JP2000039892A - Karaoke sing-along machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a KARAOKE sing-along machine which is capable of making text display suitable for respective display devices even when the different display devices are used. SOLUTION: Musical piece data includes text data including text and coloration position information by each musical piece and the style data indicating the form of the text display is stored in a RAM 20 for the style data. The style data is set by each of the respective display devices in such a manner that the optimum display can be made with each of the display devices to be used. The text is displayed by combining the text data and the style data. As a result, the text display suitable for the respective display devices may be executed without preparing separate pieces of the musical piece data for each of the display devices.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] The present invention relates to a karaoke apparatus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional karaoke apparatus, a control unit in the karaoke apparatus reads out music data written in a storage device such as a hard disk drive, and controls karaoke performance based on the music data. In general, lyrics corresponding to the music are superimposed on a background image and displayed on a display device. FIG. 7 shows the structure of music data used in the conventional karaoke apparatus.

As shown in FIG. 7, music data used in a conventional karaoke apparatus is composed of a header, followed by a musical sound track, a lyrics track, a voice track, an effect track, and the like. Among them, the header includes various information related to the music data, that is, information such as a music title character code, a genre, a release date, and a music performance time, as well as a character type (hereinafter, referred to as a lyrics) for displaying lyrics.
"Font type"), character size (
Information such as “font size”), lyrics display color, and wipe color. Here, the wipe means display control for changing the color of each part of the lyrics being displayed to the color for the wipe in accordance with the progress of the music.

[0004] Each track such as a musical sound track, a lyrics track, a voice track, and an effect track in the music data is composed of a plurality of event data and duration data ΔT indicating a time interval between the events.
Hereinafter, with reference to FIG. 8, the details of the lyrics track in the music data of the conventional karaoke apparatus will be described.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing details of a lyrics track in a conventional karaoke apparatus. As shown in FIG. 8, the lyrics track includes duration data ΔT and lyrics data. The lyrics data is composed of character data, lyrics display time, and coloring position information. Usually, one line of lyrics is displayed by one piece of lyrics data. The character data further includes the character code of the character to be displayed and the display coordinates (X, Y) of the character. Further, the coloring position information is control information for performing the above-described wipe, and is configured by duration data Δt indicating timing for changing a display color and coordinates (X, Y) for changing the display color to a wipe color. ing.

As described above, in the conventional karaoke apparatus, the font type, font size, lyrics display color, lyrics display position, lyrics character code, lyrics display / erasure timing, etc., used when displaying lyrics are displayed. All the data for displaying lyrics was set for each song.

[0007]

By the way, there are various types of display devices for displaying lyrics along with a karaoke performance, and these have different screen sizes and resolutions. For example, the resolution of a commercial karaoke device is 600 × 400, but a high-resolution display device of 1024 × 768 is used for a home PC (personal computer) karaoke. In portable karaoke, a low-resolution liquid crystal display is used.

However, the display position and font size of the lyrics are based on a predetermined display device.
It is adjusted so that the image is optimally displayed on the reference display device.

Therefore, when lyrics are displayed on a display device having a different screen size, resolution, etc. from the reference display device, the lyrics are more clearly displayed than when the lyrics are displayed on the reference display device. There was a problem that it could not be displayed.

As a method of solving this problem, a method of using different music data for each display device can be considered. However, the specifications of display devices are various, and it is extremely uneconomical to prepare music data corresponding to all the display devices for each music.

[0011] The present invention has been made under such a background, and it is not necessary to include information designating the manner of displaying lyrics in each piece of music data, and furthermore, there is provided a display device having a different screen size and resolution. Even if used,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a karaoke device that does not need to produce music data corresponding to each display device and that can display lyrics suitable for each display device.

[0012]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a karaoke apparatus including information on performance of a music piece and text data corresponding to a character string constituting lyrics of the music piece. First storage means for storing music data, second storage means for storing style data for designating the mode of lyrics display, and reading and reading out music data corresponding to a specified music piece from the first storage means Means, performance means for performing the music in accordance with the information on the performance of the music included in the music data read by the reading means, and a character string corresponding to text data included in the music data read by the reading means. And lyrics display means for displaying in a manner specified by the style data stored in the storage means of (2). It is characterized.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the karaoke apparatus according to the first aspect, the text data in the music data written in the first storage means is HTML.
(HyperText Markup Language).

