JPH0562435A - Music selecting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To unnecessitate a troublesome data inputting operation at the time of the music selection of a KARAOKE (orchestration without lyrics) device. CONSTITUTION:The attributes of plural music name information stored in a memory 31 of a music selecting device MS are designated by a prescribed key of a control key group 20, and displayed at a display 10. The music selection data corresponding to the music name information selected from the displayed plural music name information by the prescribed key are automatically transmitted to a KARAOKE device KS.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a music selection device suitable for a reproducing device for singing accompaniment.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a so-called karaoke device, which is a device for reproducing music for accompaniment of a song, has been widely used. In recent years, when using a karaoke device, not only is music played from a speaker, but the lyrics of the song are sequentially displayed on the screen of the receiver, and a video related to the song is displayed as a background. The karaoke device with video is used for awards.

[0003]

By the way, in the conventional karaoke apparatus, a so-called table of contents in which the song name, singer name, etc. of one karaoke series are described is used, and the song name or singer name is used as a key index to singer. As a result, a specific song is selected from many karaoke songs.
However, in order for the selected karaoke song to be reproduced, the selected song data in which the disc number and the song number of the specific song described in the table of contents or the like, that is, numbers that have no meaning to the user are listed. It was necessary to perform a troublesome operation of inputting the key to the controller of the karaoke device.

In view of the above point, an object of the present invention is to provide a music selection apparatus which does not require a troublesome data input operation at the time of music selection.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, a memory section 31 storing a large number of music title information corresponding to a large number of alternatively reproduced music information, and a display section 10 for displaying a plurality of music title information. And a read control means 30 for reading the music title information having the attribute designated by the attribute designating means from the memory portion and displaying it on the display portion. Selection means 24 for selecting desired music title information from a plurality of music title information displayed on the section, and data transmission means 33 for transmitting music selection data corresponding to the music title information selected by this selection means.
And a music selection device configured to control reproduction of a large number of music information by the music selection data transmitted from the data transmission means.

[0006]

According to the present invention, the music selection data is automatically transmitted, and the troublesome data input operation becomes unnecessary.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the music selection apparatus according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 shows the electrical construction of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 shows the mechanical construction. In FIG. 1, MS indicates the entire music selection device, KS indicates the main body of the karaoke device, and the karaoke device KS includes a disc player (changer) 1 and a system control circuit (microprocessor) 2.

Under the control of the system control circuit 2, the stereo music signal from the player 1 is supplied to the amplifier 3, and the singing signal from the microphone 4 is supplied to the amplifier 3.
The output of the amplifier 3 is supplied to the left and right speakers 5L and 5R. Further, the video signal from the player 1 is supplied to the receiver 6. To the system control circuit 2, an operation key 7 for inputting music selection data and a display 8 for confirming the key input are connected. The above-mentioned karaoke device KS has the same configuration as the conventional one.

The music selection device MS of this embodiment is provided with a display 1
0, an operation key group 20, and a microprocessor 30, and the microprocessor 30 includes a ROM 31 and a RAM 32.
Are connected. This ROM 31 is, for example, an EPROM
Is configured in the form of a memory card and stores various data such as song titles and singer names. For example, when there are about 150 CDs in one karaoke series, thousands of karaoke songs by hundreds of singers are covered, and the song selection data selected as described below is obtained by infrared transport, for example.
It is transmitted from the remote control transmitter 33. Corresponding to this transmitter 33, a receiver 34 is provided on the karaoke device KS side, and the output of the receiver 34 is supplied to the system control circuit 2.

As shown in FIG. 2, on the display 10 of the music selection device MS, the song name and singer name of one karaoke series,
The disc numbers and the song numbers of these songs are separately displayed in the display areas 11, 12, and 13, respectively. Display 10
Is composed of a reflective liquid crystal module of 480 dots horizontally and 128 dots vertically, and when displaying double-byte characters in 16 × 16 dots, one song becomes 30 characters, and data for eight songs must be displayed. You can

As described above, various data such as song titles and singer names are stored in the ROM 31, and the contents thereof are displayed on the display device 10 in accordance with display modes such as the song order mode and the song procedure mode. In this embodiment, display mode switching keys 21a, 21b, 2 for displaying a large number of karaoke songs by genre such as duet, enka, and pops.
1c and display mode switching keys 21m and 21n for displaying song names or singer names in the order of Japanese syllabary.

The operation keys 22a, 22b ... 22j are initial search keys for searching the first character (initial) of the music title or singer's name with the Japanese syllabary. The keys 23f and 23b are page search keys for sending or returning the displayed song name and singer name in page units of eight lines, for example, and the operation key 2
Reference numerals 4u and 24d are cursor search keys for moving the cursor 14 on the display 10 up and down in units of one line. The operation key 25 is a data setting (set) key, and the key 26 is a data transmission key.

