JPH0324837B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention is a karaoke video, in which audio information that becomes the accompaniment of a song to be sung, text information that becomes the lyrics of the song, and video information that becomes the background of the song are recorded. The present invention relates to a video recording device for creating video recording media.

Plays accompaniment music recently recorded on magnetic tape,
So-called karaoke machines, which sing the lyrics along with the song, have become popular. Conventional karaoke devices prepare a lyrics book with lyrics printed on it, search for the relevant lyrics from the lyrics book, and sing along with the accompaniment while looking at the lyrics. In some cases, the lyrics collection may be lost, and in the case of a song that one only vaguely remembers, the timing of the beginning of the song may be off, making it difficult to sing well.

On the other hand, with the spread of video tape recorders, karaoke video tapes have become commercially available. This includes audio information that becomes the accompaniment of the song to be sung,
The text information that becomes the lyrics of the song and the video information that becomes the background of the song are recorded, and when this is played back, not only the accompaniment but also the lyrics and the background that matches the song are projected on the CRT. . Therefore, although it has the advantages of being able to sing without lyrics cards, being easy to handle without having to store lyrics cards, and allowing the song to be filled with emotion from the background, the lyrics are displayed in only a few measures, so the current There were times when it became difficult to tell which lyrics were in the accompaniment, and especially in the case of a song that one could only vaguely remember, it was not suitable for practicing on one's own because one could not tell where the lyrics were relative to the accompaniment.

The present invention was made in view of the above situation, and is a video recording method for creating a karaoke video that allows you to sing without looking at a lyrics book, and allows you to immediately know which parts to sing even if the timing with the accompaniment is off. The purpose is to provide equipment.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, 1 is a video information supply device that supplies background video information suitable for an accompaniment piece to the mixer 2, and 3 is a text information supply device that supplies the lyrics of the song to the mixer 2 as text information. It is. 4
is a color tone changer that colors text information to provide musical assistance when the user sings a song. These mixed signals of video information, text information, and color tone changes are mixed in a mixer 2, and then mixed with audio information as an accompaniment music generated by an audio information supply device 5 in a mixer 6, and then used in a video tape recorder, etc. The recording and reproducing device 7 records the data. In this case, the text information is recorded in synchronization with the audio information. For example, when recording the song "Jogashima no Ame",
Just before the accompaniment that corresponds to the lyrics “On the shore of Jogashima where it rains” starts and just before it ends (or just after)
The lyrics of ``It's raining, it's raining'' are mixed so that they are projected, and the colors of the lyrics to be sung change as the accompaniment progresses. In other words, for example, when the white text ``It rains on the shore of Jogashima'' is projected, as the accompaniment progresses, first the word ``rain'' appears, then the letter ``ga'', and then the word ``fall''. The characters are recorded so that they turn red one after the other, up to the character ``ni''. As described above, there are various methods for sequentially changing the color of text information, and one example is to sequentially change only the hue of text information using a wipe device. That is, as shown in the block diagram of FIG. 3, two color subcarriers Φ ₁ and Φ ₂ (for example, red and white) and a wipe signal from a wipe generator 4b, which will be described later, are input to the color tone changer 4. It consists of a mixing circuit 4a and a wipe generator 4b to which a horizontal synchronizing signal and a vertical synchronizing signal are input. Further, the mixer 2 receives color subcarriers Φ ₁ from the mixing circuit 4a,
A gate circuit 2a that allows character information from the character information supply device 3 to pass through when the gate is opened by a signal obtained by wiping Φ ₂ with a wipe generator 4b.
and an imposer 2b into which signals from the gate circuit 2a, character information from the character information supply device 3, and video information from the video information supply device 1 are input.

The color subcarriers Φ ₁ and Φ ₂ are wiped in the mixing circuit 4a by the wipe signal from the wipe generator 4b, and the signal is sent to the gate circuit 2a to control the gate of the gate circuit 2a. Since character information is input to this gate circuit 2a from the character information supply device 3, the character information is changed from right to left, for example, to red, in accordance with the wipe signal. Furthermore, the video information from the video information supply device 1 is superimposed by the imposer 2b.

The signal reproduced by the recording/reproducing device 7 is separated by a separator 8, and the mixed information of video information and text information is displayed on a display 9 such as a cathode ray tube, and the audio information is sent to a speaker via a mixer 10. It is designed to be reproduced by a sound generator 11 such as. Further, audio information supplied from an external audio information supply device 12 such as a microphone is also reproduced from the sound generator 11 via the mixer 10.

To explain its operation, when the recording and reproducing device 7 is put into the reproducing state, for example, as shown in FIG.
The video information A and the text information B are displayed on the display 9, and the accompaniment music is played back from the sound generator 11. In this case, as the accompaniment progresses, the character information B sequentially changes from white to red, so the user can synchronize the timing with the accompaniment by sequentially singing the characters that have turned red while looking at the display 9.

As described above, in the present invention, as the accompaniment progresses, desired measures corresponding to the accompaniment are displayed on the display from just before the accompaniment starts to just before it ends, and among the displayed character information, the accompaniment By changing the color of the letters to be sung in response to the progression, it is possible to grasp the entire lyrics for the desired measure, and the letters to be sung change and the timing of utterance is displayed, so there is no need to forget things. It has the effect of being able to sing well even if it is a song.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the video recording device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a display reproduced from a video recording medium recorded by the video recording device of the present invention, and FIG. The figure is a concrete block diagram for sequentially changing the color tone of character information. 1... Video information supply device, 2, 6, 10... Mixer, 3... Character information supply device, 4... Color tone changer, 5... Audio information supply device, 7... Recording and reproducing device, 8... ... Separator, 9 ... Display device, 11 ... Sound generator, 12 ... External audio information supply device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A video information supply device that supplies background video information, an audio information supply device that supplies audio information that becomes accompaniment to a song to be sung, and a text information supply device that supplies text information that becomes the lyrics of the song. A color tone changer that colors the characters to be sung as the audio information of the text information progresses, and mixes the video information, the audio information, and the character information colored by the color tone changer. What is claimed is: 1. A video recording device comprising: a mixer that mixes the mixer; and a recording device that records the output of the mixer on a video recording medium.