JP2001215977A - Karaoke system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a karaoke system in which a portable telephone is used in lieu of a microphone and a remote controller. SOLUTION: When a user makes a phone call to a control center 3 by his own portable telephone 1, the center 3 transmits a message requesting a music number to be inputted to the telephone 1. Then, the user looks at the message and inputs the number associated with a karaoke room and the number of a music by ten keys. When the room number and the music numbers are transmitted to a computer 6 through a radio telephone line, the computer 6 reads the music and video data of the music number from a large capacity memory 7 and outputs the data to a controller 11 of the karaoke room indicated by the room number. The controller 11 writes the supplied data into a memory 12, reads the data and outpts the data to an MIDI sound source 17 and a display controller 13.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a portable telephone (P)
And a karaoke system with improved functions using the same.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As is well known, a karaoke apparatus is provided with one remote controller and two microphones in addition to the main body of the apparatus. Songs (accompaniment sounds) are played in the order of reservation.

[0003]

However, in a relatively large karaoke room or club, one remote control and two microphones are insufficient, making it difficult to make a reservation or the microphone does not easily turn. And so on. The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide a karaoke system in which a mobile phone can be used in place of a microphone or a remote controller.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a musical sound generating means for selecting music in the order of reservation information and producing a musical sound to be produced as an accompaniment sound. In a karaoke system including a display unit for displaying an image to be displayed and a voice sounding unit for generating a voice signal from a microphone, a communication unit that receives reservation information transmitted from a mobile phone, and a reception unit that receives the reservation information via the communication unit. Music selection control means for selecting a music piece based on the selected reservation information.

[0005] Further, the invention according to claim 2 is based on claim 1.
3. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein the communication unit receives the reservation information via a telephone line. According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the karaoke system according to the first aspect, the communication unit obtains the reservation information by directly receiving a radio wave transmitted from the mobile phone.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a portable telephone having an infrared transmitting means for transmitting reservation information input by an input key, and an infrared receiving means for receiving infrared light transmitted by the infrared transmitting means. A karaoke system, comprising: a karaoke apparatus for selecting music based on the reservation information received via the infrared receiving means.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a portable telephone having an infrared transmitting means for transmitting a voice signal inputted by a telephone microphone, and an infrared receiving means for receiving the infrared light transmitted by the infrared transmitting means. And a karaoke device that emits a sound signal received via the infrared receiving means. According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a karaoke apparatus having an infrared transmitting means for transmitting lyrics data to the outside, and an infrared receiving means for receiving infrared light transmitted by the infrared transmitting means, A mobile phone for displaying the lyrics data received by the means on a display unit.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a karaoke system according to a first embodiment of the present invention. The karaoke system shown in this figure is a system used in a karaoke box.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a portable telephone carried by a user of the karaoke box, which is connected to a control center 3 of the karaoke box via a portable telephone line and a telephone office 2. This control center 3
Is installed in a karaoke box management room or the like, and includes a communication unit 5 for connecting to a base station of a mobile phone line, a control computer 6, and a large-capacity memory 7.
The large-capacity memory 7 stores tone data and image data of a large number of karaoke songs distributed from the communication karaoke distribution center. In this case, the music data is MID
Music data according to I (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) standard. The computer 6 selects a karaoke song from the large-capacity memory 7 in response to a request from the karaoke device 10 installed in each of the plurality of karaoke rooms, and transfers the music data to the karaoke device 10.

The karaoke apparatus 10 includes a controller 11 for controlling each section of the apparatus, and a memory 1 for storing musical sound data and image data supplied from the control center 3.
2, a display device 14 on which image data in the memory 12 is displayed, a display control device 13 for controlling the display of the display device 14, a remote controller 16 for music reservation, and the like. And
MIDI for converting the tone data into analog tone signals
Sound source 17, microphone 18, microphone 1
An amplifier 19 amplifies the output of the mixer 8, a mixer 20 that combines the output of the MIDI sound source 17 and the output of the amplifier 19, and a speaker 21 to which the output of the mixer 20 is supplied.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described. First, when the user reserves a karaoke song, the remote controller 16
Input the song number. The music number input by the remote controller 16 is supplied to the controller 11. First, the controller 11 searches the memory 12 for the music having the music number. If the musical sound data and the image data of the music are stored in the memory 12, the data is sequentially read out when the reservation order comes, and is output to the MIDI sound source 17 and the display control device 13. This allows
A karaoke music tone is generated from the speaker 21, and
An image is displayed on the display device 14. here,
When the user sings along with the karaoke tune toward the microphone 18, the karaoke tune and the singing of the user are mixed and sound is output from the speaker 21.

