JP2006337966A - Karaoke machine, information search device, program, and operation terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a karaoke machine that facilitates keyword search for music. <P>SOLUTION: The karaoke machine includes a search information reception section 104 which receives a search character string and a search item from an operation terminal; a search information storage section 107 which stores information of a musical piece corresponding to the search item; a musical piece search section 106 which extracts a musical piece, including a character string matching the search character string in information corresponding to the search item from the search information storage section 107, when the search item is specified or a musical piece including a character string matching the search string in information, corresponding to at least one search item, when no search item is specified, a search result transmission section 105 which transmits information of the extracted musical piece to the operation terminal; a reservation information reception section 108 which receives information of reserved music that the operation terminal specifies among the searched results; and a reserved music storage section 103 which stores received reserved music, and makes an advanced search from the searched results transmitted the last time, when search information is further received after the search results are sent to the operation terminal. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a karaoke apparatus, an information search apparatus, a program, and an operation terminal.

  Karaoke is widely enjoyed in karaoke boxes and home karaoke. Generally, a user reserves a performance song by designating a desired song code using a remote controller or an operation panel. However, in the method of inputting a chord, the chord must be checked from the title of the song with a book or the like. In some cases, the title of a song is not correctly remembered.

In order to solve this problem, a technique has been proposed that enables the designation of music other than chords.
Patent Document 1 includes performance music information storage means, karaoke music search means, reservation means, and input unit, and the performance music information storage means includes all or part of the performance music provided in the target karaoke apparatus. The performance song information is stored, the karaoke song search means searches for the performance song based on the performance song information, and the reservation means searches the selected song for the karaoke device by one operation to the input unit. A karaoke song electronic search device for making a batch reservation is disclosed. Here, the performance information is at least one of a singer name, a song name, a keyword, a released age, a lyric keyword, a composer name, a songwriter name, and an arranger name. Perform a search on any or more of the information.
Japanese Patent No. 3294729

  However, when a user searches for a song by keyword, in many cases, a plurality of songs are hit. In particular, when a search is performed on a part of the lyrics, a large number of songs are hit, and the user has to find the target song from among them. In addition, when specifying a keyword, there is a case where it is desired to perform a search without being aware of whether it is a singer name, a song name, or a part of lyrics.

  An object of the present invention is to obtain a karaoke device, an information search device, a program, and an operation terminal having a keyword search function that allows a user to easily search for songs.

The karaoke apparatus according to the present invention is a karaoke apparatus that performs a music search based on search information including at least a search character string input from an operation terminal by an operator, reads out the music information from a recording medium based on the search result, and performs the music. A search information receiving unit for receiving the search information from the operation terminal, and search information for reading and storing song name information, singer name information, and lyrics information set as search item information corresponding to the song information from the recording medium In the storage unit, in the search information, a search item determination unit that determines whether or not any of song name search, singer name search, and lyrics search is specified as a search item, and when the search item is specified Includes a character string that matches the search character string in the search item information corresponding to the specified search item from the music information that has not been extracted. If song information is extracted and none of the search items is specified in the search information, the search is performed on at least one of song name information, singer name information, and lyrics information from among the music information that has not been extracted. A search unit that extracts music information including a character string that matches the character string, an extraction information storage unit that stores that the music extracted by the search unit has already been extracted, and the extracted music information A transmission unit that transmits search item information to the operation terminal, and after the search item information corresponding to the extracted music information is transmitted to the operation terminal, the search information reception unit further receives the search information The search unit performs a narrowing search based on the received search information for the music information stored in the extracted information storage unit as having been extracted.
Thereby, the user can search without specifying the search item when specifying the keyword. In addition, it is possible to narrow down a search from a large number of search results, and it is easy to search for songs.

An information search apparatus according to the present invention includes a search information receiving unit that receives, as search information, information including at least a search character string input by an operator through an operation unit, and a plurality of search target information and the search target information. A search information storage unit that reads and stores the set search item information from the recording medium, and determines whether any of the search items corresponding to the search item information is specified in the search information. If the search item information is extracted from the search information storage unit, the corresponding search item information includes a character string that matches the search character string, and if the search item is not specified, A search unit for extracting search target information including a character string that matches the search character string in at least one search item information, and the search target information is extracted by the search unit; When receiving the retrieval information receiving unit further search information, the search unit intended for the search target information extracted last time, performs a search refinement based on the received search information.
Thereby, the user can search without specifying the search item when specifying the keyword. In addition, it is possible to narrow down a search from a large number of search results, and the search becomes easy.
Here, the information search device is, for example, a document search device, a performance song search device in an electronic musical instrument, or the like.

