JP4775285B2 - Karaoke network system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for displaying lyrics telops composed of a large number of languages on a monitor in an easy-to-read manner even when the number of languages of lyrics telops desired to be displayed on a monitor increases.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is known a karaoke apparatus that displays a lyrics telop indicating karaoke lyrics and a background image of karaoke on a monitor screen, and outputs reproduced karaoke songs and microphone sound from a speaker.

  Among such karaoke apparatuses, there are a karaoke apparatus that displays bilingual lyrics telops on a monitor (for example, see Patent Document 1), and a karaoke apparatus that displays lyrics telops in different languages on a plurality of monitors. (For example, refer to Patent Document 2).

An image display device having a configuration that switches the vertical and horizontal directions of a screen according to the type of image signal is known (see, for example, Patent Document 3).
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-20870 (page 3, FIGS. 3 and 4) Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2001-5466 (page 4, FIG. 3) JP 05-307377 A (3rd and 4th pages, FIGS. 3 and 6)

  However, in the karaoke apparatus as described above, the number of languages of desired lyrics telops increases as the number of users who authenticate simultaneously increases, and it is difficult to display lyrics telops composed of these many languages on a monitor. There was a problem of becoming.

  In the above image display device, for example, the image display device is used as a monitor of the karaoke device in order to switch the screen in the vertical and horizontal directions depending on the type of the image signal such as whether the image data is horizontally long or vertically long. Even if used, the above-mentioned problems may occur.

  The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and the purpose of the present invention is to provide lyrics composed of many languages even if the number of words of the lyrics telop desired to be displayed on the monitor increases. It is to provide a technique for displaying a telop on a monitor in an easy-to-read manner.

  The karaoke network system according to claim 1, which has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, is arranged so that when the type of the lyrics telop is small, the substantially rectangular display area is set so that the long side is in the horizontal direction and the lyrics are arranged along the long side. It is characterized by displaying telops in parallel, and when there are many types of lyric telops, lyric telops are displayed in parallel along the short sides of the rectangular display area so that the short sides are horizontal. To do.

  Specifically, the karaoke network system described above has a karaoke device that performs karaoke performance, and an input function that allows the user to operate the karaoke device via the first network, and displays information from the karaoke device or the host server. A remote control having a function is a karaoke network system that is communicably connected to a host server via a second network.

Among them, the host server stores personal information for each user including at least user-provided information provided from the remote controller via the input function from the user and native language information indicating the type of the user's native language. Authentication to the user connected to the host server via the storage means and the remote controller and the end of the authentication are performed, and for the authenticated user, during the authentication until the end of the authentication, the use of the system is started on the remote control Authenticating means for permitting, and distributing means for distributing personal information related to the authenticated user among personal information stored in the personal information storage means as information that can be browsed based on a request from the remote controller; It is equipped with.

  The karaoke apparatus also shows reservation reception means for accepting reservations for karaoke performances by an authenticated user, lyrics telops configured in an original language, and plural types of lyrics telops configured in different types of languages. Based on the reservation of the karaoke performance song by the user received by the reservation receiving means, the karaoke performance music is read out from the performance song storage means and the karaoke performance is performed based on the reservation of the karaoke performance music by the user received by the reservation receiving means. Karaoke performance means, device-side display means capable of displaying lyrics telop, and lyrics telop configured in the original language out of the lyrics telop information included in the karaoke performance music, in accordance with the karaoke performance by the karaoke performance means Device-side display control means for displaying on the display means.

  Further, the remote control is a terminal-side display means having a substantially rectangular display area capable of displaying lyrics telop, and a personal information received from the host server other than the user who made a reservation in the reservation receiving means among the personal information regarding the user being authenticated. Based on the native language information related to the user being authenticated, the native language of the user being authenticated other than the user who made a reservation in the reservation reception means among the plural types of lyrics telops included in the karaoke performance song read from the song storage means Terminal-side display control means for acquiring lyrics telops configured in the same language from the karaoke apparatus and displaying the acquired lyrics telops in the display area of the terminal-side display means in accordance with the karaoke performance by the karaoke performance means of the karaoke apparatus And. Then, the terminal-side display control means of the remote controller determines whether or not the number of lyric telop types displayed on the terminal-side display means is equal to or greater than a threshold value. When the number of types of lyrics telop to be displayed on the terminal-side display means is equal to or greater than the threshold, the terminal-side display control means sets the short side in the display area of the terminal-side display means as the horizontal direction along each short side Display lyrics telop in parallel. On the other hand, when the number of types of lyrics telop to be displayed on the terminal side display means is less than the threshold value, the terminal side display control means takes the long side in the display area of the terminal side display means as the horizontal direction along the long side. Display each lyrics telop in parallel.

  According to the karaoke network system of the present invention configured as described above, when the type of lyrics telop is small, the lyrics rectangle is displayed in parallel along the long side of the substantially rectangular display area so that the long side is in the horizontal direction. When there are many types of lyrics telops, lyrics telops are displayed in parallel along the short sides of the substantially rectangular display area so that the short sides are in the horizontal direction. As a result, even if the number of languages of lyrics telops desired to be displayed on the display means such as a monitor increases, the lyrics telops configured in such many languages can be displayed on the display means in an easy-to-read manner.

