JPH1063284A - Musical tone reproducing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To display background video which one does not get tired of, by reading a prescribed current event video out of recorded current event video information and reproducing and displaying the read-out current event video information. SOLUTION: The current event video data which indicates the videos of the ten major news generated in one year and the year when the ten major news arise are recorded in the order of the Christian era in correspondence to the outbreak data shown by the Christian era on a current event video disk. The current event video data attached with the outbreak year data of the same year as the year shown by the read out era code date is reproduced by a CR-ROM reproducing device 112 and is read out of the current event video recording disk. The read out current event video data is displayed on monitors 32, 34. At this time, the music data preserved in a HDD 71 is read out as well and the text video data included in the music data is inputted to a video control circuit 79 and is converted to the text video signals displayable on the monitors 32, 33.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a musical sound reproducing apparatus for reproducing musical sounds, which is suitable as a karaoke apparatus for displaying a karaoke background image and lyrics image on a monitor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, the above-mentioned karaoke apparatus receives song data indicating a karaoke song and lyric image data indicating lyrics through a communication line, and reproduces the received song data using an amplifier and a speaker. It is known that the received lyrics video data is displayed on a monitor, and a background video corresponding to the genre of the music indicated by the received music data is selected from an optical disc and displayed on the monitor.

[0003]

By the way, as a background image displayed on a monitor, an image obtained by shooting a short story in a drama style in accordance with the genre of a song is often used. In addition, the background image not only serves to excite the singer's singing mood, but also to provide the listener with a pleasure to see, thereby preventing the listener from getting bored. Therefore, in the above-described conventional device, a background video that matches the content of the music to be reproduced is selected as much as possible, and a different background video is selected and displayed on the monitor whenever the same music is selected. However, unlike karaoke in a karaoke box or the like, when singing karaoke in a snack or bar, there are many cases where there are people who are not interested in karaoke. For such a person, the background video displayed on the monitor along with the performance of the karaoke is often boring. In addition, the same background image may be displayed during singing several times, so that the singer may be bored. In other words, the background video displayed on the monitor is boring for those who are not interested in karaoke, and the types of background video are limited, so that those who sing karaoke get tired of the background video displayed on the monitor. There is a problem that comes.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to realize a musical sound reproducing apparatus that can display a background image that can be displayed by a person who sings karaoke and a person who does not sing karaoke in common and can be interested. .

[0005]

According to the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, music information reproducing means for reproducing music information, and the music information is reproduced by the music information reproducing means. In a musical sound reproducing device provided with a background image display means for displaying a background image on a display means when reproduced, a current image information recording means for recording annual image information indicating current events occurring in the world by year, When the music information is reproduced by the music information reproducing means, the predetermined current video information is read out of the current video information recorded in the current video information recording means, and the read current video information is displayed. A technical means that the means is provided with a current image information reproducing means for reproducing and displaying.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the musical sound reproducing apparatus according to the first aspect, the music information includes creation year data indicating the year in which the music indicated by the music information was created or year in which the music was popular. Is included in the current event video information, and the current event video information includes occurrence year data indicating the year in which the current event occurred. When the music information is reproduced, the current event video information recording means stores the current event video information including generation year data indicating the year corresponding to the year indicated by the creation year data or the trendy year data included in the music information. And technical means that the read current event video information is displayed on the display means.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the musical sound reproducing apparatus according to the second aspect, year data input means for inputting year data indicating at least one of the years is provided, and The information reproducing means includes, when the music information is reproduced by the music information reproducing means, an event image including occurrence year data indicating a year corresponding to the year indicated by the year data input by the year data input means. Technical means is employed in which information is read from the current event video information recording means and the read current event video information is displayed on the display means.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the musical sound reproducing apparatus according to the third aspect, the current image information reproducing means includes year data indicating a predetermined year in the year data input by the year data input means. Calculation means for calculating an addition value obtained by adding the above, and when the music information is reproduced by the music information reproduction means, an occurrence year indicating a year corresponding to a year indicated by the addition value calculated by the calculation means. The present invention employs technical means for reading current event video information including data or trendy year data from the current event video information recording means and displaying the read current event video information on the display means.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the musical sound reproducing apparatus according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, the music information includes lyric image information indicating lyrics. The background image display means is for displaying the background image and lyrics image information on the display means,
The current event image information reproducing means employs a technical means for displaying the current event image information on the display means when the lyrics image information is not displayed by the background image display means.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the musical sound reproducing apparatus according to any one of the first to fifth aspects, the current affairs video information includes subtitles, newspaper contents, The technical means that the information is indicated by at least one of the posted matter and the recorded video is adopted.

