Analyzing captured sound and seeking a match based on an acoustic fingerprint for temporal and geographic presentation and navigation of linked cultural, artistic, and historic content
First Claim
1. A computer implemented method for temporal and geographic presentation and navigation of linked cultural, artistic, and historic content, comprising:
- capturing a song fragment;
providing a facility that determines an acoustic fingerprint for said song fragment;
using said acoustic fingerprint to access a music database to identify a song that corresponds to the captured fragment;
receiving from said music database music identification information for said song;
providing said music identification information as a user selection query to a navigation facility;
providing a processor configured to register collections of music and music-related information in a database and to make said collections of music and music-related information available to users, wherein said collections of music and music-related information are classified in said database by all of time, location, genre, and artist; and
said processor configured to provide a navigation facility for user selection of a combination of all of time, location, genre, and artist in connection with said collections of music and said music-related information, and for generating and presenting to said user in response to said user selection a corresponding map that includes independent images of all of music, its history, and culture with regard to said collections of music and music-related information;
wherein said culture presented on said map in response to said user selection comprises results that include independent images of all of fashion, film, literature, music, and news;
wherein said processor is configured to generate and present to said user at least one animated mural comprising said images and that depicts a fundamental combination of time, place, genre, artist, and culture in connection with said music-related information;
wherein said animated mural comprises a dynamically animated selection of said images derived from the user'"'"'s current selection; and
wherein said images further comprise any of regions, cities, artists, news items, fashion trends, movies, books, and genres of art.
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Abstract
Collections of music and other items, related by time, location, genre, and artist, and that are registered in a data model to provide a foundation for their curatorship, discovery, and procurement are accessed by analyzing captured sound and seeking a match based on an acoustic fingerprint. As a result of said match, a map through the history and culture of music is created for display. The map is created in an embodiment by a series of choices, where a choice is a combination of any of time, place, genre, and artist. Both expert and regular individual curators can define the maps; or the maps can be defined algorithmically. Based upon said matches, one or more animated murals depicting a fundamental combination of any of time, place, genre, and artist are provided to a user via a user interface for the navigation of music, its history, and culture.
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26 Claims
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1. A computer implemented method for temporal and geographic presentation and navigation of linked cultural, artistic, and historic content, comprising:
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capturing a song fragment; providing a facility that determines an acoustic fingerprint for said song fragment; using said acoustic fingerprint to access a music database to identify a song that corresponds to the captured fragment; receiving from said music database music identification information for said song; providing said music identification information as a user selection query to a navigation facility; providing a processor configured to register collections of music and music-related information in a database and to make said collections of music and music-related information available to users, wherein said collections of music and music-related information are classified in said database by all of time, location, genre, and artist; and said processor configured to provide a navigation facility for user selection of a combination of all of time, location, genre, and artist in connection with said collections of music and said music-related information, and for generating and presenting to said user in response to said user selection a corresponding map that includes independent images of all of music, its history, and culture with regard to said collections of music and music-related information; wherein said culture presented on said map in response to said user selection comprises results that include independent images of all of fashion, film, literature, music, and news; wherein said processor is configured to generate and present to said user at least one animated mural comprising said images and that depicts a fundamental combination of time, place, genre, artist, and culture in connection with said music-related information; wherein said animated mural comprises a dynamically animated selection of said images derived from the user'"'"'s current selection; and wherein said images further comprise any of regions, cities, artists, news items, fashion trends, movies, books, and genres of art. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A map index for conceptual, navigational, and physical organization of music-related materials, comprising:
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a processor configured as a registry for maintaining a fundamental relationship between a plurality of core elements and for registering a plurality of data objects comprising descriptions of music, its history, and culture with said core elements; wherein said core elements comprise any of time, location, genre, and artist; wherein each of said core elements has a unique numeric id, maintained by said registry in an underlying relational database management system; wherein said unique numeric id comprises a foreign key for referencing said map index and for relating said corresponding core elements; wherein each combination of one numeric id from each of said core elements corresponds to a unique map_id of said map index; wherein assignment of a single unique numeric id to each combination of core elements optimizes a mapping of higher level abstractions to a subject relationship with reduction of many-to-one a number of required index operations; and wherein partition of said map index into a plurality of core elements provides a plurality of core filters for data object search and retrieval; and capturing a song fragment; providing a facility that determines an acoustic fingerprint for said song fragment; using said acoustic fingerprint to access a music database to identify a song that corresponds to the captured fragment; receiving from said music database music identification information for said song; providing said music identification information as a user selection to a navigation facility; and said processor configured to provide a navigation facility for user selection of a combination of all of said core elements in connection with collections of music and said music-related information, and for generating and presenting to said user in response to said user selection a corresponding map that includes independent images of all of music, its history, and culture with regard to said collections of music and music-related information; wherein said culture presented on said map in response to said user selection comprises results that include independent images of all of fashion, film, literature, music, and news; wherein said processor is configured to generate and present to said user at least one animated mural comprising said images and that depicts a fundamental combination of time, place, genre, artist, and culture in connection with said music-related information; wherein said animated mural comprises a dynamically animated selection of said images derived from the user'"'"'s current selection; and wherein said images further comprise represent any of regions, cities, artists, news items, fashion trends, movies, books, and genres of art. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26)
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