  In other words, since there are many users who are being authenticated, even if there are many types of native languages of those users who are being authenticated, by displaying lyrics telops in more types of languages, The meaning of the lyrics can be understood, and more authenticated users can enjoy karaoke performance and singing of other users.

When the plural types of lyrics telops are displayed in parallel in the display area of the terminal side display means as described above, (a) lyrics telops in languages with more users who are authenticating with the language as the native language. It can be considered that the display area is positioned so as to be above the display area in the vertical direction. Specifically, when the terminal-side display control means of the remote controller displays a plurality of types of lyrics telops in parallel in the display area of the terminal-side display means as in claim 2, the language is set as the native language. It is conceivable that the lyrics telop configured in a language with more users who are authenticated is arranged so that it is located above the display area in the vertical direction.

  If configured in this way, for example, since there are many users who are authenticating and there are many types of native languages of those users, the lyrics telop of the language with more users who are authenticating with that language as the native language is displayed in the display area. By arranging so as to be upward in the vertical direction, more authenticated users can enjoy karaoke performance and singing of other users.

  In addition, since it is assumed that the user who is operating the remote control is most interested in the karaoke performance song during the karaoke performance, a plurality of types of lyrics telops are displayed in parallel with the display area of the terminal side display means as described above. (B) It is conceivable that the lyrics telop composed in the native language of the user who is operating the remote control is arranged so as to be above the display area in the vertical direction. Specifically, as shown in claim 3, when a plurality of types of lyrics telop are displayed in parallel in the display area of the terminal side display means, when there is a user who is operating the remote controller, the terminal side of the remote controller It is conceivable that the display control means arranges the lyrics telop composed in the user's native language at the highest position in the vertical direction of the display area.

  If comprised in this way, the user can enjoy a karaoke performance and a song by arrange | positioning the lyrics telop comprised in the user's native language in the highest rank in the vertical direction of a display area.

  By the way, when displaying the original language lyrics telop on the device side display device of the karaoke apparatus as described above, it is conceivable that (c) the lyric telop in the native language of the singer is displayed together with the original language lyrics telop. . Specifically, as in claim 4, the device-side display control means of the karaoke device acquires native language information included in the personal information related to the user who made a reservation in the reservation receiving means, and the acquired native language Based on the information, the lyrics telop information included in the karaoke performance music is composed of a plurality of types of lyrics telop included in the karaoke performance music read from the performance music storage means in the same language as the user's native language. In addition to the lyrics telop configured in the original language, it may be displayed in the display area of the device-side display means in accordance with the karaoke performance by the karaoke performance means.

If comprised in this way, when the native language of a singer differs from the original language of a karaoke performance music, for example, a singer can make it easy to sing the karaoke performance music.
In this case, the lyric telop in the native language of the singer may be displayed above or below with lower characters than the lyrics telop in the original language. Specifically, as in claim 5, the device display control means of the karaoke device includes a lyrics telop in the same language as the native language of the user who made a reservation in the reservation receiving means in the karaoke performance When displaying in the display area of the device-side display means together with the lyrics telop configured in the original language, the lyrics telop configured in the native language of the user who made the reservation It is conceivable that the text is displayed above or below with a character smaller than the lyric telop constituted by.

  If configured in this way, there are more users who are authenticating to view lyrics telop configured in the original language than users viewing lyrics telop configured in the same language as the singer's native language However, those many users can enjoy karaoke performance and singing.

  In addition, when the original language lyrics telop is displayed on the device side display device of the karaoke apparatus as described above, (d) along with the original language lyrics telop, there are the largest number of authenticated users whose native language is the language. It may be possible to display a lyrics telop in the language. Specifically, as described in claim 6, the device side display control means of the karaoke device converts a lyrics telop composed of a language having the largest number of authenticated users whose native language is the language into a karaoke performance song. Along with the lyrics telop configured in the original language among the included lyrics telop information, it may be displayed in the display area of the device-side display means in accordance with the karaoke performance by the karaoke performance means.

  If comprised in this way, even if the language with the largest number of the users who are authenticating that the language is a native language differs from the original language of a karaoke performance music, those many users can enjoy karaoke performance and a song.

  In this case, it is conceivable that the lyrics telop of the language with the largest number of authenticated users whose native language is the language is displayed above or below the characters with smaller characters than the lyrics telop of the original language. Specifically, as in claim 7, the device display control means of the karaoke device includes a lyrics telop composed in the language with the largest number of authenticated users whose language is the native language in the karaoke performance song. When displaying in the display area of the device side display means together with the lyrics telop configured in the original language among the lyrics telop information to be displayed, it is configured in the language with the most authenticated users whose native language is the language It is conceivable to display the lyric telop above or below it with smaller characters than the lyric telop configured in the original language.

