JP2005166092A - Automatic player - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic player which can prevent loss of operation means and cost increases. <P>SOLUTION: This is an automatic player to play the selected pieces of music, and has an operating section 68 to input the information showing the piece of music selected by remote controlling, a DVD drive 3 to reproduce the music pieces corresponding to the information showing the selected pieces of music, and an AV amplifier 4 and speakers 5 to output the sound of the music reproduced in the DVD drive 3. The operating section 68 is attached to a position on the front panel 6 of the case of the automatic player 1. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to remote control of an automatic performance apparatus equipped with AV equipment such as a DVD player and an AV amplifier.

Conventional automatic performance devices such as karaoke and jukebox are provided with a remote control receiving unit to select music by remote control operation (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2003-173192 (paragraph 0040 at the bottom right of page 5)

  However, in the conventional automatic performance device, there is a risk of losing the remote control because it is a separate body. Also, if the automatic performance device is operated by the keyboard provided in the automatic performance device, the keyboard portion must be designed. However, there was a problem that the cost would be high.

  The present invention has been made to solve the conventional problems. In an automatic performance device such as a karaoke or jukebox, the remote control is fixed to the front panel of the device housing to perform remote control of the automatic performance device. Thus, an object of the present invention is to provide an automatic performance device that can prevent the loss of the remote control and eliminate the increase in cost.

  In order to solve the above problems, an automatic performance device of the present invention is an automatic performance device that plays a selected music piece, and is a selection input means (for example, an operation unit) that inputs information indicating the music piece selected by remote operation. 68), music reproducing means (for example, the DVD device 3) for reproducing the music corresponding to the information indicating the selected music, and audio output means (for example, the AV amplifier 4) for outputting the reproduction signal from the music reproducing means by sound. And the selection input means is fixed to a part of the front panel (for example, the front panel 6) of the automatic musical instrument housing.

  Further, the automatic performance device of the present invention has a configuration in which a shelf board (for example, a shelf board 22a) on which a structure (for example, a doll 21) can be placed is provided in the casing.

  The present invention is an automatic performance device for playing a selected music piece, and reproduces a piece of music corresponding to the information indicating the selected piece of music, selection input means for inputting information showing the piece of music selected by remote operation. A music playback means; and a voice output means for outputting a playback signal from the music playback means by voice, and the selection input means is fixed to a part of a front panel of the automatic performance device casing to operate It is possible to provide an automatic performance device having an effect of preventing loss of means and eliminating an increase in cost.

  Moreover, this invention can provide the automatic performance apparatus which improved the presentation effect during music reproduction by providing the shelf board which can mount a structure in the said housing | casing.

  Hereinafter, an automatic performance device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. First, the structure will be described. An automatic performance apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. Moreover, the back surface of FIG. 1 is shown in FIG. 2, and a side cross section is shown in FIG.

  1 to 3, an automatic performance device 1 includes a production doll 21 (corresponding to a “structure” described later), a DVD (Digital Versatile Disk) device 3, an AV amplifier 4, speakers 5a, 5b, and the like. A front panel 6 is attached to the front surface of the housing. The front panel 6 includes a semicircular transparent glass surface 66, an operation unit (for example, a remote controller) 68, liquid crystal display units 41a and 41b of the AV amplifier 4, and substantially U-shaped illumination lamps 64a and 64b. An illumination button 62 for turning on and off the illumination lamps 64a and 64b and a main power button 63 for turning on and off the main power of the automatic performance device 1 are arranged.

  The glass surface 66 allows the inside of the casing (here, the space on the shelf board 22a) to be visible.

  The operation unit 68 includes a transmission circuit for transmitting a signal (corresponding to a light emitting unit that emits predetermined infrared rays here) and information indicating the music on the DVD-ROM of the DVD device 3 (for example, “number given to the music title”). And a control circuit for transmitting information indicating the music selected by the operation of the selection button 68a by the operator from the transmission circuit. The control circuit has a microcomputer as a main component. The selection button 68a is composed of numerals and alphabets, and the operator selects music by pressing information indicating music composed of arbitrary numerals or a combination of numerals and alphabets. . In particular, in the present embodiment, since the operation unit 68 is fixed to the casing of the automatic musical instrument 1, there is no possibility of losing the operation unit 68. Further, when the same operation unit 68 is provided for the operation of the DVD device 3 or the AV amplifier 4 according to the operator's needs, the same substrate is used and the same input method using infrared rays is adopted. Reduction of manufacturing cost is expected. Information indicating the selected music is sent to the control circuit 12 (shown in FIG. 4).

