JPH08137481A - Karaoke device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a KARAOKE (orhcestration without lyrics)device in which a desired lyrics telop display is selectable when plural kinds of lyrics exist for one music or when a singer wishes to sing a song using different lyrics than original lyrics. CONSTITUTION: When a desired music is selected by a remote controller 10, a KARAOKE playing unit 120 reproduces the musical information corresponding to the selected music, outputs the musical sounds and a monitor 60 displays the lyrics telop corresponding to the selected music. A storage device 20 stores more than two kinds of lyrics telop information for one KARAOKE music. When a desired lyrics telop information is selected by the controller 10, the monitor 60 displays the lyrics telop information selected by the controller 10. Thus, a desired information is selected even when more than two kinds of lyrics telop information exist for one KARAOKE music.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a karaoke device which can accompany a karaoke performance of a selected song and can sing while watching the lyrics telop of the song.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a desired song is selected from a plurality of karaoke songs, musical tone information corresponding to the selected song is reproduced and the musical tone is output, so that it can be sung as an accompaniment. A karaoke device is known in which a lyrics telop corresponding to a selected song is displayed so that the user can sing while watching the lyrics telop.

In such a conventional karaoke apparatus, the contents of the music and the lyrics, and thus the display of the music and the lyrics telop, correspond to each other on a one-to-one basis. Therefore, when the user specifies a song, for example, either a lyrics telop for the original lyrics or a so-called lyrics telop for a CM song that has been modified for advertisement is displayed.

[0004]

However, since there is only a one-to-one correspondence between the song title and the lyrics content, it may be different from the original song such as when it is used as a CM song or a parody as described above. When I wanted to sing a song with different lyrics, I couldn't choose freely.

Further, regardless of whether the content of the lyrics is the original lyrics or the lyrics for the CM song, for example, no Kanji was used for children, or the use of Kanji was reduced more than usual. Lyrics display, lyrics display in languages other than Japanese such as English and French for foreigners, further displaying parts written in foreign languages with katakana, displaying lyrics with ruby on the foreign language part, etc. Even when the user wants to sing while looking at a display mode different from the original display mode of lyrics, the user cannot freely select the lyrics display mode.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and when a user sings a song having a plurality of lyrics types for one song, or a display mode of lyrics different from the original It is an object of the present invention to provide a karaoke device capable of selecting a desired lyrics telop display when singing in.

[0007]

The invention according to claim 1 made in order to achieve this object, is a selecting means for selecting a desired song from a plurality of karaoke songs, and the selected song. In a karaoke device provided with a musical sound output means for reproducing musical sound information corresponding to the above and outputting a musical sound, and a display means for displaying a lyrics telop corresponding to the selected musical piece, 2 for one karaoke piece The display means comprises a lyrics telop information storage means for storing more than one kind of lyrics telop information and a lyrics type selection means for selecting desired lyrics telop information from the two or more types of lyrics telop information. The karaoke device is characterized by displaying the lyrics telop information selected by the lyrics type selection means.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the lyrics telop information storage means includes, in addition to the original lyrics telop information, another version of the lyrics telop information different from the original lyrics telop information and / or 2. The karaoke apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the lyrics telop information having the same lyrics content as the original lyrics telop information but a different display mode is stored.

In the invention according to claim 3, the lyrics telop information having different display modes is displayed in at least a part of the lyrics in hiragana, katakana, foreign language, kanji or foreign language. 3. The karaoke apparatus according to claim 2, wherein one of the displays with ruby is displayed.

The invention according to claim 4 further comprises option display means for displaying the selectable lyrics type name on the display means when the lyrics type is selected by the lyrics type selection means. The karaoke device described in Crab.

The invention according to claim 5 further comprises a reservation information storage means for storing the plurality of karaoke pieces selected by the selection means so that the plurality of karaoke pieces are played earlier as the designated time is earlier. 5. The karaoke apparatus according to any one of Items 1 to 4, wherein the reservation information storage means stores the lyrics type selected by the lyrics type selection means in association with each karaoke piece selected by the selection means. It is a karaoke device characterized in that

[0012]

According to the karaoke apparatus of the present invention having the above structure, when the desired music is selected from the plurality of karaoke music by the selecting means, the musical sound outputting means operates.
The tone information corresponding to the selected song is reproduced to output the tone, and the display means displays the lyrics telop corresponding to the selected song. Therefore, the user can sing along with the output musical sound as an accompaniment and while viewing the displayed lyrics telop.

