JP2007271816A - Karaoke system with kana display function - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a karaoke system in which a user does not have to select existence of kana display for each playing time (or selecting time). <P>SOLUTION: The karaoke system capable of selecting and displaying a state of kana attaching or non-attaching, to a words telop when playing a predetermined karaoke song, comprises: a user ID acquiring means; a user classified kana display register means; and a user classified kana display control means. In the user ID acquiring means, the user identifies and acquires a user ID from a user ID recording medium, when logging in the karaoke system. In the user classified kana display register means, any user who logs in registers the existence of kana display for each song beforehand. In the user classified kana display control means, the user judges the existence of kana display, according to a content registered in the user classified kana display register means. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a karaoke system with a ruby display function, and particularly to a karaoke system in which whether or not to display a ruby display of a lyrics telop can be set in advance according to a user's request.

  In the conventional karaoke system of this type, for example, in the case of Japanese lyrics, a system is known in which a ruby, which is a kana, is placed on a kanji portion of a lyrics telop to make it easy for a user to sing. If the lyrics are in a foreign language, Japanese kana ruby may be added to the lyrics telop.

  However, some users can read and understand even the lyrics telop without ruby, and in such cases, the ruby display of the lyrics telop may get in the way. Also, many people want to be good at singing foreign languages, and at first they don't know if the pronunciation of the foreign language was successful, so it is necessary to display ruby on the lyrics telop, but once you get used to pronunciation of foreign languages to some extent, You may want to sing without seeing the lyrics telop ruby.

  Furthermore, it is becoming common for children of school age to receive foreign language education recently, and it has been considered to improve pronunciation of foreign languages by singing foreign language karaoke songs as teaching materials. ing. In such a case, if you add kana ruby to the lyrics telop so that children can pronounce foreign languages while watching ruby, they will be motivated to learn and improve their educational outcomes.

Recently, there has been known a karaoke apparatus that can prevent ruby from being displayed on a lyrics telop in response to a user's request when singing a song with ruby waving on the lyrics telop. For example, when transferring the lyric data describing the display characters of the lyrics and the ruby to the lyric display unit, when the designation information prohibiting the ruby display is written, the ruby part in the lyric data is displayed in the lyric display unit. There is known a karaoke apparatus that prohibits transfer to a lyric and does not display ruby on a lyrics telop displayed on a monitor (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-140992

  In the invention described in Patent Document 1, when singing a song in which ruby is sung in a lyrics telop, if the ruby display is prohibited according to the user's request, only the lyric characters are displayed on the monitor. However, if the music is a favorite of the user, the music may be selected many times, and the ruby display prohibition operation must be performed each time, so that the operability is not good.

  Also, song A can be sung relatively well even if there is no ruby in the lyrics telop, but song B can not be sung if there is no ruby display, and the user does not need a song that requires ruby in the lyrics telop. There are music, and it is troublesome to set it while considering the presence or absence of ruby display when registering the music. It is convenient if the presence or absence of ruby display can be specified for each music.

  Therefore, it is possible to register the presence / absence of ruby display for each user, so that the user rubs the lyrics telop for music that requires ruby display and does not automatically rub the unnecessary music. Therefore, the present invention can efficiently learn adapted to each individual in mastering a foreign language song using the ruby display function, Provision of a karaoke system that can accommodate users of any nationality, and that does not require the user to select whether or not to display ruby for each performance (or at the time of music selection) for the music desired by the user. Is an issue.

  The present invention has been proposed in order to achieve the above-mentioned object, and the invention according to claim 1 selects a state in which a ruby is applied to a lyrics telop and a state in which the ruby is not applied when a predetermined karaoke piece is played. The karaoke system that can be displayed comprises user ID acquisition means, user-specific ruby display registration means, and user-specific ruby display control means, and the user ID acquisition means logs the user into the karaoke system. At this time, the user ID is identified and acquired from the user ID recording medium, and the user-specific ruby display registration means registers the presence / absence of ruby display for each piece of music in advance by any logged-in user, The ruby display control means determines the presence or absence of ruby display according to the registered content of the user-specific ruby display registration means when the user selects the music for which the presence or absence of ruby display is registered, and the music During play to provide a karaoke system with ruby display function, characterized in that it is configured to display the lyrics telop corresponding thereto.

