Patent Document ID: 7488886
Application ID: 11558301

Base Claim:
1. A method for the retrieval of music information based on audio input comprising: pre-storing a defined set of music sequences with associated information; entering at least one of speech and music information and arranging a coding representing said speech and music information, respectively, as a first (S) and a second dimension (H) of a three-dimensional search space, time (t) being the third dimension, and carrying out a search in the three-dimensional search space in order to find the music sequence out of the set of music sequences matching best to the entered at least one of speech and music information, and retrieving said music sequence for a user that has placed an inquiry for said information.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one of entered speech and music information is individually pre-processed before respectively being represented as a coding in the three-dimensional search space.