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the karaoke apparatus according to the first or second aspect, the music data stored in the first storage means includes information for specifying an attribute of the music, The second storage means stores a plurality of the style data corresponding to various attributes, and the lyrics display means, based on information indicating the attribute of the music included in the music data read by the reading means, The style data corresponding to the attribute of the music is selected from the style data stored in the second storage means, and a character string corresponding to the text data included in the music data is displayed according to the selected style data. It is characterized by:

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the karaoke apparatus according to any one of the first to third aspects,
The text data included in the music data corresponding to the designated music is read from the first storage means, and the text data is read from the second storage means.
And printing means for printing in a mode specified by the style data stored in the storage means.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the karaoke apparatus according to any one of the first to fourth aspects,
It is characterized by including a converter for converting music data supplied from outside via a communication line or music data read from a storage medium into music data composed of information on the music and text data.

[0017]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. These embodiments show one embodiment of the present invention, and do not limit the present invention, and can be arbitrarily changed within the scope of the present invention.

A: First Embodiment FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a karaoke apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention. The karaoke apparatus shown in FIG. 1 includes a CPU (central processing unit) 1, a ROM (read only memory) 2, a RAM (read / write memory) 3, a remote controller (hereinafter, referred to as "remote controller") 4, a receiving unit 5, and an operation unit. 6, sound source 7, microphone (hereinafter referred to as "microphone") 8, mixer 9, amplifier 10, speaker 1
1, a hard disk drive (HDD) 12, an LD playback device 13, a lyrics display processing unit 14, an image synthesis device 15, and a display device (CRT) 16.
CPU1, ROM2, RAM3, receiving unit 5, operation unit 6,
The sound source 7, the hard disk device 12, the LD reproducing device 13, and the lyrics display processing unit 14 are connected to a common bus BUS.

The ROM 2 stores an initial program necessary for starting the karaoke apparatus.
When the power of the karaoke apparatus is turned on, the system program and the application program stored in the hard disk drive 12 are loaded into the RAM 3 according to the initial program. The RAM 3 has a storage area for storing music data for performing karaoke, in addition to a storage area for storing loaded system programs and application programs.

The remote controller 4 has ten keys and the like, and transmits an infrared signal according to a user operation. The receiving unit 5 receives the infrared signal transmitted by the remote controller 4, converts the infrared signal into an electric signal, and outputs the electric signal. The operation unit 6 includes keys, knobs, and the like for the user to operate the karaoke apparatus. The receiving unit 5 and the operation unit 6 are provided on the front of the karaoke apparatus main body or the like. By operating the remote controller 4 or the operation unit 6, the user can give instructions such as input of a music number, adjustment of volume, and key control to the CPU 1.

The tone generator 7 generates and outputs a tone signal such as an accompaniment tone according to tone formation information supplied by the CPU 1. The microphone 8 converts a vocal sound emitted by the singer into an audio signal and outputs the audio signal to the mixer 9. The mixer 9 mixes and outputs the tone signal supplied from the sound source 7 and the audio signal supplied from the microphone 8. The mixer 9 is provided with an echo device for giving an echo effect or the like to the audio signal supplied from the microphone 8 as necessary. The amplifier 10 amplifies the signal supplied from the mixer, and
1 outputs the signal amplified by the amplifier 10.

In addition to the program files for storing the system program and the application program described above, a music data file for storing music data of about 10,000 music played during a karaoke performance is set in the hard disk drive 12. . About five laser disks are built in the LD reproducing device 13 and about 120
It is possible to reproduce the background video of the scene. At the start of the karaoke performance, first, the CPU 1 reads information indicating the genre of the music from the header of the music data. CPU1
Determines the background video to be reproduced from the information indicating the genre, and sets the video selection data for selecting the background video to L.
This is supplied to the D playback device 13. The LD playback device 13 plays back the background video of the scene suitable for the music to be played out of the background video of about 120 scenes according to the video selection data.

The lyrics display processing unit 14 generates character information such as a song title and lyrics according to the information supplied by the CPU 1, supplies the information to the image synthesizing device 15, and performs processing related to wipe of the lyrics display. The details of the lyrics display processing unit 14 will be described later.