  According to this structure, when a user uses a karaoke system, the user ID acquisition means can identify and acquire a user ID, and the said user can log in to a karaoke system. Based on this user ID, the user information of the user is downloaded from the karaoke host device (server). This user information includes data such as the presence / absence of ruby display for each song by the user. When a user registers and registers an arbitrary piece of music, if it is a piece of music in a foreign language that has ruby on the lyrics telop, the user can indicate whether or not ruby is displayed as ruby display information as desired by the user. Register in another ruby display registration means.

  Then, the user-specific ruby display control means determines the presence or absence of ruby display according to the registered ruby display information, and when the music registered by the user is played, the corresponding lyrics telop is displayed. Since this ruby display information is linked to the user ID and updated as user information and recorded in the karaoke performance device and the server, when the user registers and registers the same music from the next time, the registered contents The presence or absence of ruby display is automatically selected according to the above, and the corresponding lyrics telop is displayed.

  In the invention described in claim 2, the rubies are provided with phonetic characters in a plurality of national languages, and the user-specific ruby display registration means can register a desired ruby display on the music. 2. A karaoke system with a ruby display function according to claim 1, wherein a phonetic character in Japanese is registered.

  According to this configuration, when a plurality of national language phonetic characters are prepared in the ruby, when registering to display the ruby display on the music, the phonetic characters in the national language desired by the user, for example, Japan If a person registers a Japanese kana character ruby, when the registered music is played, the Japanese kana character ruby suitable for the user is automatically displayed.

  As described above, according to the present invention, a user can register in advance whether or not to display ruby on the lyrics telop for a predetermined karaoke piece. For example, when a user sings a song with lyrics in a foreign language, if he wants to sing a song that was originally sung while displaying the ruby and seeing it without displaying the ruby, By registering in advance that there is no ruby display for each song, the lyrics telop without ruby is automatically displayed without setting the presence or absence of ruby display each time a song is played. In addition, it is possible to learn efficiently adapted to each individual, and for the music desired by the user, it takes time to select whether or not to display ruby for each performance (or at the time of music selection). There is an effect such as no.

  In addition, even if it is the same music, since the presence or absence of a ruby display can be registered for every user, a ruby display can be changed according to a user preference. Furthermore, ruby can be registered by selecting the phonetic characters of the national language desired by the user from among the phonetic characters of multiple national languages, so that a user of any nationality can efficiently input the desired foreign language. Can learn.

  Hereinafter, the karaoke system with a ruby display function according to the present invention will be described with reference to preferred embodiments. The purpose is to allow users to register the presence or absence of ruby display for each user, so that the user can place ruby on the lyrics telop for songs that require ruby display and not automatically ruby for unnecessary songs In order to achieve the above, the present invention provides a user ID acquisition means and a user-specific acquisition method in a karaoke system capable of selectively displaying a state in which ruby is shaken on a lyrics telop and a state in which ruby is not shaken when a predetermined karaoke piece is played. Ruby display registration means and user-specific ruby display control means. The user ID acquisition means identifies the user ID from the user ID recording medium when the user logs in to the karaoke system. The user-by-user ruby display registration means registers the presence / absence of ruby display for each song in advance by any logged-in user, and the user-by-user ruby display control means registers the presence / absence of the ruby display by the user. This is realized by determining whether or not ruby is displayed according to the registered contents of the user-specific ruby display registration means when the selected music is selected, and displaying the corresponding lyrics telop when the music is played. .

  FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a karaoke system according to the present invention. A karaoke performance device 10 has a central control unit 11 including a CPU, a RAM, a ROM, etc., and is connected to a network via a line terminator 12 such as a router or a modem. The communication line 100 is connected to the karaoke host device 200 via the network communication line 100. As will be described later, the user's music selection information is sent from the karaoke performance device 10 to the karaoke host device 200, and karaoke data is received from the karaoke host device 200 and stored in the hard disk device 13. Further, the user ID is acquired from the user and sent to the karaoke host device 200, and the user information of the user is received from the karaoke host device 200.

  The karaoke performance device 10 has a remote control device 50, and the remote control device 50 is provided with a graphical user interface (hereinafter referred to as GUI) 51 in which a display unit and an input unit are integrated. When the user selects a desired music from the music list displayed on the GUI 51, a music selection information signal including the music ID is transmitted from the remote controller 50 to the karaoke performance apparatus 10. When the music selection information signal is received by the remote control receiving unit 14 provided in the karaoke performance apparatus 10, the received music selection information signal is sent to the central control unit 11 via the operation control unit 15. Even when the music ID is directly input from the operation panel 16 provided in the main body of the karaoke performance apparatus 10, a music selection information signal is sent from the operation panel 16 to the central control unit 11 through the operation control unit 15. .

