DISCOVERY OF MUSIC ARTIST AND TITLE VIA COMPANIONSHIP BETWEEN A CELLULAR PHONE AND A BROADCAST RADIO RECEIVER

• US 20140336799A1
• Filed: 05/13/2013
• Published: 11/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Harry E. Emerson III
• Original Assignee: Harry E. Emerson III
• Inventors: Emerson, Harry E. III
• Application Number:
  US13/892,307
• Publication Number:
  US 20140336799A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/94
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/683 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/018 Audio watermarking, i.e. embedding inaudible data in the audio signal

Abstract

Radio receivers have wireless communication to an associated smart phone, and transmit a copy of the audio output in digital format to an application in the smart phone. The smart phone application detects the beginning of a song, creates an acoustic fingerprint of the song, and obtains the artist and title of the song from an acoustic fingerprinting database of songs. The artist and title are delivered by the smart phone to the radio receiver, and are presented on the radio receiver'"'"'s display screen.

Claims

1. A method of a cellular phone, including the operation of one or more software applications of a cellular phone, said cellular phone having a wireless connection to a broadcast radio receiver wherein said wireless connection carries an audio stream, such as would be directed to speakers, from the radio receiver to the cellular phone, to determine the artist and title of songs played by a radio station and received by said radio receiver by comparing an acoustic fingerprint, being a digital representation of a song or a portion of a song, with a database of songs having acoustic fingerprints associated with the artist and title of each song, and retrieving the artist and title of the song if a match is found, the cellular phone having available an audio analysis system, a fingerprinting system and a database system having database of song fingerprints, said database associating acoustic fingerprints with the artist and title of songs, said cellular phone also having wireless access to the Internet including cellular data communications, and wherein the received audio of the radio receiver is directed to the audio analysis system, comprising the steps of:

a. analyzing said audio stream by said audio analysis system to determine the approximate beginning of a song;

b. submitting a portion up to the entirety of a new song to said fingerprinting system for the creation of an acoustic fingerprint of the new song once the approximate beginning of said new song has been detected;

c. submitting said acoustic fingerprint of said new song to said database system for comparison with fingerprints in the database;

d. receiving the artist and title of the new song from the database system in the case where an acoustic fingerprint in the database matches the acoustic fingerprint being compared, or returning to step (a) if a match is not found;

e. storing said received artist and title in said cellular phone, said stored artist and title being available for display to the user; and

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f. returning to step (a) for retrieval of the artist and title of another song.

2. A method as described in claim 1 wherein said audio analysis system resides in the cellular phone, and the fingerprinting system and the fingerprint database system reside on the Internet and are accessible to the cellular phone wirelessly, and wherein on the completion of step (a) said audio analysis system sends a portion up to the entirety of the song to the fingerprinting system for fingerprinting and to the database system for comparing the fingerprint, and thence to continue with step (b).

3. A method as described in claim 1 wherein said audio analysis system and the fingerprinting system reside in the cellular phone, and the fingerprint database system resides on the Internet and is accessible to the cellular phone wirelessly, and wherein on the completion of step (b) said fingerprint created is submitted to the database system, and thence to continue with step (c).

4. A method as described in claim 1 wherein said audio analysis system and said fingerprinting system are the same system.

5. A method as described in claim 1 wherein said fingerprint database is operated by a service provider, and the retrieved artist and title is stored at the service provider on behalf of the user.

6. A method as described in claim 1 wherein said radio receiver is an automobile radio.

7. A method as described in claim 1 wherein said radio receiver is a home radio system.

8. A method as described in claim 1 wherein said cellular phone has wired connection to the radio receiver.

9. A non-transitory machine-readable medium containing processor readable code for programming a processor for use in operating a cellular phone, including the operation of one or more software applications of a cellular phone, said cellular phone having a wireless connection to a broadcast radio receiver wherein said wireless connection carries an audio stream, such as would be directed to speakers, from the radio receiver to the cellular phone, to determine the artist and title of songs played by a radio station and received by said radio receiver by comparing an acoustic fingerprint, being a digital representation of a song or a portion of a song, with a database of songs having acoustic fingerprints associated with the artist and title of each song, and retrieving the artist and title of the song if a match is found, the cellular phone having available an audio analysis system, a fingerprinting system and a database system having database of song fingerprints, said database associating acoustic fingerprints with the artist and title of songs, said cellular phone also having wireless access to the Internet including cellular data communications, and wherein the received audio of the radio receiver is directed to the audio analysis system, comprising:

a. a routine for analyzing said audio output by said audio analysis system to determine the approximate beginning of a song;

b. a routine for submitting a segment of a new song to said fingerprinting system for the creation of an acoustic fingerprint of the new song once the approximate beginning of said new song has been detected;

c. a routine for submitting said acoustic fingerprint of said new song to said database system for comparison with fingerprints in the database;

d. a routine for receiving the artist and title of the new song from the database system in the case where an acoustic fingerprint in the database matches the acoustic fingerprint being compared, or returning to step (a) if a match is not found;

e. a routine for storing said received artist and title in said cellular phone, said stored artist and title being available for display to the user; and

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f. a routine for returning to step (a) for retrieval of the artist and title of another song.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 10 wherein said audio analysis system resides in the cellular phone, and the fingerprinting system and the fingerprint database system reside on the Internet and are accessible to the cellular phone wirelessly, and wherein on the completion of step (a) said audio analysis system sends a portion up to the entirety of the song to the fingerprinting system for fingerprinting and to the database system for comparing the fingerprint, and thence to continue with step (d).

11. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 10 wherein said audio analysis system and the fingerprinting system reside in the cellular phone, and the fingerprint database system resides on the Internet and is accessible to the cellular phone wirelessly, and wherein on the completion of step (b) said fingerprint is submitted to the database system, and thence to continue with step (d).

12. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 10 wherein said audio analysis system and said fingerprinting system are the same system.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 10 wherein said fingerprint database is operated by a service provider, and the retrieved artist and title is stored at the service provider on behalf of the user.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 10 wherein said radio receiver is an automobile radio.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 10 wherein said radio receiver is a home radio system.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 10 wherein said cellular phone has wired connection to the radio receiver.

17. A cellular phone system, including the operation of one or more software applications of a cellular phone, to determine the artist and title of songs of a broadcast played by a radio station and received by a radio receiver by comparing an acoustic fingerprint, being a digital representation of a song or a portion of a song, with a database of songs having acoustic fingerprints associated with the artist and title of each song, and retrieving the artist and title of the song if a match is found, said cellular phone system comprising:

a. a cellular phone system having communications connectivity to a radio receiver said radio receiver configured to provide an audio output, such as would go to speakers, to said cellular phone system;

b. wireless access to the Internet;

c. an audio analysis system arranged to analyze the audio output to determine the approximate beginning of a new song, and to provide a portion up to the entirety of said new song to a fingerprinting system;

d. a fingerprinting system available to the audio analysis system and being arranged to create a fingerprint of a song from audio provided by the audio analysis system;

e. a database system available to said fingerprinting system and having a database of song fingerprints, said database associating acoustic fingerprints with the artist and title of songs, and being arranged to compare a fingerprint provided by the fingerprinting system with fingerprints in the database, and if a match is found to retrieve the associated artist and title, and to provide the retrieved artist and title to said cellular phone system; and

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f. a display system to display said retrieved artist and title.

19. A system as described in claim 19 wherein said audio analysis system resides in the cellular phone system, and the fingerprinting system and the fingerprint database system reside on the Internet and are accessible to the cellular phone system.

18. A system as described in claim 19 wherein said cellular phone system is arranged to provide said retrieved artist and title to said radio receiver for display for display on said radio receiver.

20. A system as described in claim 19 wherein said audio analysis system and the fingerprinting system reside in the cellular phone system, and the fingerprint database system resides on the Internet and is accessible to the cellular phone system.

21. A system as described in claim 19 wherein said audio analysis system and said fingerprinting system are the same system.

22. A system as described in claim 19 wherein said fingerprint database is operated by a service provider, and the retrieved artist and title is stored at the service provider on behalf of the user.

23. A system as described in claim 19 wherein said radio receiver is an automobile radio.

24. A system as described in claim 19 wherein said radio receiver is a home radio system.

25. A system as described in claim 19 wherein said fingerprint database is operated by a service provider, and the retrieved artist and title is stored at the service provider on behalf of the user of the radio receiver system.