JP3229275B2 - Recording media for karaoke - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a karaoke reproducing apparatus having a recording medium on which a plurality of karaoke performance sounds are recorded, and reproducing a performance sound of a selected one of the plurality of tunes.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Among karaoke songs, there are so-called two-part singing songs in which not only a single singing song but also a double singing (duet) by two people. Such a two-part song is usually sung by two people.

[0003]

However, there is a case where there is no opponent to sing a two-part singing song even if the singer wants to sing. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a karaoke recording medium capable of singing a two-part singing song alone.

[0004]

A karaoke recording medium according to the present invention has a channel on which signals indicating karaoke performance sounds of a plurality of songs are recorded, and a first singing song corresponding to at least one of the plurality of songs. A first recording area in which first and second singing channels in which a signal indicating a part and a signal indicating a second singing part are respectively recorded; and the first and second singing channels for the plurality of songs, respectively. And a second recording area in which identification information indicating whether or not the signal is a multi-audio-compatible song in which a signal indicating a singing part is recorded.

[0005]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. In the karaoke reproducing apparatus shown in FIG. 1, the autochanger 1 is provided with a disc storage section 2, a disc transport section 3, and a player section 4. A plurality of disks 5 are stored in the disk storage unit 2, and one of the disks 5 is transported by the transport unit 3 onto a turntable (not shown) of the player unit 4 when playing a disk. When the performance is completed, the disc on the turntable is returned to a predetermined position in the disc storage unit 2 by the transport unit 3. The player section 4 plays a disk on the turntable and outputs read data. The disc transport unit 3 and the player unit 4 operate according to a command from a system controller 7 described later.

The data output of the player section 4 is connected to a data separation circuit 6. The data separation circuit 6 separates the data output from the player unit 4 into various data such as compressed image data, compressed audio data, control data, information data, and outputs the data from individual output terminals. An audio decoder 8 and a video decoder 9 are connected to the data separation circuit 6 in addition to the system controller 7 described above. Also,
The data separation circuit 6 is provided with a terminal for connecting an external device 10. The external device 10 is a controller for karaoke performance such as lighting, video, telop, and the like.

The audio decoder 8 decodes the separated compressed audio data and restores it as uncompressed audio data such as PCM digital data. Since the audio data of four channels is compressed in the compressed audio data, the audio data of the designated channel is restored in accordance with the channel command from the system controller 7. The audio data output from the audio decoder 8 is supplied to a D / A converter 11 and converted into an analog audio signal. The analog audio signal is supplied to a speaker 19 via an amplifier 18.

The video decoder 9 decodes the separated compressed image data and restores it as uncompressed image data. The image data output from the video decoder 9 is D /
The signal is supplied to the A converter 12 and is converted into an analog moving image video signal. This moving image video signal is output as it is as it is, and is supplied to the image synthesizer 21. The system controller 7 includes a microcomputer and receives the separated information data. The information data is stored in a RAM (random access memory) 13 and is selectively read from the RAM 13. The read information data is processed in the system controller 7 or supplied to the display character control circuit 20. The display character control circuit 20 has a character generator and a V-RAM, generates display character data according to the information data, writes it in the V-RAM, and synchronizes the V-RAM with the synchronization signal of the moving image signal. , The display character data is read out, converted into a character video signal, and output to the image synthesizer 21. The character image signal is converted into a D / A signal by the image synthesizer 21.
The moving image video signal from the converter 12 is synthesized.

The system controller 7 has an operation unit 15,
The recording device 16 and the printer 17 are connected. The operation unit 15 has a keyboard for designating a music piece and a receiving unit (not shown) for receiving the music piece designation from the remote control transmitter 23. The recording device 16 is for recording karaoke performance sounds and singing sounds on a recordable compact disc (not shown) such as a CD-R. Audio signals indicating the performance sound and the singing sound are supplied from the amplifier 18 to the recording device 16. The printer 17 prints recorded music information such as music titles on a label attached to a compact disc.

