Information search method and apparatus, information search server utilizing this apparatus, relevant program, and storage medium storing the program
First Claim
1. An information search apparatus, comprising:
- an information accumulation section which accumulates in advance accompanying information related to time-series data; and
;
a search section which performs searching among said accompanying information which is stored in said information accumulation section based upon at least one of time-series data which is inputted from a user terminal and searched time-series signal feature data which represents said time-series data, and outputs the searched out accompanying information.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
It enables easy and quick searching and delivery of information desired by a user based upon a portion of time-series data which consists of clip information from music, a movie, a commercial message, or the like. The user accesses an information search server from a user terminal which is connected to a network, and, using this portion of time-series data as a search key, performs searches upon said server for information related to the time-series data. The information search server returns the name of the tune, the title of the movie, the name of goods advertised in the commercial message or the like to the user terminal via said network as search results, and the search provider levies a price for said search from the user.
-
Citations
37 Claims
-
1. An information search apparatus, comprising:
-
an information accumulation section which accumulates in advance accompanying information related to time-series data; and
;
a search section which performs searching among said accompanying information which is stored in said information accumulation section based upon at least one of time-series data which is inputted from a user terminal and searched time-series signal feature data which represents said time-series data, and outputs the searched out accompanying information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
-
-
15. An information search method, comprising:
an information accumulation step of accumulating accompanying information related to time-series data in advance; and
;
a search step of performing searching from among said accompanying information which has been accumulated in advance and outputting searched accompanying information, based upon at least one of time-series data input from a terminal of a user, and search time-series signal feature data representing said time-series data. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
-
35. A program for execution upon a computer of:
an information accumulation step which accumulates in advance accompanying information related to time-series data; and
;
a search step which performs searching among said accompanying information which has been accumulated in advance based upon at least one of time-series data which is inputted from a user terminal and search time-series signal feature data which represents said time-series data, and outputs the searched out accompanying information. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37)
Specification