JPH09281979A - Maintenance device for karaoke machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a maintenance device for a KARAOKE machine capable of being brought to a shop where the KARAOKE sing-along machine is installed, and repairing the KARAOKE MACHINE. SOLUTION: A maintenance program and musical piece data for KARAOKE playing are stored in a portable HDD 2. The storage is executed by a maintenance center device 1. The portable HDD 2 is brought to the place (shop) where the KARAOKE machine 3 to be maintained is installed. The HDD is connected to the KARAOKE machine 3. The maintenance program is started by the KARAOKE machine 3 and the updating and restoring of the musical piece data of the hard disk built in the KARAOKE machine are executed by the musical piece data stored in the portable HDD 2. In addition, the operation logs of the KARAOKE machine are transferred to the portable HDD 2. As a result, the KARAOKE machine 3 is easily maintained. further, the portable HDD 2 is brought back to the maintenance center and is thereafter connected to the maintenance center device 1. The operation logs described above are copied to the maintenance center device 1 to facilitate the totalization of the logs.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a karaoke device maintenance device for maintaining a storage device such as a hard disk built in a sound source karaoke device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A sound source karaoke apparatus stores music data of about 10,000 songs in a hard disk storage device (HDD), and by reading this music data and supplying it to a sound source chip, the sound source chip produces a tone signal. And a karaoke performance.

Since karaoke songs are announced at a frequency of several songs per week, it is necessary to supply a new song to the HDD once for a certain period of time. Generally, since the sound source karaoke device is a communication karaoke device, new songs are downloaded via a telephone line.

[0004]

However, there is a sound source karaoke device which does not have a communication function, and in order to register a new song in such a device, the sound source karaoke device is brought to a maintenance center and installed at the maintenance center. I had to connect to an existing device to download new songs.

Even in the case of a communication karaoke apparatus, the hard disk and other equipment may be damaged. In such a case, the communication function cannot be used. Therefore, the apparatus is brought to the maintenance center and the contents of the hard disk are restored. It was very troublesome to rewrite.

An object of the present invention is to provide a maintenance device for a karaoke device which can be brought into a store where the karaoke device is installed and the karaoke device can be repaired.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is an external storage device connected to a karaoke device, and stores a music data storage area for storing music data and / or programs for karaoke performance, and a maintenance program. And a log recording area for writing the operation history of the karaoke apparatus. The maintenance program stored in the maintenance program storage area is executed by the control unit of the karaoke apparatus, and both the music data and the program are stored. Alternatively, it is provided with means for writing one of them into a storage device built in the karaoke device and means for writing the operation history of the karaoke device into the log storage area.

According to the present invention, music data and a maintenance program are stored in an external storage device such as a hard disk, which is connected to a karaoke device and the control unit (CPU) of the karaoke device activates the maintenance program. The maintenance program executes operations such as updating the music data stored in the storage device (hard disk) built into the karaoke device, transferring the operation log of the karaoke device to an external storage device, and the like.

As a result, even if the hard disk of the karaoke machine is destroyed (in terms of software), it can be restored by the maintenance program of the external storage device, so that the staff who went to the place where the karaoke machine is installed can easily work. You can

[0010]

1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a karaoke apparatus maintenance system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The karaoke device maintenance system comprises a maintenance center device 1, a portable hard disk device (portable HDD) 2 and a SCSI cable 4. The mobile HDD 2 has a maintenance center device 1
The music data file registered in is copied, and the maintenance staff brings it to a restaurant or the like, connects to the karaoke device 3 installed in the store, and copies the music data. At the same time, the log file is written from the karaoke apparatus 3. After this maintenance work is completed, when a person in charge returns the portable HDD 2 to the maintenance center and connects the portable HDD 2 to the maintenance center apparatus 1 again, this time, the log file written inside is transferred to the maintenance center apparatus 1.

FIG. 2 shows a built-in HDD of the maintenance center device 1.
It is a figure which shows the structure of a portable HDD2. The built-in HDD of the maintenance center device 1 includes a music data file, a program file, and a terminal-specific log file. New karaoke song data (new song) is constantly registered in the song data file. Further, this music data file is provided with a directory for easily searching the music name, music number, and registered address of the registered music data. The program file contains the system program,
All programs used by all types of karaoke apparatuses 3, such as karaoke performance sequence programs, are stored. The terminal-specific log file is a file that manages logs of all terminal devices (karaoke devices) managed by this maintenance center. In addition, the portable HDD 2 stores a maintenance program for performing maintenance of the karaoke device when connected to the karaoke device, a music data file, and a program file for writing the program according to the model of the karaoke device to be maintained, A log file writing area is provided for the connected karaoke device to write a log file. In the log file, performance history, maintenance history, error history, etc. are recorded together with the serial number of the terminal.

