JP2004240036A - Karaoke scoring game device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a Karaoke scoring game device with which a singer is able to enjoy a game even if the singer has any level. <P>SOLUTION: The Karaoke scoring game device is provided with a Karaoke playing means, a target score setting means, and a singing ability rating means, and a score history display means, and the Karaoke playing means plays a Karaoke accompaniment; the the target score setting means stores a target score inputted by a user; the singing ability rating means analyzes the singing voices collected through a microphone for the singer during performance and rating the degree of singing ability in each appropriate section to output it; and the score history display means averages the rated data sequentially outputted for each section and displays the score history while sequentially updating it in a form reflecting a degree of coincidence between the average score and the target score. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a karaoke scoring game device using a singing scoring function of a karaoke device.
[0002]
[Prior art]
As an additional function in the karaoke apparatus, there is a singing scoring function of scoring the singing situation of a singer and displaying a score or the like as a scoring result on a display. This singing scoring function sets a predetermined time zone such as one bar as one scoring section in the music reproduction process, and compares the singing voice of the singer input from the microphone with the main melody of the accompaniment music for each section. Then, the final scored result is displayed by summing up the comparison results for each scored section from the start to the end of the playback of the accompaniment music and appropriately processing such as calculating the average. In addition, a karaoke scoring game device which applies a singing scoring function of a karaoke device to present a game result in accordance with the scoring result or updates and displays a game screen in real time in accordance with a scoring status during performance (for example, see Patent Document 1, 2).
[0003]
[Patent Document 1]
JP-A-7-311582
[Patent Document 2]
JP-A-3-28819 [0005]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
The scoring function of the karaoke device and the karaoke scoring game device using the karaoke device are based on the premise that the skill of singing is presented or the skill of the game is determined based on the skill, and if the singer cannot sing well, The game results are bad. In this way, if the skill of the song is reflected in the game result, only those who are good at singing will have good results, and those who are not very good at singing will have less willingness to use the karaoke scoring game device.
[0006]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In view of the above problems, the present invention has been created, and an object of the present invention is to provide a karaoke scoring game device that allows a singer of any level to enjoy a game, regardless of the skill of singing.
[0007]
The karaoke scoring game device of the present invention includes karaoke performance means, target score setting means, singing scoring means, and score progress display means.The karaoke performance means plays karaoke accompaniment music, and the target score setting means is provided by a user. The input target score is stored, the singing scoring unit analyzes the singing voice collected from the microphone for the singer during the karaoke performance, scores and outputs the singing skill as appropriate for each section, and the score progress display unit is sequentially output. The scoring data for each section is averaged, and the score progress is sequentially updated and displayed in a format reflecting the degree of coincidence between the average score and the target score.
[0008]
Further, the karaoke scoring game device may be configured to determine whether or not the difference between the average score and the target score at the end of the karaoke performance is within the standard and display the result.
[0009]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
=== Karaoke apparatus configuration and operation ===
FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a karaoke apparatus functioning as a karaoke scoring game apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. The karaoke apparatus 1 has substantially the same configuration as a performance terminal of a known communication karaoke system. The central control unit 11 controls the peripheral components to control the karaoke apparatus 1. The hard disk drive 12 stores accompaniment music data mainly composed of MIDI data and the origin of the lyrics image for a large number of karaoke songs. Karaoke data including the lyrics rendering data is stored. The accompaniment music data designates each of a large number of sound sources included in the synthesizer 16 as one musical instrument, and specifies the sounding / muting timing, pitch, volume, and the like for the performance sound to be produced by each musical instrument. The lyric rendering data includes lyric characters, display / deletion timing of the lyric character string, instruction information for changing the color of the character at the singing timing in the displayed character string, and the like. Further, the hard disk device 12 also stores long-time moving image data of a predetermined format and script data defining a processing sequence of the moving image data (a storage location and a processing order of the moving image data to be processed). Then, the central control unit 11 identifies the karaoke data and the script data of each music by the music number, and manages this as a karaoke database. The central control unit 11 communicates with a host device connected to a predetermined information communication network via the communication control unit 23 in a timely manner, retrieves karaoke data and script data of the new music, and stores the contents of the karaoke database. Is updated from time to time.
[0010]
When the central control unit 11 receives a performance reservation command including a music number from the operation panel 14 or the remote control transmitter 13 provided in the main body of the karaoke apparatus 1 through the operation control unit 15, the central control unit 11 stores the number in the internal RAM. And manage it in a performance processing queue. Then, the music numbers are sequentially taken out of the queue, the corresponding karaoke data is read out from the hard disk device 12, and the accompaniment music data in the karaoke data is transferred to the synthesizer 16 to generate the accompaniment music, and the accompaniment music is generated based on the lyrics rendering data. Lyric images in which the part to be sung change color in synchronization with the music are sequentially bitmap-developed in the video RAM 20. Also, predetermined moving image data is sequentially transferred to the video control unit 21 in a predetermined order based on the script data to decode the background moving image of the lyrics image.
