JP2003195875A - Karaoke reserving method using portable telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a karaoke reservation system which makes it possible to reserve karaoke music and a room from anywhere by using a portable telephone set. <P>SOLUTION: When a telephone call to a reservation center device 5 is made by using the portable telephone set 1 (access through the Internet), the reservation center device 5 transfers the access to a karaoke center 2 in the presence area of the portable telephone set. A server device 3 of the karaoke center communicates with the portable telephone set 1 to process the reservation of a room and music. When the user of the portable telephone set visits the karaoke center 2, the server device 3 authenticate the customer and plays the reserved music by a karaoke device when the authentication is successful. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a karaoke reservation method using a mobile phone.

[0002]

In a so-called karaoke store, by selecting a song to be sung by a so-called table of contents in which the song name and song number of the karaoke song are recorded and making a reservation for it in the karaoke device using an infrared remote controller. I was playing a karaoke song. For this reason, guests other than the singer singing the karaoke song cannot listen to the song because they are only looking at the table of contents to find the song to be reserved and registered next time, and the singer listens to his / her own song to others. There was a problem that I could not get it.

Further, even if a karaoke shop is suddenly visited, the room is not always vacant, and when the room is full, it is necessary to wait until the vacant room is available.

On the other hand, there has been proposed a system in which a room of a karaoke shop can be reserved using a personal computer at home, but it is rare that many people plan to go to the karaoke shop in advance, and in many cases it is often the case. It was often decided on the spot such as going to a karaoke store at a so-called second party. For this reason, it was difficult to reserve a karaoke shop in advance using a personal computer at home.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a karaoke reservation method capable of reserving a karaoke piece and a room from anywhere by using a mobile phone.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of making a reservation for a karaoke piece to be played by communicating with a karaoke device of a karaoke store by using a mobile phone carried by a customer. A procedure for transmitting a song list, which is a list including song numbers of karaoke songs that can be played, to the mobile phone, and the mobile phone performs the karaoke song number of the karaoke song selected by the customer from the song list received from the karaoke device. A procedure for replying to the device, a karaoke device for registering the song number returned from the mobile phone in the reserved song list, and a karaoke device for certifying that the customer who visited the store is the customer who owns the mobile phone, A procedure for playing a karaoke piece having a song number registered in the reserved song list.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of communicating with a management device that manages a plurality of karaoke devices in a karaoke store by using a mobile phone owned by a customer to reserve a karaoke piece to be played. Is a procedure for transmitting a song list, which is a list including song numbers of karaoke songs that the karaoke device can play, to the mobile phone, and the customer selects from the song list received from the management device by the mobile phone. A procedure for returning the song number of a karaoke song to the management device, a procedure for the management device to register the song number returned from the mobile phone in the reserved song list, and a management device for the customer who visits the store who owns the mobile phone. When it is verified that the reserved song list is transferred to the predetermined karaoke device, the karaoke device to which the reserved song list has been transferred has the song number registered in the reserved song list. Steps to play orchestra music, characterized in that it consists of.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the above invention, it is verified whether or not the customer who came to the store is the customer who owns the mobile phone by using the telephone number of the mobile phone that the customer owns. And

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the above invention, the procedure in which the mobile phone transmits time zone information for reserving a karaoke device, the management device or the karaoke device reserves the time period transmitted from the mobile phone. It is characterized by having a procedure for registering as a belt.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the above invention, the mobile phone accesses a reservation device that stores the positions of a plurality of karaoke stores, the reservation device acquires a location area of the accessed mobile phone, The reservation device includes a procedure of extracting a karaoke store in the area where the mobile phone is located, and a reservation device including a procedure of connecting the mobile phone to the management device or the karaoke device of the extracted karaoke store. To do.

<Operation> According to the present invention, a customer can reserve a karaoke piece to be sung at a karaoke shop by using a mobile phone. When a customer uses a mobile phone to access a karaoke device or a management device that manages the karaoke device,
The device sends a song list including song numbers. Here, the song number is a code that can individually identify the karaoke song, and is not limited to a number, and may be any character or symbol as long as it can be used as an identification code. The customer selects a desired song from this song list and returns the song number to the karaoke device or the management device. With this procedure, it is possible to reserve a karaoke song to be sung, and it is also possible to reserve a plurality of songs by returning a plurality of song numbers. The song number of the reserved karaoke song is registered in the reserved song list.