Here, the lyrics telop information storage means is 1
Two or more types of lyrics telop information are stored for one karaoke song, and desired lyric telop information can be selected from the two or more types of lyrics telop information by the lyrics type selection means. The display means displays the lyrics telop information selected by the lyrics type selection means.

As described above, two karaoke songs are provided.
If there is more than one type of lyrics telop information, the desired one can be selected. As the two or more types of lyrics telop information, as shown in claim 2, in addition to the original lyrics telop information, another version of the lyrics telop information different from the original lyrics telop information and / or It is conceivable that the lyrics telop information has the same lyrics content as the original lyrics telop information but a different display mode.

The different version of the lyrics telop whose lyrics contents are different from the original lyrics telop information includes, for example, the lyrics contents changed for a CM song and the lyrics changed as a so-called parody. On the other hand, as the lyrics telop information in different display modes, as shown in claim 3, at least a part of the lyrics is displayed in hiragana, katakana, or foreign language.
It is conceivable that either kanji or a foreign language part is marked with ruby.

As described above, it is possible to display a plurality of lyrics telops even for one song, and there is demand for each. Therefore, it is necessary to use karaoke so that they can be arbitrarily selected. Very effective for enjoying. If the lyrics telop information and the musical sound information are provided as a set for each CM version, the lyrics are hiragana, the lyrics are English, for example, the musical composition is the same, but the musical composition information is duplicated. This leads to an increase in size or an increase in information transmission time. Further, when the lyrics telop information and the musical tone information are stored as music data in a storage disc or the like, it may be possible to provide both a Japanese disc and an English disc, but still have duplicate musical tone information. This means that many storage disks must be provided.

On the other hand, according to the present invention, even if there are plural kinds of lyrics telops, only one piece of musical tone information is required, which is advantageous for data storage. As described in claim 4, when a lyrics type is selected by the lyrics type selection means, if the selectable lyrics type name is displayed on the option display means, it is visible to the user, which is convenient at the time of selection. Is. The option display means may also serve as the display means of claim 1 or may be provided separately.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, the reservation information storage means stores the plurality of karaoke pieces selected by the selection means so that the karaoke pieces are played earlier as the designated time is earlier.
In the case of the type that can be reserved in this way, if the lyric type selected by the lyric type selecting means is stored in association with each karaoke piece selected by the selecting means, the karaoke will be in its own order. This is preferable because it is not necessary to perform the selection process in a hurry after the performance is started.

[0019]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration when the karaoke apparatus of the present embodiment is applied to a video karaoke system.

This video karaoke system 1 includes a remote controller 1
0, a storage device 20, and a commander 30 that operates the system 1 by receiving an instruction input from the remote controller 10.
The background image supply device 40, the image synthesizing device 50, the monitor 60 as a display unit for outputting the image synthesized by the image synthesizing device 50, the CPU 70, the ROM 80 which stores the processing procedure of the CPU 70, and the lyrics telop information. A video RAM (VRAM) 90 for displaying the video on the monitor 60,
It is provided with a RAM 100 as a reservation information storage unit for storing the reservation contents of the music and the selection result of the lyrics telop, a display panel 110, and a karaoke performance unit 120.

The remote controller 10 corresponds to selecting means and lyrics type selecting means, and includes a song setting button group 11 used to reserve a song, a confirm button 13 used to confirm selection of a song or lyrics, and the contents of the lyrics. Lyrics selection button 15 to switch
It has. The storage device 20 corresponds to a lyrics telop information storage means, and stores the lyrics telop information of a plurality of songs. As the lyrics telop information, the lyrics telop information 21 for the original lyrics and the lyrics telop information 2 for the lyrics of the CM are provided for one song.
It is assumed that some include both 3 and some include only the lyrics telop information 21 for the original lyrics.

