Apparatus for multiplexing an audio signal in a video-song playback system

• US 5,668,339 A
• Filed: 10/26/1995
• Issued: 09/16/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Daewoo Electronics Company Limited (Dayou Holdings Co.,Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Daewoo Electronics Company Limited (Dayou Holdings Co.,Ltd.)
• Inventors: Shin, Jae-Sung
• Primary Examiner(s): Wysocki, Jonathan
• Assistant Examiner(s): FLETCHER, MARLON T
• Application Number:
  US08/548,552
• Time in Patent Office: 691 Days
• Field of Search: 84/617, 84/655, 84/DIG. 27, 84/601, 84/602, 84/609-614, 84/634-638, 84/477 R, 381/61, 381/63, 381/28, 381/118, 381/120, 381/123
• US Class Current: 84/634
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/366 with means for modifying or correcting the external signal, e.g. pitch correction, reverberation, changing a singer's voice
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 84/27 Stereo

Abstract

An apparatus for multiplexing audio signals in a disc-shaped video-song medium which includes a plurality of digital audio channels having stereo accompaniment music recorded therein, and a plurality of analog channels having stereo accompaniment music which includes a singer'"'"'s singing voice, and playback system thereof, are disclosed. When the video-song mode is established, the apparatus for multiplexing the audio signals adjusts the audio levels of both the stereo accompaniment music and the stereo accompaniment music that includes a singer'"'"'s singing voice to adequate audio levels by means of an audio level adjustment responsive to a change in the resistances in the variable resistors included in an audio multiplexing section. The apparatus multiplexes the audio signals. Accordingly, the user can effectively practice a video-song in harmony with either the stereo accompaniment music or the stereo accompaniment music that includes a singer'"'"'s singing voice.

Claims

1. An apparatus for multiplexing an audio signal in a video-song playback system, which comprises:

a digital signal processing section for processing a first stereo accompaniment music read out from an L and an R channels included in digital audio channels of the video-song medium, into digital audio signals, to output a first and a second digital audio signals, the video-song medium having both the digital audio channels with the first stereo accompaniment music recorded therein and analog audio channels with a second stereo accompaniment music that includes a singer'"'"'s singing voice;

an analog signal processing section for processing the second stereo accompaniment music read out from the L and the R channels, included in the analog audio channels of the video-song medium, into analog audio signals, to output the first and the second analog audio signals;

a first switching section for switching over between the first digital audio signal from the digital signal processing section and the first analog audio signal from the analog signal processing section, to output a first switched signal;

a second switching section for switching over between the second digital audio signal from the digital signal processing section and the second analog audio signal from the analog signal processing section, to output a second switched signal;

an audio multiplexing section for adjusting audio levels of the first and second digital audio signals from the digital signal processing section, of the first switched signal from the first switching section and of the second switched signal from the second switching section in an analog mode and a video-song mode, to output a first and a second multiplexed signals;

first and second amplifying sections for amplifying the first and the second multiplexed signals, to output a first and a second amplified signals;

a first mode switching section for switching between the first switched signal from the first switching section and the first amplified signal from the first amplifying section in order to switch between a normal playback mode and a video-song mode, to output a first mode switched signal;

a second mode switching section for switching between the second switched signal from the second switching section and the second amplified signal from the second amplifying section in order to switch between the normal playback mode and the video-song mode, to output a second mode switched signal;

a third amplifying section for amplifying the first mode switched signal from the first mode switching section, to output a third amplified signal;

a fourth amplifying section for amplifying the second mode switched signal from the second mode switching section, to output a fourth amplified signal; and

a control section for sensing whether a selected mode is the normal playback mode or the video-song mode, to control the first and the second switching sections and the first and the second mode switching sections.

2. The apparatus for multiplexing an audio signal in a video-song playback system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the audio multiplexing section includes a variable resistor that has a first and a second variable resistors therein, and one adjusting knob in which the resistances of the first and the second resistors are adjusted by a user in contrast to each other, the first and the second digital audio signals from the digital signal processing section are applied to the first variable resistor and the first and the second switched signals from the first and second switching sections are applied to the second variable resistor when the analog mode and the video-song mode are established so that the audio multiplexing section adjusts the signal levels of the first stereo accompaniment music and of the second stereo accompaniment music that includes a singer'"'"'s singing voice in proportion to resistances of the first and the second variable resistors.

