JP2013045131A - Information communication device, information communication program and telecommunication system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent web-access by many and unspecific users to a desired phrase which is a target of right protection such as a copyright through transmitting, to a server, location information indicating a location where a desired phrase in a musical lyric is arranged, and to provide an information communication device and a telecommunication system capable of allowing a specific user to display the desired phrase on a display unit, through obtaining the location information from the server, according to the location information.SOLUTION: A transmission side display terminal 20A transmits location information indicating a location of a desired phrase in a displayed musical lyric to a server. A reception side display terminal 20B obtains the location information from the server, generates display information for displaying the desired phrase according to the location information, and displays the desired phrase on a display unit 21.

Description

  The present invention relates to an information communication apparatus, an information communication program, and information capable of transmitting information related to a lyrics desired by a user among lyrics of music to a shared website or receiving information related to a lyrics from the shared website. The present invention relates to a communication system.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a music playback system has been proposed in which lyrics text corresponding to the music being played is distributed to a user's mobile phone in a streaming manner. For example, Patent Literature 1 discloses a technique in which lyrics text of a song that a user is listening to is transmitted to a user's website by a streaming method and stored. By using this technique, other users can access the user's website and see the text of the lyrics of the song that the user is currently listening to.

JP 2009-175739 A

  Here, a website for storing lyrics text can be transmitted and stored by an unspecified number of users, and the stored lyrics text can be browsed. Consider the case. If the lyrics text of a song is transmitted and stored on such a shared website without restriction, the stored lyrics can be viewed by an unspecified number of users. However, the lyrics text of a song is often a subject that should be protected by copyright. For this reason, it is not appropriate from the viewpoint of copyright protection that the lyrics text itself be viewed on the shared website without restriction.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems. It is an object of the present invention to send a position information indicating a position where a desired lyrics is arranged in the lyrics of a song to a server, so that an unspecified number of users can be protected for copyrights and other rights. Prevents you from browsing the lyrics of the website. On the other hand, it is to provide an information communication apparatus and an information communication system in which a specific user can display a desired word on a display unit based on position information by acquiring position information from a server. .

  The information communication device according to claim 1 is an information communication device that communicates information with a server, and is designated by a designation unit that designates a desired lyrics in the lyrics of a song, and the designation unit. A position information generating unit that generates position information indicating a position where the desired lyrics are arranged in the lyrics, and a transmission that transmits the position information generated by the position information generating unit to the server. And a section.

  The information communication apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a display unit that displays the lyrics, wherein the designation unit is a starting point of an array range in which the desired lyrics are arranged in the lyrics displayed on the display unit. The position information generation unit generates the position information indicating the positions of the start point and the end point specified by the specification unit.

  The information communication apparatus according to claim 3, in order to synchronize the performance of the music and the display of the lyrics, the time information indicating the elapsed time from the start of the performance of the music, the lyrics information indicating the characters or phrases constituting the lyrics, Is stored in association with each other, and the position information generation unit is associated with lyrics information indicating a character or a phrase arranged at each position of the start point and the end point specified by the specification unit. The time information is read from the storage unit and generated as the position information, and the transmission unit transmits the time information generated by the position information generation unit to the server. .

  5. The information communication apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the server is connected to a server via a network connected to a transmission apparatus that transmits position information indicating a position where a desired lyrics is arranged in the lyrics of the music to the server. An information communication device that communicates information between the display unit, an acquisition unit that acquires the position information from the server, and the desired lyrics based on the position information acquired by the acquisition unit. An information generation unit that generates display information for display, and a display control unit that displays the desired lyrics on the display unit in accordance with display information from the information generation unit. .

  In order to synchronize the performance of the music and the display of the lyrics, the information communication device according to claim 5 includes time information indicating an elapsed time from the start of the performance of the music, and lyrics information indicating a character or a phrase constituting the lyrics. The lyric information acquisition unit includes a lyric information indicating a character or a phrase arranged at each position of a start point and an end point where desired lyrics are arranged in the lyrics of the music The time information indicating the elapsed time from the start of performance of the music is acquired as the position information, and the information generation unit is configured to acquire the time information acquired by the lyrics information acquisition unit. The display information is generated based on lyrics information associated with time information that matches the time information acquired by the acquisition unit.

  The information communication device according to claim 6 is an information communication device that communicates information with a server, the display unit, a designation unit that designates a desired lyrics in the lyrics of the music, and the designation A position information generating unit that generates position information indicating a position where the desired lyrics specified by the unit are arranged in the lyrics; and the position information generated by the position information generating unit, Information generation that generates display information for displaying the desired lyrics based on the position information acquired by the acquisition unit, and an acquisition unit that acquires the position information from the server And a display control unit for displaying the desired lyrics on the display unit in accordance with display information from the information generation unit.

  The information communication program according to claim 7 is an information communication program executed by a computer that controls an information communication device that communicates information with a server, and specifies a desired lyrics in the lyrics of a song A receiving step for receiving an instruction to perform, a position information generating step for generating position information indicating a position where the desired lyrics are arranged in the lyrics when the instruction is received by the receiving step, and the position A transmission step of transmitting the position information generated in the information generation step to the server is caused to be executed by a computer.

  9. The information communication program according to claim 8, wherein the server and the server are connected via a network connected to a transmitting device that transmits to the server position information indicating a position where a desired lyrics is arranged in the lyrics of the music. Is an information communication program that is executed by a computer that controls an information communication device including a display unit, and obtains the position information from the server, and the obtaining step An information generating step for generating display information for displaying the desired lyrics based on the position information acquired by the method, and the desired lyrics on the display unit according to the display information generated by the information generating step. The display control step to be displayed is executed by a computer.