[0011]

According to the invention as set forth in claims 1 to 6, the current music information is reproduced by the current video information recording means for recording current video information indicating current events occurring in the world by year, and the music information reproducing means. When reading out the current event video information from the current event image information recorded in the current event image information recording means, the current event image information reproducing means for reproducing and displaying the read current event image information on the display means. Is provided. That is, when the music information is reproduced, current video information indicating a current event occurring in the world can be reproduced and displayed on the display means. Therefore, for example, as described in an embodiment of the invention described later, by displaying the current event image information on the monitor instead of the background image of karaoke, even a person who is not interested in karaoke can enjoy watching the monitor. If the karaoke user gets tired of the background video, he / she can enjoy the karaoke without getting bored by looking at the current event video information.

[0012] In particular, as in the invention described in claim 2, the music information includes creation year data indicating the year when the music indicated by the music information was created or fashion year data indicating the year when the music spread. By including the occurrence year data indicating the year in which the current event occurred in the current event image information, that is, by including common year data in both information, the current event image information reproducing means When the music information is reproduced by the music information reproducing means, a current event image including generation year data indicating the year corresponding to the year indicated by the creation year data or the fashion year data included in the music information The information can be read from the current event image information recording means, and the read current event image information can be displayed on the display means.

Therefore, for example, as described in an embodiment of the invention described later, song data indicating a song of karaoke is added to creation year data indicating the year when the song was created or fashion year data indicating the year when the song was popular. When the song data is played back, by including the yearly event data indicating the year in which the current event occurred in the current event video data indicating the video recording the current event by year, Can be read out and displayed on a monitor, including current year video data including generation year data having the same year data as the creation year data or the trend year data included in.

[0014] According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided year data input means for inputting year data indicating at least the year out of the date. When the music information is reproduced by the reproducing means, the current event video information including the occurrence year data indicating the year corresponding to the year indicated by the year data input by the year data input means is stored in the current event information recording means. And the read current event video information can be displayed on the display means.

That is, irrespective of the year in which the music was created or the year in which it was fashioned, by inputting year data indicating at least the year of the desired date, a current event image indicating the current event in that year is displayed. can do. Therefore,
For example, as described in an embodiment of the invention described below, by inputting the year of birth, one can view the 10 major news of that year.

Further, as in the invention according to claim 4,
By providing an arithmetic unit for calculating an addition value obtained by adding year data indicating a predetermined number of years to the year data input by the year data input unit, when the music information is reproduced by the music information reproducing unit, Current event video information including occurrence year data or trendy year data indicating the year corresponding to the year indicated by the added value calculated by the arithmetic means can be read from the current event video information recording means, and the read current event can be read. Video information can be displayed on the display means.

That is, it is possible to display a current image showing a current event that occurred in a year in which a predetermined number of years have elapsed from the input year. Therefore, for example, as described in the embodiment of the invention described later, when the user inputs his / her year of birth, it is possible to watch on the monitor the top 10 news of the year 10 or 20 years after that year. it can.

Further, when the musical sound reproducing apparatus displays the background image and the lyric image information indicating the lyrics on the display means as in the invention according to the fifth aspect of the invention, The video information reproducing means may display the current video information on the display means when the lyrics video information is not displayed. In other words, the display of the lyrics video information can be prevented from being difficult to see by displaying the current video information.

Therefore, for example, as described in an embodiment of the invention described later, the 10 major news and the like are utilized while singing of the karaoke tune such as the prelude, the interlude, and the postlude is paused. Can be displayed.
As a result, without breaking the atmosphere of enjoying karaoke,
You can sing karaoke while watching both the karaoke background video and the current affairs video.