3. An apparatus for multiplexing an audio signal in a video-song playback system, which comprises:

a digital signal processing section for processing a first stereo accompaniment music read out from an L and an R channels included in digital audio channels of the video-song medium into digital audio signals to output first and second digital audio signals, the video-song medium having the digital audio channels with the first stereo accompaniment music recorded therein and analog audio channels with a second stereo accompaniment music that includes a singer'"'"'s singing voice;

an analog signal processing section for processing the second stereo accompaniment music read out from the L and the R channels included in the analog audio channels of the video-song medium into analog audio signals, to output first and a second analog audio signals;

a first switching section for switching over between the first digital audio signal from the digital signal processing section, and the first analog audio signal from the analog signal processing section to output a first switched signal;

a second switching section for switching over between the second digital audio signal from the digital signal processing section and the second analog audio signal from the analog signal processing section, to output a second switched signal;

an audio multiplexing section for adjusting audio levels of the first and second digital audio signals from the digital signal processing section, the first switched signal from the first switching section and the second switched signal from the second switching section, in a digital mode and a video-song mode, to output a first, a second and a third multiplexed signals;

a first and a second amplifying sections for amplifying the first and the second multiplexed signals, to output respectively a first and a second amplified signals;

a first mode switchover section for switching over between the first switched signal from the first switching section and the second amplified signal from the second amplifying section in order to switch over between a normal playback mode and a video-song mode to output a first mode switchover signal, the first mode switchover section switching over from the normal playback mode to the video-song mode when a voice input device is connected to the video-song playback system in order to perform the video-song mode;

a second mode switchover section for switching over between the second switched signal from the second switching section and the first amplified signal from the first amplifying section in order to switch over between the normal playback mode and the video-song mode to output a second mode switchover signal, the second mode switchover section switching over from the normal playback mode to the video-song mode when a voice input device is connected to the video-song playback system in order to perform the video-song mode;

a third amplifying section for amplifying the first mode switchover signal from the first mode switchover section, to output a third amplified signal;

a fourth amplifying section for amplifying the second mode switchover signal from the second mode switchover section, to output a fourth amplified signal;

a third switching section for switching over the first and the second analog audio signals from the analog signal processing section, to output a third switched signal;

a fifth amplifying section for amplifying the third switched signal from the third switching section to output a fifth and a sixth amplified signals, the fifth amplifying section being connected to the third and the fourth amplifying section so that outputs of the fifth and the sixth amplified signals may be inputted to the third and the fourth amplifying sections; and

a control section for sensing whether a selected mode is the normal playback mode or the video-song mode, to control a switching operation of the first and the second switching sections, and for detecting audio levels of the first and the second analog audio signals, which are adjusted by the audio multiplexing section and to control voltage levels of the fifth and the sixth amplified signals from the fifth amplifying section.

4. The apparatus for multiplexing an audio signal in a video-song playback system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the audio multiplexing section includes a variable resistor having a first, a second and a third variable resistors therein and an adjusting knob in which resistances are adjusted by a user in contrast to each other, the first and the second analog signals from the analog signal processing section are applied to the first variable resistor and the first and the second switched signals from the first and the second switching sections are applied to the second variable resistor so that the audio multiplexing section adjusts audio signal levels of both the first stereo accompaniment music and the second stereo accompaniment music that includes a singer'"'"'s singing voice in proportion to the resistances of the first and the second variable resistors when the digital mode and the video-song mode are established.

5. The apparatus for multiplexing an audio signal in a video-song playback system as claimed in claim 4, wherein when the control section detects by the third multiplexed signal from the third variable resistor included in the audio multiplexing section, that the resistance of the first variable resistor is adjusted to its maximum value, the control section applies a control signal to the fifth amplifying section so that the audio levels of the fifth and the sixth amplified signals from the fifth amplifying section are decreased.