Next, the recorded contents of the disk 5 played by the player unit 4 will be described. The disc 5 stores all information, for example, in the MPEG (Moving Picture Expert Group).
p) It is recorded as a standard digital signal. As shown in FIG. 2, the information recording area of each disk 5 has a non-real-time file area and a real-time file area. An access information file such as TOC and a karaoke information file such as a song name are recorded in the non-real-time file area. In the real-time file area, N (N is an integer and corresponds to the number of music pieces) real-time files are recorded. Each real-time file is called in units of chapters, and one chapter corresponds to one song. A real-time file of one chapter is composed of compressed image data and compressed audio data of one piece of music and real-time data other than images and sounds, and these data are time-division multiplexed and recorded in the file.

The compressed audio data includes audio signals for four channels, and stereo audio signals as karaoke performance sounds are recorded on the first and second channels as main channels. The third and fourth channels are sub-channels. In the case of a singing song that requires two parts, such as a double song, an audio signal indicating the singing sound of one part together with the karaoke performance sound is output to the third channel. At the same time, an audio signal indicating the singing sound of the other part is recorded on the fourth channel. In the case of a song in which the singing sound of each part is recorded on the third and fourth channels in this way, the song is recorded in advance as a multi-audio mode in common information in a chapter described later. Note that the multi-audio refers to a recording mode in which sound portions of the same music are recorded in time correspondence with each of a plurality of audio channels, and the multi-audio mode is the third and fourth audio channels of the four audio channels. This indicates whether or not the channel is a multi-audio compatible song in which the singing sound of each part is recorded together with the karaoke performance sound.

The access information file includes information indicating the position and time length of each chapter in the disc, and any chapter can be accessed by referring to this information. The karaoke information file is composed of various information on a disc and a song, and its structure is shown in FIG.
Shown in Karaoke information file contains disc related information and 1
It consists of one or more chapter information. One chapter information represents one chapter, that is, information related to a song,
The number of chapter information matches the number of songs. The disc-related information is information on the entire disc, such as disc content, disc identification, and the number of songs recorded on the disc.

Each chapter information includes a chapter information header, information common to the chapter, information per telop channel, and information per language. The chapter information header includes identification information of the chapter information, information indicating the contents, and the like. The common information within the chapter is (1) the nationality of the song, (2) the date of the song, (3) the length of the song, (4) the copyright code, (5) the singer's classification, (6) the genre of the song, (7) song theme image and song theme, (8) song situation, (9) song special genre, (10) song tempo, (11) song location image,
(12) song difficulty, (13) multi audio mode,
(14) Background video, (15) Control device information and (1)
6) DSP mode, etc.

The telop channel-specific information is information relating to character information (telop) corresponding to the chapter. A plurality of character information sequences (telop channels) can be assigned to one chapter. For example,
A plurality of selectable telops in different languages can be added to one chapter. The telop channel information includes (1) the number of telop channels, (2) the telop channel number, (3) the telop language, and (4) the character form of the telop. Each information is repeatedly recorded by the number of telop channels.

The language-specific information is information that depends on the language among the information on the chapter. (1) Number of information by language, (2) Language code, (3) Description code system, (4) Information size by language , (5) Song title, (6) Song title reading, (7)
Singer name, (8) singer name reading, (9) lyricist name, (10) lyricist name reading, (11) composer name, (12) composer name reading, (13) first phrase, It consists of (14) the reading of the first phrase and (15) location data. Information from (2) language code to (15) location data is repeatedly recorded for the number of information by language.

Next, the operation of the above karaoke reproducing apparatus will be described. When a disk is newly stored in the disk storage section 2 of the autochanger 1, an installation operation is first performed. In this installation operation, the system controller 7 detects that a new disk is stored in the disk storage unit 2 as shown in FIG. 4 (step S1), and mounts the new disk on the turntable of the player unit 4. Disk transport unit 3
Issue a disk set command (step S
2). When the disk transport unit 3 finishes mounting the disk on the turntable of the player unit 4, it is supplied to the system controller 7 as a mounting end signal. Therefore,
Upon receiving the mounting end signal (step S3), the system controller 7 instructs the player unit 4 to rotate the disk (step S4), and instructs data reading (step S5). The player unit 4 rotates the disk together with the turntable, and after the rotation reaches a predetermined rotation speed, reads and outputs data from a non-real-time file area of the disk.

