JP3476862B2 - Karaoke apparatus and control method thereof - 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 provided with a recording medium in which performance sounds of a plurality of songs are recorded and reproducing the performance sounds of a selected song among the plurality of songs.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Some karaoke reproducing devices have a recording device or a recording output terminal so that a singing sound can be recorded together with a karaoke performance sound. The recording is performed on a recording medium such as a compact disc, and the singer can hear his or her singing sound by playing the recording medium later.

A label recording recorded music information such as a music title is attached to a recording medium thus recorded so that what is recorded later can be known without actually playing the recording medium. Is desirable.

[0004]

However, it is troublesome to enter the recorded music information on the label by itself, and there is a problem that the information is insufficient such as only the music title. Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a karaoke reproducing apparatus capable of printing the recorded music information when a singing sound is recorded together with a karaoke performance sound.

[0005]

The karaoke apparatus of the present invention comprises a selecting means (15), a reproducing means (1) and a recording means.
A karaoke device comprising (13) and a control means, wherein at least playing sounds of a plurality of songs are recorded on the first recording medium, and the selecting means records the song and whether or not to record the song. The reproduction means reproduces the performance sound of the selected music piece from the first recording medium, the recording means records the recordability information for each music piece, and the control means selects the selected music piece. If the recordable / unrecordable information of the selected song indicates that recording is not possible, recording by the recording means is prohibited, and the playing sound of the selected song is reproduced by the reproducing means. In the case of indicating that recording is possible, the playing sound of the selected song is reproduced by the reproducing means, recorded by the recording means, and printed by the label producing means.

The control method of the karaoke apparatus of the present invention is as follows.
A control method for a karaoke device, which performs the first, second, third, and fourth processes, and also reproduces the performance sound of the song recorded on the first recording medium, the first process comprising selecting a song. In the second process, the recording enable / disable information of the selected song is read from the recording means, it is determined whether the selected song can be recorded, and if the recording is impossible, the third process is performed. If the recording is possible, the fourth processing is performed. In the third processing, the recording by the recording means is prohibited and the playing sound of the selected song is reproduced by the reproducing means. It is characterized in that selection of whether or not to record the selected song is accepted, and in the case of recording, the playing sound of the selected song is reproduced by the reproducing device and recorded by the recording device, and is also printed by the label creating device. There is.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In the karaoke reproducing apparatus shown in FIG. 1, the auto changer 1 is provided with a disc storage unit 2, a disc transport unit 3, and a player unit 4. A plurality of discs 5 are stored in the disc storage unit 2, and one disc among the plurality of discs 5 is conveyed by the conveyance unit 3 onto a turntable (not shown) of the player unit 4 when the disc is played. When the performance is completed, the disc on the turntable is returned to a predetermined position in the disc storage unit 2 by the transport unit 3. The player unit 4 plays the disc on the turntable and outputs the read data. The disc transport unit 3 and the player unit 4 operate according to a command from a system controller 7 described later.

A data separation circuit 6 is connected to the data output of the player section 4. The data separation circuit 6 separates the data output from the player unit 4 into various data such as compressed image data, compressed audio data, control data, and information data, and outputs the data from individual output terminals. In addition to the system controller 7 described above, an audio decoder 8 and a video decoder 9 are connected to the data separation circuit 6. Also,
The data separation circuit 6 is provided with a terminal for connecting the external device 10. The external device 10 is a controller for karaoke effect such as lighting, video, and telop.

The audio decoder 8 decodes the separated compressed audio data and restores it as uncompressed audio data such as PCM digital data. Since the compressed audio data is the compressed audio data of a plurality of channels, the audio data of the channel designated according to the signal from the system controller 7 is restored. The audio data output from the audio decoder 8 is supplied to the D / A converter 11 and converted into an analog audio signal, and the analog audio signal is supplied to the speaker 19 via the amplifier 18.

The video decoder 9 decodes the separated compressed image data to restore it as uncompressed image data. The image data output from the video decoder 9 is D /
It is supplied to the A converter 12 and converted into an analog moving image signal. This moving image signal is output as it is and is also supplied to the image synthesizer 21. The system controller 7 comprises a microcomputer and receives the separated information data. The information data is stored in the RAM (random access memory) 13 and is selectively read from the RAM 13. The read information data is processed in the system controller 7 or supplied to the display character control circuit 20. The display character control circuit 20 has a character generator and a V-RAM, generates display character data according to the information data, writes the display character data in the V-RAM, and synchronizes with the sync signal of the above-mentioned moving image signal. The display character data is read from the device and converted into a character image signal and output to the image synthesizer 21. The character video signal is D / A in the image synthesizer 21.
It is combined with the moving image signal from the converter 12.

