JP2007148155A - Karaoke system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a karaoke system made capable of playing karaoke musical pieces by displaying on a screen such as a monitor or the like data from musical pieces (hereafter called a cable musical piece) made to flow from a loudspeaker through a cable broadcast between karaoke musical pieces requested by users, and choosing a karaoke musical piece, which a user desires to sing on this display, from the cable musical pieces, and making a request to the karaoke equipment, in the karaoke system arranged to use musical pieces broadcast as BGM through the cable broadcast. <P>SOLUTION: In the karaoke system arranged so as to make a musical piece being broadcast through the cable broadcast flow as BGM, when the karaoke system is not playing a musical piece requested by the user, the musical pieces being broadcast then through the cable broadcast are made to flow from an audio part of the karaoke system, and the musical piece data such as at least one or more music names of the musical pieces being broadcast are displayed on the display screen such as the monitor, while the karaoke system enables the user to choose a karaoke musical piece to request from the musical piece data of the cable broadcast displayed on the screen. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a karaoke system. Specifically, when the karaoke system is used, after the song requested by the user is sung, until the next user's requested song is played or played (hereinafter simply referred to as performance), or a request from the user. When the BGM (background music) played while there is no performance of the requested karaoke song, such as while the music is interrupted for a while, is a song by cable broadcast, the display screen provided with the song of the cable broadcast by the karaoke system The song data such as the song name is displayed on the screen of the monitor or the remote control device, while the user designates the wired broadcast song displayed on the screen as it is and designates it as the karaoke request song for the karaoke system. It relates to a karaoke system that can be used.

  The karaoke system can store karaoke data such as a large number of music data supplied from outside and wired or wirelessly and image data as the background of the karaoke data, as well as the karaoke music data supply source. Karaoke data or a karaoke machine capable of selecting and extracting a desired song from the data stored in the storage unit as a requested song for karaoke, performance of the extracted song data, and user singing input from a microphone An audio unit including an amplifier, a speaker, a microphone, and the like for mixing and outputting an audio signal; a monitor screen for displaying a background image and lyrics associated with the music while the music (hereinafter referred to as karaoke music) is played; and the karaoke Search and select music stored in the machine and music stored in the karaoke data supplier And it is configured from, such as the hand of a remote control operation which performs music of reservations and playback order of settings such as via a radio.

  Conventionally, in the known karaoke system as described above, when a karaoke piece is not played, such as when the user's request is interrupted, BGM is played from the speaker and an appropriate video is displayed on the monitor. The BGM sometimes reproduces music dedicated to BGM built in a karaoke machine, but there is also a form in which a wired broadcast broadcast at that time is played from a speaker.

  In the karaoke system, when each user decides what song to sing in karaoke, the song name may be forgotten or the song you want to sing cannot be decided without remembering the song's idea and image. May be difficult.

  In this way, in order to make up for the time during which the requested song of karaoke is interrupted, finding the song you want to sing in the BGM that is played as an interlude is to teach a rule of thumb. However, since it has been played as BGM in the past, there is a problem that even if the melody is known, the karaoke machine cannot be requested unless the song title is known.

  Therefore, in the present invention, in a karaoke system that uses a song broadcast as BGM in a cable broadcast, from a song (hereinafter referred to as a “wired song”) that is played from a speaker by a cable broadcast between karaoke songs requested by a user. Providing a karaoke system that allows the user to select a karaoke piece to be sung from a wired piece of music and to request and play it from a karaoke machine. Is an issue.

  The structure of the karaoke system of the present invention made for the purpose of solving the above-mentioned problems is that the karaoke system plays the music requested by the user in the karaoke system in which music broadcasted by cable broadcasting is played by BGM. When there is not, the music broadcast at that time is played from the audio part of the karaoke system in the cable broadcasting, and the music data such as at least one song name of the music broadcast by wire is displayed on a display screen such as a monitor. On the other hand, the user can select a requested song for karaoke from the music data of the cable broadcast displayed on the screen.

