Information processing apparatus and method, information processing system, and transmission medium

• US 20060223507A1
• Filed: 06/02/2006
• Published: 10/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ironworks Patents LLC
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kawamoto, Yoji
• Granted Patent: US 7,774,022 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/634 Query by example, e.g. query by humming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/68 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/091 Info, i.e. juxtaposition of unrelated auxiliary information or commercial messages with or between music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/28 Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 40/27 specially adapted for broadcast systems covered by groups H04H20/53 - H04H20/95
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/37 for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/58 of audio determination or detection of speech characteristics in general G10L25/00; speech recognition in general G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/64 for providing detail information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/73 using meta-information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/87 accessed over computer networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/94 Telephonic networks for accessing the Internet H04H60/84
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/553 Data upload
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

When a user gets interested in some music he/she listens to somewhere, for example, in a coffee shop, the user records that music in a memory provided in a portable terminal. A processor reads the information stored in the memory and performs a predetermined process on it. The resultant information is stored on a storage device. The information stored on the storage device is then transferred to a server via a communication device. The server searches the database for the title of the music corresponding to the received information, and returns the result to the terminal. Thus, the user can easily get information about the title of the music.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a recording device configured to record information related to a music playing when said recording device records said information, said music being broadcast from a remote source;

a memory configured to store said information related to said music when said music is playing;

a circuit configured to acquire information associated with the music based on said information stored in said memory; and

a display device configured to display the information acquired with said circuit.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said information related to said music includes time information about a time when said music is playing.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said information acquired with said circuit relates to said music.

4. The apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a telephone.

5. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said circuit comprises:

a transmitter configured to transmit said information related to said music; and

a receiver configured to receive said information based on said information related to said music.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an input device configured to receive an input and wherein said recording device is configured to activate based on said input.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said input device comprises a button.

8. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a recording device configured to record information related to a music playing when said reading device records said information into a memory device, said music being broadcast from a remote source;

a circuit configured to acquire information associated with the music based on said information stored in said memory; and

a display device configured to display the information associated with the music acquired with said circuit.