In the music selection device MS of this embodiment, for example,
Powered by four AA-size batteries, it is turned on and off by operating the key 27 and at the same time for about 5 minutes.
When no key operation is performed, the music selection device MS is turned off. In this case, for example, since the last state is stored in the RAM 32 and backed up, the next state is instantly restored to the previous state. Further, a start key 28 is provided so that the karaoke apparatus KS can be started from the music selection apparatus MS side to improve usability.

Next, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described. First, one of the display mode switching keys 21m and 21n is operated to display the song titles and singer names in kanji on the display device 10 in the order of Japanese syllabary in any one of the song order and the song procedure mode. In this embodiment, the data in both the song order display mode and the song procedure display mode are linked in a relational manner. For example, in the song order mode, when the cursor is set to a certain song and another user wants to find another song of the same singer. Then, when moving to the song procedure mode, the place of the singer is displayed.

After properly operating the initial search keys 22a to 22j and the page search keys 23f and 23b to display the desired music title on the display unit 10, the cursor search keys 24u and 24d are operated to operate the desired music titles. Move the cursor 14 to one song and select a song. In this embodiment, of a large number of continuous data strings, for example, eight windows are displayed in a window, and in the page search, this window is returned or sent by eight rows.

The music selection data (disk number 89 and music number 10 in the example of FIG. 2) of the specific music finally selected by the various search keys as described above is set by the operation of the key 25, and the transmission key 26 is operated. Remote control transmission by operation
It is input to the system control circuit 2 of the karaoke apparatus KS via the receivers 33 and 34, and the performance of the specific song is automatically reserved. Then, according to the operation of the start key 28,
Reserved songs are played in sequence.

As described above, in this embodiment, the music selection device MS side can perform music selection and reservation based on the music name displayed in Chinese characters by operating various search keys, and the user can make a reservation. There is no need to be aware of the disc number and track number. Further, on the software supply side, a memory card may be distributed in place of the table of contents, and the production cost is greatly reduced.

Next, another embodiment of the music selection apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The configuration of another embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. In FIG. 3, parts corresponding to those in FIG. 1 described above are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description will be omitted.

In FIG. 3, reference numeral 40 denotes a remote control receiver, which is a cathode ray tube type image receiver 41 and an operation key group 42.
Are connected and the output of the receiver 40 is supplied to the system control circuit 2 of the karaoke apparatus KS. The operation key group 42 has the same configuration as the operation key group 20 (see FIG. 2) described above.
In the embodiment of FIG. 3, the display 10 (see FIGS. 1 and 2) is not built in the remote control music selection device MS side, and although the illustration of the mechanical configuration is omitted, it is possible to further reduce the size and weight. Become. The rest of the configuration is the same as in FIG.

In the above-described embodiment, the liquid crystal display 10 is built in the music selection device MS side, and the infrared transmission and the battery power supply are adopted, which are relatively small and lightweight and excellent in portability.
The number of displayed songs is smaller than that of a table-of-contents book, for example, which allows a glance by opening 80 songs. Moreover, the liquid crystal display is not always easy to see.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, a cathode ray tube type image receiver 41 is used as a display of the music selection system to perform the music selection operation as described above. As a result, in addition to the effects of the above-described embodiment, the number of displayed songs is increased, and colorization is included.
This has the effect of making the display easier to see. In addition, the reservation contents can be confirmed by the song title, which is effective for avoiding the selection of the same song by other singers. It should be noted that the receiver 40 and the system control circuit 2 of the embodiment of FIG. 3 can be integrated.

[0023]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention,
By specifying the attributes of a large number of song name information stored in the memory section by the predetermined keys of the operation key group, reading out from the memory section and displaying it on the display section, the song name information selected from the displayed plurality of song name information is displayed. Since the corresponding song selection data is automatically sent and the playback of a large number of music information is controlled,
A music selection device that does not require input operation of music selection data can be obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of an embodiment of a music selection device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view showing the mechanical structure of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Disc Player (Changer) 2 System Control Circuit (Microprocessor) 10 Display 20, 42 Operation Key Group 30 Microprocessor 31 ROM 33 Remote Control Transmitter 34, 40 Remote Control Receiver 41 Receiver KS Karaoke Device MS Music Selection Device

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of front page (72) Inventor Akio Kasa 5-5-26 Kita-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo Inside Daiichikosho Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A memory unit storing a large number of song name information corresponding to a large number of alternatively played music information and a display unit for displaying a plurality of the song name information, and further comprising: Attribute designating means for designating an attribute, read control means for reading out the music title information of the attribute designated by the attribute designating means from the memory section and displaying it on the display section, and a plurality of the display sections displayed on the display section. A selection means for selecting desired music title information from the music title information and a data transmission means for transmitting music selection data corresponding to the music title information selected by the selection means are provided. A music selection device characterized in that reproduction of a large number of music information is controlled.