SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING CONTENT FEATURES AND METADATA OF DIGITAL IMAGES TO FIND RELATED AUDIO ACCOMPANIMENT

摘要

FIELD: information technology. ^ SUBSTANCE: invention discloses a system, apparatus and method to automatically play/suggest at least one audio accompaniment while a sequence of digital images is being displayed such that the audio accompaniment matches the content of the particular sequence of images and matches any provided and/or generated image metadata. Search terms are derived from the images themselves as well as any metadata provided by the user. These search terms are then used to find audio accompaniment which either contains these search terms or synonyms thereof in the image or associated text (e.g., song text) or represents the sound normally associated with the images, such as rushing water sound for an image of a fast flowing brook. ^ EFFECT: automatic playing of audio accompaniment matching content of digital images. ^ 17 cl, 3 dwg