  The information communication system according to claim 9 is an information communication system comprising a server and first and second information communication devices that communicate information with the server, wherein the first information communication device is a song lyrics. A designation unit for designating a desired lyrics, a position information generation unit for generating position information indicating a position where the desired lyrics designated by the designation unit are arranged in the lyrics, A transmission unit that transmits the position information generated by the position information generation unit to the server, and the second information communication device acquires a position information from the display unit and the server. And an information generating unit that generates display information for displaying the desired lyrics based on the position information acquired by the acquiring unit, and the desired lyrics according to display information from the information generating unit. Display on display A display control unit which is characterized in that comprises a.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, when a desired word is designated by the designation unit from the lyrics of the music, the position information generating unit generates position information indicating the arrangement position of the desired word. The generated position information is transmitted to the server. As a result, even if the designated desired lyrics are to be protected by copyright, the desired lyrics are not transmitted to the server as they are. Therefore, the user of the information communication device can transmit the position information to the server without worrying about copyright issues such as copyright. Although an unspecified number of users cannot browse the desired lyrics as they are on the website managed by the server, by browsing the transmitted location information, the user of the information communication apparatus can find the desired lyrics. You can know that it exists.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, the start point and end point of the array range in which desired lyrics are arrayed are specified by the specifying unit, and the position information indicating the positions of the specified start point and end point is transmitted to the server. The With the configuration in which the designating unit designates the start point and end point of the desired lyrics from the lyrics of the music, the range of the desired lyrics can be designated accurately.

  According to the invention described in claim 3, the designation unit designates the start point and the end point of the desired lyrics in the lyrics. Then, time information associated with the lyric information indicating the character or phrase arranged at each position of the designated start point and end point is read from the storage unit and generated as position information. Time information as position information is transmitted to the server. Since the time information is associated with each character or phrase of the lyrics, the user of the information communication device can finely specify the arrangement range of the desired lyrics using the time information.

  According to the fourth aspect of the invention, display information for displaying a desired word is generated based on the position information acquired from the server. Then, according to the generated display information, a desired lyrics is displayed on the display unit. The user of the information communication device acquires position information from the server. As a result, even if the desired lyrics displayed on the display unit according to the display information is a subject to be protected by copyright, the desired lyrics in the lyrics of the music can be obtained without worrying about copyright issues such as copyright. Can be displayed on the display unit.

  According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, the acquisition unit acquires time information related to characters or phrases arranged at respective positions of the start point and the end point of a desired lyrics. The lyric information acquisition unit acquires the lyric information indicating the characters or phrases constituting the lyrics of the music and the time information in association with each other. The lyric information is associated with time information indicating an elapsed time from the start of the performance of the music played in synchronization with the lyrics. Thereby, display information can be generated based on the lyrics information associated with the time information that matches the time information acquired by the acquisition unit in the time information acquired by the lyrics information acquisition unit. Moreover, since the time information is associated with the lyrics information indicating the character or phrase of the desired lyrics, the arrangement range of the desired lyrics is accurately specified based on the time information acquired from the server as the position information. Display information to be displayed can be generated.

  According to the sixth aspect of the invention, when a desired word is designated by the designation unit from the lyrics of the music, position information indicating the position of the desired word is generated by the position information generation unit. The generated position information is transmitted to the server. Further, display information for displaying a desired lyrics of the lyrics of the music is generated based on the position information acquired from the server. Then, according to the generated display information, the desired lyrics of the music are displayed on the display unit. As a result, even if the specified desired lyrics are to be protected by copyright, the user of the information communication apparatus can enjoy the desired desired lyrics without worrying about copyright issues such as copyright. Can be sent to the server. Further, by browsing the position information on the website of the server, it can be known that there is a desired lyrics that other users like. When a user of an information communication device learns the existence of a desired lyrics on a website, the user can obtain the desired lyrics from the lyrics of the music based on the location information by acquiring the location information from the server, such as a copyright. It can be displayed without worrying about rights issues.

  According to the seventh aspect of the present invention, when a desired word is designated by the designation unit from the lyrics of the music, position information indicating the position of the desired word is generated by the position information generation unit. The generated position information is transmitted to the server. Therefore, even if the specified desired lyrics are to be protected by copyright, many unspecified users liked other users by browsing the location information on the website managed by the server You can know that the desired lyrics are present.

  According to the eighth aspect of the invention, display information for displaying a desired lyrics of the lyrics of the music is generated based on the position information acquired from the server. Then, according to the generated display information, the desired lyrics of the music are displayed on the display unit. As a result, even if the desired lyrics displayed on the display unit according to the display information is a target to be protected by copyright, the user of the information communication device does not have to worry about copyright issues such as copyright, By acquiring the position information from the server, the desired lyrics in the lyrics of the music can be displayed on the display unit based on the position information.

  According to the ninth aspect of the present invention, in the first information communication device, when a desired word is designated by the designation unit from the lyrics of the music, the position information indicating the position of the desired word by the position information generation unit Is generated. The generated position information is transmitted to the server. In the second information communication device, display information for displaying a desired word is generated based on the position information acquired from the server. Then, according to the generated display information, a desired lyrics is displayed on the display unit. As a result, even if the designated desired lyrics are to be protected by copyright, the desired lyrics are not transmitted to the server as they are. Therefore, the user of the first information communication device can transmit the position information to the server without worrying about rights issues such as copyright. In addition, even if the designated desired lyrics are to be protected by copyright, an unspecified number of users including the user of the second information communication device browse the location information on the website managed by the server. . Thereby, it can be known that there is a desired lyrics that the user of the first information communication apparatus likes. The user of the second information communication device who knows the presence of the desired lyrics on the website obtains the position information from the server without worrying about the copyright issue or the like, so that the music based on the position information can be obtained. The desired lyrics in the lyrics can be displayed.

