JP3299569B2 - 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 in which performance data has lively information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Karaoke, which has become a boom in recent years, is a system that provides only a service for singing a song. For example, the background image of the screen displaying the lyrics of karaoke is devised, lighting equipment is used, or stage equipment is used.

[0003]

However, in general, the lighting equipment or the like simply illuminates the singer or changes it regardless of the ambience of the song, so this also increases the interest. Not something. An object of the present invention is to provide a karaoke apparatus that can automatically change the surrounding environment of a singer in accordance with the climax of a tune by giving climax information to performance data.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides performance information, drawing information, lyric information, and climax information.
Information on the degree of swelling
Time information that specifies the expression and generation timing of
And the means stored as information on separate tracks
The performance information and the drawing information based on the time information
Means for sequentially reading information, lyrics information, and excitement information
Means for reproducing a music piece based on the read performance information; means for mixing and outputting a voice input from a microphone with the music piece; and outputting a background image based on the read drawing information. Means for displaying, means for displaying a lyric image superimposed on the background image based on the read lyric information, and surrounding environment of the singer based on the excitement information comprising a numerical value indicating the degree of the excitement read And means for changing the threshold value.

[0005]

In the present invention, since the performance data includes the excitement information indicating the excitement of the music, the surrounding environment can be automatically changed by using the excitement information. The change in the surrounding environment is, for example, a change in the lighting or a change in the height of the stage, which increases interest in karaoke for both the singer and the listener.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. This karaoke apparatus has a CPU (central processing unit) 1
1, ROM (read only memory) 12, RAM (read / write memory) 13, operation panel 14, musical sound synthesizer 1
5, a microphone 16, a mixer 17, a speaker 18, a computer graphics device (hereinafter, referred to as an "image creating device") 19, an optical disk reproducing device (hereinafter, referred to as an "LD reproducing device") 20, an image synthesizing device 21, and a display. Device (CRT) 22, hard disk device (HDD) 2
3, a CD-ROM reproducing device (CD-ROM) 24, a floppy disk device (FDD) 25, and a modem 26 as a network interface here. The CPU 11, the ROM 12, the RAM 13, the operation panel 14, the musical tone synthesizer 15, the image creating device 19, the LD reproducing device 20, the hard disk device 23, the floppy disk device 25, and the modem 26 are connected to a common bus BL.

The CPU 11 controls and manages the operation of the entire karaoke apparatus. The ROM 12 stores an operation program including a performance control program and a transpose program. The performance control program is a program for karaoke performance, and the transpose program is a key change, that is, transposition.
Is a program for The RAM 13 is a CPU 11
Is a memory used when controlling and managing the operation of the karaoke apparatus. The operation program in the ROM 12 is loaded into the RAM 13 under the control of the CPU 11 when the power of the karaoke apparatus is turned on. Operation panel 14
Is provided with various operation units including switches, knobs and the like for operating the karaoke apparatus.

The musical sound synthesizer 15 is a so-called music synthesizer that is driven by accompaniment performance information to generate a musical sound signal of accompaniment music, and includes, for example, a sound source section such as a MIDI sound source and a control section for controlling the same. The microphone 16 is used to input a voice of a singer who sings using the karaoke apparatus. The mixer 17 mixes the output of the tone synthesizer 15 and the output of the microphone 16. An echo device or a reverb device for adding a reverberation component to the output of the microphone 16 is attached to the mixer 17 as necessary. The speaker 18 is driven by the output of the mixer 17 in which the accompaniment music from the musical sound synthesizer 15 and the sound from the microphone 16 are mixed, and emits accompaniment music and singing voice.