The read data is supplied to the system controller 7 via the data separation circuit 6, and is temporarily stored in a buffer memory (not shown) in the system controller 7. The system controller 7 sequentially writes the supplied data into the external RAM 13 (step S6),
It is determined whether or not the reading of data by the player unit 4 has been completed (step S7). For example, the data supplied by the execution of step S6 is written to the RAM 13 until a bit indicating the end of the data supply is supplied and it is known that the data reading has been completed. When the data reading is completed, an operation stop command is issued to the player unit 4 (step S8), and a disc return command is issued to the disc transport unit 3 (step S9). Therefore, the player unit 4 stops the rotation of the turntable, and thereafter, the disk transport unit 3 transports and stores the disk on the turntable to a predetermined storage position of the disk in the disk storage unit 2. After executing step S9, the system controller 7 determines whether or not another new disk has been stored (step S1).
0). If another new disk is stored in the disk storage unit 2, the process proceeds to step S2, and if there is no other new disk stored, the installation operation ends.

The data to be written into the RAM 13 may be all of the data of the access information file and the karaoke information file described above, but at least a disk number unique to the disk, an address indicating the storage position of the disk storage unit 2 of the disk, a song title, a singer Name, songwriter name, composer name,
Song length, copyright code, song genre, song tempo,
Only song data such as the difficulty level of the song and the multi audio mode may be used.

The storage of a new disk can be obtained by an input from the operation unit 15 by the user. Further, a sensor for detecting the presence or absence of a disk is provided at each storage position of the disk storage unit 2, and an area for storing the detection result is provided in the RAM 13. And compare
The storage of a new disk may be determined, and the detection result may be written to the RAM 13.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the music data such as the music title is obtained at the time of installing the disc in which the music data is recorded together with the image data and the audio data. The song data may be obtained when the disc is installed. Alternatively, music data of a plurality of discs on which image data and audio data are recorded is recorded on one of the plurality of discs, and the music data is obtained when the one disc is installed. May be.

After the installation operation is performed as described above, karaoke performance of the music selected by the user can be performed. First, in the music selection operation, the user inputs a music selection number by operating the numeric keys or alphabet keys of the operation unit 15 or the remote control transmitter 23. The music selection number is composed of a plurality of digits and is a number for designating a disc and music recorded on the disc. When a key is operated, the music selection number is held in a buffer (not shown) in the operation unit 15.

As shown in FIG. 5, the system controller 7
Determines whether a music selection key (not shown) of the operation unit 15 has been operated at a predetermined timing or by an interrupt operation (step S11). If the music selection key has been operated, the music selection number is read from the buffer. The data is written in the music selection list table of the RAM 13 (step S12). The music selection list table is formed in the RAM 13 and, as shown in FIG. 6, music selection numbers and singing part data described later are written in the order of performance,
When the performance ends, the order will be advanced.
The music title corresponding to the read music selection number is read from RAM 13 as information data (step S13), and the read data is supplied to display character control circuit 20 (step S14).

In the display character control circuit 20, display character data indicating the title of the music is generated and written to a predetermined position in the V-RAM. After the display character data is read from the V-RAM and converted into a character video signal, the image
Is output to When the character image signal is a signal indicating a predetermined color in the image synthesizer 21, the character image signal is output in place of the moving image signal from the D / A converter 12 to be synthesized with the moving image signal. Therefore, it is confirmed that the song title is displayed on the display 22 as a character image and that the selection of the song operated by the key has been accepted.

The system controller 7 proceeds to step S14.
, The multi audio mode corresponding to the read music selection number is read from the RAM 13 (step S1).
5). Since the RAM 13 has a multi-audio mode in the data read and written from the disk at the time of the installation operation, the multi-audio mode is read. The multi-audio mode indicates whether or not the song is a multi-audio compatible song in which the singing sound of each part is recorded together with the karaoke performance sound on the third and fourth channels among the four audio channels as described above. Based on the read multi-audio mode, it is determined whether the selected music is a multi-audio-compatible music (step S16).