1 is a system configuration diagram showing an overall configuration of a lyrics sharing system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is an external view which shows the example of a display of the display 21 which displays various characters in the display terminal 20. FIG. It is a sequence diagram which shows the flow of the information communicated between the transmission side display terminal 20A, the reception side display terminal 20B, the web server 40 of a shared website, and the lyrics management server 50. 3 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of the display terminal 20. FIG. In this embodiment, it is explanatory drawing which shows the memory content of the lyric character information storage area 51 which memorize | stores the lyric character information D1. It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence of the music reproduction display program which 20 A of transmission side display terminals perform. It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence of the reception display program which the receiving side display terminal 20B performs.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment in which the information communication system of the present invention is applied to a lyrics sharing system that transmits and receives song lyrics will be described. In the lyrics sharing system, a display terminal, a shared website server, and a lyrics management server are connected via a network such as the Internet. The display terminal is a mobile terminal device such as a smartphone, and can communicate with a web server of a shared website viewed by many people. The display terminal can transmit lyrics position information indicating the position of a part of the lyrics of the desired music to the web server in order for the user to share a part of the lyrics of the desired music with other users. The shared website is a community type website. In this embodiment, a networking service called a “miniblog” such as “Twitter” (registered trademark) or the like, in which a large number of unspecified users post short sentences, will be described as an example of the shared website. The display terminal is communicably connected to the lyrics management server. The lyrics management server is a server managed by a service provider, and stores a large amount of lyrics information for displaying lyrics of music on the display of the display terminal. The display terminal displays some characters of the lyrics of the music on the display using the position information received from the web server of the shared website and the lyrics information received from the lyrics management server. Hereinafter, the present embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings.

[Configuration of the embodiment]
(Overall configuration of lyrics sharing system 1)
FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing the overall configuration of the lyrics sharing system 1 of the present embodiment. The lyrics sharing system 1 includes a plurality of display terminals 20, a lyrics management server 50, and a web server 40 of a shared website. The plurality of display terminals 20 are connected to the web server 40 and the lyrics management server 50 via a network, and each display terminal transmits information between each server and other display terminals via the network. Send and receive. The lyrics management server 50 stores a large amount of lyrics character information D1 for displaying lyrics on the display terminal 20 in correspondence with a large number of songs. Details of the lyrics character information D1 will be described later. The display terminal 20 acquires lyric character information D1 about the lyrics of the music desired by the user from the lyric management server 50.

  The web server 40 receives a post message desired by the user from the display terminal 20. The posted message includes lyrics position information indicating the position of a part of the lyrics of the music desired by the user, which will be described later, and comments input by the user to the display terminal 20. The web server 40 accumulates post messages received from the plurality of display terminals 20. The display terminal 20 downloads the posted message from the web server 40 by transmitting a request for acquiring the posted message stored in the web server 40 to the web server 40. In the present embodiment, the display terminal 20 that transmits a posted message to the web server 40 is a transmission-side display terminal 20A, and the display terminal 20 that downloads a posted message from the web server 40 is a reception-side display terminal 20B. . The description common to both the transmission-side display terminal 20A and the reception-side display terminal 20B will be referred to as the display terminal 20 and will be described below.

(Display screen of display terminal)
2A to 2F are external views showing display contents on the screen of the display terminal 20. The display terminal 20 includes a touch panel type display 21. Three operation buttons 21 a to 21 c are displayed on the display 21 of the display terminal 20. The functions assigned to the buttons 21a to 21c are determined by the software program according to the contents displayed on the display 21. For example, the operation button 21c functions as a comment button in the display contents of the screen shown in FIGS. 2B and 2C, and the send button in the display contents of the screen shown in FIG. Function as. FIG. 2A to FIG. 2D are diagrams illustrating examples of display contents on the display 21 of the transmission-side display terminal 20A. The transmission-side display terminal 20A has a music playback function, and displays the lyrics of the music to be played on the display 21. FIGS. 2E and 2F are diagrams illustrating examples of display contents on the display 21 of the reception-side display terminal 20B. The receiving-side display terminal 20B displays a plurality of posted messages downloaded from the web server 40 on the display 21.

  1 to 3, communication is performed between the transmission-side display terminal 20A, the reception-side display terminal 20B, the web server 40, and the lyrics management server 50 that constitute the lyrics sharing system 1 of the present embodiment. Explain the information. The display contents displayed on each display 21 of the transmission side display terminal 20A and the reception side display terminal 20B will be described with reference to FIG. 2A to FIG. 2A to 2D are transition diagrams showing display contents on the display 21 of the transmission side display terminal 20A. When the user selects a part of the lyrics displayed on the display 21, the transmission side display terminal 20A displays information indicating a part of the selected lyrics. The post message is transmitted to the web server 40 together with the comment input by the user. FIGS. 2E and 2F are diagrams showing display contents on the display 21 of the receiving display terminal 20B that downloads and displays a posted message from the web server 40. FIG. The difference in display contents on the display 21 between the reception side display terminal 20B shown in FIG. 2E and the reception side display terminal 20B shown in FIG. 2F will be described later. FIG. 3 is a sequence diagram illustrating a flow of information communicated in the transmission side display terminal 20A, the reception side display terminal 20B, the web server 40, and the lyrics management server 50.

  When the display-side display terminal 20A reproduces the music “pasta” by the music reproduction function, as shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 3, the lyrics management server 50 acquires the lyrics character information D1 of the music “pasta”. A1 is transmitted. Then, the transmission-side display terminal 20A downloads the lyric character information D1 of the song “pasta” requested by the lyric acquisition request A1 from the lyric management server 50, as shown in FIGS.

  The transmission-side display terminal 20A displays the lyrics on the display 21 in accordance with the lyrics character information D1 of the song “pasta” downloaded from the lyrics management server 50. FIG. 2A shows a state where the lyrics of the song “pasta” are displayed on the display 21 when the song “pasta” is reproduced. When the user of the transmission side display terminal 20A wants to transmit the text of the lyrics displayed on the display 21 to the web server 40 of the shared website, the user operates the posting button 21a.

  When the user operates the posting button 21a, a cursor 21d is displayed on the display 21 of the transmission side display terminal 20A as shown in FIG. The transmission-side display terminal 20A is in a state in which the user can select the text of the lyrics displayed by the cursor 21d. For example, when the user touches the display position of the text “far” displayed on the display 21, as shown in FIG. 2B, the cursor 21 d moves to the display position of the touched character “far”. The character “Far” is displayed in a shaded state. As a result, the character “far” is selected.

