JP3320583B2 - Karaoke equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a karaoke apparatus installed in restaurants, karaoke boxes, homes, and the like.

In recent years, tunes used in commercial messages (hereinafter referred to as CMs) on televisions and the like have gained popularity, and there are many cases where hits are recorded. Along with this,
Such CM in restaurants and karaoke boxes
Under the current situation in which karaoke devices are widely used and karaoke apparatuses are widely used, it can be said that karaoke performance of such tunes using CM is a great opportunity for advertisement. And not just playing CM songs,
For example, a karaoke apparatus capable of displaying an advertisement image on a monitor that displays lyrics and the like has been devised, and attempts have been made to achieve a more direct advertising effect.

[0003]

However, in such a conventional karaoke apparatus, an advertisement image is displayed only when a corresponding CM-use tune is played. Therefore, when a tune that is not directly related to the CM is played, the video is naturally displayed irrelevant to the CM, and no advertising effect can be expected. Therefore,
It is conceivable to increase the display frequency of advertisement videos by playing demonstrations between songs, but the time to play the images is limited to a short time between songs and the use of the device In many cases, too many people are immersed in the selection of karaoke songs, etc., ignoring the important advertisement video, and the effect is not always sufficient.

[0004] It is an object of the present invention to provide a karaoke apparatus in which an advertisement video is frequently displayed and in which an advertisement can be more effectively appealed.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a performance music storage means, a performance music setting means,
Musical performance means, video data storage means, image data storage
Means, a karaoke device comprising a control unit, the playing piece
The storage means stores the musical sound data of the performance music and sets the performance music.
The means can set a performance song, and the music performance means
The sound data is played, and the video data storage means
The video data is stored, and the image data storage means
Image de the song indicates whether corresponding to any of the video data
And the control means is set by the performance music setting means.
When the music data is played by the music performance means,
Based on the image data and the output of the clock means
And select the video data corresponding to the set performance song,
The image is displayed on the image display means .

Here, the image data may be, for example, a music piece and a video image corresponding by a common image. In other words, music that resembles summer, such as the sea or the beach, is made to correspond to a music piece with the theme of summer, and video that reminds of love is made to correspond to a music piece with the theme of love. The music and the image are linked by various images such as, romance, youth or nature. With such image data, performance music and video can be made to correspond one-to-one, and non-one-to-one correspondence, that is, multiple performance music can be made to correspond to one video, It is also possible to make a plurality of sets of images correspond to each other, or to make a plurality of sets of videos correspond to a plurality of sets of musical pieces.

[0007] The control means displays on the image display means the performance tune.
Lyrics can be displayed. Further, the control means
Can be combined with video data and background video for display.
it can.

[0008]

In the karaoke apparatus according to the present invention, video data related to the music played is stored in the video data storage means, and a video based on the video data is displayed on the video display means as appropriate. Here, playing songs and video are tied by the image data, so that the video image associated with the image data of that is displayed on the video display unit. Its to, if the movies image and playing songs Oke tied by a common image, sense of incongruity between the songs and the video also has name.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the karaoke apparatus according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the karaoke apparatus of the present invention. The karaoke device 1 is C
A computer 2 as a control unit including a PU 3, a RAM 4, a ROM 5, a clock 6, etc., a music performance unit 7 as a music performance means connected to the computer 2, a display unit 8, and performance music setting for performing reservation of performance music and the like. Input unit 9 as a means,
It includes a karaoke data storage device 10, a video storage device 11, and the like.

The RAM 4 of the computer 2 is provided with a music reservation memory 4a for storing data for specifying a music piece, such as a music number of a reserved music piece. Also, R
The OM 5 stores a music performance program 5a for controlling music performance, a video display control program 5b for controlling display of lyrics, background video, and advertisement video, and the like.

Next, a music performance section 7 generates a musical instrumental digital interface (MIDI) for generating a performance sound based on the musical sound data 10a sent from the CPU 2.
Sound source 12, an amplifier 1 connected to the MIDI sound source 12
3, further includes a speaker 14 connected to the amplifier 13 and a microphone 15 for singing. Also,
The display unit 8 includes a display control unit 16 and a display device 17 such as a CRT or a liquid crystal display for displaying a background image, lyrics telop, and the like. As described later, the display device 17
Also displays an advertisement image, and also serves as advertisement image display means.

Next, the karaoke data storage device 10 comprises a hard disk device, a magneto-optical disk device, etc.
Lyrics data 10b corresponding to 0a and image data 10c assigned to each music piece are stored. The video storage device 11 is composed of an optical disk device, a magneto-optical disk device, and the like, and stores a plurality of background video data 11a and advertisement video data 11b corresponding to a musical piece. The video storage device 11 also stores image data 11c corresponding to each of the advertisement video data 11b. These image data 10c and 11c can be constituted by, for example, code numbers and the like. Also,
The background video data 11a may or may not correspond one-to-one to the performance music.

