JPH10301583A - Karaoke song selecting device equipped with index function, and record medium for index information - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the trouble to operate a remote control over a look at an index book and to select a song after confirming the contents of music by listening to its introduction. SOLUTION: Index information of a set KARAOKE vendor series and an operation command signal are read out of a CD-ROM 100 and expanded in an RAM, and request music is specified. The index information read out of the RD-ROM 100b is displayed on a liquid crystal display 20. Before request music is specified finally, voice data on the music can be listened to through a headphone speakers 300. Therefore, when the request music is reserved, the trouble to operate the remote control, etc., over a look at an index book like before is eliminated and a series of procedures can continuously and easily be followed only by operating one KARAOKE song selecting device.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a karaoke song selecting device for inputting a requested song to a karaoke device, and more particularly to a karaoke song selecting device having a table of contents for a large number of songs. Also, the present invention relates to a recording medium of the table of contents information used in the apparatus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In order to reserve a requested song for karaoke, a user first picks up a table of contents, turns pages, and searches for the name of the requested song to be sung from a song name list or a singer name list written in alphabetical order. Next, pick up the remote control this time, press the button on the remote control while entering the reservation number written near this name,
From here, a music selection signal including the reservation number is transmitted to the karaoke apparatus.

A karaoke apparatus that receives a music selection signal reproduces a video including the corresponding accompaniment music and lyrics image based on the reservation number included in the karaoke apparatus, and outputs the video from a speaker and a display.

A karaoke vendor series that supplies karaoke apparatuses and karaoke software issues a table of contents listing reservation numbers and the like and distributes them to many karaoke apparatuses.

[0005]

In the music selection procedure as described above, it is troublesome to search for the requested music while first turning the pages of the table of contents. Next, it is very troublesome because the user presses a button on the remote control and inputs while looking at the reservation number of the table of contents. This troublesome work has to be performed twice, because people cannot enjoy the place where others are singing or the images on the display, which greatly hinders the enjoyment of karaoke.

[0006] Further, a table of contents book that is issued regularly contains a large number of music pieces, and therefore is thick and heavy. For this reason, the bookbinding cost is not low, and distribution to a large number of karaoke apparatuses requires enormous delivery costs.

[0007] By the way, at the time of selecting a song, even if a song title that the user wants to sing is found while turning over the table of contents, there is a case where the melody or the lyrics do not come to the forefront and the confidence in singing may not be obtained. . In such a case, I continued my efforts to remember so hard, or if I couldn't remember it, I gave up and looked for another requested song. Or I made a reservation that I might remember if I listened to the accompaniment music, and sometimes I was nervous about whether I could sing well or not, and held my microphone.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and its purpose is to eliminate the troublesome operation of operating a remote controller or the like while looking at a table of contents, and to listen to singing and the like. It is an object of the present invention to provide a karaoke song selecting device having a table of contents function capable of selecting a song after confirming the content of the song, and a recording medium of table of contents information used in the device.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, a karaoke selecting apparatus having a table of contents function according to the present invention provides table of contents information including reservation number information on a large number of karaoke songs and accompaniment for singing out the karaoke songs. An appropriate recording medium on which audio information for trial listening such as music data or singing voice data is recorded; a unit for reading the table of contents information and the audio information from the recording medium; a unit for displaying the table of contents information on a display; A user interface input unit for receiving the operation input, an audio information output unit for reproducing the audio information in response to the operation input and outputting the audio information to a speaker, and the table of contents displayed on the display in response to the operation input Music selection means for identifying the requested music based on information; and a reservation number of the requested music in response to the operation input. The music selection signal including information and a music selection signal transmitting means for outputting toward the karaoke apparatus (claim 1).

[0010] The accompaniment music data is data for controlling a synthesizer to generate accompaniment music for the corresponding karaoke song, and the singing voice data is digital compression-encoded audio data. .

[0011] During the reproduction of the audio information, the music selection signal transmitting means may output the music selection signal to the karaoke apparatus in response to the operation input.

Preferably, the recording medium is a CD-ROM
And a portable disk medium such as a DVD, an MD, and a DVD.

[0013] In order to achieve the above object, a recording medium for table of contents information according to the present invention is the one described in claim 1 or 2.

[0014]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A karaoke music selecting apparatus having a table of contents function according to the present embodiment employs a form of a player for reproducing a CD-ROM as a medium on which a table of contents of karaoke is recorded, that is, a so-called electronic book player.

