JP4122397B2 - Remote control device for karaoke - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a karaoke remote control equipment.
[0002]
[Prior art]
There is a remote control device for karaoke to input a song request reservation (performance request) to the karaoke device, but the conventional one only has a song number transmission function, and the song number necessary for request reservation is The user turned the song book and found the desired song number and entered it into the remote control device.
[0003]
Therefore, the applicant of the present application has developed a remote control device for karaoke that has a search function for a requested song and can make a request reservation for the searched song with the remote control device. According to such a remote control device for karaoke, the user can find a song he wants to sing and make a request without dimming the song book. The user enters a search category (song name search, singer name search, genre search, new music search, release year search, etc.) into the karaoke remote control device to find the song he wants to sing, and further searches keywords (song name, If a singer name, genre, new music release month, release year search, etc.) are input, a search is executed with the specified search category and search keyword, and a list of songs that match the search conditions is displayed as a search result. The user can select a desired song from the search result displayed on the remote controller for karaoke and make a request reservation for the song in the karaoke device.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
If the desired song is not found even after searching, the search can be performed by changing the search keyword or the search category. If you want to search in another category, go back to the beginning and search.
[0005]
When singing karaoke at a store, there are few people who come to the store thinking about all the songs they sing in advance. I think, but for people who rarely sing a song, it takes a lot of time to decide what to sing.
[0006]
Even if there is likely to sing a song, that's vague memories of titles and singer's name, to some in quite a work to find the song, even find a example successful songs, there is no self-confidence to sing the song There are also concerns that if the song genre is so different from the person who sings before, it will destroy the atmosphere of the place, and more appropriate songs (songs that can be sung properly, songs that match the atmosphere of the place, etc.) ), Searching for other songs, etc. After all, after searching many times to find some candidate songs, we finally decide which song to request.
[0007]
Here, there are many cases where there is some relationship between the plurality of songs found in this way. For example, the singer is the same, the genre is the same, or the release date is the same.
[0008]
Therefore, when the requested music is determined after the music search, it is convenient that the music related to the music picked up in the previous search can be preferentially and easily searched.
[0009]
The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances. In the case where a requested song is determined after a song search, a song related to the song picked up in the previous search is given priority, and , easy to be searched, an object of the present invention is to provide a remote control equipment for the karaoke that can help tune the search of the user.
[0010]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The configuration of the present invention is described in [1 ] below.
[0011]
[1] Configuration 1:
A search button for designating a search category, a character input means for inputting a search keyword, a storage device holding a song information database, and a search keyword input or set by a designated search category A remote control device for karaoke that includes search control means for searching for a designated song from the song information database and displaying it on a display device by song, and transmitting reservation information of a song determined to be reserved by a user to a karaoke device. ,
Attribute information control means for storing, in a predetermined attribute information storage section of a storage device, attribute information of a song selected by the user in detail from the search by the search control means and displayed on the display device by song;
When a search category is specified by the search button, the presence or absence of attribute information in the attribute information storage unit is checked. If there is attribute information, the attribute information corresponding to the specified search category is read from them and used as a search keyword. If there is no attribute information, keyword control means for setting a search keyword input field in the display device;
A remote control device for karaoke characterized by comprising:
[0013]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
[0014]
FIG. 1 is an external view of a karaoke remote control device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. Operation buttons for various operations are provided on the upper surface of the remote control device 100. The “song name” button 11, the “singer / genre” button 12, and the “new music / release year” button 13 each indicate a search category. "Song name" button is a search category: search by song name, "Singer name / genre" button is pressed once, search category: search by singer name, if pressed twice, search category: by genre If the search, “new score / release year” button is pressed once, the search category: search by new score, and if pressed twice, the search category: search by release year can be performed.
[0015]
Further, the “remote control” button 14 is an operation button for displaying software buttons on the display unit 22, 15 is a character input button for hiragana, alphabet, etc. for inputting a search keyword such as a song title or singer name, and 16 is “ "Enter" button, 17 is a cursor movement button, 18 is a "return" button, and 19 is an "ON / OFF" button for power.
