CA2491578A1 - Portable karaoke device - Google Patents

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CA2491578A1
CA2491578A1 CA002491578A CA2491578A CA2491578A1 CA 2491578 A1 CA2491578 A1 CA 2491578A1 CA 002491578 A CA002491578 A CA 002491578A CA 2491578 A CA2491578 A CA 2491578A CA 2491578 A1 CA2491578 A1 CA 2491578A1
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Kyung Ho Lee
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    • G10HELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
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    • G10H1/00Details of electrophonic musical instruments
    • G10H1/36Accompaniment arrangements
    • G10H1/361Recording/reproducing of accompaniment for use with an external source, e.g. karaoke systems
    • G10H1/365Recording/reproducing of accompaniment for use with an external source, e.g. karaoke systems the accompaniment information being stored on a host computer and transmitted to a reproducing terminal by means of a network, e.g. public telephone lines
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    • G10H1/36Accompaniment arrangements
    • G10H1/361Recording/reproducing of accompaniment for use with an external source, e.g. karaoke systems
    • G10H1/368Recording/reproducing of accompaniment for use with an external source, e.g. karaoke systems displaying animated or moving pictures synchronized with the music or audio part
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    • G10H2220/00Input/output interfacing specifically adapted for electrophonic musical tools or instruments
    • G10H2220/005Non-interactive screen display of musical or status data
    • G10H2220/011Lyrics displays, e.g. for karaoke applications
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    • G10H2240/00Data organisation or data communication aspects, specifically adapted for electrophonic musical tools or instruments
    • G10H2240/171Transmission of musical instrument data, control or status information; Transmission, remote access or control of music data for electrophonic musical instruments
    • G10H2240/201Physical layer or hardware aspects of transmission to or from an electrophonic musical instrument, e.g. voltage levels, bit streams, code words or symbols over a physical link connecting network nodes or instruments
    • G10H2240/211Wireless transmission, e.g. of music parameters or control data by radio, infrared or ultrasound
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    • G10H2240/00Data organisation or data communication aspects, specifically adapted for electrophonic musical tools or instruments
    • G10H2240/171Transmission of musical instrument data, control or status information; Transmission, remote access or control of music data for electrophonic musical instruments
    • G10H2240/201Physical layer or hardware aspects of transmission to or from an electrophonic musical instrument, e.g. voltage levels, bit streams, code words or symbols over a physical link connecting network nodes or instruments
    • G10H2240/265CATV transmission, i.e. electrophonic musical instruments connected to community antennas or cable television networks
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    • G10MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
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    • G10H2240/00Data organisation or data communication aspects, specifically adapted for electrophonic musical tools or instruments
    • G10H2240/171Transmission of musical instrument data, control or status information; Transmission, remote access or control of music data for electrophonic musical instruments
    • G10H2240/281Protocol or standard connector for transmission of analog or digital data to or from an electrophonic musical instrument
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Abstract

A portable Karaoke device is disclosed. An MP3 decoder and/or a communication interface is provided to download an accompaniment of a desired tune from a server and an expandable sound module and download memory is provided to store the accompaniment downloaded by the MP3 decoder and/or communication interface. A video signal received from a video unit by radio or an internally stored video signal is utilized as a background picture. A video signal mixed with a lyrics caption is transmitted by radio to the video unit so that the user can view the background picture and lyrics. In addition to a main microphone over which the user sings while listening to an accompaniment sound, there is provided an auxiliary microphone for transmitting a signal by radio or through a cable. The user can select and apply a next tune using the auxiliary microphone while singing over it. A song mixed with the accompaniment sound is stored in an internal memory of the device and then outputted directly or through the communication interface. The accompaniment sound is created in such a manner that maximum thirty-two among one-hundred-twenty-eight musical instrument sounds are simultaneously mixed.
while the accompaniment sound is outputted as a mixed musical instrument sound, it is modulated in such a manner that the phase and harmony thereof are varied into a desired phase and harmony. Accordingly, with no necessity for replacing a sound memory in which lyrics and accompaniments of newest songs are previously recorded and a video memory in which background pictures are stored, the user can simply and efficiently use the present system.
Furthermore, a plurality of users can utilize the portable Karaoke device of the invention simultaneously. Moreover, the user' s song is stored and then listened later or transmitted through the Internet in the form of music letter.

