US 12,013,893 B2
Information processing apparatus information processing method to search a music piece for reproduction
Shintaro Masui, Tokyo (JP); Naoki Shibuya, Tokyo (JP); and Keisuke Toyama, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/756,070
Filed by SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Nov. 6, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/041497
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 16, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/100493, PCT Pub. Date May 27, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-211516 (JP), filed on Nov. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0391438 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/635 (2019.01); G06F 16/638 (2019.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 16/636 (2019.01) [G06F 16/639 (2019.01); G10L 15/08 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:
a central processing unit (CPU) configured to:
search for a music piece based on a search request of a user;
generate, as a response to the search request, a search result including each of music piece data of the searched music piece, meta information of the searched music piece, and a search result image, wherein
the search result image is based on the music piece data and the meta information,
the search result image is an image including information regarding a first feature of the searched music piece,
the first feature is associated with the search request, and
the search result image expresses the first feature by a balloon having a size that corresponds to a ratio of a number of music pieces having the first feature to a total number of searched music pieces; and
output the generated search result.