  If comprised in this way, even if the language with the largest number of authenticated users whose native language is the language is different from the original language of the karaoke performance song, those many users can enjoy karaoke performance and singing, In addition, the singer can easily sing the karaoke performance.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
[First embodiment]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a karaoke network system 1 using the Internet 200.

[Description of configuration of karaoke network system 1]
As shown in FIG. 1, the karaoke network system 1 has a karaoke room and other karaoke rooms for a karaoke host server 2 having a web server 2a and a database 2b, and an internet host server 3 having a web server 3a. A karaoke device 4 installed in the computer, a remote control terminal 5 for operating the karaoke device 4, and a user terminal 6 comprising information terminals such as a personal computer (hereinafter referred to as a personal computer) 6a and a mobile phone 6b are connected via the Internet 200. It is formed by being configured to be communicable.

The karaoke host server 2 is a karaoke service host server for delivering music data, content data to be provided to the user from the karaoke device 4 to the karaoke device 4 installed in a karaoke shop or the like. . The karaoke host server 2 is connected to the LAN 100 on the karaoke store side via a VPN (virtual private network) formed on the Internet network 200 between the router 130 on the host server side and the router 120 on the karaoke store side. ing. That is, communication between the karaoke host server 2 and the karaoke apparatus 4 and the remote control terminal 5 is performed via the VPN on the Internet 200 and the LAN 100 on the karaoke store side.

  Further, in the karaoke network system 1, the karaoke host server 2 includes a user registration database 2c that stores registration information related to a user who has authority to use the system, information related to a registered user's karaoke song, and the user. Is transmitted to the personal Web page database 2d for storing personal Web page data for publishing on the Internet 200, etc., to the karaoke device 4 for karaoke performance of music on the karaoke device 4 side. A database 2b having karaoke song information to be used is provided. The Web server 2a included in the karaoke host server 2 is linked to the database 2b, and attempts to log in to use the karaoke network system 1 in response to a request from the remote control terminal 4 on the karaoke store side. Authentication for users who log in and distribution / update services for personal web pages for logged-in users. That is, the term “cooperation” here refers to the data stored in the database 2d or the personal web page received by the web server 2a in order for the web server 2a to perform user authentication and distribution of the personal web page. By reflecting update data in the database 2b, it indicates that the data used for the service performed by the Web server 2a corresponds to the database 2b.

  The Internet host server 3 transmits information via the Internet 200 to an information terminal such as a personal computer 6a or a mobile phone 6b (hereinafter also collectively referred to as a user terminal 6) via the Web server 3a. It is a host server to do. The Internet host server 3 is configured to be able to communicate with the karaoke host server 2 via an appropriate communication line.

  The Web server 3a provided in the Internet host server 3 is linked to the database 2b provided in the karaoke host server 2 (similar to the above-described Web server 2a), and in response to a request from the user terminal 6, the karaoke host 3 Similar to the Web server 2a included in the server 2, authentication for a user who wants to log in to use the karaoke network system 1 and distribution / update service for a personal Web page for the logged-in user are performed.

  The personal computer 6a is a normal computer having sufficient processing capability, and is connected to the Internet 200 via an appropriate communication line. The personal computer 6a is used for browsing a web page received via the Internet 200, for inputting information and operation instructions on the screen, and for operating an application for displaying an animation or the like. Software having a so-called Web browser function is provided.

  The mobile phone 6b is a so-called third generation or later mobile phone that can be connected to the Internet 200 via a communication line provided by a mobile phone operator. In addition to a call function for making / receiving calls, the mobile phone 6b is connected via the Internet 200. Software having a Web browser function for browsing a received Web page on the screen, allowing a user to input information and operation instructions on the screen, and operating an application for displaying an animation or the like is provided. .

  A user terminal 6 including a personal computer 6a and a mobile phone 6b accesses the Web server 3a in the Internet host server 3 via the Internet 200, and browses / displays a personal Web page based on data received from the Web server 3a. Various processes for updating are executed.

[Description of configuration of karaoke device 4]
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a more specific configuration of the karaoke apparatus 4 and the remote control terminal 5 installed in a karaoke room such as a karaoke shop.

  The karaoke device 4 is for performing a karaoke performance of a song designated by a user who uses karaoke. As shown in FIG. 2, the karaoke device 4 includes a control unit 12 that controls the operation of the karaoke device 4 as a whole. An interface unit 14 for connecting to the LAN 100, content data such as music data and video data indicating accompaniment contents and lyrics of a performance music, a hard disk (HDD) 16 for storing a program for operating the karaoke device 4, and the like. The infrared signal transmitted from the operation unit 18 for performing a music reservation operation, the remote control terminal 5, the mobile phone 6 or the like is an infrared communication standard (IrDA (registered trademark)) or the remote control terminal 5 and karaoke. Infrared communication unit 20 and operation unit for receiving according to communication conditions set in advance between two parties with device 4 8, an operation processing unit 22 that processes a signal from the microphone 8, a MIDI sound source 30 that performs performance reproduction based on performance data (MIDI data) stored in the HDD 16, and an audio of a musical piece from a digital signal output from the MIDI sound source 30 A sound control unit 24 that generates signals (signals related to sound and sound), amplifies the generated audio signal and the audio signal input from the microphone 26 and outputs the amplified signal to the speaker 28, and a video RAM 32 that temporarily stores image data. A video playback unit 34 for controlling playback of video based on image data stored in the video RAM 32; a video control unit 38 for controlling display of a video played back by the video playback unit 34; and a semiconductor element. A memory 40, which is a rewritable storage medium, is provided.

