JP2003140666A - Karaoke use support network system, music selection remote controller, and karaoke convenience providing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a user who enter an unspecified karaoke providing place among karaoke providing places operated in different areas to have his or her list of favorite songs to be sung displayed on a music selection remote controller and select and reserve a song in it to a karaoke playing device. SOLUTION: The system comprises many karaoke playing devices which are scattered in respective places, many music selection remote controllers which are used in the operation places of these karaoke playing devices, and a karaoke convenience providing device which communicates with the music selection remote controllers individually through an information communication network. Each music selection remote controller is equipped with a means of obtaining user's identification information, a means of sending the obtained user identification information to the convenience providing device, a means of tentatively storing a user's song list file sent back from the convenience providing device in response to the transmission of the user's identification information and displaying the song list entered into the file, and a means of sending a remote control signal for reserving the playing of one song to the karaoke playing device when the song is specified in the display state of the song list and a reservation command is sent.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a large number of karaoke playing devices scattered in various places, a large number of music selection remote control devices respectively used at operating locations of these karaoke performance devices, a music selection remote control device and an information communication network. The present invention relates to a karaoke use support network system configured with a karaoke convenience providing device that individually communicates via a karaoke facility.

[0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Most of the karaoke box visitors come to sing karaoke, so find the song you want to sing in the karaoke table of contents and operate the remote controller of the karaoke device to make a song selection reservation. Not too willing to do. On the other hand, in the case of a restaurant such as a bar or club where a karaoke device is installed as a means of assisting customers,
Visitors do not always want to sing karaoke, so even if you open a thick karaoke table of contents with more than 20,000 songs, you can't decide what to sing.
It is easy to find a song that is difficult. There is often a customer service in which moms in the store, on behalf of the customers, search for and make reservations for songs that the customers are likely to sing, and encourage them to sing.

Even people who often go to sing karaoke do not remember so many songs, so most people sing dozens of favorite songs repeatedly. Even so, few people memorize the song number (typically a 6-digit number) to reserve a song that they often sing. In many cases, each time a song is selected, the table of contents is repeated to find the song number.

It is considerably troublesome to find a music number by repeating a thick table of contents each time a karaoke song is selected while drinking alcohol at a karaoke bar or the like. It will be a burden for moms in the shop who do this work.

[0005]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to allow a user who has entered an unspecified karaoke shop operating in various places to display his or her own song list on a music selection remote control device, and select a song from the list. It is to be able to make a reservation for the playing device.

The karaoke use support network system according to the present invention is basically a large number of karaoke performance devices scattered in various places, a large number of music selection remote control devices used at the operating locations of these karaoke performance devices, and these music selection devices. The remote control device and a karaoke facility providing device that individually communicate with each other via an information communication network. The music selection remote control device acquires the identification information of the user, transmits the acquired user identification information to the karaoke facility providing device, and transmits the user identification information to the karaoke facility. A means for temporarily storing the user songbook file returned from the providing device and displaying the song list described in the file, and one of the lists in the list by the user's operation input in the display state of the song list. When a tune is specified and a reservation command is given, a means for transmitting a remote control signal for reserving the karaoke performance to the karaoke playing device is provided. Further, the karaoke convenience providing device,
Means for storing a large number of registered user songbook files in association with the user identification information, and the user in response to the user identification information being delivered from the music selection remote controller. And a means for returning the user songbook file associated with the identification information to the song selection remote controller.

In the invention specified by the above items, preferably, the music selection remote controller communicates with the karaoke convenience providing device and retrieves and stores an index of a karaoke database used for performance by the karaoke playing device. Means for executing a search process for selecting a desired song by the user based on the karaoke database index via a user interface, and one song in the songs selected by the search process is specified. And a means for transmitting a remote control signal for reserving the performance of the one piece of music to the karaoke performance device when the reservation command is given.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS === System Overview === FIG. 1 shows an overview of a karaoke use support network system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The system of this embodiment is composed of a large number of karaoke playing devices 1 scattered in various places.
And a large number of music selection remote control devices 2 which are respectively used at the operating locations of these karaoke playing devices 1, and individually communicate with each karaoke playing device 1 via a first wide area communication network such as a public telephone line network or ISDN. New song distribution device 3 and ADS
The karaoke convenience providing device 4 communicates with each music selection remote controller 2 individually via a second wide area communication network such as a dedicated IP network using the L network.

