JP2003323185A - Karaoke machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a karaoke machine in which singing voice is outputted with accompaniment music, a player listens to a model singing, and whether the singing voice is to be outputted or not can be decided at any time. <P>SOLUTION: The device is provided with an accompaniment music memory 21 which stores accompaniment music and a singing voice memory 22 which stores singing voice corresponding to the accompaniment music. The accompaniment music and the singing voice are synchronously outputted and the voice of the player inputted into a microphone 4 is mixed with the accompaniment music and the singing voice and outputted. A selecting means 9 is also provided to select presence and/or no presence of the output of the singing voice by the will of the player. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a karaoke apparatus, and more specifically to outputting an accompaniment song and a singing voice corresponding to the accompaniment song, synthesizing and outputting the voice of the player detected by a microphone, and the player's intention. Relates to a karaoke device capable of controlling the presence or absence of the output of a singing voice.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, karaoke has been indispensable for communication with fellows and friends in the workplace, and karaoke devices for business use have been common in karaoke houses and the like, but recently karaoke can be enjoyed easily at home. As described above, various karaoke devices have been proposed and put to practical use. The conventional karaoke device or karaoke device requires a monitor or a television for displaying lyrics, and the player sings while listening to the accompaniment and listening to the lyrics displayed on the screen.

[0003]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, when singing a song along with an accompaniment while observing the lyrics, it may not be possible to know at what timing the song should be sung. Has been put into practical use by changing the lyrics display of to inform the player of the progress. This kind of guidance method is good when a monitor is connected, but in the case of a karaoke machine without a monitor, I do not know how to sing, so in the case of infants, the mother must sing together. There was a problem that didn't happen.

The present invention solves the above-mentioned problems and provides a karaoke apparatus which outputs a singing voice in accordance with an accompaniment song so that the player can hear a model of the singing and at the same time can decide whether or not to output the singing voice. The task is to provide.

[0005]

In order to solve the above problems, a karaoke apparatus according to the present invention comprises an accompaniment memory for storing an accompaniment music and a singing voice memory for storing a singing voice corresponding to the accompaniment music. A karaoke device that outputs a singing voice in accordance with the accompaniment song and outputs the singing voice detected by a microphone by mixing the voice of the player with the accompaniment song and the singing voice, and whether or not the singing voice is output is determined by the player. It is characterized in that selection means for selecting is provided.

In the apparatus body, a plurality of lyrics cards are individually housed in a plurality of page bodies, and a storage portion for storing a book-shaped lyrics card cartridge including the accompaniment music memory and the singing voice memory. And a page detecting means for detecting a page of the page body is provided, and the accompaniment and singing voice corresponding to the page detected by the page detecting means are read out from the accompaniment memory and the singing voice memory, It is preferable that the accompaniment and singing voice corresponding to the lyrics card are output without separately operating a switch or the like.

In the singing voice memory, the main melody and the sub melody of the singing voice are individually stored, and which of the main melody and the sub melody is to be output can be selected by the selecting means so that even one person can sing. May be.

Further, the singing voice stored in the singing voice memory is stored separately for the male voice and the female voice, and it is possible to select which of the male voice and the female voice to output by the selecting means. It doesn't matter.

Further, the control switch may be provided on the microphone so that the player can control the presence / absence of singing voice output while singing.

[0010]

1 is a perspective view of a karaoke apparatus according to the present invention. This karaoke apparatus has a lid body 2 which is openably and closably attached to a main body 1 of the apparatus and which can be lowered and carried by hand. Is provided with a handle 3.

A storage unit 8 for storing a microphone 4 is formed in the apparatus main body 1, and a console unit 5 operated by a player for karaoke and a storage unit 6 for storing a book-type lyrics card cartridge A are provided. Then, the console section 5 has a selection button 9 which is a selection means for the player to select whether or not to output a singing voice, a speaker 10, a volume 11 for volume control, and an operation when starting or interrupting karaoke. Start / Stop Button 1
2. Power switch 13 for turning power on / off,
Further, an LED 14 which is turned on at the time of operation is arranged, and a page detecting section 15 for detecting a page of a lyrics card is provided on the upper left side of the apparatus body 1. The microphone 4 has a plug 18 provided at the tip of the cable 7 of the apparatus body 1. It can be connected to the apparatus main body 1 by inserting it into a jack 19 (see FIG. 4) provided on the side surface.