The program of the present invention functions as a karaoke apparatus that performs music search based on search information including at least a search character string input from an operation terminal by an operator, reads out music information from a recording medium based on the search result, and performs the music. A search information receiving means for receiving the search information from the operation terminal, a song name information set as search item information corresponding to the song information, singer name information, and lyrics information Search information storage means for reading and storing from a medium, search item determination means for determining whether or not any of song name search, singer name search, and lyrics search is designated as a search item in the search information, and the search item is If specified, the search item information corresponding to the specified search item from the music information that has not been extracted. Music information including a character string that matches the search character string is extracted, and if none of the search items is specified in the search information, the music title information, Search means for extracting music information containing a character string that matches the search character string in at least one of singer name information and lyrics information, and extraction information for storing that the music extracted by the search means has been extracted The storage unit functions as a transmission unit that transmits search item information corresponding to the extracted music information to the operation terminal, and after transmitting the search item information corresponding to the extracted music information to the operation terminal, When the search information receiving means further receives the search information, the search means receives the music information stored in the extracted information storage means as a target. To function as to limit your search based on the search information.
Thereby, the user can search without specifying the search item when specifying the keyword. In addition, it is possible to narrow down a search from a large number of search results, and it is easy to search for songs.

The program according to the present invention is a program for causing a computer to function as an information search device, wherein the computer receives, as search information, information including at least a search character string input by an operator via an operation unit. Receiving means, search information storing means for retrieving search object information and a plurality of search item information set for the search object information from a recording medium, and search information corresponding to the search item information in the search information It is determined whether or not any of them is specified, and if specified, search target information including a character string that matches the search character string is extracted from the search information storage unit to the corresponding search item information. If the search item is not specified, a character string that matches the search character string is included in at least one search item information. If the search information receiving means further receives the search information after the search means information is extracted by the search means, the search means has extracted the previous time. The search target information is made to function so as to perform a narrow search based on the received search information.
Thereby, the user can search without specifying the search item when specifying the keyword. In addition, it is possible to narrow down a search from a large number of search results, and the search becomes easy.

An operation terminal according to the present invention includes a search character string input unit capable of inputting a character string on a display device, a search item designating unit capable of designating a search item from a plurality of items, and search execution capable of designating search execution A search screen display section for displaying a designation section, and a search for transmitting the search string designated in the search string designation section and the search string designated in the search string designation section to the karaoke device when the search execution is designated. An information transmission unit, a search result receiving unit that receives a search result for the search information from the karaoke device, information on songs included in the search result, and a refinement search that can specify whether or not a refinement search is performed A search result display section for displaying a designation section; and a reserved song information transmission section for receiving designation of a reserved song from the search results and transmitting the designated reserved song to the karaoke device, Once designated, displays the search screen again by the search screen display unit, and transmits the search information the search information transmitting unit is designated to the karaoke device.
Thereby, the user can search without specifying the search item when specifying the keyword. In addition, it is possible to narrow down a search from a large number of search results, and it is easy to search for songs.

Note that the search items include, for example, a song title, a singer name, and a part of lyrics.
This allows the user to search for songs in various ways.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
Example 1.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of a karaoke apparatus according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, the karaoke apparatus includes a karaoke apparatus 100 and an operation terminal 200 connected to the karaoke apparatus 100 via a communication line such as a wireless LAN. The karaoke device 100 includes a CPU 10, a ROM 11, a RAM 12, a hard disk device (HDD) 13, a communication control device 14, a key switch controller 15, a music playback engine 16, a vocal effect engine 17, a microphone 18, a digital mixer 19, and a digital audio signal. A digital / analog (D / A) converter 20, an amplifier speaker system 21, a video telop engine 22, a digital / analog converter 23 for video signals, and a monitor (display device) 24 are provided.

  The CPU 10 executes a predetermined program, exchanges data with each unit connected to each other via the system control bus, and controls the overall operation of the karaoke apparatus. The ROM 11 stores programs to be executed by the CPU 10 and other various data. The RAM 12 is used as a work memory when the CPU 10 operates, and temporarily stores various data.

  The hard disk device 13 stores music data used for playing music, video data used for displaying telops such as lyrics, background video, and the like. The music data and video data are distributed from a distribution server (not shown) through a communication line, acquired via the communication control device 14 and stored in the hard disk device 13, for example. In the present embodiment, MIDI data, which is one of electronic score format data, is used as music data. The MIDI data includes various pieces of performance information such as musical score information, timbre information, and tempo information necessary for the performance of music. An audio signal (music signal) for music performance is generated using the MIDI data and the MIDI sound source.

