Patent ID: 9245508
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G06F,G10H

Claim Text:
1. A music piece order determination device comprising: a beat information corrector configured, in a case of reproducing a music piece, to acquire beat position information including at least information regarding a point of time when a beat is reproduced, to acquire a tempo value indicating a number of beats per unit time in the music piece, and to correct, in a case where the tempo value is different from a reference value, the beat position information of the music piece so that the tempo value of the music piece be a same value as the reference value; a correlation value calculator configured to calculate a correlation value based on the beat position information in which the tempo value is corrected to the same value as the reference value, the correlation value indicating a degree of correlation of beat position information between respective music pieces among a plurality of the music pieces; and a music piece order determiner configured to determine a music piece order as a reproduction order of music pieces, the music pieces being reproduced successively, so that a product or total sum of the correlation values between the music pieces be at a maximum or an approximate solution thereof.