The image forming apparatus 19 processes character information such as lyrics and image information such as a still image and a moving image, which are supplied together with accompaniment performance information as necessary, and generates an image signal for display. The LD playback device 20 functions when playing a karaoke tune specified to use video information recorded on an optical disc, and synchronizes with the accompaniment performance information to obtain a still image of a predetermined frame of a predetermined disc or Video information composed of a moving image or the like starting from a predetermined frame is reproduced. For this reason, it is desirable that the LD reproducing device 20 has an autochanger function of the optical disk. Image synthesis device 2
1 combines the output of the image creation device 19 and the output of the LD playback device 20 to generate a combined video signal. The display device 22 displays the combined video signal combined by the image combining device 21.

[0010] The hard disk device 23 stores song data of the karaoke song including song title, singer name, release date, keyword, accompaniment performance data, and the like. According to the music selection operation via the operation panel 14, the music data of the selected music is loaded into the RAM 13 by the CPU 11. Thereafter, music data including accompaniment performance data, lyrics data and the like is sequentially read out from the base RAM 13 under the control of the CPU 11 and sent to the above-described musical tone synthesizer 15 and image creating device 19, and is used for karaoke performance. CD-RO
M playback device 24 is a CD-R that is a recording medium for music data.
It is used to read song data from the OM and download it to the hard disk drive 23.

The floppy disk device 25 is provided for recording and reproducing music data. The floppy disk device 25 writes music data in the hard disk device 23 to a floppy disk and reads music data from the floppy disk. To the hard disk drive 23. This floppy disk is used for exchanging music data between devices. The modem 26 is connected to another device or a host system via a communication line, and is used for transmitting / receiving data such as music data or performance data via the communication line.

In the karaoke apparatus shown in FIG. 1, a CD-RO
While the music data is downloaded from the CD-ROM to the hard disk drive 23 by the M playback device 24,
The necessary optical disk is set in the LD playback device 20. The music data to be downloaded to the hard disk device 23 can be provided from a floppy disk by the floppy disk device 25 or provided from a communication line by the modem 26.

In the karaoke apparatus shown in FIG. 1, when the power is turned on, the operation program written in the ROM
The operation is started by being loaded into the AM 13. By operating the operation panel 14, the CPU 11 operates according to the operation program of the RAM 13 to execute various functions, for example, the above-described function of playing music data. The above-mentioned download to the hard disk drive 23 is also performed by operating the operation panel 14 while the power is on, and
11 to be executed.

When a music piece is specified by operating the operation panel 14, music data of the specified music piece is read out from the hard disk device 23 and loaded into the RAM 13.
Karaoke performance is started according to the music data. At the time of performing a karaoke, the musical sound information is sequentially generated in the musical sound synthesizer 15 according to the music data and reproduced from the speaker 18 via the mixer 17. In addition, the character image information of the lyric information is generated, and the image
1 is displayed on the display device 22. Also,
In the case of a karaoke song using an optical disk, at the start of a performance, a predetermined optical disk is selected, reproduced, and displayed on the display device 22 via the image synthesizing device 21.

The lyric information displayed on the display device 22 can be easily grasped by the singer, for example, by changing the color of the displayed lyric to a character of another color in accordance with the progress of the singing. Is instructed. Therefore, the singer may sing to the microphone 16 while watching the lyric information displayed on the display device 22.

FIG. 2 is a structural diagram of performance data read from the hard disk device 23. This performance data includes a plurality of tracks T1, T2, T3,.
Is provided. Performance information is written in the first track T1, and the musical sound synthesizer 15 generates a karaoke accompaniment based on the performance information. In the second track T2, drawing information indicating background data to be read from the LD in the LD reproducing device 20 or drawing information of a background image created by the image creating device 19 is written. In the third track T3, a bar number (No.) indicating a bar of the music to be reproduced is written. Lyric information indicating the lyrics generated by the image creating device 19 is written in the fourth track T4. On the fifth track T5, coloring information for coloring the lyrics to be displayed on the CRT 22 is written under the operation of the image creating device 19.