  The communication control device 14 is a device that transmits and receives data between the karaoke device and the distribution server, and also has a function as an I / O interface.

  The key switch controller 15 performs control based on an input operation performed by a user using the operation terminal 200. For example, when the user specifies a desired music number or the like, the contents of the operation instruction are supplied to the CPU 10 via the key switch controller 15. In this case, the CPU 10 reads necessary music data and video data from the hard disk device 13 and supplies the music data to the music playback engine 16 and the video data to the video telop engine 22. Further, the key switch controller 15 is used to change the tempo when the user plays music.

The music playback engine 16 generates a music audio signal based on the music data acquired from the hard disk device 13. The music playback engine 16 of the present embodiment includes a MIDI sound source, drives the MIDI sound source based on the MIDI data, plays back the music, and generates a digital music signal.
The vocal effect engine 17 performs digital processing on an audio signal input via the microphone 18 and performs sound quality adjustment such as applying an echo effect and removing noise.

  The digital mixer 19 mixes the digital music signal output from the music playback engine 16 and the digital audio signal output from the vocal effect engine 17. The digital signal generated by the digital mixer 19 is converted into an analog signal by the digital / analog converter 20 and output to the amplifier speaker system 21, so that the musical performance sound and the vocal effect engine 17 perform acoustic processing. The sound output of singing voice is made.

  The video telop engine 22 generates a digital video signal for displaying a telop such as lyrics or a background video based on the video data acquired from the hard disk device 13. For example, if MPEG format data is used as video data stored in the hard disk device 13, the video telop engine 22 performs a process of decoding the MPEG data. A digital video signal generated by the video telop engine 22 is converted into an analog signal by the digital / analog converter 23 and output to the monitor 24, whereby a background video or a telop is displayed.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the karaoke apparatus 100 according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, the karaoke apparatus 100 includes a performance data playback unit 101, a performance data storage unit 102, a reserved song storage unit 103, a search information reception unit 104, a search result transmission unit 105, a music search unit 106, and a search information storage unit. 107, a reservation information receiving unit 108, and an extracted information storage unit 109.
The performance data reproduction unit 101, the search information receiving unit 104, the search result transmitting unit 105, the music search unit 106, and the reservation information receiving unit 108 are stored in the ROM 11 and correspond to a program module executed by the karaoke apparatus 100.
The performance data storage unit 102, reserved song storage unit 103, search information storage unit 107, and extracted information storage unit 109 are included in the hard disk device 13.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the operation terminal 200 according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, the operation terminal 200 includes a search screen display unit 201, a search information transmission unit 202, a search result reception unit 203, a search result display unit 204, a refined search designation unit 205, a reserved song information transmission unit 206, a display device. 207 and an input device 208. A search screen display unit 201, a search information transmission unit 202, a search result reception unit 203, a search result display unit 204, a narrow search search specification unit 205, and a reserved song information transmission unit 206 are modules of operations performed by the processor of the operation terminal 200 according to a program. These actually constitute the processor of the operation terminal 200 as a whole. The display device 207 is a liquid crystal display or the like, and the input device 208 is a touch panel, a keyboard, a pointing device, or the like.

Next, the operation will be described. FIG. 4 is a flowchart when reserving a song to the karaoke apparatus 100 using the operation terminal 200.
The operation terminal 200 displays an initial screen as shown in FIG. On the initial screen, as shown in the figure, menus such as search and song number input are displayed on the display device 207. When the user designates “search” on this screen using a pointing device or the like, a search screen is displayed (step 401).
FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a search screen of the operation terminal 200. As shown in the figure, the search screen display unit 201 displays a keyword input unit 601, a search option specification unit 602, a search item specification unit 603, a search execution specification unit 604, and a kana list 605 on the display device 207. The user uses a pointing device or the like to place a cursor on the keyword input field 601 and designate a character in the kana list 605 to input a search character string. Further, by selecting “begins with” in the search option designation unit 602, it is possible to designate a head match search, and by selecting “includes”, a partial match search can be designated. By default, “including” is selected. Next, the user specifies a search item by selecting any item in the search item specifying unit 603. Here, when no search item is designated, the search is executed for all the search items. Here, as an example, “ai” is specified as the search character string, the search option is “includes”, and no search item is specified.

  After specifying the above items, when the search execution specifying unit 604 is selected, the search information transmitting unit 202 transmits the search character string, the search item, and the search option to the karaoke apparatus 100 (step 402).

