JP2007206274A - Karaoke system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve advertisement effect by a Karaoke system which displays a background picture, when a user sings by Karaoke by letting the user enjoy Karaoke, together with a singer view contents of an advertising effect images, even while the singer is singing. <P>SOLUTION: A user selects a predetermined musical piece, by using a user ID and an image correspondence table 53 in which the selected musical piece and predetermined attribute information of respective users are related to the predetermined number of advertising effect images stored in an advertising effect image DB 43 and including the predetermined number of advertisement items is referenced to display a related advertising effect image specified, based on the selected musical piece and the predetermined attribute information to be acquired according to the user ID, as a background image. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a karaoke system that displays a background image when a user sings karaoke.

  In recent years, online karaoke facilities have spread throughout the country, and it has become possible to provide various services to users through the development of recording technology, display devices, and communication technology. . In such a karaoke system, a singing action is aroused by using the background video of the song tune, and on the other hand, the video provider is also required to improve the advertising effect on the video content by displaying the background video.

  Conventionally, there is an advertising video as a special effect in video display in a karaoke system. This advertisement video simply displays products, etc. When the karaoke user is singing, the background video of the song is displayed, and if there is time between song songs before the song selection or all It is common to display the advertisement video after the singing song ends. In view of this, the following patent document proposes to display an advertisement video even when a song is sung.

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  In Patent Document 1, a plurality of advertisement video group data is classified and stored in association with a plurality of genres and the karaoke video data is displayed on the karaoke monitor for the advertising terminal device. Is disclosed that the advertisement video data is read out from the advertisement video group data corresponding to the genre to which the karaoke video data belongs and displayed on another advertisement monitor.

  Further, in Patent Document 2, regarding a display method and system for expanded content information on a remote control unit, in addition to a video receiver, the remote control unit has a display, and an advertisement or the like is displayed on the display of the remote control unit. It is disclosed to display the information.

  However, there is a problem that a singer or a companion rarely watches only the advertisement video during the song singing or after the singing ends, and the advertisement effect tends to be reduced. As shown in the above, displaying an advertising video on a monitor or display for advertising that is different from the video display for singing is often during singing, and it is rare to watch only the advertising video. However, there is a problem that the advertising effect tends to decrease.

  Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and provides a karaoke system that improves the advertising effect by allowing a companion or other user to view the contents of the advertising effect video even while the singer is singing. With the goal.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, in the invention of claim 1, there is provided customer information storage means for storing customer information in which user attribute information and user ID are associated, and the user assigns at least the user ID. A karaoke system for identifying a music selector from the customer information storage means when a predetermined music is selected using a stored ID medium, and at least a user ID from the ID medium possessed by the user ID medium reading means for reading out, advertisement effect video storing means for storing a predetermined number of advertisement effect videos including a predetermined number of advertisement items, predetermined attribute information of the selected music piece and each user, and the advertisement effect A video correspondence table associated with the video, based on the read user ID, acquires attribute information of the user from the customer information storage means, and selects the selected And a video extraction processing means for extracting a related promotional effect video specified from the video correspondence table based on the music and predetermined attribute information from the advertising effect video storage means and displaying it as a background video. To do.

In the inventions of claims 2 to 4, “the advertising effect video stored in the advertising effect video storage means is the above-mentioned in the video related to each music for each music stored in the music storage means. It ’s a product placement video incorporating promotional items. ”
“The advertising effect video stored in the advertising effect video storage means is an advertising video of the advertising item itself related to each music for each music stored in the music storage means” ,
“In addition to the advertising effect video storage means, the music extraction means includes normal music video storage means for storing a predetermined number of normal music videos that do not include promotional items related to each music stored in the music storage means, The processing means includes a video selection means for allowing the user to select the music video or the advertising effect video, and displays the selected normal music video or the advertising effect video as a background video.