  The memory 40 stores a reservation list as illustrated in FIG. In this reservation list, records including the order of performance, reserved song number, user ID of the user who reserved the reserved song, the native language of the user who reserved the reserved song, information indicating the height of the key, and the like are registered.

  In addition, the control unit 12 transmits an instruction for prohibiting the update of the user's personal Web page corresponding to the music being played to the remote control terminal 5 or information on the singing performed by the user as a karaoke host. Processing such as transmission to the server 2 is executed.

[Description of configuration of remote control terminal 5]
The remote control terminal 5 is for use in a karaoke room, and has a function of accepting an operation for reserving a musical piece from a user and transmitting the operation signal to the karaoke apparatus 4. In addition, the remote control terminal 5 accesses the karaoke host server 2 via the access point 110 via the LAN 100 and the VPN on the Internet 200, and browses the personal web page based on the data received from the karaoke host server 2. It also has a function for updating.

  Specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, the remote control terminal 5 is set in advance between the control unit 52 that controls the operation of the entire remote control terminal 5, the infrared communication standard (IrDA), or the remote control terminal 5 and the karaoke device 4. The infrared communication unit 54 that transmits an infrared signal to the karaoke device 4 according to the communication conditions set, the memory 56 that stores various information such as a program for operating the remote control terminal 5, and the display area of the display unit 58 are installed. An operation unit 60 that includes a touch panel and a plurality of key switches, receives an operation from a user, an operation processing unit 62 that processes a signal from the operation unit 60, a video RAM 64 that temporarily stores image data, and a video RAM 64 that is stored. A video control unit 66 for controlling display of the received image data on the display unit 58, and an access point 1 connected to the LAN 100. 0 wireless LAN standard (e.g., IEEE802.11a / b / g standard, HomeRF standards, Bluetooth standards, etc.) between and a wireless LAN communication unit 68 for performing radio communication in accordance with the.

Among these, the control part 52 receives the operation input for reserving a music from a user, and reservation data which added the user ID of the reservation person (namely, person who sings) to the music number of the selected music. The process which transmits to the karaoke apparatus 4 is performed. In addition, the control unit 52 accesses the karaoke host server 2 via the Internet 200 and executes various processes for browsing / updating the personal web page based on the data received from the karaoke host server 2. . The remote control terminal 5 is configured to be able to log in to the system in parallel for each of a plurality of user accounts.

  Further, the display unit 58 has a display area (display area) for displaying lyrics telop and the like as illustrated in FIG. This display area is formed in a substantially rectangular shape, the length of the short side is Y1, and the length of the long side is X1.

  In addition, the memory 56 displays the login user list of the logged-in users as exemplified in FIG. 9A and the display order of languages when the lyrics telop as exemplified in FIG. 9B is displayed. A table is stored. In this display order table, records including the display order, the display language, the number of logged-in users whose native language is the display language, and the like are registered.

[Description of other configurations]
An access point 110 is connected to the LAN 100 described above. The access point 110 is a radio wave relay for connecting terminals by wireless communication, and has a function of performing communication simultaneously with a plurality of terminals. The remote control terminal 5 and the karaoke host server 2 can perform data communication with each other via the LAN 100 and the VPN on the Internet 200 by relaying the access point 110.

  The routers 120 and 130 are so-called VPN gateways for using VPN technology that creates a state in which a communication path on an external network such as the Internet 200 is encrypted and is virtually connected by a dedicated line. The routers 120 and 130 are placed at connection points between the Internet 200 as an external network and the LAN 100 as an internal network and the network on the karaoke host server 2 side, respectively, and encrypt communication from the internal network to the Internet 200 side. Send it out. Also, the communication from the Internet 200 side is decrypted and sent to the internal network.

[Explanation of correspondence]
The configuration of the karaoke network system 1 according to the embodiment has been described above. The correspondence between the configuration of the karaoke network system 1 according to the present embodiment and the configuration described in the claims is as follows.

  The karaoke host server 2 and the Internet host server 3 of the present embodiment correspond to a host server, an authentication unit, and a distribution unit in the claims. The control unit 12 in the karaoke apparatus 4 corresponds to a reservation receiving unit, a scoring history information acquisition unit, a scoring unit, and a device-side display control unit. Further, the HDD 16 in the karaoke apparatus 4 corresponds to a performance song storage means. Further, the monitor 36 in the karaoke apparatus 4 corresponds to the apparatus side display means. Further, the display unit 58 in the remote control terminal 5 corresponds to a terminal side display means. Further, the control unit 52 in the remote control terminal 5 corresponds to a terminal side display control means. The LAN 100 that is an internal network corresponds to the first network, and the Internet 200 that is an external network corresponds to the second network.

