JP4494119B2 - Karaoke device that stores and manages the user's music book - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a performance reservation system in a karaoke apparatus, and more particularly to a convenient mechanism for reserving songs that an individual (or group) often sings at a familiar shop.

  In shops like small bars, clubs and taverns, karaoke equipment is often used as a customer service tool. There are many shops in the city called karaoke bars where familiar customers gather exclusively for singing karaoke. In such a store, the mom of the store takes care of the customer and reserves a favorite song often sung by the customer in the karaoke device.

  The thick karaoke table of contents contains over 20,000 songs. A song to be sung is searched for, and the song number described therein is entered on the remote control or the main body panel of the karaoke apparatus. The music number is usually a 6-digit number.

  Even those who go to karaoke often do not remember so many songs, so most people sing dozens of favorite songs repeatedly. Even so, not many people memorize the song numbers for reserving songs that they often sing. In many cases, each time a song is selected, the table of contents is repeated to find the song number.

  While drinking alcohol at a karaoke bar or the like, it is quite annoying to find a song number by repeating a thick table of contents every time a karaoke song is selected. This is also a burden for the mama in the shop who takes over this work.

  The present invention has been made in view of the circumstances as described above, and its purpose is exclusively for karaoke devices used in business conditions such as karaoke bars operating mainly for regular customers. To provide a performance reservation system that makes it easy to select from a group of songs that people often sing when they come to the store and make reservations to the karaoke device, and to align with other customers' reservations without confusion It is in.

The present invention is a karaoke apparatus for storing and managing a user music book, and is specified by the items (1) to (7) described as follows.
(1) It is a karaoke apparatus that includes an input means, a storage means, a performance means, and a control means, and manages the performance order in a queue. (2) The input means can accept various inputs from the user. (3) The storage means stores the song list in which the music number is described in association with the user number. (4) The performance means can play the music (5) The control means When an input of a user number and an additional command is accepted, a music piece addition process is performed. When an input of a user number and a display command is accepted, a music book display process is performed. (6) The music piece addition process is accepted. (7) In the music book display process, the music number list of the received user number is displayed on the display means and displayed. From the list of songs Registration to the queue the music number of the music identified by an input person

The present invention can be implemented by appropriately adding the following items (A) to (C) in the above basic configuration.
(A) The music list includes the name of the user, and the control means also displays the name when displaying the music list. (B) When the control means performs a performance process based on the music list, The performance history is described in the music list, and when the music list is displayed, the performance history is also displayed. (C) The music list includes a key change value attached to the music to be described. When a key change value is attached to a song specified from the song list, the performance means should change the performance key based on the key change value.

  The karaoke apparatus to which the present invention is applied exhibits its effects when used as follows. Assign a user number to each regular customer at a store such as a karaoke bar and have the regular customer remember the user number, or record the user number in a store notebook, etc. Prepare an environment where users can easily input their user numbers using the remote control.

  A regular customer who comes to the store reserves and inputs his / her user number in the same manner as the reservation number of the music number before deciding what to sing for the time being. Then, according to the queue, the execution order will change to your user number. At that time, the user's user music book file stored in the karaoke device is read out, and the music list registered there is displayed on the screen of the karaoke device. When the regular customer specifies a song to be sung from the list of songs displayed on the screen, the song is reserved and the performance starts immediately. When that song ends, the song reserved by the other person will be played again according to the queue.

  Or, if you enter your user number and immediately display the corresponding user music book screen, specify the song you want to sing from the displayed music list, the song is registered in the queue, and the order is It can also be used to be played when it comes.

  In particular, in the present invention, when a regular customer likes a song that is requested and played by someone and wants to register it in his / her user list file, he / she enters his / her user number and a predetermined command. This completes the necessary bookkeeping process, which is very convenient.

  As described above, according to the present invention, in a shop such as a karaoke bar that mainly operates regular customers, when a regular visitor visits the store, a song is selected from a group of songs often sung and reserved in the karaoke apparatus. The operation is extremely simple and can be coordinated with other customers' reservations without any confusion, realizing a high quality and smooth customer service with karaoke.

