JPH07261776A - Video playback device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] To provide a video reproducing apparatus in which reproduction can be individually prohibited within a set genre and only a video which is requested by a user is reproduced. [Structure] When a genre for which reproduction is prohibited is specified by operating the lock key, the enter key, etc., the state column in the lock setting table is set to lock for the prohibited genre. In the background image designation process, a genre corresponding to the music data is extracted (S441), and a genre is appropriately selected from the candidate genres (S443). Then, it is determined whether or not the genre is the lock designated genre (S445), and if the genre is locked, the genre is selected again. If it is not in the locked state, the channel corresponding to the selected genre is set. In this way, even if the genre is set corresponding to the music, the locked genre is not selected as the background image, so that the video of the prohibited genre is not reproduced.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a video reproducing apparatus for reproducing background video of a karaoke system, for example, and a video reproducing apparatus capable of reproducing a desired video in response to a request.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for example, in a video karaoke apparatus, a video disk or the like in which video data, contents of lyrics and performance data are stored is reproduced for each song. I needed to prepare a large number of video discs because I needed song data. Then, a large number of these video discs are stored in a dedicated storage case and are exchanged for discs according to a request using an autochanger or the like. Therefore, an area occupied by a dedicated storage case for storing a large number of discs and an automatic changer becomes large, and there has been a demand for downsizing particularly for commercial use.

What has been realized as a proposal of this compactification is to store video data separately from music data and display it as a background image when the music is played. The background image data is often stored on a video disc. For example, one piece contains two types of image data, one for enka and one for pops. It is common.

[0006] In addition to the general classification of genres of enka and pops, genres are often further classified according to the video content of enka. By finely categorizing the genres, you can display the most suitable video that corresponds to the image (content) of the song, or there is a possibility that you will get tired of only the same video all the time, so you can select multiple videos suitable for the song. By displaying them in combination, it is effective to increase the variation of the background image and prevent the user from getting tired.

[0005]

However, there are images that do not match the atmosphere of the place where the image is played, or images that should not be shown depending on the target person. For example, at a wedding party, it is better not to put out a video of a genre that develops with the theme of "farewell". For example, in a situation where a child is watching a video of a genre belonging to so-called adult video. It is better not to put out As described above, depending on various situations, there is an image that should not be displayed for reasons such as not destroying the atmosphere of the place.

In view of the above problems, the present invention makes it possible to individually prohibit the reproduction within the set genre, and reproduce only the video that is requested by the user. It is an object of the present invention to provide a video playback device that has

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The invention as set forth in claim 1 made to achieve the above object is, as shown in the basic configuration diagram of FIG. 1, an image reproduction for reproducing an image in which a genre is set. Means M1 and corresponding genre storage means M2 for storing one or more genres set corresponding to each song.
And a reproduction genre determining unit M3 that determines a reproduction genre corresponding to the selected song based on the genre information stored in the corresponding genre storage unit M2, and a reproduction genre determined by the reproduction genre determining unit M3. A video reproducing apparatus comprising a reproduction control means M4 for instructing the video reproduction means M1 to reproduce the video, and a prohibited genre designating means M5 for designating a genre for which reproduction is prohibited, and the prohibited genre designating means M5. The prohibition genre designated by is provided with a lock means M6 which prohibits the reproduction genre determining means M3 from determining the reproduction genre.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the video reproducing apparatus according to the first aspect, the lock means M6 is
Forbidden genre information storage means for storing, for each genre, information indicating whether or not the genre is designated by the banned genre designating means M5 is provided. Is excluded from the selection candidates for determining the reproduction genre.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the central control device and a plurality of video reproduction terminal devices are connected by a transmission line, and each of the video reproduction terminal devices requests a song to the central control device. A centralized management type video reproduction device capable of reproducing a desired video in response to a request in each of the video reproduction terminal devices by including request means and video reproduction means for reproducing the video transmitted from the central control device. In each of the above video reproduction terminal devices, a prohibited genre designating unit for designating a genre prohibited to be reproduced,
And a prohibited genre information transmitting means for transmitting the prohibited genre information designated by the prohibited genre designating means to the central control device side, wherein the central control device has one or more genres set corresponding to each song. , A prohibited genre information storage unit for storing the prohibited genre information transmitted by the prohibited genre information transmission unit in association with each video reproduction terminal device, and the corresponding genre storage unit And a reproduction genre determining unit that determines a reproduction genre corresponding to the requested song from the selection candidates that are not the prohibited genre based on the genre information stored in the above and the prohibited genre information stored in the prohibited genre information storage unit. , The video data of the determined playback genre to the video playback terminal device that made the above request. A video reproducing apparatus characterized by comprising a transmitting means signal for.