The search information receiving unit 104 of the karaoke apparatus 100 receives the search information including the search character string, the search item, and the search option transmitted from the operation terminal 200 (step 403).
The music search unit 106 searches the search information storage unit 107 in accordance with the received search character string, search item, and search option (step 404).

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the contents of the search information storage unit 107. The search information storage unit 107 stores search item information acquired from the hard disk device 13. The search item information is distributed from the distribution server together with the music data and the video data.
As shown in the figure, each item of song number, song name, singer name, and lyrics is stored for each song. The song name, singer name, and lyrics are all held as kana character strings and can be collated with a search character string designated on the operation terminal 200. The music search unit 106 collates the specified search item with the search character string.
Here, since no search item is specified, the music including the search character string “Ai” is searched for all the search items. As a result, a song in which the character string “Ai” is included in at least one of the song name, singer name, and lyrics is extracted.
The extracted information storage unit 109 stores all the songs extracted by the song search unit 106 as extracted songs.

  Next, the search result transmission unit 105 transmits the search result acquired in step 404 to the operation terminal 200 (step 405). At this time, the song number, the song title, the singer name, and the lyric of the singing are transmitted as a search result. The song title, singer name, and singing lyrics may be extracted from song data and video data.

  When the search result receiving unit 203 of the operation terminal 200 receives the search result from the karaoke device 100 (step 406), the search result display unit 204 displays the search result on the display device 207 (step 407). FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a search result screen. As shown in the figure, the search result display area 702 displays a list of song names, singer names, and singing lyrics included in the search results. As the display order of the list, by selecting a tag on the screen, “popular ranking order”, “50-sound order (song title)”, and the like can be selected.

  When the user wants to further narrow down the search results, when selecting the narrow search designation unit 701, the narrow search search unit 205 displays a narrow search screen as shown in FIG. 9 (steps 408 and 409). The user designates a search character string, a search item, etc. in the same manner as in the first search, and selects the search execution designation unit 604. Here, “aiai” is designated as the search character string, and “song name” is designated as the search item. When the search information is transmitted to the karaoke apparatus 100 (steps 410 and 411), the karaoke apparatus 100 performs a search based on the received search information for music stored as extracted music in the extraction information storage unit 109. (Step 412). When the search result is transmitted to the operation terminal 200 (steps 413 and 414), a search result screen as shown in FIG.

  When the user wants to perform a refinement search again, the refinement search designation unit 701 is designated. When a reserved song is designated from the displayed search results, the display portion of the corresponding song information is designated (step 416). When the music is designated, a confirmation screen as shown in FIG. 11 is displayed. When the user designates the reservation designation unit 1001, the reserved song information transmission unit 206 transmits information on the designated song (step 417). When the reserved music information is received by the reservation information receiving unit 108 of the karaoke device 100 (step 418), the performance data of the music acquired from the performance data storage unit 102 is stored in the reserved music storage unit 103 (step 419). ).

  In addition to the karaoke apparatus, the present invention can be applied to performance search for electronic musical instruments and information search apparatuses such as document search apparatuses.

It is a block diagram which shows the hardware constitutions of the karaoke apparatus by this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the function structure of the karaoke apparatus by this invention. It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure of the operating terminal by this invention. It is a flowchart at the time of reserving a music to a karaoke apparatus using the operation terminal by this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the initial screen of the operating terminal by this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the search screen of the operating terminal by this invention. It is a figure which shows the content of the search information storage part by this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the search result screen by this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the search screen at the time of the narrowing search of the operation terminal by this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the search result screen at the time of the narrowing search of the operation terminal by this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the reservation music confirmation screen of the operating terminal by this invention.

Explanation of symbols

11 ROM, 12 RAM, 13 Hard disk device, 14 Communication control device, 15 Key switch controller, 16 Music playback engine, 17 Vocal effect engine, 18 Microphone, 19 Digital mixer, 20 Digital / analog converter, 21 Amplifier speaker system, 22 Video telop engine, 23 digital / analog converter, 24 monitor, 100 karaoke device, 101 performance data playback unit, 102 performance data storage unit, 103 reserved song storage unit, 104 search information reception unit, 105 search result transmission unit, 106 music Search unit (search item determination unit, search unit) 107 Search information storage unit 108 Reservation information reception unit 109 Extraction information storage unit 200 Operation terminal 201 Search screen display unit 202 Search information transmission unit 203 Search result reception Part 2 04 search result display section, 205 refined search designation section, 206 reserved music information transmission section, 207 display apparatus, 208 input apparatus, 601 keyword input field, 602 search option designation section, 603 search item designation section, 604 search execution designation section, 605 Kana list, 701 Refinement search designation part, 702 Search result display area, 1001 Reservation designation part