=== Basic configuration of karaoke equipment ===
FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of a hardware main body of a communication karaoke apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  The karaoke device is a computer application device equivalent to a personal computer, and the central processing unit 1 is a computer main body including a CPU, a ROM, and a RAM, a hard disk device 2 that is a large-capacity external storage, and a subscriber telephone line or ISDN line. The communication control device 3 communicates with the karaoke host device via the user interface, the user interface device 4 that accepts input information from the user and presents guidance information and response information to the user, and MIDI data as a main component. A music generation device 5 that generates an acoustic signal of accompaniment music based on music performance data, an acoustic device 6 that amplifies an acoustic signal from accompaniment music or a microphone and generates sound from a speaker, and a CRT, LCD, or PDP are used. Image display device 7 and image processing for processing image data to be displayed on image display device 7 And a location 8.

  The user interface device 4 includes an operation panel (keyboard and display) of the device main body, and a remote controller 4a using wireless communication such as infrared rays is attached. The remote controller 4a includes a numeric keypad and several function keys, as well as a small liquid crystal display panel that displays the contents of these key inputs.

=== Basic operations of queue management and performance control ===
The central processing unit 1 creates a performance reservation queue in an appropriate storage unit, and manages the performance order of karaoke songs. The performance reservation data input by the user interface device 4 includes a music number consisting of a 6-digit number that identifies the music. If the performance reservation data is input, the central processing unit 1 confirms that the music number in the performance reservation data is the number of music that can be played in the karaoke music database, and waits for the music number. Register in the matrix.

  The central processing unit 1 extracts the music numbers from the queue in the order of registration, extracts the karaoke data of the corresponding music from the karaoke database of the hard disk device 2, and processes them. The karaoke data for one song corresponding to one song number is composed of music performance data that is the origin of accompaniment music expressed by MIDI data, ADPCM data, etc., and lyrics subtitles for displaying lyrics subtitles synchronized with the accompaniment music Data, background selection data that directly or indirectly designates background image data to be displayed as the background of the lyrics subtitles during the output period of the accompaniment music, and music description for displaying the title, artist, or author of the music This is a data group in which caption data is associated.

  Note that a background image database is also built in the hard disk device 2, and the central processing unit 1 extracts appropriate background image data from the background image database based on the background selection data as part of the karaoke data processing, and the image processing device. 8 and is displayed by the video display device 7 together with the lyrics subtitles.

=== User number and user music book file ===
In this embodiment, 100 specific numbers “801800” to “801899” are used as user numbers among 6-digit numbers not used as music numbers. The central processing unit 1 creates and manages a maximum of 100 user music book files associated with the user numbers “801800” to “801899” in the hard disk device 2. As will be described in detail below, these user numbers are assigned to regular customers of the store, and the songs often sung by the regular customers are registered in the user's music book file.

  As the contents and data structure of the user music book file will be described later, it will be described first how the user number and the user music book file are used.

  As described above, when the central processing unit 1 receives the performance reservation data input by the user interface device 4, the central processing unit 1 checks whether or not the music number in the data is the number of a music that can be played. In this number check process, in this embodiment, it is checked whether or not the number in the performance reservation data is the user number, and if it is a user number (not a number of music that can be played), The user number is handled in the same way as the regular music number and registered in the queue.

  The central processing unit 1 sequentially processes the music numbers registered in the queue, but when the number of the next rank to be executed is picked up from the queue, it is not the music number but the user. If it is a number, a user music book file created in association with the user number is read from the hard disk device 2, and a user music book as shown in FIG. Screen data is generated and displayed on the video display device 7 via the video processing device 8.

  Note that the flowchart of FIG. 2 shows an outline of a processing procedure related to the user music book file executed by the central processing unit 1.

=== Screen of user's music book ===
On the screen of the user music book illustrated in FIG. 3 (a), a window labeled "Best album for you only" opens, and the music is written along with the numbers from 1 to 9 in the window. A menu “new registration” is written at the top of the list. A cursor is additionally displayed on one of the items from 0 to 9, and an operation guide for moving the cursor is also shown.

  In the state where the screen of the user music book is displayed on the video display device 7, the user can move the cursor in the screen by operating the remote controller 4a according to the guidance. When an arbitrary piece of music is selected with the cursor and a predetermined command is input with the remote controller 4a, the central controller 1 responds to this input by referring to the file contents of the displayed user music book and using the cursor. The music number is recognized from the identified music piece, and the screen display is switched as shown in FIG. In FIG. 3 (b), only the music selected by the number is shown in large size for confirmation, and a key change value for the music set in the past is shown and a guidance sentence for accepting change input of this value is shown. write. In this state, when there is a predetermined command input from the remote controller 4a, the central processing unit 1 proceeds as if the performance reservation for the music being displayed has been received, and exits from the processing of the user music book to perform the performance processing. Execute.

