A communication system including a communication device, an electronic device, and a server is provided. The communication device includes an authorization information request part transmitting a request for authorization information, an authorization information reception part receiving the authorization information, a first data request information reception part receiving data request information, a data request information transmission part transmitting the received data request information, a data reception part receiving data, and a first data transmission part transmitting the received data. The server includes an identifier storage part storing the device identifier, an authorization information request reception part receiving the request for the authorization information, an authorization information creation part acquiring a user identifier and creating the authorization information, a first authorization information transmission part transmitting the created authorization information, a second data request information reception part receiving the data request information, and a second data transmission part transmitting the data.

A communication system including a communication device, a terminal configured to be able to communicate with the communication device, and a server is provided. The communication device includes a request transmission part transmitting to the terminal a request for connection information for connecting to the server, a connection information reception part receiving from the terminal the connection information requested by the request transmission part, and a connection part communicably connecting to the server by using the connection information received by the connection information reception part. The terminal includes a request reception part receiving the request for the connection information from the communication device, a connection information acquisition part, acquiring the connection information corresponding to the request for the connection information received by the request reception part, and a connection information transmission part, transmitting the connection information acquired by the connection information acquisition part to the communication device.

A communication device is provided. The communication device includes a connection instruction acquisition part acquiring a connection instruction from a user, a first communication establishment part establishing a first communication being communication with a terminal in response to acquisition of the connection instruction by the connection instruction acquisition part, a first connection information reception part receiving connection information for connecting to a server from the terminal via the first communication established by the first communication establishment part, and a second communication establishment part establishing a second communication being communication with the server by using the connection information received by the first connection information reception part.

An automated music composition and generation system for automatically composing and generating digital pieces of music using an automated music composition and generation engine driven by a set of emotion-type and style-type musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters provided by a system user. The automated music composition and generation engine includes an instrument subsystem supporting a library of virtual instruments, wherein each virtual instrument is capable of performing one or more notes of at least a portion of the composed piece of music, in response to the emotion-type and/or style-type musical experience descriptors; an instrument selector subsystem for automatically selecting one or more of virtual instruments from the library, so that each selected virtual instrument performs one or more notes of at least a portion of the composed piece of music; and a digital piece creation subsystem for creating the digital piece of composed music by assembling the notes produced from the virtual instruments selected from the library.

Systems and methods are presented for efficient cross-fading of compressed domain information streams on a user/client device. Exemplary systems may provide cross-fade between AAC/Enhanced AAC Plus information streams, between MP3 information streams, or between information streams of unmatched formats. These systems are distinguished in that cross-fade is directly applied to compressed bitstreams so a single decode operation is performed on the resulting bitstream. Thus, a set of frames from each input stream associated with the time interval in which a cross fade is decoded, and combined and recoded with a cross fade or other effect now in the compressed bitstream. Once sent through the client device's decoder, the user hears the transitional effect. The only input data that is decoded and processed is that associated with the portion of each stream used the crossfade, blend or other interstitial, and thus the vast majority of input streams are left compressed.

An automated music composition and generation system having an automated music composition and generation engine for receiving, storing and processing musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters selected by the system user. The automated music composition and generation engine includes a user taste generation subsystem for automatically (i) determining the musical tastes and preferences of a system user based on user feedback and autonomous piece analysis, (ii) maintaining a system user profile reflecting musical tastes and preferences of each system user, and (iii) using the musical taste and preference information to change or modify the musical experience descriptors provided to the system to produce a digital piece of composed music composition that better reflects the musical tastes and preferences of the system user.

Provided is a control device which controls an electronic musical instrument, comprising: an acquisition means which understands the intention of an utterance of a user on the basis of the utterance, and acquires from a dialogue engine that generates first data in which the intention is stated, the first data generated in response to the utterance; a storage means which stores conversion data in which the first data and a control command for controlling the electronic musical instrument are associated with each other; and a conversion means which generates, on the basis of the acquired first data and the conversion data, second data suitable for a control interface of the electronic musical instrument to be controlled, and transmits the second data to the electronic musical instrument.

In general, various aspects of techniques are described to enable application directed latency control for wireless audio streaming. A source device comprising a memory and a processor may perform the techniques. The memory may store at least a portion of audio data. The processor may execute an application that outputs the audio data, and a request for a quality of service concerning audio processing applied to the audio data. The processor may determine whether the source device is currently displaying the application, and configure, responsive to the determination that the source device is currently displaying the application, a wireless audio processing path to achieve the requested quality of service. The processor may next process, by the wireless audio processing path, the audio data to obtain a bitstream representative of the audio data.

An autonomous music composition and performance system employing an automated music composition and generation engine configured to receive musical signals from a set of a real or synthetic musical instruments being played by a group of human musicians. The system buffers and analyzes musical signals from the set of real or synthetic musical instruments, composes and generates music in real-time that augments the music being played by the band of musicians, and/or composes and generates music for subsequent playback, review and consideration by the human musicians.

An automated music composition and generation system includes a graphical user interface (GUI) based system user interface for enabling system users to review and select one or more musical experience descriptors as well as time and/or space parameters; and an automated music composition and generation engine, operably connected to the GUI-based system user interface, for receiving, storing and processing the musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters, and composing and generating digital pieces of music, each containing a set of musical notes arranged and performed in the digital piece of composed music. A system network and methods are provided for designing and developing parameter mapping configurations (SMCs) used in the automated music composition and generation engine so as to enable the automated music composition and generation engine to automatically compose and generate music in response to musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters provided as input to the system.