JP2010044162A - Processing of sound information and utilization system therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To compose a music piece appropriate and accurate in musical scale with humming and singing voice or the like emitted by a person who has a mobile terminal, and to utilize the music piece as an incoming melody or the like. <P>SOLUTION: In the system, music note data 5 are imparted to a caller's singing voice and humming or the like called via a terminal 1 through a voice analysis means 4 of an administrator 2 and are converted into a desired music piece having appropriate syllable and accurate musical scale, that is, a song, humming, and performance sound of a musical instrument or the like by rhythm data 7, musical instrument data 8, and a scat processing means 10 in a music conversion processing means 6. The music such as the music piece converted in this way is stored with being filed every terminal holder as music data 11. The terminal holder selects the desired music piece from own music data stored in this way and arbitrarily utilizes it as the incoming melody of own mobile terminal or the like. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  In the present invention, using a communication terminal such as a cellular phone, human singing voice, humming, natural sound, artificial sound, etc. can be converted into data, and these data-converted sounds can be appropriately used during communication such as a telephone. More specifically, the system is a system that performs voice processing and uses sound data that has been subjected to this processing.

  Conventional mobile phones centering on telephone functions are now configured to function as multi-function terminals that can access a large number of information objects, and various services are provided by taking advantage of this multi-functionality. ing.

  Under such a technical background, the inventors use a communication terminal such as a mobile phone (hereinafter referred to as “terminal” including the embodiment) and the terminal owner etc. Human voices or sound of waves, birdsongs, river sounds, natural sounds such as river sounds, and airport sounds including announcements, artificial sounds such as stadium sounds, etc., and We have invented a system that processes musically as appropriate for human voice and uses this sound data for telephone ringtones and self-listening.

The inventors investigated prior descriptions from the above viewpoint, but no prior art based on such a technical purpose was found.
The following documents are different from the present invention in terms of technical purpose and configuration, but some common items are recognized in terms of using a terminal such as a mobile phone and performing voice processing.
JP-A-2005-208394 JP-A-2004-301884 JP 2004-310054 A

  Among the above documents, Patent Document 1 is a system that generates a singing voice using synthesized speech, and is a system that is in reverse relation to the case where music processing of a human voice or the like as in the present application is performed, and Patent Document 2 is a terminal device. Karaoke is superimposed on the song so as to have a karaoke function, and Patent Document 3 forms a file by superimposing BGM (background music) on a person's singing voice. Karaoke system.

  The present invention is different from the above-described prior art in that a voice such as singing voice, humming (nasal fin), scat, etc. uttered by a person as appropriate (or “appropriately”) is analyzed from a musically appropriate passage or scale. It is possible to use this sound data as a ringtone when receiving a phone call by converting the processed sound into data and recording and editing other natural sounds and artificial sounds. It is a problem to obtain a simple system.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention basically has the following configuration.
That is, this system is a person who manages a communication system such as a so-called communication telephone company when the terminal performs communication such as a telephone with a terminal such as a mobile phone (hereinafter referred to as “manager” including the embodiments). The terminal has a means for inputting sound such as a microphone as in a normal mobile phone, and the manager analyzes and analyzes the received sound. A first configuration having means for editing the edited audio data into music, and a database stocked with the edited music data;
The terminal transmits natural sounds or artificial sounds, and has means for classifying these sounds, means for storing the classified sounds, and means for outputting the stored sounds as appropriate according to the purpose. If necessary, it has means for superposing the selected natural sound or artificial sound on the outputted music when outputting the music in the first invention. It consists of.

  The sound produced by the terminal owner becomes an appropriate piece of music, or the system user creates unique sound data using sound data that uses recorded natural sounds or artificial sounds. Can be appropriately used for a ring tone or the like.

  The terminal can be a mobile phone, and the administrator can be a mobile phone company that conducts the mobile phone communication business, so that the content of the present invention can be implemented using the mobile phone as it is.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows a first configuration of the present invention.
The present invention is a system configured between a terminal 1 owned by a specific individual and an administrator 2 who controls the communication system of the terminal 1.

  First, the owner of the terminal 1 uses the terminal 1 to input his / her voice into the terminal 1 as voice information such as humming or scat, and sometimes singing voice. In this case, the audio information can naturally process the existing music by means described later, but if the owner hums or screams as he / she thinks, the final music data will be the original of the owner Therefore, the effect of this system can be exhibited further.

  The audio information input to the terminal 1 is transmitted to the system of the manager 2 in real time or once recorded in the terminal 1. The transmitted voice information is input to the voice analysis means 4 through the 1 / O port 3. The voice analysis means 4 digitizes the input voice information by, for example, Fourier transform, and graphs or digitizes the pitch information.

  Next, the pitch information is processed into sound information that can be expressed as a musical score by the score data 5 and input to the music processing means 6. In the music processing means 6, the musical score-expressed sound information is allocated with measures and the like according to the music composition, and is reconstructed into sound information having an accurate musical composition while approximating the original sound information. .

