JP2797633B2 - Music image information processing device - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a music image information processing apparatus for reproducing music image information such as performances and background images.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, home and business karaoke apparatuses for reproducing music image information such as performances and background images (hereinafter, referred to as performance music as necessary) and mixing human singing have been frequently used. ing.

This karaoke apparatus uses an optical disc as an information recording medium, is composed of a combination of a well-known VD player for reproducing the recorded information and a stereo apparatus, and has a reservation for reproducing a plurality of music pieces in order. Generally, a reproduction function is provided.

Further, a corresponding background video is stored in each music image information, and the background video is displayed at the same time as the music is played.

[Problem to be Solved by the Invention] However, when the karaoke apparatus according to the above-described conventional technique is used, a plurality of pieces of music image information are reproduced in a reservation order. At this time, the history information of which music piece is played and when is not stored, which causes an inconvenience that the same music piece is repeated in a short time. In order to prevent the same music image information (playing music) from being repeated in such a short period of time, it is necessary to perform relatively laborious management using a number tag or the like by a person at the store, for example. Also,
The background music corresponding to each of the music pieces is simultaneously reproduced. For example, when the same music piece is repeated in a short time, the background image and / or the musical instrument cannot be changed. There is a drawback that you can't sing or change the performance and atmosphere.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above, and has as its first object to automatically report that music information that has been played back is within a predetermined time when the reproduced music information is reserved again within a predetermined time. It is a second object of the present invention to allow a user to select whether or not to reproduce the music information when the reproduced music information is reserved again within the time.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above problems, the music image information processing apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention comprises a time counting means (A) for counting time as shown in FIG. Music information storage means (B) for storing a plurality of pieces of music information corresponding to the specific information, input means (C) for inputting the specific information, and reproduction means for reproducing the music information corresponding to the input specific information ( D), storage means (E) for storing the time at which the music information was reproduced in association with the specific information, and storage means (E) for storing the input specific information.
And whether the difference between the reproduction time of the specific information and the input time of the specific information is within a set time, and if it is within the set time, the fact is displayed on the display means (F). And a control means (G) for performing the control.

A music image information processing apparatus according to a second aspect of the present invention includes a time counting means (A) for counting time, a music information storage means (B) for storing a plurality of music information corresponding to the specific information, Input means (C) for inputting information and a reproduction instruction; reproducing means (D) for reproducing music information; and storage means (E) for storing the time at which the music information was reproduced in association with the specific information. Storage means (E)
And whether the difference between the reproduction time of the specific information and the input time of the specific information is within a set time, and if it is within the set time, the fact is displayed on the display means (F). And a control means (G) for causing the reproduction means (D) to reproduce the music information corresponding to the input specific information when a reproduction instruction is input from the input means (C). It has become.

[Operation] In the music image information processing apparatus of the invention according to claim 1 configured as described above, the time counting means counts the time, and the music information storage means stores a plurality of music information corresponding to the specific information. The storing and reproducing means reproduces music information corresponding to the specific information input from the input means. When the specific information is input by the input unit, the control unit exists in the storage unit that stores the time at which the input specific information reproduces the music information in association with the specific information, and the reproduction time of the specific information and It is determined whether or not the difference from the input time of the specific information is within the set time, and if it is within the set time, the display means displays that fact.

Further, in the music image information processing apparatus according to the second aspect of the invention, the time counting means counts the time, the music information storage means stores a plurality of music information corresponding to the specific information, and the playback means stores the music information. To play. When the specific information is input by the input unit, the control unit exists in the storage unit that stores the time at which the input specific information reproduces the music information in association with the specific information, and the reproduction time of the specific information and It is determined whether the difference from the input time of the specific information is within the set time, and if it is within the set time, the fact is displayed on the display means, and if a reproduction instruction is input from the input means,
The reproducing means reproduces the music information corresponding to the input specific information.

Next, an embodiment of a music image information processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment, FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a history data area in a memory, and FIGS. 4, 5, 6, and 7 are programs relating to operations. 5 is a flowchart corresponding to FIG.

First, the configuration will be described. The example shown in FIG. 2 is a conventional means for reproducing music image information such as a performance and a background image from a VD (video disc) in which performance music with performance numbers for specifying each performance music is recorded. And a control operation memory 12 for sequentially reproducing music image information (played music) reserved from a plurality of groups in groups. Karaoke equipment
Reference numeral 10 denotes an RO in which a program for controlling the apparatus is stored.
Microprocessor (MPU) with M, CPU, RAM, I / O2
0 is provided.

