Apparatus for giving marks on user's singing ability in karaoke

• US 5,565,639 A
• Filed: 06/30/1994
• Issued: 10/15/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Daewoo Electronics (Government of South Korea)
• Original Assignee: Daewoo Electronics (Government of South Korea)
• Inventors: Bae, Moo H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Witkowski, Stanley J.
• Application Number:
  US08/269,383
• Time in Patent Office: 838 Days
• Field of Search: 84/601, 84/602, 84/609-615, 84/634-638, 84/477 R, 84/478
• US Class Current: 84/477.00R
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 15/00 Teaching music metronomes G04F5/02
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2250/135 Autocorrelation

Abstract

An apparatus for giving marks on user'"'"'s singing ability in karaoke system uses a cross-correlator. The cross-correlator gives marks on singing ability on the basis of the similarity order between accompaniment signals of karaoke system and user'"'"'s singing voice signals. The karaoke system can give marks of user'"'"'s singing ability in consideration of rhythms and musical intervals, and so on, by using the apparatus.

Claims

1. An apperatus for giving marks on a user'"'"'s singing ability in a karaoke system comprising:

a first A/D converter for converting first analog signals produced in a karaoke accompaniment signal source into first digital signals;

a first digital filter for filtering first passband signals among said first digital signals;

an amplifier for amplifying second analog signals produced in a microphone voice signals source;

a second A/D converter for converting the amplified second analog signals into second digital signals;

a second digital filter for filtering second passband signals among said second digital signals;

a cross-correlator for operating the first passband signals and said second passband signals in cross-correlation mode to produce a correlated signal;

a first mean producing part for producing first mean signals from said first correlated signal;

a first auto-correlator for operating said first passband signals in an auto-correlation mode to produce first auto-correlated signals;

a second auto-correlator for operating said second passband signals in an auto-correlation mode to produce second auto-correlated signals;

a second mean producing part for producing second mean signals from said second auto-correlated signals;

a third mean producing part for producing third mean signals from said cross-correlated signals; and

a normalizer for normalizing said first mean signals and, said second mean signals and third mean signals to produce a signal for giving marks.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said correlated signals expressed as /Rxy(r) outputted from said cross-correlator is obtained by following equation;

##EQU2## Wherein, t denotes a time, r denotes a delayed time from time t, X(t) denotes a value of said first passband signals at time t, Y(t+r) denotes a value of said second passband signal at tiem t+r, E denotes an expectation operator, and /X(t) denote a Hilbert transform pair of X(t).