The page detector 15 has openings 17a to 17h.
A leaf switch SW3 which is a page detecting means.
SW10 are arranged so that the overhanging piece 33 of the page body 31 of the lyrics card cartridge A described later is engaged.

The lyrics card cartridge A is the main body 1 of the apparatus.
A connector 20 to be inserted into a socket 16 provided in
Memory (melody IC) 21 storing accompaniment data
And a singing voice data corresponding to the accompaniment music data, and a CPU (programmable voice synthesis IC) 23 having a built-in memory that stores a control program for controlling the entire karaoke apparatus.
1 is converted to an accompaniment audio signal and output, the voice data is read from the internal memory of the CPU 23, converted into a singing audio signal and output, and mixed by a mixer 25 arranged in the device body 1 described later. After that, it is amplified by the audio amplifier 26 and output from the speaker 10.

The lyrics card cartridge A is the case body 3
0 to page holder 32 and multiple page bodies 31 (31
a, 31b, ..., 31h) are overlapped with each other and are arranged so that they can be opened and closed.
Can be opened and closed one by one. Overhanging pieces 33 (33a, 33b,
.., 33h) are formed, and the projecting pieces 33 are formed at different positions for each page body 31.
It is designed so that they do not overlap each other.

Further, an opening 34 is formed on the entire surface of each page body 31, and sandwiching pieces 36a, 36b for sandwiching the lyrics card 35 from above and below are formed above and below the inner peripheral surface of the opening 34, respectively.
Is formed, and the lyrics card 35 is attached to the page body 31 by being sandwiched by the sandwiching pieces 36a and 36b (see FIG. 2).

It should be noted that the lyrics card 35 'of the last page may be attached to the recess 37 formed on the upper surface of the case body 30 and having the same size as the lyrics card. In addition, the case body 30
A board 24 on which a connector 20, a memory 21 and a CPU 23 are mounted is arranged inside the case, and the bottom surface of the case body 30 is closed by screwing a bottom plate 38.

The memory 21 and the internal memory 22 of the CPU 23
Since the order of the accompaniment data and the singing voice data stored in is corresponding to the overhanging piece 33 of the page body 31, the lyrics card 35 is set on the page body 31 according to the order of the accompaniment and singing voice. It should have been done.

The lyrics card 35 is composed of a card made of cardboard or a synthetic resin such as plastic, and the title and lyrics of the song may be displayed on the surface.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the electrical construction of the karaoke apparatus, in which reference numeral 23 denotes a CPU, and this CPU 2
Reference numeral 3 controls an audio signal in accordance with an operation signal input from the console unit 5 and a control program stored in the memory 22, and accompaniment data and singing voice data from the connector 20 inserted in the socket 16. And are converted into audio signals and input, and the input audio signal of the accompaniment, the singing voice signal, and the audio signal input from the microphone 4 are mixed by the mixer 25 and amplified by the audio amplifier 26. Is output from the speaker 10.

Reference numeral SW1 is a slide switch associated with the selection button 9. When the selection button 9 is slid to the left (switch SW1 is in the ON state), a singing voice audio signal is output from the CPU 23 and the selection button 9 is moved to the right. Since the singing voice audio signal is not output from the CPU 23 when it is sliding (the switch SW1 is in the OFF state), the singing voice audio signal is input to the mixer 25 while the selection button 9 is slid to the left, and the audio of the accompaniment music is performed. The signal and the audio signal input from the microphone 4 are mixed and output from the speaker 10, but when the selection button 9 is slid to the right, the audio signal of the accompaniment,
Only two signals including the audio signal input from the microphone 4 are mixed by the mixer 25 and output from the speaker 10.

