Patent ID: 8224846
Filing Date: 2012-07-17
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for retrieving for music that matches with a preference of a user across a plurality of music, comprising: a feature vector generating device for generating feature vectors of said respective plurality of music; a clustering device for clustering said plurality of music into a plurality of clusters according to the feature vectors generated by said feature vector generating device; a music extract device for extracting a predetermined number of music from each of said plurality of clusters; a music selection accepting device for accepting a selection of music by the user from the music extracted by said music extraction device; and a music retrieval device for calculating similarities between a feature vector of the music selected, the selection of which is accepted by said music selection accepting device, and feature vectors of said respective plurality of music, and retrieving music that have higher similarities to said selected music among said plurality of music.