JP2001042878A - Player joining type communication karaoke system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make enjoyable a duet with the singing voice of a person selected from various people not present in the scene. SOLUTION: This KARAOKE system is provided with singing information memory 11 on a database side 1, uploads the singing information sung and obtained by the terminal unit 3 into the database 1, records the singing information on the singing information memory 11 on the side of the database 1 in accordance with information for introducing the players of the song and so as to be able to downloaded on request. Here, the singing information is down- loaded together with KARAOKE information when receiving a request for the KARAOKE information and also the corresponding singing information from a terminal unit 3, and the singing information is reproduced by the terminal unit 3 with KARAOKE information.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a player-participation type communication karaoke system in which one person can enjoy karaoke in a duet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Heretofore, when singing a duet tune in a communication karaoke system, there is a problem that the duet can only be performed by a person present at the place and lacks interest. In addition, there is a problem that a duet cannot be enjoyed when enjoying karaoke alone. In order to solve such a problem, the singing information of one of the duet songs is prepared in advance on the database side, and the singing voice is reproduced when the karaoke information is reproduced on the terminal side. A communication karaoke system has been proposed.

[0003] However, the singing voice of the other party is that of a specific person, and the user becomes tired of it immediately, and there is a problem that the singing voice of the player selected by himself cannot be enjoyed in karaoke. Also, good singers have a desire to make their singing available to a large number of people, but conventionally known karaoke systems cannot meet such a demand. If players can provide their songs to third parties and use them for duets, the world of karaoke will greatly expand.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and its purpose is to select from various persons who have been registered in advance but are not present at the place. The goal is to make the duet song enjoyable against the singing voice of the chosen person. Another object of the present invention is to
The goal is to provide all players with their singing widely available to other members of the karaoke system.

[0005]

The object of the present invention is to provide a singing information memory on the database side, upload singing information obtained by singing at the terminal to the database in response to a player's request, and store the singing information. In the singing information memory on the database side, along with the singing player's introduction information, it is recorded so as to be downloadable on request, and when there is a request for the corresponding singing information along with the karaoke information from the terminal, the singing information along with the karaoke information This is achieved by a player-participatory communication karaoke system configured to download and play singing information along with karaoke information on a terminal.

[0006] Introductory information as a clue for a player to select singing information includes a stage name or a nickname, gender, age, occupation, comments, a face photograph, skill of a song, request results, and the like. It is recommended that a part or all of these pieces of introduction information can be browsed at any time in the form of a list so that a desired duet partner can be selected while viewing the display. At this time, when only a part of the introduction information is displayed in the list, when a desired player is selected, the details of the introduction information of the player may be displayed.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a main configuration of one embodiment of a player participation type communication karaoke system according to the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a database, 2 is a public communication line, and 3 is a terminal connected to the database 1 via the public communication line 2. The database 1 has a CPU 10
, A karaoke information memory 11, and a singing information memory 12. Although the database 1 has conventionally-known components (not shown) necessary for operation and management of the communication karaoke system, their description is omitted.

The CPU 10 controls the operation of the entire database 1. The karaoke information memory 11 and the singing information memory 12 are connected to the CPU 10 via a data bus. A large number of karaoke information is recorded in the karaoke information memory 11 so that required karaoke information can be downloaded in response to a request from the terminal 3 described later. The karaoke information includes music information, lyrics information, and background image information. Of the karaoke information recorded in the karaoke information memory 11, those related to duet songs include, for example, if the song is sung by two men and women, no singing information, for male players, for female players Thus, three types of karaoke information are prepared, and different song title codes are assigned to them.

The information without singing information is ordinary karaoke information for duet and corresponds to the play by two players. In the case of the male player, the lyrics of the portion sung only by women are removed, while in the case of the female player, the lyrics of the portion sung only by men are removed. When the user enjoys the song, only the lyrics sung by the person who made the request are displayed. Singing information memory 12
Can record player introduction information and singing information.

[0010] The introduction information includes a stage name or a nickname of a sender of the singing information uploaded from the terminal 3 described later,
It includes information on a simple profile set by the player himself, such as age, occupation, message, and face photo, and information such as request frequency. This referral information may be created for all players in advance, or may be recorded only for those who wish to do so. In this case, referral information for that player should be created when the singing data is uploaded for the first time. Thereafter, it is recommended that all singing information uploaded from the player be recorded in correspondence with the introduction information.

The terminal 3 includes a CPU 30, a karaoke information memory 31, a singing information memory 32, and a monitor 33.
, A speaker 34, and a microphone 35. Note that the terminal 3 has conventionally known components (not shown) required for requesting and reproducing karaoke information, etc., but their description is omitted. The CPU 30 controls the operation of the terminal 3.
1. Singing information memory 32, monitor 33, speaker 3
4 and a microphone 35 are connected.

The karaoke information memory 31 stores karaoke information requested by the terminal 3 and downloaded from the database 1 and singing information when singing information is downloaded together with the karaoke information. The singing information memory 32 records the singing of the player. The monitor 33 reproduces and displays the lyric information on the screen necessary for the request and the background image information recorded in the karaoke information memory 31. When there is music information and singing information output from the karaoke information memory 31, the singing information and the singing information of the player input from the microphone 35 are input to the speaker 34, and the speaker 34 reproduces the information. I do.

The operation of the above-mentioned player participation type communication karaoke system will be described below. First, when a player registers his / her own singing information, the player selects karaoke information for a player who wants to sing a desired duet song from a karaoke song list that can be requested, and requests the database 1 for the karaoke information. At this time, the singing information of the duet partner may be requested together by a method described later. The database 1 calls the karaoke data of the requested duet song from the karaoke information memory 11 and downloads it to the requested terminal 3.