  The liquid crystal display units 41a and 41b are provided in the AV amplifier 4 and are arranged below the operation unit 68 so as to display the volume, sound quality, and the like of the music reproduced by the automatic performance device 1 on the liquid crystal screen. The illumination button 62 and the main power button 63 described above are provided on the left and right sides of the liquid crystal display portions 41a and 41b, respectively.

  The doll 21 shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 is a structure for production, and is placed on a shelf 22a provided in the housing. Here, the doll 21 and the like are made visible through the glass surface 66 as described above. The production structure is illuminated by a production lamp 24 provided in front of it. The effect lamp 24 is composed of, for example, a fluorescent tube or a plurality of LEDs. With this configuration, for example, the effect lamp 24 is turned on during display of the glass surface 66 to light up the structure, and an effect can be obtained by combining the structure and the illumination lamps 64a and 64b. FIG. 1 shows a case where the doll 21 is not placed.

  The DVD device 3 is placed on a shelf plate 22b provided in the housing. Here, a reproduction-only DVD-ROM storing music data of a plurality of pieces of music for each piece of information indicating a piece of music is attached, and a piece of music corresponding to the piece of music input from the operation unit 68 is played back. A control circuit (not shown) of the DVD device 3 has a function of reading music data from a DVD-ROM, a volume control function for adjusting the magnitude of a signal input to the AV amplifier 4 in multiple stages, and a high sound range. (For example, a frequency of 1 kHz or more), a sound quality adjustment (tone control) function for adjusting the tone of a music in multiple stages by increasing / decreasing a low frequency range (for example, a frequency of 100 Hz or less), and the like.

  The AV amplifier 4 is an amplifier that amplifies a signal corresponding to the music data of the music reproduced by the DVD device 3, and is placed on a shelf plate 22c provided in the housing. In the AV amplifier 4, so-called control amplifiers, graphic equalizers, dividing amplifiers, power amplifiers, and the like are sequentially arranged. Here, the speakers 5a and 5b are multi-way systems (for example, "tweeter", "woofer" 2). In order to construct a (way system), a signal input to the power amplifier in the previous stage of the power amplifier is divided into various speakers according to the frequency. In this case, a plurality of power amplifiers are provided depending on the type of speaker. As described above, the AV amplifier 4 includes the liquid crystal display units 41a and 41b, and displays the volume and sound quality of the reproduced music on the liquid crystal screen.

  As is well known, the speakers 5 a and 5 b energize the voice coil in the magnetic field by the signal amplified by the AV amplifier 4, and propagate the voice coil movement at this time to the diaphragm to vibrate the sound wave. It is trying to generate. Here, a dedicated speaker unit is provided for each sound range, and for example, a unit of “tweeter” and “woofer” is combined to form a single speaker system. The speakers 5a and 5b are respectively placed on placement tables 23a and 23b provided in the housing.

  The light emitting unit 68b of the operation unit 68 and the light receiving unit 69 (corresponding to a receiving circuit) in the AV amplifier 4 (or the DVD device 3) are disposed substantially opposite to each other, and infrared rays from the light emitting unit 68b are disposed. The light receiving unit 69 receives light. In order to receive light more reliably, the above-described shelf plates 22a to 22c are formed of a plastic material including, for example, a metal material and a synthetic resin material, and a plurality of mesh-shaped holes are opened through the shelf plates 22a to 22c. May be.

  FIG. 4 shows a control system of the automatic performance device 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  4, the automatic performance device 1 includes a DVD device 3, an AV amplifier 4, a speaker 5 (corresponding to 5a and 5b in FIG. 2), a control circuit 12, an operation unit 68, and an electric lamp 64 ( 1 (corresponding to 64a and 64b in FIG. 1), an effect lamp 24, an illumination button 62, and a main power button 63. Here, the operation unit 68 transmits information indicating the selected music piece to the DVD device 3 or the AV amplifier 4, and the AV amplifier 4 stores the audio data stored in the DVD-ROM in accordance with the information indicating the music piece. Take out. The AV amplifier 4 outputs audio data from the audio output terminal, and these data are input to the control circuit 12 and the speaker 5. The control circuit 12 controls the effect lamp 24 and the like based on these input data. Here, the control circuit 12 determines whether or not the effect lamp 24 needs to be turned on based on the input data, and controls turning on and off the effect lamp 24. The control circuit 12 may perform control so that the effect lamp 24 is extinguished every time the performance of one piece of music is completed.