=== Karaoke performance device 1 === Karaoke performance device 1 is a computer application device equivalent to a personal computer, and as shown in FIG. 2, a central processing unit 11 includes a computer main body including a CPU, a ROM and a RAM. And a hard disk device 12 that is a large-capacity external storage
And a communication control device 1 for communicating with the new music distribution device 3 via a subscriber telephone line or an ISDN line (first wide area communication network).
3, an operation panel device 14 for receiving input information from the user and presenting guidance information and response information to the user, and an acoustic signal of accompaniment music based on music performance data mainly composed of MIDI data. Music generation device 15, an audio device 16 that amplifies the accompaniment music or the acoustic signal from the microphone and sounds from the speaker, and a video display device 17 that uses a CRT, LCD, or PDP.
An image processing device 18 for processing image data to be displayed on the video display device 17, and a remote control receiving device 19 for receiving infrared remote control signals transmitted from the music selection remote control device 2 and other remote control devices according to the present invention. It has and.

The central processing unit 11 creates a performance reservation queue in an appropriate storage unit and manages the performance order of karaoke songs. The operation panel device 14 and the remote control receiver 19
When the performance reservation data is input from, the central processing unit 11 registers the music number therein in the queue.

The central processing unit 11 retrieves the song numbers from the queue in the order of registration, retrieves the karaoke data of the relevant song from the karaoke database of the hard disk device 12, and processes it. The karaoke data for one song corresponding to one song number is music performance data that is the origin of the accompaniment music represented by MIDI data or ADPCM data, and lyrics subtitles for displaying lyrics subtitles synchronized with the accompaniment music. Data, background selection data that directly or indirectly designates background image data to be displayed as the background of the lyrics subtitle during the output period of the accompaniment music, and song description for subtitle display of the title, artist, or author of the song. It is a data group in which subtitle data and the like are associated.

A database of background images is also built in the hard disk device 12, and the central processing unit 11
As part of the karaoke data processing, the appropriate background image data is taken out from the background image database based on the background selection data, passed to the image processing device 18, and displayed on the video display device 17 together with the lyrics subtitles.

=== Music Selection Remote Control Device 2 === The music selection remote control device 2 is a computer application device similar to a notebook type personal computer or a palmtop type personal computer, and as shown in FIG. The control unit 21, a liquid crystal display panel 22 and a transparent touch sensor 23 that form a liquid crystal touch panel, a liquid crystal driver 24 that drives the liquid crystal display panel 22 for display, and an input detection circuit 25 that detects input coordinates to the transparent touch sensor 23. And a flash memory 26 which is a large-capacity external memory.
And an infrared LED 27 and LE that emit a remote control signal
The D driver 28 and a communication control device 29 for communicating with the karaoke convenience providing device 4 via the second wide area communication network are provided.

In this embodiment, the communication control unit 29
Wirelessly communicates with a wireless LAN station (not shown) installed in a karaoke store, and the wireless LAN station (not shown) uses an ADSL modem (not shown) connected to the LAN to connect to an ADSL network (second wide area communication network). ) Is connected to.

=== Song selection and reservation using index === The new song distribution device 3 communicates individually with a large number of karaoke performance devices 1 scattered in various places via a first wide area communication network, and the new song distribution device 3 The karaoke performance device 1 supplies the karaoke data to each karaoke performance device 1, and each karaoke performance device 1 stores the karaoke data and uses it for karaoke performance. The new song distribution device 3 creates and holds an index of a karaoke database that can be played by the karaoke performance device 1. The new song distribution device 3 communicates with the karaoke convenience providing device 4 via the dedicated communication network, supplies the karaoke database index from the new song distribution device 3 to the convenience providing device 4, and the convenience providing device 4 stores it.

