JP2554976Y2 - Music playback device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to a musical sound reproducing device, particularly to a musical sound reproducing device for reproducing a video for a fee.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, some AV playback devices have been known to play sound and video for a fee.

For example, a karaoke apparatus is known as a typical example of this type of AV reproducing apparatus. In such a karaoke apparatus, a musical sound such as an accompaniment sound is recorded on a laser disk (LD) or a compact disk (CD). Information and background video information are recorded. The background image information including the lyrics display is displayed as an image in accordance with the accompaniment sound or the like.

In addition, in response to recent downsizing of the device and increase in the amount of recorded information, the device incorporates a recording medium that stores digital musical sound information that is compressed as musical note information instead of sampled information such as PCM. The electronic music reproducing device is used for a karaoke device. Such compressed digital musical information includes MIDI (Mu
sical Instrument Digital Interface) information is known, which is interface information for digitally communicating performance information of each musical instrument, and is an international standard (MIDI is a registered trademark). And such MI
In a karaoke apparatus using DI information, a background video including a lyrics display is displayed as an image in accordance with the accompaniment sound.

In such a karaoke apparatus, a fixed fee such as one song is collected.

[Problem to be Solved by the Invention] However, in such a conventional karaoke apparatus, the background video is displayed using the display means together with the accompaniment sound of the music. The use of the device is not considered at all, and the usage fee of the apparatus is always constant, and this usage fee cannot be reduced.

In particular, with the recent spread of AV playback devices, especially karaoke devices, the importance of AV playback devices as advertising media is increasing more and more. Despite this, no system has been able to return the revenue from the advertising fee to the owner and user of the device in exchange for displaying the advertisement.

[Purpose of the Invention] The present invention has been made in view of such a conventional problem. The purpose of the invention is to make it possible to select an advertising mode and a normal mode.
By providing a function for deducting a part or all of the income obtained from the advertisement from the usage fee of the user, a music reproducing apparatus which can construct a system that is profitable for the provider of the advertisement, the owner of the apparatus and the user. To provide.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, a musical sound reproducing apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a musical information storage means for storing a plurality of musical information; a musical information reproducing means for reproducing the musical information; Background video information storage means for storing background video information for mode and background video information for normal mode; reproduction of background video information for advertisement mode or background video information for normal mode during reproduction of musical sound information Video information reproducing means for performing the selection, selection of arbitrary musical information, input means for selecting the advertisement mode and the normal mode, and collection means for calculating the fee. The reproducing means reproduces the background video information for the normal mode, the collecting means calculates a normal fee, and in the case of the advertisement mode, the video information reproducing means reproduces the background video information for the advertisement mode. Performs live, collection means and performing subtraction from the normal fee.

[Operation] In the tone reproducing apparatus having the above-described configuration, when the normal mode is first input by the input device, the control means reads out the normal video information from the video information storage means and sends it to the video information reproducing means. Will be displayed. In this case, the control means simultaneously reads out the corresponding tone information from the tone information storage means, sends it to the tone information reproducing means, and outputs the accompaniment sound and the like.

When the advertisement mode is input by the input means, the control means reads out the video information for advertisement from the video information storage means and sends it to the video information reproducing means to display the background video for advertisement. I have. In this case, the control means simultaneously controls the collecting means based on the data included in the advertising video information, and the collecting means pays the advertisement fee to the user based on the data included in the advertising video information. The usage fee is calculated by subtracting from the fee.

In addition, the control means displays an image for advertisement,
The corresponding tone information is read from the tone information storage means and sent to the tone information reproducing means to output an accompaniment or the like.

Therefore, when the advertisement mode is selected by the input means, it becomes possible to use the AV playback apparatus at a reduced usage fee.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a preferred embodiment in which the AV reproducing apparatus according to the present invention is used as a karaoke apparatus of a type in which MIDI information is stored in a storage medium, and is read out and reproduced.

The karaoke apparatus according to the present embodiment has a control unit 10 as a central control unit, and the control unit 10 includes a video information storage unit 12,
The musical sound information storage means 14, the video information reproducing means 16, the musical sound information reproducing means 18, the input means 20, and the money collecting means 22 are connected.

The video information storage means 12 stores a plurality of advertisement video information and a plurality of normal video information. The video information for advertisement has a format as shown in FIG. That is, the video information for advertisement is composed of fee data 24 and advertisement video data 26. The fee data 24 includes the name of the advertisement provider, the receipt of the advertisement fee of the device owner, and the reduced fee for the user of the device. The advertising video data 26 is composed of video data to be reproduced by the video information reproducing means 16.

The tone information storage means 14 stores tone information of a plurality of music pieces, and is in a format state comprising only tone data 28 as shown in FIG. 3 (a).

