reproduction of the text data sets and the musical composition data sets.

10. A content creation apparatus comprising:

a classification device that classifies a supplied text data set into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with substance of the supplied text data set;

a music selection device that selects or generates a musical composition data set which corresponds to the category of the text data set classified by said classification device; and

a voice data generation device that generates voice data corresponding to the supplied text data set.

11. A content distribution system comprising:

a server that distributes, via a communication network, content information that contains first position information indicative of a stored position of a text data set and second position information indicative of a stored position of a musical composition data set; and

a client terminal that

receives the content information distributed from said server via said communication network,

accesses, on the basis of said first position information contained in the received content information, a first predetermined position, on said communication network, corresponding to said first position information, so as to receive the text data set distributed from said first predetermined position, and

accesses, on the basis of said second position information contained in the received content information, a second predetermined position, on said communication network, corresponding to said second position, so as to receive the musical composition data set distributed from said second predetermined position.

12. A communication terminal apparatus comprising:

a receiver that receives content information distributed via a communication network, the content information containing first position information indicative of a stored position of a text data set and second position information indicative of a stored position of a musical composition data set; and

a transmitter that, on the basis of said first position information contained in the content information received via said receiver, automatically connects to a first predetermined position, on said communication network, corresponding to said first position information so that said transmitter receives the text data set distributed from said first predetermined position, and that, on the basis of said second position information contained in the received content information, automatically connects to a second predetermined position, on said communication network, corresponding to said second position information so that said transmitter receives the musical composition data set distributed from said second predetermined position.

13. A communication terminal apparatus as claimed in

claim 12

which further comprises a player that not only visually displays the text data set distributed from said first predetermined position but also audibly reproduces the musical composition data set distributed from said second predetermined position.

14. A communication terminal apparatus as claimed in

claim 12

wherein the text data set is a file of text data or a file of text and number data.

15. A communication terminal apparatus as claimed in

claim 12

wherein each of said first position information and said second position information is URL information.

16. A communication terminal apparatus as claimed in

claim 13

wherein the content information contains a plurality of first position information indicative of stored positions of text data sets and a plurality of second position information indicative of stored positions of musical composition data sets, and

wherein said player keeps on visually displaying one of the text data sets until reproduction of one of the musical composition data sets is terminated, and, in response to termination of the reproduction of the one musical composition data set, starts display of a next one of the text data sets and reproduction of a next one of the musical composition data sets.

17. A communication terminal apparatus as claimed in

claim 13

wherein in the course of the reproduction, via said player, of the musical composition data set, display of a next or preceding text data set and reproduction of a next or preceding musical composition data set can be instructed.

18. A content creation method comprising:

a step of classifying a supplied text data set into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with substance of the supplied text data set;

a step of selecting or generating a musical composition data set which corresponds to the category of the text data set classified by said step of classifying; and

a step of generating content information that contains first position information indicative of a stored position of the supplied text data set and second position information indicative of a stored position of the musical composition data set selected or generated by said step of selecting or generating.

19. A content creation method comprising:

a step of classifying a supplied text data set into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with substance of the supplied text data set; and

a step of selecting or generating a musical composition data set which corresponds to the category of the text data set classified by said step of classifying,

wherein said step of selecting or generating randomly selects a musical composition data set of any one of a plurality of music pieces which correspond to one of the categories.

20. A content creation method comprising:

a step of classifying a supplied text data set into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with substance of the supplied text data set; and

a step of selecting or generating a musical composition data set which corresponds to the category of the text data set classified by said step of classifying,

wherein said step of classifying searches the supplied text data set for predetermined keywords pertaining to individual ones of the categories and identifies the category of the supplied text data set on the basis of frequencies of occurrence of the keywords searched for within the text data set.

21. A content creation method comprising:

a step of classifying a supplied text data set into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with substance of the supplied text data set; and

a step of selecting or generating a musical composition data set which corresponds to the category of the text data set classified by said step of classifying,

wherein the musical composition data set selected or generated by said step of selecting or generating is associated with the supplied text data set, to thereby generate content that contains information representative of the text data set and information representative of the musical composition data set, and

wherein one set of the content contains information representative of a plurality of text data sets to be sequentially reproduced and information representative of a plurality of musical composition data sets corresponding to the plurality of text data sets.

22. A content creation method comprising:

a step of classifying a supplied text data set into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with substance of the supplied text data set; and

a step of selecting or generating a musical composition data set which corresponds to the category of the text data set classified by said step of classifying,

wherein the musical composition data set selected or generated by said step of selecting or generating is associated with the supplied text data set, to thereby generate content that contains information representative of the text data set and information representative of the musical composition data set, and

wherein one set of the content contains a plurality of text data sets, a plurality of musical composition data sets, and table data descriptive of correspondency between the text data sets and the musical composition data sets and order of reproduction of the text data sets and the musical composition data sets.

23. A content creation method comprising:

a step of classifying a supplied text data set into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with substance of the supplied text data set;

a step of selecting or generating a musical composition data set which corresponds to the category of the text data set classified by said step of classifying; and

a step of generating voice data corresponding to the supplied text data set.

24. A content distribution method comprising:

a step of distributing, via a communication network, content information that contains first position information indicative of a stored position of a text data set and second position information indicative of a stored position of a musical composition data set; and

a step of receiving the content information distributed via said communication network;

a step of accessing, on the basis of said first position information contained in the content information received by said step of receiving, a first predetermined position, on said communication network, corresponding to said first position information, so as to receive the text data set distributed via said communication network, and

a step of accessing, on the basis of said second position information contained in the received content information, a second predetermined position, on said communication network, corresponding to said second position information, so as to receive the musical composition data set distributed via said communication network.

