JP6274063B2 - Karaoke system, karaoke equipment, program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a karaoke system having a function of displaying an evaluation result of singing in karaoke.

  Patent Document 1 describes a karaoke apparatus having a function of displaying an evaluation result of one's own singing and an evaluation result of another person's singing in a manner capable of being compared when performing singing practice.

JP 2010-60630 A

  When participating in karaoke in a group, for participants who are not confident in singing, the evaluation result of their singing and the evaluation result of other people's singing are displayed in a comparable manner, so that There is a problem that it is embarrassing to see other participants that the evaluation result is low. This problem is particularly noticeable when compared to the evaluation results of other participants in the same group. However, while it is embarrassing to see other people's low evaluation results, it is thought that there is a desire to see positively the parts with good evaluation. In addition, even if other participants are together, there may be a desire to check the evaluation result of their own song accurately.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above problems. The objective of this invention is providing the technique for displaying the evaluation result of a song in the aspect which considered the emotion of the song person regarding the skill of a song.

  The karaoke system of the present invention includes storage means, acquisition means, performance means, evaluation means, comparison means, and display control means. The storage unit associates singing evaluation information representing an evaluation result of singing by a user for each of a plurality of evaluation items, music identification information for identifying the sung music, and user identification information for identifying the user. Remember. The acquisition unit acquires, from the storage unit, the song identification information of the song designated as the performance target and the song evaluation information corresponding to the user identification information of the user who is logged in as a participant in the group.

  The performance means plays the musical piece to be played. An evaluation means evaluates the song performed by the singer according to the music performed by the performance means for every some evaluation item. The comparison means compares the superiority or inferiority of the evaluation result of the singer obtained by the evaluation means with the evaluation result of the user other than the singer acquired by the acquisition means for each corresponding evaluation item.

  The display control means is predetermined based on the result of the comparison by the comparison means in an aspect in which the evaluation result of the singer is excellent and the evaluation result of the singer related to the evaluation item can be compared with the evaluation result of other users. Is displayed on the display means. On the other hand, a display control means does not display the evaluation result of a singer regarding the evaluation item, and the evaluation result of another user together about the evaluation item with a poor evaluation result of the singer.

  According to the present invention, the evaluation result of the singing by the singer can be displayed together with the evaluation result of the singer and the evaluation result of the other participants for the evaluation items that are superior to the evaluation result of the singing of other participants. . On the other hand, about the evaluation item in which the evaluation result of the song by a singer is inferior to the evaluation result of the singing of another participant, neither evaluation result of the singer or the other participant is displayed. By doing so, the state in which the evaluation result of the singer is displayed lower than the evaluation result of the other participants is not seen by other participants, and the singer does not have to feel embarrassed. Can be realized.

  As a countermeasure when the evaluation result of the singer is lower than that of other participants for all evaluation items, it is preferable to configure as described in claim 2. That is, if the result of comparison by the comparison means is that the evaluation result of the singer is inferior for all evaluation items, the display control means causes the display means to display only the evaluation result of the singer regarding each evaluation item, and other participants The evaluation result is not displayed. In this way, the singer can confirm his / her evaluation result while preventing the other participant from seeing that the evaluation result of the singer is lower than the evaluation result of the other participant. it can.

  By the way, if the evaluation results corresponding to some of the evaluation items are not displayed, it becomes obvious that the evaluation result of the singer is inferior when it is clearly understood that the evaluation results are omitted from the display. May be noticed by other participants. Therefore, it is preferable to configure as described in claim 3. That is, the display control means is based on the premise that the evaluation results of the singers regarding the plurality of evaluation items and the evaluation items of other users are displayed side by side in a predetermined order for each evaluation item. When the display control means does not display the evaluation results for some evaluation items, the display control means displays the evaluation results for the evaluation items in the rearrangement order in a vacant space corresponding to the evaluation items not to be displayed.

  By doing in this way, even if it is a case where the evaluation result corresponding to some evaluation items of a plurality of evaluation items is not displayed, the space corresponding to the evaluation item which is not displayed does not remain free. For this reason, it is possible to prevent the user from noticing that some evaluation items are not displayed.