[Description of main processing]
Below, the process sequence of the main process which the host server 2 for karaoke of the karaoke network system 1, the karaoke apparatus 4, and the remote control terminal 5 performs is demonstrated based on the flowchart of FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 3, this main process includes a user registration process, a user login process, a karaoke performance song reservation process, and a karaoke performance song performance process, and includes a karaoke host server 2, a karaoke device 4, and When the remote control terminal 5 is activated, it is executed independently of other processes.

[Explanation of user registration process]
Below, the process sequence of the user registration process which the karaoke host server 2 and the remote control terminal 5 of the karaoke network system 1 perform is demonstrated.

  First, the control unit 52 of the remote control terminal 5 receives user information including a user ID, a password, and a user's native language input by the user from the operation unit 60, and the received user information is karaoke via the karaoke device 4. To the host server 2 for use. On the other hand, when the karaoke host server 2 receives the user information transmitted from the remote control terminal 5, the user registration is performed using the received user information.

[Explanation of user login processing]
Below, the process sequence of the user login process which the karaoke host server 2 and the remote control terminal 5 of the karaoke network system 1 perform is demonstrated based on the flowchart of FIG. 3 and FIG.

  First, the control unit 52 of the remote control terminal 5 receives the user ID input from the operation unit 60 by the user (S205), and receives the password input from the operation unit 60 by the user (S210). Then, the user ID and password received in the previous S205 and S210 are transmitted to the karaoke host server 2 via the karaoke apparatus 4 (S215).

  On the other hand, the karaoke host server 2 receives the user ID and password transmitted from the remote control terminal 5 (S220), refers to the user information related to the registered user stored in the database 2b, and sets the password for the received user ID. The confirmation result is confirmed and the confirmation result is transmitted to the remote control terminal 5 via the karaoke apparatus 4 (S225), and it is determined whether or not the user is permitted to log in based on the confirmation result (S230). When the user is not permitted to log in (S230: NO), the process executed by the karaoke host server 2 in the user login process is terminated. On the other hand, when the user is permitted to log in (S230: YES), the personal information such as the native language corresponding to the user ID is extracted by referring to the user information related to the registered user stored in the database 2b. The personal information thus transmitted is transmitted to the remote control terminal 5 via the karaoke device 4 (S235), and the process executed by the karaoke host server 2 in the user login process is terminated.

  On the other hand, the remote control terminal 5 receives the password confirmation result for the user ID transmitted from the karaoke host server 2 (S240), and whether the user is permitted to log in based on the received confirmation result. It is determined whether or not (S245). If the login is not permitted (S245: NO), the process executed by the remote control terminal 5 in the user login process is terminated. On the other hand, when the user is permitted to log in (S245: YES), the personal information transmitted from the karaoke host server 2 is received, and the received personal information is stored in the memory 56 in the login user list. (S250, see FIG. 9A). And the process which the remote control terminal 5 in this user login process performs is complete | finished.

[Explanation of karaoke performance reservation process]
Below, the processing procedure of the karaoke performance music reservation process which the karaoke apparatus 4 and the remote control terminal 5 of the karaoke network system 1 perform is demonstrated based on the flowchart of FIG. 3 and FIG.

  First, the control unit 52 of the remote control terminal 5 executes user switching based on an instruction input from the operation unit 60 by the user (S310). Then, the input of the song number of the karaoke performance song input from the operation unit 60 by the user, the user ID of the user and the type of the native language of the user is accepted (S320), and the received song number, user ID and mother ID are received. Reservation information including the type of national language is transmitted to the karaoke apparatus 4 (S330). And the process which the remote control terminal 5 in this karaoke performance music reservation process performs is complete | finished.

  On the other hand, the karaoke apparatus 4 receives the reservation information transmitted from the remote control terminal 5, and registers the received reservation information in the reservation list stored in the memory 40 (S340, see FIG. 8B). And the process which the karaoke apparatus 4 in this karaoke performance music reservation process performs is complete | finished.

[Explanation of karaoke performance song processing]
Below, the processing procedure of the karaoke performance music performance process which the karaoke apparatus 4 and the remote control terminal 5 of the karaoke network system 1 perform is demonstrated based on the flowchart of FIG.

  First, the control unit 58 of the karaoke apparatus 4 extracts reservation information related to a karaoke performance song to be played next from the reservation information stored in the memory 40 (S410 and S420), and the extracted reservation information is included in the extracted reservation information. The user's native language type and the language type of the karaoke performance song corresponding to the song number included in the reservation information are transmitted to the remote control terminal 5 (S430). Further, the music data of the karaoke performance music corresponding to the music number is extracted from the HDD 16 to perform the karaoke performance, the lyrics data is extracted from the music data and displayed on the monitor 36, and the extracted lyrics data is displayed on the remote control terminal 5. (S460). The lyrics data includes lyrics telops in a plurality of languages. And the process which the karaoke apparatus 4 in this karaoke performance music performance process performs is complete | finished.