  According to the present invention, a predetermined piece of music is selected by a user using a user ID, and a predetermined number of pieces are stored in the selected piece of music, predetermined attribute information of each user, and the advertising effect video storage means. The related advertisement effect image specified based on the attribute information acquired from the selected music and the user ID with reference to the image correspondence table associated with the advertisement effect image including the predetermined number of advertisement items Can be aroused by singing as a background video, and even if the singer is singing, the advertising effect video is displayed on the display means for singing, and users such as companions Can be viewed, and the advertising effect of the advertising items included in the video can be improved.

  Hereinafter, the best embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In the present embodiment, the product placement video is described as the advertising effect video, but the same can be applied even to the advertising video of the advertising item itself related to each music stored in the music storage means. It is.

  FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a network connection status of a karaoke system according to the present invention and a block configuration diagram of a karaoke host device. FIG. 1A is a schematic diagram of a network connection status of a karaoke system according to the present invention, and FIG. 1B is a block diagram of an example of an internal configuration of a karaoke host device.

  In FIG. 1A, the karaoke host device 11 has a predetermined number of karaoke performances provided with means for singing using a user ID (user identification code) associated with predetermined information of the user via the communication network 12. The terminal 13 (13A to 13N) is managed, and the communication network 12 includes a general public telephone line, an ADSL using the same, an optical communication line or the Internet, and a LAN.

  As shown in FIG. 1B, the karaoke host apparatus 11 includes at least a transmission / reception means 21, a control means 22, a data extraction means 23, and a customer DB (customer database) 24 as customer information storage means. The customer DB 24 will be described with reference to FIG. The transmission / reception means 21 uses software such as a physical communication circuit or a platform for consistency with the communication method of the communication network 12 in order to perform communication (data exchange) with each karaoke performance terminal 13. Composed.

  The control means 22 controls the karaoke host device 11 in an integrated manner. For example, a control program is stored in a physical CPU, and the program is expanded and executed in a RAM (not shown). The data extraction means 23 extracts the user attribute information from the customer DB 24 based on, for example, the user ID, and transmits it to the corresponding karaoke performance terminal 13 via the transmission / reception means 21. It is developed and executed on a RAM or the like.

  Next, FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a karaoke performance terminal in the karaoke system according to the present invention. The karaoke performance terminal 13 shown in FIG. 2 has a karaoke device 30 as a main device, and includes a bus 31, control means 32, RAM 33, reservation management means 34, music song output means 35, reproduction control means 36, music DB ( Music database) 37, display file creation means 38, medium reading means 39 and transmission / reception means 40, 42, as appropriate, and a video extraction processing means 42 and an advertising effect video DB 43 serving as advertising effect video storage means.

  The karaoke apparatus 30 includes a display unit 44, a mixing amplifier 45, a microphone 46, a speaker 47, and a remote input / output terminal 48 that are externally connected by wire and wirelessly. An ID medium 49 corresponding to the medium reading means 39 is possessed by the user (customer). In addition, even if it is an element part which is not directly related to the summary of this invention about each said structure, in order to show that most can be applied also in the conventional karaoke apparatus, the whole apparatus is demonstrated.

  The control means 32 controls the system in an integrated manner. For example, a control program is stored in a physical CPU, and the program is expanded in the RAM 33 and executed. The RAM 33 serves as a work area for developing and executing various programs, and is a concept including, for example, a case where the RAM 33 is configured by a semiconductor memory and is virtually constructed on a hard disk.

  Here, the music DB 37 is a storage device such as a hard disk (HDD), for example, and at least music code (file) composed of performance data (file) and telop data (file) is stored. Provided as file names. The performance data (file) is digital data of the performance of each piece of music, and the telop data (file) is lyrics character data of the piece of music corresponding to the performance data.

  The reservation management means 34 stores the song code corresponding to the song name selected by the user, and sequentially selects the song code. The reservation management unit 34 has a memory area for that purpose, and the data stored in the memory area is as follows. It is controlled by the control means 32. That is, the song name, index, and the like are read from the song DB 37 and stored according to the selected song code, and the song name can be included when the reservation status is displayed. Further, the reservation management means 34 stores the advertisement effect video (file name) specified by the video extraction processing means 42 described later in association with the music code.