The portable HDD 2 is connected to the maintenance center device 1 by a staff member, and the music data file, the program file and the directory are updated. Then, the portable HDD 2 is connected to the karaoke apparatus 3 and maintains the hard disk of the karaoke apparatus 3 according to the maintenance program stored therein and siphons the log file.
However, this operation is executed by the control unit (CPU) of the karaoke apparatus.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the structure of the portable HDD.
A SCSI interface 11, a spindle motor drive unit 12, a voice coil motor drive unit 13, and a read / write control unit 14 are connected to the control unit 10. SCS
The I interface 11 connects this device to the maintenance center device 1 or the sound source karaoke device 3 via a SCSI cable. The spindle motor drive unit 12 controls the rotation of the disk 15. The voice coil motor drive unit 13 drives the voice coil motor 17 to control the track traced by the magnetic head 16. The read / write control unit 14 controls read / write by the magnetic head 16. The read / write control unit 14 includes a read-ahead cache and can efficiently perform sequential reading.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the sound source karaoke apparatus 3. The sound source karaoke device is a device that drives a sound source and an audio data processing unit to generate a karaoke performance sound. About 1 piece of music data for karaoke performance is stored on the hard disk 17.
All songs are stored. A CPU 21, which controls the operation of the entire karaoke apparatus, is provided with a ROM 21, RA via a bus.
M22, hard disk (HDD) 27, SCSI interface 26, commander receiving unit 23, operation unit 24, display unit 25, sound source 29, audio data processing unit 30, DSP3
1, a character pattern development unit 36, an LD changer 37, and a display control unit 38 are connected.

The ROM 21 stores a system program, a karaoke performance program, character pattern data, and the like. The system program is a program that controls the basic operation of the device. The karaoke performance program is a program that drives the sound source 29, the voice data processing unit 30, the DSP 31, etc. based on the music data to generate the karaoke performance sound and control the display of lyrics and the reproduction of the background video. The character pattern data is data for expanding the lyrics, song titles, etc. given as code information into character patterns. This character pattern data is used when the character pattern expansion unit 36 displays the lyrics based on the lyrics data. A music data storage area for storing the music data read from the hard disk 27 is set in the RAM 22.

The SCSI interface 26 is an interface for accessing the portable HDD 2 via a SCSI cable. On the hard disk 27, a music data file 27a storing about 10,000 music data,
A program file 27b for storing programs and a log file 27c for storing logs such as performance history, maintenance history and error history are set.

The commander receiving unit 23 receives the infrared signal sent from the commander 40 and restores the data. The commander 40 includes various key switches such as a song number registration key and a ten-key pad. When the user operates these key switches, the commander 40 outputs an infrared code signal corresponding to the operated key switch. The commander receiver 23 receives the infrared code signal and transmits it to the CPU 20. The operation unit 24 is provided on the front panel of the karaoke apparatus and includes the same mode selection switch and ten keys as the commander 40. The display unit 25 is also provided on the front panel of the karaoke apparatus similarly to the operation unit 24, and includes an LED matrix display for displaying the number of the currently playing music or the number of reserved music.

The sound source 29 forms a tone signal based on tone data included in the music data. The audio data processing unit 30 reproduces an audio signal such as a back chorus based on audio data included in the music data. The tone signal generated by the sound source 29 and the audio signal reproduced by the audio data processing unit 30 are input to the DSP 31. The DSP 31 gives effects such as reverb and echo to the musical tone signal and the audio signal. The type and degree of the effect provided by the DSP 31 are controlled based on the DSP control data included in the music data. Music signal with effect,
The voice signal is converted into an analog signal (karaoke performance sound) by the D / A converter 33 and then output to the amplifier 33. A singing voice signal is also input from the microphone 34 to the amplifier. The amplifier 33 drives the speaker 35 by mixing and amplifying the karaoke performance sound and the singing voice signal.

The character pattern expansion unit 36 expands the character pattern of the character code data of the lyrics track of the music data. The LD changer 37 reproduces a predetermined background image (moving image) during karaoke performance. The character pattern expanded by the character pattern expansion unit 36 and the LD changer 37
The background image reproduced by is synthesized by the display control unit 38 and displayed on the monitor 39.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the structure of music data. FIG. 2A shows the configuration of the entire music data.
FIG. 1B shows the structure of the melody track in the musical sound track as an example of the track. Music data includes header, tone track, lyrics track, voice control track,
It consists of a DSP control track. The header is a portion in which various data relating to the music data is written, and includes data such as the music title, genre, release date, and performance time (length) of the music.

The musical tone track, the lyrics track, the voice control track, and the DSP control track are all described in the MIDI format as shown in FIG. The MIDI format includes a plurality of event data and duration data Δt indicating a time interval between the event data. The sequence program is
Att is counted at a predetermined tempo clock, and when Δt is counted up, event data following this is read and output to a predetermined processing unit.

The musical sound tracks include various part tracks such as a melody track and a rhythm track. The event data of a musical sound track includes musical sound pronunciation (note-on event) and musical sound mute (note-off event) data, and each event data includes event type (note-on, note-off, tone change, etc.), note number (sound). High), velocity, etc.