[0010]

According to the video reproducing apparatus of the present invention configured as described above, the corresponding genre storage means M2 stores one or more genres set corresponding to each music, and reproduces the genres. The genre determining means M3 determines the reproduction genre corresponding to the selected song based on the genre information stored in the corresponding genre storing means M2. Then, the reproduction control means M4 instructs the video reproduction means M1 to perform video reproduction in the reproduction genre determined by the reproduction genre determination means M3.

In the video reproducing apparatus which performs such a basic operation, when the genre of which reproduction is prohibited is designated by the prohibited genre designating means M5, the locking genre determining means M3 is designated by the locking means M6.
The determination as the reproduction genre is prohibited. Therefore, the reproduction genre determining means M3 determines the reproduction genre corresponding to the selected song other than the prohibited genre.
The video of the prohibited genre will not be played.

For example, if one of the genres of "farewell" is selected from among the genres of enka, or one of the genres of "farewell" among the genres of pops is designated as a prohibited genre, Then, even if you select a song that also displays the image of the content of "parting", those images are not displayed. Therefore, for example, when it is considered that the atmosphere of the place is destroyed when the image of the content of "farewell" appears at the wedding party, it may be designated as the prohibited genre.

Alternatively, in a place where children are together, among the genres of enka and pops, the genre in which so-called "adult video" is set is also set as a prohibited genre, and You can choose not to display the image.

As a method of applying the lock by the above-mentioned lock means M6, as described in claim 2, the lock means M is used.
In the case where the prohibited genre information storage means included in 6 stores, for each genre, information indicating whether or not the prohibited genre is specified by the prohibited genre specifying means M5, and the prohibited genre is based on the prohibited genre information. May be excluded from the selection candidates for determining the reproduction genre.

A video reproducing apparatus according to a third aspect of the invention is
Centralized control type video playback device, each video playback terminal device connected to the central control device via a transmission line, requests the song to the central control device by request means,
The video transmitted from the central control device in response to the request can be reproduced by the video reproducing means.

At this time, in each video reproduction terminal device,
When the genre of which reproduction is prohibited is designated by the prohibited genre designating means, the prohibited genre information transmitting means transmits the designated prohibited genre information to the central control device side.
On the other hand, the corresponding genre storage means of the central control unit stores one or more genres set corresponding to each song, and the prohibited genre information storage means stores the prohibited genre information transmitted by the prohibited genre information transmission means. Genre information is stored in association with each video reproduction terminal device. Then, the reproduction genre determining unit corresponds to the requested song from the selection candidates that are not the prohibited genres, based on the genre information stored in the corresponding genre storing unit and the prohibited genre information stored in the prohibited genre information storing unit. The reproduction genre is determined, and the transmission means transmits the video data of the determined reproduction genre to the video reproduction terminal device that made the request.

As described above, in the case of the central control type in which the central control unit and the video reproducing terminal unit are connected by the transmission line,
It is conceivable that the central control unit side determines whether or not the genre is a prohibited genre, determines the reproduction genre corresponding to the requested song from the selection candidates that are not the prohibited genre, and transmits it to the terminal device side. In this case, each terminal device side does not judge whether the genre is prohibited or not, and simply sends the request to the central control device side.

It is also conceivable that the terminal device side determines whether the genre is prohibited or not, and if the genre is prohibited, the request is not transmitted to the central control device side. In the case of such a centralized management type, it is also an effective measure to set a prohibited genre in advance on the side of the central control device according to the situation of the installation destination of the terminal device. For example, with respect to the terminal device installed in the place dedicated to the wedding party venue, etc., by setting the video of the genre with the theme of "farewell" as the prohibited genre in advance, the terminal device sets the prohibited genre one by one. It is preferable in that it can be used without concern.