  The music tune output means 35 digitally reproduces the performance data extracted from the music DB 37 with the music code, converts it into an analog signal and outputs it to the mixing amplifier 45. A program for this is developed in the RAM 33 and executed. The mixing amplifier 45 mixes the singing voice of the singer input from the microphone 46 and the performance data sent from the music tune output means 35, amplifies it, and outputs it from the speaker 47.

  The reproduction control means 36 outputs the telop data (lyric character data) of the music data selected and extracted from the music DB 37 to the display means 44 in synchronism with the performance data of the music, and the video extraction described later. The advertisement effect video data specified by the processing means 42 is synchronized and output to the display means 44, and a program for this is developed in the RAM 33 and executed. The display means 44 includes, for example, a cathode ray tube (CRT) display, a liquid crystal display (LCD), a plasma display (PDP), and the like, and particularly a high-definition display is preferable for displaying an advertising effect image.

  The display file creation means 38 creates and transfers file data for displaying the lyric data for preview and the reservation contents on the remote input / output terminal 48 attached to the karaoke apparatus 30 via the transmission / reception means 40. Therefore, a program for this purpose is developed in the RAM 33 and executed. The transmission / reception means 40 is for exchanging data with the remote input / output terminal 48 using a wired system or a wireless system (such as an IR system or a Bluetooth mechanism piconet connection system). Provide a program.

  The remote input / output terminal 48 has a GUI function and includes music search means 48A. For example, a user interface for input / output in which a liquid crystal display (LCD) and a touch sensor are stacked is mounted, and data such as music selection can be input by the touch sensor. The music search means 48A includes, for example, each piece of music information for each of a new song, a singer name, a song name, a genre, and a history, and includes a table in which the song name and a song code are associated with each other. The received music code is transmitted to the reservation management means 34 via the transmission / reception means 40 to be reserved.

  The medium reading means 39 is a device that reads the ID medium 49 possessed by the user. The ID medium 49 stores at least a user ID and can freely exchange data with the medium reading means 39, for example, in a non-contact manner. Examples of the ID medium 49 include a non-contact type IC card and an IC card function circuit built in a mobile phone or a small mobile computer. The transmission / reception means 41 is for exchanging data via the karaoke apparatus 30 and the communication network 12 (particularly, acquisition of the attribute information of the user based on the user ID). 48 is used to access a predetermined Internet site, and is configured by software such as a physical communication circuit and a platform for consistency with the communication method.

  Here, the advertising effect video DB 43 stores a predetermined number of advertising effect videos including a predetermined number of advertising items in association with each music (data file) stored in the music DB 37. The advertising effect video is a product placement video in which an advertising item is incorporated in the video related to each piece of music. This product placement video has traditionally been adopted as a method for incorporating corporate products and services in the natural flow so as to harmonize with the progress of the video, movie or television or game video. It is an effective technique because it allows a user to visually recognize and accept a product or service (service) without a sense of incongruity.

  The video extraction processing unit 42 includes a user ID obtaining unit 51, a user attribute specifying unit 52, a video correspondence table 53, and a video specifying unit 54 as appropriate. The user ID acquisition means 51 acquires and stores the user ID read from the ID medium 49, and includes a program for this purpose. The user attribute specifying means 52 acquires attribute information of the user from the customer DB 24 provided in the karaoke host device 11 based on the acquired user ID, and predetermined information (pre-set in the attribute information) is acquired. For example, attribute information such as age, sex, etc.) is specified and stored, and a program for this purpose is provided.

  The video correspondence table 53 associates a music piece (music code) selected by the user with a predetermined number of related advertising effect video data (files), and the user's user is associated with the data file of the advertising effect video. Predetermined attribute information (age group and gender) is associated with the ID (described in FIG. 4). The video specifying means 54 is based on the user ID of the user specified by the user attribute specifying means 52 among the data (files) of the plurality of advertisement effect videos specified by the music (music code). Promotion effect video data (file) to be displayed as a background video on the display means 45 displaying the lyrics character data being sung with reference to the video correspondence table 53 based on predetermined attribute information (age and gender) ) And a program for that purpose.