The video information reproducing means 16 reproduces the video information for advertisement or the normal video information stored in the video information storage means 12 and displays it on the display means.

The musical tone information reproducing means 18 reproduces the musical tone information stored in the musical tone information storing means 14, and the musical tone information storing means 14
The electronic music signal is composed of a synthesizer or the like that converts the musical tone information read out from the electronic music signal into an electronic music signal. The electronic music signal is amplified by an amplifying device and reproduced and output from an output device such as a speaker.

The input means 20 can perform an operation of selecting an arbitrary music piece, and can switch and input between an advertisement mode for displaying an advertisement video and a normal mode for displaying a normal video.

The collecting means 22 reduces the advertising fee from the user's fee based on the fee data 24 included in the advertising video information at the time of entering the advertising mode, and calculates the reduced fee as the usage fee. I have.

The control means 10 reads out each information from the video information storage means 12 and the tone information storage means 14 in accordance with the input of the input means 20, and outputs the information to the video information reproduction means 16 and the tone information reproduction means.
18 is sent. In this case, as shown in FIG. 3 (b), at least in the advertisement mode, the charge data 24 and the advertisement video information composed of the advertisement data 26 and the musical sound information composed of only the musical sound data 28 are simultaneously reproduced. Each file is treated as the same file. In addition, at the time of the advertisement mode input, the collection means 22 is based on the charge data 24 included in the video information for advertisement.
Is controlled.

Next, the operation state of the present embodiment will be described with reference to the control means shown in FIG.
Description will be made based on the operation flowchart of FIG.

By operating the input means 20 and selecting an arbitrary music,
When you select either advertising mode or normal mode,
First, the control means 10 executes a step (hereinafter simply referred to as “S”).
In 1, it is determined whether the input mode is the normal mode or the advertisement mode.

If it is determined that the normal mode has been selected, then
A normal fee collection is performed in S6. Then, in S7, normal video information is read from the video information storage means 12, and the selected music information is read from the music information storage means 14, and the video information reproduction means 16 and the music information reproduction means are read.
Send it to 18 to play and output music and video.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, when the normal mode is selected by the input means 20, a normal fee is collected, and the music and video of the selected music are reproduced and output.

If it is determined in S1 that the advertisement mode has been entered, then in S4, the fee for the advertisement concerned is identified and aggregated for each same provider, and in S5, the advertisement fee is reduced from the fee paid by the user. And calculate the usage fee.

Next, in S6, the reduced usage fee is collected, and the advertisement video information read from the video information storage means 12 is sent to the video information reproduction means 16 in S7, and the corresponding read from the musical sound information storage means 12 is applied. The music information is sent to the music information reproducing means 18, and the advertisement video and music are reproduced and output.

As described above, by selecting the advertisement mode, it becomes possible to total the charges to be paid by the advertisement provider and to reduce the usage fee, and to exchange the display of the advertisement with the revenue from the advertisement fee, the owner of the device and the device. It is possible to give back to the user.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment,
Various changes can be made within the scope of the gist. For example, in the above embodiment, an example is shown in which the AV playback device of the present invention is applied to a karaoke device, but it is also possible to apply to an AV playback device that converts other fees.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, the musical sound reproducing device of the present invention provides the function of displaying an advertisement on the musical sound reproducing device and the function of reducing the usage fee of the user corresponding to the advertisement, thereby achieving the AV reproduction. Allows the device to be used as an advertising medium by the owner or user's will, and by automatically summarizing the charges, is comfortable for the advertiser and the device owner. It is possible to provide an effective advertising environment.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall block diagram showing an embodiment of the AV playback apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing a format of advertisement video information stored in a video information storage device, and FIG. FIG. 3B is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a format of musical sound information stored in a musical sound information storage device. FIG. 3B is an explanatory diagram showing an example in which the same file is used for each combination of simultaneously reproducing video information and musical sound information for advertisement. FIG. 4 is an operation flowchart of the control device. 10 control means 12 video information storage means 14 tone information storage means 16 video information playback means 18 tone information playback means 20 input means 22 collection means

Claims (1)

(57) [Scope of request for utility model registration] A musical information storing means for storing a plurality of musical information; a musical information reproducing means for reproducing the musical information; background image information for an advertisement mode; Background video information storage means (12) for storing background video information; video information reproduction means (16) for reproducing background video information for an advertisement mode or background video information for a normal mode when reproducing music information; It has an input means (20) for selecting and setting arbitrary tone information, an advertisement mode and a normal mode, and a collecting means (22) for calculating a fee. The means (16) reproduces the background video information for the normal mode, the collection means (22) calculates the normal fee, and in the case of the advertisement mode, the video information reproduction means (16) operates for the advertisement mode. While playing back background video information The collecting means (22) is a musical sound reproducing device for subtracting from a normal fee.