JPH1063275A - Remote controller - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To unnecessitate the laborious input operation of music selection data by automatically transmitting the music selection data corresponding to the music name information selected from among plural pieces of the displayed music name information and controlling the reproduction of many pieces of music information. SOLUTION: Any of display mode changeover keys 21m, 21n is operated and the music names and singer names are displayed in KANJI (Chinese characters) in the order of the Japanese syllabary of fifty sounds on a display 10 by the mode of any of the music order or the singer order. A user displays the desired music name on the display 10 and selects the music by matching a cursor 14 at the desired one music by operating cursor search keys 24u, 24d. The music selection data of the specific music selected in the final by the various search keys are set by the operation of a key 25 and is inputted to the system control circuit of a KARAOKE sing-along machine via a remote control signal transmitter/receiver by the operation of a signal transmission key 26, by which the playing of the specific music is automatically reserved. The reserved musical pieces are successively played according to the operation of a start key 28.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a remote control device suitable for remote control of a music selection device as a playback device for singing accompaniment.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Hitherto, a device for reproducing accompaniment music for singing, a so-called karaoke device, has been widely used. In recent years, when using a karaoke apparatus, not only the music is reproduced from the speaker, but also the lyrics of the music are sequentially displayed on the screen of the receiver, and an image related to the music is projected as a background. A karaoke device with an image as described above has been awarded.

[0003]

By the way, in the conventional karaoke apparatus, a singer uses a so-called table of contents in which the title of a single karaoke series and the name of a singer are described, and uses the title of the song or the name of the singer as a key index. As a result, a specific song is selected from a large number of karaoke songs.
However, in order for the selected karaoke song to be reproduced, the disc number and song number of the specific song described in the table of contents, that is, song selection data in which numbers having no meaning to the user are listed. The user has to perform a troublesome operation of inputting the key to the controller of the karaoke apparatus.

[0004] In view of the above, an object of the present invention is to provide a remote control device for a music selection device that does not require a troublesome data input operation at the time of music selection.

[0005]

According to the present invention, a storage means 31 storing a large number of pieces of music information corresponding to a large number of pieces of music information which are alternatively selected and reproduced, and a large number of pieces of music name information are stored for each attribute. An attribute designating means 20 for classifying and displaying, a display means 10 for classifying a large number of pieces of music information stored in the storage means in accordance with the attribute designated by the attribute designating means and reading out from the storage means for display; A remote control device comprising: a selection unit for selecting a desired song from a plurality of pieces of song information displayed on the display unit; and a transmission unit for transmitting song selection data corresponding to the song selected by the selection unit to the song selection device. It is what it was.

According to the present invention, the music selection data is automatically transmitted, so that a troublesome data input operation becomes unnecessary.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a remote control device according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 shows an electrical configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 shows a mechanical configuration. In FIG. 1, MS indicates the entire music selection apparatus, KS indicates the karaoke apparatus main body, and the karaoke apparatus KS includes a disc player (changer) 1 and a system control circuit (microprocessor) 2.

Under the control of the system control circuit 2, the stereo music signal from the player 1 is supplied to the amplifier 3, and the singing signal from the microphone 4 is supplied to the amplifier 3.
The output of the amplifier 3 is supplied to the left and right speakers 5L and 5R. Further, a video signal from the player 1 is supplied to the receiver 6. An operation key 7 for inputting music selection data and a display 8 for confirming key input are connected to the system control circuit 2. The configuration of the above-mentioned karaoke apparatus KS is exactly the same as that of the related art.

The music selecting apparatus MS of this embodiment has a display 1
0, an operation key group 20, and a microprocessor 30.
Is connected. The ROM 31 is, for example, an EPROM
Is configured in the form of a memory card, and stores various data such as a song name and a singer name. For example, when the number of CDs in one karaoke series is about 150, it covers thousands of karaoke songs by hundreds of singers.
It is transmitted from the remote control transmitter 33. A receiver 34 is provided on the karaoke apparatus KS side corresponding to the transmitter 33, and the output of the receiver 34 is supplied to the system control circuit 2.

As shown in FIG. 2, the display 10 of the music selection device MS displays the title of a single karaoke series and the name of a singer.
The disc numbers and the song numbers of these songs are separately displayed in display areas 11, 12, and 13, respectively. Display 10
Is composed of, for example, a reflective liquid crystal module of 480 horizontal dots and 128 vertical dots. When displaying full-width characters at 16 × 16 dots, one song becomes 30 characters, and data of eight songs is displayed. Can be.

Various data such as a song name and a singer name are stored in the ROM 31 as described above, and the contents are displayed on the display 10 according to a display mode such as a song order mode and a song procedure mode. In this embodiment, display mode switching keys 21a, 21b, and 2 for displaying a large number of karaoke songs by genre such as duet, enka, and pop.
1c and display mode switching keys 21m and 21n for displaying the song title or the singer name in alphabetical order, respectively.

