JP3448437B2 - Karaoke equipment - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a karaoke device, and more particularly to a karaoke device configured to perform a karaoke performance based on a selected karaoke piece.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in this type of karaoke apparatus, a karaoke apparatus configured to perform reservation registration of a plurality of karaoke pieces arbitrarily selected by a singer and to play the karaoke pieces in the order of the reservation registration. It is well known.
Therefore, in such a karaoke apparatus, anyone of a plurality of singers can freely select a desired karaoke piece and make a reservation registration.

[0003]

However, when using the conventional karaoke apparatus, if the singer is limited to one person or a person in the same group such as a friend, the desired karaoke piece can be played many times. Although no problem occurs, for example, in a place where many strangers gather, such as karaoke snacks, the singer becomes unspecified, and even after singing a karaoke song with a singer, if you want to sing the same karaoke song, Not only does the atmosphere of the venue be destroyed by the duplicate singing, but the singers become awkward with each other, and because of that, the singers do not sing the duplicate, which is the norm in the karaoke world. Has been established as

That is, even if a singer is trying to sing a karaoke song, which is said to be number eighteen, just before leaving the store, if another singer sings the song, the song is effectively sung for the above reason. It becomes impossible to sing. The present invention has been made to cope with the above situation, and an object of the present invention is to provide a karaoke device that allows a singer to sing a desired karaoke piece without singing duplicate songs.

[0005]

The karaoke apparatus of the present invention according to claim 1 is a karaoke device for storing music that cannot be reserved and registered,
A karaoke device including a reservation registration control means and a deletion means for playing a music piece registered for reservation, wherein a storage means for music pieces which cannot be registered for reservation stores music piece number data of a music piece inputted together with a password from the operation means. However, when the song number data of the song to be reserved and registered is input from the operating means, the reservation registration control means, if the song number data is not stored in the storage means of the song that cannot be reserved and registered, If a song is reserved and registered, and if it is stored, the reservation registration of the song of the song number data is rejected, and the deleting unit stores the song number data of the song that is input with the password from the operating unit by reservation registration. It is characterized in that it is deleted from the means.

The karaoke apparatus of the present invention according to claim 2 is
In the karaoke apparatus according to claim 1, the reservation registration control means, when rejecting the reservation registration, displays a warning sound or a warning indicating that the reservation registration is rejected.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a karaoke device according to the present invention, and shows a basic configuration when applied to a communication karaoke device. Further, the karaoke device 1 is shown within the outer broken line in the figure.

Reference numeral 7 denotes a CPU section, which controls the entire karaoke apparatus 1, and has a ROM 7a for storing a control program and a plurality of flag areas necessary for control, in addition to the microprocessor. The RAM 7b, which temporarily stores data and the like, controls various input / output devices, manages memory, and processes data.

Reference numeral 12 denotes an operation section, which is composed of various keys for setting various states of the karaoke apparatus 1, switches and a remote controller (not shown). Reference numeral 13 denotes a display unit, which is composed of an LCD, an LED or the like for displaying (for example, warning display) information necessary for setting various states of the karaoke apparatus 1 to the operator. Reference numeral 16 denotes a speaker, which issues a warning sound to the operator to warn him / her when, for example, reservation registration is impossible.

Reference numeral 5 denotes a modem, which converts music data transmitted from the host computer via an analog communication line such as a telephone line into a digital signal. This music data is data necessary for reproducing a karaoke piece and is composed of control data and performance data. The control data is composed of, for example, information indicating the number of start clocks and the number of end clocks of the chorus of the karaoke song, and the performance data is MI coded based on the MIDI standard.
It is composed of performance music data which is DI data and lyrics image data showing the lyrics of the performance music composed of character information, color change information and genre information.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a main storage device, which is composed of a rewritable storage medium such as a hard disk, a semiconductor memory, a CD-ROM, a DVD-ROM, a DVD-RAM, and a read-only storage medium, and controls the CPU section 7. The music data taken in by the modem 5 is stored below. In addition, the management information storage unit of the main storage device 6 stores information necessary for managing the stored music data as a management table. For each music, the music number and the stored date (year (Month / day) and information indicating the number of music selections since storage.

