JP4549906B2 - Karaoke device that records scoring results individually - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a karaoke apparatus capable of scoring two singing songs duet individually, and more particularly, to a karaoke apparatus that records and uses a scoring result for each individual.

(A) In Japanese Patent No. 3452791, “Karaoke scoring device”, when two people sing a duet song, the scoring standard of each part obtained from karaoke accompaniment music data and the singing voice signal from the first microphone and the second microphone And a technique of outputting scoring data for two singing voice signals.

(B) In Japanese Patent No. 3573425, “Karaoke device characterized by karaoke battle game”, when two people sing, each singing voice is scored separately according to the scoring criteria obtained from karaoke accompaniment music, and sung A technique for expressing the scoring process inside as a karaoke battle game using CG video is disclosed.

(C) In Japanese Patent No. 3136272 “Communication Karaoke System”, the user ID of the person who requested at the time of request is automatically input, and the scoring result when the person sings is associated with the user ID in the karaoke apparatus. A system that records and collects the recorded information for various uses is disclosed.

(D) In Japanese Patent No. 3453248 “Communication Karaoke System, Karaoke Playback Terminal”, the customer information database is managed by the host device, and when the user ID is sent from the karaoke playback terminal, the corresponding customer information is returned, A system is disclosed in which a terminal creates and presents a welcome message or the like interspersed with personal information of a user based on received customer information.

(E) In Japanese Patent No. 3432132 “Karaoke performance device, its main body and remote control reservation device”, a user's face photo is taken by a remote control reservation device with a camera, and the face photo data and request song information are associated with each other. Then, a system is disclosed that transmits to a karaoke performance device and displays on the display a face photograph of a person who has requested it immediately before the performance of the requested song.

(F) In Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2005-49707 “Multifunctional Karaoke Remote Control Device”, a member table in which a personal ID (user ID) of a karaoke meeting participant is associated with a face photograph is stored in the remote control device. The list of face photos is displayed on the display, and the user ID can be specified by touch-inputting the face photos, thereby simplifying the input operation of the user ID associated with the requested song and the requested song. A system for displaying a photograph of a face of a person who requested the performance of the performance is disclosed.

(G) In Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2005-17736 “Performance reservation system for karaoke device and music selection remote control device”, a user ID and a face photograph are stored in association with each other and sung together with a request for a duet song. A system is disclosed in which when a request for recruiting a person is entered, a notice document in which the face photograph, the song title, and the partner recruitment message are edited is displayed on the display.

(H) Japanese Patent No. 3629450 “Karaoke device integrating karaoke customer service support device” includes a customer database that aggregates performance histories for each customer, and displays a list of store visitors created based on this database. A technique for allowing a device to recognize a user ID of a person who requests from above is disclosed.

  The inventor of this application applied the above-described known techniques (A) to (H) developed by the applicants in combination, and designed the following due scoring system. When requesting a song to be duet, the user can directly or indirectly input the two user IDs to be duet, and the requested song information and the user IDs for the two people on the karaoke device side. Are stored in association with each other. Immediately before the song is played, two face photos (face photo data registered in association with the user ID) associated with the two stored user IDs are displayed side by side. Encourage singing. When the song is duet, the singing voices of the two singers are scored individually, and the result is displayed and recorded in association with the user ID. This recorded information can be used in various ways.

  In this duet scoring system, the scoring standard obtained from the karaoke accompaniment music data is compared with the singing voice signals from the first microphone and the second microphone, respectively, and the scoring data for the two singing voice signals is output. . In order to record the scoring result in association with the user ID, it is necessary to know on the karaoke apparatus side whether the two singers use the first or second microphone.

  The following two methods are influential. The first is a method of informing the karaoke apparatus by some input method which person uses which microphone. The second method is to make the microphones distinguishable in appearance, direct the user from the side of the karaoke device, instruct which person should use which microphone, and follow the user.

  The present invention provides a user interface technology that allows a user to recognize without difficulty what microphone is to be used by two persons who are duet using a third method different from the above two methods. It is to provide.

The karaoke apparatus according to the present invention is specified by the following items (1) to (10).
(1) It is a karaoke device that includes storage means, input means, performance means, scoring means, display means, and control means, and records the scoring results individually. (2) The storage means is a store visitor. Storing an information table (3) The store visitor information table includes a plurality of associations between user IDs, face photo data, and music-based scoring information. (4) Input means associates with user IDs. (5) The performance means plays karaoke accompaniment music under the control of the control means. (6) The scoring means includes a scoring standard obtained from karaoke accompaniment music data, and the first microphone. The singing voice signals from the second microphone and the singing voice signals from the second microphone can be compared, respectively, and the scoring data for the two singing voice signals can be output. (8) control means, two user ID the after performing only the face photograph display processing predetermined period in play immediately before the correspondence has been requested songs (the first user ID and a second and user ID) Starting the performance of a song and performing scoring recording processing after scoring associated with the performance of the song (9) The face photo display processing includes two faces associated with the first user ID and the second user ID, respectively. The photograph data is extracted from the store visitor information table and displayed on the display means as the first face photograph and the second face photograph, respectively, and the first voice input design is associated with each of the first face photograph and the second face photograph. And the second voice input design is displayed, the first voice input design is changed based on the voice input signal from the first microphone, and the second voice input design is changed based on the voice input signal from the second microphone. Changing the voice input design (10) scoring the recording process records the person entering the information table in association with the rating result of the voice signal from the first microphone to a first user ID of the first face photograph corresponding, Scoring result of the singing voice signal from the second microphone is recorded in the store visitor information table in association with the second user ID corresponding to the second face photograph.

