JP2000322071A - Communication karaoke system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication karaoke system capable of raising the mood of a player and heightening concern in surrounding listeners, by broadcasting automatically the voice of a presenter just before a melody is performed. SOLUTION: Genre codes of respective melodies are given to individual karaoke data supplied from a data base 31 through a communication circuit 32, and a memory 21 where one or more presenter data determined in each genre code are recorded is installed in each karaoke terminal device 1. Just before the start of regeneration of down-loaded karaoke data, one of the presenter data corresponding to a genre code of karaoke data to be regenerated is selected and regenerated from among the presenter data recorded in the memory 21.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication karaoke system, and more particularly to a communication karaoke system configured to automatically reproduce a predetermined moderator's voice immediately before playing a requested music.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Karaoke apparatuses have become widespread. In recent years, a large number of music data and telop data required for karaoke have been recorded in a database installed at the head office of a karaoke provider. A communication karaoke system which transmits these karaoke data to a karaoke terminal device provided on the customer's side through a digital communication line for use by the customer has also been used.

[0003] However, in the conventional karaoke system, there is a blank time between a player requesting a desired song and the song being prepared and played, and the tension time of the player trying to sing a song is long. Often, the desire to sing was lost.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above problems, the present invention automatically puts in the moderator's voice immediately before a song is played, so that the singer of the song program can feel better by the moderator. It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication karaoke system that can give a player the same effect as enlivening the atmosphere and can also increase the interest of surrounding listeners.

[0005]

Means for Solving the Problems Downloading desired karaoke data from a database in which a large number of karaoke data are stored, and the database through a communication line,
In a communication karaoke system comprising a plurality of karaoke terminals which reproduce a predetermined image together with the lyrics telop data and display it on a display device, and reproduce music data and perform along with the singing of a player. The data is provided with a genre code of each song, and each karaoke terminal device is provided with a memory in which at least one moderator data defined for each genre code is recorded. Immediately before the reproduction is started, one of the moderator data corresponding to the genre code of the karaoke data to be reproduced is selected from the moderator data recorded in the memory and reproduced. This can be achieved by a karaoke system. It is recommended that the moderator data be prepared by male voices and female voices. Also, a plurality of moderator data are prepared for one genre code, and at the time of moderator data reproduction, any one of the moderator data is randomly selected from the plurality of moderator data and reproduced. It is also recommended that

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The configuration of the present invention will be specifically described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a circuit configuration of an embodiment of a communication karaoke system according to the present invention. FIG. 2 shows an example of an image displayed on a display device immediately before performance of a song in a karaoke terminal device, and FIG. Explanatory drawing showing an example of a moderator's voice that is shed, FIG.
FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing another example of the video projected on the display device and another example of the moderator's voice.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes one of karaoke terminals provided in the communication karaoke system according to the present invention, which includes a CPU 11, a digital or analog line interface 12, a karaoke information recording device 13,
Music selector 14, I / O port 15, video composition circuit 16,
Lyrics telop reproduction circuit 17, image recording medium and its reading device 18, video reproduction circuit 19, display device 20,
It comprises a music / sound reproducing circuit 22, a microphone 23, a speaker 25, an amplifier 24 and the like.

Reference numeral 31 denotes a database provided at the head office or the like of the karaoke system provider.
Music data of many songs used for karaoke, karaoke data such as genre codes and telop data corresponding to the respective songs are recorded. Here, the “genre code” is a code indicating a type of pop, enka, military song, solo song, duet song, and the like, and is a code assigned so as to be a reference for selecting the contents of the moderator suitable for the song. So, for example, in enka, love,
In addition to themes such as friendship and travel information, for solo singing, duet,
It is desirable to assign different genre codes according to the nature of the song for chorus or the like. 32 is ISDN
(Integrated Service Digital Network), INS
(Information Network System) or a digital communication line or an analog communication line.

[0009] The CPU 11 of the karaoke terminal device 1
U body 11a, program ROM 11b, program R
AM 11c, work RAM 11d, music selection device 1
4 is connected to the CPU 11 via the I / O port 15. The CPU 11 plays a role of controlling the operation of the entire karaoke terminal device 1, and its main functions are communication-related control, music reproduction control, moderator's voice reproduction control, telop display and control, image synthesis reproduction. Control, request reception and display control, and the like.

The digital or analog line interface 12 controls transmission and reception to and from the digital or analog communication line 32 connected to the database 31. The interface 12 transmits a signal for calling the database 31 and is transmitted from the database 31. Receive incoming data.