  In the karaoke system of the present invention, there are a type in which a receiving tuner for cable broadcasting is built in a karaoke machine, or a type in which a tuner is externally attached to a karaoke machine.

  In the system of the present invention, when the karaoke music requested from the karaoke machine is not played, the signal of the wired music from the cable broadcasting tuner is automatically switched to become the input signal of the audio unit by the signal selection unit.

  In the present invention, in a karaoke system in which music broadcasted by cable broadcasting is played by BGM, when the karaoke system is not playing the music requested by the user, the music currently broadcast by cable broadcasting is While playing from the audio part of the karaoke system and displaying music data such as at least one music name of the music being broadcast on a display screen such as a monitor, the user can display the music data of the cable broadcast displayed on the screen. Since it is a karaoke system that allows the user to select the requested karaoke song, the user can select the karaoke song that the user wants to sing from among the wired songs that are played as BGM when the karaoke song does not flow. There are more choices for selecting the music you want to request, which is extremely reasonable and convenient. It is possible to provide a Raoke system.

  Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a first example of the karaoke system of the present invention with a built-in cable broadcast tuner, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the second example of the same, and FIG. 3 is a karaoke system of the present invention with an external cable broadcast tuner. FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a karaoke system provided with a conventional cable broadcasting tuner, and FIG. 5 is a chart illustrating a correspondence relationship between a song name code of a wired song and a song name code of a karaoke song.

  In the karaoke system with the conventional wired broadcast tuner illustrated in FIG. 4, switching between the karaoke system operation and the cable broadcast operation is performed manually or between the control unit of the karaoke machine and the cable broadcast tuner. It was just an automatic switching by exchanging signals.

  That is, in FIG. 4, 10 is a karaoke machine. When data of karaoke music including video data is supplied from the karaoke line 12 to the control unit 12 connected to the karaoke line 11, the control unit 12 is supplied. Video data including lyric display is supplied to the display unit 13 from the data of the karaoke music, and music data mainly composed of the performance content excluding the video data is supplied to the performance unit 14, and each supplied signal is monitored ( (Not shown) and a karaoke machine audio output unit 16 including an amplifier, a speaker and a microphone, so that a karaoke performance is performed. Various command signals for the control unit 12 including selection of karaoke music are input to the control unit 12 when the user operates the wireless remote controller 17.

On the other hand, the wired broadcast tuner 18 provided is connected to a wired broadcast line 19 so that an audio frequency signal of wired music is output to the wired broadcast audio output unit 20 including an amplifier and a speaker.
Switching between karaoke performance and cable broadcasting by the karaoke system is not shown, but manual switching by operation of the remote controller 17 or a performance of karaoke music, for example, is set in advance for a separate switching amplifier. When a pause occurs for a predetermined time, the switching amplifier detects the time and automatically switches to cable broadcasting.

  Thus, in the conventional karaoke system, even if the cable broadcasting tuner 18 is provided, the karaoke machine requested by the user from the karaoke machine is simply switched between the performance of the requested karaoke music and the wired music by the cable broadcasting. It is not actively used as music selection information.

  Therefore, in the present invention, as illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 3, the music data of the cable broadcast supplied to the cable broadcast tuner built in the karaoke machine in the karaoke system, that is, the data of the cable music is stored in the audio output unit. At the same time as playing from the speaker, the song title and lyrics of the wired song or the song data of the composer and songwriter are displayed on the monitor of the video output unit and the display unit of the remote controller. This is the first feature of the present invention.