[0011]
The mixing amplifier 17 mixes and amplifies the accompaniment music and the singing voice input to the microphone 19 and outputs the sound from the speaker 18. The image control unit 21 superimposes the lyrics image on the decoded moving image and outputs it to the display 22.
[0012]
The karaoke apparatus 1 has a singing score function. The hardware for realizing the function is the singing scorer 30. Upon receiving a user input indicating that the singing score function is to be used, the central control unit 11 sequentially transfers the pitch (pitch reference value) of the main melody in the karaoke data of the music piece to the singing score unit 30. The Karaoke singing scorer 30 samples the singing voice signal input from the microphone 19, converts the singing voice signal into digital singing voice data, and extracts a singing voice pitch from the singing voice data. Then, the pitch reference value is compared with the singing voice pitch, and a score based on the comparison result is sequentially output. In this embodiment, a score is given out of 100 points according to the pitches of both pitches. The central control unit 11 totals the score information sequentially output from the singing scoring unit 30 for the performance part of the singing part, and displays the average score on the display 22 as the scoring result.
[0013]
=== Karaoke scoring game function ===
The karaoke device 1 also functions as a karaoke scoring game device. The content of the karaoke scoring game of the present embodiment is to judge the superiority or inferiority of the game according to the degree of coincidence between the target score set by the singer before playing the music and the scoring result after the performance. Further, the scores output by the singing scoring unit 30 are sequentially counted, an average score is obtained from the counting result up to that point during the performance, and this is displayed in real time. This allows the singer to enjoy the singing scoring game irrespective of the skill of the singing, such as intentionally singing poorly in order to obtain a scoring result as close as possible to the target score.
[0014]
The central control unit 11 displays a screen on the display 22 inquiring whether or not to play a karaoke scoring game together with the music performance before playing the next music in the queue after the performance of a certain music. When a user's input to play a game is received while this screen is displayed, and a target score is input by ten keys using the remote control transmitter 13, the target score is acquired and stored in a RAM or the like. Then, the above-mentioned singing score function is activated, and music performance is started in the karaoke rating game mode.
[0015]
In the karaoke scoring game mode, the central control unit 11 obtains the singing score sequentially output by the singing scoring unit 30, obtains the average value of the singing score as the current score from the total result up to the time of the current performance, and Display the screen while updating the difference between the singing score and the target score in real time. FIG. 2 shows an outline of a game screen during a performance. In the present embodiment, the score difference 24 is displayed on the display 22 at a position that does not overlap the lyrics subtitle 23. Then, when the music performance ends, the final game result is displayed on the screen. FIG. 3 shows an outline of the game result screen. The central control unit 11 obtains a difference between the target score and the final singing score, obtains a predetermined game result set according to the score difference, and displays these as appropriate.
[0016]
=== Game screen ===
The game screen being played is not limited to the difference between the target score and the current score, and may be any screen that reflects the degree of coincidence between them. For example, the score difference may be displayed in a graph, or the set target score and the current score updated in real time may be displayed side by side. The game screen may be displayed on a display different from the one for displaying the lyrics subtitles.
[0017]
=== Karaoke scoring game user interface ===
In the above embodiment, the execution of the karaoke scoring game and the input of the setting of the target score were received at an appropriate time before the music performance started. The present invention is not limited to this example, and when designating a request music, a user input for executing a karaoke scoring game at the time of playing the music is received, and at the same time, a setting input of a target score is also received. The central control unit manages the music score in the queue in association with the target score, and activates the karaoke scoring game mode when playing the music associated with the target score. Of course, information indicating that the music is to be played in the karaoke scoring game may be associated with the music number in the queue, and the target score may be input when the music performance of the music number is started.
[0018]
【The invention's effect】
According to the karaoke scoring game device of the present invention, a singer of any level can enjoy the game regardless of the skill of the singing.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a karaoke apparatus functioning as a karaoke scoring game apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a screen during execution of a game in the karaoke scoring game device.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a game result screen in the karaoke scoring game device.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 Karaoke device 11 Central control unit 12 Hard disk device 22 Display 30 Singing scoring unit

Claims (2)

Karaoke performance means, goal score setting means, singing scoring means, score progress display means,
The karaoke performance means plays karaoke accompaniment music,
The goal score setting means stores the goal score input by the user,
Singing scoring means analyzes the singing voice collected from the singer's microphone during karaoke performance, scores and outputs the singing skill for each section as appropriate,
The scoring progress display means averages scoring data for each section sequentially output, and displays the scoring progress while sequentially updating the scoring progress in a format reflecting the degree of coincidence between the average score and the target score. Game equipment. 2. The karaoke scoring game device according to claim 1, wherein it is determined whether or not the difference between the average score and the target score at the end of the karaoke performance is within a standard, and the result is displayed.

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