An electronic device and a method for controlling the electronic device, the method including receiving an input of a command to reproduce music contents, determining audio characteristics information on the music contents and situation information on an environment where the music contents are being reproduced; and displaying a visualization effect of visualizing the music contents using the audio characteristics information and the situation information, and reproducing the music contents.

An apparatus may be designed to enable a user to receive, record, display, edit, arrange, re-arrange, play, loop, extend, export and import audio and video data. The audio and video data to be organized as, for example, but not limited to, a song comprised of song parts. The song parts may be comprised of tracks, and each track may be comprised of one or more layers. The various methods and systems disclosed herein incorporate such data segmentation to enable the user to intuitively and hands-free record, arrange, and perform songs comprised of both sequential and parallel tracks. In this way, the looper may enable a musician to record and loop tracks for a song, arrange the tracks into song parts, and during the same session, transition the playback from one song part to another, all the while recording a track on top of the transitioning song parts.

A method for generating virtual and real composite image data includes: acquiring captured image data capturing an image of a real space as seen from a user's point of view; inputting the captured image data into a trained model, the training model outputting segmentation data segmenting the captured image data into a first region in which a target object is displayed, a second region in which at least a part of the user's body is displayed, and a third region that is other than the first and second regions; and compositing data of the first region and data of the second region with a virtual space image data based on the segmentation data.

One embodiment provides a system, method, and device for processing inaudible tones. Content is received from one or more sources. One or more inaudible tones included in the content are detected. Information is associated with the one or more inaudible tones from the content are extracted. Usage information associated with the content is determined in response to the information. The usage information includes at least licensing information and content information. The usage information is communicated to one or more parties associated with the content.

Methods and apparatus for providing metrics for the quality, attributes, and relationships of music including AI-generated music. Music classification and visualization methods are described that involve transforming music files into graphical representations, generating a similarity matrix for the music files using structural similarity techniques, and generating visualizations of the relationships among the music files using multidimensional scaling techniques. Qualitative scoring methods for AI-generated music are described that involve classifying the AI-generated music using a multi-genre classifier, generating a similarity metric for the AI-generated music to other genres using structural similarity techniques and multidimensional scaling techniques, and generating a qualitative score for the music using confidence in the classification in combination with the similarity metric.

Augmented reality is used to visualize musical notes or groups of musical notes for example using a display proximate a user's eyes, for example where images in the display appear to be in a space in front of or around the user, for example where the images in the display are for manipulation by an augmented reality controller, for example where the augmented reality controller is held by the user.

A stringed instrument tuner that senses the vibration of all the strings of the instrument independently and simultaneously via ultraviolet reflective light sensors that are immune to interference from ambient alternating-current lighting. The pitches of the strings are then measured continuously in real-time and transmitted wirelessly to a receiver that simultaneously graphically displays how far out-of-tune all of the strings are so that the musician can instantly see which strings need tuning and tune them quickly. The receiver may be a smartphone, smartwatch, smart glasses, computer, self-tuning system, or a dedicated wearable receiver-display unit.

In example implementations, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a communication interface, a sentiment analysis component, a vocal analysis component, and a processor communicatively coupled to the communication interface, the sentiment analysis component, and the vocal analysis component. The communication interface is to receive a phrase captured by a printer. The sentiment analysis component identifies an emotion of a user based on the phrase. The vocal analysis component converts the phrase into X-Y coordinates of a coordinate plane. The processor generates an image based on the emotion and the X-Y coordinates and transmits the image to the printer via the communication interface.

One embodiment provides a system, method, and device for communicating inaudible tones. An audio file is received. One or more inaudible tones are embedded in the audio file. The information is associated with the inaudible tones. The audio file is distributed with the embedded one or more inaudible tones.

A method and system for visualizing music using a perceptually conformal mapping system are provided. A music source file is input into a processor configured to carry out a series of steps on audio cues identified within the music and ultimately generate a simultaneous visual representation on a display device. The series of steps include application of one or more perceptually conformal mapping systems that essentially induce a synesthetic experience in which a person can experience music both acoustically and visually at the same time. The device extracts cues from the music that are designed to specifically capture fundamentals of human appreciation, maps them into visual cues, then presents those visual cues synchronized with the source music.