Sony patents system to pick music data for AI composition
Sony describes a system that stores detailed musical characteristics, such as score data, to help train machine learning models for composing music. It allows users to view and select specific pieces of this data from a list before the AI begins the composition process.
In the filing’s own words
An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a storage unit that stores a plurality of pieces of music feature information in which a plurality of types of feature amounts extracted from music information is associated with predetermined identification information, the music feature information being used as learning data in composition processing using machine learning; a reception unit that receives instruction information transmitted from a terminal apparatus; an extraction unit that extracts the music feature information from the storage unit according to the instruction information; and an output unit that outputs presentation information of the music feature information extracted by the extraction unit.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: memory configured to store a plurality of pieces of music feature information including score information in which a plurality of types of feature amounts extracted from music information is associated with predetermined identification information, the music feature information being used as learning data in composition processing using machine learning; a communication interface configured to receive instruction information transmitted from a terminal apparatus that specifies selection of the music feature information; and circuitry configured to extract the music feature information from the memory according to the instruction information, the extracted music feature information indicating characteristics of the learning data to be used in the composition processing; output presentation information of the extracted music feature information for display as a list of candidates for the learning data at the terminal apparatus; and receive, from the terminal apparatus via the communication interface, selection information specifying at least one piece of the extracted music feature information selected from the displayed list to be used as the learning data prior to initiating the composition processing.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
- Official title
- Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program
- Patent number
- US12770594B2
- Application number
- 17756123
- Filed
- Nov 17, 2020
- Granted
- Oct 20, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G10H 1/0025 Physics & computingG06F 16/639 Physics & computingG06F 16/685 Physics & computingG06N 5/022 Physics & computingG10H 1/0041 Physics & computingG10H 2210/056 Physics & computingMore from Sony in AI & software
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