  In addition, this invention can also be implement | achieved as a karaoke apparatus which communicates with the server apparatus provided with the memory | storage means to memorize | store a user's song evaluation information, as described in Claim 4. According to the karaoke apparatus of the fourth aspect, the same effect as the karaoke system of the first aspect can be obtained. Moreover, as described in claim 5, the present invention can also be realized as a program executed in a computer or a storage medium for storing the program.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a karaoke system 1. FIG. The flowchart showing the procedure of a scoring result display process. Explanatory drawing showing the example of a display of a scoring result.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In addition, this invention is not limited to the following embodiment, It is possible to implement in various aspects.
[Description of karaoke system configuration]
As shown in FIG. 1, the karaoke system 1 of the embodiment includes a karaoke device 10 and a management server 20 that are communicably connected via a network 100 (for example, the Internet). In FIG. 1, only one karaoke device 10 is illustrated, but a plurality of karaoke devices 10 may be connected to the network 100.

  The karaoke apparatus 10 includes a control unit 11, a communication interface unit 12, a storage unit 13, an operation unit 14, a voice input / output unit 15, and the like. This karaoke apparatus 10 has a function of playing karaoke music requested by the user and a scoring function of evaluating the user's singing for each of a plurality of evaluation items and displaying the scoring result.

  The control unit 11 includes a CPU, a RAM, a ROM, and the like, and controls the operation of the karaoke apparatus 10 by executing various programs. The communication interface unit 12 connects the karaoke apparatus 10 to the network 100 and performs communication via the network 100. The communication interface unit 12 may be connected to the network 100 via wireless communication, or may be connected to the network 100 by wire. The karaoke apparatus 10 communicates with the management server 20 via the network 100.

  The storage unit 13 is a storage device including, for example, a hard disk drive or a nonvolatile semiconductor memory. The storage unit 13 stores a karaoke database in which many pieces of music data for performing karaoke music are registered, and a program for controlling the operation of the karaoke apparatus 10. In the karaoke database, performance data representing accompaniment, singing standard data representing a reference melody of a singing part, and lyric data for displaying lyrics telop are registered for each song as music data.

  The performance data and singing reference data registered in the karaoke database are assumed to be composed of, for example, MIDI (Music Instrument Digital Interface) data. The singing reference data is data representing the pitch to be sung along the accompaniment sound output from the karaoke apparatus 10 according to the performance data. Specifically, the singing reference data is data in which a pitch to be sung is associated with a timing for singing the pitch.

  The operation unit 14 is an input device for inputting an operation from a user. The operation unit 14 includes, for example, a touch panel, a key switch, and the like provided in the main body of the karaoke apparatus 10. The voice input / output unit 15 controls voice input from the microphone 17 and voice output from the speaker 18.

  The karaoke apparatus 10 has a function that allows a plurality of users to log in. The karaoke apparatus 10 performs a predetermined authentication process on the user identification information (user ID) and password input from the user via the operation unit 14. The function that allows the user to log in may be provided in a remote control device (not shown) that can communicate with the karaoke device 10. In this case, the control unit of the remote control device performs a predetermined authentication process for the user ID and password input via the operation unit of the remote control device. Alternatively, the authentication process may be executed by the management server 20. In this case, the user ID and password input via the operation unit 14 of the karaoke device 10 or the operation unit of the remote control device are transmitted to the management server 20. Then, the management server 20 performs an authentication process based on the received user ID and password. In this case, the authentication result is transmitted from the management server 20 to the karaoke device 10 or the remote control device.

  When the authentication is established, the karaoke apparatus 10 registers the authenticated user ID as a login user. When this login is established, the karaoke apparatus 10 executes karaoke services such as performance of karaoke and singing singing in association with the user ID of the login user. Moreover, the karaoke apparatus 10 can perform the login process with respect to each of a plurality of participants in parallel for a group composed of a plurality of participants. Since other functions and configurations of the karaoke apparatus 10 are in accordance with known techniques, detailed description thereof is omitted here.

  The management server 20 includes a control unit 21, a communication interface unit 22, and a storage unit 23. The management server 20 has a function of collecting data on the singing score obtained from the karaoke apparatus 10 and providing information based on the collected data. The control unit 21 includes a CPU, a RAM, a ROM, and the like, and controls the operation of the management server 20 by executing various programs. The communication interface unit 22 connects the management server 20 to the network 100 and performs communication via the network 100. The management server 20 communicates with the karaoke apparatus 10 via the network 100.

