METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE AUTOMATIC OR SEMI-AUTOMATIC COMPOSITION OF MULTIMEDIA SEQUENCE
First Claim
1. Method for the automatic or semi-automatic composition, of a multimedia sequence including a prior phase including the creation of a reference structure of a multimedia sequence and the breakdown of said structure into a limited numbers of basic components assimilated to tracks, each of these basic components associated with a set of basic subcomponents (or bricks) which comprises at least musical movements, harmonies or styles and an automatic composition phase of a new multimedia sequence containing a choice of subcomponents,wherein said prior phase comprises the assigning of psychoacoustic descriptors or attributes to each of the subcomponents and the storage of subcomponents and descriptors or attributes that are assigned to them in databases and said automatic composition phase comprises a generation on the basic components of a sequence of subcomponents with a chaining characterised by a maintaining or a replacing of the subcomponents is said chaining being calculated according to an algorithm that determines, for each subcomponent a selection criterion taking into account its psychoacoustic descriptors or attributes and context parameters, said composition phase repeating through looping, each sequence of subcomponents regenerating itself permanently at a hearing rhythm by associating a subcomponent to each basic component, the listener being able to intervene during said composition phase on the choice of subsequent subcomponents by influencing the operation of above-mentioned algorithm.
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Abstract
The method according to the invention includes the creation of a reference multimedia sequence structure, the breaking down of this structure into basic components (tracks P1, P2, Pn) each containing a series of basic subcomponents (bricks B11-Bn4), the association to each one of these basic subcomponents of a plurality of homologous subcomponents (homologous bricks B11 Hi, B21 Hj, B″1 Hk) to each of which are assigned attributes and an automatic composition phase of a new multimedia sequence containing the maintaining of the subcomponents or their replacing with homologous subcomponents chosen algorithmically according to an algorithm determining the probability of the subcomponents of being chosen, considering its attributes, then by performing a random choice in respect of these probabilities.
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26 Claims
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1. Method for the automatic or semi-automatic composition, of a multimedia sequence including a prior phase including the creation of a reference structure of a multimedia sequence and the breakdown of said structure into a limited numbers of basic components assimilated to tracks, each of these basic components associated with a set of basic subcomponents (or bricks) which comprises at least musical movements, harmonies or styles and an automatic composition phase of a new multimedia sequence containing a choice of subcomponents,
wherein said prior phase comprises the assigning of psychoacoustic descriptors or attributes to each of the subcomponents and the storage of subcomponents and descriptors or attributes that are assigned to them in databases and said automatic composition phase comprises a generation on the basic components of a sequence of subcomponents with a chaining characterised by a maintaining or a replacing of the subcomponents is said chaining being calculated according to an algorithm that determines, for each subcomponent a selection criterion taking into account its psychoacoustic descriptors or attributes and context parameters, said composition phase repeating through looping, each sequence of subcomponents regenerating itself permanently at a hearing rhythm by associating a subcomponent to each basic component, the listener being able to intervene during said composition phase on the choice of subsequent subcomponents by influencing the operation of above-mentioned algorithm.
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20. The method comprising a file grouping creation and definition elements said file comprising at least one part of the following elements:
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general parameters comprising at least a tempo the number and description of the tracks, in particular the type of each one relations between the tracks, the number and description of the psychoacoustic characters the various multimedia materials, the list and description of each subcomponent being understood that a subcomponent contains multimedia material, but the same material can be used by several subcomponents, the table of psychoacoustic character values of each subcomponent, the number and description of the interaction cursors, the list of distance function of each track, defined in the form of a bytecode, as well as the associated limiter, the list of evaluation functions of each track, defined in the form of a bytecode, the list of starting and ending functions of each track, defined in the form of a bytecode.
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