JPH0816840B2 - Online karaoke system - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a communication karaoke system including a host device and a plurality of musical tone generating terminals.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, a musical tone machine such as a karaoke device includes a storage medium storing a plurality of musical tone information such as a magnetic tape or an optical disc,
Predetermined musical tone information is read from the storage medium and reproduced in response to an external music selection command.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] Therefore, in order to be able to reproduce the newly issued musical tone information such as a new song in the conventional musical tone generator, the storage medium that has been used up to now has the latest musical tone. It had to be replaced with a new storage medium in which information was stored, which was troublesome. In particular, in a store that has a large number of musical tone generators installed, or a company that has a large number of musical tone generator installed stores, in order to enable each musical tone generator to play new musical tone information such as a new song, The storage medium must be exchanged for each machine, and it takes time to be able to reproduce the latest musical tone information on all musical tone generators, and to promptly respond to the customer's request for the latest musical tone information. There was a problem that I could not do it.

Therefore, the present invention has been made for the purpose of providing a communication karaoke system capable of promptly registering new musical tone information to a plurality of musical tone generating terminals.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, a communication karaoke system of the invention according to claim 1 comprises a host device and a plurality of tone generation terminals connected to the host device. A communication karaoke system for delivering data such as musical tone information from the host device to the musical tone generating terminal device, wherein the musical tone generating terminal device receives the musical tone information transmitted from the host device, A terminal side tone information storage means for storing a plurality of tone information received by the receiving means,
And a tone reproduction means for reading and reproducing the tone information stored in the terminal-side tone information storage means.

Further, the above host device has an input means for inputting musical tone information from the outside, a host side musical tone information storing means for storing the musical tone information inputted from the input means, and a storing in the host side musical tone information storing means. The presence or absence of unregistered musical tone information in the musical tone generating terminal among the reproduced musical tone information,
Musical sound information judging means for judging musical sound information based on information whether or not it has been distributed to the musical sound generating terminal, and the musical sound information judging means judges that there is unregistered musical sound information in the musical sound generating terminal. There are provided tone information reading means for reading the unregistered tone information from the host-side tone information storage means and transmitting means for transmitting the tone information read by the tone information reading means to the tone generating terminal. .

In the communication karaoke system of the invention according to claim 2, in the configuration of the communication karaoke system of the invention according to claim 1, it is determined whether or not the musical tone information judging means has transmitted musical tone information of a new song for each musical tone generating terminal. When the request signal for the musical tone information of a new music piece is received from the musical tone generating terminal, the presence or absence of unregistered musical tone information in the musical tone generating terminal is determined.

A communication karaoke system according to a third aspect of the present invention is the communication karaoke system according to the second aspect of the invention, wherein the musical tone generating terminal transmits a request signal for musical tone information of a new song to the host device when the power is turned on. Is configured.

[Operation] In the communication karaoke system according to the invention of claim 1 configured as described above, data such as musical tone information is distributed from the host device to a plurality of musical tone generating terminals.

The receiving means provided in the musical tone generating terminal receives the musical tone information transmitted from the host device, and the terminal side musical tone information storing means stores the musical tone information received by the receiving means,
The musical tone reproducing means reads the musical tone information stored in the terminal side musical tone information storing means and reproduces the musical tone information.

Tone information is input to the host device from the outside by the input means, the tone information storage means on the host side stores the tone information input from the input means, and the tone information judging means stores the tone information stored on the tone information storage means on the host side. The presence / absence of unregistered musical tone information in the musical tone generating terminal is determined based on the information indicating whether the musical tone information has been distributed to the musical tone generating terminal, and the musical tone information reading unit determines the musical tone information presence / absence determining unit. When it is determined that there is unregistered tone information in the tone generator, the unregistered tone information is read from the tone information stored in the host-side tone information storage means, and the transmission means reads the tone information. The tone information read by the means is transmitted to the tone generating terminal.

In the communication karaoke system of the invention according to claim 2,
In addition to the above operation, the musical tone information judging means stores information as to whether or not the musical tone information of a new song is transmitted for each musical tone generating terminal, and the musical tone information requesting signal from the musical tone generating terminal is sent from the musical tone generating terminal. Is received, it is determined whether or not there is unregistered tone information in the tone generating terminal.

In the communication karaoke system of the invention according to claim 3,
In addition to the above operation, the musical tone generating terminal transmits a request signal for musical tone information of a new song to the host device when the power is turned on.

EXAMPLES Examples of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

First, FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a communication karaoke system of an embodiment to which the present invention is applied.

As shown in FIG. 1, the communication karaoke system of the present embodiment has a plurality of karaoke terminals 3 as tone generation terminals.
And a host device 5 for supplying music information (for example, musical score data) for karaoke to each karaoke terminal 3 and managing the usage status of each karaoke terminal 3. In each karaoke terminal 3 and the host device 5,
Transmitting / receiving devices 9 and 11 connected to the public telephone network 7 are provided so that information can be retrieved from each other using a telephone line.

In the karaoke terminal 3, in addition to the transmitting / receiving device 9, an external storage device 21 such as a hard disk for storing a lot of musical tone information for karaoke, a keyboard for inputting a music selection command and a communication command with the host device 5 from the outside. 23, a display device 25 for displaying a scanning procedure and a message of the karaoke terminal 3, a voice synthesizer 27 including a synthesizer for converting musical sound information into a voice signal, and a host device for exchanging signals with these units. 5, a control device 29 for transmitting / receiving information to / from the mobile phone 5 and controlling reproduction of musical tone information is provided.

The karaoke terminal 3 also includes an amplifier (amplifier) 35 that mixes and amplifies a voice signal from the voice synthesizer 27 and a voice signal input by the user through the microphone 31 and outputs the mixed signal to the speaker 33. Has been. The control device 29 is
CPU29a, ROM29b, RAM29c, I / O port (I / O port) 29d,
And a well-known microcomputer including a bus line 29e that connects these units.

On the other hand, in the host device 5, in addition to the transmitting / receiving device 11, an external storage device 41 for storing various information such as musical tone information of a new song to be newly registered in each karaoke terminal 3, and for inputting these various information. Data input device 43, karaoke terminal 3
Keyboard for inputting various commands such as communication commands with
45 、 Display device for displaying input data and messages
47, and a control device 49 for exchanging signals with these units, organizing input data, and transmitting / receiving information to / from the karaoke terminal 3. The control device 49, like the control device 29 on the karaoke terminal 3 side, has CPU 49a, ROM 49b, RAM 4
It is configured by a well-known microcomputer including a 9c, an input / output port (I / O port) 49d, and a bus line 49c connecting these parts.

As described above, in the communication karaoke system of the present embodiment, the host device 5 and the karaoke terminal device 3 are connected by a telephone line, and the musical tone information is transmitted from the host device 5 to the karaoke terminal device 3, for example. Various kinds of information can be transmitted to and received from the karaoke machine 3. Then, the operation of each karaoke terminal 3 and the host apparatus 5 corresponding to this operation are executed in order to transmit musical sound information. The information transmission processing according to FIG. 2 will be described with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS.

First, FIG. 2 shows a karaoke reproduction control process executed by the control device 29 after the karaoke terminal device 3 is powered on.

As shown in FIG. 2, when this process is started, first, S1
At 0, the transmitting / receiving device 9 is connected to the telephone line, and at S12, the host device 5 is called. Then, in S14, it is determined whether the host device 5 is communicating with another karaoke terminal device 3,
If communication is in progress, the telephone line is temporarily shut off in S16 and then S10 is restarted.
Move to

On the other hand, if it is determined in S14 that the host device 5 is not communicating, then in S18, the transmitting / receiving device 9 causes the host device 5 to
When the transmitter / receiver 11 is connected to the telephone line, it is determined whether or not an incoming signal transmitted from the host device 5 side is received. When the transmitter / receiver 9 receives the incoming signal, the process proceeds to S20 and the host A request signal for the terminal number representing the karaoke AA and new song data is transmitted to the device 5.

By this transmission, the host device 5 confirms whether or not there is new song data to be registered in the karaoke terminal device 3,
Since the new song data presence / absence signal is transmitted (this process will be described later), in S22 that follows, the transceiver 9 waits for the new song data presence / absence signal to be received. When the transmitter / receiver 9 receives the new song data presence / absence signal, the process proceeds to S24, in which it is determined whether or not there is new song data to be registered in the karaoke terminal 3, and if there is new song data to be registered. , S26.

At S26, after making preparations for accepting new song data, such as checking the storage area for new song data in the external storage device 21,
A standby signal is transmitted to the host device 5.

By this transmission, the host device 5 sequentially transmits, for each song, new song data including musical tone information to be registered in the karaoke terminal 3 and attached information such as song number information attached to each song ( This process will be described later.), So the subsequent S2
At 6, the transmitted new song data is read for each song and stored in the external storage device 21. Then, in the following S30, the transmitter / receiver 9 determines whether or not the host device 5 has received an end signal transmitted at the end of transmission of the new song data, and if the transmitter / receiver 9 has not received the end signal, S28 is repeated. Move to.

Next, if it is determined in S30 that the transceiver 9 has received the end signal from the host device 5 or in S24 that there is no new song data, the telephone line is disconnected in S32.
Then, in subsequent S34, in order to inform the user that the karaoke terminal 3 is available, a message for selecting a new song is displayed on the display device 25, and in S36, the user operates the keyboard 23 to select the song. Wait for it to be done. This music selection is performed by inputting the music number of the musical tone information to be reproduced.

Next, when the user selects a song, the song is displayed on the display device 25 in S38, and the player waits for a performance start command to be input via the keyboard 23 in S40. When a performance start command is input, the process proceeds to S42, the tone information corresponding to the selected song number is read from the external storage device 21 and sent to the music synthesizer 27 to reproduce the tone information. . Then, in the following S44, it is determined whether or not the reproduction of the musical sound information is completed. If the performance start command is not input when the song number is displayed in S38, and the cancel command is input via the keyboard, the song number to be displayed on the display device 25 by an interrupt routine (not shown). The display is stopped and the process returns to S34.

Next, the information transmission process executed on the host device 5 side is
This is executed as shown in FIG.

This process is a process executed when the host device 5 is called via the telephone line. When the process is started, the telephone line is first connected in S50 and the incoming signal is output in S52. Then, in subsequent S54, the transmission data transmitted from the karaoke terminal 3 thereafter is read, and in S56, it is determined whether or not the transmission data is a request signal for new song data.

If it is determined in S56 that the transmitted data is not a request signal for new song data, the process proceeds to S74, where various transmission / reception processing corresponding to the transmitted data is performed, for example, musical tone information periodically transmitted from each karaoke terminal 3. After performing the receiving process of the operation data of each karaoke terminal device 3 including the number of times of reproduction of the karaoke device, the usage time of the karaoke device, the usage fee, the transmission process of various information in response to the information request from the karaoke terminal device 3 side, etc.
The telephone line is cut off at and the processing ends.

On the other hand, if it is determined in S56 that the transmission data is a request signal for new song data, then in S58, based on the terminal number transmitted together with this request signal, it should be registered in the karaoke terminal 3 of this terminal number. Judge whether there is new song data.

Incidentally, for the karaoke terminal that has already transmitted the new song data, since the terminal number is registered in the external storage device 41 by the processing described below after the data transmission, S58 is
This is executed by determining whether or not the terminal number transmitted this time is already registered in the external storage device 41. The new song data is stored in the external storage device 41 in advance via the data input device 43 and the keyboard 45.

If there is new song data, a new song data present signal is output to the telephone line in S60, and if there is no new song data, no new song data signal is output to the telephone line in S72. By the output of this signal, the karaoke terminal 3 side can determine whether or not there is new song data to be registered. If a new song data no signal is output in S72, the telephone line is cut off in S70 and the process ends.

Next, when a new song data present signal is output in S60, a standby signal is transmitted from the karaoke terminal 3 side, so in S62, the transceiver 11 waits for the standby signal to be received, and the transceiver When 11 receives the standby signal, the new song data is read from the external storage device 41 for each song and transmitted to the karaoke terminal 3 in S64. Then, in S66 that follows, it is determined whether or not the transmission of the new song data is completed, and if the transmission of the new song data is not completed, S64 is executed again, and when the transmission of the new song data is completed, the new song data is sent in S68. The terminal number of the karaoke terminal 3 that has transmitted is registered in the external storage device 41 and an end signal is transmitted to the karaoke terminal 3. Then, in S70, the telephone line is cut off, and the process ends.

As described above, in the communication karaoke system of the present embodiment, if the musical tone information to be registered in each karaoke terminal 3 is input to the external storage device 41 of the host device 5, the karaoke terminal 3 is automatically registered with the karaoke terminal 3. Music information can be registered with. Therefore, it is not necessary to issue a storage medium in which new song data is stored for each karaoke device, which is a karaoke terminal device, as in the related art, and it is possible to suppress the cost associated therewith. Further, since the new song data is registered at the side of each karaoke terminal 3 when the power is turned on, it is possible to quickly respond to the customer's request and improve the service to the customer.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, in the online karaoke system of the present invention, by inputting musical tone information to the host device, it is possible to easily supply unregistered musical tone information to each musical tone generating terminal and generate each musical tone. Since the terminal stores the musical tone information sent from the host device in the musical tone information storage means on the terminal side, it is not necessary to distribute a storage medium storing new musical tone information such as a new song to each musical tone generating terminal. You can save money. In addition, since the new tone information can be promptly reproduced on the tone generation terminal side, the customer's request can be answered promptly, and the service to the customer can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of a communication karaoke system which is an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a karaoke reproduction control process executed on each karaoke terminal side of the communication karaoke system which is an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing an information transmission process executed on the host device side of the online karaoke system which is an embodiment of the present invention. 3 ... Karaoke terminal, 5 ... Host device 9, 11 ... Transceiver device, 21, 41 ... External storage device 27 ... Voice synthesizer, 29, 49 ... Control device 35 ... Amplifier, 23, 45 …… Keyboard 43 …… Data input device

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A communication karaoke system comprising a host device and a plurality of tone generation terminals connected to the host device, and delivering data such as tone information from the host device to the tone generation terminal. The musical tone generating terminal, receiving means for receiving musical tone information transmitted from the host device, terminal side musical tone information storing means for storing a plurality of musical tone information received by the receiving means, and the terminal side The musical tone information stored in the musical tone information storage means is read and reproduced, and the above-mentioned host device inputs the musical tone information from the outside and the musical tone information input from the input means. Host-side musical tone information storage means to be stored, and presence or absence of unregistered musical tone information in the musical tone generating terminal among musical tone information stored in the host-side musical tone information storage means. , A musical tone information judging means for judging the musical tone information on the basis of the information as to whether or not it has been distributed to the musical tone generating terminal, and the musical tone information judging means judges that there is unregistered musical tone information in the musical tone generating terminal. A tone information reading means for reading the unregistered tone information from the tone information storing means on the host side, and a transmitting means for transmitting the tone information read by the tone information reading means to the tone generating terminal. A communication karaoke system characterized by that. 2. The musical tone information determining means stores information as to whether or not the musical tone information of a new song is transmitted to each musical tone generating terminal, and requests the musical tone information of the new song from the musical tone generating terminal. 2. The online karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein when the signal is received, it is determined whether or not there is unregistered tone information in the tone generating terminal. 3. The communication karaoke system according to claim 2, wherein the tone generation terminal transmits a request signal for tone information of a new song to the host device when the power is turned on.