  The storage unit 23 is a storage device such as a hard disk drive. The storage unit 23 stores a program for controlling the operation of the management server 20, data used when the program is executed, and the like. The storage unit 23 is provided with a scoring database. In the scoring database, data of a plurality of scoring results uploaded from the karaoke apparatus 10 by loving the network 100 is accumulated. The scoring result data is information representing an analysis result obtained by precisely analyzing the skill level of the singing by the user by the analysis scoring function of the karaoke apparatus 10. In the scoring result data, for example, information obtained by quantifying the results of evaluating a user's singing for each of a plurality of evaluation items such as “rhythm”, “pitch”, “technique”, “stability”, and “degree of singing” Is included. In addition, the analysis scoring method in karaoke is a well-known technique, and detailed description is omitted.

  The karaoke apparatus 10 analyzes the singing voice input at the time of karaoke performance for each of the plurality of evaluation items and associates the score data with the music identification information (music ID) and the user ID in the management server 20. Upload. The management server 20 registers the singing score received from the karaoke apparatus 10 in the scoring database in association with the music ID and the user ID. Thereby, the data of the scoring results of many singers are accumulated in the management server 20.

  When the management server 20 receives the scoring data acquisition request from the karaoke device 10, the management server 20 reads the scoring data corresponding to the music ID and user ID specified in the acquisition request from the scoring database and transmits them to the requesting karaoke device 10. .

[Description of scoring result display processing]
The procedure of the scoring result display process executed by the control unit 11 of the karaoke apparatus 10 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. This process is executed each time the controller 11 executes a musical performance process requested by a user who has logged in to the karaoke apparatus 10.

  In S100, the control part 11 performs an analysis scoring with respect to the song sound input by the singer according to the performance of the music by performance processing. Specifically, the control unit 11 evaluates the singing voice for each evaluation item of “rhythm”, “pitch”, “technique”, “stability”, and “degree of enthusiasm”, and scores each evaluation result. To obtain a grading score.

  In S102, the control unit 11 uploads the singer's scoring result obtained in S100, the song ID of the played song, and the user ID of the singer to the management server 20 in association with each other. The management server 20 stores the scoring result data received from the karaoke apparatus 10 in the scoring database in association with the music ID and the user ID.

  In S104, the control unit 11 stores, in the management server 20, a scoring result when other participants other than the currently logged-in singer sing the same music for the music related to the analysis scoring of S100. It is determined whether or not. Specifically, the control unit 11 inquires of the management server 20 about the presence or absence of a scoring result based on the music ID of the played music and the user IDs of other participants. When scoring results of other participants are not stored for the same music (S104: NO), the control unit 11 proceeds to S116. On the other hand, when the scoring results of other participants are stored for the same music (S104: YES), the control unit 11 proceeds to S106.

  In S <b> 106, the control unit 11 obtains the scoring results of other participants from the management server 20 for the music related to the analysis scoring in S <b> 100. In the next S108, the control unit 11 targets individual evaluation items (rhythm, pitch, technique, stability, etc.) for one of the singer's scoring results and the scoring results of other users acquired in S106. Each score is compared for each degree of enthusiasm.

  In S110, the control unit 11 branches the process according to the score of each evaluation item based on the comparison result in S108. In S110, when the singer's scoring result wins for all evaluation items (S110: all wins), the control unit 11 proceeds to S112. In S112, the control part 11 produces the scoring result image which arranged the scoring result of a singer and the scoring result of the participant of a comparison partner in the aspect which can be compared for every evaluation item about all the evaluation items, and the display 16 To display.

  Here, a display example of the scoring result image in S112 will be described with reference to FIG. As illustrated in FIG. 3A, the scoring result image 30a has a column for placing the singer's scoring results in the upper row, and the scoring results of the comparison partner participants are placed below it. A column is provided. The control unit 11 arranges the scores of all the evaluation items in a horizontal row in the order of rhythm, pitch, technique, stability, and enthusiasm from the left in each scoring result column. By arranging in this way, the singer's scoring result and the comparison partner's scoring result can be compared for each evaluation item by comparing the upper and lower scores.

  Returning to the flowchart of FIG. In S110, when the evaluation item where the singer's scoring result is winning and the evaluation item where the singer's scoring result is losing are mixed (S110: partial loss), the control unit 11 proceeds to S114. In S114, the control part 11 can compare a singer's scoring result and a comparison partner's participant's scoring result for every evaluation item only about the evaluation item which the singer's scoring result wins among all the evaluation items. A scoring image arranged in the form is created and displayed on the display 16. In this case, neither the singer's scoring result nor the comparison partner's scoring result is displayed for the evaluation item whose singer's scoring result is losing.