As shown in the external perspective view of FIG. 1, the karaoke music selecting apparatus 10 has a liquid crystal display 20 disposed on the upper surface of a case having a rectangular flat surface. Liquid crystal display 2
Various operation keys 30 are arranged side by side along one of the long sides of the zero. These operation keys include a power switch 30a for turning on the power and a reset key 30b for invalidating the input operation command. Other operation keys are used to issue a command to select a song or start reproduction.

A slot 50 and a discharge button 60 are provided on the side surface 40 of the case 10. The CD-ROM 100b accommodated in the jacket 100a passes through the slot 50 and is loaded into an internal disk drive (not shown). IC card 2 on the side opposite side 40
A slot (not shown) for loading 00 is provided. An audio output terminal 90 to which a jack 300a of the headphone speaker 300 can be inserted and connected is provided on one of the surfaces orthogonal to and in contact with the side surface 40.

The karaoke selecting device 10 has a CPU 70 as shown in the internal block diagram of FIG.
U70 has a program ROM 72 via a bus 71,
Work area RAM 73, flash memory 74, V
RAM75, DVD-RAM76, synthesizer 7
7, peripheral devices of the singing sound reproducing unit 78 and the audio amplifier 79 are connected. CD-ROM data interface 80 corresponding to these peripheral devices, etc.
A CD-ROM drive interface 81, a liquid crystal display interface 82, a control key interface 83,
An IC card interface 84 and a signal transmission / reception interface 85 are provided. The peripheral device 72 is connected via these interfaces 80 to 85 and the bus 71.
To 79, a liquid crystal display 20, a CD-ROM 10
0b and the IC card 200 are connected to the CPU 70. The CPU 70 can communicate with the control unit 110 of the main body of the karaoke apparatus via the bus 71 and the signal transmission / reception interface 85.

The operation of the karaoke music selecting apparatus having the above configuration will be described. When the power is turned on, the operation control program is read from the program ROM 72 and expanded in the RAM 73. The CPU 70 controls execution of various operations according to the operation input based on the program.

First, when the power is turned on by pressing the power switch 30a, initialization is performed as shown in FIG.
It is assumed that the table of contents information to be read from the ROM 100b belongs to a specific karaoke vendor series. At this time, the operation command signal transmitted to the karaoke apparatus is also of a specific karaoke vendor series (S10). Next, the set contents information of the karaoke vendor series and the operation command signal are transmitted to the CD-ROM.
It reads from the ROM 100b, expands it in the RAM 73, and waits for an operation input for specifying the requested music or an operation input for changing the karaoke vendor series (S20 → S30 · N)
O → S40 / NO).

At this time, the table of contents information read from the CD-ROM 100b is displayed on the liquid crystal display 20 as shown in FIG. In the table of contents information, song names are arranged in alphabetical order from the top, and the singer name and the reservation number are displayed on the right side of each song name. In the upper left of the display area,
The name of the karaoke vendor series of the currently displayed table of contents information is displayed ("DOM" in FIG. 4). The table of contents information can be displayed using the operation keys 30c such as the Japanese syllabary or the Japanese syllabary, the anime tune, duet tune, new record, English or Chinese foreign tune, local tune (Okinawa folk song) It can also be re-categorized and displayed according to genre or singer such as a song unique to a region. For example, in the case of the title of the line, the corresponding operation key 30c is pressed to display the title of the line, and by pressing the page up key 30d or the page down key 30e, a portion which cannot be displayed at one time in the display area is appropriately displayed. Make it possible.

The table of contents information is recorded separately for each karaoke vendor series that supplies the karaoke apparatus to be used, and each reservation number is expressed in a description format specified for each series. Further, the operation command signal transmitted to the karaoke apparatus is also expressed in the description format of each series.

In order to specify a music piece as a request candidate with such table of contents information, a cursor (portion surrounded by a wavy line in the figure) displayed in a horizontal row is moved to a cursor up key 30f.
By pressing the cursor down key 30g and moving to a desired musical piece, the set key 30h is designated by pressing the set key 30S (YES in S30).

Before finally specifying the requested music, the audio data of the music can be previewed on the headphone speaker 300. That is, the intro part of the accompaniment music,
When an operation input for reproducing the singing of an actual singing voice or reproducing a characteristic melody part called rust is received, the data is reproduced (S50YES, S60). Each of these audio data has a data amount corresponding to, for example, a reproduction time of 10 seconds, and is recorded on the CD-ROM 100b in association with song name data common to the index information of each karaoke vendor series. That is, even if the requested music is specified by the reservation number of each karaoke vendor series, the audio data to be reproduced is searched in the predetermined recording area of the CD-ROM 100b based on the corresponding music title data.

