JPH09305187A - Karaoke (orchestration without lyrics) system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the lyrics to be easily seen by a singer by displaying an inserted picture at the position where no lyrics are displayed. SOLUTION: A lyrics control means 18 displays lyrics 20. A picture control means 14 displays the animation extracted from a background picture storage means 16 or a background picture 22 such as a still picture. The lyrics 20 are written on the picture 22. Then, a singer 26 is imaged by an imaging device 24 such as a CCD camera and the video signals are inserted as an inserted picture 32 on the screen of the monitor 12 through a video picture control means 30. At that time, the lyrics 20 are superscribed over the picture 32 or displayed at the place which is separated from the picture 32. A lyrics position detecting means 50a, which detects the display range of the lyrics 20, detects the frame which includes the portion where the lyrics 20 are displayed by the means 18, makes the frame as a display inhibited region. Then, a display range setting means 50 displays the picture 32 in the range which excludes the region.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to control of an inlay screen imaged by an imaging device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is a karaoke system in which a performance is played from a speaker and a song is sung in accordance with the performance. A song and a poem are displayed on the monitor together with a screen such as a moving image and a still image, and the user sings along with the performance while watching the song and the poem. In the communication type (communication karaoke), song data is transmitted together with the performance data from the transmitting station, and the data is received, the performance is played, and the song is displayed on the monitor. A screen is displayed on the monitor, which is extracted from a screen storage unit (LD) installed on the receiving side in advance and displayed.

[0003]

However, the singer simply sings along with the performance, but the moving picture and the still picture are simply displayed on the monitor screen, and the change is poor.
In particular, in the case of online karaoke, a screen that does not match the performance is also displayed, and there is a sense of incongruity and there is a drawback that the change is less.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and is to set a screen of a singer imaged by an image pickup device on a monitor and control it in various patterns.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, a singer's screen captured by using an image pickup device is set on a monitor screen of a karaoke system, and a song poem pattern on the monitor screen is displayed.
This is displayed on a place other than the inset screen so that it will not be disturbed by the inset screen. In the second aspect, the fitting screen is enlarged or reduced during the performance. In the third aspect, the inset screen is moved along a set line such as a straight line or a curved line during the performance. In claim 4, a plurality of inset screens are duplicated and displayed on the monitor screen during performance. In the fifth aspect, the inset screen is rotated within the plane of the monitor screen during performance or in the front-back direction of the monitor screen. Claim 6
Then, it is possible to change the outline of the inset screen. Claim 7
Then, the expansion / reduction speed of the inset screen, movement speed,
It is possible to control the speed of duplication and deletion, the speed of rotation, and the speed of external shape change. According to the eighth aspect, the color tone of the inset screen can be changed. According to the ninth aspect, the brightness of the embedded screen can be changed. In the tenth aspect, the fitting screen is covered with the shutter, and the shutter is controlled to be gradually opened. According to the eleventh aspect, the control of enlarging / reducing the fitting screen, moving, copying, rotating, and changing the outer shape is selectively combined and controlled simultaneously. According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, the control of enlarging / reducing the inset screen, moving, copying, rotating, and changing the outer shape is combined according to the content of the performance of the karaoke system. In claim 13, enlargement / reduction of the inset screen, movement, duplication, rotation, and external shape change control are performed.
Based on information sent from the outside.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. Embodiment 1. FIG. 1 (a) is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a karaoke system according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 2 is a transmitting station, and song data and song data together with performance data to a distribution station 6 side via a line 4. The performance control means 10 on the karaoke system main body 8 side on the distribution station 6 side plays a performance through the built-in speaker in the monitor 12, and a voice from a microphone (not shown) is played on the speaker and singing. The poem control unit 18 displays the song 20 and the screen control unit 14 displays on the monitor 12 a background image 22 such as a moving image or a still image extracted from the background screen storage unit 16. The poem 20 is overwritten on the background image 22. Reference numeral 24 denotes an imaging device such as a CCD camera, which images the singer 26, and fits the video as a fit screen 32 on the screen of the monitor 12 via the video screen control means 30. In this case, the poem 20 is overwritten on the inset screen 32 or displayed at a position apart from the inset screen 32 (a position where the inset screen 32 is not displayed). 50 is
It is a display range setting means for setting the display range of the fitting screen 32. Reference numeral 50a is a poem position detecting means for detecting the display range of the poem 20. This is a frame 50 including a portion where the poem 20 is displayed by the poem control means 18, as shown in FIG.
b is detected and set as the display prohibited area, and the display range setting means 5
At 0, the inset screen 3 is placed in the area 50c other than the frame 50b.
2 is displayed. According to the above, since the inset screen 32 does not hide the poem 20, the singer can satisfactorily read the poem 20.