The system controller 7 includes an operation unit 15,
The recording device 16 and the printer 17 are connected. The operation section 15 has a keyboard for designating a musical piece to be played, and also has a receiving section (not shown) that receives the musical piece designation from the remote control transmitter 23. The recording device 16 is for recording karaoke performance sounds and singing sounds on a recordable compact disk (not shown) such as a CD-R. Audio signals indicating the playing sound and the singing sound are supplied from the amplifier 18 to the recording device 16. The printer 17 is for printing recorded music information such as music titles on a label attached to a compact disc.

Next, the recorded contents of the disc 5 played by the player unit 4 will be described. All the information on the disk 5 is, for example, MPEG (Moving Picture Expert Group).
The information recording area of each disc 5 has a non-real time file area and a real time file area, as shown in FIG. In the non-real time file area, an access information file such as TOC and a karaoke information file such as song title are recorded. N (N is an integer and corresponds to the number of songs) real-time files are recorded in the real-time file area. Each real-time file is called in units of chapters, and one chapter corresponds to one song. A real-time file of one chapter consists of compressed image data and compressed audio data of one song, and real-time data other than images and audio, and these data are time-division multiplexed recorded in the file.

The access information file is composed of information indicating the position and time length of each chapter in the disc, and it is possible to access any chapter by referring to this information. The karaoke information file consists of various information about the disc and the song, and its structure is shown in FIG.
Shown in. The karaoke information file includes disc-related information and 1
It consists of one or more chapter information. One chapter information represents one chapter, that is, related information of a song,
The number of chapter information matches the number of songs. The disc-related information is information relating to the entire disc, for example, disc content, identification of the disc itself, and information such as the number of songs recorded on the disc.

Each chapter information includes a chapter information header, chapter common information, telop channel-specific information, and language-specific information, and the chapter information header includes identification information of the chapter information and information indicating the content. Common information within the chapter is (1) nationality of the song, (2) date of announcement of the song,
(3) song length, (4) copyright code, (5) singer classification, (6) song genre, (7) song theme image and song theme, (8) song situation, (9) song Special genre, (10) song tempo, (11) song location image, (12) song difficulty, (13) multi-audio mode, (14) background video, (15) control device information and (16) It consists of DSP mode.

The telop channel-specific information is information relating to character information (telop) corresponding to the chapter. It is possible to assign a plurality of character information sequences (telop channels) to one chapter, for example,
It is possible to add telops of different languages that can be selected to one chapter. The information for each telop channel includes (1) number of telop channels, (2) telop channel number, (3) telop language, and (4) telop character form, and includes telop channel number, telop language, and telop character form. Each piece of information is repeatedly recorded for the number of telop channels.

The language-specific information is information that depends on the language among the information related to the chapter, and includes (1) number of information by language, (2) language code, (3) description code system, and (4) information size by language. , (5) song name, (6) song name reading, (7) singer name, (8) singer name reading, (9) lyricist name, (10) lyricist name reading, (11)
Composer name, (12) composer name reading, (13) first phrase,
(14) Reading of the first phrase and (15) Location data. Information from (2) language code to (15) location data is repeatedly recorded for each language.

Next, the operation of the above karaoke reproducing apparatus will be described. When a disc is newly stored in the disc storage portion 2 of the autochanger 1, the installation operation is first performed. In this installation operation, the system controller 7 stores a new disc in the disc storage portion 2 as shown in FIG. 4, and when it detects it (step S1), mounts the disc on the turntable of the player portion 4. Disc transport unit 3
To the disk set command (step S
2). When the disc transport unit 3 finishes mounting the disc on the turntable of the player unit 4, it is supplied to the system controller 7 as a mounting end signal. Therefore,
When the system controller 7 receives the mounting end signal (step S3), it commands the player unit 4 to rotate the disk (step S4), and commands the reading of data (step S5). The player unit 4 rotates the disc together with the turntable, and after the rotation reaches a predetermined rotation speed, reads and outputs data from the non-real time file area of the disc.