The intro data is karaoke accompaniment music data conforming to the MIDI standard, and is the same as that reproduced by the karaoke apparatus itself. When the intro key 30p shown in FIG. 4 is pressed, the intro data read from the CD-ROM 100b is input to the synthesizer 77 and converted into an audio signal as shown in FIG.
Headphone speaker 300 via audio amplifier 79
Output from

Singing start data and rust data are ADPC
The data is digitally compressed and encoded by the M method. When the corresponding key 30q, 30r is pressed, the data is input to the singing sound reproducing unit 78 and output from the headphone speaker 300 via the audio amplifier 79.

The reproduction time of each audio data may be set in advance so as to be different from each other. For example, the intro data may be made shorter, and the singing data and rust data may be made relatively longer.

As described above, when the user confirms the music content of the karaoke music of the request candidate by listening to the karaoke music with the headphone speaker 300, the karaoke vendor series change input and the reservation number are included as shown in FIG. Wait for the input of the transmission command of the music selection signal (S70 to S10
0).

If the karaoke device series actually used is different from the initial setting and the karaoke vendor series is to be changed (S70 / YES), the vendor key 30i provided on the side face must be pressed. Then, the screen is switched to a display screen of the name list of each karaoke vendor series, and the karaoke vendor series is set and changed by performing an operation input on this display screen (S80). At the same time, the operation command signal to be transmitted to the karaoke apparatus is changed to that of the vendor. The operation at this time is as follows.
The table of contents of the corresponding karaoke vendor series and the recording area of various operation command signals in the ROM 100b are accessed, and the reservation number and the operation command signal of the specified requested music are read out and stored in the RAM 73.

Next, it waits until the reset key 30b or the transmission key 30j is pressed (S90, S100), and when the reset key 30b is pressed (S90-YES, S3).
0) While the request music and the karaoke vendor series are specified again, when the transmission key 30j is pressed, a music selection signal is transmitted to the karaoke apparatus and the input of the next operation command is awaited (S100 / YES, S110, S120). When the user wants to start the reproduction after the reservation operation of the requested music is completed, an operation command for starting the reproduction is transmitted by pressing the start key 30k (S120 / YES, S130).
The operation command is not limited to the start of reproduction, and various command signals such as interruption of reproduction (stop key) 30l can be transmitted. At this time, even during the reproduction of each audio data, the input operation of the transmission key 30 or the reset key 30b may be accepted to execute the corresponding operation.

On the other hand, first, after reading out the table of contents information of the initially set karaoke vendor series from the CD-ROM 100b, the operation input of the change of the karaoke vendor series was first performed without specifying the requested music (S20 → S30.N).
After O → S40 / YES → S140), the music selection operation may be performed as described above (S30-).

By the way, in order to make new table of contents information including a new score available, a CD-ROM title recording updated table of contents information is periodically produced. At that time, a new CD-ROM due to the time required for production
Until the titles are distributed, a paper table of contents menu with printed new music reservation numbers is distributed. By looking at this menu, the user presses a numeric key of the karaoke music selection device and inputs a reservation number to perform a music selection operation. At this time, by pressing the direct key 30h, an input screen (not shown) using the numeric key (also used as the Japanese syllabary key) 30c is displayed, and the music selection operation is performed.

Further, all of the table of contents information and operation command signals for each karaoke vendor series may be stored in the flash memory 74, and audio data may be stored in the DVD-RAM 76. Thus, only when a new updated CD-ROM title is distributed, it can be read out and stored once.

Further, the karaoke device is changed to a communication type which can be connected to the host device, and the karaoke selecting device 1
It is also assumed that a transmission interface to 0 is provided. When update data is transmitted from the host device to the karaoke device, the karaoke music selection device 10 receives the reservation number via the signal transmission / reception interface 81 and updates the flash memory 74 or the DVD-RAM 76 of the karaoke music selection device 10. It is also possible to record table of contents information and operation command signals. Therefore, the operation of reproducing the CD-ROM every time the power is turned on or the karaoke vendor series is changed can be eliminated, and the processing can be speeded up. The exchange between the karaoke selecting device 10 and the main body of the karaoke device is performed by wireless communication such as infrared rays including the transmission of the operation command signal, but may be performed by a cable via a cable.

