JP2827704B2 - Centralized management system for 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 system for centrally managing a karaoke apparatus having a video synthesizing function capable of singing and enjoying a song in accordance with a reproduced video and a music accompaniment sound.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a system for centrally managing a plurality of so-called karaoke apparatuses equipped with video apparatuses,
A player system including an autochanger containing a video disk storing video data as a central management unit is provided slightly less than the number corresponding to the karaoke device to be connected (to the extent that playback is not hindered by each device). I have.

[0003]

However, one player system accommodates more than 100 video discs, and the size of the system is very large depending on the number of karaoke devices to be connected. Therefore, it was necessary to secure a large installation area for the central control room, and the cost was very large.

As described above, the provision of the autochanger player system of the central management unit according to the number of karaoke devices to be connected has a problem of securing an installation area and burdening costs, and is released every month in the future. If the number of video discs does not fit in the autochanger, there is also a problem that a major system change of the centralized management becomes inevitable.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems. A plurality of video data classified according to the taste (genre) of a song are simultaneously output from a centralized management unit, and the karaoke apparatus side converts the data into a performance song. To provide a centralized management system for a karaoke apparatus capable of separating video data and music data by selecting an appropriate video, keeping the volume of the video data extremely low, and reducing the size and installation area of the apparatus. With the goal.

[0006]

In order to achieve this object, a centralized management system for a karaoke apparatus according to the present invention comprises:
In a centralized management system for a karaoke apparatus including a centralized management unit for transmission and reception and a plurality of karaoke apparatuses, the centralized management unit includes a music data storage unit, a music selection information receiving unit, and a music data storage unit.
Data transmission means, video data reading means, video transmission means
The music data storage means stores lyrics data and performance data.
Music data consisting of data and tune codes
The information receiving means receives the music selection information and sends the music data
Dan sends music data based on received music selection information
The video data reading means reads a plurality of video data.
The video transmitting means transmits the plurality of read video data.
Channels are converted to video signals and transmitted, and
The orch device is a music selection information transmitting means, a music data receiving means,
Channel designating means, video converting means, sound reproducing means, song
Verse conversion means, video synthesis means, music selection information transmission means
Transmits the music selection information input from the input means,
Data receiving means receives the music data and designates the channel
The means specifies a channel corresponding to the received music code.
And the video conversion means outputs the designated channel from the video signal.
The audio data is extracted, and the sound reproducing means
The performance data is reproduced, and the lyrics conversion means receives the received lyrics data.
Data into lyrics video data, and the video synthesizing means
Display means for synthesizing data and received lyric image data
Is displayed.

[0007]

In the centralized management system of the karaoke apparatus of the present invention having the above-mentioned configuration, when music selection information is input by the input means of the karaoke apparatus, the music selection information transmitting means transmits the input music selection information to the centralized management unit, The music selection information receiving means of the centralized management unit receives the music selection information. Music data transmission
The means is stored in the music data storage means based on the music selection information.
From the lyrics data, performance data and tune code
Is transmitted to the karaoke apparatus. Also, video
The transmitting means includes a plurality of video data read by the video data reading means.
The image data is assigned to a channel, converted into a video signal, and transmitted.

In the karaoke apparatus, the music data receiving means is
The music data is received, and the channel designating means receives the music data.
Channel corresponding to the tune code received by the receiver
And the video conversion means specifies the channel specified from the video signal.
The video data of the channel is extracted, the sound reproducing means reproduces the performance data, and the video synthesizing means synthesizes the video data and the lyrics data and displays them on the display means .

Therefore, when arranging new music pieces, only music data is added, and the video data storage means can be shared when performing new and old music media.

[0010]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 3 shows the external appearance of the karaoke terminal of the centralized management system according to the present embodiment. This device is a monitor receiver 1 (display means) for reproducing and displaying an image together with the lyrics of a musical piece.
And a speaker 2 (output means) for reproducing and outputting a music performance sound
When a video tuner 4 to the channel selection of the video assigned to each preference (di catcher Nru), the music selection information and music data and restoring the modulator 55 for transmitting and receiving an RF signal, an audio signal or tone signal into an acoustic signal And an audio amplifier 7 for conversion.

FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a karaoke terminal of the present apparatus.