In FIG. 3, reference numeral SW2 is a switch associated with a start / stop button 12 operated when starting or interrupting karaoke, reference numeral 1
Reference numeral 1 denotes a volume for adjusting the volume, reference numeral 14 denotes an LED that is lit when the switch is operating, and the switch SW2 repeatedly outputs and stops the accompaniment audio signal and the singing audio signal each time the start / stop button 12 is pressed. And
If you start after the stop, it will start from the beginning of the song.

Reference signs SW3 to SW10 are leaf switches arranged in the page detecting section 15, and are arranged corresponding to the projecting piece 33 of the page body 31, and the switch S
The pages of the page body 31 can be recognized from the operating states of W3 to SW10.

Next, a usage mode of the karaoke apparatus having the above-mentioned configuration will be described with reference to FIGS.

First, as shown in FIGS. 4B and 5B, the lid 2 is opened and the lyrics card cartridge A is set in the apparatus main body 1. Lyrics card cartridge A at this time
16 in which the connector 20 of FIG.
Set so that it can be inserted into the plug (see FIG. 5C).
Since the lid body 2 can be rotated so as to be folded back to the back side of the apparatus body 1, as shown in FIG. 4C, it is folded back and used as a stand so that the apparatus body 1 can be used in an upright state. May be.

After setting the lyrics card cartridge A, the microphone 4 housed in the housing section 8 is taken out,
A jack 19 provided with a plug 18 on the side surface of the apparatus main body
To open the page body 31 displaying the lyrics of the song to be sung (see FIG. 5D). At this time, page body 3
The overhanging piece 33 formed on the page 1 is the page detecting unit 15.
Since it acts on the switches SW3 to SW10 of
3 can recognize the current page of the page body 31.

In FIG. 6, with the first page body 31a opened, the back surface of the lyrics card 35 supported by the page body 31a and the front surface of the lyrics card 35 supported by the page body 31b are It is designed to compose the lyrics card of a song. Since the protruding piece 33a formed on the page body 31a turns on the switch SW3 of the page detection unit 15, the CPU
23, it can be recognized that the page body 31a is opened and the player designates the first music piece.

Player has start / stop button 1
When the user presses 2, the CPU 23 synchronizes the accompaniment data and the singing voice data corresponding to the page detected by the page detecting unit 15 from the memory 21 and the memory 22, and converts them into the accompaniment audio signal and the singing voice audio signal, respectively, and the connector 2
It is input to the mixer 25 arranged in the apparatus main body 1 via 0.

In the mixer 25, the accompaniment audio signal and the singing voice audio signal are mixed and input to the audio amplifier 26, and the amplified signal is output from the speaker 10 as an accompaniment with singing voice.

When singing while listening to the singing voice, the player may slide the selection button 9 to the left and turn on SW1 to sing, and when the singing voice is not required, slide the selection button 9 to the right and switch to SW1. Turn off and sing.

As a result, a player who does not know how to sing just by listening to the accompaniment should operate the selection button 9 (turns on SW1) to hear the singing voice at the same time, and the SW is turned on. Since the model singing voice is output from the speaker 10 together with the accompaniment song, you can learn how to sing and if you do not need to know how to sing, SW1
It suffices to operate the selection button 9 so that is turned off.

In the above-mentioned karaoke device, the case where the selection button 9 which is a selection means for the player to select whether or not to output a singing voice is arranged in the console section 5 of the device main body has been described. The microphone 4 may be provided so that it can be operated by the thumb of the hand holding 4, and can be freely operated by the thumb while singing.

In the memory 22, the singing voice of the main melody and the singing voice of the sub-melody are separately recorded, and whether the main melody is output by operating a selection switch (not shown) arranged in the main body of the device. It may be possible to select whether to output a melody. In this way, by selecting and outputting the main melody voice and the sub-melody singing voice, when the chorus is performed in accordance with the singing voice output from the speaker of the karaoke device, the player sings the main melody and the singing voice outputs the sub-melody. It may be played, or the singing voice may play the main melody and the player may sing the sub-melody, so that the chorus can be enjoyed alone.