  The user selects a plurality of characters from the displayed lyrics and confirms the selected characters. For example, in FIG. 2B, the user touches the cursor 21d placed at the character “far”, and the character “far” is displayed continuously. And the cursor 21d is moved to the character “RI”. As a result, as shown in FIG. 2 (C), a part of the text of the lyrics “I want to go far and deeply” is displayed in a shaded state on the display 21 and selected. It becomes. When the selected character is a character to be transmitted to the web server 40 of the shared website, the user operates the designation button 21e. The designation button 21e is a button displayed on the display 21 when two or more characters are selected. When the designation button 21e is operated by the user, the selected character is confirmed.

  The user of the transmission-side display terminal 20A adds a comment to the selected lyric character and creates a posted message to be transmitted to the web server 40 of the shared website. In FIG. 2C, the user operates the comment button 21c after confirming the selected character. When the comment button 21c is operated, a character input key 21f is displayed on the display 21 of the transmission side display terminal 20A as shown in FIG. The user touches the character corresponding to the character input key 21f, inputs a desired character, and adds a comment. When the input of characters is completed, the user operates the transmission button 21c displayed on the display 21 shown in FIG.

  When the transmission side display terminal 20A detects that the transmission button 21c is operated, the transmission side display terminal 20A displays the elapsed time from the start of the music reproduction for the first character and the last character of a part of the character string of the designated lyrics. Ask. In the lyrics character information D1 downloaded from the lyrics management server 50 by the transmission-side display terminal 20A, the elapsed time from the playback start point of the music is associated with each character of the lyrics. A method for obtaining the elapsed time corresponding to the first character and the last character of the designated lyrics will be described later.

  Then, the transmission side display terminal 20A creates a posted message. The posted message includes the song name of the lyrics displayed on the display 21, the lyrics ID for identifying the song lyrics, the start time Ts indicating the elapsed time corresponding to the first character, and the elapsed time corresponding to the last character. The end point time Te shown, the lyrics tag indicating that the lyrics are indicated by the elapsed time of reproduction of the music, and the comment input by the character input key 21f are included. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the transmission side display terminal 20A transmits the created post message A2 to the web server 40 of the shared website. The web server 40 stores post messages transmitted from a large number of display terminals 20.

  On the other hand, the receiving side display terminal 20 </ b> B acquires a posted message from the web server 40 and displays it on the display 21. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the reception-side display terminal 20 </ b> B transmits a message acquisition request B <b> 1 for acquiring a plurality of posted messages to the web server 40. And the receiving side display terminal 20B downloads the posting message B2 corresponding to the message acquisition request B1 from the web server 40, as shown in FIG.1 and FIG.3.

  FIG. 2E and FIG. 2F are diagrams illustrating display examples of the display 21 on which the posting message acquired by the reception-side display terminal 20B from the web server 40 is displayed. In the present embodiment, a case where the receiving display terminal 20B downloads the posted message B2 from the web server 40 will be described as an example. Specifically, the posted message B2 includes a song name “pasta”, a lyrics ID “12345 #” that identifies the song lyrics, a start time Ts “10:00”, and an end time Te “1:19”. , The lyrics tag “#Lyrics”, and the comment “Nice rust.”.

  When the posted message B2 is downloaded from the web server 40, the receiving side display terminal 20B shown in FIG. 2E does not hold the lyric character information D1 of the song name “pasta” included in the posted message B2. Therefore, the receiving side display terminal 20B shown in FIG. 2E displays the downloaded posted message B2 as it is. However, since the lyric tag is added to the posted message B2, the receiving side display terminal 20B is a posted message showing some characters of the lyric according to the elapsed time from the playback start point of the music according to the lyric tag. Can be determined. Therefore, the reception-side display terminal 20B transmits a lyrics acquisition request B3 for acquiring the lyrics character information D1 of the song “pasta” to the lyrics management server 50, as shown in FIGS. The lyrics acquisition request B3 includes the lyrics ID “12345 #”. Then, the receiving side display terminal 20B downloads the lyric character information D1 of the lyric ID “12345 #” from the web server 40, as shown in FIGS.

  The receiving-side display terminal 20B can specify a partial character string of the lyrics of the music according to the acquired lyrics character information D1, the start time Ts and the end time Te of the posted message B2. As a result, the reception-side display terminal 20B shown in FIG. 2F can display the specified character string “Feel far away ... feeling” on the display 21. In the present embodiment, dedicated application software capable of acquiring the lyrics character information D1 corresponding to a large number of music pieces and lyrics IDs from the lyrics management server 50 is installed in the display terminal 20 in advance. The display terminal 20 can realize acquisition of the lyric character information D1 by dedicated application software.

(Electrical configuration of display terminal)
FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of the display terminal 20 of the present embodiment. The display terminal 20 includes a CPU 22. The CPU 22 controls the overall operation of the display terminal 20. The display terminal 20 includes a ROM 23, a RAM 24, an HDD 25, a network connection unit 26, a speaker 27, and a display 21 as components. The CPU 25 is connected to each of these components. The CPU 25 constitutes a computer that controls the operation of the display terminal 20 together with storage means such as the ROM 23 and the RAM 24. The HDD 25 includes a music information storage area 251. The music information storage area 251 stores music information. The song name is associated with the song information. The network connection unit 26 communicates with the web server 40 and the lyrics management server 50 of the shared website via the network.

  The ROM 23 includes a music reproduction display program storage area 231 and a reception display program storage area 232. The music reproduction display program storage area 231 stores a music reproduction display program. The display terminal 20 has a function of playing music, and outputs music from the speaker 27 by sequentially converting music information into a music playback signal by a music playback display program. By executing the music reproduction display program, the lyrics of the music are displayed on the display 21 in accordance with the lyrics character information D1 acquired from the lyrics management server 50 in synchronization with the conversion of the music information. The display terminal 20 displays the lyrics of the music on the display 21 in synchronization with the reproduction output of the music. The reception display program storage area 232 stores a reception display program. The reception display program causes the display 21 to display characters acquired from the web server 40. The display terminal 20 displays the posted message acquired from the web server 40 and the lyric characters according to the lyric character information D1 acquired from the lyrics management server 50 on the display 21 by the reception display program.

