JPH0557596B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention is directed to a karaoke video, that is, a video recording that records audio information that becomes the accompaniment of a song to be sung, text information that becomes the lyrics of the song, and video information that becomes the background of the song. Regarding the method.

Plays accompaniment music recently recorded on magnetic tape,
So-called karaoke machines, which sing the lyrics along with the song, have become popular. Conventional karaoke devices prepare a lyrics book with lyrics printed on it, search for the relevant lyrics from the lyrics book, and sing along with the accompaniment while looking at the lyrics. In some cases, the lyrics collection may be lost, and in the case of a song that one only vaguely remembers, the timing of the beginning of the song may be off, making it difficult to sing well.

On the other hand, with the spread of video tape recorders, karaoke video tapes have become commercially available. This includes audio information that becomes the accompaniment of the song to be sung,
The text information that becomes the lyrics of the song and the video information that becomes the background of the song are recorded, and when this is played back, not only the accompaniment but also the lyrics and the background that matches the song are projected on the CRT. . Therefore, although it has the advantages of being able to sing without lyrics cards, being easy to handle without having to store lyrics cards, and allowing the song to be filled with emotion from the background, the lyrics are displayed in only a few measures, so the current There were times when it became difficult to tell whether the accompaniment was the lyrics of the song, and especially if it was a song that one only vaguely remembered, one could not understand where the lyrics were relative to the accompaniment, making it unsuitable for practicing alone.

The present invention was made in view of the above situation, and provides a video recording method for obtaining a karaoke video in which the lyrics can be sung without looking at a collection of lyrics, and even if the timing with the accompaniment is off, the parts to be sung can be immediately determined. The purpose is to provide

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, 1 is a video information supply device that supplies background video information suitable for an accompaniment piece to the mixer 2, and 3 is a text information supply device that supplies the lyrics of the song to the mixer 2 as text information. It is. 4
is a color tone changer that colors text information to provide musical assistance when the user sings a song. The video information, the text information, and the text information colored by the color tone changer into the characters to be sung along with the progress of the audio information among the text information are mixed in the mixer 2, and then the audio The audio information as an accompaniment piece generated by the information supply device 5 is mixed with the mixed song 6, and recorded by a recording/playback device 7 such as a video tape recorder.

In this case, the text information is recorded in synchronization with the audio information. For example, when recording the song ``Jogashima no Ame,'' the song ``Rain falls on the shore of Jogashima.''
From just before the accompaniment that corresponds to the lyrics starts to just before (or just after) the end, the lyrics ``It rains, it rains, it rains'' is mixed and recorded, and the color of the lyrics to be sung changes as the accompaniment progresses. be done. In other words, for example, when the white text ``It rains on the shore of Jogashima'' is projected, as the accompaniment progresses, first the word ``rain'' appears, then the letter ``ga'', and then the word ``fall''. The characters are recorded so that they turn red one after the other, up to the character ``ni''.

The signal reproduced by the recording/reproducing device 7 is separated by a separator 8, and the mixed information of video information and text information is displayed on a display 9 such as a cathode ray tube, and the audio information is sent to a speaker via a mixer 10. It is designed to be reproduced by a sound generator 11 such as. Further, audio information supplied from an external audio information supply device 12 such as a microphone is also reproduced from the sound generator 11 via the mixer 10.

To explain its operation, when the recording and reproducing device 7 is put into the reproducing state, for example, as shown in FIG.
The video information A and the text information B are displayed on the display 9, and the accompaniment music is played back from the sound generator 11. In this case, as the accompaniment progresses, the character information B sequentially changes from white to red, so the user can synchronize the timing with the accompaniment by sequentially singing the characters that have turned red while looking at the display 9.

When playing back from a video recording medium created by the video recording method according to the present invention as described below, the lyrics are also displayed as characters as the accompaniment is played, and among the characters, the characters to be sung now can be changed to other characters. Since the lyrics can be displayed in different colors to distinguish them from the text, the user not only does not have to search for the corresponding lyrics in a lyrics collection, but also it is less likely to be out of sync with the accompaniment. .

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a video recording device for carrying out the video recording method of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a display reproduced from a video recording medium recorded by the video recording device of the present invention. FIG. 1... Video information supply device, 2, 6, 10... Mixer, 3... Character information supply device, 4... Color tone changer, 5... Audio information supply device, 7... Recording and reproducing device, 8... ... Separator, 9 ... Display device, 11 ... Sound generator, 12 ... External audio information supply device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 Audio information that becomes the accompaniment of the song to be sung, text information that shows the lyrics of the song whose text to be sung is colored by a color tone changer as the audio information progresses, and video information that becomes the background. A video recording method characterized by recording on a video recording medium after mixing.