Claims (6)

In a karaoke apparatus that performs a music search based on search information including at least a search character string input from an operation terminal by an operator, reads out music information from a recording medium based on the search result, and performs the music,
A search information receiving unit for receiving the search information from the operation terminal;
A search information storage unit for reading and storing song name information, singer name information, and lyrics information set as search item information corresponding to the music information;
In the search information, a search item determination unit that determines whether or not any of song name search, singer name search, and lyrics search is specified as a search item;
When the search item is specified, music information in which the search item information corresponding to the specified search item includes a character string that matches the search character string is extracted from the music information that has not been extracted. If none of the search items is specified in the search information, the search character string matches at least one of the song name information, singer name information, and lyrics information from the music information that has not been extracted. A search unit for extracting music information including a character string;
An extraction information storage unit for storing that the music extracted by the search unit has been extracted;
A transmission unit that transmits search item information corresponding to the extracted music information to the operation terminal;
After transmitting the search item information corresponding to the extracted music information to the operation terminal, when the search information receiving unit further receives the search information, the search unit extracts the information to the extracted information storage unit A karaoke apparatus that performs a refined search based on received search information for music information that has been stored. A search information receiving unit for receiving, as search information, information including at least a search character string input by an operator via an operation means;
A search information storage unit for reading and storing search target information and a plurality of search item information set for the search target information;
In the search information, it is determined whether or not any of the search items corresponding to the search item information is specified. If specified, the search information storage unit stores the search item information corresponding to the search item information. When search target information including a character string that matches a character string is extracted and the search item is not specified, a search target that includes at least one search item information including a character string that matches the search character string It has a search unit that extracts information,
After the search target information is extracted by the search unit, when the search information receiving unit further receives the search information, the search unit narrows down the search target information extracted last time based on the received search information. An information search apparatus characterized by performing a search. Computer
A program that performs a music search based on search information including at least a search character string input from an operation terminal by an operator, functions as a karaoke device that reads and plays music information from a recording medium based on the search result, The computer,
Search information receiving means for receiving the search information from the operation terminal;
Search information storage means for reading and storing song name information, singer name information and lyrics information set as search item information corresponding to the music information,
In the search information, search item determination means for determining whether or not any of song name search, singer name search, and lyrics search is specified as a search item,
When the search item is specified, music information in which the search item information corresponding to the specified search item includes a character string that matches the search character string is extracted from the music information that has not been extracted. If none of the search items is specified in the search information, the search character string matches at least one of the song name information, singer name information, and lyrics information from the music information that has not been extracted. Search means for extracting music information including character strings;
Extraction information storage means for storing that the music extracted by the search means has been extracted;
The search item information corresponding to the extracted music information is made to function as a transmission means for transmitting to the operation terminal,
After transmitting the search item information corresponding to the extracted music information to the operation terminal, when the search information receiving means further receives the search information, the search means extracts it into the extracted information storage means A program that functions to perform a refined search based on received search information for music information that has been stored. A program for causing a computer to function as an information retrieval apparatus,
Search information receiving means for receiving, as search information, information including at least the search character string input by the operator via the operation means,
Search information storage means for reading and storing search target information and a plurality of search item information set for the search target information from a recording medium;
In the search information, it is determined whether or not any of the search items corresponding to the search item information is specified. If the search items are specified, the search information storage unit retrieves the search item information corresponding to the search item information. When search target information including a character string that matches a character string is extracted and the search item is not specified, a search target that includes at least one search item information including a character string that matches the search character string Function as a search means to extract information,
After the search target information is extracted by the search means, if the search information receiving means further receives the search information, the search means narrows down the search target information extracted last time based on the received search information. A program that functions to perform a search. On the display device, a search character string input unit that can input a character string, a search item specification unit that can arbitrarily specify a search item from a plurality of items, and a search execution specification unit that can specify search execution are displayed. A search screen display,
When the search execution is specified, a search information transmission unit that transmits the character string input to the search character string input unit and the search item specified by the search item specification unit to a karaoke device;
A search result receiving unit for receiving a search result for the search information from the karaoke device;
A search result display unit for displaying information on the music included in the search result, and a refined search designation unit capable of specifying whether or not to further refine the search;
A reserved song information transmitting unit that receives a designated reserved song from the search results and transmits the designated reserved song to the karaoke device,
When the refinement search is specified, the search screen is displayed again by the search screen display unit, and the search information transmission unit transmits the specified search information to the karaoke apparatus. The operation terminal according to claim 5, wherein the search item includes a song name, a singer name, and a part of lyrics.

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