The image synthesizing unit 15 includes a lyrics display processing unit 14
Is superimposed on the video signal (background video) supplied from the LD playback device 13, and the composite image signal is supplied to the display device 16. The display device 16 displays the composite image signal supplied by the image composition device 15.

Next, the music data used in the karaoke apparatus according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, the music data in the present embodiment includes a header, followed by a musical sound track, a lyrics track, a voice track, an effect track, and the like. Among them, the header includes various information related to the music, that is, the music title character code, genre, release date, and music performance time. Here, in comparison with the conventional music data shown in FIG. 7, in the header of the music data in the present embodiment, information indicating the font type, the font size, the color of the lyrics display, and the color of the lyrics changed by the wipe are shown. Not included.

In the present embodiment, there is no difference between the music track, the audio track, the effect track, and the like as compared with the conventional music data shown in FIG. 7, but the configuration of the lyrics track in the music data is different. It is different. Hereinafter, the lyrics track in the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

As shown in FIG. 3, the lyric track in the music data is composed of a lyric character code and coloring position information (hereinafter, referred to as a coloring position information).
These are collectively referred to as “text data”) and duration data ΔT. In this embodiment, a set of lyrics character code and coloring position information are prepared for each of the lyrics of one phrase, that is, the lyrics displayed on one screen at a time. Further, each duration data ΔT is information for specifying a time interval from when the text data immediately before the text data is read to when the text data immediately after the text data is read. The lyric character code is constituted by a character code indicating a character of the lyrics, and includes line feed data indicating a line feed position as needed. The coloring position information is composed of duration data Δt indicating the timing at which the display color of the lyrics is changed by the wipe, and character position data indicating the character from the beginning of the displayed lyrics at the timing. I have. Note that a real number having a decimal part can be designated as the character position data. Therefore, for example, it is possible to change the color up to half the position of a certain character. Here, as compared with the lyrics track shown in FIG. 8, the lyrics track shown in FIG. 3 does not include information indicating the position where the lyrics are displayed. The above is the details of the lyrics track.

The CPU 1 controls the entire karaoke apparatus according to the above-mentioned system program. Specific operations of the CPU 1 are as shown in the following a and b.

A. At the start of the karaoke performance, the CPU 1 loads music data corresponding to the music number input by the remote controller 4 or the operation unit 6 from the music data stored in the hard disk device 12 into the RAM 3.

B. The CPU 1 performs the RA
The sequence data of each track in the music data stored in M3 is read out in parallel. When reading the sequence data of each track, ΔT is counted by a predetermined tempo clock, and when the counting is completed, the subsequent event data is read and output to a predetermined processing unit.

That is, for example, at the timing specified by the duration data ΔT, the CPU 1
When information for forming a musical tone is read out of the music data loaded on the AM 3, the information is output to the sound source 7.

At the start of the karaoke performance, the CPU 1 supplies the song title character code in the header to the lyrics display processing unit 14. Thereafter, when the CPU 1 reads out the text data at the timing specified by each duration data ΔT in the lyrics track, the CPU 1 outputs the text data to the lyrics display processing unit 14.

Next, with reference to FIG.
4 will be described in detail. As shown in FIG. 4, the lyrics display processing unit 14 includes a style data RAM.
20, lyrics information analysis unit 21, font control unit 22, size control unit 23, font ROM 24, font generation unit 2
5, a character arrangement unit 26 and a color control unit 27.

The style data RAM 20 stores style data indicating the manner of displaying lyrics. This style data is written in advance at a predetermined address of the ROM 2. When the power of the karaoke apparatus is turned on, the style data is read from the ROM 2 by the CPU 1 and written to a predetermined address of the style data RAM 20. The style data once stored in the style data RAM 20 may be configured to be changeable according to the user's preference.

Here, the details of the style data written in the style data RAM 20 will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 5, the style data includes font type, font size, display position information for specifying the display position of the lyrics, color information for specifying the color of the lyrics display, and color information for wipe for specifying the color to be used for the wipe. , And data for designating a mode of displaying lyrics. In the example shown in FIG. 5, regarding the display of the title, the font type is “Mincho”, the font size is “32”, the display position is “center of the screen”, and the color for displaying the title is “blue”. As for the lyrics, the font type is “Gothic” and the font size is “2”.
4 ", the display position is" below the screen ", the color for displaying the lyrics is" green ", and the color changed by the wipe is" white ".