[0019]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An example of a karaoke system in which a center (central control unit) and a large number of karaoke terminal devices are connected by a transmission line will be described below as an embodiment to which the video reproducing apparatus of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the entire system and a center configuration, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration on the karaoke terminal device side. As shown in FIG. 2, the karaoke system 1 includes a center 3 and a plurality of karaoke terminal devices 5 (hereinafter referred to as terminal devices 5) connected by a coaxial cable 7. Here, the terminal device 5 may be provided separately in different buildings, or may be provided for each individual store or box in one building.

Next, the structure of the center 3 will be described with reference to FIG. The center 3 includes a server (control unit) 11 that controls the whole and a storage device 1 that stores karaoke data.
3, center modem 15, background video output device 17a, 1
7b, a BS (satellite broadcast) receiving system 19, a head end 21, and the like.

The server 11 is a well-known CPU 23, RO
The storage device 13 and the input / output interface (I / O) are provided with the M25, the RAM 27, etc. via the bus line 29.
31 and background video output devices (VDP) 17a, 17b and the like. On the other hand, as the storage device 13, a large-capacity storage device such as a hard disk or a magneto-optical disk is used, and karaoke data of about several thousand songs is stored.

Here, the karaoke data is composed of a sync signal, song number data indicating a song number, performance data, data indicating the end (break) of data for one song, and the like.
The performance data includes MIDI standard data, which is data of accompaniment music, and lyrics data displayed on the monitor television of the terminal device 5.

The center modem 15 converts the karaoke data read from the storage device 13, the mode sense polling signal and the request polling signal output from the server 11 into AC signals of a predetermined same channel (that is, a predetermined frequency band). Modulate the headend 21
Is output to. Here, the mode sense polling signal is a signal for confirming the operation mode of the terminal device 5 described later. The request polling signal is a signal for confirming whether or not there is a request for transmitting karaoke data to the terminal device 5.

The background image output devices (video disc players) 17a and 17b output background image information displayed on the monitor television of the karaoke terminal device 5 which will be described later, and in this embodiment, two major types of enka and pops. Not only the classification, but each is also divided into fine genres. To explain Enka in more detail, Enka "farewell",
It is divided into genres such as Enka "Adult", Enka "Winter Scene", Enka "Autumn Scene". Similar genres have been made for pop music.

Then, the background image output devices 17a, 1
7b are each connected to a modulator 33, and image data (standard NTSC video signal) is converted by the modulator 33 into frequency bands of different channels,
The AC signal is output to the head end 21. In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 6 (B), the ensemble “farewell”, the ensemble “adult”, the ensemble “winter scenery”, and the ensemble “autumn scenery” are set for channels 1 to 4, respectively.

The BS receiving system 19 is also provided with a receiving antenna 35, a BS tuner 37 and a modulator 39, and the modulator 39 is connected to the head end 21. The head end 21 is equipped with various devices (not shown) such as a mixer that sends a signal to the coaxial cable. The head end 21 has a modulation signal of karaoke data transmitted from the center modem 15 described above, a mode sense polling signal and a request polling signal, background video signals from the background video output devices 17a and 17b, and a BS reception system 19. A BS broadcast signal is input, a plurality of signals with different channels are multiplexed, output to the coaxial cable 7, and transmitted to each terminal device 5.