  Here, a display example of the scoring result image in S114 will be described with reference to FIG. Here, it is assumed that among all evaluation items (rhythm, pitch, technique, stability, enthusiasm), only the evaluation item of the technique loses the singer's scoring result to the comparison partner. As illustrated in FIG. 3B, the scoring result image 30b includes a column for placing the singer's scoring results in the upper row, and a column for placing the scoring results of the comparison partner participants in the lower row. Is provided. The control unit 11 arranges scores in a horizontal row in the order of rhythm, pitch, stability, and enthusiasm from the left for the evaluation items excluding the technique among all the evaluation items in each scoring result column.

  In the scoring result image 30b, since the score corresponding to the evaluation item of the technique is not displayed, the control unit 11 does not leave the space where the score corresponding to the evaluation item of the technique should be arranged, and The score corresponding to the evaluation items of the stability and the enthusiasm is placed left justified (see the broken line portion 30b1). By doing in this way, only about the evaluation item which the singer won, the singer's scoring result and the comparison partner's scoring result can be compared by comparing the upper and lower scores. Further, by filling the space corresponding to the evaluation items that are not displayed and displaying the subsequent evaluation items, it is possible to prevent the user from noticing that some of the evaluation items are not displayed.

  Returning to the flowchart of FIG. In S110, when the singer's scoring result is losing in all the evaluation items (S110: all losses), the control part 11 progresses to S116. In S <b> 116, the control unit 11 creates a scoring result image in which only the singer's scoring results are arranged for all evaluation items, and displays the scoring result image on the display 16.

  Here, a display example of the scoring result image in S116 will be described with reference to FIG. Here, in all evaluation items (rhythm, pitch, technique, sense of stability, degree of enthusiasm), it is assumed that the singer's scoring results are defeated by the comparison partner. In this case, as illustrated in FIG. 3C, the scoring result image 30c is provided with only a column for arranging the singer's scoring results. The comparison partner column (the name and ID of the participant as the comparison partner and the scoring result) is not provided (see the broken line portion 30c1). The control part 11 arranges the score of all the evaluation items side by side in the row of the singer's scoring result in the order of rhythm, pitch, technique, stability, and enthusiasm from the left. By doing in this way, other participants cannot see the state in which the singer's scoring result is inferior to the comparison partner. That is, since the comparison partner column itself is not displayed, the singer is not aware of the state itself that is inferior to the other participants as the comparison partner.

[effect]
The karaoke system 1 according to the embodiment has the following effects.
About the evaluation item whose singer's scoring result is superior to the comparative partner's scoring result, the singer's scoring result and the comparative partner's scoring result can be displayed together in a comparable manner. On the other hand, about the evaluation item whose singer's scoring result is inferior to the comparative partner's scoring result, neither the singer's nor the comparative partner's scoring result can be displayed. Moreover, when a singer's scoring result is inferior to a comparison partner in all the evaluation items, only a singer's scoring result can be displayed.

  By doing so, the singer's scoring result is displayed lower than the comparison partner's scoring result so that other participants can not see the singer's scoring result, so that the singer does not feel embarrassed Display can be realized.

[Modification]
In the above-described embodiment, the case where the management server 20 has a scoring database for accumulating scoring results has been described. Not limited to this, a scoring database may be provided in the storage unit 13 of the karaoke apparatus 10. In this case, the karaoke apparatus 10 stores the singer's scoring results obtained by precision scoring in a scoring database provided in the storage unit 13 of the own karaoke apparatus 10. And the karaoke apparatus 10 acquires the scoring result used as the comparison object with respect to a singer's scoring result from the scoring database of the memory | storage part 13. FIG.

[Correspondence with configuration described in claims]
The correspondence between each configuration of the embodiment and the configuration described in the claims is as follows.
The storage unit 23 corresponds to a storage unit. S100 (control unit 11) in FIG. 2 corresponds to an evaluation unit. S106 (control unit 11) in FIG. 2 corresponds to an acquisition unit. S108 (control unit 11) in FIG. 2 corresponds to a comparison unit. S112, S114, and S116 (control unit 11) in FIG. 2 correspond to display control means.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Karaoke system, 10 ... Karaoke apparatus, 11 ... Control part, 12 ... Communication interface part, 13 ... Memory | storage part, 14 ... Operation part, 15 ... Voice input / output part, 16 ... Display, 17 ... Microphone, 18 ... Speaker, DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 20 ... Management server, 21 ... Control part, 22 ... Communication interface part, 23 ... Memory | storage part, 100 ... Network.