Next, the relationship between the musical sound data 10a, the image data 10c and 11b, and the advertisement video data 11b will be described. As shown in FIG. 2, on the karaoke data storage device 10 side, music numbers S1, S2,... Are assigned to the musical sound data 10a, and correspond to all or some of these music numbers. Image data 10c (I1, I2...). The image data 10c is not limited to the case where one piece number is assigned to one piece number, and also includes one piece number for a plurality of piece numbers such as I3 for S3 to S5.
In some cases, two correspond. Here, the image data to which the same code is given indicates that the contents are the same.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG.
On the first side, video numbers C1, C2, etc. are assigned to the respective advertisement video data 11b, and similar image data 11c (I1, I2, etc.) are assigned to each of them. In this case, one image data 11c may correspond to one video number, or one image data 11c may correspond to a plurality of video numbers, for example, C4 to C7 for I4.

Then, as shown in FIG. 4, the music number and the video number in which the contents of the image data 10c and 11c match, that is, the musical sound data 10a and the advertisement video data 11b
Are associated with each other. In this case, by assigning the same image data 10c to a plurality of music numbers or by assigning one image data 11c to a plurality of video numbers, one advertisement video data is assigned to a plurality of musical tone data 10a. 11b, or a plurality of advertisement video data 11b can correspond to one musical sound data 10a. Further, the plurality of musical sound data 10a and the plurality of advertisement video data 11b can be associated with each other by one image data 10c and 11c.

As described above, each musical sound data 10a is converted into the advertisement video data 11 through the image data 10c and 11c.
b. FIG. 5 shows a specific example of the association. For example, 3 related to love
The musical sound data (music number S3 to S5, hereinafter simply referred to as musical sound data S3 to S5, etc.)
Is linked to the advertisement video data of the video number C3 (hereinafter, simply referred to as the advertisement video data C3).
An advertisement video based on the data C3 is, for example, data of a video used in a CM of a wedding hall, and is selected to be suitable for imagining a love. Then, in the karaoke apparatus 1, the above three performance songs S3 to
If any of S5 is selected and played, an image based on the advertisement image data C3 is displayed on the display device 17. Also, the performance music S6 used in the beer CM is associated with four types of beer advertisement video data C4 to C7 for spring, summer, autumn, and winter via the image data I4. For example, the best one is selected as appropriate for each season and displayed on the display device 17. It should be noted that the advertisement music data C8 is independently associated with the music piece S7 by the image data I5.
In addition, when a plurality of images such as “summer” and “love” can be set for one music piece or an advertisement image, each combination is changed so that the combination of the music and the image changes according to the set image. The image data 10c and 11c can be allocated to predetermined music pieces and advertisement videos.

On the other hand, the musical piece S100 is associated with the advertisement video data C100 to C102 via the image data I100. In this case, the music piece S100 has an enka tone suitable for an image of shochu, for example, and advertisement images of CMs of three different shochu companies are allocated as advertisement image data C100 to C102. These data C100 to C1
The display time of any video based on 02 is
0, which is shorter than the performance time, and different ones for each season are not selectively displayed on the display device 17 as in the above-mentioned beer image, but a plurality of beer performances are performed during one music performance. The objects are displayed sequentially and in some cases repeatedly.

Next, a method of displaying an advertisement image will be described with reference to FIG.
The advertisement video 21 can be displayed using the entire screen 20 of the display device 17 as shown in FIG. 7, and the general background video 22 and the advertisement video 21 which are not related to the advertisement video as shown in FIG. Can be combined and displayed. Here, the background video 22 is formed based on the background video data 11a. The lyrics telop 23 is the lyrics data 10b.
It is formed based on.

The operation of the karaoke apparatus 1 will be described below with reference to a flowchart. First, at T1 in FIG. 8, a desired music piece is reserved by inputting a music number from the input unit 9 (FIG. 1). The input unit includes, for example, a keyboard input device connected to the CPU 3 or a remote control unit including a keyboard. The reservation of the music piece may be made by inputting data (for example, music piece name) other than the music number as long as the music piece can be specified.
Next, at T2, the input music number is stored in the music reservation memory 4a of the RAM 4. Then, at T3, the first one of the song numbers stored in the song reservation memory 4a is read, and at T4, the musical sound data 10a corresponding to the song number is stored, and at T5, the lyric data 10b is stored in the karaoke data storage device 10. Is read from. Here, when the first music number stored in the music reservation memory 4a is read, the music numbers stored thereafter are sequentially shifted and wait until the next reading.

Next, at T6, it is determined whether or not the advertisement video corresponding to the performance music is combined with a general background video.
If the synthesis is not performed, the process proceeds to T8. If the synthesis is performed, at T7, for example, "1" is set to the video synthesis flag 4b in the RAM 4, and then the process proceeds to T8. The selection as to whether or not to perform video synthesis can be made using the input unit 9 or the like. At T8, it is determined whether or not the image data 10c corresponding to the read music number is present. The image data 11c is searched.

