Karaoke reproducing apparatus which utilizes data stored on a recording medium to make the apparatus more user friendly
First Claim
1. A karaoke reproducing apparatus which has a recording medium on which at least karaoke playing sounds of a plurality of music pieces have been recorded and which reproduces a playing sound of a selected music piece of said plurality of music pieces by playing the recording medium, wherein said apparatus comprises:
- memory means for storing music piece classification information of each of said plurality of music pieces recorded on said recording medium wherein said music piece classification information represents at least one characteristic of each of said plurality of music pieces;
instructing means for generating an item content selection command to designate contents of at least one item of a plurality of different items included in said music piece classification information in accordance with selection operation; and
searching means for searching for a music piece corresponding to the contents of said at least one item indicated by said item content selection command from said memory means.
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Abstract
A karaoke reproducing apparatus is equipped a measure for easily checking whether a music piece selected by the user has correctly been accepted or not. The apparatus has a memory in which music title name information of each of the music pieces recorded on a recording medium has previously been stored. When one of the plurality of music pieces is selected by an operation, the music title name information of the selected music piece is soon displayed by characters. The apparatus also has memory means in which music piece classification information of each of the music pieces recorded on the recording medium has previously been stored. An item content selection command to designate the contents of at least one of a plurality of different items included in the music piece classification information is generated in accordance with an operation. The music piece corresponding to the contents of at least one item indicated by the item content selection command is searched for by using the information from the memory means.
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16 Claims
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1. A karaoke reproducing apparatus which has a recording medium on which at least karaoke playing sounds of a plurality of music pieces have been recorded and which reproduces a playing sound of a selected music piece of said plurality of music pieces by playing the recording medium, wherein said apparatus comprises:
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memory means for storing music piece classification information of each of said plurality of music pieces recorded on said recording medium wherein said music piece classification information represents at least one characteristic of each of said plurality of music pieces; instructing means for generating an item content selection command to designate contents of at least one item of a plurality of different items included in said music piece classification information in accordance with selection operation; and searching means for searching for a music piece corresponding to the contents of said at least one item indicated by said item content selection command from said memory means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A karaoke reproducing apparatus which can generate real-time data to control an external apparatus simultaneously with the reproduction of a karaoke playing sound, comprising:
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a recording medium on which at least karaoke playing sounds of a plurality of music pieces, control set information of the external apparatus, and said real-time data for each of said plurality of music pieces have been recorded; means for generating a selection music piece command to indicate one music piece of said plurality of music pieces in accordance with a selection operation; playing means for playing said recording medium with respect to said one music piece according to said selection music piece command; and means for reading said control set information according to said selection music piece command before said playing means begins playing said recording medium and for setting the external apparatus into a set state corresponding to said control set information read by said means for reading. - View Dependent Claims (9, 11)
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10. An apparatus is a background video image apparatus for generating background signal indicative of a background video image of a character image which is displayed on a display,
wherein said control set information is background video image information indicative of a kind of said background signal to be generated by said background video image apparatus, and wherein said kind of said background signal represents a type of background video image to be displayed on said display.
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12. A karaoke reproducing apparatus which can control an external apparatus simultaneously with the reproduction of a karaoke playing sound, comprising:
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a recording medium on which at least karaoke playing sounds of a plurality of music pieces, portions of video data, and portions of real-time data are recorded, wherein said portions of real-time data correspond to said plurality of music pieces such that said portions of real-time data change when one music piece of said plurality of music pieces is played and wherein said portions of video data correspond to said plurality of music pieces; means for generating a selection music piece command to indicate a selected music piece of said plurality of music pieces in accordance with a selection operation; playing means for playing said recording medium with respect to said selected music piece according to said selection music piece command and for outputting one portion of said portions of real-time data simultaneously with the reproduction of the karaoke playing sound; means for outputting at least one of said portions of video data to a display when said playing means plays said recording medium; and converting means for converting said one portion of real-time data output from said playing means into converted data and for supplying said converted data to said external apparatus as a control signal. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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