Next, the structure of the terminal device 5 will be described with reference to FIG. The terminal device 5 includes a control unit 4 that controls the entire device.
1, input device 43, sound source 45, amplifier 47, speaker 4
9, video composition circuit 51, monitor TV 53, center 3
A terminal modem 57 and a video tuner 59 for receiving and processing signals from

The control unit 41 includes a CPU 61, a ROM 63,
The RAM 65 and the like are provided, and are connected to the input device 43, the sound source 45, the input / output interface 69, the video synthesizing circuit 51, and the like via the bus line 67. The input device 43 is
It is provided with various key switches for the user to operate the terminal, a ten key 43a for inputting the song number of the requested song, and a mode key 4 for selecting various operation modes.
3b, a power switch 43c for turning the power on and off, a lock key 43d for entering a lock designation process described later,
The enter key 43e and the like are provided. Here, the operation mode of the terminal device 5 is a “karaoke mode” in which karaoke data transmitted from the center 3 is received and a karaoke performance is performed.
Alternatively, there are a plurality of modes such as a “BS mode” in which a BS broadcast signal from the center 3 is received to watch a BS broadcast. In addition, in this terminal device 5, up to a predetermined song can be reserved,
The request input by the input device 43 is the RAM 6
5 is stored in the reservation table.

The RAM 65 also stores a lock setting table (see FIG. 6B) and a song number-genre table (see FIG. 6C) described later. The sound source (synthesizer sound source) 45 converts the MIDI data included in the karaoke data into an analog karaoke accompaniment voice signal, and this voice signal is input to the amplifier 47. The amplifier 47 mixes and amplifies this karaoke accompaniment voice signal and the singing voice signal from the microphone 71 by the singer, and outputs it to the speaker 49.

The video composition circuit 51 converts the lyrics data included in the karaoke data into a lyrics video signal, and
This is combined (superimposed) with the background video signal input from the video tuner 59, and the monitor television 53
Output to. The terminal modem 57 receives and demodulates a karaoke data signal, a mode sense polling signal, a request polling signal, etc. transmitted from the center 3 via the coaxial cable 7, and at the same time, outputs a mode response signal or a request from the controller 41. The response signal or the like is modulated and transmitted to the center 3. Here, the mode response signal is a signal for replying to the center 3 the current operation mode of its own in response to the mode sense polling signal from the center 3. Also, the request polling signal is the same as that of the center 3
It is a signal for replying to the center whether or not there is a request for a tune (that is, a request for transmitting karaoke data) in response to a request polling signal from.

The video tuner 59 also receives the background video signal output from the background video output devices 17a and 17b of the center 3 and the BS broadcast signal from the BS receiving system, and selects a channel to obtain a desired video signal. It is a thing. That is, if the "karaoke mode" is specified as the operation mode by the mode key 43b of the input device 43, the background video signal channel is selected, and if the "BS mode" is specified, the BS broadcast signal channel is selected. Is selected.

Next, the operation of the karaoke terminal device 5 will be described. First, the main processing will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, it is determined whether or not there is a reserved song (step 100: the step is hereinafter abbreviated as S). This is determined by whether or not the reserved music is stored in the reserved table of the RAM 65 of the control unit 41. If there is a reserved tune, performance processing is performed (S40
0), and returns to S100. On the other hand, if there is no reserved song,
It is determined whether it is locked (S200). This is determined by whether or not the lock key 43d (see FIG. 3) of the input device 43 is pressed. If the lock key 43d is not pressed, the process directly returns to S100. If the lock key 43d is pressed, the lock designation process (S300) is performed and then the process returns to S100.

Next, the lock designation process (S300) will be described with reference to FIG. When the lock designation process is started, first, a menu is displayed on the monitor television 53 (S310). This menu screen is shown in FIG.
The numbers of all the set genres and their contents are displayed. At the same time, a sentence prompting the user to select a genre not used for the background image is displayed.

Then, it is judged whether or not there is a key input (S320), and if there is a key input (S320: YE
S), it is determined whether or not the key input is a command for confirmation (S330), and in the case of confirmation, the process ends as it is. Whether or not this is the end is determined by whether or not the confirm key 63e is pressed.

If it is not finished, the status column in the lock setting table (see FIG. 6B) is set to lock for the genre of the number corresponding to the pressed key number (S340), The process returns to S320 and the processes from S320 onward are repeated. For example, if you want to lock the genres of (enka "farewell") and (enka "adult"), if you press the enter key 43e (see FIG. 3) after specifying them, an affirmative decision is made in S330, and the genre And are set to the locked state and the process ends. Figure 6
(B) shows the state after the setting.