  That is, the video extraction processing unit 42 acquires the user attribute information from the customer DB 24 based on the read user ID, and the video correspondence table based on the selected music and the predetermined attribute information. The related advertisement effect image specified from 53 is extracted from the advertisement effect image DB 43 and displayed on the display means 44 through the reproduction control means 36 as a background image.

  Although not shown, the karaoke device 30 includes a variable resistor for directly inputting the music code of the music selected by the user, buttons and knobs for performing various adjustments on the performance music and the singing voice. An operation panel directly connected to an electronic device such as the above is also connected, and the operation panel includes an echo, a left / right balance, a volume of an output volume from the speaker 47, and the like. By the way, the customer DB 24 may be provided in the karaoke device 30 or connected to the karaoke device 30. Conversely, either or both of the music DB 37 and the advertising effect video DB 43 may be provided in the karaoke host device 11 as appropriate or connected to the karaoke host device 11.

  Here, FIG. 3 illustrates an example of a customer DB included in the karaoke host device of FIG. In FIG. 3, the customer DB 24 in the karaoke host device 11 is one in which each user of each karaoke performance terminal 13 (13 </ b> A to 13 </ b> N) stores attribute information in advance as a member, for example. For example, the user ID, name, second name, postal code, address, telephone, age, and gender are included, and an image file name such as a photograph of the registrant's face is appropriately associated. Although not shown, each image file is stored in a folder provided in the customer DB 24.

  FIG. 4 illustrates an example of the video correspondence table in FIG. 4A is a conceptual diagram of the video correspondence table, and FIG. 4B is a conceptual diagram of an example showing a guideline for creating the video correspondence table of FIG. 4A. 4A, the video correspondence table 53 includes a music code corresponding to the music data (file) stored in the music DB 37 and a predetermined number of advertisement effect video data files associated with the music data. It is a correspondence table, and as the attribute information of each advertisement effect video file, for example, the age group and gender associated with the artist of the song, the age of the artist, the genre of the song, the age of listening to (or singing) the song, etc. are associated. It has been. Advertising effect video (product placement video) that incorporates promotional items related to these is created in advance with single or multiple contents corresponding to the music (music code), and the promotional effect video data (file) This is stored in the DB 43.

  In the video correspondence table 53, as shown in FIG. 4B, for example, advertising effect video data (file) created by incorporating a predetermined number of advertising target items associated with the music contents into a single or plural items. Among them, it is classified and related by the age group and gender of the user to be advertised according to the item to be advertised, and added as attribute information of the advertisement effect video file as shown in FIG. The table finally corresponds to the user attribute information (age group and gender).

  Examples of advertisement items include products (logo products themselves), services (service display logos), shops, inns / hotels, companies (signboards, etc.) or a region (-streets, town names, tourist spots, etc.) There are names (for the purpose of improving publicity), titles of performers' new songs and movies / dramas (for the purpose of improving publicity), names of the performers themselves, abbreviations, Japanese characters, etc. (for the purpose of improving publicity). The user attribute information may include regional characteristics (for example, Hokkaido, Tohoku region, Kanto region, Kansai region, Kyushu region, etc.).

  First, FIG. 5 shows a process flowchart for reading the user ID in the karaoke performance terminal of FIG. In FIG. 5, the reading of the user ID is based on the premise that the advertisement effect video is displayed as a background video at the time of singing in addition to the acquisition of the singing log and the like as before. When the user-owned ID medium is presented to the medium reading means 39 (step (S) 1), the medium reading means 39 reads at least the user ID, and the user ID obtaining means 51 of the video extraction processing means 42 is read. (S2).

  Based on the user ID stored by the user ID acquisition means 51, the user attribute specifying means 52 of the video extraction processing means 42 stores the data in the customer DB 24 from the transmission / reception means 41 to the karaoke host device 11 via the communication network 12. The attribute information related to the user ID is requested (S3). In the karaoke host device 11, the data extraction means 23 extracts the corresponding attribute information from the customer DB 24 in response to the attribute information request based on the user ID, and transmits it to the corresponding karaoke performance terminal 13.

