JPH08292780A - Karaoke device usable for enjoying movie - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To use a device for both KARAOKE performance and enjoying movie and to simplify an operation by switching a function for a movie to the one for the KARAOKE performance by pressing a button. CONSTITUTION: When the button K of ten keys is depressed for the KARAOKE performance and a KARAOKE charge is thrown in a charge box, a money reception detection signal is sent to a pulse generation circuit 24, and the pulse generation circuit 24 receives the money reception detection signal, and generates a driving pulse P. Also, a charge decoder 23 controls a voice selector 26 corresponding to the signal of the button K, and a speech synthesizer 20 is selected. While, when a button M is depressed for enjoying movie and a movie charge is thrown in the charge box, the money reception detection signal is sent to the pulse generation circuit 24, and the pulse generation circuit 24 receives the money reception detection signal, and generates the driving pulse P. Also, the charge decoder 23 controls the voice selector 26 corresponding to the signal of the button M, and a voice processing part 19 for movie is selected.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a karaoke device which allows a user to watch a movie on the karaoke device by switching.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to view a karaoke screen and a movie watching video on the same television, a karaoke apparatus and a video reproducing apparatus are simply connected and connected to the television.

[0003]

In the past, it was troublesome to perform operations such as channel matching for karaoke performance and television viewing. In addition, there is a drawback that a coin box for charging a charge is separately required, which is bulky and increases the manufacturing cost. Since the movie video is played by the video player, there is a problem that the device becomes large and takes up a lot of space.

[0004]

According to the present invention, the karaoke charge detection signal or the detection signal from the movie charge detection circuit is alternatively controlled by a selection signal generated by operating the karaoke / movie button. A charge selection circuit is provided for selection. The pulse generation circuit is operated by the detection signal selected by the charge selection circuit, and a movie storage device composed of video and audio is provided side by side with the video storage device of Laoque. The background video data and the video and audio data read from the movie storage device are mixed by a mixer and sent to a distributor via a distribution cable. This distributor is controlled by the selection signal to selectively select the background video signal or the video and audio data, send the selected one to the video / audio separator, and display the separated movie video data on the video display device. And send the separated audio data and the synthesized signal to the audio selector, and control this audio selector by the selection signal to selectively select the audio data or the synthetic signal of the movie and broadcast from the speaker. To do. Since the two functions of movie and karaoke are switched with the button, the operation becomes easy. Change the coin box charge setting at the same time during karaoke operation and movie performance operation.

[0005]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. FIG.
Now, a karaoke device capable of watching a movie according to the present invention will be described. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an entire system of a karaoke apparatus capable of watching a movie. In this embodiment, a case where the device is installed in a hotel will be described. Video data supply equipment is installed in the central control room, and karaoke devices are installed in rooms A, B, C, ... The equipment for supplying video data is a laser disk (LD) 1 for background images and a laser disk (L) for movies used during karaoke.
D) 2, which are constantly played by a laser player.

Laser disk (LD) 1 for background image
In order to support a large number of karaoke songs, a plurality of 49 channels for providing various images are prepared, and one or two laser discs (LD) 2 for movies are prepared. Only the video signal is stored in the laser disk (LD) 1 for the background image, and the video signal and the audio signal are stored in the laser disk (LD) 2 for the movie. The video signal from the laser disk (LD) 1 is modulated by the video modulator 3,
It is constantly sent to the mixer 5 via the video cable 7. Similarly, the video signal and the audio signal from the laser disk (LD) 2 are modulated by the video modulator 4, and are constantly sent to the mixer 5 via the cable 8. In the mixer 5, the mixed signal is distributed to the wiring L of the cable. Delivery to near the guest room by wiring L
A distributor 6 is provided at the tip of the.

Video and audio signals are sent from the distributor 6 to each room by a short cable or the like. The same type of karaoke equipment is installed in each guest room. Example rooms A, B, C
Since both are the same type of karaoke apparatus, the room A will be described as an example. The karaoke device is a video display device 15 such as a CRT, left and right speakers 14, a karaoke terminal 16, and a fee receiver 1.
And 3. In FIG. 2, the karaoke device of FIG. 1 will be described in detail.