Usually, the music data is stored in a compressed state in order to reduce the storage capacity of the main storage device 6 as much as possible. Further, this music data is not only fetched at the request of the user of the karaoke device 1, but is also automatically fetched in a time zone in which the karaoke device 1 is rarely used, such as at night. Reference numeral 15 is a performance music information storage unit, which is generally composed of a rewritable and high-speed accessible storage medium such as a semiconductor memory, and under the control of the CPU unit 7, a karaoke song reserved and input from the operation unit 12. In addition to the information that specifies, information indicating whether or not a karaoke piece has been played, information indicating whether or not the karaoke piece has been played within a predetermined number of pieces, and whether or not the karaoke piece has been played within a predetermined time Information and information that specifies a karaoke piece that is in a performance-disabled state for the singer to sing later are stored.

Reference numeral 14 denotes a performance data storage unit, which is generally composed of a rewritable and high-speed accessible storage medium such as a hard disk or a semiconductor memory, and the CPU unit 7
Under the control of 1., the music data read from the main storage device 6 is stored in a decompressed state. Reference numeral 2 is an external video reproducing device, which is a widely used VTR, a video CD player, an LD player, or recently MPEG (Mo
Ving Picture Element Grou
p) Player or DVD (Digital VideoD)
isk) A player or the like which, under the control of the CPU section 7, reproduces and outputs a video signal from video data recorded on a recording medium such as a video tape or various discs.

Reference numeral 9 is a superimposing section, which is a CP.
The U unit 7 supplies character information and color change information in the lyrics image data obtained by searching the music data stored in the performance data storage unit 14. Further, the superimposing unit 9 synthesizes the lyrics image based on the lyrics image data indicating the lyrics of the song to be played with the background image signal supplied from the external image reproducing device 2 according to the instruction of the CPU unit 7, It is output to the image display unit 3 described later.

Reference numeral 3 denotes an image display unit, which is a display device capable of simultaneously displaying a plurality of images on a plurality of windows, such as wide-screen TVs and monitor TVs that have become widespread recently. The video display unit 3 is composed of a plurality of video display devices 1 to N, and each video display device simultaneously displays a video based on a video signal input from the superimposing unit 9.

Reference numeral 8 denotes a MIDI sound source section, which is a CPU section 7.
The MIDI data in the music data stored in the performance data storage unit 14 is supplied by this, and this MIDI data is output as a performance music signal by the function of the electronic musical instrument. Reference numeral 10 denotes a mixer / amplifier unit, which synthesizes and amplifies a performance music signal output from the MIDI sound source unit 8 and a singing voice signal captured by the microphone 4 and outputs the synthesized signal to the speaker 11. The music and the singer's singing voice are reproduced as audible sounds.

Next, the operation of the karaoke apparatus according to the present invention configured as described above will be described in detail by dividing into a reservation input operation and a performance operation. (1) Reservation input operation: When the operator selects a song by operating the remote controller included in the operation unit 12 and inputting the song number of the song to be played while watching the information displayed on the display unit 13, for example. The CPU section 7 temporarily stores the inputted song number data of the played song in the RAM 7b.

Then, the CPU section 7 stores the reservation number data of the karaoke piece, the reservation time data of the karaoke piece and the karaoke piece to be given to the next reserved piece stored in the RAM 7b, in the piece number data of the performance piece. Performance completion data indicating whether or not performance has been performed is added to the performance music information storage unit 1
Store in 5. FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram of performance music management data stored in the performance music information storage unit 15 by the CPU unit 7.

The CPU section 7 confirms that the music number data of the inputted music piece is "A-0100", for example, and that the reservation number data stored in the RAM 7b is the 100th piece from the first reserved piece. If the meaning is "100", the reserved time "13:40" read from the timer as the reserved time data and "No" indicating that the karaoke piece is not being played are created as the performance completion data, and the performance is created. Use as song management data.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram of a performance music management table stored in the performance music information storage unit 15. FIG. 3 (A) shows a state before the performance music management data is registered and FIG. 3 (B).
Shows the state after the performance music management data is registered. In the performance song management table of FIG. 3A, the song number is A.
99 songs from -0001 to A-0099 are registered in the order indicated by the reservation number and at the time indicated by the reservation time.
96 songs from 01 to A-0096 have already finished playing,
This means that the three songs A-0097 to A-0099 are waiting for performance.

