Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that has a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations including: receiving media content from user equipment, wherein the media content comprises a sample of an existing work used to modify an original work; analyzing the media content using machine learning to determine a plurality of composition parameters that characterize aspects of the media content; recording the plurality of composition parameters determined, including an identification of composition parameters in the plurality of composition parameters attributable to the existing work, and an identification of composition parameters attributable to the original work, in a blockchain ledger; searching for the composition parameters in the blockchain ledger for one or more works having similar composition parameters; and reporting any works found during the searching to the user equipment.

Systems and methods to improve a user's response to a traumatic event are disclosed. The method includes providing a simulation of a traumatic event to a user. The method also includes providing a segment of a musical performance to the user. The method further includes determining, based on one or more measurements of the user while the user is conducting musical performance, one or more changes to one or more musical elements of the musical performance that improve the user's response to the traumatic event. The method further includes applying the one or more changes to the one or more musical elements to revise the segment of the musical performance.

Systems and methods to improve a user's mental state are disclosed. The method includes determining a mental state of a user. The method also includes determining a baseline mental state. The method further includes determining a musical performance that improves the mental state of the user to the baseline mental state. The method further includes providing a request to an electronic device to provide the musical performance to the user.

[Object] To propose an image processing method, image processing apparatus and program which are capable of exciting the emotions of a viewer more effectively. [Solution] An information processing method including: analyzing a beat of input music; extracting a plurality of unit images from an input image; and generating, by a processor, editing information for switching the extracted unit images depending on the analyzed beat.

A motor vehicle includes a source of pieces of music. Each of the pieces of music is associated with respective weather conditions and/or a respective emotional mood. The vehicle includes a source of weather data. The weather data is related to weather conditions in which the motor vehicle is operating. The vehicle includes a source of mood data. The mood data is related to an emotional state of a human user disposed within the motor vehicle. A loudspeaker is disposed within a passenger compartment of the motor vehicle. A processing device is communicatively coupled to each of the source of pieces of music, the source of weather data, the source of mood data, and the loudspeaker. The processing device selects one of the pieces of music dependent upon the weather data and the mood data, and plays the selected piece of music on the loudspeaker.

A system is described that permits identified musical phrases or themes to be synchronized and linked into changing real-world events. The achieved synchronization includes a seamless musical transition—achieved using a timing offset, such as relative advancement of an significant musical “onset,” that is inserted to align with a pre-existing but identified music signature, beat or timebase—between potentially disparate pre-identified musical phrases having different emotive themes defined by their respective time signatures, intensities, keys, musical rhythms and/or musical phrasing. The system operates to augment an overall sensory experience of a user in the real world by dynamically changing, re-ordering or repeating and then playing audio themes within the context of what is occurring in the surrounding physical environment, e.g. during different phases of a cardio workout in a step class the music rate and intensity increase during sprint periods and decrease during recovery periods.

A method and system for determining a compact semantic representation of a digital audio signal using a computer-based system by calculating at least one low-level feature matrix from the digital audio signal; processing the low-level feature matrix or matrices using pre-trained machine learning engines including an ensemble of modules, wherein each module in the ensemble is trained to predict a one of a plurality of high-level feature values; and concatenating the obtained plurality of high-level feature values into a descriptor vector. The calculated descriptor vectors can be used alone, or in an arbitrary or temporally ordered combination with further descriptor vectors calculated from different audio signals extracted from the same music track, as a compact semantic representation of the respective music track.

An adaptive music playback system is disclosed. The system includes a composition system that receives information corresponding to user activity levels. The composition system determines target musical criteria corresponding to the user activity levels and modifies the composition of a song in response to changes in user activity.

Examples described herein may perform various operations based on mood congruency. An example method involves accessing, from a database, a first mood vector that describes first media data and specifies an association between a first value and a first mood, accessing, from the database, a second mood vector that describes a second media data and specifies an association between a second value and a second mood, retrieving a first score that represents congruency between the first and second moods, the first score being retrieved from a data structure that correlates the first and second moods, using a processor, generating a second score that represents congruency between the first and second mood vectors, the generating the second score being based on the accessed first and second values and the retrieved first score, and, based on at least the generated second score, providing an indicator to a module.

Novel tools and techniques are provided for generating music, and, more particularly, to methods, systems, and apparatuses for generating music associated with a state contained within a communication, for a user interface for generating music associated with a state, for generated music to reflect movement between states, and for generating music to guide a user toward a desired state. In various embodiments, a computing system might analyze a communication of a user to determine at least one state contained within the communication. The communication may be a sensor communication, a biometric/health communication, a voice communication, a numerical communication, a textual communication, a picture/video communication, etc. Based on the determined at least one state, the computing system might generate music associated with the state or continuously control the generation of music to guide a user toward a desired state. A user interface for generating music may also be provided.