The karaoke convenience providing device 4 individually communicates with a large number of music selection remote control devices 2 used by accommodating a large number of karaoke playing devices 1 scattered in various places through a second wide area communication network to provide convenience. The latest karaoke database index is supplied from the device 4 to each music selection remote controller 2, and each music selection remote controller 2 stores it and uses it for music search.

The music selection remote controller 2 presents various kinds of information to the user by displaying characters and images on the liquid crystal touch panel and recognizes the selection information touch-input by the user in relation to the presented information. A user interface, a database search means for executing a process for a user to search for a desired music piece from the karaoke database index, and a music piece specified by the database search means. 1 is provided with remote control signal transmitting means for transmitting a remote control signal for making a performance reservation.

=== User songbook file === The karaoke facility providing device 4 is a server-class computer, and stores a user songbook file created for each user in its storage resource. The user songbook files are aggregated using the user's telephone number as a key. When a user's telephone number is specified, the user songbook file created for that user can be retrieved. It has a logical structure. The user songbook file is basically a set of identifiers of karaoke songs that the corresponding user often sings (that is, the concept of the song list), and as described later, attribute information of the user and the song. And information such as performance history can be added appropriately.

The music selection remote controller 2, which is operated together with the karaoke playing device 1 at a karaoke bar or the like in each place, can obtain the user's song book file from the karaoke convenience providing device 4 as needed. Music selection remote control device 2
On the screen of the LCD touch panel, the option of "selecting songs from your songbook" is displayed in a timely manner. When this is touch-inputted, a ten-key is displayed on the screen together with the guidance "Please enter your telephone number". When the telephone number is entered and the execution command is issued, the music selection remote controller 2 accesses the karaoke convenience providing device 4 and issues a request to send the user song book file corresponding to this telephone number.

In response to this request, the karaoke convenience providing device 4 sends the user's music book file corresponding to the requested music selection remote control device 2. Music selection remote control device 2
Displays a music list on the screen of the liquid crystal touch panel based on the contents of the user's music book file, and prompts the user to select a music. When the user looks at the displayed list of songs and specifies one of the songs and issues a reservation command, a remote control signal is transmitted from the music selection remote control device 2 to the karaoke playing device 1, and the remote control signal is transmitted. If it is successfully received at 1, the song is registered in the performance reservation queue.

=== Creation and update of songbook === In the present invention, how to create the user songbook file stored in the karaoke convenience providing device 4 is not specified. You may adopt the method.
For example, a karaoke company that manages the online karaoke system and provides karaoke software creates a postcard for registering the user's track file and distributes it to the user, and the user who obtains the postcard has his or her own telephone number. When a list of favorite karaoke songs is entered in a postcard and posted, the postcard is collected by the karaoke business, and the entry content of the postcard is converted into computer data and registered in the karaoke convenience providing device 4. In addition, a menu item of user song book file creation is set in the music selection remote control device 2, the menu is selected, a song list and a telephone number are input to form a file, and the file is transmitted to the karaoke convenience providing device 4. The method of storing it is also practical.

Further, in the present embodiment, in the state where the music list is displayed on the screen based on the user's music book file received from the karaoke convenience providing device 4 to the music selection remote controller 2, any song is deleted from the list. Or
Alternatively, a system is adopted in which a new song is added to the list to update the list, and the updated user song table file is transmitted to the karaoke convenience providing device 4 for storage.

Further, in the present embodiment, when the music list based on the user's music book file is displayed on the music selection remote controller 2 and a music selection is reserved from the list, the central control unit 21 displays the history field of the music book file. The performance date and time of the corresponding song is recorded, the performance counter is incremented, and the performance key change value set by the user is recorded. In this way, the history information and the like, which are sequentially updated, are added to the music book file and stored in the karaoke convenience providing device 4. When the contents of the user song book file with such additional information are displayed on the music selection remote control device 2 on the screen, for example, the song list is displayed in the descending order of the number of times sung, or the song list is in descending order of the date and time of singing. Can be displayed.
The user can select such a sorting menu. Also, a remote control signal is issued so that the performance key change value set when singing a certain song is automatically set when the song is sung again.