The ten-key switch 10 is provided with a karaoke button K and a movie button M in addition to the usual numeric keys. The signals of these buttons M and K are the video decoder 22.
Is sent to the charge decoder 23. The charge decoder 23 controls the charge selection circuit 25 in response to the signals of the buttons M and K to selectively select the charge detection circuit 29 and the detection circuit 30 provided in the charge receiver 13. Detection circuit 29, 3
0 detects a coin or a bill and outputs a deposit detection signal, and the deposit detection signal is sent to the pulse generation circuit 24.
The pulse generation circuit 24 receives the deposit detection signal and generates a drive pulse P.

Further, the video decoder 22 controls the distributor 6 according to the signals of the buttons M and K to selectively select the karaoke video channel or the movie channel.
The signal from the distributor 6 is the separation circuit 1 of the karaoke terminal 16.
At 1, the video signal and the audio signal are separated, and the video signal is sent to the video processing unit 12 and the audio signal is sent to the audio processing unit 19.

The karaoke terminal 16 includes a ten-key switch 10 on the surface of the device, a CPU 27, a music storage device 9 for storing thousands of karaoke songs, and other circuits therein. The music storage device 9 is composed of a hard disk having a capacity of 500 MB or the like and stores music data of about 10,000 songs together with song titles and lyrics data to form a music database.

When the requested song number is input from the ten-key switch 10, the CPU 27 reads the song signal and the lyrics data corresponding to the song number from the music storage device 9. The music storage device 9 is a hard disk or a laser disk (LD).
And the like, and stores the karaoke database, and the music signal read from the karaoke database is reproduced by the MIDI reproducing device 18 and sent to the voice synthesizing circuit 20.

The voice synthesizing circuit 20 synthesizes the singing voice signal from the microphone 18 and the music signal from the MIDI reproducing device 18, and the voice signal is sent to the speaker 14 via the voice selector 26 and broadcast / played. The song title and the lyrics data read from the music storage device 9 are patterned by the character generation circuit 17, and the lyrics are sent to the video composition circuit 21 as a telop. The video synthesizing circuit 21 synthesizes the telop signal from the character generating circuit 17 and the background video signal from the video processing unit 12, and sends the synthesized signal to the image display device 15 for display. The charge decoder 23 also controls the voice selector 26 in response to the signals of the buttons M and K to selectively select the voice processing unit 19 and the voice synthesizer 20. CPU2
7 receives music data from the outside via the modem 31,
It may be stored in the music storage device 9.

Next, the operation will be described in detail. When the button K is pressed to play a karaoke song, the fee decoder 23 first controls the fee selection circuit 25 in response to the signals from these buttons K to selectively select the fee detection circuit 29. When the karaoke fee of 500 yen is inserted into the fee box 13, the detection circuit 29 detects a coin of 500 yen and outputs a deposit detection signal. The deposit detection signal is sent to the pulse generation circuit 24, and the pulse generation circuit 24 receives the deposit detection signal,
The drive pulse P is generated. The charge decoder 23 also controls the voice selector 26 in response to the signal of the button K so that the voice synthesizer 20 is selected.

The drive pulse P causes the voltage divider 6 and the CPU 2
7, the video processor 12, and the MIDI reproduction circuit 18 are activated. Next, the video decoder 22 controls the distributor 6 according to the signal of the button K, and the distributor 6 selects the karaoke channel. When the requested song number is input from the ten-key switch 10, the CPU 27 reads the MIDI song signal, song name, and lyrics data corresponding to the song number from the music storage device 9. The music signal is reproduced by the MIDI reproducing device 18 and sent to the voice synthesizing circuit 20. Since the voice selecting circuit 26 selects the voice synthesizing circuit 20, the singing voice signal from the microphone 18 synthesized by the voice synthesizing circuit 20 and the music signal from the MIDI reproducing device 18 are broadcast / played from the speaker 14. It

On the other hand, the background video signal from the distributor 6 is
The separation circuit 11 separates the video signal and the audio signal, but in the case of karaoke, since only the video signal is present, the background video signal is sent to the video processing unit 12. Further, the song title and the lyrics data read from the music storage device 9 are patterned by the character generation circuit 17, and the lyrics are sent to the video synthesis circuit 21 as a telop. In the video synthesizing circuit 21, the telop signal from the character generating circuit 17 and the background video signal from the video processing unit 12 are synthesized and sent to the image display device 15.
indicate. The customer in the room A can sing a song into the microphone along with the music played from the speaker 14 while watching the lyrics telop and the image on the image display device 15.