The read data is supplied to the system controller 7 via the data separation circuit 6 and temporarily stored in a buffer memory (not shown) in the system controller 7. The system controller 7 sequentially writes the supplied data to the external RAM 13 (step S6),
It is determined whether or not the reading of the data by the player unit 4 is completed (step S7). For example, the data supplied by the execution of step S6 is written in the RAM 13 until the bit indicating the end of the data supply is supplied and it is found that the data reading is completed. When the reading of the data is completed, an operation stop command is issued to the player unit 4 (step S8), and a disc return command is issued to the disc transport unit 3 (step S9). Therefore, the player unit 4 stops the rotational drive of the turntable, and then the disc transport unit 3 transports and stores the disc on the turntable to the predetermined storage position of the disc in the disc storage unit 2. After executing step S9, the system controller 7 determines whether or not another new disk is stored (step S1).
0). If another new disk is stored in the disk storage unit 2, the process proceeds to step S2, and if no other new disk is stored, the installation operation ends.

The data to be written in the RAM 13 may be all the above-mentioned data of the access information file and the karaoke information file, but at least the disc number unique to the disc, the address indicating the storage position of the disc storage portion 2 of the disc, the song title, and the singer Name, lyricist name, composer name,
Song length, copyright code, song genre, song tempo,
Only the song data such as the difficulty level of the song and the multi-audio mode may be used.

The storage of a new disc can be obtained by an input from the operation unit 15 by the user. Further, a sensor for detecting the presence / absence of a disc is provided at each storage position of the disc storage unit 2, and an area for storing the detection result is provided in the RAM 13, and the detection outputs of all the sensors and the storage contents of the RAM 13 for each installation operation. And compare
The detection result may be written in the RAM 13 while determining whether a new disk is stored.

Further, in the above embodiment, the song data such as the song name is obtained at the time of installation of the disc in which the image data and the audio data are recorded. However, from a dedicated disc in which only the song data such as the song name is recorded. You may get song data when you install the disc. Alternatively, the song data of a plurality of discs on which image data and audio data are recorded is recorded on one of the plurality of discs, and these song data are obtained at the time of installation of this one disc. May be.

After the installation operation is performed as described above, the karaoke reproduction of the music selected by the user becomes possible. First, in the music selection operation, the user inputs a music selection number by operating the number keys or the alphabet keys of the operation unit 15 or the remote control transmitter 23. The song selection number has a plurality of digits and is a number that designates the disc and the song recorded on the disc. When the key is operated, it is held in a buffer (not shown) in the operation unit 15. As shown in FIG. 5, the system controller 7 determines whether or not a music selection key (not shown) of the operation unit 15 is operated at a predetermined timing or by an interrupt operation (step S
11) If the music selection key is operated, the music selection number is read from the above buffer and written in the music selection list table of the RAM 13 (step S12). The music selection list table is formed in the RAM 13 and, as shown in FIG. 6, a music selection number and a recording flag which will be described later are written in the order of performance, and the order is advanced when the performance is completed. The song name corresponding to the read song selection number is read from the RAM 13 as information data (step S13), and the read data is supplied to the display character control circuit 20 (step S1).
4). The display character control circuit 20 generates display character data indicating the song title and writes it at a predetermined position in the V-RAM. The display character data is read out from the V-RAM, converted into a character image signal, and then output to the image synthesizer 21. When the character video signal is a signal indicating a predetermined color in the image synthesizer 21, the character video signal is output instead of the video image signal from the D / A converter 12 to be synthesized with the video image signal. Therefore, it is confirmed that the music title is displayed as a character image on the display 22 and the music selection by key operation is accepted.

The system controller 7 is step S14.
After execution of, the copyright code corresponding to the read song selection number is read from the RAM 13 (step S15). RAM
Since the copyright code is included in the data written and read from the disk at the time of the installation operation, the data is read from the No. 13. The copyright code is a code indicating the copyright holder of the song. It is determined whether the selected song is a recordable song based on the read copyright code (step S16). In a ROM (Read Only Memory) 14 provided outside the system controller 7, as shown in FIG. 7, a copyright code, a copyright holder, and recordability are written in advance as a recordability data table. Regarding whether or not recording is possible, "1" can be recorded and "0" cannot be recorded.
Therefore, it is determined from the recordability data table whether or not the selected song is a recordable song. If the recording is possible, a recording enable display is made (step S17), and if the recording is impossible, a recording disable display is made (step S18). These displays may be displayed on the display 22 or may be a display (not shown) provided in the apparatus for recording permission / prohibition. When displaying on the display 22, the display character control circuit 20 generates display character data indicating that recording is possible or impossible in response to a command from the system controller 7, and V-
Written to RAM.