[0016]
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the karaoke remote control device 100. In the figure, 21 is a Key I / F unit that detects the pressing of each operation button, 22 is a display unit such as an LCD that displays search results, and a touch input panel is laid on the display unit 22. . As described above, the remote controller for karaoke needs to include a plurality of input buttons for inputting search conditions and a display portion of a relatively large display screen for displaying the search conditions and search results. In order not to increase the size of the remote control device, a relatively infrequently used button is displayed on the display unit 22 when necessary as a software button, and can be input from the touch input display unit, thereby reducing the size of the remote control device. We are trying to make it.
[0017]
23 stores a control program for the remote control device 100 for karaoke of the present invention such as search processing and remote control processing, and a song information database 231 for search (song name, singer name, genre, new score, release year, singing out (lyrics), etc. , A processing unit that executes various processes and controls based on a program stored in the storage unit, 25 a power source unit, and 26 a song request reservation for the karaoke apparatus 1. , A remote control transmitter 27 for transmitting a remote control signal for remotely controlling the volume and pitch of the karaoke device 1, 27 is attribute information of the song (song name, singer name, genre, new score, This is an attribute information storage unit for temporarily storing the release year, the crawl (lyrics, etc.).
[0018]
Next, the flow of searching for a song using the remote controller for karaoke 100 and performing remote control reservation processing for the requested song in the karaoke device 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 3 and the display screen examples of FIGS. .
[0019]
When the user presses the search button of the remote controller for karaoke 100 to select a song to be sung (step 1, hereinafter, step is abbreviated as S, the same applies to the drawings), the Key I / F unit 21 selects the search category of the search button. If it is recognized (S2) and the “song name” search button 11 is pressed, the process proceeds to the song name search process.
[0020]
Next, it is detected whether or not the attribute information of the song is stored in the attribute information storage unit 27 (S3). When the attribute information is not stored, the song name search screen of FIG. 4B is displayed on the display unit 22. (S4). The song name [] field on the song name search screen (FIG. 4B) is an input field for inputting a search keyword in the song name search. When the hiragana input “A” is input here using the character input button 15 (S5). The Key I / F unit 21 recognizes the input button (S6), and searches the song information database 231 in the storage unit 23 for a forward match for the recognized input character “AA” (S7). A search result is displayed on the display part 22 by one music 1 line (S8) (refer FIG. 4C).
[0021]
Then, the user can move the cursor c to the position of the desired song title (“A”) by operating the cursor movement button 17 on the search result display screen (FIG. 4C) (S12, 13, 14). .
[0022]
When the “decision” button 16 is pressed after the cursor c is moved to a desired position (S15, 16), detailed information of the song name “Ah” is displayed (see FIG. 4D) (S17). This detailed display screen displays the attribute information of the song name “Aa” such as the song number “Aa”, the song number, the title, the name of the singer, and the search information. Then, the attribute information of the song on which the detailed information screen is displayed (song name “Ah”, singer name “Maki Oguro”, genre “New Music”, release year “1996”, crawl “Yappari ...”, etc.) Is temporarily stored in the attribute information storage unit 27 (S18).
[0023]
If the user wishes to reserve a request for this song while the detailed information screen in FIG. 4C is displayed, the “determine” button may be pressed again. Thereby, music number information (remote control signal) is transmitted from the karaoke remote control device 100 to the karaoke device 1 (S19, S20, S21), and the request reservation is completed.
[0024]
As described above, once the “decision” button is pressed to display the detailed information, the attribute information of the song is temporarily stored in the attribute information storage unit 27. This temporarily stored attribute information is used to search for related songs in subsequent searches.
[0025]
Next, a related song search process using the song attribute information stored in the attribute information storage unit 27 will be described.
[0026]
If it is determined in S3 that the attribute information is “present”, the attribute information corresponding to the search category “song name”, here the song name “Ah”, is read from the attribute information storage unit 27 as the search keyword, and the search keyword (S9). Then, a forward matching search is executed for the search keyword “AA” for the search category “Song Title” (S10), and the search result is displayed (S11).
[0027]
When a search button of another search category is pressed, the search is executed in the same manner. That is, when the search button is pressed after the detailed information of the song name “A” is displayed (S20), the search category is recognized (S2), and each search process is executed.
