Public Title Musical Pattern Recognition Division Lead Inventor Coyle, Edward Public Description Musical Pattern Recognition (MPR) is a system that accomplishes machine recognition of musical patterns. Taking into account perceptual measures of error, it allows one to find a musical pattern in a collection (database) of musical files. The recognition is robust even if the musical pattern is memorized or recalled incorrectly by a human being. Another potential application is quantifying similarity of two musical compositions (or patterns). Many court cases have dealt with musical plagiarism, relying on human judgment to decide whether one composition (or some part of it) is "similar" to another. Having an objective measure of similarity between two musical compositions would be of value in such cases. Finally, music sequencers (software and hardware) can incorporate MPR into their search capabilities to enable them to perform pattern matching by taking into account perceptual information. Patent Status Public References Key Words Manager Hilton Turner Email haturner@prf.org Telephone 765-588-3479 Fax 765-463-3486   Back to List