Further, in the invention according to claim 6, the content of the current event in which the current event image information has occurred in the world may be indicated by at least one of subtitles, newspaper publication items, and recorded images. it can. In other words, there are a variety of current events that occur in the world, such as those that are sufficient to be displayed with subtitles or newspaper listings, and those that have no meaning unless displayed in video. To display.

[0021]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a tone reproducing apparatus according to the present invention. In the following embodiment, a so-called communication karaoke apparatus, in which music is provided using a communication line, will be described as a representative music reproduction apparatus. First, the main configuration of the communication karaoke apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

As shown in FIG. 1, the karaoke apparatus 30 has a CRT monitor as a display means for displaying a background video for karaoke, a lyric video showing lyrics, a current video showing current events such as 10 major news in a certain year. (Hereinafter, abbreviated as a monitor) 32 and a monitor 34 for a singer's monitor. In addition, control for displaying the current video, reception of music data as music information via the communication line 73, selection of music, reservation of music, pitch control of music to be played (key control), and display on the monitors 32 and 34. Video switching,
A control device 40 for performing various controls such as synthesis and division is provided.

Further, mixing of the voice input from the microphones 85 and 86 with the karaoke tune as the tune, volume balance between the voice and the karaoke tune, echo adjustment, delay adjustment,
An amplifier 16 for amplifying an audio signal and controlling high and low tones (tone control), and a floor type 1 for reproducing an amplified signal output from the amplifier 16 as a sound.
Set of speakers 83, 83 and a set of speakers 8 for the ceiling
4, 84, and a transmitter 90 for remotely controlling the control device 40.

Next, the equipment of the control device 40 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2A is an explanatory diagram of a front panel of the control device 40, and FIG. 2B is an explanatory diagram of a rear panel of the control device 40. As shown in FIG. 2A, on the front panel of the control device 40, a numeric keypad 41 including 0 to 9 buttons for inputting the number of a music to be selected and the like,
A music selection button 42 for setting the control device 40 to a music selection state and confirming the music selection is provided, and the number of the selected music is displayed on the numeric keypad 41 with a five-digit number LE.
A music selection number display 43 for displaying D is provided.

On the left of the song selection number indicator 43, there is provided a reserved song number indicator 44 for displaying the number of songs reserved for performance by LED, and below that, the reservation is canceled. A cancel button 45 for stopping the performance, a performance stop button 46 for stopping the performance, a re-song button 47 for singing again from the beginning while singing, and an interrupt button 48 for interrupting and reserving between the reserved songs. Is provided. Further, at the upper left of the front panel, a light receiving unit 58 for receiving an optical signal transmitted from the transmitter 90 is provided, and at the lower left, a power button 59 for activating the power of the control device 40 is provided. .

On the right side of the numeric keypad 41, there are provided a flat key 49 for lowering the key of the music to be played, a standard key 50 for standardizing the key, and a sharp key 51 for raising the key. A vocal button 52 for setting the volume of the vocal melody line is provided below.
And a second chorus cut button 53 for cutting the second chorus, and a second cut cut button 5 for cutting the later part of the song.
4 are provided. Below that, a karaoke switching button 55 for switching between a karaoke mode and a non-karaoke mode, and data input via the communication line 73 are switched from song data to BGM, cable broadcasting, television broadcasting, and the like. Input switch button 56 and CRT
A service button 57 is provided for switching the display of 32, 34 to the display of service information provided by the karaoke store.

As shown in FIG. 2B, a server 7 having music data is provided on a rear panel of the control device 40.
2 (see FIG. 4) is provided with a communication terminal 60 for connecting to a communication line 73 for receiving the music data distributed from the communication terminal 60. To the right of the communication terminal 60, a video input terminal (not shown) of the monitor 32 is provided. And a video output terminal 63 connected to a video input terminal (not shown) of the monitor 34. On the right side, an audio output terminal 61 connected to an audio input terminal (not shown) of the amplifier 36 is provided.

Although not shown, the amplifier 36 has a volume knob for adjusting the volume, a microphone terminal for connecting the microphones 85 and 86, and a volume adjustment between the sound input from the microphones and the karaoke music. A balance adjustment knob for performing the adjustment, an echo adjustment knob for adjusting the degree of echo, a delay adjustment knob for adjusting the degree of delay, and the like are provided.