  On the other hand, the remote control terminal 5 receives the type of the user's native language included in the reservation information and the type of language of the karaoke performance song corresponding to the song number included in the reservation information transmitted from the karaoke device 4 (S440). Further, information indicating the type of the native language of another user who is currently logged in is acquired from the memory 56 (S450). Then, while receiving the lyrics data transmitted from the karaoke device 4, the lyrics telop display process for displaying the lyrics telop in the display area of the display unit 58 is executed (S470). The lyrics telop display process will be described later. And the process which the remote control terminal 5 in this karaoke performance music performance process performs is complete | finished.

[Explanation of lyrics telop display processing]
Below, the process sequence of the lyrics telop display process which the remote control terminal 5 of the karaoke network system 1 performs is demonstrated based on the flowchart of FIG.

The lyrics telop display process is executed when the process proceeds to S470 in the karaoke performance song performance process described above.
First, when the display area of the display unit 58 is used with its long side as the horizontal direction, the number of lines Y2 that can display each lyric telop in parallel along the long side is calculated using the equation (1). (S510).

Maximum number of display lines Y2 = Vertical length Y1 / Vertical font size
... Formula (1)

Subsequently, the language number N of the lyrics telop to be displayed in the display area of the display unit 58 is calculated as follows (S520). That is, it is determined whether the language of the karaoke performance song is also displayed on the display unit 58 at the same time. In the case where the language of the karaoke performance song is also displayed on the display unit 58 at the same time, if the same language as the language of the karaoke performance song exists in each of the native languages of the currently logged-in user, The number of languages in the native language is the number of languages N of the lyrics telop displayed in the display area of the display unit 58. Further, when there is no language that is the same as the language of the karaoke performance song in each native language of the currently logged-in user, a numerical value obtained by adding a numerical value “1” to the number of languages in the native language of the currently logged-in user Is the language number N of the lyrics telop to be displayed in the display area of the display unit 58. On the other hand, when the language of the karaoke performance song is not displayed on the display unit 58 and the same language as the language of the karaoke performance song exists in each of the native languages of the currently logged-in user, the current login is made. A numerical value obtained by subtracting the numerical value “1” from the number of languages of the user's native language is set as the language number N of the lyrics telop to be displayed in the display area of the display unit 58. Further, when there is no language in the native language of the currently logged-in user that is the same as the language of the karaoke song, the number of the native language of the currently logged-in user is displayed in the display area of the display unit 58. The number of languages of the lyrics telop to be displayed is N.

Subsequently, it is determined whether or not the display area of the display unit 58 is used with its long side as the horizontal direction (S530). When the maximum display line number Y2 calculated in the previous S510 is larger than the display language number calculated in the previous S520, the display area of the display unit 58 is used with its long side as the horizontal direction (S530: YES), the number of display lines per language when the display area of the display unit 58 is used with its long side in the horizontal direction is calculated using the following equation (2), and the process proceeds to S540.

Number of display lines per language A = maximum number of display lines Y2 / number of display languages N
... Formula (2)

On the other hand, when the maximum number of display lines Y2 calculated in the previous S510 is smaller than the number of display languages calculated in the previous S520, the display area of the display unit 58 is used with its short side as the horizontal direction ( S530: NO), when the display area of the display unit 58 is used with the short side as the horizontal direction, the number X2 of lines that can display the lyrics telop in parallel along the short side is calculated by using the equation (3). The number B of display lines per language is calculated using the following equation (4), and the process proceeds to S560.

Maximum number of display lines X2 = vertical length of display area X1 / vertical font size
... Formula (3)
Number of display lines per language B = maximum number of display lines X2 / number of display languages N
... Formula (4)

In subsequent S560, the native languages of the currently logged-in users are rearranged in order from the language in which the largest number of users are the native languages (S560), and further reservations are made for karaoke performances for the next karaoke performance. The user's native language is changed to the top (S570). The user's native language rearranged in this way is stored in the memory 56 as a display order table illustrated in FIG. 9B. Then, the lyrics telop received from the karaoke apparatus 4 is displayed in parallel in the display area of the display unit 58 according to the number of display lines per language in order from the language registered in the display order table stored in the memory 56. (S580). Then, this process ends.

[Effect of the first embodiment]
(1) As described above, according to the karaoke network system 1 of the first embodiment, in the lyrics telop display process, when the type of the lyrics telop is small, the display area 58 of the display unit 58 of the remote control terminal 5 has the long side as the horizontal direction. Lyric telops are displayed along the long side in parallel, and when there are many types of lyric telops, the above-mentioned display area is set so that the short side is horizontal and the lyrics telop is along the short side. Are displayed in parallel. As a result, even if the number of lyrics telops desired to be displayed on the display unit 58 of the remote control terminal 5 increases, the lyrics telops configured in such many languages can be displayed on the display unit 58 in an easy-to-read manner. In other words, since there are many users who are being authenticated, even if there are many types of native languages of those users who are being authenticated, by displaying lyrics telops in more types of languages, The meaning of the lyrics can be understood, and more authenticated users can enjoy karaoke performance and singing of other users.