On the other hand, if the music number input by the remote controller 16 is not stored in the memory 12, the controller 11 outputs the music number to the computer 6 of the control center 3. The computer 6 receives the song number, first searches the large-capacity memory 7, and when the song number is found, reads out the musical sound data and the image data of the song number and outputs them to the controller 11 of the karaoke apparatus 10. . If the search is not possible in the large-capacity memory 7, a request is made to the communication karaoke distribution center for distribution of the music via a mobile phone line. Then, the data distributed from the distribution center is written into the large-capacity memory 7, and then the written data is read and output to the controller 11 of the karaoke apparatus 10. Controller 1
1 stores data output from the computer 6 in the memory 1
Write to 2. Next, the tone data and the image data in the memory 12 are sequentially read out in the order of reservation,
Output to the sound source 17 and the display control device 13.

Next, when the remote controller 16 is not on the side, the user takes out his / her own portable telephone 1, inputs the telephone number of the control center 3 with the key, and makes a call. In response to this call, the control center 3 sends a message “Enter the room number and song number” to the mobile phone 1. This message is displayed on the display unit 1a of the mobile phone 1. The user looks at this display and inputs a room number and a song number using the numeric keypad. When the room number and the music number are transmitted to the computer 6 via the telephone line, the computer 6 stores the musical sound data and the image data of the music number in the large-capacity memory 7.
And outputs it to the controller 11 of the karaoke room indicated by the room number. The controller 11 writes the supplied data to the memory 12 and then reads the data to read out the MIDI sound source 17 and the display control device 1.
Output to 3. In the above embodiment, the mobile phone 1 and the control center 3 communicate with each other via the telephone line, but the mobile phone 1 and the control center 3 directly communicate with each other wirelessly without using the telephone line. It may be performed. In this case, the mobile phone 1 requests the base station for channel assignment for direct communication, and performs direct communication using the assigned channel. Such communication is possible because the mobile phone 1 and the control center 3 are very close (usually in the same building) and within the line range of the same base station.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a karaoke system according to a second embodiment of the present invention. The karaoke system shown in FIG. 2 includes a mobile phone 31 and a karaoke apparatus 51. The mobile phone 31 is obtained by incorporating an infrared communication device 32 into a conventional mobile phone. That is, in the figure, reference numeral 33 denotes a control unit for controlling each part of the circuit, and 34 denotes an operation / display unit composed of a numeric keypad for inputting a telephone number, various function keys, and a liquid crystal display device.

Reference numeral 35 denotes a communication unit having an antenna 36. The communication unit 35 transmits transmission data on a carrier wave and transmits the data from the antenna 36. The communication unit 35 demodulates an incoming signal arriving via the antenna 36 and controls the control unit 33 or the voice processing unit 37. Output to The audio processing unit 37 converts the audio signal output from the microphone 38 into digital data, further compresses and outputs it as transmission data to the communication unit 35, and converts the audio data output from the communication unit 35 into an analog audio signal. Then, the signal is output to the speaker 39. Reference numeral 40 denotes a ring tone generation unit that generates a ring tone signal in response to a ring tone generation command from the control unit 33 and outputs the signal to the speaker 41. The above configuration is the same as the configuration of the conventional mobile phone. The infrared communication device 32
The infrared signal is modulated by the numeric data or the audio signal supplied from the control unit 33 and transmitted to the karaoke apparatus 51. In addition, it demodulates an infrared signal transmitted from the karaoke device 51 and outputs it to the control unit 33.

Next, in the karaoke apparatus 51, reference numeral 52 denotes a communication unit for communicating with a base station of a portable telephone line via an antenna 53. Reference numeral 54 denotes an infrared communication device, which demodulates an infrared signal output from the mobile phone 31 and outputs a resulting audio signal to the mixer 63 and numerical data to the controller 55. Also, the infrared signal is modulated by the lyrics data output from the controller 55,
Output to the mobile phone 31. The controller 55 controls each unit of the apparatus, and details will be described later. Memory 56, display control device 57, display device 58, remote controller 5
9, MIDI sound source 60, microphone 61, amplifier 6
2, the mixer 63 and the loudspeaker 64 are each configured in the same manner as the components 12 to 21 of FIG.

Next, the operation of the second embodiment of the present invention will be described. First, the controller 55 receives a reservation input from the remote controller 59, searches the memory 56, and if the song does not exist in the memory 56, requests the communication karaoke distribution center to download the song data via the communication unit 52. Then, the downloaded music data is written into the memory 56, and the written music data is stored in the display control device 5.
7 and the MIDI sound source 60. The above process is almost the same as in the first embodiment. However, in the second embodiment, no control center is provided.