Next, the configuration of the transmitter 90 will be described with reference to FIG. At the top left of the transmitter 90,
Power button 91 for turning ON / OFF the power of control device 40
A clapping button 93 for setting to reproduce the sound of applause after the music has been played is provided on the upper right, and a mode for switching the mode (type) of applause is provided on the left thereof. A switching button 92 is provided. Below these buttons, there are provided a vocal button 94, a two-chorus cut button 95, and a trailing cut button 96 which perform the same functions as the buttons provided on the control device 40.

Below these buttons, a control device 4
0, a flat key 97, a standard key 98, a sharp key 99, a numeric keypad 100, a music selection key 101, a performance stop key 102, a cancel key 10
3. A resong key 104 and an interrupt key 105 are provided. Note that the numeric keypad 100 is also used for inputting personal information such as the date of birth, and the registration button 107 is used to confirm the input. Below the registration button 107, there is provided a selection button 108 numbered 1 to 20 for selecting a registration destination of personal information. In addition,
When each of the buttons and keys is pressed, a signal corresponding to the button or key is transmitted from an LED built in the transmitting unit 106.

Next, the configuration of the control system of the control device 40 will be described with reference to FIG. The control device 40 is provided with a CPU 64 that performs a request for transmission of song data, reading of current event video data, audio control, video control, reservation of a music performance order, and change of a music performance order in accordance with a program. The CPU 64 includes a RAM 65 for temporarily storing song number data indicating the number of the selected song, and a ROM 6 for storing control commands corresponding to commands transmitted from the transmitter 90.
6 and a RAM for temporarily storing the calculation result by the CPU 64
68 and 69 and an EEPROM 70 for storing personal information corresponding to each number of the selection button 108 of the transmitter 90 are connected.

A hard disk drive unit (hereinafter referred to as an HDD) stores the music data input to the CPU 64 from the server 72 via the communication line 73 and the communication terminal 60 and converted into a digital signal by the communication modem 74 in the hard disk memory. ) 71 is connected. In the HDD 71, a program for causing the CPU 64 to execute the above-described respective controls and operation control of the respective circuits described later, and the like are recorded. The server 72 includes an HDD 10 in which music data is stored.

Further, the CPU 64 sends MIDI data to the MIDI sound source 77 according to the count of the timer 78.
A sequencer 76 that performs control to write data into the CPU and a sound control circuit 75 that inputs sound data output from the MIDI sound source 77 and converts the sound data into an analog signal are connected. Also,
The CPU 64 has a CD-R on which background video data is recorded.
A CD-ROM playback device 67 for playing back the OM and a CD-ROM playback device 112 for playing back a CD-ROM serving as current video information recording means on which current video data (current video information) is recorded are connected.

Further, the CPU 64 has a CD-RO
Background video data read from M playback device 67 and H
Lyric video data (lyric video information) in the music data read from the DD 71 is input, and as a video displayed on the monitors 32 and 34, as shown in FIG.
A video control circuit 79 for creating a superimposed video of the lyrics video 202 and applying a telop 204 to the lyrics video 202 is connected to the video control circuit 79. As shown in FIG. 16, the video control circuit 79 also performs control for displaying the current video 300 instead of the background video 200. The CPU 64 further includes a light receiving circuit 80 for converting an optical signal received by the light receiving unit 58 into a digital signal, a display circuit 81 for outputting a display signal to an LED which is turned on when the various buttons are pressed, An input circuit 82 for inputting a switching signal generated when various buttons are pressed is connected.

Next, a series of operations of the karaoke apparatus 30 from when the user selects a music piece to when karaoke is performed will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIG. First, the server 72
The configuration of the music data stored in the HDD 10 provided in the HDD will be described with reference to FIG. Song data 20
Is composed of song number data 20a indicating a song number, MIDI data 20b, lyrics video data 20c, and the like.

