Inventors

Kim Jung-Hyun, Lee Seungjae, Kim Sungmin, Yoo Wonyoung, Lee Jung Ho, Suh Young Ho, Lee Sang Kwang, Yoon Young-Suk, Seo Yong-Seok, Park Jee Hyun

Application No.

13467962 (2012.05.09)

Publication No.

20130138684 (2013.05.30)

Registration No.

8838617 (2014.09.16)

Country

UNITED STATES

Project Code

11MT1500, Development of Contents Protection and Distribution Technology on DRM-free Environments, Yoo Wonyoung

Abstract

The present invention relates generally to a method and apparatus for searching for recommended music using the emotional information of music and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus that enable recommended music to be searched for using mixed emotions by extracting emotional values including a valence value and an arousal value from an input search condition when a predetermined search condition is input by a user, extracting an emotion rank combination corresponding to the extracted emotional value information using an emotion model that includes mixed emotions corresponding to the emotional values, searching a music emotion DB for music information corresponding to the emotion rank combination, and outputting a recommended music list based on the results of the search, thus improving the user's satisfaction with the results of the search.