25. A method for receiving and using content information comprising:

a step of receiving content information distributed via a communication network, the content information containing first position information indicative of a stored position of a text data set and second position information indicative of a stored position of a musical composition data set;

a step of, on the basis of said first position information contained in the content information received via said communication network, automatically connecting to a first predetermined position, on said communication network, corresponding to said first position information, so as to receive the text data set distributed via said communication network; and

a step of, on the basis of said second position information contained in the received content information, automatically connecting to a second predetermined position, on said communication network, corresponding to said second position information, so as to receive the musical composition data set distributed via said communication network.

26. A machine-readable storage medium containing a group of instructions to cause said machine to implement a content creation method, said content creation method comprising:

a step of classifying a supplied text data set into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with substance of the supplied text data set;

a step of selecting or generating a musical composition data set which corresponds to the category of the text data set classified by said step of classifying; and

a step of generating content information that contains first position information indicative of a stored position of the supplied text data set and second position information indicative of a stored position of the musical composition data set selected or generated by said step of selecting or generating.

27. A machine-readable storage medium containing a group of instructions to cause said machine to implement a content creation method, said content creation method comprising:

a step of classifying a supplied text data set into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with substance of the supplied text data set; and

a step of selecting or generating a musical composition data set which corresponds to the category of the text data set classified by said step of classifying,

wherein said step of selecting or generating randomly selects a musical composition data set of any one of a plurality of music pieces which correspond to one of the categories.

28. A machine-readable storage medium containing a group of instructions to cause said machine to implement a content creation method, said content creation method comprising:

a step of classifying a supplied text data set into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with substance of the supplied text data set; and

a step of selecting or generating a musical composition data set which corresponds to the category of the text data set classified by said step of classifying,

wherein said step of classifying searches the supplied text data set for predetermined keywords pertaining to individual ones of the categories and identifies the category of the supplied text data set on the basis of frequencies of occurrence of the keywords searched for within the text data set.

29. A machine-readable storage medium containing a group of instructions to cause said machine to implement a content creation method, said content creation method comprising:

a step of classifying a supplied text data set into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with substance of the supplied text data set; and

a step of selecting or generating a musical composition data set which corresponds to the category of the text data set classified by said step of classifying,

wherein the musical composition data set selected or generated by said step of selecting or generating is associated with the supplied text data set, to thereby generate content that contains information representative of the text data set and information representative of the musical composition data set, and

wherein one set of the content contains information representative of a plurality of text data sets to be sequentially reproduced and information representative of a plurality of musical composition data sets corresponding to the plurality of text data sets.

30. A machine-readable storage medium containing a group of instructions to cause said machine to implement a content creation method, said content creation method comprising:

a step of classifying a supplied text data set into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with substance of the supplied text data set; and

a step of selecting or generating a musical composition data set which corresponds to the category of the text data set classified by said step of classifying,

wherein the musical composition data set selected or generated by said step of selecting or generating is associated with the supplied text data set, to thereby generate content that contains information representative of the text data set and information representative of the musical composition data set, and

wherein one set of the content contains a plurality of text data sets, a plurality of musical composition data sets, and table data descriptive of correspondency between the text data sets and the musical composition data sets and order of reproduction of the text data sets and the musical composition data sets.

31. A machine-readable storage medium containing a group of instructions to cause said machine to implement a content creation method, said content creation method comprising:

a step of classifying a supplied text data set into any one of a plurality of categories in accordance with substance of the supplied text data set;

a step of selecting or generating a musical composition data set which corresponds to the category of the text data set classified by said step of classifying; and

a step of generating voice data corresponding to the supplied text data set.

32. A machine-readable storage medium containing a group of instructions to cause said machine to implement a content distribution method, said content distribution method comprising:

a step of distributing, via a communication network, content information that contains first position information indicative of a stored position of a text data set and second position information indicative of a stored position of a musical composition data set; and

a step of receiving the content information distributed via said communication network;

a step of accessing, on the basis of said first position information contained in the content information received by said step of receiving, a first predetermined position, on said communication network, corresponding to said first position information, so as to receive the text data set distributed via said communication network, and

a step of accessing, on the basis of said second position information contained in the received content information, a second predetermined position, on said communication network, corresponding to said second position information, so as to receive the musical composition data set distributed via said communication network.

33. A machine-readable storage medium containing a group of instructions to cause said machine to implement a method for receiving and using content information, said method comprising:

a step of receiving content information distributed via a communication network, the content information containing first position information indicative of a stored position of a text data set and second position information indicative of a stored position of a musical composition data set;

a step of, on the basis of said first position information contained in the content information received via said communication network, automatically connecting to a first predetermined position, on said communication network, corresponding to said first position information, so as to receive the text data set distributed via said communication network; and

a step of, on the basis of said second position information contained in the received content information, automatically connecting to a second predetermined position, on said communication network, corresponding to said second position information, so as to receive the musical composition data set distributed via said communication network.

34. A signal for transfer over a communication network, said signal comprising:

first position information indicative of a stored position of a text data set;

second position information indicative of a stored position of digested text data representing an outline of the text data set; and

third position information indicative of a stored position of a musical composition data set related to the text data set.

35. A signal for transfer over a communication network comprising a series of pieces of content information, each of said pieces of content information comprising:

first position information indicative of a stored position of a text data set; and

second position information indicative of a stored position of a musical composition data set related to the text data set.