Since the system controller 7 is capable of recording, after executing step S17, it is determined whether or not there is a recording reservation (step S19). This is determined by whether or not the recording reservation key of the operation unit 15 or the remote control transmitter 23 is operated. If there is a recording reservation, the recording flag of the above music selection list table is set (step S20). Since "0" indicating non-recording is written in advance as the initial value of the recording flag in the song selection list table, when the recording reservation key is operated, the recording flag indicating recording is made to correspond to the song selection number. Set to 1 ".

Next, the disc playing operation will be described. As shown in FIG. 8, when the system controller 7 first issues a command to start the performance by operating the keys of the operation unit 15 (step S21), it selects the song selection number from the first song selection list in the song selection list table formed in the RAM 13. The recording flag is read (step S22). The disc address and the song number corresponding to the read song selection number are read from the RAM 13 (step S23), and a disc set command is issued to the disc transport unit 3 so that the disc having the read disc address is mounted on the turntable of the player unit 4. (Step S24). When the disc transport unit 3 finishes mounting the disc on the turntable of the player unit 4, it is supplied to the system controller 7 as a mounting end signal. Therefore, when the system controller 7 receives the mounting end signal (step S25), the player unit 4
To drive the disk to rotate (step S2
6) It is determined whether or not the disc performance can be started (step S27). For example, when the performance is prohibited by the key operation of the operation unit 15, the disc performance is not started. If the disc performance can be started, the disc performance from the track of the read music number is instructed (step S28). Therefore, the player unit 4 starts playing the music designated by the music selection number, and the reproduced video and audio signals are output to the display 22 and the speaker 19.

Further, it is judged from the read recording flag whether or not the recording is reserved (step S29). When the recording flag is set to "1", a recording start command is issued to the recording device 16 (step S30).
Since the audio signal including the singing sound is supplied from the amplifier 18 to the recording device 16, the recording on the compact disc is performed according to the recording start command.

The system controller 7 is step S30.
After execution of step S22, the recorded song information corresponding to the song selection number read in step S22 is read from the RAM 13 (step S
31). The recorded song information is at least a song name, a lyricist name, and a composer name, and information such as a singer, a recording date and time, and a place may be added. After these pieces of recorded music information are read out, they are output to the printer 17 (step S32). Printer 1
7 prints recorded music information on a label adapted to be attached to a compact disc. As a result, if the label is affixed to the label surface of the recorded compact disc, the recorded song is recorded. It goes without saying that the recorded music information may be directly printed on the label surface of the compact disc instead of the label.

The system controller 7 is step S32.
After execution of, it is determined whether or not the performance of the selected song has ended (step S33). This is discriminated from the time information in the control data supplied from the data separation circuit 6 by playing the disc. When the performance of the selected song is completed, a performance stop command is issued to the player unit 4 (step S3).
4) A disc return command is issued to the disc transport unit 3 (step S35). Therefore, the player unit 4 stops the disc playing operation, and the disc transport unit 3 transports the disc on the turntable to the predetermined storage position of the disc in the disc storage unit 2 after the rotation of the turntable is stopped. Store. System controller 7
After the disc return command is issued, the song order of the song selection list table is advanced by one song (step S36), and it is determined whether or not the song selection number is recorded first in the song selection list table (step S37). If the music selection number is recorded, the process returns to step S22 and the above operation is repeated. On the other hand, if the music selection number is not recorded, the performance operation ends.

FIG. 9 shows another procedure of the installation operation. In this installation operation, in addition to the copyright code on the disc, the copyright holder, recording permission / prohibition, and recording permission / prohibition information registration date information are recorded, and the recording permission / prohibition data shown in FIG. The table is formed in the RAM 13 instead of the ROM 14. That is,
As shown in FIG. 9, steps S1 to S7 are the same as the installation operation shown in FIG. 4, and the read data is written in the RAM 13 via the system controller 7. In this writing operation, the copyright holder and the recording permission / prohibition data are not written in the recording permission / prohibition data table, but are simply written as data for each disc or song. When the reading of the data is completed, it is determined whether or not the recording permission information registration date read from the disc is the latest (step S41). If it is not a recording permission information registration date newer than the latest registration date stored in the RAM 13, the operation proceeds to step S8 to stop the operation of the player unit 4. On the other hand, if the recording permission information is newer than the latest registration date, the recording permission data table is updated with the read copyright holder information and recording permission information (step S42), and the latest registration date is read. Update according to the information registration date (step S43). After execution of step S43, the process proceeds to step S8. Steps S8 to S10 are the same as the installation operation shown in FIG.

A service person such as maintenance and inspection of the karaoke reproducing apparatus may change the copyright holder and the recording permission / prohibition data of the recording permission / prohibition data table by operating a special key of the operation unit 15. Further, it is obvious that the recording medium on which at least the karaoke performance sounds of a plurality of songs are recorded is not limited to the disk and may be another recording medium such as a tape.