A central control unit (CPU) 5 reserves the data when a user inputs information such as a keyword number of a song to be played (hereinafter referred to as a song number) from an input device 51 such as a keyboard. ROM5 to be registered
With reference to the data of No. 2, the music selection number 5a of the reserved music is transmitted to the centralized management unit (shown in FIG. 3) through the demodulator 55. Correspondingly, the music data 5b received from the central management unit (FIG. 3) through the demodulator 55 is temporarily stored in the memory 3. At the same time, the CPU 5 sends to the video tuner 4 channel selection data 5c set in advance according to the taste of the selected song in order to select video data that matches the selected content. This function corresponds to the means for selecting a combination of video data corresponding to the taste of the musical piece.

The CPU 5 outputs the lyrics data 3a and the performance data 3b in the music data 5b stored in the memory 3 to the video image circuit 6 and the sound source 53 in synchronization with each other. The video image circuit 6 converts the information 3a such as lyrics into lyrics image data 6a and outputs it. The sound source 53 converts the performance data 3b into an audio signal 53a and sends it to the audio amplifier 7. The audio amplifier 7 is a sound signal 5 of the performance music.
3a and the audio signal 9a from the microphone 9 are synthesized and amplified and output to the speaker 2 as a sound signal 7a.

The video tuner 4 reads the background video data 4a selected by the tuning data 5c and outputs it to the video synthesizing circuit 8. The video synthesizing circuit 8 synthesizes the background video data 4a and the lyrics video data 6a, and
a to the monitor receiver 1 composed of a CRT display or the like.

FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of the centralized management section of the apparatus.

The control section 60 controls the entire centralized management section, and comprises a CPU, a ROM and a RAM. Control unit 60
Are connected to four video disks 61. The four video discs 61 reproduce video data 61a divided according to the taste (genre) of the music. The tastes of the songs can be classified into, for example, enka, pops, new music, and children's anime. Each of the four video disks 61 is connected to a modulator 64. Since the video data 61a is a standard NTSC video signal,
The modulator 64 converts these into the frequency band of each channel and outputs an RF signal 64a. Each modulator 64 has RF information which is video information assigned to each of these channels.
A signal 64a and music data 5b and tuning data 5c to be described later
A head amplifier 66 that multiplexes the RF signal 65a obtained by converting the above is connected to the head amplifier 66, and the head amplifier 66 is connected to the coaxial cable 54.

On the other hand, the signal multiplexed on the coaxial cable 54 includes not only the video information but also the song number transmitted from the karaoke terminal (FIG. 2) and the song data transmitted from the central management unit (FIG. 1). 5b and the like, and a specific channel frequency is assigned. The music data 5b is stored in the music data storage device 63. When the control unit 60 receives the music number through the head amplifier 66, the demodulator 65, and the data input / output unit 62, the music data 5b related to the music number is received.
Is read from the music data storage device 63 and transmitted to the karaoke terminal via the data input section 62, the demodulator 65, the head amplifier 66, and the coaxial cable 54.

Next, the music selection operation of the above-described apparatus will be described with reference to the music name-tune correspondence table of FIG.

When the music number is inputted from the input device 51 of FIG. 2, the CPU 5 outputs the music number to the coaxial cable 54 through the demodulator 55, and the central control section (see FIG. 3).
Send to When the data input / output unit 60b receives the music number through the head amplifier 66 and the demodulator 65 in the centralized management unit, the data input / output unit 60b receives the music number from the music name-tune correspondence table stored in the music data storage device 63 as described above. The tune code 5d and the tune data 5b corresponding to the tune name 5c related to the tune number are read out and transmitted to the karaoke terminal (see FIG. 2) through the data input / output unit 60b, the demodulator 65, the head amplifier 66, and the coaxial cable 54. The music tone code 5d and the music data 5b are transmitted. The CPU 5 sends to the video tuner 4 channel selection data 5c set in advance corresponding to the tune code 5d to tune to a video channel that matches the received tune code 5d. Thereafter, the music data 5b is transmitted to the sound source 53, and the performance is started.