In the multi-audio mode, for example, "1" is a multi-audio compatible song, and "0" is a multi-audio non-compatible song. Therefore, if the song is a multi-audio compatible song, the system controller 7 displays a multi-audio compatible song (step S17), and requests an input as to which part to sing (step S18). That is, since the song corresponding to multi-audio is a two-part singing song, singing of both parts, singing of one part (for example, singing of a male part) and singing of the other part (for example, singing of a female part) Which is to be sung is input by a key operation of the operation unit 15.
This can be selected from the contents displayed on the display 22 using numeric keys.

The system controller 7 proceeds to step S18.
After execution of, it is determined whether or not a singing part has been input (step S19). If a singing part is input, it is determined whether the singing part is singing of one or the other part (steps S20, S21). If the singing is one part, the singing part data of the above-mentioned song selection list table is set to "01" (step S22). If the singing is the other part, the singing part data of the song selection list table is set to "10" (step S22). S23). This writing is performed at the position of the singing part data corresponding to the position where the song selection number is written in step S12. If it is neither the singing of the one part nor the singing of the other part, the initial value “00” in which the singing part data of the music selection list table is written in advance as the singing of both parts is maintained.

If it is determined in step S16 that the selected music piece is not a multi-audio-incompatible music piece, the music selection operation is immediately terminated. Next, the disk playing operation will be described. As shown in FIG. 7, when the start of performance is first instructed by operating the keys on the operation unit 15 (step S31), the system controller 7 starts from the first in the performance order of the music selection list table formed in the RAM 13 and selects a music selection number and The song part data is read (step S32). Stores the disk address and song number corresponding to the read song selection number in RAM
13 (step S33), and issues a disk set command to the disk transport unit 3 to mount the disk of the read disk address on the turntable of the player unit 4 (step S34).

When the disk transport unit 3 finishes mounting the disk on the turntable of the player unit 4, it is supplied to the system controller 7 as a mounting end signal. Therefore, when the system controller 7 obtains the mounting end signal (step S35), it instructs the player unit 4 to rotate the disk (step S36).

The system controller 7 proceeds to step S36.
After the execution of the above, it is determined whether the read singing part data indicates the singing of one or the other part (steps S37, S38). If the data indicates the singing of one of the parts, the fourth
A channel reproduction command is generated (step S39), and if the data indicates singing of the other part, a third channel reproduction command is generated to the audio decoder 8 (step S40). If the data does not indicate the singing of one or the other part, first and second channel reproduction commands are generated (step S41). The audio decoder 8 is in an operation mode in which the compressed audio data of the channel designated according to the channel command is decoded and restored as uncompressed audio data.

The system controller 7 determines in step S3
After the execution of step 9, S40 or S41, it is determined whether or not the disc performance can be started (step S42). For example,
If the performance is prohibited by the key operation of the operation unit 15, the disk performance is not started. If the disc performance can be started, a disc performance from the track of the read music number is instructed (step S43). Therefore, the player section 4 starts playing the music specified by the music selection number,
The reproduced video signal and audio signal are output to the display 22 and the speaker 19.

When the user designates the singing of one part by key operation, the audio signal of the fourth channel is reproduced, and the singing sound of the other part is output from the speaker 19 together with the karaoke performance sound. Therefore, the singing of one part is performed according to the output sound. When the singing of the other part is designated, the audio signal of the third channel is reproduced, and the singing sound of one part is output from the speaker 19 together with the karaoke performance sound. In this case, the singing of the other part is performed according to the output sound. If the selected song is not a multi-audio compatible song or if the selected song is a multi-audio compatible song and singing of both parts is specified, the audio signals of the first and second channels are reproduced, and only the karaoke performance sound is played. Is output from the speaker 19. When the singing of both parts is designated, the singing is performed by at least two people.