  During the period when the face photo display process is being executed, if you input a voice by tapping the microphone that the two people who have duet happened to grab and uttering the voice, either of the two voice input designs will change accordingly. However, if a design that changes so as to respond to the voice input by the user is associated with the face photo of the user, it can be sung as it is. If the change in response is a design associated with the other person's face photo, the microphone may be replaced and sung. This is easy to understand and simple.

=== Basic configuration and functions of karaoke equipment ===
A schematic configuration of a karaoke apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. The main computer 1 controls the entire karaoke apparatus. The hard disk device 2 stores various information such as a program of the main computer 1, a karaoke database, a video database, an operation record database, and a store visitor information table. The operation / display panel unit 3 can input various types of information by the user, and can display various types of information for the user. The communication control unit 7 communicates with an external karaoke server and a member information server via a communication line.

  The performance processing unit 8 performs accompaniment music based on the karaoke data under the control of the main computer 1, and emits sound by the audio system via the mixing amplifier 8. Audio signals from the first microphone and the second microphone are input to the mixing amplifier 9 via the microphone amplifier 10 and also input to the scoring processing unit 11.

  The scoring processing unit 11 controls the scoring data obtained by analyzing the skill of the singing by sequentially comparing the scoring standard obtained from the karaoke data and the sound signal from the microphone during the performance of the karaoke accompaniment music under the control of the main computer 1. Output. When two people sing using the first microphone and the second microphone during the performance of a duet song, the scoring unit 11 scores the parts obtained from the karaoke accompaniment music data, the first microphone, and the second microphone. Are compared with the singing voice signals from, respectively, and the scoring data for the two singing voice signals are output.

  Various video information related to the karaoke performance is provided to the user by the video memory 4, the display processing unit 5 and the display device 6 under the control of the main computer 1. For example, during a karaoke performance, a karaoke video accompanied by a lyrics telop is displayed, and a score progress and result are also displayed. During the performance pause, various information such as information indicating the performance reservation status, music-related advertisement information, and karaoke-related information such as this week's best ten are displayed.

=== Portable Computer 13 ===
The portable computer 13 is operated by users participating in the karaoke gathering, and communicates with the main computer 1 via the wireless port 13. The portable computer 13 is a flat integrated personal computer called a palmtop type or a laptop type, and a liquid crystal display with a transparent touch panel is greatly laid out on the front as a user interface. Various information can be exchanged interactively with the person.

  The portable computer 13 of this embodiment is integrally provided with an IC card interface and a digital camera. The IC card interface can read information (including a user ID) recorded on a member card possessed by the user. Digital cameras have specifications that are tailored to the purpose of taking photographs of users' faces.

  The portable computer 13 stores the user ID read by the IC card interface and notifies the main computer 1 of the user ID. The hard disk device of the portable computer 13 stores a karaoke index database, which allows a user to search for music in various modes and to make a performance reservation (request) for the searched music.

=== Member Information Server ===
In the database managed by the member information server, the personal information (member information) of the user who owns the member card issued by the karaoke provider is collected using the user ID as a key. The member information includes the address, name, age, occupation, etc., as well as karaoke usage information. This includes the results of the user singing and scoring (scoring data for each song).

  The member information includes face photo data in a digital data format. Here, the face photograph data may be taken by a digital camera and appropriately edited and processed like a photo booth (trademark). Although different from the general definition, in this invention, a facial photograph is a concept that includes an illustration of a face.

=== Information processing when entering a store ===
A user who participates in a karaoke meeting first loads his / her member card into the portable computer 13. The user ID is transmitted to the main computer 1. The main computer 1 transmits the user ID of the store visitor to the member information server. The member information server returns predetermined partial information in the member information corresponding to the received user ID to the karaoke apparatus (main computer 1). The member information returned to the main computer 1 includes face image data with a nickname. The main computer 1 stores this face image data in the store visitor information table of the hard disk device 2 and also transfers it to the portable computer 13.

  A similar store entry information table is also created in the hard disk device of the portable computer 13, and member information including a face image received from the main computer 1 is registered in this table. The portable computer 13 displays a list of face images registered in the store visitor information table on a part of the screen of the liquid crystal display with a transparent touch panel. The list of face images of the store visitor is always displayed in one corner of the screen.