As shown in FIG. 3, the video screen control means 30 includes an enlargement / reduction control means 30a and a movement control means 3.
0b, the copy erasure control means 30c, and the rotation control means 30
d, outer shape control means 30e, speed control means 30f,
It comprises a color tone control means 30g, a luminance control means 30h, and a shutter control means 30i. The enlarging / reducing control means 30a, as shown in FIG. 4, gradually enlarges or reduces the inset screen 32 in the opposite direction during the performance as shown by the arrow. As shown in FIG. 5, the movement control means 30b displays the fitting screen 32 on the straight line 34 or the curve 3 having various curvatures during the performance.
It moves along setting lines such as 6,38. The copy erasure control means 30c displays the inset screen 32 as shown in FIG.
May be duplicated and displayed on the screen of the monitor 12 during the performance, or may be deleted after displaying the screen of the predetermined portion. The rotation control means 30d rotates the fit screen 32 in the right or left direction on the monitor screen plane as shown in FIG. 7, during the performance, in the monitor screen plane, or as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9. Or rotate (including reversal) in the direction perpendicular to the screen, the horizontal direction, or the vertical direction.

The outer shape control means 30e changes the outer shape of the fitting screen into various shapes, for example, from a trapezoid to a rectangle as shown in FIG. 10 or a heart shape as shown in FIG. The speed control unit 30f includes: a speed of enlargement / reduction of the inset screen by the enlargement / reduction control unit 30a; a movement speed by the movement control unit 30b;
c, the speed of rotation by the rotation control means 30d, and the speed of change of the outer shape by the outer shape control means 30e. The color tone control unit 30g changes the color tone of the fit screen 32. The brightness control means 30h changes the brightness of the inlaid screen 32. The shutter control means 30i covers the fitting screen 32 with the shutter 40 of the background screen as shown in FIG. 12, and gradually opens the shutter 40. The combining means 30j is a combination pattern setting means 30k
The data of the enlargement / reduction control means 30a to the shutter control means 30i is selectively taken in based on the instruction from the user, and the respective controls of enlargement / reduction, movement, duplication, rotation, and outer shape change of the fitting screen 32 are selected. The combination is performed simultaneously.

The performance state detecting means 30m is an inlaid screen combination pattern setting means. When signals A, B, C,... Indicating the combination are manually set, the combination pattern setting means 30k outputs a signal A. , B, C,... Are fetched in order, and the synthesizing unit 30j combines the data from the control units 30a to 30i in an order corresponding to the signals A, B, C,. Give instructions.

The synthesizing means 30j, for example, from the combination pattern setting means 30k, moves the inset screen 32 by curve movement.
Further, when an instruction is given to enlarge and rotate, the data from the enlargement / reduction control unit 30a, the movement control unit 30b, and the rotation control unit 30d are taken in and combined, and the inset screen 32 is controlled to monitor. Since the instruction is given to 12, the fitting screen 32 is controlled as shown in FIG. In this case, the enlargement / reduction control unit 30a enlarges the inset screen 32 instead of reducing it.
0b is not a linear movement but a predetermined curved movement, and the rotation control means 30d is a right and plane rotation.
It is automatically set by detecting the signal of the combination pattern setting means 30k.

According to the above configuration, the performance state detecting means 3
.., Indicating the desired combination, are sequentially output, and the combination pattern setting means 30k is set. In the process of being superimposed and displayed on the image 22, the screen 32 can be variously fitted into the form according to this combination.

Embodiment 2. In this case, the performance control means 1
A performance state detecting means 30m for extracting the performance tempo based on the performance data from 0 and controlling the combination pattern setting means 30k is provided. As a result, the enlargement / reduction, movement, duplication, rotation, and outer shape control of the inset screen are combined in accordance with the tune of the performance of the karaoke system.

According to this, the speed control means 30f is controlled according to whether the tempo of the playing state is fast or slow, and the enlarging / reducing speed of the inset screen 32, the moving speed, the speed of copying and erasing, the rotating speed, and the shutter. Change the speed, etc., color tone,
Brightness can be changed.

Embodiment 3 In this case, as shown in FIGS. 15 and 16, the transmitting station 2 is provided with additional information superimposing means 2a for superimposing a pattern signal for controlling the capture screen control means 30 on the output data, and the karaoke system main body 8 is provided with additional information. An extraction means 8a is provided. According to this, the transmitting station 2
By transmitting the above-mentioned pattern signal from the additional information superimposing means 2a, the control of enlargement, reduction, movement, duplication, rotation, and outer shape change of the fit screen 32 is performed by the external transmitting station 2. Since the setting can be performed based on the additional information transmitted together with the data, the fitting screen 32 is automatically controlled in accordance with the tune, so that manual setting is not required. In the present invention, a video camera (imaging device) is additionally provided, and an image of another place such as a customer side is taken and displayed as a background screen.
2, or a plurality of inset screens 32 may be displayed corresponding to each video camera.

