JP2003022082A - Method for operating communication karaoke system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a user to obtain a music number of a new song regardless of time or place in a karaoke (orchestration without lyrics) system. SOLUTION: In the method for operating a communication karaoke system, new song list information is distributed from a radio transmitting station 2 connected with a host device 4 to be stored in a remote controller 1 along with karaoke music data distributed from the host device 4 to be stored in a karaoke machine 3. The user provides, using the remote controller 1, the karaoke machine 3 with a performance reservation remote control signal of a piece of music selected which the user selects based on the new music list information and the karaoke music data of a musical piece reserved by the karaoke machine 3 is processed to be played.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a host device,
The present invention relates to an operation method of a communication karaoke system including a large number of karaoke devices and a karaoke remote control device used around the karaoke device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional remote control device for karaoke is always available at a karaoke venue, and when a user wants the karaoke device to reserve a requested song for performance, the requested song is searched from a table of contents also provided at the karaoke venue. However, the music number assigned to each music is collated, and the operation panel of the remote control device is operated to input the music number. Then, when a reservation is instructed, a remote control signal including identification information corresponding to the song number of the requested song is transmitted to the karaoke device, and the performance reservation is completed. When the user reserves a performance, there is the annoyance of having to refer to the table of contents for each song, and when the companion is using the remote control, he or she has to wait until it is over.

In response to such a problem, in recent years, a personal remote controller, which is in the form of being owned by each user and is capable of pre-registering a plurality of requested songs, is becoming popular. By using this personal remote control, the user can refer to the table of contents once at the karaoke venue, enter the characters such as the song number and song name, and perform registration work so that the table of contents will not be referred from the next time. In addition, it is now possible to call a request song registered on the personal remote controller and make a performance reservation.

[0004]

However, even with the above-mentioned personal remote controller, it is necessary to refer to the table of contents once, input the music number, etc., and register it. Also, if you are singing the same song all the time, it will become a rut, not only will you get tired of yourself, but also the problem that your companions will also become white, so the user will be In addition, there is a desire to always have one new song in the repertoire. For this reason, it is necessary to immediately register the song number of the new song even for the requested song that has been registered, and the input work required for registration is rather troublesome. Also, when the number of requested songs registered is large, it takes time to call the requested songs, and the remote control operation is all done at the karaoke venue.
There is also the problem that there is no room to enjoy karaoke.

Further, in the current music world where new songs are flooded, the cycle of adding new songs of karaoke songs is shortened,
The user must frequently visit the karaoke venue and constantly refer to the song number of the new song in the table of contents. Moreover, the revision of the table of contents itself may not be able to keep up, and it may not be possible to immediately provide the user with new song information.

An object of the present invention is to allow a user to register the music number of a new song in a remote controller without referring to a table of contents,
Providing an operating method of the online karaoke system that allows the user to instantly call up the registered requested song and make a performance reservation, and also to allow the user to refer to the latest information on new songs that are constantly added regardless of location and time. Especially.

[0007]

A method of operating a communication karaoke system according to the present invention relates to a wireless transmission station connected to a host device as the karaoke music data is distributed and accumulated from the host device to the karaoke device. The new song list information is distributed to and stored in the remote control device from the user, and the user gives a karaoke device a performance reservation remote control signal for a song selected based on the new song list information by the remote control device. It is characterized in that music data is processed for performance. In this method, preferably, the operation of delivering the new song list information from the wireless transmission station to the remote control device is performed a plurality of times along with the operation of delivering a group of karaoke song data from the host device to the karaoke device.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings shown below. FIG. 1 shows an outline of an embodiment of a new song distribution system 10 including a remote control device 1 according to the present invention. The remote control device 1 receives new song list information from a wireless transmission station 2 by wireless data communication. Here, the wireless data communication means in the new karaoke new song list information distribution system may be any data communication system by wireless communication such as FM multiplex data broadcasting system, pager data communication system, PHS data communication system and mobile phone data communication system.

The karaoke device 3 is a terminal of a communication karaoke system, receives karaoke music information from the host device 4 which stores a lot of karaoke music data through the communication line network 5, accumulates the distributed music information, and the user The music information accumulated by the performance instruction is called, decrypted,
Play karaoke music. The host device 4 and the wireless transmission station 2 are connected online by a dedicated line 6, and the frequently updated new song list information is transferred from the host device 4 to the wireless transmission station 2 by the dedicated line 6 and the new song list is transmitted. Information distribution instructions are also given. It should be noted that this distribution instruction is issued a plurality of times so that the remote control device 1 can surely receive it.

FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of the karaoke remote control device 1 in this embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a data block diagram showing an outline of the new song list information 30 to be distributed. First, the basic functions of the remote control device 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3. It is assumed that the remote control device 1 operates by being supplied with electric power from the battery 20, and the built-in antenna 11 and the high frequency receiver 12 are carried by wireless data communication. The received signal wave including the new song list information 30 is received and demodulated, and the data decoder 13 decodes the new song list information 30 shown in FIG. 4 from the demodulated signal wave. This new song list information 3
0 consists of a header part 31 containing a data start code and list identification information, new song information 40 containing various information about each new song in the list, and a footer part 32 mainly consisting of a data end code. In order to store the decrypted new song list information 30 in the storage unit, that is, the data memory (hereinafter, memory) 15 having a plurality of areas, first, when the remote control device 1 receives the new song list information 30, the header unit 31 Is compared with the list identification information of the new song list information 30 stored in the memory 15 in order to determine whether the list identification information included in is the latest information or the same as the previously received information. The new song list information in the memory 15 is updated as the information of.

Further, the CPU 14 displays various information in the memory 15 including the stored new song list information 30 and input information from the operation panel 16 as character information on the display 17 in response to a user's instruction. Control, music number input from operation panel 16, new song list information 30
In response to the instruction to play the requested song by selecting from the inside, the remote control signal of the selected requested song is transmitted by infrared ray L.
Various controls are performed according to the instruction set written in the ROM 19, such as control to be sent from the ED 18. Reference numeral 21 in FIG. 3 is an informing means described later.

FIG. 4 is a data structure diagram showing the outline of each new song information 40 in the new song list information 30 shown in FIG. 3, and includes identification information 33 and number information 34 including number information for making a performance reservation of a song. It comprises singer information 35 and genre information 36 indicating the genre of the song.

FIG. 5 shows a remote controller 1 according to this embodiment.
It is an external view showing an example, and is provided with a display 17 for displaying character information and an operation panel 16 on which various operation keys for a user to input various command information are arranged.

Now, the search function for the user to obtain desired information from the new song list information 30 will be described.
The user instructs a search from the operation panel 16 and selects a search condition, that is, a music title, a singer, or a genre. Here, when the song name or singer is used as the search condition, the character input key of the operation panel 16 is subsequently operated to input the song name or singer name in kana or alphanumeric characters. In response to these inputs, the CPU 14 collates the song name information of the new song information 40 of the new song list information 30 stored in the memory 15 or the character data of the singer information, and extracts the data that matches the search condition. . The extracted data is transferred from the area where the new song list information 30 is stored to another area, and the search result is displayed on the display 17. When a plurality of retrieved data cannot be displayed on the display 17, the data is scroll-displayed by the user's instruction operation.

On the other hand, if a search by genre is instructed,
A pre-specified genre, such as Enka, Rock,
Genres such as anime and foreign songs are displayed on the display 17, and when the user selects a genre to be searched, the code corresponding to the selected genre and the genre information of the new song list information 30 stored in the memory 15 are displayed. The code corresponding to each written genre is collated, and new music information having the code of the selected genre is extracted. Then, the new song list information 30 is transferred from the area in which the new song list information 30 is stored to another area, and the song name having the genre code and the singer information are displayed on the display 17. In this case also, there are a plurality of retrieved data, and the display 17
If it cannot be displayed on the screen, it is scrolled by the user's instruction operation.

Further, according to the remote controller 1 of the present invention, it is possible to add a function of notifying the user of the reception of the new song list information, which function will be described below. As shown in FIG. 3, the remote control device 1 is provided with an informing means, and the informing means is composed of an audio generating unit such as a piezoelectric buzzer, an audio signal generating unit, an audio generating unit drive circuit unit and the like. There is. The user previously operates the operation panel 16
If the notification means is set to operate in response to an input instruction from, the header section 31 of the received new song list information 30 is referred to, and if the received new song list information 30 is the latest information, the CPU 14 Activates the notification means to generate an alarm sound. The user can confirm from the alarm sound that the latest new song list information has arrived. On the other hand, if you want to prohibit the ringing of the incoming call alarm in places where quietness is required, such as libraries and movie theaters,
The informing means is set to the inactive state by the instruction operation from the operation panel 16. When the latest new song list information is received when the incoming call alarm is inactive, when the user switches the incoming call alarm from the inactive state to the active state, the display 17 indicates that. It is possible to prevent the omission of confirmation of the latest new song list information by generating an alarm sound. further,
The notification method can be changed so that it can be switched between voice and vibration, which makes it possible to reliably confirm the arrival of the latest new song list information even in a place where quietness is required.