In addition, the first to play the music pieces connected to the MPU20
VD player 22 and a background image of a music piece stored in the VD player 22,
A VD player 23 is provided. Further, the combining unit 24
And a keyboard 26 for inputting a reserved music piece from a group or for performing various operations, and a display unit 28 for displaying background images, lyrics and the like as images. The display unit 28 is connected to a CRT 28a. A timer 29 for counting time is provided.

The amplifying unit 30 is connected to the synthesizing unit 24,
A microphone 32 and a speaker 34 are connected to 30.

The memory 12 is connected to the MPU 20 and automatically notifies when the played music has been reserved again within a predetermined time,
Further, it is a working memory for a control operation for changing a background image and / or a musical instrument when the same musical piece is reproduced within a predetermined time.

As shown in FIG. 3, the memory 12 has a history data area including the performance music number / performance end time. Here, the number of storages in the history data area is, for example, 20 pieces of music stored in the order of performance shown in FIG. 3, and corresponding to the judgment value data address (1 to 20), the number of music pieces (N1 to N20) )
And the performance end time (T1 to T20) are stored.

Next, the operation in the above configuration will be described. The operation of the karaoke apparatus 10 is conventionally well known, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Hereinafter, the operation will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 4 corresponding to the program stored in the ROM of the MPU 20.

In step 101, an entire predetermined operation is instructed. In step 102, music pieces are reserved from each group,
The corresponding music number (N1 to N20) is input from the keyboard 26. The music number (N1 to N20) and the performance end time (T1 to T20) are stored in the memory 12 by the control operation of the MPU 20 (see FIG. 3).

Subsequently, at step 103, the start address 1 of the memory 12 in which the history data is stored is set (see FIG. 3). In step 104, it is determined whether or not history data is stored. If No, that is, if there is no history data, the process proceeds to step 118. If Yes, the control to fetch the history data from the memory 12 in the next step 105 is performed by the MPU
Performed with 20 instructions. Subsequently, in step 106, the elapsed time after the end of the performance is obtained by subtracting the performance end time T1 of the acquired history data from the current time TO acquired from the timer 29.
Find Tp.

Further, in step 107, it is determined whether or not the elapsed time Tp has exceeded a predetermined time. If Yes, that is, new history data is stored in order from the beginning of the address of the memory 12, and if the elapsed time Tp of the history data here exceeds a predetermined time, the subsequent history data is
Since the time exceeds Tp, the process of checking the elapsed time Tp is stopped, the process proceeds to step 118, and the process shifts to the process of reproducing the musical piece on the first VD player 22. If No, go to the next step 108.

In step 108, it is determined whether or not the music piece number N1 of the address is the same as the music piece number No. for which the performance is reserved. If Yes, it means that the same music piece has been reserved again before the predetermined time has elapsed.
Go to 109. If No, the process proceeds to step 115 to continue checking the history data. In step 115, the music piece number of the next address is sequentially fetched, and the process returns to step 104, where the performance ending time T2 when the music piece number N2 is fetched, and the current time To
To obtain the elapsed time Tp after the end of the performance.

In the case of Yes in step 108, a message indicating that the performance music reserved in step 109 has not passed the predetermined time and the elapsed time are image-displayed on the display unit 28.

Subsequently, in step 110, it is determined whether or not to play the reserved music piece. Here, the determination is made by receiving an instruction from the keyboard 26. If No, the process returns to step 102 to execute the subsequent processing procedure. In the case of Yes, the processing procedure for changing the background video and / or the musical instrument to be performed is executed from the next step 111.

In step 111, it is determined whether to change the background video. If yes, proceed to the next step 112. If No, the process proceeds to step 116, where a normal background video reproduced by the first VD player 22 is captured. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step 119.

In step 112, another background image is stored in the second VD player 23.
And displays an image on the display unit 28.

Subsequently, in step 113, it is determined whether or not the musical instrument to be changed is changed. If yes, go to the next step 114. No
In the case of, the flow advances to step 117 to instruct the performance of the normal musical instrument reproduced by the first VD player 22. Step 114
Instructs the second VD player 23 to reproduce information of another musical instrument, and reproduces the information from the synthesizing unit 24, the amplifying unit 30, and the speaker 34. Then, in step 119, steps 114, 117, 118
The reproduction instruction of the information of the normal performance music or another background video and the performance musical instrument taken in by the instruction is performed. In step 120, the music information is reproduced. Subsequently, at step 121, the time of the end of reproduction is fetched from the timer 29.