At this time, the room (karaoke device) may be reserved in advance, or the room may be reserved in parallel with the reservation of this song. In this case, the time zone for reserving a room is transmitted from the mobile phone as in the invention of claim 4 and registered in the karaoke device or the management device.

When the customer who made the reservation arrives at the karaoke store, the karaoke apparatus (management apparatus) authenticates whether the customer is the customer who made the reservation for the karaoke piece (and room) according to the above procedure, and makes the reservation. Play the songs on the reserved song list when you are authenticated as a customer. By using the telephone number of the mobile phone used for the reservation for this authentication, the customer can be authenticated simply and easily.

[0014]

1 is a block diagram of a karaoke reservation system to which the present invention is applied. In this karaoke reservation system, a server device 3 of a karaoke store 2, a reservation center device 5, and a mobile phone 1 owned by a customer are connected via the Internet 6. The Internet 6 includes networks 6a of mobile phone companies, and the mobile phone 1 is connected to the Internet 6 via the mobile phone network 6a. The mobile phone network 6a is connected with a management center 9 for managing mobile phone billing and the like. Further, in the karaoke store 2, the karaoke device 4 in each room (box) is connected to the server device 3 via the network (LAN) in the store. The mobile phone 1 is a mobile phone having an internet connection function.

The reservation center device 5 has a store database 5a in which the locations of the respective karaoke stores 2 are registered. When accessed from a mobile phone, the reservation center device 5 acquires the location area of the mobile phone from the mobile phone network 6a. The karaoke shops in this area are located in the shop database 5a.
From the mobile phone 1 to the server device 3 of the karaoke shop.

The server device 3 accessed from the mobile phone 1 transmits to the mobile phone 1 a web page for accepting the reservation of the karaoke device (box, room) 4 and the reservation of the karaoke piece to be sung. . That is, the customer who is the owner of the mobile phone 1 automatically accesses the reservation center device 5 to jump to the server device 3 of the nearest karaoke store to reserve a karaoke device and a karaoke piece. You can
This web page is a page configured in an input form as shown in FIG. 3, for example. When the user inputs necessary items in this form and returns it to the server device 3, it is possible to make a reservation for the karaoke device 4 and a karaoke piece to be sung there.

After making a reservation, the customer who made the reservation goes to the karaoke shop 2 and confirms his / her identity by using the mobile phone number or the like.
The reserved karaoke device 4 can sing the reserved karaoke piece. It is also possible to settle the usage fee of the karaoke device 4 to the mobile phone account.

In this embodiment, the reservation center device 5 also serves as a commercial distribution device, and each karaoke store 2
The song data of the new song, the video data, the possessed song list, etc. are periodically downloaded to the server device 3. In addition, in this embodiment, the server device 3 of each karaoke store 2 not only accepts a reservation from a customer, but also receives the song data of the new song, the video data, the possessed song list, and the like received from the reservation center device 5 for each karaoke. It also has a function of delivering to the device 4.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a reservation procedure in the karaoke reservation system. First, a customer uses the mobile phone 1 to access the reservation center device 5 (s1). This access is generally performed via the Internet as shown in FIG. 1, but it may be peer-to-peer communication. The reservation center device 5 responds to this (s2) and acquires the area where the customer is currently from the mobile phone network 6a (s3). This area detection is performed by the mobile phone network 6a based on the communication area of the base station communicating with the mobile phone 1 and notifies the reservation center device 5 of this. Then, the karaoke shop 2 existing in this area is indexed based on the shop database 5a of the reservation center apparatus 5 (s4), and the server device 3 of the karaoke shop 2 is made to jump the access of the mobile phone 1 (s5).

The server device 3 of the karaoke shop 2 accessed from the mobile phone 1 by this jump responds to the mobile phone 1 (s6) and sends the reservation form and the song list to the mobile phone 1 ( s7, s8). The reservation form may be a writing type as shown in FIG. 3,
As shown in FIG. 4, a selection type in which a room name, a time zone, etc. are graphically displayed may be used.