Further, the storage device 20 is provided with a table 25 used when reading out the lyrics telop information, and the table 25 has only the original lyrics telop information 21 for each song or the original lyrics. It is composed of an area containing information as to whether both the telop information 21 and the CM lyrics telop information 23 are contained, and an area containing the addresses of the areas containing the respective lyrics telop information.

In addition, performance information 2 is stored in the storage device 20.
7 is also stored. Of course, this musical tone information is only one musical tone information for one music piece. The background image supply device 40 stores the background image of karaoke and supplies it to the image synthesizing device 50. The image synthesizing device 50 reads the lyrics telop information read from the storage device 20 and the background image. The background image supplied from the supply device 40 is combined and output to the monitor 60.

The video RAM (VRAM) 90 includes a VRAM 91 for applying the original lyrics telop to the image synthesizing device 50 and a VRAM 95 for applying the CM lyrics telop to the image synthesizing device 50. Therefore, the original lyrics telop information 21 stored in the storage device 20 is supplied to the VRAM 91,
The lyrics telop information 23 of the CM is supplied to the VRAM 95.

On the display panel 110, a menu screen or the like for selecting a lyrics telop is displayed after the progress of the key input for reserving the music or after the music is confirmed. This display panel 110 corresponds to the option display means. Further, the karaoke performance unit 120 corresponds to a musical sound output means, is a unit for performing a karaoke performance, converts the musical sound information sent from the storage device 20 into a music sound signal, and a mixer amplifier (not shown). Is output to. Then, it is mixed with a user's singing voice input through a microphone (not shown) at an appropriate ratio, and the mixed audio signal is output to the outside as a performance sound by a speaker (not shown).

Next, the operation of the video karaoke system 1 of this embodiment will be described with reference to the flow charts of FIGS.
First, the overall processing will be briefly described. The song setting processing (step 100. The step is hereinafter simply referred to as S) shown in FIG. 2, the lyrics selection processing (S200) and the reproduction processing shown in FIG. It is executed by processing.

First, details of the music piece setting process in S100 will be described with reference to FIG. The user operates the commander 30 with the remote controller 10 to select a song to sing. In this embodiment, a desired music piece is designated by inputting a four-digit number with a ten key or the like in the music piece setting button group 11, and the confirmation button 13 is used for confirmation. Then, up to a predetermined number (for example, up to 10 songs) of the requested songs can be stored in the reservation table in the RAM 100, and according to the reservation order,
Karaoke songs will be played.

Therefore, the processing is as shown in FIG.
If there is a key input (S110: YES), it is determined whether or not it is within the reservation number limit (S120), and if it is within the limit, the song is stored in the reservation table in the RAM 100. On the other hand, if there is no key input (S110: NO),
Alternatively, when the reservation number limit is exceeded (S120: N
In O), the process is finished as it is.

Next, the details of the lyrics selection process of S200 of FIG. 2 will be described in detail with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, it is determined whether or not there is a reserved song for which the lyrics are not fixed (S210), and if not, the process is terminated as it is, but if there is, a song for which lyrics are to be selected is displayed (S220). Then, it is determined whether or not there are lyrics for the commercial (S230), and if there is, it means that both the original lyrics telop and the lyrics telop for the commercial are included, and therefore the display panel 110 displays "Original version". And a “CM version” are displayed together, and in the initial state, the original version is highlighted and highlighted (S240).

In this state, if the lyrics selection button 15 of the remote controller 10 is pressed (S250: YES), the reverse display is alternately switched between the "original version" and the "CM version" (S260). In addition, the time is measured after the music is confirmed, and if the fixed time has passed since the music was fixed (S270: YES), or if the confirm button 13 is pressed before the fixed time has passed (S280: YE).
S) After erasing the lyrics selection menu screen, the type of lyrics that was highlighted at that time is displayed on the display panel 110 (S290), and the lyrics selection result is stored in the RAM 100 (S300).

If it is determined in S230 that there are no lyrics for the CM, it means that there is only the original lyrics telop, so the process moves directly to S290 and an indication that the original lyrics type is displayed ("Original "Display" is displayed on the display panel 110, and the result is stored in the RAM 100 (S300).