  (2) Also, according to the karaoke network system 1 of the first embodiment, in the lyrics telop display process, the display unit 58 of the remote control terminal 5 is a lyric telop in a language with more users who are authenticating the language as the native language. It arrange | positions so that it may become above in the vertical direction of a display area. Thus, for example, even if there are many types of native languages of the users because there are many users who are authenticated, the display unit of the remote control terminal 5 is a lyrics telop in a language with more users who are authenticated using the language as the native language. By arranging so as to be above the display area 58 in the vertical direction, more authenticated users can enjoy karaoke performance and singing of other users.

  (3) According to the karaoke network system 1 of the first embodiment, in the lyrics telop display process, the lyrics telop configured in the native language of the user who is operating the remote control terminal 5 is displayed on the display unit 58 of the remote control terminal 5. Therefore, the user can enjoy karaoke performance and singing.

  (4) Also, according to the karaoke network system 1 of the first embodiment, in the lyrics telop display process, the lyrics telop in the native language of the singer is displayed on the remote control terminal 5 together with the lyrics telop configured in the language of the karaoke performance song. Since it is displayed in the display area of the display unit 58, for example, when the native language of the singer is different from the original language of the karaoke performance song, the singer can easily sing the karaoke performance song.

  (5) Also, according to the karaoke network system 1 of the first embodiment, in the lyrics telop display process, the user who is authenticating with the language as the native language, together with the lyrics telop configured in the language of the karaoke performance song Since the lyrics telop of the most languages are displayed in the display area of the display unit 58 of the remote control terminal 5, even if the language with the most authenticated users whose native language is the language is different from the original language of the karaoke performance song, Many users can enjoy karaoke performance and singing.

[Other Embodiments]
As mentioned above, although one Embodiment of this invention was described, this invention is not limited to the said embodiment, It is possible to implement in the following various aspects.

  (1) When displaying the lyrics telop in the native language of the singer in the display area of the display unit 58 of the remote control terminal 5 together with the lyrics telop configured in the language of the karaoke performance song in the lyrics telop display processing, The native language lyrics telop may be displayed above or below the characters in a smaller character than the original language lyrics telop. In this way, even if there are a large number of authenticated users who view the lyrics telop configured in the original language than the users who view the lyrics telop configured in the same language as the singer's native language. Many of these users can enjoy karaoke performance and singing.

  (2) In the lyrics telop display process, the lyrics telop configured in the language of the karaoke performance song and the lyrics telop in the language having the largest number of authenticated users whose native language is the language are displayed on the display unit 58 of the remote control terminal 5 When displaying in the area, the lyrics telop in the language with the largest number of authenticated users whose native language is the language may be displayed above or below with lower characters than the lyrics telop in the original language. . In this way, even if the language with the largest number of authenticated users whose native language is the language is different from the original language of the karaoke performance song, those many users can enjoy karaoke performance and singing, and A singer can easily sing the karaoke performance.

1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a karaoke network system 1 using the Internet 200. FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the more concrete structure of the karaoke apparatus 4 and the remote control terminal 5 which are installed in karaoke rooms, such as a karaoke shop. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure of the main process which the host server for karaoke, a karaoke apparatus, and a remote control perform. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure of the user login process which the host server for karaoke and a remote control perform. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure of the karaoke performance music reservation process which a karaoke apparatus and a remote control perform. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure of the process at the time of a karaoke performance music performance which a karaoke apparatus and a remote control perform. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure of the lyrics telop display process which a remote control performs. (A) is explanatory drawing which shows the lyrics display area of a remote control, (b) is explanatory drawing which shows the reservation list which a karaoke apparatus memorize | stores. (A) is explanatory drawing which shows the list of the user who is logging in, (b) is explanatory drawing which shows the display order table | surface of the language at the time of displaying a lyrics telop.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Karaoke network system, 2 ... Karaoke host server, 2a ... Web server, 2b ... Database, 3 ... Internet host server, 3a ... Web server, 4 ... Karaoke apparatus, 5 ... Remote control terminal, 6 ... User terminal, 6a ... Personal computer (PC), 6b ... Mobile phone, 12 ... Control part, 14 ... Interface part, 16 ... Hard disk (HDD), 18 ... Operation part, 20 ... Infrared communication part, 22 ... Operation processing part, 24 ... Voice control , 26 ... microphone, 28 ... speaker, 30 ... MIDI sound source, 32 ... video RAM, 34 ... video playback unit, 36 ... monitor, 38 ... video control unit, 40 ... memory, 52 ... control unit, 54 ... infrared communication unit 56 ... Memory, 58 ... Display unit, 60 ... Operation unit, 62 ... Operation processing unit, 64 ... Video RAM, 66 Video control unit, 68 ... wireless LAN communication unit, 100 ... LAN, 110 ... access point, 120, 130 ... router, 200 ... Internet

Claims (7)