If there are many input items on the reservation form,
This may be divided into a plurality of parts so that all inputs are completed by transmitting and receiving a plurality of times. The song list is a list of songs that the reservation center device 5 has distributed to the server device 3, and is a list of karaoke songs that can be played by the karaoke device 4 of the karaoke store 2. Since this song list also has a large amount of data, it may be divided and transmitted to the mobile phone 1. For example, if you first send a genre list of songs, and if genre selection information is returned, send an era genre list, and if era selection information is returned, the selected genre is selected. Send a list of songs from different years. By doing this multiple times, it is possible to select songs over multiple genres / ages. In addition,
Even when a plurality of users use one karaoke device 4 together in a group, the songs of all the users may be reserved from this one mobile phone 1.

The customer who owns the mobile phone 1 makes a reservation for the karaoke device 4 while referring to the reservation form and the song list sent from the server device 3 (s
9) The karaoke piece to be sung by the karaoke device 4 is reserved (s10).

When a karaoke piece is reserved, the server device 3
From the mobile phone 1, information such as a list of reserved songs, playing time of each song, total playing time thereof, reserved time of the karaoke device 4, remaining time (= reserved time-total playing time), etc. is returned. , Is displayed on the mobile phone 1. The customer may make a reservation for a new karaoke song within a reserved time while confirming it. At this time, it is also possible to cancel the previously reserved song or change the song order. Also, the server device 3 is a karaoke device 4
It is also possible to compare the reservation time of (1) with the total performance time of the reserved karaoke pieces and not accept the reservation operation of the karaoke piece exceeding the reservation time of the karaoke device 4.

When the reservation is completed, the server device 3 registers the reservation of the karaoke device 4 (s11), and also registers the reserved song list which is a list of karaoke songs reserved to be sung by the karaoke device 4. (S12). Then, as the identification information of this reservation, the telephone number of the customer's mobile phone 1 is registered (s13). After registering the reservation in the above process, in order to confirm this reservation, a call back is made to the customer's mobile phone 1 to confirm the customer, thereby preventing false reservation registration. Good.

Now, the reservation form screen will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4. FIG. 3A is a diagram showing an example of a writing-type reservation form. The user manually inputs the reservation date and time, the number of people, and the music number by operating the keyboard, and the input contents are transmitted to the reservation center device 5. Then, the confirmation screen as shown in FIG. 7B is returned from the reservation center device 5, and the reservation is confirmed by confirming this and transmitting "Yes". It should be noted that the music list may be displayed in the sub menu while the reservation input form in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a reservation form screen for interactively inputting reservations graphically. In the figure (A), select the day to reserve from the calendar,
Next, the time zone to be used in FIG. 7B is entered by checking the radio buttons for the start time and end time. Next, the layout of the room of the karaoke shop is displayed in FIG. 7C, and the room is reserved by clicking on the desired room. After that, a music list is displayed by a predetermined operation as shown in FIG. 7D, and the music can be reserved by clicking the radio button displayed on the left of the music title. Even when the reservation is input by this graphic method, the confirmation of the reservation content may be performed on the screen as shown in FIG. The dotted rectangles shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 are the screen display range of a general mobile phone, and when the display content is larger than this, it may be displayed while scrolling.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a procedure when the customer who reserves the karaoke device 4 and the karaoke piece in the procedure of FIG. 2 comes to the karaoke shop 2. First, it is verified whether the customer who came to the store is the customer who reserved the karaoke device 4 (s2
0). This authentication is performed from the customer's mobile phone 1 to the server device 3
Or from the server device 3 to the customer's mobile phone 1
You can make a call by calling and confirming that the call was correctly called and answered. When the customer is authenticated, the server device 3 turns on the power of the karaoke device 4 reserved for the customer (s21) and transmits the reserved song list to the karaoke device 4 (s22).

The karaoke apparatus 4 receives the reserved song list and plays the karaoke songs registered in the reserved song list in order. Since the karaoke song to be played is registered in advance, the karaoke song to be played next can be loaded in advance in the memory, and the karaoke song can be played continuously with minimum waiting time. be able to. Even in this case, the infrared remote control device 4a attached to the karaoke device 4 can be used to reserve a new song or cancel the song reserved from the mobile phone 1 by the procedure shown in FIG. Can be

When the usage time is over, the host device 3 calls the customer's mobile phone 1 or the customer's mobile phone 1 calls the host device 3 to notify and confirm the usage end. Yes (s23). By this end notification and confirmation, the server device 3 calculates the usage charge of this customer (s24) and transmits the usage charge to the mobile phone 1 of the customer (s25). The mobile phone 1 receives and displays this usage fee (s26). When the customer performs a confirmation operation, the mobile phone 1 returns confirmation information to the server device 3 (s27). The server device 3 receives the confirmation information (s28) and communicates with the management center 9 of the mobile phone to request the settlement of the charge (s2).
9). As a result, this charge is added to the mobile phone usage charge and is deducted together with the usage charge (s30). This eliminates the need for the user to pay in cash at the karaoke store 2.