Next, the contents stored in the current video recording disk accommodated in the CD-ROM playback device 112 will be described with reference to FIG. The current affairs video recording disk 23 has 1
Current image data 25 indicating the video of the 10 major news that occurred in the year and occurrence year data 24 indicating the year in which the 10 major news occurred in the Christian era are recorded in the order of the Christian era. As shown in FIG. 7, the HDD 71 associates the song number data 20a with the year when the song indicated by the song number data was created or the year code 28 indicating the year when the song was popular. The song number and age correspondence table 26 set in this way is stored. The date code 28 corresponds to the creation year data or the fashion year data of the present invention.

Next, the contents of control by the CPU 64 for displaying current images on the monitors 32 and 34 when performing karaoke will be described with reference to FIG. First, when the user points the transmitter 90 to the control device 40 and presses the power button 91, the power of the control device 40 is turned on, and the monitors 32 and 34 and the amplifier 36 are activated in conjunction with this. Then, if you want to display on the monitors the top 10 news of the year in which the song you selected became popular instead of the background video of karaoke on the monitors 32 and 34, the display of the transmitter after the input of the song number is completed Press the button. "Is displayed (step 90).

Then, when the music selection button 101 of the transmitter 90 is pressed, a music selection is enabled, and the ten key 100 is pressed to input the music number of the music to be sung. At this time, every time the numeric key is pressed, the number corresponding to the pressed key is displayed on the monitor 3.
2 and 34 and the song number display 43 of the control device 40 so that the song number can be confirmed. In addition,
The fact that music is being selected can be confirmed by blinking the displayed number.

When the input of the music number is completed and the music selection button 101 is pressed, the input music number is determined (step 100), and the music number data indicating the music number is temporarily stored in the RAM 65 (step 100). 120). Subsequently, the temporarily stored music number data is read from the RAM 65, and a request signal indicating a transmission request of music data corresponding to the music number indicated by the read music number data is transmitted to the server 72 (step 140). ). Then, the server 72 retrieves and reads out the song data of the song number indicated by the request signal from its own HDD 10, and the read song data is received by the control device 40 via the communication line 73, and CPU by modem 74
The data is converted into processable data by the H.64 and temporarily stored in the HDD 71 (step 160).

Subsequently, when the display button 109 is pressed (step 180), the music number data 20a temporarily stored in the RAM 65 is read, and the music number data indicated by the music number data 20a is stored. The age code data is retrieved and read from the music number age correspondence table 26 stored in the HDD 71 (step 20).
0). Subsequently, the CR-ROM reproducing device 112 reproduces the current event video data 25 to which the occurrence year data 24 of the same year as the year indicated by the read date code data is attached, and reads the current event video data 25 from the current event video recording disk 23 (step). 22
0).

Then, the read current video data 25 is displayed on the monitors 32 and 34 (step 240). At this time, the song data 20 stored in the HDD 71 is also read out, and the lyrics video data included in the song data 20 is input to the video control circuit 79 and converted into a lyrics video signal that can be displayed on the monitors 32 and 34. . In other words, the current video data and the lyrics video data are displayed with the lyrics video 200 superimposed in the current video 300 as shown in FIG.

The MIDI data 20b included in the music data 20 is taken into the sequencer 76,
It is written to the MIDI sound source 77 according to the count of 8. The sound source data of the portion where the MIDI data is written to the MIDI sound source 77 is output to the audio control circuit 75,
The signal is converted into an analog music signal that can be amplified by the amplifier 36. This music signal is output to the amplifier 36, and after being amplified, the speakers 83, 83, the speakers 84, 84
To be reproduced by both speakers (step 260).

The sound input from the microphone 85 or the microphone 86 is mixed with the music signal by a microphone mixing circuit built in the amplifier 36.
The mixed signal thus amplified is amplified by the amplifier 36, and then amplified by the speakers 83, 83 and 8
4, 84, and both speakers reproduce a music signal and an audio signal. That is, the user looks at the background image 200 and the lyrics image 202 projected on the screens of the monitors 32 and 34 and displays the selected song on the microphone 85,
Alternatively, the user can sing (karaoke) through the microphone 86.