Further, according to the remote control device 1 of the present invention, a plurality of requested music pieces are registered in advance, and a music piece to be reserved for performance is selected from the registered requested music pieces,
It has a function of transmitting a remote control signal and a function of erasing a registered request song, and the details of the function will be described below.

There are two methods for registering the requested song, one is by selecting from the new song list information, and the other is by the user referring to the table of contents and inputting the song number from the operation panel 16. In the selection, when the requested music is selected by the search function or the like and the requested music registration is instructed, the registered new music information 40 is stored from the area of the memory 15 where the new music list information is stored. Transferred to another area. On the other hand, when the song number is entered by inputting the song number from the operation panel 16, the song name or the like can be input as characters before the registration instruction. When the user inputs an instruction to register the input music number and the corresponding character information such as the music title, the music number and the corresponding character information are stored in the registered music area in the memory.

The plurality of request music pieces thus registered are stored in the memory 15 as request music list information. Then, by an operation input from the operation panel, a specific request song can be selected from the request song list information by a search means or the like, and can be displayed on the display as character information such as a song name. Here, when the user performs a performance reservation instruction operation, a remote control signal of the selected music is transmitted from the infrared LED 18 of the remote control device 1. Further, when the user gives an instruction to delete the selected music, information such as identification information of the selected music is deleted from the memory. Furthermore, it is also possible to delete the information of all registered songs in the memory or the songs having a specific condition from the requested song list information by using the search function.

In the above embodiment, the new song list information is distributed by wireless communication, and the received new song list information can be displayed on the display. for that reason,
The user can obtain the latest new song list information without being limited in time and place without referring to the table of contents. Further, the acquired new song list information can be extracted by using various kinds of information as search conditions, and it is possible to immediately confirm whether or not a desired song is included in the new song list information.
It also has a means to notify the user when new song list information is received, so that the new song list information stored in the storage unit at the time of the previous reception can be rewritten to the latest new song list information without the user's confirmation. It is possible to prevent this from happening, and by setting the notification means in the inactive state, it is possible to prohibit the notification in a place where quietness is required, and it is also possible to prevent excessive power consumption.

Since a specific request song is selected from the new song list information and the remote control signal of the requested song can be immediately sent to the karaoke apparatus 3, the new song is requested without the trouble of referring to or inputting the song number. it can. Further, a plurality of requested songs can be freely registered and deleted, and the registered requested songs can be immediately called by the user and a remote control signal for causing the karaoke apparatus 3 to perform can be transmitted. Furthermore, the user can register the latest song as the requested song, delete the song that is no longer being sung as appropriate, and always keep a fresh song in the repertoire.

[0022]

According to the present invention, the user can register the song number of a new song in the remote controller without referring to the table of contents, and immediately call the registered request song to make a performance reservation. You can always see the latest information on new songs being added, regardless of location and time.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an example of an embodiment of an operating method of a communication karaoke system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a karaoke remote control device having a new song table function in the above embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a data configuration diagram showing an outline of new song list information 30 in the same embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a data configuration diagram showing an outline of each new song information in the new song list information of the above-mentioned embodiment.

FIG. 5 is an external view showing an example of a remote control device in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Remote control device 2 wireless transmitter 3 Karaoke device 10 New song distribution system 30 New song list information 40 New song information

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. As the karaoke music data is distributed from the host device to the karaoke device and accumulated, new song list information is distributed and accumulated from a wireless transmission station connected to the host device to a remote control device. An operation of a communication karaoke system characterized in that a remote control device gives a karaoke device a performance reservation remote control signal of a song selected based on new song list information, and the karaoke song data of the song reserved by the karaoke device is processed for performance. Method. 2. The operation of delivering the new song list information from the wireless transmission station to the remote control device is performed a plurality of times with the operation of delivering a group of karaoke song data from the host device to the karaoke device. Operation method of the online karaoke system described in.