The lyrics track is a track in which sequence data for displaying lyrics on the monitor 39 is stored. Although this sequence data is not musical sound data, this track is also described in a MIDI data format system exclusive message in order to unify the implementation and facilitate the work process. The voice control track is a sequence track for designating the generation timing and the reproduction pitch of the voice data stored in the voice data section. The sound data part includes the sound source 29
A human voice such as a back chorus or harmony singing that is difficult to synthesize is stored. DS control tracks include DS
DSP control data for controlling the operation of P31 is written together with the duration data.

6 and 7 are flow charts showing the maintenance operation of the maintenance center device 1 and the karaoke device 3. FIG. 6 shows the operation when the maintenance center device 1 is connected to the portable HDD 2. FIG. 6A shows a process before maintenance of the karaoke device, and FIG. 6B shows maintenance of the karaoke device. The subsequent processing is shown.

In FIG. 1A, when the portable HDD 2 is connected, the maintenance center device 1 first reads the directory from the portable HDD 2 (s1). The read directory is compared with the latest directory stored in the built-in HDD (s2). As a result of comparison, this portable HDD2
Music data to be newly written is extracted for (s
3). That is, the music data of the difference between the two is stored in the portable HDD.
It should be written in 2. Then, the extracted music data is read out from the built-in HDD, and the portable HDD
Write to 2 (s4). As a result, the contents of the portable HDD are updated to the latest contents, so that the directory of the portable HDD 2 is updated to the latest contents (s5). Next, if the staff member specifies the model of the karaoke device to be maintained (s
6), the program used in the model is the mobile HD
Copy to D2 (s7). After this processing, the clerk disconnects the portable HDD 2 from the maintenance center device 1 and takes it to the store where the karaoke device is installed. Then, maintenance work of the karaoke device can be performed.

FIG. 7 shows a maintenance operation in which the karaoke apparatus 3 to which the portable HDD 2 is connected reads and executes the maintenance program stored in the portable HDD 2. By storing the program in the portable HDD 2 in this manner, it becomes possible to execute the maintenance operation even when the built-in HDD of the karaoke apparatus 3 is destroyed. When the maintenance operation starts, first, the operation of the built-in HDD 27 of the karaoke machine is checked (s20). If it is determined that there is an abnormality in the music data file 27a as a result of the check and it is necessary to replace all the music data, s21 to s
Go to 25. In s25, all songs are designated as copy songs, and in s26, all songs are set to the music data file 2 of the HDD
Copy to 7a.

On the other hand, if there is no abnormality in the music data file 27a, only the new music that has not been registered in this karaoke device needs to be copied. Therefore, the directory of the portable HDD 2 is read (s22) and compared with the directory of the HDD 27. (S23), only the missing pieces are extracted as copy pieces (s24). Then, only the extracted music data is copied (s26). After copying, the directory is updated (s27). Next, the HDD 27
It is determined whether the program file 27b of No. 2 is abnormal (s28). If there is an abnormality in the program file 27b, the program stored in the program file of the HDD 2 is replaced with the program file 27b of the HDD 27
(S29). After this, log file 27
The contents of c are written in the log recording area of the portable HDD 2 (s30), and the operation is completed.

After the above maintenance operation, the person in charge is the portable HDD 2
After returning to the maintenance center, the portable HDD 2 is connected to the maintenance center device 1. At this time, the maintenance center device 1
Executes the operation of FIG. First, the code of the karaoke device that has been maintained is read (s10), and the log written from the karaoke device is copied (s11). After this, the logs are totaled (s12), and the operation ends. The totaling includes, for songs having high performance frequency, adding a mark of recommendation to the song data, or urging maintenance other than the song data maintenance when there are many error logs. In addition,
The code of the karaoke device read in s6 may be stored in the portable HDD 2 or may be input by a staff member using a keyboard or the like.

Thus, the music data can be maintained at the place where the karaoke device is installed, and at the same time, the log of the karaoke device can be collected at the same time.
The inspection can be ensured.

It is assumed that the portable HDD 2 can continuously maintain a plurality of karaoke apparatuses, and can store and store the logs of the plurality of karaoke apparatuses in the log writing area.

[0031]

As described above, according to the present invention, even if the karaoke device does not have a communication function or the karaoke device has the communication function stopped, it is possible to go to the karaoke device installation place and maintain the device. Even if the hard disk of the karaoke device is destroyed, the recovery is easy.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a maintenance system of a karaoke device which is an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a maintenance center device and portable H of the maintenance system.
Diagram showing file structure of DD

FIG. 3 is a structural diagram of the portable HDD

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the karaoke device.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of music data.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the maintenance center device.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation of the karaoke apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Maintenance center device, 2 ... Portable HDD, 3 ... Karaoke device 27 ... Hard disk, 27a ... Music data file, 27b ... Program file, 27c ... Log file

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An external storage device connected to a karaoke device, which is a music data storage area for storing music data and / or programs for karaoke performance,
Maintenance program storage area for storing maintenance programs,
And a log recording area for writing the operation history of the karaoke apparatus, wherein the maintenance program stored in the maintenance program storage area is executed by a control unit of the karaoke apparatus, and both or one of the music data and the program are built in the karaoke apparatus. Maintenance device for a karaoke device, which is provided with a means for writing it in the storage device and a device for writing the operation history of the karaoke device in the log storage area.