Thereafter, when the reproduction of the music data 20 is completed (step 280), it is determined whether or not there is a reserved music (step 300). If there is no reserved music, the process returns to step 90; The reserved song number data stored in the RAM 65 is read (step 320), and the process returns to step 140 to request transmission of song data of the song number indicated by the reserved song number data. On the other hand, when a negative determination is made in step 180, that is, when the display button 109 is not pressed, the background video data corresponding to the genre data included in the music data 20 is read by the CD-ROM playback device 67. (Step 330) and displayed on the monitors 32 and 34 (Step 240).

As described above, according to the karaoke apparatus of the first embodiment, instead of the background image 200 of the karaoke, the current event image 300 showing the 10 major news that occurred in the year in which the selected song became popular is displayed on the monitor 32. , 34, even those who are tired of the background image 200 of the karaoke,
You can sing happily with a new sense. In addition, even when the karaoke apparatus 30 is installed in a place where there is a person who is not interested in karaoke, such as a snack or a bar, by displaying old news on the monitors 32 and 34,
Even those who are not interested in karaoke can enjoy watching the monitor.

Next, a karaoke apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. The karaoke apparatus according to the second embodiment is characterized in that news occurring on his / her birthday can be displayed on a monitor. The CD-ROM playback device 11
As shown in FIG. 9, current event video data 17 to which a start address 15 and a stop address 16 are assigned are recorded on the current event video recording disc reproduced by the second method. Also, as shown in FIG. 8, the current-year video recording disc 23 has an era code 28 classified by year in the Christian era,
A date code 29 indicating the date and the current image data 17
A current event video table 14 set in correspondence with a start address 15 and a stop address 16 corresponding to the address given in FIG.

First, the CPU for registering the date of birth
The contents of the control at 64 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, when the karaoke apparatus 30 is activated, the monitor 32, 34 displays the message, "If you want to see the news that occurred on the day of your birth instead of the background picture of karaoke, press the registration button of the transmitter. "
Is displayed (step 380). And registration button 1
When 07 is pressed (step 400), the monitor 32, 3
In step 4, "Please enter your date of birth." Is displayed (step 420). When the input is completed (step 440), the date of birth indicating the input date of birth is stored in EEPROM 70. (Step 460).

Subsequently, "Press the button (selection button) of the number to register the date of birth" is displayed on the monitors 32 and 34 (step 480), and when one of the selection buttons 108 is pressed (step 480). 500), the selection number data corresponding to the number assigned to the pressed selection button 108 is stored in the EEPROM 70 in a form attached to the date data stored in the EEPROM 70 (step 520). Thus, by pressing the pressed selection button 108, the registered date data can be read.

Next, the contents of control by the CPU 64 when displaying a current image showing news that has occurred on the day indicated by the stored date of birth data will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. The contents of the control up to step 160 are the same as those in step 100 shown in FIG.
To 160, the description is omitted. First, when one of the selection buttons 108 is pressed (step 161), the date data with the selection number data corresponding to the number assigned to the pressed selection button 108 is read from the EEPROM 70 (step 161). Step 16
2).

Subsequently, the start address 15 and the stop address 16 with the date indicated by the read date data are read from the current event video table 14, and the read start address 15 and stop address are read. Current event video data having 16 is selected and read from the current event video recording disk 18 (step 220) and displayed on the monitors 32 and 34 (step 240). For example, if your birthday is February 13, 1960
If it is day, as shown in FIG.
Since it is 0 and the date code is 0213, the corresponding start address and stop address are 14:00 and 14:30, respectively. Therefore, the current event video data corresponding to the start address 14:00 and the stop address 14:30 becomes news on February 13, 1960, as shown in FIG. 9, and the video showing the news is displayed on the monitors 32 and 34. Is displayed.

As described above, according to the karaoke apparatus of the second embodiment, the news that occurred on the day of his / her birth can be displayed on the monitors 32 and 34 instead of the background image 200 of karaoke. You can sing karaoke while watching the state of the world. When only the year of birth of a birthday is input, one or more current event video data items for one year from the current year are selected and displayed at random. It can also be configured. Also, enter the date of birth of someone other than the singer,
Of course, you can see the news that happened that day.

Next, a karaoke apparatus according to a third embodiment of the present invention will be described. The karaoke apparatus according to the third embodiment is characterized in that news that has occurred on the birthday of a year several years after its birth can be displayed on a monitor. Note that the operations from inputting the date of birth and registering and steps 90 to 162 by the CPU 64 are as follows.
The description is omitted because it is the same as the second embodiment.