The system controller 7 proceeds to step S43.
After the execution of, it is determined whether or not the performance of the selected music has ended (step S44). This is determined from the time information in the control data supplied from the data separation circuit 6 according to the performance of the disk. When the performance of the selected music is completed, a performance stop command is issued to the player unit 4 (step S4).
5) A disc return command is issued to the disc transport unit 3 (step S46). Therefore, the player unit 4 stops the disk playing operation, and the disk transport unit 3 transports the disk on the turntable to the predetermined storage position of the disk in the disk storage unit 2 after the rotation of the turntable stops. To store. System controller 7
After the disc return command is generated, the song order in the song selection list table is advanced by one song (step S47), and it is determined whether or not the song selection number is recorded first in the song selection list table (step S48). If the music selection number has been recorded, the process returns to step S32 and the above operation is repeated. On the other hand, if no music selection number has been recorded, the performance operation ends.

In the above embodiment, the audio decoder 8 restores the audio data of the designated channel in accordance with the channel command. However, after restoring the audio data of each of the four channels, the audio decoder 8 designates the audio data in accordance with the channel command. The audio data of the selected channel may be selected and converted into an analog signal. Alternatively, after conversion into analog signals of each of the four channels, only the signal of the designated channel may be selectively output.

In the above-described embodiment, in the case of a singing song requiring two parts such as a singing song, an audio signal indicating the karaoke performance sound and the singing sound of one part is recorded on the third channel on the disc. The audio signal indicating the karaoke performance sound and the singing sound of the other part is recorded on the fourth channel, while the audio signal indicating only the singing sound of one part is recorded on the third channel, and the fourth channel is recorded. May be a disc on which an audio signal indicating only the singing sound of the other part is recorded. In this case, if any one of the singing parts of the two parts is designated, the karaoke performance sound recorded on the main channel is reproduced and mixed with the reproduction sound of the singing sound of the third or fourth channel. Good.

Further, it is clear that the recording medium is not limited to a disk, but may be another recording medium such as a tape.

[0036]

As described above, in the karaoke recording medium of the present invention, the karaoke performance sound, the first singing part, and the second singing part are recorded in different voice channels, respectively, so that one of them is easily formed. Only the singing part can be reproduced together with the karaoke performance sound. Therefore, even when there is no opponent to play the duo, there is an advantage that the singing tune of the two parts can be singed by one person, and the number of selectable songs increases.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of an information area of a disc.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a karaoke information file.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an installation operation.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a music selection operation.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a music selection list table.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a disk playing operation.

[Description of Signs of Main Parts]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Autochanger 2 Disk storage part 3 Disk conveyance part 4 Player part 5 Disk 7 System controller 16 Recording device 17 Printer 22 Display 23 Remote control transmitter

──────────────────────────────────────────────────の Continued on the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁷ Identification code FIG11B 27/00 D (72) Inventor Koichi Ono 6-1-1, Fujimi, Tsurugashima-shi, Saitama Pref. Pioneer Corporation (72) Inventor Yoshiaki Moriyama 6-1-1 Fujimi, Tsurugashima-shi, Saitama Examiner in the Research Laboratory, Pioneer Corporation Yoshiaki Minami (56) References JP-A-5-109187 (JP, A) JP-A-5-12831 (JP, A) (58) Field surveyed (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G10K 15/04 302 G11B 20/02 G11B 27/00 G11B 27/10

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A channel on which a signal indicating a karaoke performance sound of a plurality of songs is recorded, and a signal indicating a first singing part and a second singing part corresponding to at least one of the plurality of songs. A first recording area in which first and second singing channels in which signals are respectively recorded are recorded;
A second recording area in which identification information indicating whether or not each of the plurality of songs is a multi-audio compatible song in which a signal indicating the first and second singing parts is recorded is recorded. Recording medium. 2. The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein said second recording area is a non-real time file area. 3. The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the karaoke performance sound is recorded on two channels as a stereo audio signal. 4. The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein image information corresponding to each of the plurality of music pieces is further recorded in the first recording area.