  In the composition of music in the music processing means 6, it is possible to compose a desired music using rhythm data 7, instrument sound data 8, human voice data 9, and the like. For example, it is possible to select a predetermined rhythm from the rhythm data 7 and to make the music into tango, bolero, or waltz, for example. In addition, it is possible to freely set arrangements such as piano tango and violin waltz using the musical instrument sound data 8 for this musical piece.

  Further, this musical piece can be made into a female voice or a male voice from the human voice data 9, and the voice can be set as soprano, alto, bass or the like. Furthermore, by activating the skit processing means 10, it is also possible to configure the human voice musical composition into a skit that forms a musical scale by generating pronunciations such as “rururu rururu” and “la la la la la la”. The human voice composition configured as described above is stored as music data 11, for example, downloaded as a ringtone to the terminal 1, or the owner of the terminal 1 is stored on the manager 2 side using the terminal 1. Various uses such as listening to various types of music data are possible.

FIG. 2 shows an example of an implementation state of the system in the above configuration.
That is, if the manager 2 receives the music setting information for converting the sound information from the specific terminal owner into a music (SA1), the sound information is sent to the music processing system shown in FIG. In this state, sound information such as humming is input (SA2). The music setting information can be set by transmitting a predetermined code to the administrator before the sender sends the sound information.

  Thereafter, the sound information received by the sound analysis means 4 is analyzed (SA3), and the sound information analyzed using the score data 5 is processed into a score (SA4). Further, the music data is synthesized by adding data such as the rhythm data 7, musical instrument sound data 8, human voice data 9, scatter processing means 10 and the like to the sound information that has been scored, thereby synthesizing desired music data (SA5). Create (SA6).

  This music data is transmitted to the caller as sample data (SA7). The caller evaluates the transmitted music sample (SA8), and if it is good, it is set as music data 11, and if not liked, for example, the instrument sound is changed from violin to piano, the rhythm is changed from waltz to bolero, etc. Specify. The system on the manager 2 side creates the music data 6 again in response to this designation, and finally sets it as the music data 11 if the sender approves (SA9).

FIG. 3 shows a second embodiment.
In contrast to the embodiment that processes human voice, the present embodiment is configured as a system that processes natural sounds, artificial sounds, and the like.

  First, natural sound refers to sounds generated by natural activities such as river flow sounds, swelling waves, insect sounds, raindrops, and artificial sounds are sounds generated by human activities. As long as it is recorded and used as data, sounds that people feel uncomfortable, such as noise, are excluded. From this point of view, artificial sounds are considered to be limited to some extent, such as sounds centered on cheering at the stadium and airport announcement sounds against the background of jet sounds. Of course, natural sounds are mainly comfortable and comfortable to listen to.

  For example, the owner of the terminal 1 records the sound of a wave on the beach and outputs the recorded sound to the manager 2. The output sound information is input to the information processing means 12 via the I / O port 3. In this case, the input sound information 12a is subjected to Fourier transform and waveform analysis, for example, as in the sound analysis means 4 of the above-described embodiment, and from the waveform analysis result and the previously input waveform pattern, the sound of the wave, the sound of the wind, The sound of insects and the like is classified, and based on the classification information 12b, the classification code is added by the classification code adding means 13 and stored in the sound database.

  If the input sound information cannot be classified by the information processing means 12, information indicating that the transmitted sound information could not be classified is given to the user of the terminal 1 by e-mail, for example. Send. In this case, the transmitter transmits the type of the transmitted sound information using a code decided in advance with the reasoner. For example, the number 1 is classified as a natural sound, 2 is classified as an artificial sound, then the natural sound 1 is assumed, 1 is a river sound, 2 is a wave sound, 3 is a wind sound, and so on. Assuming 2 is set, 1 is an airport, 2 is a soccer field, 3 is a car race track, etc. Thus, for example, if 1-1 is transmitted by e-mail, this sound information can be designated as a natural sound and a river sound, or 2-3 as an artificial sound and a sound of a car race track. The information processing unit 12 classifies the sound information that could not be classified based on the designation information and stores it in the sound database 15 together with the classification code.

  Reference numeral 16 denotes application-specific data, which is set in advance so that sound information stored in the sound database 15 is extracted and used corresponding to the application. More specifically, when the user of the terminal 1 wants to use, for example, a wave sound as a ringtone, the user outputs usage-specific usage information 17 to the administrator 2. The administrator 2 side extracts predetermined sound information from the sound database 15 based on the use-specific usage information 17 and outputs it to the terminal 1. The user of the terminal 1 installs this sound information as a ring tone and uses it as a ring tone thereafter. In this case, not only the recorded sound information but also the sound information can be processed such that desired music data of the music data 11 created in the above embodiment is superimposed on this sound information to be used as a ring tone. is there. Reference numeral 18 denotes a superimposing means for superimposing specific music information output from the music data 11 on the ring tone. Each of the above configurations is a portion that mainly classifies, accumulates, or processes sound information, and corresponds to a setting unit on the upper side of the portion divided by dotted lines in the figure.