=== Input of requested song and user ID ===
When a user selects a requested song by the portable computer 13 and issues a performance reservation instruction, the user touches and inputs his / her face image from the face image list displayed on the screen. Then, the song ID of the requested song and the user ID of the requester are sent to the main computer 1 and registered in the performance reservation queue.

  When requesting a duet song by two people, by touch-inputting the face images of the two people, the song ID and two user IDs are associated with each other and sent to the main computer 1 to wait. Registered in the matrix.

  The main computer 1 displays a request song list registered in the queue when a request is input or between songs, and a face image of a person who reserved each song is attached to the list.

=== Performance of duet songs ===
When the main computer 1 retrieves information of the next song registered in the queue and prepares to play the song, the song is a duet song associated with the user IDs for two people. Then, the two face photo data corresponding to the two user IDs are taken out from the store visitor information table of the hard disk device 2 and a microphone confirmation screen with the face photo is created and displayed on the display device 6.

  Specific examples of the microphone confirmation screen are shown in FIGS. Let two person's face photographs be the first face photograph and the second face photograph. In the example of FIG. 2, the first and second face photographs are arranged side by side, and the level meter design (first speech input design) of the first microphone is combined under the first face photograph (nickname woo), The design is a combination of the second microphone level meter design (second audio input design) under the face photo (nickname Ikuhime).

  At the same time, the main computer 1 instructs the scoring processing unit 11 to send the voice input level information of the first microphone in real time and the voice input level information of the second microphone in real time. Then, the main computer 1 changes the display form of the level meter design below the first face photo based on the voice input level information of the first microphone, and also changes the second face photo based on the voice input level information of the second microphone. The display form of the lower level meter design is changed.

  In the example of FIG. 3, the round button designs arranged below the two face photographs are the voice input designs, and the main computer 1 changes the color of the button designs according to the voice input level information from the scoring processing unit 11.

The microphone confirmation screen as described above may be displayed for a predetermined time immediately before the duet music is played, or may be displayed until a predetermined operation input is received as in the example of FIG. During the period when the microphone confirmation screen is displayed, if you input a voice by tapping the microphone that the two people who duet happen to grab or uttering, either of the above two voice input designs will change, If a design that changes so as to respond to the voice you input is associated with your face photo, you can sing it as it is. If the change in response is a design associated with the other person's face photo, the microphone may be replaced and sung.
Although the face photograph is defined to include an illustration, the nickname may be replaced with the face photograph in some cases.

=== Scoring process of duet music ===
The scoring unit 11 compares the scoring standard of each part obtained from the karaoke accompaniment music data with the singing voice signals from the first microphone and the second microphone, and outputs the scoring data for the two singing voice signals, respectively. . The main computer 1 displays the progress of scoring during performance on the display device 6 and displays the scoring result at the end of performance. Further, the main computer 1 records the scoring result of the singing voice signal from the first microphone in association with the user ID of the first face photograph, and the scoring result of the singing voice signal from the second microphone is the user of the second face picture. Records in association with the ID. This record is registered in the operation record database of the hard disk device 2 and also in the store visitor information table. The contents of the operation record database are collected timely by the karaoke server, and the contents of the store visitor information table are collected timely by the member information server. Information gathered on the server can be used in various ways.

It is a schematic block diagram of the karaoke apparatus which concerns on one Example of this invention. It is 1st Example of a microphone confirmation screen. It is 2nd Example of a microphone confirmation screen.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main computer 2 Hard disk drive 6 Display apparatus 11 Scoring processing part 13 Portable computer

Claims (1)

A karaoke apparatus comprising storage means, input means, performance means, scoring means, display means, and control means, and records scoring results for each individual,
The storage means stores the store visitor information table,
The store visitor information table includes a plurality of correspondences between user IDs, face photo data, and grading information by song,
The input means can input the requested song information associated with the user ID,
The performance means plays karaoke accompaniment music under the control of the control means,
The scoring means compares the scoring standard obtained from the karaoke accompaniment music data with the singing voice signals from the first microphone and the second microphone, respectively, and can output the scoring data for the two singing voice signals,
The display means displays an image under the control of the control means,
The control means performs the face photo display process for a predetermined period immediately before the performance of the requested music associated with the two user IDs (the first user ID and the second user ID), and then performs the performance of the music. And after the scoring associated with the performance of the song ,
In the face photo display process, two face photo data respectively associated with the first user ID and the second user ID are extracted from the store visitor information table and are respectively used as the first face photo and the second face photo. The first voice input design and the second voice input design are displayed in association with the first face photograph and the second face photograph, respectively, and are displayed based on the voice input signal from the first microphone. Changing the first voice input design and changing the second voice input design based on the voice input signal from the second microphone;
The scoring recording process records the scoring result of the singing voice signal from the first microphone in the store information table in association with the first user ID corresponding to the first face photograph, and scoring the singing voice signal from the second microphone. Is recorded in the store information table in association with the second user ID corresponding to the second face photograph.