[0028]
For example, when the detailed information of the song name “AA” in FIG. 5A is displayed (after the attribute information of the song name “AA” is temporarily stored), when the search button “Singer / Genre” is pressed once, “Singer The search process is executed (S2). That is, attribute information corresponding to the search category “singer”, the singer name “Maki Oguro” is extracted from the attribute information and set as a search keyword, and the search category “singer” and the search keyword “Maki Oguro” The match search is executed, and the search result (song of the same singer “Maki Oguro” as the singer of the song “Aa” selected earlier) is displayed (FIG. 5B).
[0029]
6A, when the search button “singer / genre” button is pressed twice after the detailed information of the song name “Aa” in FIG. 6A is displayed, the “genre” search process is executed (S2). That is, the attribute information corresponding to the search category “genre” and the genre “new music” are extracted from the attribute information and set as the search keyword, and the forward matching search is executed for the search category “genre” and the search keyword “new music”. Then, the search result (song of the same genre “new music” as the genre of the previously selected song “aa”) is displayed (FIG. 6B).
[0030]
When the detailed information of the song name “Aa” in FIG. 7A is displayed and the search button “new music / release year” button is pressed twice, the “release year” search process is executed (S2). That is, the attribute information corresponding to the search category “release year” and the release year “1996” are extracted from the attribute information and set as search keywords, and the search category “release year” and the search keyword “1996” are forwarded. The match search is executed, and the search result (song with the same release year “1996” as the release year of the previously selected song “Aa”) is displayed (FIG. 7B).
[0031]
Note that the song attribute information stored in the attribute information storage unit 27 may be deleted when the remote control reservation to the karaoke apparatus 1 is completed. However, if the song attribute information is saved, the next person searches for it. Can be used conveniently, and the erasing timing may be changed according to the usage pattern.
[0032]
The embodiment disclosed this time should be considered as illustrative in all points and not restrictive. The scope of the present invention is shown not by the above description of the embodiments but by the scope of claims for patent, and is intended to include meanings equivalent to the scope of claims for patent and all modifications within the scope.
[0033]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, when a requested song is determined, a song related to the song picked up in the previous search can be preferentially and easily searched, and the user can search for the song. it is possible to provide a karaoke remote control equipment that can.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is an external view of a remote controller for karaoke that is an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a block configuration of the remote controller for karaoke according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is an operation flowchart of the karaoke remote control device according to the embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a flow of a search operation screen of the karaoke remote control device according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a flow of searching for related songs (same as a singer) in the karaoke remote control device according to the embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a flow of searching related songs (same genre) in the remote controller for karaoke according to the embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a flow of searching related songs (same release year) of the remote controller for karaoke according to the embodiment of the present invention;
100 Remote control device for karaoke 11 “Song name” button 12 “Singer / genre” button 13 “New music / release year” button 14 “Remote control” button 15 Character input button 16 “Enter” button 17 Cursor move button 18 “Back” button 19 “ ON / OFF ”button 21 Key I / F unit 22 Display unit 23 Storage unit 231 Song information database 24 Processing unit 25 Power supply unit 26 Remote control transmission unit 27 Attribute information storage unit 1 Karaoke device (karaoke commander)

Claims (1)

A search button for designating a search category, a character input means for inputting a search keyword, a storage device holding a song information database, and a search keyword input or set by a designated search category A remote control device for karaoke having search control means for searching for a designated song from the song information database and displaying it on a display device according to the song, and transmitting reservation information of a song determined to be reserved by a user to a karaoke device. ,
Attribute information control means for storing, in a predetermined attribute information storage unit of a storage device, attribute information of a song that has been selected by the user in detail from being searched by the search control means and displayed on the display device by song;
When a search category is designated by the search button, the presence or absence of attribute information in the attribute information storage unit is checked. If there is attribute information, the attribute information corresponding to the designated search category is read from them and used as a search keyword. If there is no attribute information, keyword control means for setting a search keyword input field in the display device;
A remote control device for karaoke characterized by comprising:

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