  Furthermore, in the present invention, the displayed wired music data and the karaoke music data are associated with each other by a code corresponding to each music, and the request for the karaoke music is directly obtained from the displayed wired music data. This is the second feature of the present invention. Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

  That is, in FIG. 1, 0 is a karaoke machine. When data of karaoke music including video data is supplied from the karaoke line 1 to the control unit 2 connected to the karaoke line 1, the control unit 2 is supplied. The video data including the lyric display is supplied to the display unit 3 and the performance data mainly composed of the performance contents excluding the video data is supplied to the performance unit 4, and the supplied signals are monitored ( The karaoke music performance is output to the video output unit 5 (not shown) and the audio output unit 6 having a microphone including an amplifier and a speaker, so that the known karaoke shown in FIG. Common to the system. 4 is also common to the example of FIG. 4 in that various command signals to the control unit 2 including the selection of karaoke music are input to the control unit 2 when the user operates the wireless remote controller 7. ing.

However, the point that the performance unit 4 is connected to the audio output unit 6 via the signal selection unit 6A and that the signal selection unit 6A is controlled by the control unit 2 is the embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. This is a unique configuration.
The wired broadcast tuner 8 incorporated in the karaoke machine 0 is connected to the wired broadcast circuit 9, and its output is connected to the signal selection unit 6A and is connected to the audio output unit 6 through this unit 6A. This is a configuration unique to the example of FIG. That is, the audio output unit 6 adopts a configuration in which the audio output of the performance of the karaoke music and the audio output of the cable music by the cable broadcast are switched and shared via the signal selection unit 6A.

  In the karaoke system of the present invention adopting the configuration of FIG. 1 described above, it is possible to arbitrarily select the performance of the karaoke music and the cable broadcasting by operating and controlling the control unit 2 in the remote controller 7. Wired broadcasting is automatically selected according to the performance stop time of the karaoke music set as appropriate, and the wired music can be played from the speaker of the audio output unit 6, and at the same time, at least the name of the currently playing wired music , Lyrics and other wired music data are supplied from the tuner 8 to the display unit 3 via the control unit 2 and displayed on the monitor of the video output unit 5 and the display screen of the remote controller 7.

  The display of the data of the wired music is not only the name of the music of the current wired music, the name of the music of the wired music that was played before that, Data may be displayed simultaneously. This is because the music data of the cable broadcast is set in advance on the broadcast station side before the broadcast, so the music data such as the broadcast time and the song title can be taken in the control unit 2 before the broadcast. This is because the music data after the broadcast can be left in the control unit 2. The wired music is preferably music with lyrics, but may be wired music without lyrics.

  2 is an application example of the karaoke system of the present invention illustrated in FIG. 1. In this example, the karaoke line 1 and the cable broadcasting line 9 in FIG. 1 are connected by the same line 1A (the karaoke line 1 in the example in the figure). Karaoke music data and wired music data are placed on the same line 1A and supplied to the control unit 2 of the karaoke machine 0.

  However, since the data of karaoke music and the data of wired music are the same type of video signal and audio signal, here the wired music data is encoded (encrypted) so that both music data are not confused, and the control unit The wired music data encoded in 2 is separated and sent to the decoding unit (decoder) 8A. The wire broadcast music data decoded by the decoder 8A is supplied to the tuner 8, and the output of the tuner 8 is supplied to the signal selector 6A.

  Therefore, when a specific song for karaoke is selected by operating the remote controller 7, the karaoke song is extracted by the control unit 2, and the karaoke song is played by the song data. At this time, the content is displayed on the monitor of the video output unit 5 based on the predetermined video signal, and the voice signal of the karaoke performance and the user's song is output from the speaker of the audio output unit 6 as in the example of FIG. However, when the karaoke performance and the cable broadcasting are manually switched from the remote controller 7 or when the karaoke performance is automatically switched to the cable broadcasting because there is no karaoke performance for a predetermined time, the music data of the cable broadcasting is obtained. Is sent to the control unit 2 through the shared karaoke line 1A in an encrypted state, separated from the karaoke piece data, and decrypted by the decoder (decryption unit) 8A and sent to the tuner 8. This is different from the first example.

  The example of FIG. 3 is a third example of the karaoke system of the present invention that has an equivalent operation to the karaoke system of the present invention of FIGS. is there.