  According to the automatic performance device 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention, the operation unit 68 for inputting information indicating the music selected by remote operation and the music corresponding to the information indicating the selected music are displayed. A DVD device 3 for reproduction, an AV amplifier 4 and a speaker 5 for outputting sound of music reproduced by the DVD device 3, and an operation unit 68 provided on a part of the front panel 6 of the automatic performance device 1 housing. By fixing, it is possible to prevent the operating means from being lost and eliminate the increase in cost.

  In the above-described embodiment, the case where the information indicating the desired music piece is selected and input by the operation of the operation unit 68 has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to the music piece reproduced by the DVD device 3. The same effect can be expected by inputting the sound volume and sound quality (corresponding to “acoustic information”) when outputting sound.

  In the above-described embodiment, the case where the control circuit 12 drives and controls the DVD device 3 and the AV amplifier 4 has been described. However, the present invention additionally includes the DVD device 3, the AV amplifier 4, and the speaker 5 as predetermined. The information indicating the music is directly input from the operation unit 68 to the AV amplifier 4 (or the DVD device 3), and the AV amplifier 4 (or the DVD device 3) uses the information indicating the input music to input the music. The same effect can be expected even when playback, sound output and video display are controlled. In this case, in addition to the operation unit 68, another remote controller for remotely operating any or all of the AV amplifier 4 and the DVD device 3 is provided, and the operation unit 68 is dedicated to the music selection operation so that music reproduction, sound output, and video are performed. The display may be remotely operated with a separate remote controller. Alternatively, the same effect can be expected even if the operation unit 68 has the function of the control circuit 12 described above and controls the reproduction of music, the sound output, and the video display without depending on the control system of the main body of the automatic performance device 1. Is done.

  Moreover, although embodiment mentioned above demonstrated the case where the some mesh-shaped hole part was formed in the shelf boards 22a-22c, this invention is the same even if it forms the shelf boards 22a-22c with a transparent member in addition to this. The effect is expected. Alternatively, the same effect can be expected even when an optical path of infrared light emitted from the operation unit 68 is formed by a reflecting member including a white plate and a mirror. Furthermore, an effect of increasing the degree of freedom when arranging each device or component in the housing is also expected.

  In the embodiment described above, the case where the lighting lamp 24 is controlled to be turned on by music based on the information indicating the music has been described. However, the present invention is also for switching the lighting lamp 24 on and off. A similar effect is expected even if a switch button is provided and the operator arbitrarily controls lighting of the effect lamp 24.

  In the above-described embodiment, the case where the doll 21 is used as the structure for production has been described. However, the present invention can also have the same effect even when a vertically placed CD, record, or the like is used as the structure. Be expected. Furthermore, the same effect can be expected even when an arbitrary shape formed on the inner surface of the casing or the inner surface of the casing itself on which an arbitrary image is written is used as a structure.

  In the above-described embodiment, the automatic performance apparatus 1 including the AV apparatus such as the DVD apparatus 3 and the AV amplifier 4 has been described. However, the present invention additionally includes a microphone and a communication interface. The same effect is expected. In this case, a so-called karaoke function may be realized by a microphone, and music data of a song may be acquired via a communication interface.

It is a perspective view which shows the external appearance (front) of the automatic performance apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a perspective view which shows the external appearance (back surface) of the automatic performance apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is principal part side sectional drawing of the automatic performance apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the control system of the automatic performance apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Automatic performance apparatus 3 DVD apparatus 4 AV amplifier 5a, 5b Speaker 6 Front panel 21 Doll 22a, 22b, 22c Shelf board 23a, 23b Mounting base 41a, 41b Liquid crystal display part 62 Illumination button 63 Main power button 64a, 64b Illumination lamp 68 Operating section 69 Light receiving section

Claims (2)

An automatic performance device for playing the selected music, a selection input means for inputting information indicating the music selected by remote operation, and a music playback means for playing music corresponding to the information indicating the selected music Voice output means for outputting a playback signal from the music playback means,
The automatic performance apparatus, wherein the selection input means is fixed to a part of a front panel of the automatic performance apparatus casing. The automatic performance device according to claim 1, wherein a shelf plate on which a structure can be placed is provided in the housing.

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