[0015] The downloaded karaoke information is recorded in the karaoke information memory 31 of the terminal 3. After the download of the karaoke information is completed, the player proceeds to the terminal 3
Is operated in the singing registration mode by operating a controller (not shown). The music and images are played, and the player uses the microphone 3 as the karaoke song progresses.
When singing toward 5, the singing information is reproduced by the speaker 34 via the CPU 1 and is recorded in the singing information memory 32. The singing information recorded in the singing information memory 32 can be reproduced and listened to as many times as necessary until the content is deleted. If necessary, the singing information is reproduced. If you are not satisfied, re-record.

When an upload is instructed, the singing information recorded in the singing information memory 32 is compressed by compression software (not shown) built in the terminal 3 and uploaded to the database 1 via the communication line 2. At the same time, the song information recorded in the song information memory 32 of the terminal 3 is deleted. At this time, along with the singing information, the song name information of the duet song and the ID code of the player are also uploaded. The uploaded singing information is recorded in the singing information memory 12 in a compressed state so as to identify a player of the singing information based on the ID code uploaded together with the singing information and to correspond to the introduction information of the corresponding player. Registered in the database 1. This singing information can be searched for by player, song, or genre.

Next, a method of using the registered singing information will be described. In order to use the registered singing information, a method of selecting the desired player's singing information from the duet song and a duet partner are determined first, and from among the duet songs registered in the introduction information of the other player There are two ways to select a song to sing. In the case of enjoying karaoke by the former method, the player selects karaoke information for the player who wants to sing from the karaoke song list that can be requested, and requests the database 1 for the karaoke information.

The database 1 searches the singing information memory 12 for player information in which singing information with the corresponding ID code is registered, based on the ID code of the requested song name, and sends the information to the terminal 3. to download. On the monitor 33 of the terminal 3 receiving the introduction information,
Profiles of all players who have registered singing information corresponding to the requested duet song are displayed, and the player examines the content and selects a desired opponent player. When the opponent player is selected, the selection information is transmitted to the database 1 and the requested karaoke information and the singing information of the desired player corresponding to the karaoke information are downloaded to the terminal 3.

The downloaded karaoke information and singing information are recorded in the karaoke information memory 31. When the player instructs the reproduction of the karaoke information after all the information has been downloaded, the singing information is reproduced together with the karaoke information. From 34, the singing voice of the duet partner is reproduced along with the karaoke accompaniment, so that the player can enjoy the duet.

In order to enjoy a karaoke duet song by the latter method, first, the player requests the player's introduction information registered in the database 1. At this time, if all the introductory information is requested, the amount of information to be downloaded becomes enormous, so that, for example, gender, age, etc. are searched to narrow down the download target to some extent.

This introduction information is stored in the terminal 3 together with the ID code of the duet song registered by each player.
The player selects a desired duet song registered by a desired player based on the downloaded introduction information and information on the duet song name, and transmits the selected information to the database 1 as request information. The database 1 calls up required karaoke information and singing information according to the request information and downloads the karaoke information and singing information to the terminal 1, so that the player on the terminal 1 can sing.

In the above embodiment, three types of programs are prepared for a single duet tune, a normal karaoke tune and a karaoke tune accompanied with either one of the singing information. Prevention, making requests easier and making it easier for the requesting player to sing, but even if the player can directly specify a normal duet song and one of the singing information corresponding to that song Good.

When the same player sends singing information corresponding to the same duet song a plurality of times, it is recommended that the singing information registered in the database be updated to the latest one. In addition, the content of the introduction information may be any information as long as it can be a clue for the user to select a partner. Opportunities to register and browse the introduction information, and a search method based on the introduction information, It is not limited to the above embodiment.

If part or all of the introductory information can be displayed to the user at any time as a list,
It is easy to select the desired duet partner, and when using a karaoke system in large numbers, it is possible to get excited just by looking for the required partner while looking at the list, making the karaoke system comfortable and fun Will be available. Also, when the introduction information includes the request frequency of each singing information, for example, a friend competes with the request frequency of the singing information registered at the same time between friends, so that the playing method is different from the conventional karaoke system in which only singing is performed. Will be able to

[0024]

Since the present invention is configured as described above,
According to the present invention, a duet song can be enjoyed with the singing voice of a person selected from various persons who are not present at the place.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a main configuration of an embodiment of a player participation type communication karaoke system according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Database 10 CPU 11 Karaoke Information Memory 12 Singing Information Memory 2 Public Communication Line 3 Terminal 30 CPU 31 Karaoke Information Memory 32 Singing Information Memory 33 Monitor 34 Speaker 35 Microphone

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A database (1) for holding a plurality of karaoke information so as to be downloadable in response to a request,
In a communication karaoke system comprising a terminal (3) connected to a database (1) via a public communication line (2) and capable of requesting required karaoke information, a terminal (3) is provided on the database (1) side. A singing information memory (11) is provided in which singing information of a player uploaded from is recorded so as to be downloadable in response to a request, and a singing information memory (32) for recording the singing voice of the player is provided on the terminal (3) side. The singing information recorded in the singing information memory (32) of the terminal (3) is uploaded to the database (1) and recorded in the singing information memory (11) of the database (1). 3) When there is a request for karaoke information and singing information corresponding to the karaoke information, the corresponding singing information is added together with the karaoke information. Downloaded, the player participation type communication karaoke system that is played in vocal information terminal along with the karaoke information (3). 2. The singing information uploaded to the database (1) is recorded corresponding to the introduction information of the singing player, and the user of the terminal (3) browses the desired introduction information as needed. 2. The player-participation-type communication karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein the player karaoke system is configured to request the singing information of a desired player by referring to the introduction information.