In the present embodiment, the user's music book file is stored in the karaoke convenience providing device 4 in association with the user's telephone number, but the present invention is not limited to this and can be used. Any method may be adopted for associating the user identification method with the user songbook file. By associating the user songbook file with the user's telephone number and the date of birth as an identifier, it is possible to manage the songbook by distinguishing each family member having a common telephone number. Further, for example, the music selection remote controller 2 may be provided with a fingerprint sensor for collecting fingerprint characteristic data, and the fingerprint characteristic data of the user may be associated with the user songbook file. Fingerprints can also be replaced with voice features. Alternatively, personal identification data may be recorded in an IC card possessed by the user and read by an IC card reader attached to the music selection remote controller 2. Even when using an IC card,
Identification of individual by IC card (phone number + date of birth)
If it is used together with the individual identification in step 2, even if the user forgets to bring the IC card, the user's personal information (track book, etc.) can be retrieved and utilized.

[0025]

According to the present invention, even if a user casually enters the unspecified karaoke stores all over the country, he or she often sings his or her own songbook file to the song selection remote control device. Is convenient because it is possible to display a list and select one song from the list and make a reservation for the karaoke playing device.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of a system configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a karaoke playing device and a music selection remote control device in the same embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Karaoke performance device 2 Music selection remote control device 3 New song distribution device 4 Karaoke convenience providing device

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Masahiko Hayakawa             5-5-26 Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo Co., Ltd.             Inside Daiichi Kosho F-term (reference) 5D108 BC13 BG07

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A large number of karaoke playing devices scattered in various places, a large number of music selection remote control devices respectively used at operating locations of these karaoke performance devices, and individually communicating with these music selection remote control devices via an information communication network. A karaoke use support network system including a karaoke convenience providing device, wherein the music selection remote control device transmits a means for acquiring user identification information and the acquired user identification information to the karaoke convenience providing device. Means for temporarily storing the user songbook file returned from the karaoke convenience providing device in response to the transmission of the user identification information, and for displaying a songlist described in the file; When the song list is displayed, one song in the list is specified by the user's operation input and a reservation command is given. And a means for transmitting a remote control signal for reserving the performance of the one song to the karaoke playing device, the karaoke convenience providing device, wherein the karaoke convenience providing device stores a large number of registered user songbook files by the user. Means for storing the user song book file associated with the user identification information in response to the user identification information transmitted from the music selection remote control device. A karaoke use support network system comprising: a means for returning a response to the music selection remote controller. 2. The karaoke system according to claim 1, wherein the music selection remote control device communicates with the karaoke convenience providing device and retrieves and stores an index of a karaoke database used for performance by the karaoke performance device. Means for executing a search process for selecting a desired music piece by the user based on the database index, and one song among the music pieces selected by the search process is specified and a reservation command is given. And a means for transmitting a remote control signal for reserving the performance of the one piece of music to the karaoke playing device, the karaoke use supporting network system. 3. The karaoke selection remote control device constituting the karaoke use support network system according to claim 1, wherein the karaoke convenience providing device includes means for acquiring user identification information, and the acquired user identification information. And a means for temporarily storing the user songbook file returned from the karaoke convenience providing device in response to the transmission of the user identification information, and for displaying the songlist described in the file. When one of the songs in the list is specified by a user's operation input in the displayed state of the song list and a reservation command is given, a remote control signal for making a performance reservation of the song is sent to the karaoke playing device. A music selection remote control device comprising: 4. The means according to claim 3, which communicates with the karaoke convenience providing device, obtains and stores an index of a karaoke database used for performance by the karaoke performance device, and uses it based on the karaoke database index. Means for executing a search process for selecting a desired music piece by a user through a user interface, and the karaoke playing device when one of the music pieces selected by the search process is specified and a reservation command is given. And a means for transmitting a remote control signal for reserving the performance of the one piece of music to the music selection remote control device. 5. The karaoke convenience providing device constituting the karaoke use support network system according to claim 1, wherein a large number of registered user song book files are associated with the user identification information. Means to store,
And a means for responding to the user identification information transmitted from the music selection remote control device, for returning the user song book file associated with the user identification information to the music selection remote control device. A karaoke facility providing device characterized in that