  And when the attribute information regarding the said user ID sent out from the karaoke host apparatus 11 is received, the user attribute specific | specification means 52 of the image | video extraction process means 42 acquires the said attribute information, and memorize | stores required information ( S4). Here, as necessary information, for example, gender and age are used.

  Next, FIG. 6 shows a processing flowchart for reproducing the advertising effect video in the karaoke performance terminal of FIG. 6, first, for example, a remote input / output terminal is assumed on the assumption that necessary attribute information related to the user ID is stored in the user attribute specifying means 52 of the video extraction processing means 42 as shown in FIG. 48 (music selection means 48A) makes a music selection request in relation to the user ID by the user (S11), and when the music selection is completed (S12), the video specifying means 54 of the video extraction processing means 42 A predetermined number of advertisement effect video files are specified from the music code of the selected music with reference to the video correspondence table 53 (FIG. 4A) (S13).

  Next, based on the user ID stored in the user ID acquisition unit 51, the video identification unit 54 extracts corresponding user attribute information (age, gender) from the user attribute identification unit 52, and Among the plurality of advertising effect video files specified by the user attribute information, an adaptive advertising effect video file is specified with reference to the video correspondence table 53 (S14). The specified advertisement effect video file is stored together with the music code selected by the reservation management means 34 (S15).

  Therefore, when the music selected from the reservation order is reproduced (S16), the corresponding music data (performance data, lyric character data) is received from the music DB 37 based on the music code stored in the reservation management means 34. Performance data is sent to the music tune output means 35 and lyric character data is sent to the reproduction control means 36, and the corresponding advertisement effect video file stored is extracted from the advertisement effect video DB 43 and reproduced. It is sent to the control means 36 (S17).

  Then, the selected music data is reproduced and output from the speaker 47 via the mixing amplifier 45, and in synchronism with this, the relevant advertisement effect video data is displayed as a background video in a state of being synthesized with the lyrics character data. 44 is reproduced (S18).

  Thus, while displaying the advertising effect video, the singing action can be aroused, and even when the singer is singing, the advertising effect video is displayed as a background video on the display means 44 for singing, and the companion And the like can be viewed with high probability, and the advertising effect of the advertising items included in the video can be improved.

  Next, FIG. 7 shows an explanatory diagram of another structure for reproducing the advertising effect video in the karaoke performance terminal of FIG. FIG. 7A is a block diagram of additional components, and FIG. 7B is a processing flowchart thereof. In FIG. 7A, the karaoke apparatus 30 in the karaoke performance terminal 13 is provided with a normal music picture DB 61 separately, and the video extraction processing means 42 is provided with a video selection means 62.

  The normal music video DB 61 is a storage device such as a hard disk (HDD), and stores at least a predetermined number of normal background video data (files) of music video that does not include an advertising item associated with the music code. Speaking of the relationship with the music DB 37, when music data extracted by the music code is played back, it is played back as a background video in synchronization.

  The video selection means 62 of the video extraction processing means 42 allows the user to select a normal music video that does not include the advertising item as the background video during singing or the advertising effect video, and includes a program for that purpose. That is, the video extraction processing means 42 converts the normal music video selected by the user in the music code corresponding to the selected music or the advertising effect video specified as described above into the normal music video DB 61 or the advertising effect video DB 43. It is extracted and displayed on the display means 44 as a background video.

  7B, first, it is assumed that necessary attribute information related to the user ID is stored in the user attribute specifying unit 52 of the video extraction processing unit 42 as shown in FIG. When the output terminal 48 requests the user to select a piece of music in relation to the user ID and the selection of the piece of music is completed (S21), the background picture to be displayed is a normal music picture that does not include an advertising item, or an advertising effect. The display file creation means 38 creates a display for selecting the video and displays it on the remote input / output terminal 48 (S22).