  In the karaoke system of FIG. 3, the control unit 2 of the karaoke machine 0 controls the on / off of the tuner 8 of the cable broadcast, and when the tuner 8 is switched to ON, the wired music data input to the tuner 8 is controlled. Part, specifically, data such as song titles and lyrics are taken into the control unit 2 and the fetched data is output to the video output unit 5 via the display unit 3, and the song titles are displayed on the monitor or the remote controller 7. A control unit (not shown) to be displayed on the screen is attached in the control unit 2. This point is basically the same in the first example and the second example described above, only by whether or not the tuner 8 is incorporated or whether or not there is a decoder 8A. The difference is that the music data of the cable broadcast is output from the speaker of the audio output unit 10 dedicated to the cable broadcast.

  In the present invention, when wired music data is output from the audio output unit 6 or 10, the music data such as the music name is displayed on the monitor of the video output unit 5 or the display screen of the remote controller 7. When the user who sees the display of the song name of the wired song, etc., selects the song name of the karaoke song by operating the remote controller 7, this is designated as the requested song of the karaoke song. 2 is set in the control unit 2.

  That is, in the chord correspondence conversion table of FIG. 5, the code Uc indicating the name of the cable broadcast song listed on the left side is associated with the song name code Kc of the karaoke song listed on the right side of FIG. 5 in a one-to-one relationship. For example, when a wired song that is now played as a wired song from the speaker and the song name or the like is displayed on the display screen is clicked (designated) on the display screen of the remote controller 7, the corresponding karaoke song is displayed. The song name code is selected in the control unit 2 and is set in the control unit 2 so that the selected song is selected and designated as a karaoke song.

  As a result, if there is a song you want to sing in the wired music that flows from the speaker while the karaoke music is paused, you can simply click on a portion of the displayed wired music data, such as the song name. It becomes possible to sing the karaoke music by selecting and specifying the music.

  As described above, in the present invention, song data such as a song name of a wired song as BGM that flows from a speaker during the performance of a karaoke song is displayed on a display unit of a monitor or a remote controller, and the song with the displayed song name is displayed. If there is a song that the user wants to sing, the request song of the karaoke song is designated simply by designating the display song name from the remote controller, so the BGM that is broadcast by wire is requested for karaoke. It is possible to provide a karaoke system that is easy and convenient to use as one of the song choices, and that has user-friendliness and convenience that is not available in conventional karaoke systems.

The block diagram which showed the 1st example of this invention karaoke system which incorporated the cable broadcasting tuner. The block diagram which showed the 2nd example similarly. The block diagram of the 3rd example of this invention karaoke system with an external cable broadcasting tuner. A block diagram of a karaoke system with a conventional cable broadcasting tuner. The figure which illustrated the correspondence of the song name code of a wired music, and the song name code of a karaoke music.

Explanation of symbols

0 karaoke machine 1 karaoke line 2 control unit 3 display unit 4 performance unit 5 video output unit 6 audio output unit 7 remote control operator 8 tuner 9 cable broadcasting line
10 Audio output section

Claims (4)

  In a karaoke system in which music broadcasted by cable broadcasting is played by BGM, when the karaoke system is not playing the music requested by the user, the music broadcast at that time by the cable broadcasting is the audio of the karaoke system. The music data such as at least one song name of the music broadcast on the cable is displayed on the display screen such as a monitor while the user requests the karaoke from the music data of the cable broadcast displayed on the screen. A karaoke system characterized by the ability to select songs.   2. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein the cable broadcasting reception tuner is of a type built in the karaoke machine or a type externally attached to the karaoke machine.   When the music requested from the karaoke machine is not played, it is detected and the music signal from the cable broadcasting tuner is automatically switched to the input signal of the audio section by the signal selection section, and the music data output from the tuner The karaoke system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein at least a song name is displayed on a display unit such as a monitor. The karaoke system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the music data including a cable broadcast song name displayed on a display unit such as a monitor corresponds to the song name of the karaoke song data stored in the storage unit of the karaoke machine. .

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