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1. A portable karaoke device comprising:
a sound module 1 mounted in an ASIC 4 an external extension pack 90 and a download memory 2 for assigning arbitrary numbers respectively to given tunes and storing accompaniments of the tunes in the form of digital signals and:
an ASIC 4 including a microprocessor and the sound module 1 that are operated synchronously with an oscillation frequency from an oscillator and in response to a tune number and other items applied through a key matrix 3 by the user, the microprocessor in the ASIC being adapted to control the entire system operation according to routines stored in a storage unit 5, the microprocessor storing data related to a played tune in a RAM 6 and displaying the current operation state on an LCD 7:
a musical instrument sound memory 9 for sampling a plurality of musical instrument sounds, storing the sampled sounds, mixing the sounds and outputting the mixed sound:
a rendering unit 8 for varying the phase and/or harmony of an accompaniment sound of a tune, transmitted from the sound module 1 or download memory 2, to selectively modulate the accompaniment sound according to a musical instrument sound outputted from the musical instrument sound memory 9 and outputting the modulated accompaniment sound when the user selects the tune through the key matrix 3 under the control of the microprocessor of the ASIC 4:
an amplifier/limiter circuit 12 for amplifying an audio signal corresponding to a user's song, transmitted over a main microphone 11, and limiting the amplitude of the amplified audio signal to a predetermined level:
a mixer 10 for mixing the amplified audio signal with the accompaniment sound modulated by the rendering unit 8;
a low pass filter 14 for receiving the audio signal mixed with the accompaniment sound transmitted thereto directly or via a flash memory 2a, through an A-D/D-A converter 13 and passig only frequency band components lower than 20KHz to remove noise components higher than 20KHz from the audio signal;