  In the selection display (S23), when the user inputs a signal for selecting a normal music video that does not include an advertising item (S24), the reservation management means 34 selects the normal music video as the selected music code. The music name is read from the normal music video DB 61 based on the above, and the normal music video file and the music code (music name) are stored in association with each other (S25).

  On the other hand, in the selection display (S23), when the user inputs a signal for selecting the advertising effect video in which the advertising item is incorporated (S26), the reservation management means 34 selects the advertising effect video. The music name is read from the advertising effect video DB 43 based on the music code, and the advertising effect video file and the music code (music name) are stored in association with each other (S27).

  When the selected music data is reproduced, the corresponding music data is extracted from the music DB 37 and sent to the music music output means 35 and the reproduction control means 36 for reproduction, and the normal music is synchronized with the reproduction. The music video file extracted from the video DB 61 or the advertising effect video extracted from the promotional effect video DB 43 is sent to the file data playback control means 36 for playback (S28).

  In this way, it is possible to prevent the user who does not like the advertising effect video from diminishing interest in using the karaoke by allowing the user to select the normal music video that does not include the advertising item or the advertising effect video. It is something that can be done. On the other hand, when the advertising effect video is selected, the advertising effect of the advertising item can be improved as described above.

  The karaoke system of the present invention is suitable for displaying and outputting an advertisement effect image selected when a user sings karaoke.

It is the schematic diagram of the network connection situation of the karaoke system which concerns on this invention, and the block block diagram of a karaoke host apparatus. It is a block block diagram of the karaoke performance terminal in the karaoke system which concerns on this invention. It is explanatory drawing of an example of customer DB which the karaoke host apparatus of FIG. 1 has. It is explanatory drawing of an example of the image | video corresponding | compatible table of FIG. It is a process flowchart of user ID reading in the karaoke performance terminal of FIG. It is a process flowchart of advertisement effect image | video reproduction | regeneration in the karaoke performance terminal of FIG. It is explanatory drawing of the other structure of advertisement effect image | video reproduction | regeneration in the karaoke performance terminal of FIG.

Explanation of symbols

11 Karaoke host device 12 Communication network 13 Karaoke performance terminal 24 Customer DB (database)
30 Karaoke equipment 37 Music DB
42 Video extraction processing means 43 Advertising effect video DB
50 ID medium 52 User attribute specifying means 53 Video correspondence table 54 Video specifying means 61 Normal music picture DB
62 Image selection means

Claims (4)

Customer information storage means for storing customer information in which user attribute information and user ID are associated is provided, and the user selects a predetermined piece of music using an ID medium storing at least the user ID. A karaoke system that identifies the music selector from the customer information storage means,
ID medium reading means for reading at least a user ID from the ID medium possessed by the user;
Advertising effect video storage means for storing a predetermined number of advertising effect videos including a predetermined number of advertising items;
A video correspondence table in which the selected music and predetermined attribute information of each user and the advertising effect video are associated with each other is provided, and based on the read user ID, the customer information storage unit stores the user's information. A video for acquiring attribute information, extracting a related promotional effect video specified from the video correspondence table based on the selected music piece and the predetermined attribute information from the promotional effect video storage means and displaying it as a background video Extraction processing means;
A karaoke system characterized by comprising:   2. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein the advertising effect video stored in the advertising effect video storage means is included in a video related to each music for each music stored in the music storage means. A karaoke system characterized by being a product placement video in which the advertising item is incorporated.   2. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein the advertising effect video stored in the advertising effect video storage means is associated with each music for each music stored in the music storage means. A karaoke system characterized by its own advertising video. It is a karaoke system in any one of Claims 1-3,
In addition to the advertising effect video storage means, the music composition storage means includes normal music video storage means for storing a predetermined number of normal music videos that do not include advertising items related to each music stored in the music storage means,
The video extraction processing means includes video selection means for allowing the user to select the music video or the advertising effect video, and displays the selected normal music video or the advertising effect video as a background video. Karaoke system.

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