=== Contents and writing of user music book file ===
In order to realize the above functions, information as shown in FIG. 4 is described in a predetermined data format in the user music book file. In one file, a user number assigned to the file, a user name that can be arbitrarily entered by the user as will be described later, and the creation date of the file are recorded. The selected song list is recorded. In the song list, the song, artist, and song number are the basic information, and the user can arbitrarily set the performance key change value for each song, and the history information such as the performance date and number of performances of each song is centralized. The processing device 1 automatically fills in.

  In the state where the screen of the user music book shown in FIG. 3A is displayed, if the cursor is positioned at the number 0 “new registration”, as shown in FIG. A guidance text “Please enter the song number” is displayed. In this display state, when the user interface device 4 (including the remote controller 4a) is used to input an arbitrary music number consisting of 6-digit numbers posted in the karaoke table of contents, the central controller 1 responds to this input. Enters information on the corresponding music in the file of the user music book being displayed and immediately reflects it on the screen of the user music book. In this way, the user can register songs that he often sings in the user music book file assigned to him.

  When the “setting” command is input by the user interface device 4 while the screen of the user music book in FIG. 3A is displayed, the central processing unit 1 enters the environment setting mode of the user music book. The process is executed to accept an input for entering an arbitrary character string in the “user name” column in the user music book file shown in FIG. . If the character string “Monkeys” is entered in the “user name” column, for example, the central processing unit 1 displays the contents of the user music book file as shown in FIG. In FIG. 3A, the notation “Best album only for you” is replaced with “Monkeys' best album”.

=== Adding convenient songs to the user's music book file ===
A song requested by someone on the karaoke device is being played, and a regular customer who is different from the person who is singing listens to the song and wants to remember and sing it. Suppose you want to register. According to the performance reservation system of this embodiment, a regular customer may operate as follows using the remote controller 4a. First, the user's user number is input, and then a predetermined key is pressed to input a command “adding a song being played to the song list”.

  Upon receiving this input, the central processing unit 1 accesses the user music book file corresponding to the user number, and stores necessary data such as the music piece, artist, music number, etc. of the currently playing music in the index of the karaoke database. And fill in the user's music book file. At the same time, the video display device 7 or the user interface device 4 outputs a message that “the song being played has been added to your music list”.

=== How to use the user's music book file ===
In the explanation so far, the user number is registered in the queue, and when the execution order is turned to the user number, the music book screen based on the corresponding user music book file is displayed, The system was configured to execute processing that uses the book.
In addition to the above configuration, the embodiment of the present invention has the following configuration requirements. When the user inputs a user number with the remote controller and inputs a “display music book” command, the CPU 1 accepts this input and accesses the corresponding user music book file to access the music book screen. When the user inputs to select a song on the display, the central processing unit 1 registers the song number of that song in the performance reservation queue. The user music book file related to the present invention can be used in various other ways.

It is the schematic of the hardware constitutions of the karaoke apparatus by one Example of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the outline of the main process procedures of the performance reservation system by one Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the display screen of a user music book in a performance reservation system same as the above. It is a conceptual diagram which shows the data structural example of the user music book file in a performance reservation system same as the above.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Central processing unit 2 Hard disk unit 3 Communication control unit 4 User interface unit 4a Remote control device 5 Music generation unit 6 Audio unit 7 Video display unit 8 Image processing unit

Claims (4)

A karaoke apparatus comprising an input means, a storage means, a performance means, and a control means, and manages a performance order in a queue,
The input means can accept various inputs from users,
The storage means stores the song list in which the song number is described in association with the user number,
The performance means enables music to be played,
The control means performs a music piece adding process when receiving an input of a user number and an additional command, and performs a music book display process when receiving an input of a user number and a display command.
In the song addition process, the song number of the currently playing song is entered in the song list of the received user number,
The music book display process displays the music list of the received user number on the display means, and registers the music number of the music specified by the user's input from the displayed music list in the queue. The song list contains the names of the users,
The karaoke apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control means also displays the title when displaying the music list. 3. The karaoke apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control means describes a performance history in the music list when performing a performance process based on the music list, and also displays a performance history when displaying the music list. In the song list, the key change value is attached to the song to be described,
The performance music selection process, when a key change value is attached to a music specified from the music list, causes the performance means to change a performance key based on the key change value. Karaoke equipment.

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