JPH08214269A - Communication karaoke device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To reduce the expansion of a device and the complexity of management and operation as less as possible and to simply present musical piece information including the sales information of commercial musical piece media storing musical pieces relating to KARAOKE (orchestration without lyrics) information to a user in addition to the reproducing of the KARAOKE information. CONSTITUTION: A center 100 is provided with a musical piece information storing part for storing musical piece information including the sales information of commercial musical piece media corresponding to each musical piece and required musical piece information in the musical piece information stored in the storing part is retrieved based upon a request from a KARAOKE terminal 200. The retrieved musical piece information is transmitted to the terminal 200 through a communication line and the terminal 200 displays the transmitted information on a monitor.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication karaoke apparatus, and particularly to reproducing music information to a user as well as music information including sales information of commercially available music media in which music related to the karaoke information is stored. The present invention relates to a communication karaoke device that can be easily provided.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a karaoke apparatus reproduces karaoke information composed of at least one medium of music, voice, video and text, and a user sings a desired music in accordance with the reproduced karaoke information. Is configured to be able to. Here, when the karaoke information for a certain piece of music is reproduced and a desired piece of music is sung in accordance with the reproduced karaoke information, the user may purchase a commercially available piece of music media, for example, a record, a CD, an LD, You may want to purchase MDs, tapes, etc.

However, in the current karaoke apparatus, the user actually reproduces the karaoke information for the music, and which music media actually stores this music, and where the music media is sold. Can't know.

Therefore, when the user wants to sing a desired music piece by using a karaoke device and purchase a music piece medium in which the music piece is stored, the user must remember the music piece name, and thereafter, a music magazine, TV information program, or the like. As a result of checking at, the music media in which the desired music is stored will be purchased.

However, the operation for checking the music media in which the desired music is stored in music magazines, TV information programs, etc.
It is not always possible for a user to find a music medium that is very complicated and that contains a desired music.

Therefore, a sales information of commercially available music media in which each music is stored is made into a database, and a system capable of searching the sales information is constructed. Using this system, a desired music is stored in any commercially available music media. It may be possible to find out whether the song media is sold or where this song media is sold. In this case, it may be possible to know sales information about the song more quickly than it can be found in a music magazine or the like. Apart from this, a new database system must be constructed, and the user must also be familiar with the operation method of this new database system, which eventually complicates the user's processing.

By the way, when singing a desired music piece by using a karaoke apparatus, the user searches for the code number assigned to the music piece in the table of contents of the music list and selects the music piece to be sung. Here, this search processing is always performed when a karaoke device is used. If this processing can be used for search processing of music information including sales information of commercially available music media, the user can easily sell sales information of commercially available music media. Can be obtained. However, if it is attempted to realize such a search process of music information including sales information of commercially available music media by a general karaoke device that does not use a communication line, a problem arises in that the karaoke device becomes large and management is complicated. To do.

That is, a karaoke device which is upsized even with new songs added, and a storage device for storing music information including sales information of this commercially available music media and an input for describing in the storage device. A device is required, and this music information must be added every time a new song is added, and the same operation must be performed for each of the scattered karaoke devices, which makes the operation complicated and impractical.

[0009]

As described above, the conventional karaoke device is related to the reproduced karaoke information only by reproducing the karaoke information composed of at least one medium of music, voice, video and text. There is a problem that it is not possible to know which commercially-available music medium is stored and where this music medium is sold.

In addition, when a database system is provided separately from the karaoke apparatus, which database allows the user to know in which commercially available music media the music relating to this karaoke information is stored, and where this music media is sold. It was also necessary to be familiar with how to operate the database system, and the processing of the user ended up becoming complicated.

Further, if it is attempted to realize the above-described music information search processing including sales information of commercially available music media by a general karaoke apparatus that does not use a communication line, the karaoke apparatus becomes large and management is complicated. There has occurred.

Therefore, the present invention reduces the size of the device, complexity of management and operation as much as possible, and not only reproduces the karaoke information but also a commercially available music medium in which music related to the karaoke information is stored. It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication karaoke device capable of easily providing music information including sales information to a user.

[0013]

To achieve the above object, the present invention provides at least one center for transmitting karaoke information composed of at least one medium of music, voice, video and text in a predetermined format. And a karaoke terminal connected to the center via a communication line and provided with a karaoke terminal having a reproducing means for the karaoke information, the center stores music information storage for storing music information corresponding to the music. Means and
A music information transmitting means for searching for desired music information from the music information accumulated in the music information accumulating means in response to a request from the karaoke terminal and transmitting the desired music information to the karaoke terminal via the communication line; The karaoke terminal is characterized by comprising display means for receiving and displaying the music information transmitted by the music information transmitting means.

[0014]

According to the present invention, the center is provided with music information storage means for storing music information corresponding to music, and desired music information among the music information stored in the music information storage means at the request of the karaoke terminal. And the searched music information is transmitted to the karaoke terminal via the communication line by the music information transmission means, and the karaoke terminal displays the transmitted music information on the display means.

Here, the music information may include sales information of a commercially available music medium in which a desired music is stored.

Further, the karaoke terminal is provided with a storage means for storing the karaoke information and the music information transmitted from the center, and the reproducing means reads the karaoke information stored in the storage means and the karaoke information. The display means can read the music information stored in the storage means and display the music information.

According to such a configuration, not only can the karaoke information be reproduced, but also the music information including the sales information of the commercially available music media in which the music relating to the karaoke information is stored can be easily provided to the user, It is possible to provide a karaoke device that can support the purchase of commercially available music media and that can contribute to the sales promotion of music media for a music media sales company.

In the present invention, the music information can be composed of the following. (1) Title name of music media in which music is stored (2) Music artist name (3) Music media production company name (4) Music media selling price (5) Music media store name (6) Music Media type (7) Title name of the music media to be sold and the scheduled sales time if it is not stored in the existing music media

[0019]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a communication karaoke apparatus according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall construction of an embodiment of a communication karaoke apparatus according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, the communication karaoke device 10 is a center 100.
And a plurality of karaoke terminals 200 via the communication network 300.
Is connected. In FIG. 1, the karaoke terminal 2
00 as an example of karaoke terminals 200-1 and 200-2
It is shown.

A music source 101 is connected to the center 100, and the music source 101 stores karaoke information such as actual karaoke songs and images.

The basic operation of the communication karaoke apparatus 10 is that when the karaoke terminal 200 requests karaoke, the desired karaoke information stored in the music source 101 from the center 100 via the communication line network 300 is transmitted to the karaoke terminal. The karaoke terminal 200 receives the karaoke information and reproduces the karaoke information.
This enables karaoke performance.

Further, the karaoke terminal 200-2 of the karaoke terminals 200 is provided with a storage device 201 as an extension system thereof, and karaoke information relating to songs that are likely to be accessed is compared in communication cost. By transmitting the karaoke information in the storage device 201 in advance by transmitting the karaoke information from the center 100 in advance at a reasonably cheap midnight, the communication cost is reduced and the traffic is distributed. in this case,
The karaoke terminal 200-2 uses the karaoke information stored in the storage device 201 when reproducing the karaoke information.

The communication line network 300 is, for example, ISD.
N public network or cable broadcasting network such as CATV is used.
An example in which the bidirectional CATV system developed by the CATV Basic Technology Research Institute in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture is applied to the communication network 300 will be shown below. In this case, the frequency band of the bidirectional CATV is divided into a low band and a high band as shown in FIG.
In the downward direction from 0 to the karaoke terminal 200, the downward transmission band 30 in the high frequency band is used.
Use 0. Here, each band frequency-multiplexes (FDM) television channels with a bandwidth of 6 MHz, and in the downstream direction, each channel is used for each karaoke terminal 200.
Allocate for each. For example, in FIG. 2, channel 1
Is assigned to terminal # 1, and channel 3 is assigned to terminal # 2.

On the side of the center 100, karaoke information (karaoke video) including lyrics information reproduced by an LD (laser disk) or the like is transmitted to each terminal 200 as an NTSC signal.

In this embodiment, the upstream transmission band 20 is used to transmit control information such as karaoke piece selection information from the karaoke terminal 200 to the center 100.
The downlink transmission band 30 is used to transmit control information such as music information including sales information of commercially available music media from the center 100 to the karaoke terminal 200. Here, the control information is transmitted as follows. In the upstream transmission band 20, one channel of 30 to 36 MHz is used, and in the downstream transmission band 30, one channel of 234 to 240 MHz is used.

That is, here, for the upstream and downstream control information, each channel is QPSK digitally modulated to secure a digital transmission line of 8.192 Mbps, and further, 64 Kbps for each terminal by time division multiplexing (TDMA).
Secure a transmission path for the control information of.

The frame structure of this control information is shown in FIG. In FIG. 3, the control information has a frame structure of every 2 ms, each time slot (TS) has 136 bits (information bit = 128, control bit = 2, guard bit = 6), and for each terminal, for example, Time slot TS
One time slot is allocated in advance such that O is terminal # 1 and time slot TS1 is terminal # 2, and 64 Kbp.
s transmission rate (bearer service).

Therefore, depending on the number of karaoke reproducing devices on the side of the center 100, up to 111 terminals can be connected.

In this embodiment, the time slot is supposed to be allocated to the terminal in advance.
Channel incoming information, time slot allocation instruction,
By using it for common control information such as notification information of idle channels, it is possible to realize a demand assign method in which a time slot is assigned for each request from a terminal.

The SV channel is used for testing the terminal equipment.

In this embodiment, the transmission of the karaoke video, which requires a large band, is performed by the analog NTSC signal. It can also be realized by performing image compression such as 261 or MPEG and transmitting it as a digital signal.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the karaoke terminal 200.

In FIG. 4, the user uses the music selection information description section 210 to perform a normal karaoke music selection operation.

That is, a predetermined code assigned to a karaoke piece is input from a touch panel, a keyboard or the like (not shown), and the time slot inserting section 211 describes the code in the time slot assigned to this terminal 200 to convert the speed. And transmits it to the center 100 via the modulator 212.

The timing extraction required by the time slot inserting section 211 is performed by the downlink signal from the center 100.

That is, the downlink signal from the center 100 includes karaoke information (karaoke video) of the NTSC system and music information described later. Here, the karaoke information includes video displayed in the background and karaoke. The karaoke information, which includes music, lyrics, and the like, is added from the demodulation unit 213 to the karaoke video reproduction unit 215 that is an NTSC signal receiver (when the music information is displayed, the superimpose unit 214 is used. Via the monitor), and is reproduced here and output to the monitor 216 and the speaker 217.

The music information is added from the demodulation unit 213 to the time slot extraction unit 218, where the terminal 2
00 is extracted as character information from the time slot assigned to 00. Further, this music information is superimposed on the karaoke image of the NTSC signal output from the demodulation unit 213 by the superimposing unit 214.

By operating the control unit 219, the presence or absence of display of the information or the display position is set.

The music information storage unit 220 stores some music information.

Further, the music information recording section 221 stores the music information on a paper 222, a floppy disk (FD) 223, an IC.
It is for recording on a medium that can be stored and moved such as a card, and is realized by a printer, an FD driver device, an IC card recording device, or the like.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the structure of the center 100.

In FIG. 5, the code (music selection information) for selecting the karaoke music transmitted from each terminal 200 is received through the demodulation unit 110 and extracted by the time slot extraction unit 111.

The control section 112 selects a desired karaoke image based on the information.

The karaoke video reproduction units 113-1, 113-2, ... 113-n store some karaoke videos, and select the karaoke video based on the music selection information from the control unit 112. Play back with NTSC signal. this is,
For example, it is realized by an LD autochanger, and the number of terminals to be connected is prepared.

The music information storage unit 116 stores sales information of commercially available music media relating to karaoke music, that is, music information such as a record name in which the karaoke music is stored and a sales record store name. This music information storage unit 116
For example, RAM so that the stored data can be rewritten
Alternatively, it is realized by a non-volatile hard disk.

Music information is written in the music information storage section 116 by using the music information description section 117. As the music information description section 117, for example, a general-purpose personal computer is used, and the music information is described in a predetermined location of the music information description section 117 by editor software.

The music information retrieval unit 115 retrieves and reads desired music information from the music information storage unit 116 based on the music selection information of the upstream signal. And the time slot insertion unit 1
At 18, the music information retrieved and read by the music information retrieval unit 115 is inserted into a predetermined time slot. The music information and the karaoke video inserted in this time slot are frequency-multiplexed by the multiplexing unit 120 and transmitted to the terminal 200 side.

FIG. 6 shows control information such as music selection information transmitted from the terminal 200 to the center 100 and the center 1.
10 shows a transmission format of control information such as music information transmitted from 00 to the terminal 200.

In FIG. 6, this transmission format 40
0 is roughly divided into a header portion 410 and a text portion 420, and the header portion 410 (2-byte length) is a text portion 420.
Indicates the contents of (arbitrary length). Here, when the header part 410 is 0.1 (Hex), it is music selection information, and in this case, the text selection code is described in the text part 420. Further, when the header portion 410 is 11 (Hex), it is music information, and in this case, the text information is described in the text portion 420. As the music information, the character information displayed on the monitor 216 of the terminal 200 is described as it is, as will be described later.

Now, the music information stored in the music information storage section 116 of the center 100 will be described.

Now, for example, as shown in FIGS. 7 (a) and 7 (b), on the commercially available CD (compact disc) having the title name A, the music titles A-1, A-2, ..., A-10 are recorded. ,
A commercial CD (compact disc) with title B
, And music titles B-1, B-2, ..., B-12.

In this case, the music information storage section 116 of the center 100 stores the music information in the configuration as shown in FIG.

For example, since the music piece having the music name A-1 is contained in the CD (compact disc) having the title name A, the record title name is A for the music piece having the music title A-1, and the record medium is Is a CD (compact disc). In addition, this title name A CD
(Compact disc) production record company, release date, artist name, selling price, store district, etc. are also stored.

If a music piece having a certain music title is not stored in any commercially available music media and the music media containing this music is planned to be sold, this scheduled time is stored as the release time. To do.

9 to 13 are display examples of music information on the TV screen of the terminal 200. The center 100 receives the music selection information from the terminal 200 and transmits the karaoke video to the karaoke terminal 200. Then, if the music information storage unit 116 stores the music information corresponding to the karaoke video, the music information is also transmitted to the karaoke terminal 200 almost simultaneously with the karaoke video.

As described above, the karaoke terminal 200 displays the received music information on the received karaoke video in a superimposed manner.

That is, first, a music piece is selected,
When the karaoke video including the lyrics information is displayed, the user is inquired whether to display the music information as shown in FIG. For this, this display character is registered in advance in the superimposing unit 214 of the karaoke terminal 200, and if the music information is sent from the center 100, it is detected and displayed.

Here, an example of the case where the display is selected is shown in FIG.
0 and 11 are shown.

FIG. 10 shows an example of the case where this music is already recorded. Linking to the karaoke video that is currently flowing, the title name, record company,
The store name is displayed. That is, in this case, the center 100 transmits the character information "This song has a title of A ...".

FIG. 11 shows an example in the case where this music is not recorded yet. In this case, the sale scheduled time is displayed in addition to the title name so that the user can easily purchase the record later.

Further, as shown in FIG. 12, a screen for inquiring of the user whether to print out the information displayed in FIG. 10 or 11 is displayed. If a printout is desired here, the music information recording section 2 shown in FIG.
21 is used to print out on paper 222.

In the above, the example in which the music information is displayed at the same time as the karaoke video is displayed has been shown, but since it is somewhat troublesome to perform such a selection operation together with the karaoke operation, the karaoke video is displayed after being reproduced. It doesn't matter,
Further, the terminal 200 is further provided with a means for temporarily storing the music information sent from the center 100, and the music information regarding the karaoke music which has already been sung is displayed. This display example is shown in FIG. Also in this case, an inquiry as to whether or not to print out is displayed as in the case shown in FIG.

As described above, in this embodiment, in the communication karaoke apparatus via the communication line network 300, not only the karaoke music is reproduced, but also the normal processing in the karaoke of selecting the karaoke piece is performed. Since the record name of the music and the music information of the store etc. can be provided to the user, the user can be provided with information for supporting record purchase, and the record sales company can contribute to record sales promotion.

Further, by centrally storing the music information in the center 100, it is possible to save the space of the karaoke apparatus on the terminal 200 side and easily manage the music information. Further, by providing means for describing the music information in the music information storage unit 116, each center 100 can describe arbitrary music information according to the circumstances of the center.

[0066]

As described above, according to the present invention, the center is provided with the music information storage means for storing the music information corresponding to the music, and the music information storage means stores the music information at the request of the karaoke terminal. The desired music information in the music information is searched, and the searched music information is transmitted to the karaoke terminal via the communication line by the music information transmitting means, and the karaoke terminal displays the transmitted music information on the display means. In addition to playing karaoke music, it provides music information to the user quickly and easily, providing information to the user to support record purchasing and contributing to record sales promotion for the record sales company. it can.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of a communication karaoke apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining a band used by the communication line network shown in FIG.

3 is a diagram showing a frame structure of control information used in the embodiment shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of the karaoke terminal shown in FIG.

5 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of a center shown in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a transmission format of control information used in the embodiment shown in FIG.

7 is a diagram for explaining music information stored in a music information storage unit of the center shown in FIG.

8 is a diagram showing a specific example of music information stored in a music information storage unit of the center shown in FIG.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a display example of music information on the karaoke terminal side.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display example of music information on the karaoke terminal side.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a display example of music information on the karaoke terminal side.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a display example of music information on the karaoke terminal side.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a display example of music information on the karaoke terminal side.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 communication karaoke device 20 upstream transmission band 30 downstream transmission band 100 center 101 music source 200, 200-1, 200-2 karaoke terminal 110 demodulation unit 111 time slot extraction unit 112 control unit 113-1 to 113-n karaoke video reproduction unit 114-1 to 114-n Modulation section 115 Music information retrieval section 116 Music information storage section 117 Musical instrument information description section 118 Time slot insertion section 119 Modulation section 120 Control section 201 Storage device 210 Music selection information description section 211 Time slot insertion section 212 Modulation unit 213 Demodulation unit 214 Superimpose unit 215 Karaoke video playback unit 216 Monitor 217 Speaker 218 Time slot extraction unit 219 Control unit 220 Music information storage unit 221 Music information recording unit 222 Paper 223 Floppy disk (FD) 300 communication network

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. At least one center for transmitting karaoke information composed of at least one medium of music, voice, video and text in a predetermined format, and the karaoke connected to the center through a communication line. In a communication karaoke device including a karaoke terminal including information reproducing means, the center stores music information accumulating means for accumulating music information corresponding to the music, and the music information accumulating means in response to a request from the karaoke terminal. Music information transmitting means for searching for desired music information among the music information stored in and transmitting it to the karaoke terminal via the communication line, wherein the karaoke terminal is transmitted by the music information transmitting means. A communication karaoke apparatus comprising a display means for receiving and displaying the recorded music information. 2. The communication karaoke apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the music information includes sales information of a commercially available music medium in which a desired music is stored. 3. The karaoke terminal comprises a storage means for storing the karaoke information and the music information transmitted from the center, and the reproducing means reads the karaoke information stored in the storage means and reproduces the karaoke information. The display means
2. The online karaoke apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the music information stored in the storage means is read and the music information is displayed.