System for marking a singing voice and displaying a marked result for a karaoke machine

• US 5,395,123 A
• Filed: 07/13/1993
• Issued: 03/07/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Video Center
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Video Center
• Inventors: Kondo, Tadami
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuntz, Curtis
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kelly, Mark D.
• Application Number:
  US08/091,159
• Time in Patent Office: 602 Days
• Field of Search: 84/464 A, 84/464 R, 84/477 R, 84/615, 434/307 A, 273/454
• US Class Current: 273/454
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/361 Recording/reproducing of accompaniment for use with an external source, e.g. karaoke systems
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/091 for performance evaluation, i.e. judging, grading or scoring the musical qualities or faithfulness of a performance, e.g. with respect to pitch, tempo or other timings of a reference performance

Abstract

A system for marking a singing voice and displaying a marked result for a karaoke machine. The system comprises a data storage means, a comparison and marking means, a display means, a control mean. The data storage means stores a standard singing voice data on a basis of which a singing voice of a singer inputted from a microphone is marked. The comparison and marking means compares the singing voice with the standard singing voice data and marks the singing voice. The display means displays a result of a score of the singing voice marked by the comparison and marking means, and has a course which is composed of a series of display units and a goal display. The control means controls the display means. The control means illuminates the display units of the number corresponding to the marked score, also illuminates the goal displays if the marked score reaches a predetermined perfect score, and increases or decreases the number of the illuminating display units by the predetermined and also the marked score according to the increasing or the decreasing number of the illuminating display units if the marked score belongs to a predetermined range of scores.

Claims

1. A system for marking a singing voice and displaying a marked result for a karaoke machine, said system comprising:

data storage means for storing a standard singing voice data on a basis of which a singer'"'"'s singing voice inputted through a microphone when a singer sings is marked,

comparison and marking means for comparing the singer'"'"'s singing voice with the standard singing voice data and marking the singer'"'"'s singing voice every time the singer sings,

score calculation means for calculating a total score marked by the comparison and marking means,

first display means having a course for displaying the total score and a final goal corresponding to a predetermined perfect score, the course composed of a chain of a plurality of display units divided into first and second score sections in which scores ranging from a predetermined minimum score to the predetermined perfect score are displayed, and

means for controlling the first display means in accordance with a first step and a second step, and wherein;

the first step determines which of the first and second score sections the total score belongs and illuminates the display units provided in the determined one of the first and second score sections in a number corresponding to the total score;

the second step changes the total score calculated by the score calculation means to arrive at a changed total score in accordance with a game rule whereby the number of the display units illuminated by the first step may be increased or decreased based on the changed total score; and

the game rule is clarified into three kinds of score sections, namely addition score sections, subtractive score sections and constant score sections, the addition score section in which a predetermined score is added to the total score calculated by the score calculation means if the total score falls within first predetermined ranges, the subtractive score section in which a predetermined score is subtracted from the total score calculated by the score calculation means if the total score falls within second predetermined ranges, and the constant score section in which the total score calculated by the score calculation means is kept constant if the total score falls within third predetermined ranges.

2. The system as claimed in the claim 1, wherein plural kinds of the predetermined scores to be added to or subtracted from the total are provided.

3. The system as claimed in the claim 1, wherein a plurality of the first display means are provided.

4. The system as claimed in the claim 1, wherein second display means is provided, the second display means for displaying a score of the singer'"'"'s singing voice each time the singer'"'"'s singing voice is marked by the comparison and marking means.