The karaoke information recording device 13 includes a music data file 13a, a lyrics telop data file 13b,
It consists of a genre code file 13c and so on. The music data file 13a stores music data sent from the database 31 through the digital or analog communication line 32, and the lyrics telop data file 13b stores
The lyric telop data is stored, and the genre code file 13c stores the genre code of each song sent from the database 31, and transfers the stored data to the CPU 11 at the request of the CPU 11.

The music selection device 14 is a device for allowing a player to input a desired karaoke request number, and is desirably configured so as to be able to select whether or not to input a moderator's voice immediately before playing a song. Music selection device 14
From the CPU 11 via the I / O port 15
The data of the music data file 13a, the lyrics telop data file 13b, and the genre code file 13c corresponding to the request number input to M11d are read. If the data corresponding to the request number is not stored in each file, the signal of the request number is sent from the digital or analog line interface 12 to the database 31 through the digital or analog communication line 32, and the necessary karaoke The data is sent from the database 31 to the karaoke terminal device, stored in each file of the karaoke information recording device 13, and immediately read out via the CPU 11 or the like. Note that the music selection device 14 and the CPU 11 may be connected by a cable, or the music selection device 14 may be used as a remote control device to transmit a request signal in a wireless format.
Further, the I / O port 15 may be configured to be used for image operations.

The lyric telop reproduction circuit 17 decodes the telop information of the lyric transmitted from the lyric telop data file 13b via the CPU 11 and converts the telop information into a signal that can be displayed by the display device 20, and at the same time, plays the song. The change of the color is controlled so that the position of the lyrics to be sung is displayed by the change of the color of the telop, and the output data is sent to the video synthesizing circuit 16 and the person from the image recording medium and the reading device 18 The video signal is synthesized with the video signal of the scene or the scene and displayed on the display device 20.

The image recording medium and the reading device 18 are composed of an image recording medium such as a laser disk on which image data of a person, scenery and the like are recorded, and its reading device. According to the selection code, a predetermined image is read out and sent to the video synthesizing circuit 16.

The video synthesizing circuit 16 synthesizes image data such as a person or a landscape sent from the image recording medium and the reading device 18 with telop data sent from the lyrics telop reproducing circuit 17.

The image reproducing circuit 19 decodes the video data output from the video synthesizing circuit 16 and converts it into a signal that can be displayed by the display device 20.

The moderator data recording memory 21 is a non-volatile memory, in which a large number of moderator voice data classified according to the genre codes determined according to the karaoke tunes are recorded. This moderator's voice data should be suitable for the genre of each song. For example, "Songs are on your breasts that flow .... Let's sing!" ,
Is the man who made you cry bad? Please sing loudly!
! "," On an urban night that's going tonight .... Let's have a duet with two people who are in tune with each other! " In addition, voices of both male and female moderators are prepared, and a plurality of voices of the same genre with different contents are prepared. When one genre code is input, a random It is also recommended to configure so that one moderator voice is selected. However, in that case, it is desirable not to select the same one twice in succession. Also, in order to be able to deal with a plurality of songs belonging to a specific genre, the moderator's voice should not include the title of the song or the name of the singer in principle. Preferably, the moderator voice data in the moderator data recording memory 21 can be updated from the database 31 through the communication line 32 as necessary.

The music / sound reproducing circuit 22 decodes the music data transferred via the CPU 11 and decodes the moderator sound data supplied from the moderator data recording memory 21. The amplifier 24 amplifies the output from the music / voice reproduction circuit 22 and the electric signal of the singing voice of the player collected by the microphone 23 and sends the amplified signal to the speaker 25.

Next, the operation of the communication karaoke system according to the present invention configured as described above will be described.

When the player inputs a desired karaoke request number using the music selection device 14 of the karaoke terminal device 1, the signal is transmitted to the CP via the I / O port 15.
It is input to U11. At that time, based on a command from the CPU 11, the music data file 13a, the lyrics telop data file 13b, the genre code file 13c
, The karaoke song data corresponding to the request number is read. If there is no data in each file, the interface 12 transmits a signal for calling the database 31 and sends the request number to the database 31 via the digital or analog communication line 32 when the receiving system of the other party is ready. .

In the database 31, the music data and the telop data of the requested music are read in accordance with the request number, the genre code of the music is read, and the karaoke data is transmitted to the karaoke terminal device 1 through the communication line 32. I do.