That is, according to the above, the following control is possible as an example. 1) It is gradually raised from the center and is set to the size of the entire screen. 2) Reduce to the center while rotating vertically. 3) Appears as a trapezoid of medium size from the left side, becomes a square at the center, pauses, and disappears to the right side with an inverted trapezoid. 4) Appears to fill the entire screen width from below, slightly shrinks, and rotates twice with left rotation. 5) It becomes a 4-screen multi. 6) It becomes 9 screen multi. 7) Appears from the lower right and fills the entire screen. 8) 16-screen multi display. 9) From the whole screen, it hangs in the screen direction with the lower line as the axis, becomes a trapezoid, goes toward the center, and disappears so as to absorb. 10) From the left, appear as a trapezoid, stop once at the center, and disappear to the right side in the opposite direction. 11) Appears as a trapezoid from the left, stops when it appears on the left half of the screen, and approaches the full width of the screen on the left side. 12) The screen becomes a 9-screen multi-screen, and is displayed on the center screen. 13) It becomes a left and right two-screen multi, and rotates left with the center line as the width. 14) The left and right two-screen multi is up, the left screen is absorbed from the left side toward the center, and the right screen disappears from the right side to the center. 15) A (large) trapezoid appears on the left side and disappears on the left side. 16) Only the left side of the screen appears in multi-size around the center, and when facing the front, the right side screen appears in the front direction and is simultaneously drawn into the left side. 17) It becomes a 4-screen multi, slides to the left by a quarter screen, slides by a lower quarter screen, and slides by a quarter upward to the right side. 18) Appears over the entire screen, disappears from above, disappears from above, is reproduced from above, disappears from left to right, and appears from left to right. 19) Appearing toward the center while gradually rising from the upper left, temporarily stopping (medium size), rotating twice left at the center, and disappearing while shrinking to the lower right. 20) Magnify to the full screen while rotating clockwise from the upper left, reduce toward the center by rotating right, and magnify to full screen by rotating right. 21) From the right side, a trapezoid appears while moving in parallel. The trapezoid is turned upside down on the left half surface around the oblique line on the center side of the trapezoid, and a trapezoid of the same area appears on the right half surface. 22) The screen becomes full while gradually sliding from the lower left, the screen becomes a multi-screen, and the lower right screen is raised to the full screen. 23) Move to the lower right while rotating in a plane from the upper left, move in parallel to the upper right, move while rotating in a plane from lower right to the lower left, and move in parallel to the upper left. 24) The screen fills while gradually expanding from the upper left, and disappears while gradually shrinking to the upper right. 25) From the right side, a window with the full screen width appears, fills the screen, stops, tilts to the left 30 degrees, and shrinks as it disappears to the upper right. 26) Appears for the upper left quarter screen, and becomes a 4-screen multi in the order of lower left, lower right, and upper right. 27) Appears on the entire screen, falls on the lower line until it becomes trapezoidal, and is absorbed by the center. 28) The image appears on the full screen and rotates toward the center while rotating to the right, and when it becomes smaller, it rotates to the right and expands to fill the screen. 29) Appears as a trapezoid from the left side, becomes a square at the center, pauses, disappears while becoming a trapezoid to the right side. 30) The screen slides from the lower right to the left to fill the screen. 31) A left half screen appears around a line connecting the upper and lower centers, and a right screen appears, and slides in parallel to the left. 32) A trapezoidal half screen appears from the right side, stops at the left center, is turned upside down at the center axis, a right half screen appears, and the left side is parallel-slided. 33) The screen gradually increases from the upper left and fills the screen. 34) It tilts 30 degrees to the left from the full screen and disappears while reducing to the right. 35) It becomes a 4-screen multi, slides by the left half screen, slides down by half screen, slides by half screen to the right, and slides by half screen. 36) The entire screen appears as it slides from the right side to the full vertical width. 37) A small window appears from the upper left and expands toward the center, expands, becomes a middle window at the center, pauses, rotates twice to the left at the center, and disappears while shrinking to the lower right. 38) A trapezoid appears on the left half screen and disappears to the left side. 39) A small window appears at the upper left, moves to the lower right while rotating on a plane, translates from the lower right to the upper right, moves while rotating from the upper right to the lower left, and translates to the upper left. 40) It gradually becomes 9 screen multi. 41) The trapezoid appears from the left side toward the center, pauses at the center, turns over at the center axis, and disappears into the trapezoid on the right side. 42) Appears over the entire screen, is erased downward along the horizontal axis from above, and is reproduced downward from above along the horizontal axis. 43) It is erased from the left toward the right along the horizontal axis, and reproduced from the left to the right. 44) It gradually shrinks to the right from the full screen and disappears. 45) From the upper left, the image is enlarged to the full screen while rotating on the plane right. 46) From the lower left, it gradually appears and fills the screen. 47) It appears while sliding in parallel from below. 48) It gradually becomes 16 screen multi. 49) The image is reduced while rotating toward the back about the center horizontal axis line, becomes smaller, and then gradually expands without rotation, filling the screen. 50) The screen is divided into two screens on the left and right. The screen is drawn toward the center axis from the left side of the left screen toward the center axis, and disappears. The screen is drawn toward the center axis from the right side of the right screen and disappears. 51) From the full screen, the screen is reduced to the upper left by a quarter screen to form a 4-screen multi, and the lower right screen is increased to fill the screen. 52) A trapezoid is formed from the left side, stops at the center line, and spreads to the right side to fill the screen. 53) The left and right two screens are slightly smaller, and rotate horizontally about a vertical line. 54) One screen is slightly smaller, and rotates horizontally about the center vertical line. 55) 9 screen multi, and the center is up and the screen is full. 56) The screen gradually fills up by sliding from the lower left. 57) Appears with a parallel slide from the right side and becomes full. 58) It gradually becomes a 4-screen multi, and shifts from right to bottom → left → top by quarter screen. 59) From the full screen, the trapezoid is drawn down from the top line to the back with the bottom line as the axis, and it is drawn toward the center. 60) A small window appears at the center and gradually enlarges to fill the screen. 61) A medium window appears and rotates horizontally about the vertical center axis.

