Patent ID: 7589270

Claim:
A musical content utilizing apparatus comprising: a display unit; a content utilization portion for providing a user with musical information on the display unit based on content material data; an input portion for inputting a musical content package containing content definition data and different kinds of content material data for displaying an image on the display unit, the content definition data defining the handling of the content material data used by the content utilization portion among the different kinds of content material data, the content definition data including content material designation data for designating any one or more of the different kinds of content material data included in the musical content package, for using the designated content material data by the content utilization portion; and a filtering portion for filtering the different kinds of content material data contained in the musical content package input at the input portion to extract applicable content material data from among the different kinds of content material data and deleting the content material designation data associated with the inapplicable content material data, wherein the different kinds of content material data include musical score data, MIDI data, audio data, image data, and video data, and wherein the content utilization portion processes the input musical content package and provides the user with musical information on the display unit based on the applicable content material data extracted by the filtering portion and the content material designation data associated with the extracted applicable content material data.