Patent Document ID: 7858868
Application ID: 11631944

Base Claim:
1. A method for operating a digital processing apparatus including a processor for classifying music, comprising: (a) providing music classification data that are descriptive for a discrete and finite set of a finite number of music classes; (b) providing an unclassified piece of music to be classified; (c) deriving, in the processor, for each of said music classes of said set of music classes, a respective Gish distance value with respect to said unclassified piece of music to be classified to obtain a discrete and finite set of a finite number of Gish distance values, wherein said finite set of a finite number of Gish distance values is descriptive for a relation of said unclassified piece of music to be classified with respect to said discrete and finite set of a finite number of music classes.

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Claim 2:
2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising: (d) detecting, in the processor, within said set of Gish distance values at least one minimum Gish distance value, thereby determining the distinct minimizing music class within the set of music classes that corresponds to said minimum Gish distance value.