Here, each element in the style data should be set for each display device that displays lyrics so that the display device has an optimal lyrics display. The style data is not used for each music piece to be played, but is used in common for all music pieces. For this reason, in the present embodiment, the style data is stored in the style data RAM 20 independently of the music data provided for each music.

Next, referring to FIG.
Extracts a song title character code, a lyrics character code in a lyrics track, and coloring position information from the music data supplied by the CPU 1. Then, the lyrics information analysis unit 21
Supplies the song title character code and the lyrics character code to the font generation unit 25 and the coloring position information to the color control unit 27, respectively. The lyrics information analysis unit 21 reads style data from the style data RAM 20, and outputs various information included in the style data to predetermined processing units. That is, the lyrics information analysis unit 21
The font type in the style data is the font control unit 22
The font size is supplied to the size control unit 23, the display position information is supplied to the character arrangement unit 26, and the color information of the lyrics display and the color information for wipe are supplied to the color control unit 27.

The font controller 22 controls the font generator 25 according to the font type supplied by the lyrics information analyzer 21. The size control unit 23 controls the font generation unit 25 regarding the font size according to the font size supplied by the lyrics information analysis unit 21.

The font ROM 24 stores a plurality of types of fonts, such as Mincho and Gothic, corresponding to many types of characters. These fonts may be stored in the ROM 2. The font generation unit 25 stores the font corresponding to the character code supplied by the lyrics information analysis unit 21 and the font type specified by the font control unit 22 in the font ROM 24.
Read from Then, the font is transferred to the size control unit 2
Then, the font size is adjusted to the font size specified by 3 and output to the character arrangement unit 26.

The character arrangement unit 26 performs a layout process for each font supplied from the font generation unit 25. That is, based on the display position information supplied from the lyrics information analysis unit 21 and the font size of the font generated by the font generation unit 25, the layout of each font constituting the lyrics on the display screen of the display device 16 is changed. Then, the coordinates of each font on the display screen are calculated. If the display position information includes line feed data, the coordinates are calculated with reference to the line feed data. Then, the coordinate information is added to each font constituting the lyrics and output to the color control unit 27.

The color control unit 27 adds color information for specifying the color of the lyrics display supplied from the lyrics information analysis unit 21 to each font supplied from the character arrangement unit 26, and outputs it to the image synthesizing device 15. I do. Upon receiving each font (including coordinate information and color information) supplied from the color control unit 27, the image synthesizing device 15 applies a color corresponding to each color information to each font. Then, each of the colored fonts is superimposed on the background video according to the coordinate information added to each of the fonts. In addition, the color control unit 27 performs control for coloring characters displayed on the screen of the display device 16 in a wipe color in accordance with the coloring position information and the wipe color information.

Next, a specific example of the lyrics display according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

When music data is loaded from the hard disk device 12 to the RAM 3 by the CPU 1 at the start of the karaoke performance, first, a character string in the header of the music data is read.
For example, a song title character code indicating “Tsugaru Strait Winter Scenery” is supplied to the lyrics information analysis unit 21 in the lyrics display processing unit 14.
Here, since there is no need to change the color for the song title display, there is no coloring position information following the song title character code.
The lyric information analysis unit 21 supplies the song title character code to the font generation unit 25 and the style data RAM 20
The style data related to the display of the song title is read from the font type control unit 22 and the font type “Mincho”, the font size “32”, the display position “center of the screen”, and the color “blue” of the lyrics display, Part 2
3. Output to the character arrangement unit 26 and the color control unit 27.

The font generation unit 25 includes the lyrics information analysis unit 2
Title character code and font control unit 2 supplied by
By the control of 2, the font of each character of Mincho's "Tsugaru Strait Winter Scenery" is generated. The font size of each of these fonts is adjusted to “32” under the control of the size control unit 23, and is sequentially output to the character arrangement unit 26. Next, each font is displayed on the display device 1 by the character arrangement unit 26.
The coordinate information on 6 is added, and information for displaying in “blue” is added by the color control unit 27 and supplied to the image synthesizing device 15.

In the image synthesizing unit 15, each font supplied from the lyrics display processing unit 14 is
Is superimposed with the video signal supplied by the display device 16 and is displayed on the display device 16.