  The RAM 24 includes a lyrics character information storage area 241, a start time storage area 242, an end time storage area 243, a lyrics ID storage area 244, and a comment number storage area 245. The lyric character information storage area 241 stores lyric character information D1 acquired from a lyrics management server 50 described later. The start time storage area 242 indicates the position of the first character in the range of the lyrics specified by the user when the user specifies some characters of the lyrics displayed on the display 21, and has elapsed since the music playback start time. The time is stored as the start point time Ts. The end point time storage area 243 indicates the position of the last character in the range of lyrics designated by the user when the user designates some characters of the lyrics displayed on the display 21, and has elapsed since the music reproduction start time. The time is stored as the end point time Te. The lyrics ID storage area 244 stores the lyrics ID. The lyrics ID indicates the identification number of the lyrics character information D1 corresponding to the music information to be reproduced. The comment number storage area 245 stores a comment number to be described later.

(Configuration of web server and lyrics management server)
The web server 40 of the shared website stores post messages transmitted by an unspecified number of users using the display terminal 20 or the like. The display terminal 20 receives the posted message from the web server 40 via the network by the network connection unit 26.

  The lyrics management server 50 is a device that stores a large number of lyrics character information D1 associated with a large number of music pieces. The display terminal 20 receives the lyrics character information D <b> 1 from the lyrics management server 50. As shown in FIG. 4, the lyrics management server 50 includes a lyrics character information storage area 51. The lyric character information storage area 51 stores a large number of lyric character information D1 corresponding to a large number of music pieces.

  FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram showing the storage contents of the lyrics character information storage area 51. As shown in FIG. 5, the lyric character information D1 stores a song name, a lyric ID, and character time information D2. One lyric ID and one character time information D2 are stored in correspondence with the song name defined for each song. The character time information D2 is time information associated with each divided character in a state where the lyrics specified by the lyrics ID are divided for each character. The time information corresponding to each divided character indicates the elapsed reproduction time from the start of reproduction of the music corresponding to the lyrics to the arrangement position of each character, and is stored corresponding to each character.

[Operation and Action of Embodiment]
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the transmission side display terminal 20A. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of the receiving display terminal 20B. The display terminal 20 is activated by being connected to an internal power source or an external power source via an outlet. The display terminal 20 operates when the CPU 22 executes a music reproduction display program or a reception display program. Application software is installed in the display terminal 20, and a music reproduction display program or reception display program included in the application software is executed. The music reproduction display program or the reception display program is started when the user touches a start button (not shown) displayed on the display 21. The processing of each step shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 is executed by the CPU 22.

(Music playback display program processing)
When the process of the music reproduction display program shown in FIG. 6 is executed, it is determined in step S121 whether a music to be reproduced is designated. The music to be played is determined by the user operating the operation button on the display 21 to specify the music to be played. If it is determined that the music to be played has been determined (step S121: YES), step S122 is executed.

  In step S122, it is determined whether or not the lyric character information D1 having the song name designated in step S121 is stored in the lyric character information storage area 241 of the RAM 24. If it is determined that the lyric character information D1 of the music to be reproduced is stored in the transmitting display terminal 20A (step S122: YES), step S125 is executed. If it is not determined that the lyrics character information D1 of the music to be reproduced is stored in the transmission-side display terminal 20A (step S122: NO), step S123 is executed.

  In step S123, the song title of the song designated in step S121 is transmitted to the lyrics management server 50. When step S123 is executed, the lyrics acquisition request A1 for acquiring the lyrics character information D1 corresponding to the music to be reproduced is transmitted from the transmission side display terminal 20A to the lyrics management server 50 as shown in FIG. At this time, the lyrics management server 50 detects which song lyrics are requested by receiving the lyrics acquisition request A1 including the song title from the transmission-side display terminal 20A.

  When the lyrics management server 50 receives the lyrics acquisition request A1 from the transmission side display terminal 20A, as shown in FIG. 3, the lyrics management server 50 transmits lyrics character information D1 corresponding to the song title to the transmission side display terminal 20A.

  In step S124, it is determined whether or not the lyrics character information D1 of the song name transmitted in step S123 is received from the lyrics management server 50. If it is determined that the lyric character information D1 has been received (step S124: YES), the process of step S125 is executed. The received lyrics character information D1 is stored in the lyrics character information storage area 241 of the RAM 24. If it is not determined that the lyric character information D1 has been received (step S124: NO), the process of step S124 is repeatedly executed.

  In step S <b> 125, the lyric characters of the music indicated by the lyric character information D <b> 1 stored in the lyric character information storage area 241 are displayed on the display 21. As shown in FIG. 5, each character of the lyrics displayed on the display 21 is associated with character time information D2 indicating the elapsed time from the reproduction start point of the music by the lyrics character information D1.

  In step S126, it is determined whether or not it has been designated to change the music to be played. When it is determined that an instruction to change the music to be played is given (step S126: YES), the process of step S121 is executed. When it is not determined that an instruction to change the music to be played has been given (step S126: NO), the process of step S127 is executed.

  In step S127, it is determined whether or not an instruction to transmit a part of the lyrics displayed on the display 21 to the web server 40 of the shared website has been issued. It is determined that an instruction to transmit lyrics to the web server 40 has been made by the user operating the posting button 21a of the display 21 of the display terminal 20 shown in FIG. If it is determined that the posting button 21a has been operated (step S127: YES), the process of step S128 is performed. If it is not determined that the posting button 21a has been operated (step S127: NO), the process of step S126 is performed. When the posting button 21a is operated in step S127, the display of the operation buttons 21a to 21c on the display 21 of the display terminal 20 changes to a display representing the function shown in FIG.