  When the central control unit 11 receives the music selection information signal from the operation control unit 15, the central control unit 11 reserves the selected music piece by the music selection reservation unit, and reads out the corresponding karaoke data from the hard disk device 13. When the karaoke data corresponding to the music selection information does not exist in the hard disk device 13, the hard disk device is connected to the network communication line 100 via the line terminating device 12 and downloads the corresponding karaoke data from the karaoke host device 200. 13.

  The karaoke data includes performance data for generating accompaniment music of karaoke music, and image data such as a lyric telop output to display means such as a monitor and a moving image as a background video. The performance data is sound source control information encoded according to the MIDI standard, and the image data includes encoded lyric character groups (including ruby character data) and video information compressed according to the MPEG standard.

  Here, in foreign language music, ruby characters such as Japanese are given to the lyrics telop. This ruby character is displayed by the control of the central control unit 11 in a normal default setting, but can be hidden. The ruby character in the present invention is a phonetic character composed of a syllable character such as a kana character, a katakana character or a hangul character, or a phonemic character such as an Arabic character, a Greek character or a Cyrillic character, which constitutes a phonetic symbol. It may be. Ruby characters are not only Japanese but also phonetic characters in multiple languages such as Chinese, Korean, English, and Latin.

  The central control unit 11 sequentially transfers music data from the corresponding karaoke data to the synthesizer 17, and the synthesizer 17 generates accompaniment music according to the music data. The accompaniment music generated by the synthesizer 17 is reproduced from the speaker 19 through the mixing amplifier 18. On the other hand, voice sung by the user is collected by the microphone 20, mixed with accompaniment music by the mixing amplifier 18, and reproduced from the speaker 19.

  Further, the central control unit 11 processes the lyric rendering data from the karaoke data in synchronism with the generation of the accompaniment music, and causes the video control unit 21 to sequentially develop the lyric character group into a bitmap. Furthermore, moving picture data corresponding to the music is extracted from the karaoke data, the video control unit 21 superimposes the lyric character group on the background video, and the screen of the monitor 22 which is a display means for displaying the background video and the lyric character group. To display. In the present invention, as described in Patent Document 1, ruby display data is prepared independently, and at the time of performance, it is configured to be combined with the lyrics telop body extracted from the lyrics character group. Or, two types of lyrics telop (telop with ruby display) pre-synthesized without being independent and non-synthetic lyrics telop (telop without ruby display) It may be prepared).

  Here, in addition to the GUI 51, the remote controller 50 is provided with a card reader 53 for reading an IC card 52 which is an example of a user ID recording medium. When the user sets his / her IC card 52 in the card reader 53, the card reader 53 as a user ID acquisition means identifies and acquires the user ID, and the acquired user ID is stored in the central control unit. 11 is sent. Then, it is transferred to the karaoke host device 200 via the network communication line 100, and the user can log in to the karaoke system.

  When the user ID is acquired and the user logs in to the karaoke system, the user information of the user is downloaded from the karaoke host device 200, and the history of songs sung by the user, the registered favorite song name, and the like are the operations of the user. In response, the information is displayed on the GUI 51 of the monitor 22 or the remote controller 50. In addition, when a user ID is associated with each piece of music desired by the user, which will be described later, and the presence / absence of ruby display attached to the lyrics telop is registered, the GUI 51 of the remote control device 50 is used.

  The user ID recording medium is not limited to the above-described IC card 52. For example, a microchip for recording a user ID is built in a mobile phone, and the mobile phone is set in a remote control device. It can also be configured to read the ID. In such a configuration, it is not necessary to prepare a separate IC card, and the user can log in to the karaoke system with a mobile phone that the user normally has, and the selection of the instrument used by the user is also automatic. To be done. Further, the device for reading the user ID from the user ID recording medium may not be provided in the remote control device 50, and may be installed as another device or independently.