Next, the performance process of S400 in FIG. 4 will be described with reference to FIG. First, the music number is acquired (S410), and the center 3 is requested to transmit the music data corresponding to the music number (S420). Then, after acquiring the song data sent from the center 3 side, background image designation processing is performed (S440). This background image designation processing will be described later.

Then, the performance data and the lyrics data are set in the memory based on the acquired music data (S45).
0), start playing (S460). This performance processing will be described. Karaoke data once stored in the RAM 65 is read out, and the lyrics data is input to the video synthesizing circuit 51 to be converted into a lyrics video signal. Also, the video composition circuit 5
A background video signal whose channel is selected by the video tuner 59 is also input to 1. Then, the background image information and the lyrics image signal are combined (superimposed) by the image combining circuit 51, and the character string of the lyrics is superimposed and displayed on the background image on the monitor television 53.

On the other hand, the MIDI data included in the read karaoke data is converted into an accompaniment voice signal by the sound source 45 and input to the amplifier 47. The accompaniment voice signal is mixed with the singing voice signal from the microphone 71 by the singer, amplified as appropriate, and output from the speaker 49.

When the performance is completed (S470: YE
S) This process ends. Next, the background image designation processing in S440 will be described with reference to FIG. First, the genre of the song data is extracted based on the song data (S4
41), the genre is appropriately selected from the candidate genres (S443). Figure 6 shows the genre of song data
As shown in (C), it is stored in the song number-genre table. For example, with regard to the song number 1, three categories, genre, and so on, are set as those suitable for the content of the song. Therefore, in S443, an appropriate selection is made from the three genres.

Then, it is judged whether or not the genre is the lock designated genre (S445). For example, when the genre is selected in S443, referring to the lock setting table in FIG.
An affirmative decision is made in S445, and the flow returns to S443 again to select again. Then, this time, when the genre is selected, referring to the lock setting table in FIG. 6B, the lock state is not set (it is set to “OK”), so S
A negative determination is made in 445, the flow proceeds to S447, and the channel corresponding to the selected genre (in this case) is set.

As described above, even if the genre is set to correspond to the music, the genre set to the locked state is not selected as the background image. Since the genres “” and “adult” are locked, it is possible to prevent the image of the content “farewell” from appearing at a wedding party, for example. Further, it is possible to prevent the "adult" image from being displayed in a place where children are together.

In the selection in S443, it is advisable to perform a process of once excluding the one which is once determined to be the lock designation genre in S445 from the candidates for selecting in S443 again. As described above, in the karaoke system 1 of the present embodiment, by designating the genre of the video for which reproduction is prohibited, the prohibition genre can be prevented from being reproduced. For example, if one of the genres with the theme of "farewell" among the genres of enka or the genre with the theme of "farewell" among the genres of pops is designated as a prohibited genre, Even if you select a song for which a video with the content of "parting" is also displayed, those videos are not displayed. Therefore, for example, when it is considered that the atmosphere of the place is destroyed when the image of the content of "farewell" appears at the wedding party, it may be designated as the prohibited genre. Or, in a place where children are together, among the multiple genres of enka and pops, the genre in which so-called "adult video" is set is displayed as a prohibited genre as well. You can prevent it.

As described above, the reproduction can be prohibited even within the set genre, and only the video which meets the user's request can be reproduced.
Although the embodiments have been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments and can be implemented in various modes.

For example, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the so-called centralized control type karaoke system in which the center 3 and the terminal device 5 are connected by the coaxial cable has been described. The same can be applied to a type in which a background image corresponding to a song is read out from the disc and reproduced. Further, in the case of the above embodiment, whether or not the terminal device 5 side is the locked genre is determined by the centralized management type. However, for example, depending on the situation of the installation destination of the terminal device 5, the center 3 side It is also effective to set the genre to be locked in advance. For example, with respect to the terminal device 5 installed in a place dedicated to the above-mentioned wedding party venue, by setting the video of the genre with the theme of “farewell” in a locked state in advance, the terminal device 5 side can reproduce the images one by one. It is preferable in that the user can use the genre without having to worry about setting it.

The present invention is not limited to the karaoke system described above, and can be similarly applied to the case where only a video is played as BGV.

