METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A GENERAL EXTRACTION FUNCTION CALCULABLE ON AN INPUT SIGNAL, E.G. AN AUDIO SIGNAL TO EXTRACT THEREFROM A PREDETERMINED GLOBAL CHARACTERISTIC VALUE OF ITS CONTENTS, E.G. A DESCRIPTOR

Patent №

US 7,624,012

Granted

2009-11-24

Filed 2003

Owner

SONY FRANCE S.A.

Lab

AI components

2

ml · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10738928

The invention enables to generate a general function (4) which can operate on an input signal (Sx) to extract from the latter a value (DVex) of a global characteristic value expressing a feature (De) of the information conveyed by that signal.It operates by: The invention can be used, for instance, for the automatic extraction of audio/music descriptors from their signals contained as music file data.

AI classification

AI hardware1.00
Machine learning0.76
Knowledge representation0.22
Vision0.02
Planning0.00
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

SONY FRANCE S.A.

assignment · 153440692

Assignors

PACHET, FRANCOIS, ZILS, AYMERIC

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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