Time information .DELTA.t indicating the elapsed time between these pieces of information is inserted between adjacent pieces of information. This data structure will be described by taking performance information as an example. A sound of a predetermined tone, pitch, and volume is turned on in the first performance information,
By turning off the sound with the performance information following the elapse of Δt, a predetermined sound having a note length of Δt can be expressed and generated. In this case, if Δt is a basic unit, Δt is 2
A portion inserted successively may be expressed as 2Δt.

In the present invention, climax information is written in the above-mentioned performance data. The sixth track T6 is an example. After reading the excitement information, the CPU 11 sends the information to an external surrounding environment control device. The surrounding environment control device refers to a lighting device, a stage control device, and the like. FIG. 3 is an overall configuration diagram including such a control device. In this figure, 30 is a karaoke body having the configuration of FIG. 1, 31 is a lighting control device, 32 is lighting equipment, 33 is a lifting control device, 34 is a hydraulic drive device, 35 is a stage,
40 is a singer.

The lighting control device 31 controls the lighting device 32 in accordance with the excitement information from the karaoke body 30, changes the color of the light illuminating the singer 40 on the stage 35, and changes the lighting timing, light amount, etc. By doing so, it creates a lively atmosphere. The elevation control device 33 also controls the hydraulic drive device 34 in accordance with the excitement information from the karaoke body 30, raises and lowers the height of the stage on which the singer 40 is riding, and the excitement of the song and the presence of the singer Produce so that the excitement of the space is synchronized.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the main processing of the present invention executed by the CPU 11. First,
After the system is initialized in step S1, data of the structure shown in FIG. 2 is read from the hard disk device 23 in the next step S2, and the above-described display control, tone synthesis control, etc. are performed based on each information, while in step S3. The excitement information (index) is read, and the stage elevation control device 34 is driven in step S4 according to this information, and the illumination control device 31 is driven and controlled in step S5.

When such a series of processing is repeated until the performance data of one piece of music is completed (step S6), the lighting control device 31 automatically controls the lighting device 32 according to the climax index, and the elevation control device. 33 automatically controls the height of the stage 35. The climax index is represented by, for example, a numerical value.
Drive control is performed so that the 0 mm stage is raised. Therefore, both the singer and the listener can enjoy a change in the surrounding environment corresponding to the excitement of the song, and the karaoke atmosphere is rich in variety. In the present embodiment, an example in which the stage moves up and down has been described. However, the stage may rotate, move in the horizontal direction, and vibrate according to the climax index.

[0022]

As described above, according to the present invention, the excitement information is added to the performance data, so that the surrounding environment of the singer can be automatically changed according to the excitement of the music. Thus, the appeal of karaoke can be further increased, and the user can be given a sense of satisfaction.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the structure of performance data.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram illustrating an example of a karaoke system to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing main processing of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 CPU, 12 ROM, 13 RAM, 14 operation panel, 15 tone generator, 16 microphone, 17
Mixer, 18 speaker, 19 computer graphics device, 20 optical disk reproducing device, 21 image combining device, 22 display device, 23 hard disk device, 24 CD-ROM reproducing device, 25 floppy disk device, 26 ... modem, 30 ... karaoke body,
31: lighting control device, 32: lighting device, 33: lifting / lowering control device, 34: hydraulic drive device, 35: stage, 40: singer, T1 to T6: information track.

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. Performance information, drawing information, lyrics information and prime
The excitement information consisting of numerical values indicating the degree of
Time information that specifies the expression and generation timing is inserted.
And means for storing the performance information and drawing information based on the time information.
A method of sequentially reading out image information, lyrics information, and excitement information
A stage, means for reproducing a music piece based on the read performance information, means for mixing a sound input from a microphone with the music piece, and outputting the background image; and a background image based on the read drawing information. means for displaying, and means for displaying the lyrics image superimposed on the background image based on the read lyric information, around the singer on the basis of upsurge information consisting of numerical values indicating the degree of the read upsurge A karaoke apparatus comprising: means for changing an environment.