In parallel with the generation of the karaoke music sound and the image display processing in the above-described process, the controller 55 outputs the lyrics data included in the image data output to the display control device to the infrared communication device 54. Infrared communication device 5
4 modulates an infrared signal with the lyrics data and transmits it to the mobile phone 31. The infrared communication device 32 of the mobile phone 31 demodulates the infrared signal transmitted from the karaoke device 51 and outputs the lyrics data obtained thereby to the control unit 33. The control unit 33 outputs the lyrics data to the liquid crystal display device of the operation / display unit 34. As a result, the same lyrics as those displayed on the display device 58 are displayed on the display panel of the liquid crystal display device.

Next, when the remote control 59 is not on the side, the user inputs a music number using the keys of the operation / display unit 34 of the mobile phone 31, and then performs a key operation for instructing infrared transmission. In response to the key operation, the control unit 33 outputs the music number input by the key to the infrared communication device 32. The infrared communication device 32 modulates an infrared signal with the music number and transmits the modulated signal to the karaoke device 51. The infrared communication device 54 of the karaoke device 51 is the infrared communication device 3
2 is demodulated, and the music number obtained by the demodulation is output to the controller 55. The controller 55 receives the music number and thereafter performs the same processing as when the music number is input from the remote controller 59.

Next, the case where the microphone 61 is not on the side will be described. In this case, the user is
In the first operation / display unit 34, a key operation for instructing the infrared transmission of the audio signal of the microphone 38 is performed. Next, the singing is performed toward the microphone 38. When the above key operation is performed, the control unit 33 detects the key operation, and thereafter outputs a voice signal output from the microphone 38 to the infrared communication device 32. The infrared communication device 32 modulates the infrared signal with the audio signal and transmits the modulated signal to the karaoke device 51. In this case, the transmission rate of the infrared communication is a rate necessary for faithfully transmitting the audio signal. The infrared communication device 54 of the karaoke device 51
The infrared signal from the infrared communication device 32 is demodulated, and the obtained audio signal is output to the mixer 63. The mixer 63 receives the audio signal from the infrared communication device 54 and the MID
The sound signal from the I sound source and the sound signal from the microphone 61 are mixed and output to the speaker 64. Thereby, the voice (singing) input from the speaker 64 to the microphone 38 of the mobile phone 31 is pronounced together with the accompaniment sound based on the output of the MIDI sound source 60 and the voice based on the output of the microphone 61. Note that, instead of the mobile phone in the first and second embodiments, a pager, an electronic organizer,
It is also possible to use a personal computer or the like.

[0021]

As described above, according to the present invention, a portable telephone can be used in place of a microphone, a remote control or a display device, and karaoke can be performed without feeling inconvenience even if the number of microphones and remote controls is small. The effect of being able to enjoy is obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Mobile telephone, 3 ... Control center, 5 ... Communication part, 6 ... Computer, 7 ... Large capacity memory, 10 ... Karaoke device, 11 ... Controller, 12 ... Memory, 31 ...
Mobile phone, 32 ... infrared communication device, 33 ... control unit, 5
1: Karaoke device, 54: infrared communication device, 55: controller.

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A musical sound generating means for selecting a musical piece in the order of reservation information and producing a musical sound as an accompaniment sound, a display means for displaying an image corresponding to the musical composition, and a sound producing means for producing an audio signal from a microphone. A karaoke system provided, comprising: a communication unit that receives reservation information transmitted from a mobile phone; and a music selection control unit that selects music based on the reservation information received via the communication unit. Karaoke system. 2. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein the communication unit receives the reservation information via a telephone line. 3. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein the communication unit obtains the reservation information by directly receiving a radio wave transmitted from the mobile phone. 4. A mobile phone having an infrared transmitting means for transmitting reservation information input by an input key, and an infrared receiving means for receiving infrared light transmitted by said infrared transmitting means, wherein: A karaoke system, comprising: a karaoke device for selecting a music piece based on the received reservation information. 5. A portable telephone having an infrared transmitting means for transmitting a voice signal inputted by a telephone microphone, and an infrared receiving means for receiving infrared light transmitted by said infrared transmitting means, wherein said infrared receiving means is provided. And a karaoke device that emits an audio signal received via the karaoke system. 6. A karaoke apparatus having an infrared transmitting means for transmitting lyrics data to the outside, an infrared receiving means for receiving infrared light transmitted by the infrared transmitting means, and A karaoke system comprising: a mobile phone for displaying lyrics data on a display unit;