When the CPU 7 registers the above-mentioned performance music management data in the performance music management table shown in FIG. 3A,
The performance music management table is in the state shown in FIG. 3B, and the performance music management table is A-0097 to A-0100.
It means that up to 4 songs are waiting for performance.
However, immediately before registering the performance music management data, the CPU unit 7 compares the music number data of the music which cannot be reserved and registered and is stored in the performance music information storage unit with the music number data of the music to be reserved and registered, If the song number data do not match, the song is registered (see FIG. 3B), but if they match, a warning sound or a warning display to that effect is displayed and the song registration is rejected.

The music piece number data of the music piece which cannot be reserved and registered is input by the user of the apparatus with the password by operating the operation section 12, so that the CPU section 7 stores the music piece number data and the password in the performance music information. It is stored in the unit 15. The reservation registration disabled state is canceled by operating the operation unit 12 to input the song number data and the password, and the CPU unit 7 deletes the song number data from the performance song information storage unit 15. To be done.

(2) Performance operation: The CPU unit 7 constantly searches the performance music management table stored in the performance music information storage unit 15 and determines whether there is a performance music to be reproduced based on the performance completion data. It is judged whether or not, but in the case of FIG.
The lowest reservation number among songs that have not been played. "9
The process proceeds to the reproduction operation of the music number "A-0097" of 7 ".

The CPU section 7 retrieves the music data corresponding to the music number from the music data stored in the main storage device 6 based on the music number data stored in the performance music information storage section 15 for playing. The necessary MIDI data and the character information, color change information, genre information, etc. in the lyrics data of the song to be played are obtained and stored in the performance data storage unit 14. Then, the CPU section 7 controls the MIDI sound source section 8 based on the MIDI data loaded into the performance data storage section 14 to reproduce the performance music signal necessary for the performance of the music, and to mix the performance music signal. / Output to the amplifier unit 10.

The mixer / amplifier section 10 synthesizes the performance signal and the voice signal of the singer input from the microphone 4 and outputs the synthesized signal to the speaker 11, thereby reproducing the performance song and the singing voice as audible sounds. Further, the CPU unit 7 controls the external video reproducing device 2 based on the genre information in the music data, and outputs the background video signal according to the genre of the music to the superimposing unit 9.

Then, when the CPU section 7 outputs the character image information to the superimposing section 9 based on the character information and the color change information in the music data, the superimposing section 9
Displays the lyrics image and the background image by outputting to the image display unit 3 a combined image signal obtained by combining the background image signal output by the external image reproduction device 2 with the character image signal based on the character image information.

[0027]

As described above, according to the karaoke apparatus of the present invention, if the singer has previously registered the karaoke piece desired to be sung, the reservation registration disabled state must be canceled together with the password thereafter. In that case, since the karaoke piece cannot be reserved and registered, the singer can sing a desired karaoke piece without singing it repeatedly.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a karaoke device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram of performance music management data stored in a performance music information storage unit 15.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram of a performance music management table stored in a performance music information storage unit 15.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Karaoke device 2 External video playback device 3 Video display section 6 main memory 7 CPU section 7a ROM 7b RAM 8 MIDI sound source section 9 Superimpose department 10 Mixer / Amplifier 12 Operation part 13 Display 14 Performance data storage 15 Performance song information storage 16 speakers

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A storage means for music that cannot be reserved and registered, and a reservation
Reservation-registered music including registration control means and deletion means
A karaoke apparatus for performing the performance of, the storage means of the music that can not be reservation registration, the path from the operation means
The song number data of the song entered together with the word is stored, and the reservation registration control means uses the operating means
When the song number data of is input,
If the music that cannot be reserved and registered is not stored in the memory,
In this case, the song of the song number data is reserved and registered and stored.
, The reservation registration of the song of the song number data is rejected.
The deletion method was entered together with the password from the operation method.
Means for storing songs for which song number data for songs cannot be reserved and registered
Karaoke device to remove from. 2. Reservation registration control means rejects reservation registration
At that time, a warning sound or a warning indicating that the object is rejected is displayed.
Karaoke device described in.