Claims (5)

Memory that stores singing evaluation information that represents an evaluation result of singing by a user for each of a plurality of evaluation items, song identification information that identifies a song that has been sung, and user identification information that identifies the user in association with each other Means,
Obtaining means for acquiring from the storage means song identification information corresponding to the song identification information of a song designated as a performance target and user identification information of a user who is logged in as a participant in a group;
A performance means for performing the performance target music;
Evaluation means for evaluating a singing performed by a singer in accordance with the music played by the performance means for each of the plurality of evaluation items;
Comparison means for comparing the superiority or inferiority of the evaluation result of the singer obtained by the evaluation of the evaluation means and the evaluation result of other users other than the singer acquired by the acquisition means for each corresponding evaluation item; ,
Based on the result of the comparison by the comparison means, for an evaluation item with an excellent evaluation result of the singer, the evaluation result of the singer related to the evaluation item and the evaluation result of the other user can be compared in a predetermined manner. While displaying on the display means, for the evaluation item inferior evaluation result of the singer, the display control means for not displaying both the evaluation result of the singer and the evaluation result of the other user for the evaluation item,
A karaoke system comprising: The karaoke system according to claim 1,
The display control means causes the display means to display the evaluation result of the singer related to each evaluation item when the evaluation result of the singer is inferior for all evaluation items as a result of the comparison by the comparison means. Do not display user evaluation results,
Karaoke system featuring In the karaoke system according to claim 1 or 2,
The display control means displays the evaluation result of the singer related to the plurality of evaluation items and the evaluation items of the other users side by side in a predetermined order for each evaluation item. If you do not want to display the evaluation results for, the evaluation results for the evaluation items in the rearrangement order are displayed in a vacant space corresponding to the evaluation items that you do not want to display,
Karaoke system featuring Memory that stores singing evaluation information that represents an evaluation result of singing by a user for each of a plurality of evaluation items, song identification information that identifies a song that has been sung, and user identification information that identifies the user in association with each other Acquisition means for acquiring song evaluation information corresponding to the user identification information of the user who is logged in as a participant in the music identification information of the music designated as the performance target from the means;
A performance means for performing the performance target music;
Evaluation means for evaluating a singing performed by a singer in accordance with the music played by the performance means for each of the plurality of evaluation items;
Comparison means for comparing the superiority or inferiority of the evaluation result of the singer obtained by the evaluation of the evaluation means and the evaluation result of other users other than the singer acquired by the acquisition means for each corresponding evaluation item; ,
Based on the result of the comparison by the comparison means, for an evaluation item with an excellent evaluation result of the singer, the evaluation result of the singer related to the evaluation item and the evaluation result of the other user can be compared in a predetermined manner. While displaying on the display means, for the evaluation item inferior evaluation result of the singer, the display control means for not displaying both the evaluation result of the singer and the evaluation result of the other user for the evaluation item,
A karaoke apparatus comprising: Memory that stores singing evaluation information that represents an evaluation result of singing by a user for each of a plurality of evaluation items, song identification information that identifies a song that has been sung, and user identification information that identifies the user in association with each other An acquisition procedure for acquiring song evaluation information corresponding to the song identification information of the song designated as the performance target and the user identification information of the user who is logged in as a participant in the group, from the means;
A performance procedure for performing the music to be performed;
An evaluation procedure for evaluating, for each of the plurality of evaluation items, a song performed by a singer in accordance with the music played in the performance procedure,
A comparison procedure for comparing the superiority and inferiority of the evaluation result of the singer obtained in the evaluation procedure and the evaluation result of other users other than the singer acquired in the acquisition procedure for each corresponding evaluation item,
Based on the result of the comparison in the comparison procedure, for the evaluation item with an excellent evaluation result of the singer, the evaluation result of the singer related to the evaluation item and the evaluation result of the other user can be compared in a predetermined manner. While displaying on the display means, for the evaluation item with an inferior evaluation result of the singer, a display control procedure for not displaying both the evaluation result of the singer and the evaluation result of the other user for the evaluation item,
A program that causes a computer to execute.