Next, when the button M is pressed to watch a movie, the charge decoder 23 first controls the charge selection circuit 25 according to the signal of the button M to select the charge detection circuit 30. When a movie fee of 1000 yen is inserted into the fee box 13, the detection circuit 30 detects a bill of 1000 yen and outputs a deposit detection signal. The deposit detection signal is the pulse generation circuit 24.
The pulse generation circuit 24 receives the deposit detection signal and generates the drive pulse P. The charge decoder 23 also controls the voice selector 26 in response to the signal of the button M,
The movie audio processing unit 19 is selected.

By the drive pulse P, the distributor 6 and the CPU 2
7, the video processor 12, and the audio processor 19 are activated. Next, the video decoder 22 controls the distributor 6 according to the signal of the button M, and the distributor 6 selects the movie channel. The video signal and sound of the movie from the distributor 6 are
The separation circuit 11 separates the video signal into the audio signal, the audio signal into the audio processing unit 19, and the video signal into the video processing unit 12.
Sent to each. The audio processing unit 19 reproduces the audio of the movie and broadcasts it from the speaker 14 via the audio selector 26. Since the telop signal is not input to the video synthesizing circuit 21, the video signal of the movie from the video processing unit 12 is directly sent to the image display device 15 and displayed. room
A customer is watching the movie on the video display device 15,
You can listen to conversations, music, and sound effects from the speaker 14.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention, both karaoke performance and movie viewing can be utilized.
Each device such as a monitor TV, an amplifier, a speaker, and a coin box can be shared, and the cost is reduced as a whole. The installation space for karaoke and movie receivers can be small. You can switch between using karaoke and watching a movie with the touch of a button, which makes the operation easier.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a karaoke device capable of watching a movie according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a main part of a karaoke device capable of watching a movie according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1, 2 Laser disk (LD) 3, 4 Video modulator 5 Mixer 6 Distributor 7, 8 Cable 9 Music storage device 10 Numeric switch 10 Separation circuit 12 Video processing unit 13 Charge receiver 14 Speaker 15 Video display device 16 Karaoke Terminal 18 MIDI playback device 19 Audio processing unit 22 Video decoder 23 Charge decoder 24 Pulse generation circuit 25 Charge selection circuit 26 Voice selector 27 CPU 28 Microphone 29, 30 Detection circuit K Karaoke button M Movie button

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A music reproducing circuit for reproducing music data read from a music storage device, comprising a detecting circuit for detecting an amount of money paid, generating a detection signal to operate a pulse generating circuit, and starting each of the following circuits: And the singing voice input from the microphone
A character pattern generated by synthesizing by a voice synthesizer to generate a synthesized signal and broadcast from a speaker, and reading the lyrics data from the music storage device by a character generation circuit and background image data read from a separately provided video storage device In a karaoke device which is synthesized by a synthesizer and is displayed on a video display device, a karaoke / movie button for generating a selection signal is provided, and the detection signal or a detection from a movie fee detection circuit provided in parallel with the detection circuit is performed. A charge selection circuit for selectively selecting the signal and the generated selection signal, and operating the pulse generation circuit by the detection signal selected by the charge selection circuit, A movie storage device composed of video and audio is provided side by side, and the background video data and the video read from the movie storage device and Mixing the voice data in the mixer,
It is sent to a distributor via a distribution cable, the distributor is controlled by the selection signal to selectively select the background video signal or the video and audio data, and the selected one is used as a video / audio separator. The sent and separated video data is displayed on the video display device, the separated audio data and the synthesized voice signal are sent to an audio selector, and the audio selector is controlled by the selection signal, A karaoke apparatus capable of watching a movie, characterized in that audio data or the synthesized signal is selectively selected and broadcast from the speaker.