Music providing system having music selecting function by human feeling and a music providing method using thereof

• US 20040055448A1
• Filed: 06/13/2003
• Published: 03/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gi-Man Byon
• Original Assignee: Gi-Man Byon
• Inventors: Byon, Gi-Man
• Application Number:
  US10/450,728
• Publication Number:
  US 20040055448A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 84/626
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0058 Transmission between separate instruments or between individual components of a musical system G10H1/0083 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/061 MP3, i.e. MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, lossy audio compression
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/085 Mood, i.e. generation, detection or selection of a particular emotional content or atmosphere in a musical piece
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10 Digital recording or reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10527 Audio or video recording; Data buffering arrangements G11B20/12 - G11B20/18 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10546 specifically adapted for audio data

Abstract

A music provision system having a music selection function based on human feelings, which is capable of analyzing a user'"'"'s feeling on the basis of user personal information, user taste information and external information affecting the user'"'"'s feeling, or a human feeling check list provided to the user, outputting the analysis results as a feeling type and feeling level and providing music corresponding to the feeling type and level. A music player having a function of recognizing a user'"'"'s feeling is also disclosed herein. The music player can reproduce music corresponding to the user'"'"'s feeling by itself.

Claims

1. A music provision system based on human feelings, comprising:

a human feeling checker for providing a human feeling check list to a user over the Internet and receiving results of said human feeling check list checked off by the user;

a human feeling judger for judging the user'"'"'s current feeling by said check list results received by said human feeling checker;

a music selector for selecting music corresponding to said user'"'"'s current feeling judged by said human feeling judger;

a database unit for storing information regarding said human feeling check list and music information and providing the stored information to said human feeling judger, music selector and human feeling checker; and

a main control unit for controlling said human feeling checker, human feeling judger, music selector and database unit and sending data of said music selected by said music selector to said user over the Internet.

2. The music provision system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said database unit includes:

a user database for storing user information;

a music database for storing said music information; and

a human feeling check list database for storing said human feeling check list information.

3. The music provision system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said music data is an MP3 file, AVI file, MPEG file or WAVE file.

4. The music provision system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said music data includes explanations of said music selected by said music selector.

5. The music provision system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said Internet includes a wireless Internet network connected to a Web server.

6. The music provision system as set forth in claim 5, wherein said user gains access to said Web server through a computer, music player or cellular phone.

7. A music provision system based on human feelings, comprising:

a human feeling judger for judging a user'"'"'s current feeling by user personal information, user taste information and external information having effects on the user'"'"'s feeling;

a music selector for selecting music corresponding to said user'"'"'s feeling judged by said human feeling judger;

a database unit for storing said user personal information and user taste information and music information and providing the stored information to said human feeling judger and music selector; and

a main control unit for controlling said human feeling judger, music selector and database unit and sending data of said music selected by said music selector to said user over the Internet.

8. The music provision system as set forth in claim 7, wherein said user personal information includes said user'"'"'s biorhythm information.

9. The music provision system as set forth in claim 7, wherein said user taste information includes said user'"'"'s hobbies, interests and/or financial standing.

10. A music provision method based on human feelings, comprising the steps of:

a) logging in to a Web server by entering a user identification and password, and then downloading a Web page from said Web server;

b) entering user personal information and user taste information on the downloaded Web page to send said information to said Web server;

c) analyzing a user'"'"'s current feeling on the basis of said user personal information and user taste information and external information having effects on the user'"'"'s feeling and outputting the analysis results as a type and level of said user'"'"'s current feeling; and

d) selecting music corresponding to said feeling type and level and providing data of the selected music to said user.

11. The music provision method as set forth in claim 10, wherein said step d) includes the steps of:

d-1) selecting a music list corresponding to said feeling type and level and sending the selected music list to said user over the Internet;

d-2) allowing said user to select desired music from the sent music list; and

d-3) sending data of said music selected by said user thereto.

12. A music provision method based on human feelings, comprising the steps of:

a) logging in to a Web server by entering a user identification and password, and then downloading a Web page including a human feeling check list from said Web server;

b) allowing a user to check off items provided on said human feeling check list of the downloaded Web page according to his/her current feeling and send the checked-off results to said Web server;

c) analyzing the user'"'"'s current feeling on the basis of said checked-off human feeling check list results and outputting the analysis results as a type and level of said user'"'"'s current feeling;

d) selecting music corresponding to said feeling type and level; and

e) sending data of the selected music to said user over the Internet.

13. A music player having a music selection function based on human feelings, comprising:

an input unit for receiving parallel digital music data;

a storage unit for storing the parallel digital music data received by said input unit;

a human feeling judger for providing a human feeling check list to a user and judging the user'"'"'s current feeling by the results of said human feeling check list checked off by said user;

a music selector for selecting music corresponding to said user'"'"'s feeling judged by said human feeling judger;

a format converter for converting parallel digital data of said music selected by said music selector into serial digital data;

a decoder for decoding the serial digital data converted by said format converter;

a digital/analog (D/A) converter/amplifier unit for converting output digital music data from said decoder into analog music data and amplifying the converted analog music data; and

an output unit for outputting the analog music data converted and amplified by said D/A converter/amplifier unit.

14. The music player as set forth in claim 13, wherein said storage unit is adapted to store said human feeling check list and provide it to said user through said human feeling judger.