  In step S128, it is determined whether or not the words of the lyrics displayed on the display 21 are touched by the user. If it is determined that the character on the display 21 is touched (step S128: YES), step S129 is executed. When it is not determined that the character on the display 21 has been touched (step S128: NO), the process of step S128 is repeated.

  When the determination process is executed in step S128, when the user touches one of the characters displayed on the display 21, the display 21 of the transmission-side display terminal 20A is shown in FIG. Display state. After the user touches one character displayed on the display 21, the user selects a plurality of consecutive characters by tracing the plurality of characters displayed on the display 21, and selects a partial character string of the lyrics. Can be specified. When a plurality of lyrics are selected by the user, the display 21 is in the display state shown in FIG.

  In step S129, information on the elapsed time indicating the position of the first character determined to have been touched in the lyrics in step S128 is stored in the start point time storage area 242. In step S129, time information indicating the position of the first character determined to be touched in step S128 is extracted from the character time information D2 corresponding to each character of the lyrics displayed on the display 21 in step S128. The extracted time information is stored in the start point time storage area 242 as the start point time Ts.

  In step S131, it is determined whether or not the selection of lyrics characters has been completed. The completion of the character selection is determined by the user operating the designation button 21e displayed on the display 21 when the character is designated. If it is determined in step S131 that the selection of lyrics characters has been completed (step S131: YES), the process of step S132 is performed. If it is not determined that the lyrics have been selected (step S131: NO), the process of step S131 is repeated.

  In step S132, when it is determined in step S131 that the selection of the character of the lyrics has been completed, information on the elapsed time indicating the position of the last character selected last is stored in the end point time storage area 243. . In step S132, time information indicating the position of the last character touched last in step S131 is extracted from the character time information D2 corresponding to each character of the lyrics displayed on the display 21 in step S131. The extracted time information is stored in the end point time storage area 243 as the end point time Te.

  In step S133, it is determined whether or not the comment button 21c of the display 21 has been operated by the user. If it is determined that the user has operated the comment button 21c (step S133: YES), the process of step S134 is executed. If it is not determined that the comment button 21c has been operated (step S133: NO), the process of step S135 is executed.

  In step S134, a comment input by the user is accepted. When the process of step S134 is performed, a character input key 21f is displayed on the display 21. The user inputs a desired character using the character input key 21f.

  In step S135, it is determined whether or not a transmission instruction has been issued. It is determined that the transmission instruction has been made by detecting that the transmission button 21c of the display 21 shown in FIG. If it is determined that a transmission instruction has been issued (step S135: YES), the process of step S136 is executed. When it is not determined that a transmission instruction has been issued (step S135: NO), the process of step S133 is executed.

  In step S136, the lyrics ID stored in the lyrics ID storage area 244, the time information of the start character stored in the start time storage area 242, and the time information of the end character stored in the end time storage area 243 And are read out. In step S136, a post message including a song name, lyrics ID, time information of the start character, time information of the end character, a comment, and a lyrics tag is created. The lyrics tag is identification information for indicating that information indicating a part of the lyrics is transmitted.

  In step S137, the post message created in step S136 is transmitted to the web server 40 of the shared website.

  When the process of step S137 is executed, as shown in FIG. 3, a posting message A2 is transmitted from the display terminal 20A to the web server 40 of the shared website.

  In step S138, it is determined whether an end instruction has been issued. When an instruction to end the installed application software is given, it is determined that the end instruction has been issued. When it is determined that an end button (not shown) provided in the display terminal 20 has been operated, it is determined that an end instruction has been issued, and the music reproduction display program ends. Specifically, when it is determined that an end instruction has been issued (step S138: YES), the music reproduction display program processing ends. When it is not determined that the end instruction has been issued (step S138: NO), the process of step S126 is performed.

(Reception display program processing)
Next, a reception display program executed by the reception side display terminal 20B will be described with reference to FIG. The reception display program shown in FIG. 7 is a program that acquires and displays information transmitted from a user who uses the shared website from the web server 40 of the shared website.

  In step S220, a request for acquiring a predetermined number of comments is made from the web server 40 of the shared website. In the present embodiment, the request is a message acquisition request for acquiring ten posted messages. When step S220 is performed, a message acquisition request B1 is transmitted from the display terminal 20B to the web server 40 as shown in FIG.

  In step S221, it is determined whether the number of post messages requested in step S220 has been acquired from the web server 40. If it is determined that the posted message has been acquired from the web server 40 (step S221: YES), the process of step S222 is executed. If it is not determined that the posted message has been acquired from the web server 40 (step S221: NO), the process of step S221 is repeatedly executed.

  In step S222, 1 is set to post message number [n]. The posted message number is a number indicating the display order that is assigned to each posted message of the number of posted messages acquired in step S221.

  In step S223, among the ten posted messages acquired from the web server 40 of the shared website, the nth posted message set in the posted message number is read out. For example, when the process of step S222 is performed immediately before, in step S223, the first posted message among the ten posted messages acquired in step S221 is read.

  In step S224, it is determined whether or not a lyric tag is included in the nth posted message read in step S223. If it is determined that the posted message includes the lyrics tag (step S224: YES), the process of step S225 is executed. If it is determined that the posted message does not include the lyrics tag (step S224: NO), the process of step S230 is executed.

  In step S225, the lyrics ID, the time information of the start point character indicating the start point time Ts, and the time information of the end point character indicating the end point time Te are acquired from the nth posted message. The acquired lyrics ID is stored in the lyrics ID storage area of the RAM 24, the time information of the start point character is stored in the start point time storage area 242, and the time information of the end point character is stored in the end point time storage area 243.

  In step S226, the lyrics management server 50 is requested to acquire the lyrics character information D1 corresponding to the lyrics ID acquired in step S225. When step S226 is performed, as shown in FIG. 3, a lyrics acquisition request B3 of lyrics character information corresponding to the lyrics ID is transmitted from the display terminal 20B to the lyrics management server 50.