The table of contents information and the operation command signal are stored in the flash memory 74 or DVD at the time of shipment of the karaoke music selecting apparatus 10.
A CD-ROM 100b stored in the RAM 76
It is also possible to adopt a form in which no is used.

Next, the use of the IC card 200 will be described. This IC card 200 records personal data including the ID of the owner. The personal data includes a reservation number registered in advance and the number of times the song has been sung, and is recorded in the order of the Japanese syllabary or the number of times the song has been sung. The karaoke selection device 10 accesses the IC card 200 via the IC card interface 81 by pressing the IC card key 30n, reads personal data, and displays it on the liquid crystal display 20 (not shown). Then, various operations can be performed by moving the cursor and pressing the set key 30h or the like.

Further, data can be recorded on the IC card 200 from the karaoke music selection device by an operation input by the user. By specifying and selecting a reservation number to be registered from the table of contents information read from the CD-ROM 100b or the data received from the karaoke apparatus by using a cursor, the reservation number of a music piece or a new song can be registered. Conversely, this registration data can be deleted as appropriate by designating it with a cursor when displayed on the liquid crystal display 20.

As an external medium on which table of contents information and the like are recorded, in addition to the CD-ROM mentioned here, a writable MD
Alternatively, an appropriate disk medium such as a DVD can be applied. The karaoke music selection device is equipped with slots and interfaces suitable for various media.

[0038]

According to the karaoke music selecting apparatus of the present invention,
When reserving a requested song, the troublesome operation of operating a remote control while looking at the table of contents as in the past is eliminated, and a series of procedures such as song designation and playback reservation are performed simply by operating one karaoke song selection device. Can be done easily and easily.

At the time of selection of a tune, the user can listen to a preview sound such as accompaniment music and singing voice of the singing of the karaoke song, so that even if the user forgets the melody, he or she can sing with confidence. After making a decision, you can make a reservation. Therefore, a smooth music selection operation can be ensured, and it is not necessary to start singing while being worried about whether or not to sing.

It is not necessary to publish a thick and heavy table of contents every month as in the past, and a very light, thin and small CD-RO
An electronic recording medium such as M may be distributed to each karaoke device. For this reason, the bookbinding cost is not required unlike the conventional table of contents book, and the production cost of the mass-produced CD-ROM can be kept relatively low. In addition, the CD-ROM can significantly reduce the delivery cost as compared with the table of contents, and can reduce the cost as a whole.

In the recording medium of the present invention, table of contents information of karaoke music and audio information for trial listening are recorded.
Therefore, the karaoke song selecting device using the same can reproduce and output the audio information of the designated karaoke song while displaying the table of contents information on the display.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of a karaoke music selection device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic internal block diagram of the karaoke music selection device.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a basic operation flow of the karaoke music selection apparatus.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of the karaoke music selection device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Karaoke selection apparatus 20 Liquid crystal display 30 Operation keys 50 Slot 60 Eject button 70 CPU 71 Bus 100a Jacket 100b CD-ROM 200 IC card

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. Appropriate recording medium on which table-of-contents information including reservation number information on a large number of karaoke songs and audio information for audition, such as accompaniment music data and singing voice data of singing of the karaoke songs, are recorded. Means for reading the table of contents information and the voice information from a medium, means for displaying the table of contents information on a display, user interface input means for receiving a user's operation input, and reproducing the voice information in response to the operation input Audio information output means for outputting to the speaker in response to the operation input, music selection means for specifying the request music based on the table of contents information displayed on the display in response to the operation input, the music selection of the request music in response to the operation input Music selection signal transmitting means for outputting a music selection signal including the reservation number information to the karaoke apparatus. Karaoke music selection device with index function. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the accompaniment music data is data for controlling a synthesizer to generate an accompaniment music of a corresponding karaoke song, and the singing voice data is digital compression encoded audio data. A karaoke song selecting device having the table of contents function according to claim 1. 3. The table of contents according to claim 1, wherein the music selection signal transmitting means outputs the music selection signal to a karaoke device in response to the operation input during reproduction of the audio information. Karaoke music selection device with functions. 4. The karaoke music selecting apparatus having a table of contents function according to claim 1, wherein said recording medium is a portable disk medium such as a CD-ROM, MD or DVD. 5. A recording medium for use in a karaoke music selecting device having the table of contents function according to claim 1.