The process of setting the tune and selecting the lyrics is carried out in this way. Next, the reproducing process will be described. As shown in FIG. 5, the outline of the present reproduction processing determines whether or not reproduction is being performed (S400), and during reproduction, that is, if the previous reproduction is continuing, waits until the end and is reproducing. When there is no more (S400: NO), the reserved music number next to the previously reproduced music is taken out from the RAM 100 and reproduced (S410). The processing related to this reproduction includes a musical sound performance processing, a background video reproduction processing, and a lyrics telop reproduction processing, which are simultaneously progressed by so-called multi-tax processing.

An outline of the musical tone performance processing and the background video reproduction processing out of these will be described. As described above, when the musical tone information of the corresponding song is sent from the storage device 20 to the karaoke performance unit 120, the karaoke performance unit 120
The sent musical tone information is converted into a music voice signal and output to a mixer amplifier, and is mixed with a user's singing voice input via a microphone at an appropriate ratio and output as a performance sound to the outside by a speaker.

The background image supply device 40 also supplies a background image corresponding to the music to the image synthesizing device 50, and the image synthesizing device 50 reads the lyrics telop information read from the storage device 20 and the background image supplying device. The background image supplied from 40 is combined and output to the monitor 60.

Next, details of the lyrics telop reproduction processing which is a feature of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
First, the number of the song is checked against the table 25 of the storage device 20 to determine the number of lyrics telops (S450). In the present embodiment, there are two types, one having only the original and one having the original and the CM. Therefore, when the number of the lyrics telop is one, the single lyrics telop processing (S470), 2 In the case of individual pieces, plural lyrics telop processing (S460) is performed.

First, the single lyrics telop process is shown in FIG.
Will be described with reference to. In this case, since the type of lyrics is only original, the original lyrics telop information of the storage device 20 is supplied to the VRAM 91. Then, the CPU 70 sends the VRAM to the image synthesizer 50.
It is instructed to read the lyrics telop information from 91 (S520). Therefore, in the image synthesizer 50, the VRA
From M91 lyrics telop information and background video supply device 40
The background image supplied from the device is combined and output to the monitor 60.

Note that the musical tone information includes predetermined end data indicating the end of the performance, and the karaoke performance ends with the end data. Further, even when the performance is stopped, if the remote controller 10 issues a stop command, the karaoke performance ends. In such a case, it is determined that the reproduction has ended (S530:
(YES), the reproduction of the background image and the lyrics telop is also ended.

Next, regarding the plural lyrics telop processing, FIG.
Will be described with reference to. In this case, since the types of lyrics are both original and commercial, the storage device 20
The original lyrics telop information of is supplied to VRAM91, and the CM version lyrics telop information is VRAM95.
(S610).

The lyrics type selection result is also retrieved from the RAM 100, and the VRA corresponding to the selection result is extracted.
Instruct to read the lyrics telop information from M (S
620). For example, when the lyrics selection result stored in the RAM 100 is the original one, the original setting is to display the original lyrics telop information on the monitor 60. Therefore, the lyrics telop information and the background read from the VRAM 91 are set. The background image supplied from the image supply device 40 is superimposed using the image combining device 50 and displayed on the monitor 60. Also, R
When the lyrics selection result stored in the AM 100 is the CM version, it is read from the VRAM 95.

In this way, the reproduction is performed until the reproduction end command comes. When the lyrics selection button 15 is pressed during the reproduction (S630: YES), it is determined that the image is being read to the image synthesizing device 50. Instructs to read the lyrics telop information from the opposite VRAM (S640).
Therefore, when the lyrics selection button 15 is pressed while the original lyrics telop is displayed, the image synthesizing device 50 switches the read destination to the VRAM 95, so that the CM version lyrics telop information is displayed on the monitor 60. It will be. Hereinafter, each time the lyrics selection button 15 is pressed, the VRAM to be read is switched, and as a result, the content of the lyrics telop displayed on the monitor 60 is also switched.

