Patent ID: 7829777

Claim:
A music displaying apparatus comprising: a voice input device to obtain voice data concerning singing of a user; singing characteristic analysis programmed logic circuitry for analyzing the voice data to calculate a plurality of singing characteristic parameters which indicate a characteristic of the singing of the user; music piece related information storage medium for storing music piece related information concerning a music piece; comparison parameter storage medium for storing a plurality of comparison parameters, which are to be compared with the plurality of singing characteristic parameters, so as to be associated with the music piece related information; comparison programmed logic circuitry for comparing the plurality of singing characteristic parameters with the plurality of comparison parameters to calculate a similarity between the plurality of singing characteristic parameters and the plurality of comparison parameters; selection programmed logic circuitry for selecting at least one piece of the music piece related information which is associated with a comparison parameter which has a high similarity with the singing characteristic parameter; a display to display information based on the music piece related information selected by the selection programmed logic circuitry, wherein the music piece related information includes music piece data for reproducing at least the music piece, the comparison parameter includes a parameter which indicates a musical characteristic of the music piece so as to be associated with the music piece data, the selection programmed logic circuitry selects at least one piece of the music piece data which is associated with the comparison parameter which has the high similarity with the singing characteristic parameter, the display to display information of the music piece based on the music piece data selected by the selection programmed logic circuitry, the music piece related information includes genre data which indicates a music genre, and the comparison parameter includes a parameter which indicates a musical characteristic of the music genre, music piece genre similarity data storage medium for storing music piece genre similarity data which indicates a similarity between the music piece and the music genre; and voice genre similarity calculation programmed logic circuitry for calculating a similarity between the singing characteristic parameter and the music genre, wherein the selection programmed logic circuitry selects the music piece data based on the similarity calculated by the voice genre similarity calculation programmed logic circuitry and the music piece genre similarity data stored by the music piece genre similarity data storage medium.