The operation keys 22a, 22b @ 22j are initial search keys for searching for the first character (initial) of a song name or a singer's name, respectively, by using Japanese syllabary. The keys 23f and 23b are page search keys for sending or returning the displayed song name and singer name, for example, in units of 8 lines of pages, and the operation keys 2
4u and 24d are cursor search keys for moving the cursor 14 on the display 10 up and down by one line. The operation key 25 is a data setting (set) key, and the key 26 is a data transmission key.

In the music selecting apparatus MS of this embodiment, for example,
Powered by four AA batteries, turned on and off by operating the key 27, and for a certain time of about 5 minutes,
When no key operation is performed, the power of the music selection device MS is turned off. In this case, for example, since the last state is stored in the RAM 32 and backed up, the state immediately returns to the previous state at the next ON. In addition, a start key 28 is provided so that the karaoke apparatus KS can be started from the music selection apparatus MS, thereby improving usability.

Next, the operation of one embodiment of the present invention will be described. First, one of the display mode switching keys 21m and 21n is operated, and the title of the song and the name of the singer are displayed in kanji on the display 10 in the order of the Japanese syllabary in any of the modes of the song order and the song procedure. In this embodiment, the data in the display mode of both the song order and the song procedure are linked in a relational manner. Then, when the mode is shifted to the song procedure mode, the position of the singer is displayed.

The desired music title is displayed on the display 10 by operating the initial search keys 22a to 22j and the page search keys 23f and 23b as appropriate, and then operating the cursor search keys 24u and 24d. The music is selected by positioning the cursor 14 on one music. In this embodiment, for example, eight musical pieces of a large number of continuous data strings are displayed over a window, and in the page search, the window is returned or sent by eight lines at a time.

The music selection data (disk number 89 and music number 10 in the example of FIG. 2) of the specific music finally selected by the various search keys as described above is set by operating the key 25, and the transmission key 26 By operation, remote control sending
The data is input to the system control circuit 2 of the karaoke apparatus KS via the receivers 33 and 34, and the performance of the specific music is automatically reserved. Then, according to the operation of the start key 28,
The reserved songs are played sequentially.

As described above, in this embodiment, music selection and reservation can be performed on the music selection device MS side by operating various search keys based on the music title displayed in Chinese characters. There is no need to be aware of disk numbers or track numbers. On the software supply side, a memory card may be distributed instead of a table of contents, and the production cost is greatly reduced.

Next, another embodiment of the music selecting apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 shows the configuration of another embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 3, portions corresponding to those in FIG. 1 described above are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description will be omitted.

In FIG. 3, reference numeral 40 denotes a remote control receiver, which includes a cathode ray tube type receiver 41 and an operation key group 42.
And the output of the receiver 40 is supplied to the system control circuit 2 of the karaoke apparatus KS. The operation key group 42 has the same configuration as the operation key group 20 (see FIG. 2).
In the embodiment of FIG. 3, the display 10 (see FIGS. 1 and 2) is not built in the remote-controlled music selection device MS, and the mechanical configuration is not shown. Become. Other configurations are the same as those in FIG.

In the above-described embodiment, the liquid crystal display 10 is built in the music selection device MS side, and is relatively small and lightweight and excellent in portability due to the use of infrared transmission and battery power.
The number of displayed songs is smaller than that of a table of contents book, for example, which allows a glance at 80 songs. Also, liquid crystal displays are not always easy to see.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, a cathode ray tube type receiver 41 is used as a display of the music selection device system, and the above-described music selection operation is performed. As a result, in addition to the effects of the above-described embodiment, the number of displayed songs increases, and in addition to colorization,
This has the effect of making the display easier to see. In addition, the reservation contents can be confirmed by the song name, which is effective for other singers to avoid selecting the same song. Note that the receiver 40 and the system control circuit 2 of the embodiment of FIG. 3 can be combined.

[0023]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention,
By a predetermined key of the operation key group, the attribute of a large number of song name information stored in the storage unit is designated, read out from the storage unit and displayed on the display unit, and the song name information selected from the plurality of displayed song title information is displayed. Since the corresponding music selection data is automatically transmitted to control the reproduction of a large number of music information, a remote control device that does not require the operation of inputting the music selection data can be obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of an embodiment of a music selection device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view showing a mechanical configuration of one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of another embodiment of the present invention.

[Description of Signs] 1 disc player (changer), 2 system control circuit (microprocessor), 10 display, 2
0,42 operation keys, 30 microprocessors, 3
1 ROM, 33 remote control transmitter, 34, 40 remote control receiver, 41 receiver, KS karaoke device, MS
Music selection device

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────の Continuing from the front page (72) Inventor Akio Kasa 5-5-26 Kita Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo Dai-ichi Kosho Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A storage means for storing a large number of pieces of music information corresponding to a large number of pieces of music information which are alternatively selected and reproduced, and wherein the large number of pieces of music name information are classified and displayed for each attribute. An attribute designating means for designating a plurality of pieces of music information stored in the storage means in accordance with the attribute designated by the attribute designating means, and displaying and reading out from the storage means; and displaying on the display means A remote control device comprising: selecting means for selecting a desired music piece from the plurality of pieces of music information thus selected; and transmitting means for transmitting music selection data corresponding to the music piece selected by the selecting means to the music selection device.