On the other hand, the sound information stored in the setting unit is used as follows, for example.
The user of the terminal 1 outputs the usage form of the sound information stored in the administrator 2 as usage information 19 to the administrator 2. Based on this usage information 19, the usage unit of the system of the administrator 2 confirms the usage pattern of the sound information, extracts the sound information corresponding to the usage mode from the sound database 15, and stores each sound information in the application-specific data 16. The application is set, and the transmission destination of the sound information corresponding to the application is determined by the transmission destination determination means 20 and transmitted to the determined transmission destination.

  For example, when the transmission destination of the sound information is a call destination of the user of the terminal 1, the sound information is transmitted to the third party terminal 21 that is the call destination of the terminal 1. Also, when the user of the terminal 1 outputs the usage information 19 for the purpose of listening to the sound of the waves before going to bed, for example, the sound information of the waves selected from the sound database 15 is stored in the “ For example, it is set to “self-use” and is output to the terminal 1 via the transmission destination determination means 20.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an example of an implementation state of the configuration shown in FIG.
In the figure, the administrator 2 side receives the classification information recorded in the terminal 1 (SB1), and subsequently or simultaneously receives the sound information (SB2). Each sound information is given a code corresponding to the classification information (SB3), and a sound database 15 is created (SB4).

  Next, when usage-specific usage information 17 is received (SB5), sound data corresponding to the usage-specific usage information 17 is extracted from the sound database 15 to create usage-specific data (SB6), and a request for adding music data is made. If there is a request for adding music data, the sound data to which the music data has been added is used as the data for each use. The setting is completed by recording (SB9).

  If the usage information 17 is received from the user of the terminal 1 in this state (SB10), data corresponding to the usage information is selected from the usage-specific data 16 (SB11), and the transmission destination determination means 20 uses this usage information. Is selected (SB12), and the selected sound information is transmitted to the selected transmission destination (SB13).

  The system according to the present invention can be implemented in all types of mobile terminals, but can be most effectively implemented especially in terminals centering on mobile phone functions.

It is a block diagram which comprises the system which processes and utilizes the human voice which shows the 1st Example of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the utilization condition of the system shown in FIG. It is a block diagram which comprises the system which processes and uses the natural sound and artificial sound which show the 2nd Example of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the utilization condition of the system shown in FIG.

Explanation of symbols

1 Terminal
2 administrators
3 I / O boat 4 Voice analysis means 5 Music score data 6 Music processing means 7 Rhythm data 8 Musical instrument sound data 9 Human voice data 10 Scatter processing means 11 Music data 12 Information processing means 12a Sound information 12b Classification information 13 Classification code giving means 14 classification code 15 sound database 16 use data 17 use information 18 superimposing means 19 use information 21 third party terminal

Claims (7)

This is a system established between a terminal having a mobile phone function and an administrator who manages the function of this terminal, and sound data transmitted to the administrator via the terminal is humming, scat, singing voice, etc. The voice analysis means for analyzing the transmitted voice and the voice data analyzed by the voice analysis means are approximated to the voice data in accordance with the rules constituting music. A music processing unit for reorganization and a unit for storing music data output from the music processing unit, and predetermined music data in accordance with a request from a terminal user from the stored music data A system for processing and using sound information, characterized in that the sound information is output to a predetermined target. 2. The sound information according to claim 1, wherein means for storing rhythm data is connected to said music processing means, and the music data subjected to music processing is constituted by a selected specific rhythm. Processing / use system. 3. The sound information according to claim 1, wherein a means for storing musical instrument sound data is connected to the music conversion processing means, and the music data subjected to the music conversion processing is constituted by a specific musical instrument sound. Processing and usage system. 3. The sound information according to claim 1, wherein means for storing voice data is connected to the music processing means, and the music data subjected to the music processing is constituted by a specific voice. Processing and usage system. The system is established between a terminal having a mobile phone function and an administrator who manages the function of the terminal. Sound data transmitted to the administrator through the terminal is a natural sound or an artificial sound. There are means for assigning a code for classifying the transmitted natural sound or artificial sound for each type to the administrator side, a sound database for storing the classified sound information based on this code, and a terminal Use-specific data for classifying the classified sound information by use according to the use-specific use information transmitted from the user, and according to the request of the terminal user from the stored sound data, a predetermined A sound information processing / utilizing system configured to output sound data to a predetermined target. 6. The sound information processing / utilizing system according to claim 5, wherein means for superimposing music data is connected to the means for storing the application-specific data. A means for determining a transmission destination corresponding to the usage information output to the administrator is connected to the use-specific data, and predetermined sound information is sent to the predetermined transmission destination corresponding to the usage information of the terminal user. 7. The sound information processing / utilizing system according to claim 5, wherein the sound information is transmitted to the sound information.

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