Patent Document ID: 8442325
Application ID: 12369113
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for recognizing a music score included in an image, the method comprising: (a) detecting a first region with staff lines from the image including the music score; (b) detecting a second region, overlapping the first region, from the image, with the second region including a musical note; (c) detecting a third region, distinct from the first region, from the image, with the third region having an alphanumeric accompaniment chord notation and lacking staff lines, by taking the first region with the staff lines and the second region with the musical note into consideration using distribution characteristics; (d) extracting and removing the staff lines from the music score included in the first region of the image; (e) recognizing and extracting the musical note from the first region of the image in which the staff lines have been removed; (f) recognizing and extracting the accompaniment chord notation from the third region of the image; and (g) generating instructions for reproducing a sound source corresponding to the musical note and accompaniment chord notation.