Patent ID: 7544881

Claim:
A music-piece classifying apparatus comprising: first means for storing audio signals representing music pieces respectively; second means for storing bibliographic information segments about the respective music pieces represented by the audio signals stored in the first means; third means for reading out, from the second means, a bibliographic information segment about selected one of the music pieces; fourth means for generating a bibliographic-information impression word on the basis of the bibliographic information segment read out by the third means; fifth means for reading out, from the first means, an audio signal representing the selected one of the music pieces; sixth means for calculating an acoustic feature quantity of the audio signal read out by the fifth means; seventh means for generating a feature-quantity impression word on the basis of the acoustic feature quantity calculated by the sixth means; eighth means for determining a degree of conformity between the bibliographic-information impression word generated by the fourth means and the feature-quantity impression word generated by the seventh means; ninth means for deciding whether or not the conformity degree determined by the eighth means is greater than a predetermined threshold value; tenth means for selecting both the bibliographic-information impression word generated by the fourth means and the feature-quantity impression word generated by the seventh means as final impression words when the ninth means decides that the conformity degree determined by the eighth means is greater than the predetermined threshold value; and eleventh means for storing a signal representing the final impression words selected by the tenth means in relation to the selected one of the music pieces.