an RF amplifier 16 for receiving the frequency band components lower than 20KHz through an output amplifier 15, modulating it into an RF signal and transmitting the modulated RF signal to an external audio unit by radio through an antenna 17:
a receiver 19 for receiving audio and data signals from an auxiliary microphone 26 through a reception antenna 18 or through a cable 28, separating the received signals from each other and transmitting the separated signals to the amplifier/limiter circuit 12:
a data processor for converting the separated data signal from the receiver 19 into a digital signal and transferring the converted digital signal to the ASIC 4, the digital signal including a signal associated with a tune or volume that the user selects or adjusts using the auxiliary microphone 26:
an RGB encoder 21 connected to the ASIC 4 to generate a background video signal on the basis of digital R, G and B signals, a digital color carrier signal and digital horizontal and vertical synchronization signals;
an overlay circuit 22 connected to the ASIC 4 to mix a caption video signal with the background video signal from the RGB encoder 21 in an overlay manner to express them as one image:
a synchronization output unit 23 for selectively outputting a main clock signal of 21.47727MHz or 22.168095MHz according to a NTSC or PAL broadcasting system in response to an external synchronization signal:
an internal video transmitter/receiver circuit 24 for receiving a caption/background-mixed video signal from the overlay circuit 22 and transmitting the received video signal as an internal video signal through an internal video transmission/reception antenna 25 at a radio frequency controlled by the user, or receiving a radio frequency signal through the internal video transmission/reception antenna 25, converting the received radio frequency signal into an intermediate frequency signal, detecting an external video signal from the converted intermediate frequency signal and outputting the detected video signal to the ASIC 4;
an external video transmitter/receiver circuit 29 for transmitting or receiving a radio frequency signal to or from the internal video transmission/reception antenna 25, the external video transmitter/receiver circuit receiving a background video signal from a video reproduction unit 30 such as a VCD, LDP or VCR and transmitting the received video signal as the external video signal to the internal video transmitter/receiver circuit 24 through an external video transmission/reception antenna 31 at a radio frequency controlled by a frequency controller, the external video transmitter/receiver circuit 29 receiving the radio frequency signal from the internal video transmitter/receiver circuit 24 through the external video transmission/reception antenna 31, converting the received radio frequency signal into an intermediate frequency signal, detecting the internal video signal from the converted intermediate frequency signal and outputting the detected video signal to a TV 32:
an MP3 decoder 33 selectively connected to a personal computer 34 to download data about an accompaniment sound and lyrics of a new tune and store the downloaded data in the download memory 2 under the control of the ASIC 4;
and a communication interface 35 connected to the PC 34 to be selectively linked with a server 37 through a wired/wireless communication network 36 to download data about an accompaniment sound and lyrics of a new tune and store the downloaded data in the download memory 2 under the control of the ASIC 4, the communication interface 35 transmitting the user' s audio signal mixed with the accompaniment sound, stored in the flash memory 2a, to a receiving party through the server 37 in the form of a music letter.
2. The portable Karaoke device as set forth in claim 1, wherein, when the user pushes a modulation selection button of the key matrix 3, the microprocessor of the ASIC 4 recognizes it as a modulation mode and outputs an accompaniment sound stored in the sound module 1 having the internal memory la and extension pack 90 or in the download memory 2 to the rendering unit 8, the musical instrument sound memory 9, which samples 128 musical instrument sounds to convert analog audio signals of the musical instrument sounds into digital audio signals, simultaneously mixes maximum 36 musical instrument sounds and outputs the mixed sound to the rendering unit 8 under the control of the microprocessor, and the rendering unit 8 varies the phase and/or harmony of the accompaniment sound transmitted from the sound module 1 or download memory 2 to selectively modulate the accompaniment sound according to a rendering algorithm for changing the phase and/or harmony of the musical instrument sound outputted from the musical instrument sound memory 9 and outputs the modulated accompaniment sound to the mixer 10.
3. The portable Karaoke device as set forth in claim 1, wherein, when the user pushes a communication selection button of the key matrix 3, the microprocessor of the ASIC 4 confirms whether or not a current mode is a music letter mode, an accompaniment sound from the sound module 1 or download memory 2 is transmitted to the mixer 10 directly or in the modulated form, the amplifier/limiter circuit 12 amplify an audio signal from the main microphone 11 or auxiliary microphone 26 corresponding to a users song voice and limit the amplitude of the amplified audio signal to a predetermined level, and the amplified audio signal is mixed with the accompaniment sound by the mixer 10 and then stored in the flash memory 2a so that the user listens to the stored sound when he/she wants to or connects to the server 37 through the communication interface 35, PC 34 and wired/wireless communication network 36 to send it to a receiving part as a music letter.
4. A portable Karaoke device comprising:
a main microphone grill 101 placed at the top of a main body 100 of the portable Karaoke device;
a printed circuit board 102 including a control circuit for operating the portable Karaoke device, the printed circuit board being fixed inside the main body 100;
an accommodation unit 104 for accommodating a plurality of extension packs 90, a wireless auxiliary microphone receiving module 120 and an FM
transmission module 130, the accommodation unit being formed under a battery case 103 that is placed at the center of the main body;
a plurality of memory connectors 105 formed at the bottom of the accommodation unit 104 and electrically connected to the printed circuit board 102, the memory connectors being partially protruded such that they are easily connected with the extension packs 90:
male connectors 106 and 107 used for being respectively connected with the wireless auxiliary microphone receiving module 120 and FM transmission module 130, and electrically connected to the printed circuit board 102, the male connectors 106 and 107 being partially protruded such that they are easily connected with the modules 120 and 130 respectively:
a pair of first guide grooves 108 respectively formed on both inner walls of the accommodation unit 104 to guide the wireless auxiliary microphone receiving module 120 to set it in its regular position, and a pair of second guide grooves 109 respectively formed on both inner walls of the accommodation unit 104 to guide the FM transmission module 130 to set it in its regular position: and a protrusion 110 having a support groove 111 formed on the top face thereof, the protrusion being formed at the bottom of the main body 100 in such a manner that it is extended from the main body, the support groove 111 stably supporting a main jack of a signal connecting device.
5. The portable Karaoke device as set forth in claim 4, wherein the wireless auxiliary microphone receiving module 120 is fitted in first and second housings 121 and 122 that construct the body thereof, and the FM transmission module 130 is set inside first and second housings 131 and 132 constructing the body thereof, a female connector for the receiving module is formed at the bottom side of the second housing 122 of the wireless auxiliary microphone module 120 that transmits a radio signal captured by an antenna wire 112 of the main body 100 from an external auxiliary microphone 26, a pair of first guide protrusions 123 are respectively formed on both sides of the second housing 122 in the vertical direction to be slid into the first guide grooves 106, a female connector for the FM transmission module is formed at the bottom side of the second housing 132 to be connected with the antenna wire 112, and a pair of second guide protrusions 133 are respectively formed on both sides of the second housing 132 in the vertical direction to be slid into the second guide grooves 107.
6. A portable Karaoke device, constructed in such a manner that an input/output terminal 114 of the main body 100 of the portable Karaoke device is connected with a main jack 201 of a signal connecting device 200, the main body 100 is provided with power through a power jack 212 of the signal connecting device 200, audio and video signals corresponding to an accompaniment sound and background picture of a tune are transmitted from the main body 100 to a display device through the input/output terminal 114, main jack 201 and a signal jack 211, an auxiliary microphone connector 230 coupled to an auxiliary microphone 26 through a cable 28 is connected with an auxiliary microphone jack 220 of the signal connecting device 200, a motion-picture signal outputted from a video output terminal of an external video unit is applied to the main body 100 through a video input/output terminal 250, an external video jack 240, the main jack 201 and input/output terminal 114, and the main body 100 mixes the motion-picture signal with caption and tempo signals to output the mixed signal to the display device through the input/output terminal 114, main jack 201 and signal jack 211.
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TWI480854B (en) * 2010-11-04 2015-04-11 Fu Cheng Pan Portable karaoke system, karaoke method and application program
CN108597144A (en) * 2018-07-19 2018-09-28 斑马音乐文化科技(深圳)有限公司 Portable mini KTV and KTV systems
CN109785819A (en) * 2018-12-22 2019-05-21 深圳唐恩科技有限公司 Correlating method, storage medium, microphone and the singing system of multiple microphones

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TWI480854B (en) * 2010-11-04 2015-04-11 Fu Cheng Pan Portable karaoke system, karaoke method and application program
CN108597144A (en) * 2018-07-19 2018-09-28 斑马音乐文化科技(深圳)有限公司 Portable mini KTV and KTV systems
CN109785819A (en) * 2018-12-22 2019-05-21 深圳唐恩科技有限公司 Correlating method, storage medium, microphone and the singing system of multiple microphones
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