Patent Document ID: 20100185713
Application ID: 12572135
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A feature extraction apparatus which acquires a feature value for AAC-format song data, the feature extraction apparatus including: an MDCT coefficient extraction unit which extracts MDCT coefficients from the AAC-format song data; a classification unit which locates the MDCT coefficients thus extracted by the MDCT coefficient extraction unit on Mel frequency regions so as to uniformly classify the MDCT coefficients into classes, the number of which is the same as that of a predetermined number of Mel filter banks; an integrating unit which extracts the MDCT coefficients classified by the classification unit by applying a predetermined window function, and integrates the MDCT coefficients thus extracted, in increments of the Mel filter banks; and a feature calculation unit which calculates the feature value by performing logarithmic cosine conversion of the integrated results obtained by the integrating unit.