In the present invention, since the fitting screen 32 is displayed in a place where the poetry 20 is not displayed, it does not hinder the singer from visually recognizing the poetry.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a karaoke system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing details of a karaoke system of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a main part of the karaoke system of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining functions of the karaoke system of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining functions of the karaoke system of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining functions of the karaoke system of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining the function of the karaoke system of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining functions of the karaoke system of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining functions of the karaoke system of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining the function of the karaoke system of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram for explaining functions of the karaoke system of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a diagram for explaining functions of the karaoke system of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram for explaining the function of the karaoke system of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a block diagram showing a main part of another embodiment of the karaoke system of the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a block diagram showing another embodiment of the karaoke system of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a block diagram showing a main part of another embodiment of the karaoke system of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 transmitting station 2a additional information superimposing means 4 line 6 distribution station 8 karaoke system body 8a additional information extracting means 10 performance controlling means 12 monitor 14 screen controlling means 16 background screen storing means 18 song poetry controlling means 20 song poetry 24 CCD camera 30 video Screen control means 32 Inset screen 30m Performance state detection means 30k Combination pattern setting means 50 Display range setting means 50a Poetry position detection means

Front page continuation (72) Inventor Hiroo Sato 1081 Ino-cho, Takasaki-shi, Gunma 3 Adtex Co., Ltd.

Claims (13)

[Claims] 1. A karaoke system in which a screen of a singer captured by using an image pickup device is fitted into a monitor screen of a karaoke system, and a poem pattern in the monitor screen is set not to be disturbed by the fit screen. A karaoke system characterized in that an area in which a poetry pattern is displayed is determined in advance, and the inset screen is displayed in a place other than this area. 2. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein the inset screen is enlarged or reduced during the performance. 3. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein the inset screen is moved along a set line such as a straight line or a curved line during performance. 4. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of inset screens are duplicated and displayed on a monitor screen during performance. 5. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein the inset screen is rotated in the plane of the monitor screen during performance or in the front-back direction of the monitor screen. 6. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein the outline of the inset screen can be changed. 7. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein the enlargement / reduction speed, movement speed, copy / erase speed, rotation speed, and outer shape change speed of the inset screen can be controlled. 8. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein the color tone of the inset screen can be changed. 9. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein the brightness of the inset screen can be changed. 10. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein the inset screen is covered with a shutter, and the shutter is gradually opened. 11. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein the control of enlarging / reducing, moving, copying, rotating, and changing the outer shape of the inset screen is selectively combined and controlled simultaneously. 12. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein controls for enlarging, reducing, moving, duplicating, rotating, and changing the outer shape of the inset screen are combined according to the content of the performance of the karaoke system. 13. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein each control of enlarging, reducing, moving, copying, rotating, and changing the outer shape of the inset screen is performed based on information transmitted from the outside. .