A display for distinguishing whether the currently displayed lyrics telop is the original or the CM version is displayed on the monitor 60. That is,
While the lyrics telops are sequentially displayed and displayed, for example, by displaying the telops such as “original” and “CM version” at the bottom of the screen, the user can visually recognize the type of the lyrics telops. You can

In the above embodiment, two types of lyrics telop are described, the original lyrics and the CM version of lyrics, but the present invention is not limited to this.
For example, in addition to the original lyrics telop information, the lyrics content is different from the original lyrics telop information, and the lyrics content is the same as another version of the lyrics telop information and / or the original lyrics telop information, and the display mode is different. The lyrics telop information can be considered.

Another version of the lyrics telop whose lyrics contents are different from the original lyrics telop information is one of the CM versions, and also includes so-called parody whose lyrics are changed. on the other hand,
As the lyrics telop information in different display modes, at least a part of the lyrics is displayed in hiragana, katakana, foreign language, or kanji or foreign language with ruby. It is possible that

For example, for children or foreigners who are learning Japanese, lyrics in which the above kanji are not used or the use of kanji is reduced are preferable. It is also preferable to display in a language other than Japanese such as English or French for foreigners. As described above, it is possible to display a plurality of lyrics telops even for one song, and there is a demand for each, so it is necessary to allow them to be selected arbitrarily when using karaoke for enjoyment. It is very effective. If the lyrics telop information and the musical sound information are provided as a set for each CM version, the lyrics are hiragana, the lyrics are English, for example, the musical composition is the same, but the musical composition information is duplicated. This leads to an increase in size or an increase in information transmission time. Further, when the lyrics telop information and the musical tone information are stored as music data in a storage disc or the like, it may be possible to provide both a Japanese disc and an English disc, but still have duplicate musical tone information. This means that many storage disks must be provided.

On the other hand, in the present invention, even if there are plural kinds of lyrics telops, only one piece of musical tone information is required, which is advantageous for data storage. Further, in the case of the above-mentioned embodiment, the lyrics telop can be switched even during the performance, so that it is possible to cope with the case where such a hope occurs.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration when a karaoke device of an embodiment is applied to a video karaoke system.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a part of processing in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a music piece setting process.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a lyrics selection process.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a reproduction process.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a lyrics telop reproduction process.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a single lyrics telop process.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a plural lyrics telop process.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Video karaoke system 10 ... Remote control 11 ... Song setting button group 13 ... Confirm button 15 ... Lyrics selection button 20 ... Memory device 21 ... Lyrics telop information 23 ... Lyrics telop information 25 ... Table 27 ... Performance information 30 ... Commander 40 ... Background Image supply device 50 ... Image synthesizing device 60 ... Monitor 110 ... Display panel 120 ... Karaoke performance unit

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A selection unit for selecting a desired song from a plurality of karaoke songs, a tone output unit for reproducing tone information corresponding to the selected song and outputting a tone, and the selected tone output unit. In a karaoke device provided with a display unit for displaying a lyrics telop corresponding to a song, a lyrics telop information storage unit storing two or more types of lyrics telop information for one karaoke song, and two or more types A karaoke characterized by comprising lyrics type selection means for selecting desired lyrics telop information from the lyrics telop information, wherein the display means displays the lyrics telop information selected by the lyrics type selection means. apparatus. 2. The lyrics telop information storage means includes, in addition to the original lyrics telop information, another version of the lyrics telop information having different lyrics content from the original lyrics telop information and / or the original lyrics telop information. 2. The karaoke apparatus according to claim 1, wherein lyrics telop information having the same lyrics content but different display modes is stored. 3. The lyrics telop information in different display modes is at least part of the lyrics displayed in hiragana, katakana, foreign language, or kanji or foreign language with ruby. The karaoke apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the karaoke apparatus is bent down. 4. The karaoke apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising option display means for displaying a selectable lyrics type name when the lyrics type is selected by the lyrics type selecting means. 5. The reservation information storage means for storing a plurality of karaoke songs selected by the selection means so that the plurality of karaoke pieces are played earlier as the designated time is earlier.
The karaoke device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the reservation information storage unit stores the lyrics type selected by the lyrics type selection unit in association with each karaoke piece selected by the selection unit. Karaoke device characterized in that.