Next, when the CPU 1 supplies a lyric character code indicating, for example, a character string "from the time of getting off a night train departing from Ueno" to the lyric information analysis unit 21 in the lyric display processing unit 14, the lyric information analysis unit Reference numeral 21 denotes the character code of the lyrics to the font generation unit 25 and the coloring position information to the color control unit 27.
Respectively. Here, the lyrics character code
It also includes information that the line breaks between "night train from Ueno" and "from when you get off". Then, the lyrics information analysis unit 21 reads out the style data relating to the lyrics from the style data RAM 20, and in accordance with this, the font type "Gothic", the font size "24", the display position "bottom of the screen", and the color of the lyrics display "green". And “white” are output to the font control unit 22, the size control unit 23, the character arrangement unit 26, and the color control unit 27, respectively.

The font generation unit 25 generates a Gothic font for each character “from the time of getting off a night train departing from Ueno” under the control of the lyric character code and the font control unit 22. The font size of each font is adjusted to “24” under the control of the size control unit 23, and is output to the character arrangement unit 26.

The character arranging section 26 refers to the supplied fonts, display position information and line feed data, and calculates coordinates on the display device 16 for displaying the fonts. Then, the coordinate information as the calculation result is added to each font and output to the color control unit 27. Then, the color information “green” of the lyrics display is added to each font by the color control unit 27 and supplied to the image synthesizing device 15.

The image synthesizing unit 15 includes a lyrics display processing unit 14
Is superimposed on the video signal supplied by the LD playback device 13,
This image is displayed on the display device 16.

The color control section 27 changes the display of the green lyrics displayed on the display device 16 to white according to the coloring position information as the music progresses.

As described above, in this embodiment, the data for displaying lyrics is divided into text data and style data. Therefore, if only the style data is changed to the optimum one for each display device that displays lyrics, the lyrics display suitable for the display device to be used can be performed without changing the music data.

B. Second Embodiment In the configuration shown in the first embodiment, as shown in FIG. 6, the lyrics tracks in the music data are converted into HTML (Hy
perText Markup Language). Hereinafter, the configuration of the lyrics track in the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

In each HTML document, <(character string)>
The control code represented by is called a tag, and is used in principle as a set of <(character string)> and </ (character string)>. The character string in <> indicates the control content of the tag.

In FIG. 6, <song name> and </ song name> in line 61 are represented by the character string "Tsugaru Strait Winter Scene" between them.
This indicates that the title of the song is the title of the song. Also, line 62
<Page break> indicates that the currently displayed character string is to be deleted. <Lyrics> on line 63 and </ lines> on line 71
"Lyrics" indicates that the character string sandwiched between <lyrics> and </ lyrics> is the lyrics of the music.

<Wipe> at line 64 and </ wi at line 68
"pe>" indicates that the sentence described between <wipe> and </ wipe> is information on the lyrics display time and wipe. That is, in row 65:
"Time =" 3:10 "" is a time at which the display of the next described character string (the character string described in lines 69 and 70) is started, and three minutes and ten minutes after the music performance is started.
After a second, the display of the character strings described in the lines 69 and 70 is started. In line 66, "etime =
“3:15” ”indicates the time to erase the displayed character string. That is, this information indicates that the display of the character strings described in the lines 69 and 70 is deleted three minutes and fifteen seconds after the performance of the music starts.

In line 67, "wipe =" x1: y
1: t1, x2: y2: t2, ..., xn: yn: tn "
There is information for changing the color of the lyrics displayed by the wipe. That is, during the period from when the lyrics described in lines 69 and 70 are displayed to time t1,
This indicates that the color is changed from the left to the right of the screen at a constant speed up to the coordinates (x1, y1) of the displayed lyrics. Similarly, for “x2: y2: t2”, the time t
From 1 to t2, the coordinates (x2, y
Up to 2), the color of the lyrics is changed. Row 69
And 70 indicate the character strings of the lyrics to be displayed. Lines 69 and 70 are followed by information for displaying the lyrics on the page following the lyrics described above. Note that these have basically the same configuration as those described above, and thus description thereof will be omitted.

In the configuration described above, during karaoke performance, the CPU 1 reads out the lyrics tracks in the music data by the corresponding browser, and sequentially supplies the lyrics tracks to the lyrics display analysis section 21 in the lyrics display processing section 14. Subsequent operations are the same as in the above embodiment.