As described above, the tuning data 5 from the CPU 5
c, the video tuner 4 is controlled based on the channel selection data 5 out of the four types of video data 61a.
The background video data 4a corresponding to c is read. The lyrics data 3a constituting the music data 5b is read, and the lyrics data 3a is converted into the lyrics video data 6a by the video video circuit 6. These background video data 4
and a lyrics image data 6a are combined (superimposed) by the video synthesizing circuit 8, as a result, as shown in FIG. 3, the monitor receiver 1 lyrics on video 15 Background string 16 Are superimposed and displayed. On the other hand, the music data 3b constituting the music data 5b is
, An audio signal 9a from the microphone 9 and a sound signal 7a which are mixed by the audio amplifier 7 and output as sound given to the speaker 2. In addition, the background image 15 and the character string 16 of the lyrics displayed on the monitor receiver 1 are synchronized with the performance sound from the speaker 2.

As described above, according to this embodiment,
Since the video data corresponding to the tune (taste) of the performance music is selected from the four types of video data and displayed on the monitor receiver,
There is no need to have different video data for each music piece as in the past, and the required memory capacity per music piece can be reduced, and as a result, more music data can be stored. Become.

In the above description, a video disc is given as an example in which video data in the central management unit is recorded.
In the present invention, various image memories such as a hard disk (CD-ROM) and a video tape can be used instead of the video disk.

Also , the music data may be data in accordance with the MIDI standard and include information for displaying lyrics in addition to the music information. Such MID
The use of the I information makes it easy to construct a system in which data is downloaded from the outside using a communication line, and this data is read and reproduced. New performance music data can be prepared with a small running cost burden.

[0025]

As described above, according to the present invention, there is provided a system for centrally managing a karaoke apparatus which reproduces a music accompaniment sound together with a video display and enjoys singing along with the performance sound while watching the video. The video data reading means of the central management unit reads out a plurality of video data grouped by
And, a plurality of channels to the karaoke apparatus at the image transmission means
Is converted to a video signal and transmitted. In the karaoke apparatus, the channel corresponding to the tune code of the tune to be played is set.
The channel designation means designates, and the video conversion means designates
The video data of the selected channel is extracted, and the video synthesizing means can synthesize the video data and the lyric data and display it on the display means. Therefore, video data can be simultaneously provided to a plurality of karaoke apparatuses. Therefore, the content of the background video can be made to reflect the content of the song, and since the video data is shared, the work of producing new background video data for each new song can be omitted, The data amount for video can be significantly reduced, the cost burden on the user side can be significantly reduced, and the installation space of the central control room can be greatly reduced. In addition, it is possible to appropriately combine and play back a music piece and an image with a simpler configuration without using a mechanical mechanism such as a conventional so-called karaoke apparatus autochanger.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a centralized management unit according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a karaoke terminal of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an external view of the karaoke terminal of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a song name-tune tone correspondence table.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Monitor receiver 2 Speaker 4 Video tuner 8 Video synthesis circuit 53 Sound source 61 Video disk 62 Data input / output unit 63 Music data storage device

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A centralized management system for a karaoke apparatus comprising a centralized management section for transmitting and receiving data and a plurality of karaoke apparatuses, wherein the centralized management section includes music data storage means (63), music selection information,
Receiving means (62, 65), music data transmitting means (62, 65)
65, 66), video data reading means (61), video transmission
Means (64, 66). The music data storage means (63) stores lyrics data and performance data.
And a plurality of music data composed of data and tune codes, and the music selection information receiving means (62, 65) receives the music selection information.
Then, the music data transmitting means (62, 65, 66)
The music data is transmitted based on the music selection information, and the video data reading means (61) reads the plurality of video data.
The image transmission means (64, 66) outputs the plurality of read images.
Image data is assigned to channels and converted to video signals for transmission.
Shin, the karaoke apparatus, the music selection information transmission means (5, 55), music
Data receiving means (55), channel designating means (5),
Video conversion means (4), sound reproduction means (7, 53), lyrics
It comprises a converting means (6) and a video synthesizing means (8), and the music selection information transmitting means (5, 55) is connected to the input means (51)
The music data receiving means (55) receives the music data, and the channel designating means (5) receives the music piece code corresponding to the received music tone code.
The video conversion means (4) specifies the corresponding channel, and the video conversion means (4)
The sound reproduction means (7, 53) re- extracts the received performance data.
The lyrics conversion means (6) converts the received lyrics data into a lyrics image
The video synthesizing means (8) converts the video data and the received lyrics video
Centralized management system combines the data karaoke apparatus to be displayed on the Viewing means (1).