First, as shown in FIG. 13, the CPU 64 calculates the age of the singer based on the date data read in step 162 (step 164). For example, if the input date of birth is January 15, 1965, and the current calendar is August 8, 1996, the age of the singer is (1996-1965) = 31. Subsequently, one of the multiples of 10, 20, 30,... That is smaller than the calculated age is randomly selected (step 165), and the selected number is replaced with the date of birth. It is added to the number indicating the year (step 166). For example, in the above example, since the age is 31 years, the selectable numbers are 10, 20, and 30, and if 10 is selected, the added value is (19)
65 + 10) January 15, 1975 = January 15, 1975.

Then, a start address 15 and a stop address 16 corresponding to the date of birth to which the above years are added are selected from the current event video table 14. For example, in the above example, the added value is January 15, 1975 (age code 75, month / day code 0115).
The start address 15 and the stop address 16 corresponding to those codes are 4
800: 0, 4800: 30. Subsequently, the current event video data 17 having the start address 4800: 0 and the stop address 4800: 30 is selected from the current event video recording disk 18. For example, in the above example, as shown in FIG.
Current news video data 17 indicating the news of January 15, 1975 having 0:00 and a stop address of 4800: 30 is read (step 220), and the monitors 32, 3 are read.
4 (step 240).

As described above, according to the karaoke apparatus of the third embodiment, it is possible to watch the news that occurred on the birthday of a certain number of years from the user's birthday while karaoke. Therefore, those who are not interested in karaoke as well as those who sing karaoke can grasp the time while watching the monitor. Especially in karaoke boxes, people of the same age often gather and karaoke,
Since everyone has a high interest in the nostalgic images of those days, displaying the images of those days can further enhance the atmosphere of the venue. In addition, among birthdays,
If only the year of birth is entered, one or more current event video data is randomly selected from one or more current event video data for one year in which the above selected years are added to that year. It can also be configured to do so.

Next, a karaoke apparatus according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described. The karaoke apparatus according to the fourth embodiment is characterized in that a current image can be displayed on the monitor when the lyrics image is not displayed on the monitor. The operation from the input of the date of birth to registration is the same as that of steps 90 to 220 by the CPU 64, which are the same as those in the above-described first embodiment, and a description thereof will be omitted.

First, as shown in FIG. 14, the CPU 64 reads the background video data (step 221) and reproduces the music data 20 (step 222). Subsequently, current events are displayed on the monitors 32 and 34 (step 223).
When the playback of the preamble of the song is completed (step 224),
The display on the monitors 32 and 34 is switched from the current image to the background image (step 225). Then, when the reproduction of the interlude portion of the song is started (step 226), the display is switched again to the current image (step 227). When the reproduction of the interlude portion is completed (step 228), the display is switched back to the display of the background video (step 228). Step 229). Subsequently, when the reproduction of the subsequent part of the music is started (step 230), the display is switched again to the current event video (step 231). If the display button 109 is not pressed (step 18)
0), the background video data is read (step 330), the music data is reproduced (step 331), and the background video is displayed (step 332).

As described above, according to the karaoke apparatus according to the fourth embodiment, current images can be displayed on the monitors 32 and 34 only while the prelude, interlude, and subsequent portions of the music are being reproduced. it can. That is, the current image can be displayed on the monitor while the lyrics image is not displayed. Therefore, when the singer is singing while watching the lyrics video, it is possible to prevent the lyrics video from being difficult to view by displaying the current affairs video. In addition, since the current image and the background image are alternately displayed on the monitor, the image is rich in changes, and the viewer does not get bored. In addition, together with the current event video data, current event audio data indicating the current event in audio is recorded on the current event video recording disk, and when displaying the current event video on the monitor, the current event sound is output to the speakers 83, 83 and the speaker 8
4, 84.

In each of the above embodiments, the control for displaying the current event image is started by pressing the display button 109 provided on the transmitter 90. The display switches from the current image to the background image, and the display button 1
It is also possible to configure so that the display on the monitor is switched by turning on and off the display button 109, for example, when the user presses 09, the display switches to the current image again.