  In step S227, it is determined whether or not the lyrics character information D1 requested for acquisition in step S226 has been acquired. If it is determined that the lyric character information D1 has been acquired (step S227: YES), the process of step S228 is executed. When it is not determined that the lyric character information D1 has been acquired (step S227: NO), the process of step S227 is repeatedly executed until the lyric character information D1 is acquired. When step S227 is executed, the lyrics character information D1 is transmitted from the lyrics management server 50 to the display terminal 20B as shown in FIG.

  In step S228, using the lyrics character information D1 acquired in step S227, the range from the position indicated by the start point time Ts indicated by the time information of the start point character to the position indicated by the end point time Te indicated by the time information of the end point character is obtained. Identified. Then, in accordance with the lyrics character information D1, character information indicating all characters of the lyrics in the range from the character at the position indicated by the start point time Ts to the character at the position indicated by the end point time Te is extracted.

  In step S229, display information for displaying each character in the specified range on the display 21 is generated according to the character information of the lyrics in the range specified in step S228.

  In step S230, the lyrics characters in the range specified in accordance with the display information generated in step S229, the song name, and the comment are displayed in the nth of the ten posted messages that have been acquired.

  In step S231, a process of adding 1 to the value set to n is performed.

  In step S232, the number of posted messages requested for acquisition in step 220 is read, and it is determined whether the processing from step S223 to step S231 has been performed for all the acquired posted messages. When it is determined that the processing of all the acquired posted messages has been completed (step S232: YES), the reception display program is terminated. When it is not determined that the processing of all acquired posted messages has been completed (step S232: NO), the processing of step S223 is repeatedly executed.

[Effect of the embodiment]
In the present embodiment, the lyrics of the music are displayed on the display 21. The user touches the words of the lyrics displayed on the display 21 of the transmission-side display terminal device 20A, thereby specifying a desired lyrics in the lyrics. For this reason, the user can visually specify the range of the desired lyrics by looking at the lyrics displayed on the display 21 of the transmission side display terminal 20A. In addition, by tracing the character displayed on the display 21 of the transmission side display terminal 20A with the cursor 21d, the user can specify the range of the desired lyrics. Can be specified in detail.

  Further, when the receiving side display terminal 20B acquires the posted message, the receiving side display terminal 20B follows the lyrics ID indicated in the posted message A2, the time information of the start character indicating the start time Ts, and the time information of the end character indicating the end time Te. The lyric character information D2 is acquired. Then, the desired lyrics in the range specified from the start point time information and the end point time information can be displayed on the display 21 of the reception side display terminal 20B according to the lyric character information D2. Therefore, the user can know the desired lyrics specified by the time information in the posted message by looking at the display 21 of the receiving display terminal 20B.

  Also, it is not appropriate to copy the lyric text subject to copyright protection to the web server 40 or the storage device on the network that cannot be managed by the lyrics management server 50. According to the present embodiment, it is possible to prevent an unspecified number of users from viewing a desired lyrics as a copyright protection target such as copyright on a website not managed by the lyrics management server 50 as it is.

[Correspondence between Configurations of Present Invention and Embodiment]
In the present embodiment, the lyrics sharing system 1 is an example of the information communication system of the present invention. The lyrics management server 50 of the present embodiment is an example of the server of the present invention. The display terminal 20 of this embodiment is an example of the information communication device of the present invention. 20 A of transmission side display terminals of this embodiment are examples of the 1st information communication apparatus of this invention, and 20 B of reception side display terminals are an example of the 2nd information communication apparatus. The music reproduction display program and the reception display program of this embodiment are an example of an information communication program for transmitting the position information of the present invention to the server and an information communication program for acquiring the position information from the server.

  The display 21 of this embodiment is an example of the display unit of the present invention. The cursor 21d and the designation button 21e of this embodiment are an example of the designation unit of the present invention. The elapsed time from the reproduction start time of the music associated with each character of the lyrics in the lyrics character information of the present embodiment is an example of the position information and time information of the present invention. Information for displaying the characters of the lyrics on the display 21 in accordance with the lyrics character information D1 is an example of the lyrics information. The display position of the character “far” and the display position of the character “ri” displayed on the display 21 of the present embodiment are examples of the position of the start point and the end point of the arrangement range of the present invention. . The character string “distant and far away ... feeling” specified by touching the words of the lyrics displayed on the display 21 is an example of the arrangement range of the present invention. In addition, it is an example of the reception step of the present invention that the designation of the start point character and the end point character is determined by the CPU 22 of this embodiment and the processing of steps S128 and S131. The CPU 22 of this embodiment and the processes of steps S129, S132, and S136 are an example of the position information generating unit of the present invention. One example of the position information generation step of the present invention is that the time information of the start point character and the end point character is stored and read out by the CPU 22 of the present embodiment and the processing of steps S129, S132, and S136. The processing of the CPU 22 and step S137 of this embodiment and the network connection unit 26 are examples of the transmission unit of the present invention. Transmitting the start point time Ts and the end point time Te to the web server 40 by the processing of the CPU 22 and step S137 of the present embodiment is an example of a transmission step.

  The processing of the CPU 22 and step S227 of this embodiment and the network connection unit 26 are examples of the lyrics information acquisition unit of the present invention. In addition, the processing of the CPU 22 and step S221 of the present embodiment and the network connection unit 26 are an example of the acquisition unit of the present invention, and acquiring a posted message by the processing of the CPU 22 and step S221 is an acquisition step. It is an example. The CPU 22 of this embodiment and the processing of steps S228 and S229 are examples of the information generation unit, and the display information of characters in the arrangement range from the start point time to the end point time is an example of the display information of the present invention. The processing of the CPU 22 and step S230 of this embodiment is an example of the display control unit of the present invention. An example of the display control step is to display the characters of the lyrics along with the music title and the comment by the processing of the CPU 22 and step S230 of the present embodiment.