  Here, as for the lyrics telop, the lyrics telop is a foreign language in foreign music, and Japanese kana ruby is often used to make it easy for users to sing. In the conventional karaoke system, even if the user does not need the ruby display, it is normal that the ruby display cannot be turned off. Or even if it was a system which can be turned off, there was a trouble that the ruby display prohibition operation had to be performed every time the performance was performed. However, in the karaoke system of the present invention, the presence or absence of ruby display for an arbitrary piece of music can be selected in advance for each user, and the user registers the presence or absence of ruby display and the ruby language for a predetermined piece of music in advance. be able to.

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the control procedure, and FIGS. 3 to 8 are explanatory diagrams of a ruby display function screen. The ruby display function in the karaoke system will be described with reference to FIGS. For convenience of explanation, unless otherwise specified, the program of each means or the data generated or recorded by each means is recorded in the memory in the central control unit 11 of the karaoke performance apparatus 10 or the hard disk device 13. Shall be.

  First, by setting the user's IC card 52 in the card reader 53 that is a user ID acquisition means, the user ID of the user is acquired and sent to the central control unit 11 and recorded in the karaoke host device 200. The user information of the user is taken into the central control unit 11 (step 101).

  When the user ID is acquired and logged into the karaoke system, the “user-specific ruby display information recording table” is selected from the user information recorded in the karaoke host device 200 based on the acquired user ID. Download and record in the karaoke performance device 10. This “user-specific ruby display information recording table” is shown in Table 1. In this table, the user ID, the reserved music ID, the presence / absence of ruby display, and ruby display information consisting of the ruby language are recorded.

  In this embodiment, it is assumed that the foreign language lyrics telop has Japanese kana ruby in a standard state, and if the user does not register ruby display information, the presence or absence of ruby (ruby display "Flag" "defaults to" Yes ", and" Japanese of Ruby "defaults to" Japanese ". In this case, Japanese ruby is assigned. As will be described later, when ruby display information is registered by a user, “present” or “none” is recorded in “presence / absence of ruby”, and “Japanese” is recorded in “national language of ruby”, for example. Or data such as “Chinese”.

  If ruby display information is registered in the user information of the user (step 102), the ruby in the music ID selected by the user from the "user-specific ruby display information recording table" at the time of music reservation registration Display information is read (step 103). And user ID, music ID, and ruby display information are linked | related. For example, the next data is sent to the karaoke performance apparatus 10 as a music selection information signal, and reservation registration is made (step 105).

DK_TAROU (user ID) + 5555-12 (music ID) + FLUG01-03 (ruby available, Korean)
On the other hand, if there is no registration of ruby display information in the user information for the music selected by the user for the first time, the presence / absence of ruby display and the desired language are registered by the operation procedure described later at the time of music reservation registration. (Step 104). And after this registration, this registration condition becomes the default setting from the next time. In addition, when Japanese kana ruby is desired in the standard state, no registration operation is required, and the ruby display information is not registered.

  Next, the ruby display information registration operation will be described. First, the user selects a desired piece of music with the remote controller 50. For example, as shown in FIG. 3, if “All Your Loving” is selected from the performance songs of “The Virus”, the selected song name is displayed and the screen is displayed as shown in FIG. A “ruby swing selection” button is displayed at the corner, and the user can select whether or not to swing the ruby on the lyrics telop.

  If the user has already registered the ruby display information, by pressing the “Transfer” button, the reserved registration is made according to the registered ruby display information, and the lyrics telop is displayed according to the registered ruby display information when the music is played. Is done. On the other hand, if the ruby display information is not registered, if the user presses the “Transfer” button without pressing the “Select ruby” button, the default ruby display flag of “Japanese with ruby” is displayed. Then, the next data is sent to the karaoke performance apparatus 10 as a music selection information signal, and the music is reserved and registered.

DK_TAROU (user ID) + 3333-09 (music ID) + FLUG01-01 (ruby available, Japanese)
When the user presses the “ruby selection” button regardless of whether or not ruby display information is registered, as shown in FIG. 5, a screen asking the remote control device 50 whether or not ruby display is present. Is displayed. The user proceeds to the next screen by pressing one of the buttons “attach ruby” or “do not attach ruby”.

  When the user presses the “apply ruby” button, a screen for selecting the national language of ruby display characters is displayed as shown in FIG. The user selects a ruby display character in a desired language from among them. For example, if “Chinese” is selected, a flag of “With ruby / Chinese” is set, and as shown in FIG. 7, “Add Chinese ruby to lyrics telop” is displayed on the screen. When the user presses the “transfer” button, the user ID, the selected music ID, and the ruby display flag of “with ruby / Chinese” are linked, and the next data is played as a music selection information signal. It is sent to the device 10 and registered for reservation.

