Music delivery system

• US 20030003431A1
• Filed: 04/19/2002
• Published: 01/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Renesas Technology Corporation (Renesas Electronics Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Maeda, Shigenobu
• Application Number:
  US10/125,471
• Publication Number:
  US 20030003431A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/307A
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 15/00 Teaching music metronomes G04F5/02
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26

Abstract

It is an object to provide a music delivery system capable of delivering a music with which each listener can easily gain sympathy. There are provided a delivery server (1) for storing musical accompaniment data and lyrics data (voice data, that is, text data for a karaoke delivery system) of a plurality of tunes and for delivering the same data on request, and a receiving terminal (2) for giving a request for delivering data to the delivery server (1) and receiving the delivery upon receipt of an instruction from a user. In such a music delivery system, for example, a part of the lyrics data are constituted by a change data block which can be changed and are changed depending on a position of presence of the receiving terminal. For example, a tune of “Woman in Nagoya” is transmitted to a receiving terminal in Nagoya and the “Nagoya” in a title of the “Woman in Nagoya” and lyrics is changed into “Hakata” to be delivered to a receiving terminal in Hakata. The change is carried out according to the position of presence of the receiving terminal (2) and information about an attribute such as a birth place of a user or a taste thereof.

Claims

1. A music delivery system comprising, a delivery server for storing at least one of musical accompaniment data and lyrics data of a plurality of tunes including at least one of a musical accompaniment and lyrics and for delivering said data on request;

and

a receiving terminal for giving a request for delivering at least one of said musical accompaniment data and said lyrics data to said delivery server and receiving said delivery upon receipt of an instruction from a user, wherein,

a part of or all of at least one of said musical accompaniment data and said lyrics data are constituted by a change data block which can be changed and

at least one of said musical accompaniment data and said lyrics data can be thereby changed at said delivery server or said receiving terminal.

2. The music delivery system according to claim 1, wherein

said lyrics data include data on voice singing lyrics.

3. The music delivery system according to claim 1, wherein

said lyrics data include data on text notating lyrics in characters.

4. The music delivery system according to claim 1, wherein

said lyrics of said lyrics data include a portion of a name of a place and said portion is said change data block,

positional information about a position of presence of said receiving terminal is given to said delivery server, and

said delivery server changes said change data block in said lyrics data based on said positional information.

5. The music delivery system according to claim 1, wherein

said lyrics of said lyrics data include a portion related to an attribute or taste of said user and said portion related to said attribute or taste is said change data block,

user information related to said attribute or taste of said user is given to said delivery server, and

said delivery server changes said change data block in said lyrics data based on said user information.

6. The music delivery system according to claim 5, wherein

said user information includes an access record that said user accessed said receiving terminal in the past.

7. The music delivery system according to claim 5, wherein

said change data block includes a plurality of selection choices,

said user information is given to said delivery server in a format of a questionnaire in which said user selects a corresponding keyword, and

said keyword and said selection choice of said change data block are related to each other and said selection choice of said change data block is selected based on said selected keyword.

8. The music delivery system according to claim 5, wherein

said user information is stored in said delivery server, said receiving terminal or other external storage means and said delivery server refers to said user information.

9. The music delivery system according to claim 8, wherein

said user information is given by operation of a personal information terminal owned by said user.

10. The music delivery system according to claim 5, wherein

said user information is enciphered and given to said delivery server.

11. The music delivery system according to claim 1, wherein

at least one of said musical accompaniment data and said lyrics data can be changed by indication of contents of change of said change data block from said user.

12. The music delivery system according to claim 11, wherein

said lyrics of said lyrics data include a portion related to an attribute or taste of said user and said portion related to said attribute or taste is said change data block,

user information related to said attribute or taste of said user is given to said delivery server, and

said delivery server changes said change data block in said lyrics data based on said user information and reference is made to an indication of said contents of change of said change data block carried out in the past by another user having at least a part of said user information coincident with that of an accessing user during said change.

13. The music delivery system according to claim 1, wherein

said receiving terminal can display a video, and

contents of said video are changed based on said change of said change data block.

14. The music delivery system according to claim 1, wherein

said change has a plurality of types,

said delivery server totalizes the number of said deliveries of said tune as the total number of deliveries without depending on presence and type of said change, and furthermore, said number of said deliveries of said tune is totalized as the number of deliveries according to a type for each type of said change, and

said total number of deliveries and said number of deliveries according to a type are delivered to said receiving terminal.

15. The music delivery system according to claim 1, wherein

said change has a plurality of types, and

said delivery server totalizes the number of said deliveries of said tune as the total number of deliveries without depending on presence and type of said change, and furthermore, said total number of deliveries is delivered, to said receiving terminal, as a result of totalization for one of said types of said change.

16. The music delivery system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said musical accompaniment data and said lyrics data are constituted by a plurality of tracks,

each of said tracks corresponds to said change data block, and

said delivery server carries out a delivery on a unit of said track.

17. The music delivery system according to claim 16, wherein accounting for said delivery is carried out depending on the number of said tracks to be delivered.