[Modification]
In the present embodiment, the position information indicating the position where the desired lyrics are arranged is indicated by the time information, but is not limited thereto. For example, the position where a desired lyrics is displayed in the lyrics of a song may be indicated by the number of lines from the first line of the lyrics. Further, the position of the desired lyrics may be indicated by the number of characters from the first character of the song lyrics.

  In the present embodiment, from the lyrics displayed on the display 21, by touching the first character and the last character of a part of the character string, the arrangement range in which the desired lyrics are arranged is designated. Not limited to. For example, by touching one letter of the lyrics displayed on the display 21, a word or phrase including that letter may be designated as the arrangement range. Further, the entire range of the lyrics of the music may be designated as the desired lyrics.

  In the present embodiment, the receiving side display terminal 20B uses the lyric character information D1 acquired from the lyric management server 50 to specify the character string of the lyrics indicating the start time and the end time of the posted message. Not limited to. When the lyric character information D1 is already stored in the receiving display terminal 20B, it is not necessary to acquire the lyric character information D1 from the lyric management server 50. For example, in the present embodiment, after step S225 is performed and before step S226 is performed, by performing a process of determining whether or not the lyrics character information D1 is stored in the receiving display terminal 20B, the lyrics It may be determined whether or not the character information D1 has been acquired. If it is not determined by this process that the lyrics character information D1 is stored, the process of step S226 may be executed.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Lyrics sharing system 20 Display terminal 20A Transmission side display terminal 20B Reception side display terminal 21 Display 21d Cursor 21e Designation button 22 CPU
23 ROM
24 RAM
242 Start time storage area 243 End time storage area 25 HDD
251 Music information storage area 26 Network connection unit 40 Web server 50 Lyric management server 51 Lyric character information storage area D1 Lyric character information

Claims (9)

An information communication device for communicating information with a server,
In the lyrics of the song, a designation part for designating a desired lyrics,
A position information generating unit that generates position information indicating a position where the desired lyrics specified by the specifying unit are arranged in the lyrics;
A transmitter that transmits the position information generated by the position information generator to the server;
An information communication device comprising: A display unit for displaying the lyrics;
The designation unit designates the position of the start point and the end point of the arrangement range in which the desired lyrics are arranged in the lyrics displayed on the display unit,
The information communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the position information generation unit generates the position information indicating positions of the start point and the end point specified by the specification unit. In order to synchronize the performance of the music and the display of the lyrics, a storage unit is provided that stores the time information indicating the elapsed time from the start of the music performance and the lyrics information indicating the characters or phrases constituting the lyrics in association with each other. ,
The position information generation unit reads from the storage unit the time information associated with lyric information indicating characters or phrases arranged at the positions of the start point and the end point specified by the specification unit, Occurs as the location information,
The information communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the transmission unit transmits the time information generated by the position information generation unit to the server. Information communication in which information is communicated between the server and a server via a network connected to the server and a transmission device that transmits the position information indicating the position where the desired lyrics are arranged in the lyrics of the music. A device,
A display unit;
An acquisition unit for acquiring the position information from the server;
An information generating unit for generating display information for displaying the desired lyrics based on the position information acquired by the acquiring unit;
In accordance with display information from the information generation unit, a display control unit that displays the desired lyrics on the display unit,
An information communication device comprising: In order to synchronize the performance of the music and the display of the lyrics, the lyrics information acquisition unit that acquires the time information indicating the elapsed time from the start of the performance of the music and the lyrics information indicating the characters or phrases constituting the lyrics in association with each other With
The acquisition unit is information associated with lyrics information indicating characters or phrases arranged at respective positions of a start point and an end point where desired lyrics are arranged in the lyrics of the song, and the performance of the song Time information indicating the elapsed time from the start is acquired as the position information;
The information generating unit is configured to display the display based on lyrics information associated with time information that matches the time information acquired by the acquisition unit in the time information acquired by the lyrics information acquisition unit. The information communication apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the information communication apparatus generates information. An information communication device for communicating information with a server,
A display unit;
In the lyrics of the song, a designation part for designating a desired lyrics,
A position information generating unit that generates position information indicating a position where the desired lyrics specified by the specifying unit are arranged in the lyrics;
A transmitter that transmits the position information generated by the position information generator to the server;
An acquisition unit for acquiring the position information from the server;
An information generating unit for generating display information for displaying the desired lyrics based on the position information acquired by the acquiring unit;
In accordance with display information from the information generation unit, a display control unit that displays the desired lyrics on the display unit,
An information communication device comprising: An information communication program executed by a computer that controls an information communication device that communicates information with a server,
A reception step of receiving an instruction to specify a desired lyrics in the lyrics of the music;
A position information generating step for generating position information indicating a position where the desired lyrics are arranged in the lyrics when an instruction is received by the receiving step;
A transmission step of transmitting the position information generated by the position information generation step to the server;
Communication program that causes a computer to execute. Information can be communicated between the server and a server via a network connected to the server and a transmission device that transmits the position information indicating the position where the desired lyrics are arranged in the lyrics of the music. An information communication program executed by a computer that controls an information communication apparatus including a display unit,
Obtaining the location information from the server;
An information generating step for generating display information for displaying the desired lyrics based on the position information acquired by the acquiring step;
In accordance with the display information generated by the information generation step, a display control step for displaying the desired lyrics on the display unit;
Communication program that causes a computer to execute. An information communication system comprising a server and first and second information communication devices that communicate information with the server,
The first information communication device includes:
In the lyrics of the song, a designation part for designating a desired lyrics,
A position information generating unit that generates position information indicating a position where the desired lyrics specified by the specifying unit are arranged in the lyrics;
A transmission unit that transmits the position information generated by the position information generation unit to the server;
The second information communication device is
A display unit;
An acquisition unit for acquiring the position information from the server;
An information generating unit for generating display information for displaying the desired lyrics based on the position information acquired by the acquiring unit;
In accordance with display information from the information generation unit, a display control unit that displays the desired lyrics on the display unit,
An information communication system comprising: