JPH09185384A - Karaoke device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a user from feeling tired of karaoke by providing a determining means which determines one piece of music among pieces of music corresponding to a category specified by a category specifying means at random and a playing control means which commands the karaoke performance of the music determined by the determining means. SOLUTION: A remote control 10 corresponds to the 'category specifying means' or a 'discrimination information input means' and is equipped with discrimination information input keys 11 for inputting numbers 0-9, etc., a determination key 13 for determining inputted information, a display part 15 which displays the numbers, etc., inputted with the input keys 11, etc. As music discrimination information used when karaoke music is requested directly, a number which is >='1001' is set, and discrimination information for specifying a category uses numbers below '0999'; and a CPU 70 reads karaoke performance information 21 on corresponding music out of a storage device 20 when inputted discrimination information is >='1001' and sends musical sound information in it to a karaoke playing unit 120.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a karaoke apparatus which can be enjoyed by singing along with accompaniment music.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is known a karaoke apparatus which can be enjoyed by singing along with karaoke accompaniment. In this case, the user has a song number to be sung. The (music selection number) is searched by looking at a so-called "quick sample" and is requested by inputting it through an operation panel provided on the main body of the apparatus or a remote control device.

This is convenient when the user wants to request a particular desired song because he / she is consciously selecting the song he / she wants to sing. However, if you frequently enjoy karaoke, you will generally feel like a rut, so you will also be demanding a freshness that is different from the conventional method. For example, if a song by a singer can sing almost any song, sing a song randomly selected from the songs by the singer.

Therefore, the present invention enables the user to enjoy a different karaoke by singing a randomly selected song from a plurality of songs instead of designating a specific song. The main purpose is to propose a karaoke device that prevents the user from getting tired of karaoke.

[0005]

According to the invention as set forth in claim 1, which is made in order to achieve the above object, a karaoke performance device for performing a karaoke performance based on performance information of a piece of music is randomly selected. Category designating means for designating a category for determining an object, category corresponding song storing means for storing identification information of a plurality of songs corresponding to the category for each category, and storing in the category corresponding song storing means Determining means for randomly determining one song from a plurality of songs corresponding to the category designated by the category designating means on the basis of the identified song identification information, and karaoke performance of the song determined by the determining means. A karaoke device characterized by comprising performance control means for instructing.

According to this karaoke apparatus, when a category for determining a random selection target is designated by the category designating means, identification information of a plurality of songs corresponding to the category is stored for each category in the category corresponding music storing means. Therefore, the deciding means selects one from a plurality of songs corresponding to the designated category based on the stored song identification information.
Randomly determine songs. Then, the performance control means instructs the karaoke performance of the song determined by the determination means.

As described above, by designating not a specific song to be played but a category unit to which a plurality of songs belong, a song to be actually played is selected from among a plurality of songs corresponding to the category. It will be one song randomly selected from.
This category includes, for example, so-called "by genre" such as anime songs, duet songs, and English songs, those classified by "singer", or by "composer" and "lyricist". It can be classified into. Of course, a category for all songs can be considered as one category. Since there is only one song that corresponds to one category, it is not necessary to set such a category as a single category, but for example, the relevant songs are collected and the category "other" is set. It doesn't matter.

Then, singing a randomly determined song after only specifying the category in this way has the following effects. For example, in the case of "I can sing almost any song if it is an anime song" or "I can sing almost any song in the case of a song of ○○ (singer name)", the user will sing a randomly selected song, so the user For me, it is possible to enjoy karaoke differently than before. as a result,
Up until now, it has only been possible to request a specific song, which will be a new stimulus for users who are a little tired. Of course, songs in that category are not limited to being specified only when almost any song can be sung. For example, when a plurality of people enjoy karaoke, songs that are randomly determined are sequentially sung, and a penalty is given when they cannot sing well.

The karaoke apparatus of the present invention needs to specify at least a category and randomly determine a piece of music to be played from the pieces of music corresponding to the specified category, but the conventional request method is also used. It is preferable. That is, as set forth in claim 2, it is provided with identification information input means for inputting identification information of a piece of music, and the performance control means also instructs karaoke performance of a piece of music corresponding to the identification information input by the identification information input means. Make it possible.

In this way, the user can request a specific song desired by himself by directly inputting the identification information of the song, and also can enjoy the merit of random selection. become. It should be noted that the category designating unit designates a category for determining a random selection target. This may be performed by operating a designation key provided for each category, or an item of a category that can be designated is displayed. It may be displayed on the means and selected from among them. Alternatively, for example, as shown in claim 3, it is conceivable to input the identification information set corresponding to the category.
This is particularly preferable when the method of directly inputting and requesting the identification information of the music is also used as in claim 2.
That is, for example, a four-digit number starting from 1001 is set as the music identification information, and 0 is set for the category.
If a predetermined four-digit number is set between 000 and 0999, both can be specified by using the same input means equipped with a numeric keypad, so that it is not necessary to provide a dedicated key for specifying a category or the like. . The identification information of this category may be described in a so-called “quick sample”.

Further, as one problem in randomly determining, since it is random, if the same category is designated, the same song may be continuously determined or the same song may be determined many times in a short period of time. Come out. Since it is not welcome for the user that the same music is continuous or becomes the same music three times out of five times, it is preferable that the same music is not decided as much as possible. Therefore, as described in claim 4, the determining means may exclude the once determined music from the determination target until a predetermined number or more of music is subsequently determined in the same category. This is, for example, 1
A flag may be set for the determined songs, and if a predetermined number of songs such as 5 songs from the same category is determined, the flag may be reset so that all songs within the category can be determined again. To be

When a category is designated in the present invention, it is not always possible to designate only one category. Since a recent karaoke apparatus that can request about 10,000 songs has a so-called song database character, it may be possible to search a normal database using a plurality of search expressions. For example, two categories of "duet song" and "singer" may be designated and randomly selected from songs satisfying both of them.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the karaoke apparatus of this embodiment. The karaoke device 1 includes a remote controller 10, a storage device 20, a commander 30 that receives an instruction input from the remote controller 10,
It corresponds to the background image supply device 40, the image synthesizing device 50, the monitor 60 as a display device for outputting the image synthesized by the image synthesizing device 50, and the “determining device” and “performance controlling device” in the present invention, CPU 70 that controls the entire device
And a ROM 80 containing the procedure of processing of the CPU 70,
A video RAM (VRAM) 90 for displaying the lyrics telop information on the monitor 60, a RAM 100 for storing the reserved contents of the tune, a display panel 110, and a karaoke performance unit 120 are provided.

The remote controller 10 is "category designating means".
Corresponding to the “identification information input means”, the identification information input key 11 for inputting numbers 0-9, the confirmation key 13 used to confirm the input information, and the numbers input by the identification information input key 11. A display unit 15 and the like for displaying, etc. are provided. The numbers and the like input by the identification information input key 11 are displayed on the display unit 15, so that the user can see and confirm them, and if they are okay, press the enter key 13. When the confirmation key 13 is pressed, the data is transferred from the remote controller 10 to the commander 30 side. The transferred data and the like are displayed on the display panel 110.

The storage device 20 stores karaoke performance information 21 including tone information and lyrics telop information. The karaoke performance unit 120 is a unit for performing a karaoke performance, and converts the musical tone information sent from the storage device 20 into a music voice signal and outputs it to a mixer amplifier (not shown). 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).

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 is read from the storage device 20 and passed through the VRAM 90. The lyrics telop information in the input karaoke performance information and the background image supplied from the background image supply device 40 are combined, and the monitor 60 is displayed.
Output to

The storage device 20 also corresponds to "category-corresponding song storage means", and the category table 22, the reference table (NO. 1) 23, and the reference table (NO.
2) 24, ..., Reference table (NO. 18) 25, ...
... These tables will be described.

As shown in FIG. 2, the category table 22 includes a set category, identification information for designating the category, and a reference table NO. It shows the corresponding relationship with. Categories are classified by so-called genres such as all songs, anime songs, duet songs, drama theme songs, and English songs, and for each predetermined singer (for example, Itsuki ○○○, US ○○○○, Wada ○○○) The ones classified into, and those classified by a predetermined composer or lyricist are set. If the identification information for specifying each is, for example, all songs, "000
1 "," 0002 "for anime songs, singer Itsuki ○○
If it is ◯, it is set as "0011". Note that, for example, for singers, categories are not set for all singers, and there is only one song corresponding to one category.
Such need not be set as a single category. For example, it is preferable to set it when there are at least 5 songs. Further, for example, four or less songs may be collected and set as a category such as "other singer".

Further, in this embodiment, as shown in FIG.
For convenience, the singers are “0011” to “0199”, the composer is “0301”, and the lyricist is “0401”. However, there is not necessarily a category corresponding to all consecutive numbers. . However, as will be described later, when directly requesting a karaoke song, the song identification information is input as the song selection number, but since this number is set to start from "1001", this category The identification information for specifying is “099
It is designed to fit within 9 ".

On the other hand, the reference table NO. Is matched with the identification information in the case of the present embodiment, and the identification information is "000.
In the case of all song categories of "1", reference table No. Becomes "1" and the identification information is "0002" in the anime song category, the reference table No. Is also "2".

Next, let's look at some reference tables. FIG. 3 is a schematic explanatory diagram of the reference table (NO. 1) 23. This reference table (NO. 1) 23
Indicates that the category is "all songs", and the information of all the songs that can be requested is stored as the song identification information. Then, there is a request flag item for each piece of music identification information, and this flag is set to "not yet" when no request is made and "complete" when a request is made.

Similarly, the reference table (NO.
2) 24 is when the category is "Anime song", Fig. 5
The reference table (NO. 18) 25 shown in FIG. 3 is for the case of “singer's US, US, XX” in the category shown in FIG.
The number of songs is smaller than that of all songs. Particularly, in the case of the reference table (NO. 18) 25 of FIG. 5, only 6 songs are set.

Next, of the operation of the karaoke apparatus 1 of the present embodiment, the processing especially when the user makes a request will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, in the first step S10, it is determined whether or not a request has been made. User uses commander 30 with remote control 10.
You can select the song you want to sing by operating, but in this case, there are two types of request methods. One is that the user himself / herself specifies and requests the song to be sung, and the other is that the user only specifies the category and randomly selects a song from the karaoke system 1
It's left to the side. In this embodiment, in any of the cases, as a user's operation, a desired song or category is designated by inputting a 4-digit number with the identification information input key 11 of the remote controller 10,
When the confirmation is made with the confirmation key 13, it is transferred to the commander 30 side.

Since the identification information of this song or category is described in a so-called quick sample, it is possible to find the song or category that one wants to sing by referring to it. Returning to the processing of FIG. 6, when the identification information of the song or category is input to the CPU 70 from the remote controller 10 via the commander 30 (S10: YE).
S) and S20, and the identification information is "1001".
Although it is the above number, it is judged. As described above, in the case of the present embodiment, a number “1001” or more is set as the music identification information when directly requesting a karaoke piece, and the identification information for designating the category is “099”.
Since it is designed to fit in the numbers below 9 ", this S2
With 0, it is determined whether the music is directly designated or the category is designated.

If the affirmative judgment is made in S20, that is, if the input identification information is "1001" or more, it is the music identification information. Therefore, the process proceeds to S100, and the music corresponding to the requested music identification information is selected. It gives instructions to play. Specifically, the karaoke performance information 21 of the corresponding song is read out from the storage device 20, and the musical tone information therein is transmitted to the karaoke performance unit 120. The lyrics telop information in the karaoke performance information 21 is transmitted to the VRAM 90. Regarding the subsequent performance processing in the karaoke performance unit 120, and processing for synthesizing the lyrics telop information input from the VRAM 90 and the background image supplied from the background image supply device 40 in the image composition device 50 and outputting to the monitor 60. Is not the focus of the present invention and will not be described further.

Returning to FIG. 6, if the negative determination is made in S20, it means that the category is designated. Therefore, the process proceeds to S30 and it is determined whether or not there is a corresponding category.
As described in the description of FIG. 2, in the present embodiment, for convenience, the singers are “0011” to “0199” and the composer is “03”.
01 ”and the lyricist is“ 0401 ”and so on, but there is not necessarily a category corresponding to all consecutive numbers. Therefore, there is a case where the inputted identification information does not have a corresponding category. In that case, the process proceeds to S90, and a display such as "There is no corresponding category" is displayed on the display panel 110, and this processing is once performed. finish. Note that the monitor 60 may be configured to display.

On the other hand, if an affirmative determination is made in S30, that is, if there is a corresponding category, the process proceeds to S40. S40
Then, from the category table 22 (see FIG. 2), the reference table No. And randomly select music identification information from the reference table. For example, in the case of the reference table (NO. 1) 23 in the case where the categories shown in FIG. 3 are all songs, since the song identification information of all the songs is set,
It will be randomly selected from all the songs.

In subsequent S50, the request flag corresponding to the selected piece of music identification information is set to "done". For example, when the music identification information “2479” is selected in the reference table (NO. 2) 24 shown in FIG. 4, the request flag is set to “completed”. If the request flag is randomly selected in S40, this request flag is "not yet".
Select from among those set in. This is to prevent the same music piece from being selected again continuously or in between because it is randomly selected.

At the next step S60, it is determined whether or not the number of "done" flags is five or more. The reference table (N
O. In 2), when the song identification information “2479” is selected for the first time, there is only one request flag set to “done”. In such a case, the process proceeds to S70. S
At 70, the performance of the selected music identification information is instructed. This process is the same as the process in S100 described above, and thus will not be described in detail here.

If an affirmative decision is made in S60, S80
Move to. Reference table (NO. 18) 2 shown in FIG.
No. 5 is a case where the random selection is executed 5 times in the same category, and the request flag of 5 out of 6 songs is “completed”. Therefore, in this case, the process proceeds to S80 and all the request flags are set to “not yet”,
The process proceeds to S70.

This is for the following reason. In the case of randomly selecting in S40, in order to prevent the same song from being selected again in succession or in the middle of several songs, it is necessary to select from those whose request flag is set to "not yet". did. However, for example, if it is not returned to "not yet" until all songs are selected, when a large number of songs such as 100 songs or 1000 songs are set, the random selection target is returned to all songs in the category. The rotation interval becomes too long, which is not preferable. Therefore, a predetermined number of songs (5 in this embodiment)
From the viewpoint that there is no same song between songs, S8
At 0, the request flag is set back to "not yet".

As described above, according to the karaoke apparatus 1 of the present embodiment, when the user requests a song, not only the method of specifying the song but also the request is made in units of categories to which a plurality of songs belong. You can also do it. When a request is made for each category, the song actually played is one song randomly determined from a plurality of songs corresponding to the category. This category may be, for example, so-called "by genre" such as an anime song, a duet song, or an English song, or a category classified by "singer" or "composer" or "lyricist". Of course, a category for all songs can be considered as one category.

Then, singing a randomly determined song after only specifying the category in this way has the following effects. For example, in the case of "I can sing almost any song if it is an anime song" or "I can sing almost any song in the case of a song of ○○ (singer name)", the user will sing a randomly selected song, so the user For me, it is possible to enjoy karaoke differently than before. As a result, even for users who were only a little tired of making only requests to specify a specific song,
The fact that you don't know which song will be selected is a new stimulus. Of course, songs in that category are not limited to being specified only when almost any song can be sung.
For example, when a plurality of people enjoy karaoke, songs that are randomly determined are sequentially sung, and a penalty is given when they cannot sing well.

When a category is designated, a designation key provided for each category may be operated, or items of a category which can be designated are displayed on the display unit 15 of the remote controller 10 or the like. You may make it select from. However, when the method of directly inputting the identification information of the song to request is also used as in the present embodiment,
The identification information input key 11 is operated so that a request for identifying a song with the same four-digit number and a request for a category can be made. Therefore, there is an advantage that a dedicated key for specifying a category need not be provided.

The present invention is not limited to the embodiments as described above, and can be carried out in various modes without departing from the gist of the present invention. For example, in the above embodiment, when specifying a category, only one category can be specified, but two or more categories may be specified. In that case, it may be selected randomly from a plurality of categories, or may be selected from overlapping portions of both. This is because recent karaoke, which has about 10,000 songs that can be requested, has a so-called song database character, so that, for example, when searching from a normal database using a plurality of search expressions, for example, "Duet" Two categories, "song" and "singer," may be designated and randomly selected from the songs that satisfy both of the two categories.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a karaoke device of an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a category table in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a reference table No. 1 in the embodiment. FIG.

FIG. 4 shows a reference table No. 1 in the embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows 2.

5 is a reference table No. in the embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows 18.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a process when the user makes a request, among the operations of the karaoke apparatus of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Karaoke device 10 ... Remote control 11 ... Identification information input key 13 ... Confirmation key 15 ... Display unit 20 ... Storage device 21 ... Karaoke performance information 22 ... Category table 23 ... Reference table (NO. 1) 24 ... Reference table (NO. 2) 25 ... Reference table (NO. 18) 30 ... Commander 40 ... Background image supply device 50 ... Image synthesizer 60 ... Monitor 70 ... CPU 120 ... Karaoke performance unit

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A karaoke performance device for performing karaoke performance based on performance information of a piece of music, comprising category specifying means for specifying a category for determining a random selection target, and identification information of a plurality of pieces of music corresponding to the category. A category-corresponding song storage unit for storing each category, and a plurality of songs corresponding to the category designated by the category designating unit based on the song identification information stored in the category-corresponding song storage unit A karaoke apparatus comprising: a determining means for randomly determining one piece of music; and a performance control means for instructing a karaoke performance of the piece of music determined by the determining means. 2. The karaoke apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: identification information input means for inputting identification information of the song, wherein the performance control means uses the identification information input by the identification information input means. A karaoke device characterized in that it is also capable of instructing karaoke performances of corresponding songs. 3. The karaoke apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the category designating unit is configured to designate a desired category by inputting identification information set corresponding to the category. Karaoke device characterized in that. 4. The karaoke apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the deciding means decides a song once decided until a predetermined number of songs or more are decided within the same category. Karaoke device characterized by being excluded from.