DK_TAROU (user ID) + 3333-09 (music ID) + FLUG01-02 (ruby available, Chinese)
On the other hand, when the “Don't add ruby” button is pressed on the screen shown in FIG. 5, the “No ruby” flag is set and the next data is sent to the karaoke performance apparatus 10 as a music selection information signal. The music is reserved and registered.

DK_TAROU (user ID) + 3333-09 (music ID) + FLUG00-00 (no ruby)
As described above, if the “ruby selection” button shown in FIG. 4 is not pressed, the Japanese ruby is automatically shaken, so the “apply ruby” button shown in FIG. 5 seems unnecessary. However, this is also used when changing the national language of ruby display characters.

  For example, when a user who has registered “Chinese ruby” for a certain song wants to change to “Japanese ruby” for the same song, the user can click the “Add ruby” button shown in FIG. The screen for selecting the national language of the ruby display character shown in FIG. 6 is displayed. Here, by pressing the “Japanese” button, the ruby display flag changes from “ruby / Chinese” to “ruby / Japanese”, and the ruby flag display determination process described above causes Japanese ruby to be shaken. become.

  When the reservation registration is completed, the “user-specific ruby display information recording table” is updated, and Table 2 shows an example of the updated “user-specific ruby display information recording table”.

  Compared with the table shown in Table 1, here, the ruby display information of the song ID “4444-05” is changed to “no ruby”.

  When the performance of the reserved music is started (step 106), the music performance is reproduced from the speaker 19, and the background video and the lyrics telop of the music are displayed on the monitor 22 in synchronization with the progress of the music. Is done. At this time, if there is the ruby display flag, the ruby characters are displayed in the corresponding language in the lyrics telop (step 107 → 108), and if there is no ruby display flag, the ruby is not displayed in the lyrics telop (step 109).

  For example, if there is a ruby display flag of “with ruby / Japanese”, a foreign language lyrics telop 60 is displayed at the bottom of the monitor screen 22 and a Japanese ruby character is displayed at the top as shown in FIG. Is done. On the other hand, when there is no ruby display flag, as shown in FIG. 9, only the foreign language lyrics telop 60 is displayed in the lower part of the monitor screen 22, and no ruby characters are displayed in the upper part.

  When the karaoke performance is completed (step 110), the process returns to step 102 again. Since the “user-specific ruby display information recording table” has been updated, if, for example, “no ruby” ruby display information is recorded for a predetermined music ID, the user reserves and registers the music ID. If the user performs karaoke, the lyrics telop without ruby is automatically displayed even if the user does not perform any ruby display selection operation.

  In this way, since the user can register in advance whether or not to display ruby on the lyrics telop for a predetermined karaoke piece, the presence or absence of ruby display is automatically determined according to the registered content. The selected lyrics telop is displayed.

  It should be noted that the present invention can be variously modified without departing from the spirit of the present invention, and the present invention naturally extends to the modified ones.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Karaoke system 11 Central control part 13 Hard disk apparatus 21 Image | video control part 22 Monitor 50 Remote control apparatus 51 GUI
60 Foreign language lyrics telop 61 Japanese ruby characters

Claims (2)

In a karaoke system that can selectively display a state where a ruby is shaken on a lyrics telop and a state where a ruby is not shaken when playing a predetermined karaoke song,
User ID acquisition means, user-specific ruby display registration means, and user-specific ruby display control means,
The user ID acquisition means identifies and acquires the user ID from the user ID recording medium when the user logs in to the karaoke system,
User-specific ruby display registration means that any user who logs in registers in advance the presence or absence of ruby display for each song,
The user-specific ruby display control means determines the presence or absence of ruby display according to the registered content of the user-specific ruby display registration means when the user selects the music for which the presence or absence of ruby display is registered, and the music A karaoke system with a ruby display function, which is configured to display lyrics telops corresponding to the performance of the lyric.   A plurality of national language phonetic characters are prepared for the ruby, and the user-specific ruby display registration means registers the phonetic characters of a desired national language when the user registers that the music is displayed as ruby. The karaoke system with a ruby display function according to claim 1.

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