As described above, when karaoke data of a desired tune is provided to the communication karaoke system 1 through the communication line 32, the input data is transmitted to the music of the karaoke information recording device 13 via the digital line interface 12. Data file 13a, lyrics telop data file 13b, and genre code file 13c
Respectively.

The music data stored in the music data file 13a is sent to the music / sound reproducing circuit 22 via the CPU 11 and the work RAM 11d, decoded, converted into an analog signal to be supplied to the speaker 25, and an amplifier. At 24, the music and voice are superimposed on the voice of the player input to the microphone 23, amplified and sent to the speaker 25, and the music and voice are reproduced by the speaker 25.

The lyrics telop data stored in the lyrics telop data file 13b is
It is sent to the lyric telop reproduction circuit 17 via the AM 11d and the like, decoded into a signal that can be displayed by the display device 20, and organized so that the position of the lyric to be sung according to the progress of the tune is displayed by a change in the telop color Is done.

The image recording medium and reading device 18 reads out predetermined image data such as a person or scenery and sends it to the video synthesizing circuit 16 in accordance with an image selection code for each song included in the karaoke data of the requested song.

The genre code stored in the genre code file 13c is stored in the CPU 11, the work RAM 11,
d, etc., is sent to the moderator data recording memory 21 to read out predetermined moderator audio data determined by the genre code, sent to the music / audio reproduction circuit 22 and decoded, and supplied to the speaker 25 as an analog signal. Is amplified by the amplifier 24 and reproduced by the speaker 25. The reproduction of the moderator voice is started a few seconds before the performance preparation of the music data stored in the music data file 13a is completed and the performance starts, and the performance of the music data is started immediately after the reproduction of the moderator voice is completed. Yeah, C
It is controlled by the PU 11.

For example, as shown in FIG.
When a karaoke song is performed, an image suitable for "spring in the northern country" is displayed on the screen of the display device 20 several seconds before the performance, and the speaker 25 outputs, for example, "your song On the chest ...
Let's sing! ! "Is played. Immediately before or immediately after the end of the moderator's voice, the music data of "Spring in the North" is played,
The performance starts. In this case, one genre code assigned to “Spring in the Northern Territory” may randomly select and reproduce any one of a plurality of moderator audio data appropriate to the genre. Is as described above.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, but encompasses all modified embodiments that can be easily conceived by those skilled in the art from the above description within the scope of the present invention.

[0029]

According to the present invention, since the present invention is constructed as described above, it is possible to (1) excite the player's feelings before singing and relieve tension. (2) (3) You can have expectations about what will be done next, and (4) You can update the moderator data as needed Because it is possible, it is possible to bring a number of effects not found in the conventional communication karaoke system, such as never getting tired.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a video displayed on a display device immediately before a karaoke terminal device plays a song and an example of a moderator's voice played at that time.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing another example of a video projected on a display device and another example of a moderator's voice.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Karaoke terminal device 11 CPU 11a CPU body 11b Program ROM 11c Program RAM 11d Work RAM 12 Digital or analog line interface 13 Karaoke information recording device 13a Music data file 13b Lyric telop data file 13c Genre code file 14 Music selection device 15 I / O Port 16 Video synthesis circuit 17 Lyric telop reproduction circuit 18 Image recording medium and reading device 19 Video reproduction circuit 20 Display device 21 Moderator data recording memory 22 Music / voice reproduction circuit 23 Microphone 24 Amplifier 25 Speaker

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A desired karaoke data is downloaded from a database (31) storing a large number of karaoke data and the database (31) through a communication line (32), and a predetermined image is reproduced together with the lyrics telop data. In a communication karaoke system comprising a plurality of karaoke terminals (1) for displaying music data on a display device (20) and playing music data along with singing of a player, the data is supplied from a database (31). The genre code of each song is given to each karaoke data, and each karaoke terminal device (1) has a memory (21) for recording at least one moderator data defined for each genre code. Provided,
Immediately before the playback of the downloaded karaoke data starts, one of the chair data corresponding to the genre code of the karaoke data to be played is selected from the chair data recorded in the memory (21) and played. thing,
The above-mentioned communication karaoke system, characterized in that: 2. The communication karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein said moderator data is prepared by a male voice and a female voice. 3. A plurality of moderator data is prepared for one genre code, and at the time of moderator data reproduction, any one of the moderator data is randomly selected from the plurality of moderator data and reproduced. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein
Or the communication karaoke system according to 2.