[0031]

As the foregoing, in the karaoke apparatus of the present invention, the recording means has recorded the permission information for each song is recorded, indicating that the recording permission information of the selected music is not recorded If the control means prohibits the recording by the recording means and causes the reproducing means to reproduce the performance sound of the selected song, and if the recording permission / prohibition information of the selected song indicates that the control means can record, The playing sound is reproduced by the reproducing means, recorded by the recording means, and printed by the label producing means. Therefore, when recording the performance sound of the selected song, it is possible to print the recorded song information on the printed material such as the label and leave it as a record, so if you attach it to the recorded recording medium, it will be recorded later. The contents are easy to understand and convenient without actually playing them.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a structure of an information area of a disc.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a structure of a karaoke information file.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an installation operation.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a music selection operation.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a music selection list table.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a record enable / disable data table.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a disc playing operation.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing another example of installation operation.

[Explanation of symbols for main parts]

1 auto changer 2 disk storage 3 Disc transport section 4 player section 5 discs 7 System controller 16 Recording device 17 Printer 22 Display 23 Remote control transmitter

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Sumio Hosaka 4-2610 Hanazono, Saitama Prefecture Pioneer Co., Ltd. Tokorozawa Plant (72) Inventor Hiroshi Fujii 1-4-1 Meguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo Pioneer Incorporated (72) Inventor Tatsuyuki Miyazawa 1-4-1 Meguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo Pioneer Incorporated (56) Reference JP-A-3-296193 (JP, A) JP-A-5-210786 (JP , A) Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 5-28490 (JP, A) Actual Development Sho 61-174002 (JP, U) (58) Fields investigated (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G10K 15/04 302

Claims (12)

(57) [Claims] 1. A selection means (15) and a reproduction means (1).
A karaoke device comprising: a recording means (13); and a control means , wherein at least performance sounds of a plurality of songs are recorded on the first recording medium.
The selection means is for selecting a song and whether or not to record the song.
The reproducing means reproduces the performance sound of the selected song from the first recording medium.
Playback, the recording means has recorded the recordability information for each song, the control means can not record the recordability information of the selected song
If it indicates that the recording is forbidden,
When the playing sound of the selected song is played back by the playback means, and the recordability information of the selected song indicates that the recording is possible,
Performance sound of a selected music piece is reproduced to the reproduction unit, it causes recorded in recording means, Calao Ke and wherein the to be printed on a label creation means. 2. The recording means records a performance sound and a singing sound in the second record.
Karaoke apparatus according to claim 1, wherein you, characterized in that to record the recording medium. 3. The label producing means is a label for the second recording medium.
The karaoke apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein a bell is printed . 4. The recording means further records song data for each song.
The control means uses the recorded song data as the label creation means.
The karaoke device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the karaoke device is characterized by outputting . 5. The song data includes at least a song title and a lyricist
5. The karaoke apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the karaoke apparatus includes one of a name and a composer name . 6. The second recording medium is a compact recordable medium.
6. The karaoke device according to claim 2, wherein the karaoke device is a disc . 7. Performing first, second, third and fourth processing
A method of controlling a karaoke device that reproduces the performance sound of a song recorded in a first recording medium , the first process accepting selection of a song, and the second process of selecting the selected song. Recording means for recordability information
Read out from the disc and judge whether or not the selected song can be recorded. If it is not recordable, the third process is performed. If it is recordable, the fourth process is performed. , Recording by means of recording is prohibited and selected
The playing sound of the selected song is played back by the playing means, and the fourth process is to select whether or not to record the selected song.
When receiving and recording , the control method is characterized in that the playing sound of the selected song is reproduced by the reproducing means and recorded by the recording means, and is also printed by the label producing means. 8. The recording means records a performance sound and a singing sound in the second record.
The control method according to claim 7 , wherein recording is performed on a recording medium . 9. The label producing means is a label for the second recording medium.
The control method according to claim 8 , wherein a bell is printed . 10. The recording means further stores song data for each song.
In the fourth processing, the music data of the music selected from the recording means is recorded.
The control method according to any one of claims 7 to 9, wherein the control method is output to a label creating means . 11. The song data includes at least a song name and a lyricist
The control method according to claim 10 , wherein the name is one of a name and a composer name . 12. The second recording medium is a recordable compact disc.
The control method according to any one of claims 8 to 11, wherein the control method is a hard disk .