Step 123 Store the history data of the reproduced music information in the memory 1.
In order to secure one music information area in the memory 12 for storing the history data, the stored history data is shifted to lower addresses one by one.

In step 124, the history data of the music piece played immediately before is stored in the area secured in step 123, and the program in one process ends.

Next, FIG. 6 shows a subroutine after the performance of step 106.

In step 106a, the current time To is fetched from the timer 29. Next, in step 106b, the elapsed time Tp, which is the difference between the performance end time Tx in the history data and the current time To fetched in step 106a, is obtained from the memory 12. Further, in step 106c, an instruction is given to display the elapsed time Tp after the end of the performance on the CRT 28a of the display unit 28.

FIG. 7 shows a subroutine for shifting the history data in the memory 12 to the next lower address in step 123, respectively.

First, in step 123a, the number of history data stored in the data area of the memory 12 is stored in X. Steps
At 123b, subtract 1 from the value of X. In step 123c, the music number at the address X and the performance end time are shifted to the address (X + 1). That is, the history data at the address 19 is transferred to the address 20. At step 123d, it is determined whether X is 1 or not. If No, the process returns to step 123b, and the subsequent processing procedure is repeated. Ye
In the case of s, the processing is completed, and the flow advances to the next Step 124. In this case, the history data at the address 1 has shifted to the address 2, and the address 1 becomes a free area.

In this way, when the reproduced music information is re-booked within a predetermined time, a notification is automatically made. Further, when the reproduced music information is reserved again within a predetermined time, the background video and / or The performance instruments are changed, and various singing, performance, and background video effects can be obtained.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the music image information processing apparatus of the present invention, in the music image information processing apparatus of the first aspect,
When the specific information corresponding to the reproduced music information is input again within a predetermined time, the fact can be displayed on the display means to notify the user.

Further, in the music image information processing apparatus according to the second aspect of the present invention, when the specific information corresponding to the reproduced music information is input again within a predetermined time, the fact is displayed on the display means and the user is notified. In addition to the notification, there is an effect that the user can determine whether or not the music information can be reproduced.

This can prevent the same music information from being repeatedly reproduced in a short time.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram corresponding to claims of a music image information processing apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a music image information processing apparatus of the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a flowchart corresponding to a program relating to the operation of the embodiment of FIG. 2, FIG. 5 is a flowchart corresponding to a program relating to the operation of the embodiment of FIG. 2, FIG. 7 is a flowchart corresponding to a program relating to the operation of the embodiment of FIG. 2, and FIG. 7 is a flowchart corresponding to a program relating to the operation of the embodiment of FIG. 10 Karaoke device, 12 Memory 20 MPU 22 First VD player 23 Second VD player 24 Synthesizing unit, 26 Keyboard 28 Display unit 28a CRT, 29 Timer 30 Amplifier 32 Microphone 34 Speaker 1 to 20 Judgment value data addresses N1 to N20 Music piece numbers T1 to T20 Performance end time

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. Time counting means (29) for counting time; music information recording means (22) for recording a plurality of music information corresponding to specific information; input means (26) for inputting specific information; A reproducing unit (24) for reproducing music information corresponding to the input specific information; a storage unit (12) for storing a time at which the music information is reproduced in association with the specific information; Exists in (12), and
Control means (20) for judging whether or not the difference between the reproduction time of the specific information and the input time of the specific information is within a set time, and if it is within the set time, displaying the fact on a display means (28); A music image information processing apparatus comprising: 2. A time counting means (29) for counting time; a music information storage means (22) for storing a plurality of music information corresponding to specific information; and an input means (26) for inputting specific information and a reproduction instruction. ), Reproduction means (24) for reproducing music information, storage means (12) for storing the time at which the music information was reproduced in association with specific information, and input specific information existing in the storage means (12). And
It is determined whether or not the difference between the reproduction time of the specific information and the input time of the specific information is within a set time. If the difference is within the set time, the display means (28) displays that fact, and the input means (26 ), Music information corresponding to the input specific information is reproduced by the reproduction means (24).
A music image information processing apparatus comprising a control unit (20) for causing a music image to be reproduced.