Further, in each of the above-described embodiments, a news recorded video is described as a representative of the current event video information. However, a movie, a television program, or the like that was popular in the year may be displayed as the current event video information. Further, the form of the current video information may be a character video, or a video indicating a news item in a newspaper, in addition to a recorded video. Incidentally, steps 90 to 240 executed by the CPU 64 are as follows:
Step 380 to Step 520 function as year data input means. Steps 164 through 16
6 functions as the calculating means of the present invention.

[0061]

As described above, according to the present invention, there is provided a musical sound reproducing apparatus capable of displaying a background video which allows a person who sings karaoke and a person who does not karaoke to have a common interest and display a tired background image. Can be realized.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the appearance of a karaoke apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2A is an explanatory diagram of a front panel of a control device provided in the karaoke apparatus, and FIG. 2B is an explanatory diagram of a rear panel of the control device.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a transmitter provided in the karaoke apparatus.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a control system of the control device.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration of music data.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing recorded contents of a current-time video recording disc.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration of a music number age correspondence table.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration of a current event video table.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing recorded contents of a current-time video recording disc.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the contents of current event image display control executed by the CPU 64 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing the contents of personal information registration control executed by a CPU 64;

FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing the contents of current event image display control executed by a CPU 64 according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing the contents of current event image display control executed by a CPU 64 according to the third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing the content of current image display control executed by a CPU 64 according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram showing a background image and a lyrics image displayed on a monitor 32.

FIG. 16 is an explanatory view showing a current image and a lyrics image displayed on a monitor 32;

[Explanation of symbols]

 10, 71 HDD 20 music data 30 karaoke device 32, 34 monitor 36 amplifier 40 control device 64 CPU 67, 112 CD-ROM playback device 72 server 73 communication line 83, 84 speaker 85, 86 microphone 90 transmitter 107 registration button 108 selection Button 109 Display button

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Claims (6)

[Claims] A music reproduction apparatus comprising: music information reproducing means for reproducing music information; and background image display means for displaying a background image on a display means when the music information is reproduced by the music information reproducing means. In the device, a current event video information recording unit that records current event video information indicating a current event that has occurred in the world by year, and when the music information is reproduced by the music information reproducing unit, the current event video information is recorded in the current event video information recording unit. And a current video information reproducing means for reading out predetermined current video information from among the current video information, and reproducing and displaying the read current video information on the display means. . 2. The music information includes creation year data indicating a year when a music indicated by the music information is created or fashion year data indicating a year when the music is popular. The current year video information reproducing means includes, when the music information is reproduced by the music information reproducing means, the generation information included in the music information. Reading current event video information including occurrence year data indicating a year corresponding to the year indicated by year data or trendy year data from the current event video information recording means, and displaying the read current event video information on the display means; 2. The tone reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: 3. A year data input means for inputting year data indicating at least a year out of a date, wherein the current event image information reproducing means reproduces the music information by the music information reproducing means. In this case, while reading the current event video information including the occurrence year data indicating the year corresponding to the year indicated by the year data input by the year data input unit from the current event video information recording unit, the read current event video information is read. 3. The tone reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the musical tone is displayed on the display means. 4. The music information reproducing means includes a current topic video information reproducing means, comprising: arithmetic means for calculating an addition value obtained by adding year data indicating a predetermined number of years to year data input by the year data input means. When the music information is played back by the current event image information recording means, the event information includes occurrence year data or trendy year data indicating the year corresponding to the year indicated by the addition value calculated by the operation means. 4. The musical sound reproducing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the current event video information is read out from the electronic musical instrument, and the read current event video information is displayed on the display means. 5. The music information includes lyrics video information indicating lyrics, the background video display means displays the background video and lyrics video information on the display means, 5. The video information reproducing means for displaying the current topic video information on the display means when the lyrics video information is not displayed by the background video display means. A tone reproduction device according to one of the preceding claims. 6. The current affairs video information indicates the contents of a current affair that has occurred in the world by at least one of subtitles, newspaper publications, and recorded video. 6. The musical sound reproducing device according to any one of 5.