[0047]

As described above in detail, according to the video reproducing apparatus of the present invention, the reproduction can be prohibited even in the set genre. For example, if the image of "farewell" appears at a wedding party and the atmosphere on the spot is destroyed, it is not displayed if it is designated as a prohibited genre. Or, in a place where children are together, among the multiple genres of enka and pops, the genre in which so-called "adult video" is set is displayed as a prohibited genre as well. You can prevent it. In this way, it is possible to reproduce only the video that meets the user's request.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram illustrating a basic configuration of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an entire karaoke system of the present embodiment and a configuration of a center.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a karaoke terminal device of this embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing main processing in the karaoke terminal device of the present embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a lock designation process in the karaoke terminal device of the present embodiment.

6A is an explanatory diagram showing a menu screen in the lock designation process, FIG. 6B is an explanatory diagram showing a lock setting table, and FIG. 6C is an explanatory diagram showing a music number-genre table.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a performance process in the karaoke terminal device of the present embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a background image designation process in the karaoke terminal device of the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

M1 ... Video reproduction means, M2 ... Corresponding genre storage means, M3 ... Reproduction genre determination means, M4
... reproduction control means, M5 ... prohibited genre designating means,
M6 ... Lock means, 1 ... Karaoke system, 3 ... Center, 5 ... Karaoke terminal device, 7 ... Coaxial cable, 11 ... Server, 13 ... Storage device,
17a ... Background image output device, 19 ... BS reception system, 33, 39 ... Modulator, 41 ... Control unit,
43 ... Input device, 43a ... Numeric keypad, 43
b ... mode key, 43c ... power switch, 43d ... lock key, 43e ... enter key, 51 ... video synthesizing circuit, 53 ... monitor TV, 59 ... video tuner

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Kazunori Igami 15-1 Naesehiro-cho, Mizuho-ku, Aichi Prefecture Nagoya, Japan Brother Industries, Ltd. (72) Inventor Hasegawa, Yukie 6-104, Sakurayama-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya Banchi Co., Ltd.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A video reproduction means for reproducing a video in which a genre is set, a corresponding genre storage means for storing one or more genres set corresponding to each music, and the corresponding genre storage means. Playback genre determining means for determining a playback genre corresponding to the selected song based on the stored genre information, and commanding the video playback means to perform video playback in the playback genre determined by the playback genre determining means. A video reproducing apparatus comprising reproduction control means, wherein the prohibited genre designating means for designating a genre for which reproduction is prohibited, and the prohibited genre designated by the prohibited genre designating means are A video reproducing apparatus, comprising: a lock unit that prohibits the determination of a reproduction genre. 2. The video reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the lock means stores, for each genre, information as to whether or not the lock genre is a prohibited genre designated by the prohibited genre designation means. Equipped with genre information storage means,
A video reproducing apparatus characterized by excluding from the selection candidates for determining the reproduction genre, when the reproduction genre is prohibited, based on the prohibition genre information. 3. A central control device and a plurality of video reproduction terminal devices are connected by a transmission line, each of the video reproduction terminal devices requesting a song to the central control device, and the central control device. In the centralized management type video reproducing device capable of reproducing a desired video in response to a request in each of the video reproducing terminal devices, by providing the video reproducing means for reproducing the video transmitted from the device, The device includes a prohibited genre designating unit for designating a genre for which reproduction is prohibited, and a prohibited genre information transmitting unit for transmitting the prohibited genre information designated by the prohibited genre designating unit to the central control unit side. The central control unit includes a corresponding genre storage unit that stores one or more genres set corresponding to each song, and the prohibited genre. Prohibited genre information storage means for storing the prohibited genre information transmitted by the information transmission means in association with each video reproduction terminal device, genre information stored in the corresponding genre storage means, and the prohibited genre information storage means Playback genre determining means for determining a playback genre corresponding to the requested song from the selection candidates that are not forbidden genres based on the prohibited genre information stored in, and requesting the video data of the determined playback genre. A video reproducing apparatus, comprising: a transmitting means for transmitting the video reproducing terminal device to the existing video reproducing terminal apparatus.