Next, proceeding to T11 in FIG. 9, it is determined whether or not a plurality of pieces of advertisement video data 11b correspond to the searched image data 11c. When there is only one corresponding advertisement video data 11b, the process proceeds to T12, reads out the advertisement video data corresponding to the image data 11c, and proceeds to T17. On the other hand, the corresponding advertisement video data 11b
If there are multiple items, the process proceeds to T13, and it is determined whether or not all of the advertisement images based on the multiple data 11b are to be sequentially displayed. If the determination result is Yes, the advertisement video data 11b is sequentially read out at T14, and the process proceeds to T17. In the case of No, video data 11 to be displayed
Specify b. As a specific method, there is a method of selecting a predetermined data according to the season, for example, as in the case of the advertisement video data C4 to C7 shown in FIG. Until May 31, 6 in summer
The operation can be performed using the clock 6 connected to the CPU 3 from the first day of the month to the 31st of August. After specifying the video, the advertisement video data 11b corresponding to the specified video is read, and the process proceeds to T17.

Next, at T17, the video synthesizing flag 4
It is determined whether “b” is set to “0” or “1”. If “0” is set, no synthesis is performed, so the program proceeds to T18 and the music is read based on the read musical sound data 10a. At T19, the advertisement video and the lyrics telop 23 based on the lyrics data 10b are displayed on the display device 17 at T19. Also, “1” is set in the video synthesis flag 4b.
If is set, go to T20 and set the tone data 1
The background video data 11a corresponding to 0a is read out, and T21
, The musical performance is started, and at T22, the display device 17 displays, for example, a composite video and a lyrics telop as shown in FIG. When the display time of each advertisement video is shorter than the music performance time, for example, when only one type of advertisement video is displayed, the advertisement video is repeatedly displayed until the end of the music performance, and a plurality of advertisement videos are displayed. Are sequentially displayed in a predetermined order, and when the display has been completed, the display returns to the first image and continues the display in the same order.

On the other hand, if there is no image data 10c corresponding to the music number at T8 in FIG.
The process proceeds to T23 to T25, and instead of displaying the advertisement video, a general background video is displayed.

When the performance of the music is completed, at T26, it is determined whether or not the music number of the next performance music is stored in the music reservation memory 4a. If stored, T3 in FIG.
Then, the music number of the next music piece is read from the music reservation memory 4a, and the same processing is repeated thereafter. If it is not stored, the process returns to T1 to wait for the input of a music number. Even when a music number is stored in the music reservation memory 4a, the input of the music number can be performed at any time, and the performance music can be reserved. If the end signal is detected at T27, the process ends.

Since the computer 2 is connected to the host computer 30 via the modem 18 and the communication line 19 as shown in FIG.
a, lyrics data 10b and the like can be received from the host computer 30 at any time. The data can be supplied from the host computer 30 to the plurality of karaoke apparatuses 1 via the communication line 19, as shown in FIG. Further, it can be configured so that the advertisement video data 11b and the image data 10c and 11c can also be received from the host computer 30.

The method of adding the image data 10c and 11c to the musical sound data 10a and the advertising video data 11b is not limited to the embodiment described above, and various other methods are possible. For example, as shown in FIG. By assigning a plurality of image data 10c (I1, I2, I3, etc.) and individually assigning the corresponding image data 11c to the plurality of advertisement video data 11b, a plurality of advertisement images can be assigned to one musical sound data S1. Data 11b (C1,
C2, C3, etc.).

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a karaoke apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a correspondence between a music number and image data.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of correspondence between image data and advertisement video data.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which a song number and advertisement video data are associated with each other via image data.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a specific example of associating a music piece and an advertisement video with image data.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing a display example of an advertisement video on a screen.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing another display example of an advertisement video on a screen.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the flow of the operation of the karaoke apparatus.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart following FIG. 8;

FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing a system for transmitting data from one host computer to a plurality of karaoke apparatuses of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a schematic view showing a modification of the method of providing image data.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Karaoke apparatus 2 Computer (advertisement video display control means) 4 RAM 4b Video synthesis flag 5 ROM 5b Performance / display control program (advertisement video display control means) 9 Input unit (performance music setting means) 10 Karaoke data storage device (performance music) Storage means, advertisement video data storage means, image data storage means) 10a musical sound data 10b lyrics data 10c image data 11 video storage device (advertisement video storage means, image data storage means) 11a background video data 11b advertisement video data 11c image data 17 Display control unit (advertisement video display control means)

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Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. Music piece storage means, music piece setting means, music
Performance means, video data storage means, image data storage
A karaoke apparatus comprising a stage and control means, wherein a performance music storage means stores musical sound data of a performance music , a performance music setting means is capable of setting a performance music , and a music performance means comprises a performance of the music data. The video data storage means stores a plurality of video data, and the image data storage means
The control means stores the musical data of the music piece set by the music piece setting means.
The data is played by the music playing means , and the setting is made based on the image data and the output of the clock means.
Select the video data corresponding to the specified music
A karaoke device displayed on the indicating means . 2. The karaoke apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the control means causes the video display means to display lyrics of the music piece. Wherein the control means, the karaoke apparatus according to 請 Motomeko 1 or 2 Ru is displayed by synthesizing the image data and background image.