A karaoke device that performs karaoke performance, and a remote controller that has an input function that allows the user to operate the karaoke device via a first network, and that has an information display function from the karaoke device or a host server. A karaoke network system communicably connected to the host server via
The host server is
Personal information storage means for storing personal information for each user including at least user-provided information provided from the remote control via the input function from the user and native language information indicating the type of the user's native language;
Authentication to a user connected to the host server via the remote controller and termination of the authentication are performed, and the remote controller is configured to start using the system during the authentication up to the end of the authentication. Authentication means to allow
A distribution unit that distributes personal information related to an authenticated user among personal information stored in the personal information storage unit as information that can be browsed based on a request from the remote control;
The karaoke device
Reservation accepting means for accepting reservations for karaoke performances by authenticated users;
A performance song storage means for storing one or more karaoke performance songs including lyrics telop information indicating lyrics telop configured in an original language and a plurality of types of lyrics telop configured in different types of languages;
Karaoke performance means for reading out the karaoke performance music from the performance music storage means and performing karaoke performance based on the reservation of the karaoke performance music by the user received by the reservation reception means;
Device-side display means capable of displaying the lyrics telop;
Device-side display control means for displaying, on the device-side display means, lyric telops configured in an original language among the lyrics telop information included in the karaoke performance music in accordance with the karaoke performance by the karaoke performance means; ,
The remote control is
Terminal-side display means having a substantially rectangular display area capable of displaying the lyrics telop;
A karaoke performance piece read from the musical piece storage means based on native language information about an authenticated user other than the user who made a reservation at the reservation receiving means among the personal information about the authenticated user received from the host server The lyrics telop composed of the same language as the native language of the user who is authenticating other than the user who made a reservation in the reservation receiving means among the plurality of types of lyrics telop included in the karaoke device was acquired, and the acquired Terminal-side display control means for displaying lyrics telop in the display area of the terminal-side display means in accordance with karaoke performance by the karaoke performance means of the karaoke device,
The terminal-side display control means of the remote controller determines whether or not the number of lyrics telop types displayed on the terminal-side display means is greater than or equal to a threshold value, and determines the type of lyrics telop to be displayed on the terminal-side display means. When the quantity is greater than or equal to the threshold value, the lyric telop is displayed in parallel along the short side with the short side in the display area of the terminal side display means as the horizontal direction, and on the other hand, displayed on the terminal side display means When the quantity of the type of lyrics telop is less than a threshold value, the lyrics telop is displayed in parallel along the long side with the long side in the display area of the terminal side display means as the horizontal direction. Network system. The karaoke network system according to claim 1,
When the terminal-side display control means of the remote control displays a plurality of types of lyrics telops in parallel in the display area of the terminal-side display means, the language in which more languages are being authenticated and whose native language is the user The karaoke network system is characterized in that the lyric telops configured as described above are arranged so that they are located above the display area in the vertical direction. In the karaoke network system according to claim 1 or 2,
When the terminal-side display control means of the remote control displays a plurality of types of lyrics telops in parallel in the display area of the terminal-side display means, if there is a user who is operating the remote control, the user's mother A karaoke network system characterized in that lyrics telops configured in Japanese are arranged at the top in the vertical direction of the display area. In the karaoke network system in any one of Claims 1-3,
The device-side display control means of the karaoke device acquires native language information included in personal information relating to a user who has made a reservation in the reservation receiving means, and based on the acquired native language information, the performance song storage means The lyrics telop composed of the same language as the user's native language among the plurality of types of lyrics telop included in the karaoke performance song read from the karaoke performance song is composed of the original language of the lyrics telop information included in the karaoke performance song A karaoke network system characterized in that, together with the lyric telop, the karaoke network is displayed in a display area of the device-side display unit in accordance with the karaoke performance by the karaoke performance unit. The karaoke network system according to claim 4,
The device-side display control means of the karaoke device includes an original language out of the lyrics telop information included in the karaoke performance tune, which is composed of the lyrics telop configured in the same language as the native language of the user who made a reservation in the reservation receiving means. Is displayed in the display area of the device-side display means together with the lyrics telop configured in the above, the lyrics telop configured in the native language of the user who made the reservation is converted into the lyrics configured in the original language A karaoke network system characterized by being displayed above or below in characters smaller than the telop. In the karaoke network system in any one of Claims 1-3,
The device-side display control means of the karaoke device uses a lyrics telop configured in a language having the largest number of authenticated users whose native language is the language as the original language of the lyrics telop information included in the karaoke performance song A karaoke network system, wherein the karaoke network system is displayed in the display area of the device-side display means together with the karaoke performance by the karaoke performance means. The karaoke network system according to claim 6,
The device-side display control means of the karaoke device converts the lyrics telop configured in the language with the largest number of authenticated users whose native language is the language into the original language of the lyrics telop information included in the karaoke performance song When displaying in the display area of the device-side display means together with the lyrics telop configured as described above, the lyrics telop configured in the language with the largest number of authenticated users whose language is the native language is used as the original language. A karaoke network system, wherein the karaoke network system is displayed above or below in a character smaller than a lyrics telop configured.

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