According to this embodiment, the same effects as those of the first embodiment can be obtained.

C. Third Embodiment In the first embodiment, the display control of the lyrics of all the music pieces is performed based on the common style data. However, the style data RAM 20 stores the style data for each music genre in advance. The lyrics display of the music is controlled by using the style data corresponding to the genre data (attribute information) included in the header of the music data read by the CPU 1 from among these style data. It is good also as a structure which performs. By doing so, for example, when the music to be played is rock, the font type is Gothic, the font size is large, the lyrics are displayed in bright colors, and when the music to be played is enka Can display the lyrics in dark colors with a font type of Mincho and a smaller font size. Further, a configuration in which the user can freely select style data used for displaying the lyrics of the music may be adopted.

D. Fourth Embodiment A karaoke apparatus capable of printing lyrics displayed on a display device is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-62283. When the present invention is applied to such a karaoke apparatus, the following configuration may be adopted. That is, style data for lyrics printing, that is, style data with a font size of about "10" is provided, and when a lyrics printing instruction is given, a character string specified by the text data is converted to the lyrics printing style. The printing is performed in the mode specified by the style data.

E. Fifth Embodiment When the present invention is applied while effectively utilizing music data in a conventional karaoke apparatus, the following configuration may be adopted. That is, information for designating the display mode of the lyrics such as the font size and the color of the lyrics display is deleted from the music data (see FIGS. 7 and 8) used in the conventional karaoke device, and A converter for converting music data composed of information and text data is provided in the karaoke apparatus shown in the first embodiment. The music data converted into music data composed of information for forming a musical tone and text data by the converter is stored in the hard disk device 12. Subsequent processing is the same as in the first embodiment. According to the present embodiment, it is possible to obtain the same effect as that of the first embodiment while utilizing the music data in the conventional karaoke apparatus.

[0062]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Since the data for displaying the lyrics is divided into text data and style data, only the text data is included in the music data, and the style data indicating the manner of displaying the lyrics is stored in the karaoke device itself. There is an effect that the lyrics can be displayed in a mode suitable for the display device.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a karaoke apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of music data of a karaoke apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a lyrics track in music data of the karaoke apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a lyrics display processing unit in the karaoke apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a configuration of style data in the karaoke apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing contents of a lyrics track in music data in a variation of the karaoke apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a configuration of music data in a conventional karaoke apparatus.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a configuration of a lyrics track in music data in a conventional karaoke apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... CPU, 2 ... ROM, 3 ... RAM, 4 ... Remote control, 5 ... Receiving unit 6 ... Operation unit, 7 ... Sound source, 8 ... Microphone, 9 ... Mixer, 10 ... Amplifier 11 speaker 12 hard disk device 13
... LD playback device 14... Lyrics display processing unit 15... Image synthesis device 16
... Display device 20 RAM for style data 21 Lyric information analysis unit 22 Font control unit 23 Size control unit 24
Font ROM 25: Font generation unit, 26: Character placement unit, 27:
… Color control unit

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A first storage means for storing information relating to performance of a music piece and music data including text data corresponding to a character string constituting lyrics of the music piece, and a style data for designating a mode of displaying the lyrics. A second storage unit for performing a music operation according to information related to a performance of a music included in the music data read out by the readout unit; And lyrics display means for displaying a character string corresponding to the text data included in the music data read by the reading means in a manner specified by the style data stored in the second storage means. A karaoke apparatus comprising: 2. The text data in the music data written in the first storage means is an HTML (HyperTex
2. The karaoke apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the karaoke apparatus is described in t Markup Language). 3. The music data stored in the first storage means includes information designating attributes of the music, and the second storage means stores a plurality of style data corresponding to various attributes. The lyrics display means stores the attribute of the music from the style data stored in the second storage based on information indicating the attribute of the music included in the music data read by the reading means. 3. The karaoke apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a corresponding style data is selected, and a character string corresponding to text data included in the music data is displayed according to the selected style data. 4. A printing method for reading text data included in song data corresponding to a designated song from the first storage unit, and printing in a mode designated by style data stored in the second storage unit. The karaoke apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising means. 5. A converter for converting music data supplied from outside via a communication line or music data read from a storage medium into music data comprising information on the music and text data. A karaoke apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4.