In the memory 22, the male singing voice and the female singing voice are separately recorded, and whether the male singing voice is output by operating a selection switch (not shown) arranged on the apparatus main body It may be made possible to select whether to output the singing voice of. In this way, by selecting and outputting the male singing voice and the female singing voice, it is possible to duet with same sex or opposite sex according to the singing voice output from the speaker of the karaoke device, and the singing voice is simply used as guidance. You can make karaoke even more enjoyable by singing along with your voice rather than listening.

It is not necessary that the main melody and the sub melody or the male singing voice and the female singing voice are separately recorded in the memory 22, and the main melody and the sub melody are the male voice and the main melody and the sub melody are the female voice. May be recorded to expand the choices of the player.

[0035]

According to the invention of claim 1, a singing voice serving as an example of a song is output together with the accompaniment song. Therefore, if the singing voice and the timing of starting the singing are not known only by the lyrics card and the accompaniment song, the singing voice is changed. You can sing along with the accompaniment song as a reference, and you can effectively teach the player to get used to the song you want to sing quickly, so that you can improve your karaoke faster and sing well. Moreover, whether or not to sing a singing voice can be determined at any time by the player's will, and the singing voice does not interfere.

According to the invention of claim 2, when the page of the lyrics to be sung is opened, the accompaniment and singing voice corresponding to the page are automatically output. Therefore, it is necessary to perform the operation of setting the page each time. There is no mismatch between the lyrics and the accompaniment, and you can enjoy comfortable karaoke.

According to the invention of claim 3, it is possible to select whether to output the main melody or the sub-melody as the singing voice, so that even one person can enjoy the chorus and enjoy a comfortable karaoke.

According to the invention of claim 4, it is possible to select whether to output a male voice or a female voice as the singing voice, so that even one person can enjoy the duet.

According to the invention of claim 5, since the switch for determining whether or not to output the singing voice is provided in the microphone, it is possible to control the presence or absence of the output of the singing voice while singing, and karaoke excellent in operability. A device can be provided.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a karaoke device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view illustrating the structure of a lyrics cartridge.

FIG. 3 is a circuit diagram illustrating an electrical configuration of the karaoke device.

4A to 4C are side views illustrating a usage state of the karaoke device.

5A to 5D are plan views illustrating a usage state of the karaoke device.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a state in which the first page of the lyrics card cartridge set in the apparatus body is opened.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 device body 4 microphone 9 Selection button (selection means) 21 Memory for accompaniment 22 Memory for singing voice 31 pages 35 lyrics card A lyrics card cartridge SW3 to SW10 Leaf switch (page detection means)

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor, Kanagawa Primary             3-31 Yushima 3-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo             Company Cente Creations (72) Inventor Minoru Sugiyama             3-31 Yushima 3-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo             Company Cente Creations F-term (reference) 5D108 BA11 BB00 BB10 BD20

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An accompaniment memory for storing an accompaniment song, and a singing voice memory for storing a singing voice corresponding to the accompaniment song, which outputs a singing voice in accordance with the accompaniment song and detects by a microphone. A karaoke device for mixing and outputting a voice into the accompaniment song and the singing voice, wherein the karaoke device is provided with a selecting means for selecting whether or not to output the singing voice according to the intention of the player. 2. An accommodating portion for accommodating a plurality of lyrics cards individually in a plurality of pages in the main body of the apparatus, and accommodating a book-shaped lyrics card cartridge including the accompaniment music memory and a singing voice memory. And a page detecting means for detecting the page of the page body, and the accompaniment and singing voice corresponding to the page detected by the page detecting means are read from the accompaniment memory and the singing voice memory,
The karaoke device according to claim 1. 3. The singing voice memory separately stores a main melody and a sub melody of the singing voice, and which of the main melody and the sub melody is to be output is selectable by the selecting means. Karaoke device. 4. The singing voice stored in the singing voice memory is separately stored for a male voice and a female voice, and which of a male voice and a female voice is output can be selected by a selecting means. The karaoke device according to claim 1, 2, or 3. 5. The karaoke apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control switch is provided on the microphone.