If a company that provides a mobile phone network and a company that manages a karaoke shop 2 (reservation center device 5) make an arrangement and make a reservation from a mobile phone, the usage charge may be discounted. You may be allowed to receive services such as mileage accrual. Also,
The privilege of the above service may be increased for early reservations such as one week before the use date and time.

In the above embodiment, the processing is handed over in the order of the reservation center device 5 → the server device 3 of the karaoke store 2 → the karaoke device 4 of the karaoke store 2, but without passing through the reservation center device 5. The karaoke shop 2 may be directly accessed. In addition, the server device 3 of the karaoke shop 2
Instead, the reservation may be made by directly communicating with each karaoke device 4. In addition, in this embodiment, when a karaoke piece is reserved, a karaoke device (box, room) is simultaneously provided.
However, it is also possible to reserve only the karaoke device 4 first and reserve only the karaoke piece in the procedure of FIG. 2 later.

[0032]

As described above, according to the present invention, since it is possible to reserve a karaoke song using a mobile phone, it is possible to reserve a karaoke song just before going to a karaoke store, for example, at a second party. This is effective when using a karaoke device.

Further, by certifying the customer by using the telephone number of the mobile telephone, it is possible to simply and surely certify the customer who made the reservation.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a karaoke reservation system that is an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a reservation procedure of the karaoke reservation system.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a reservation form transmitted from a server device to a mobile phone.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a reservation form transmitted from a server device to a mobile phone.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a processing procedure in a karaoke shop.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Mobile phone, 2 ... Karaoke store, 3 ... Server device, 4 ...
Karaoke device, 4a ... Infrared remote control device (attached to karaoke device), 5 ... Reservation center device, 6 ... Internet, 6a ... Mobile phone network, 9 ... Mobile phone management center

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A method of reserving a karaoke song to be played by communicating with a karaoke device of a karaoke store using a mobile phone owned by a customer, wherein the karaoke device is capable of playing a karaoke song to a mobile phone. A procedure for transmitting a song list that is a list including song numbers, a procedure for the mobile phone to return the song number of the karaoke song selected by the customer from the song list received from the karaoke device to the karaoke device, and the karaoke device for the portable device. Procedure for registering the song number returned from the telephone in the reserved song list, when the karaoke device authenticates that the customer who visits the store has the mobile phone, the song number registered in the reserved song list A procedure for playing a karaoke piece, and a karaoke reservation method including :. 2. A method for reserving a karaoke piece to be played by communicating with a management device that manages a plurality of karaoke devices in a karaoke store using a mobile phone owned by a customer, wherein the management device is a mobile phone. On the other hand, a procedure for transmitting a song list, which is a list including song numbers of karaoke songs that can be played by the karaoke device, and a song number of the karaoke song selected by the customer from the song list received from the management device by the mobile phone. To the management device, the management device registers the song number returned from the mobile phone in the reserved music list, and the management device authenticates that the customer who visits the store has the mobile phone. A procedure for transferring the reserved song list to a predetermined karaoke device, and the karaoke device to which the reserved song list is transferred plays a karaoke song having a song number registered in the reserved song list. That procedure, karaoke reservation method consisting. 3. The karaoke reservation according to claim 1 or 2, wherein whether or not the customer who came to the store is a customer who possesses the mobile phone is authenticated by using the telephone number of the mobile phone possessed by the customer. Method. 4. A procedure for a mobile phone to transmit time zone information for reserving a karaoke device, and a procedure for a management device or karaoke device to register the time period transmitted from the mobile phone as a reservation time period. The karaoke reservation method according to claim 1, claim 2, or claim 3. 5. A procedure for a mobile phone to access a reservation device that stores the positions of a plurality of karaoke shops, a procedure for the reservation device to acquire the location area of the accessed mobile phone, and a reservation device for the location of the mobile phone. The procedure for extracting the karaoke shop in the area, the procedure for connecting the mobile phone to the management apparatus or the karaoke apparatus of the extracted karaoke shop, the reservation device, according to any one of claims 1 to 4. Karaoke reservation method.