Patent ID: 7199300

Claim:
An information search apparatus which searches one or plural songs among a plurality of songs including lyrics and performances, wherein said information search apparatus comprises: a song feature information storing device which distinguishably stores song feature information indicating at least one of acoustic feature of the performances included in the song and feature of the lyrics included in the song, for every song; a search word input device which is used to input a search word representing the song to be searched and formed of a word representing a subjectivity; a search song feature information storing device which distinguishably stores search song feature information indicating at least one of the acoustic feature of the performances included in any one of the songs to be searched by using the inputted search word as a piece of song appropriate to the subjectivity represented by the inputted search word and the feature of the lyrics included in the song, for every search word; a comparison device which compares input search song feature information as the search song feature information corresponding to the inputted search word with each of the stored song feature information; an extracting device which extracts a song corresponding to the song feature information having the best similarity to the input search song feature information, as the song corresponding to the inputted search word, based on the comparison result of said comparison device; a first display control device which makes a display device display an input search song feature information image which is an image indicating the details of the input search song feature information; and a second display control device which makes said display device display an extracted song feature information image which is an image indicating the details of the song feature information corresponding to the extracted song.