Video/audio data supplying device

• US 6,022,223 A
• Filed: 10/31/1996
• Issued: 02/08/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited), Xing, Inc. (Brother Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited), Xing, Inc. (Brother Industries Limited)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Takamitsu, Taniguchi, Toshinori
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Joe H.
• Application Number:
  US08/742,833
• Time in Patent Office: 1,195 Days
• Field of Search: 434/307 R-309, 434/318, 434/365, 84/609, 84/610, 84/634, 84/477 R, 340/825.08, 340/825.07, 340/825.2, 455/4.2, 455/6.3, 455/5.1, 348/7, 348/6, 348/10, 348/12, 348/13, 348/390, 348/423, 348/408, 348/403, 348/845, 369/32, 369/275.3, 369/59.47, 360/48, 360/72.2, 360/72.1, 709/203, 709/219, 709/227, 709/238, 709/236, 705/17, 705/39, 370/449, 370/536, 370/229, 370/437, 370/432, 370/474, 370/537, 380/20, 708/203, 345/435
• US Class Current: 434/307.00A
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/365 the accompaniment information being stored on a host computer and transmitted to a reproducing terminal by means of a network, e.g. public telephone lines
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/368 displaying animated or moving pictures synchronized with the music or audio part
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/011 Lyrics displays, e.g. for karaoke applications
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/066 MPEG audio-visual compression file formats, e.g. MPEG-4 for coding of audio-visual objects
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/295 Packet switched network, e.g. token ring

Abstract

When the input output controller 22 receives request data through the modem 42, the input output controller 22 controls the memory controller 25 to retrieve an AV stream and a BGV stream from the memories and to transfer the streams to the multiplexer 30. The memory controller 25 retrieves a BGV stream from the BGV memories 26a, 26b, and 26c and an AV stream from the AV memories 27a, 27b, and 27c. When receiving the BGV stream and the AV stream, the multiplexer 30 divides the AV stream into a lyric stream and a music stream. The multiplexer 30 composes the lyric stream and the BGV stream into a video stream. The multiplexer 30 time-divisionally multiplexes the video stream and the music stream and outputs the multiplexed stream as a video/music stream.

Claims

1. A video/audio data supplying device for supplying video data and audio data, the device comprising:

data memory means for storing video/audio data, comprised of video data and audio data, and additional video data separately from the video/audio data;

data retrieving means for retrieving the video/audio data and the additional video data from the data memory means;

data composing means for composing the retrieved video/audio data and the additional data into a single composite video/audio data; and

output means for supplying the composite video/audio data to an output terminal.

2. A video/audio data supplying device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the video/audio data is comprised of lyric video data and music data for a karaoke song.

3. A video/audio data supplying device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the memory means stores a plurality of sets of video/audio data for a plurality of karaoke songs.

4. A video/audio data supplying device as claimed in claim 3, further comprising control means for controlling the retrieving means to select a set of video/audio data for a desired karaoke song.

5. A video/audio data supplying device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the memory means further stores a plurality of sets of additional video data for each of several genres, to which the plurality of karaoke songs are classified, each set of additional video data being comprised of background video data for a corresponding genre.

6. A video/audio data supplying device as claimed in claim 5, further comprising control means for controlling the retrieving means to select a set of video/audio data for a desired karaoke song and to select a set of additional video data of a genre to which a desired karaoke song belongs, the data composing means composing the selected video/audio data and the selected additional video data into a single composite video/audio data.

7. A video/audio data supplying device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the control means receives a request, from the output terminal, to transmit data of a desired karaoke song, the control means controlling the retrieving means to select a set of video/audio data for the requested karaoke song and to select a set of additional video data of a genre to which the requested karaoke song belongs.

8. A video/audio data supplying device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the additional video data is comprised of background video data for a karaoke performance.

9. A video/audio data supplying device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the additional video data is comprised of video data to be combined with the video data in the video/audio data.

10. A video/audio data supplying device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the memory means stores a plurality of sets of video/audio data and a plurality of sets of additional video data for several genres, to which the plurality of sets of video/audio data are classified, each set of additional video data of each genre being comprised of video data to be combined with video/audio data of the genre.

11. A video/audio data supplying device as claimed in claim 10, further comprising control means for controlling the retrieving means to select a desired set of video/audio data and to select a set of additional video data of a genre to which a desired video/audio data set belongs, the data composing means composing the selected video/audio data and the selected additional video data into a single composite video/audio data.

12. A video/audio data supplying device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the control means receives a request, from the output terminal, to transmit a desired composite video/audio data, the control means controlling the retrieving means to select a set of video/audio data for the requested data and to select a set of additional video data of a genre to which the requested data belongs.

13. A video/audio data supplying device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data memory means stores, as the video/audio data, a video/audio composite stream that is comprised of a combination of a video packet data train and an audio packet data train, the data memory means further storing, as the additional video data, an additional video stream that is comprised of an additional video packet data train.

14. A video/audio data supplying device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the data composing means includes:

separating means for separating the video/audio stream into the video packet data train and the audio packet data train;

depacketizing means for receiving the video packet data train and for depacketizing the video packet data train into a set of video data, the depacketizing means receiving the additional video stream and for depacketizing the additional video stream into a set of additional video data;

composing means for composing the set of video data and the set of additional video data into a single set of composite video data;

packetizing means for packetizing the single set of composite video data into a composite video packet data train; and

multiplexing means for multiplexing the composite video packet data train with the audio packet data train into a single composite video/audio stream as the single composite video/audio data.

15. A video/audio data supplying device as claimed in claim 14, further comprising:

data input means for inputting the video/audio composite stream into the data memory means, the data input means including;

a video encoder receiving a set of analog video signals, digitizing the set of analog video signals into a set of digital video signals, and encoding the set of digital video data;

a video packetizer receiving the set of digital video data and converting the set of digital video data into the video packet data train;

an audio encoder receiving a set of analog audio signals, digitizing the set of analog audio signals into a set of digital audio signals, and encoding the set of digital audio signals into a set of digital audio data;

an audio packetizer receiving the set of digital audio data and converting the set of digital audio data into the audio packet data train; and

a multiplexer receiving the video packet data train and the audio packet data train, and composing the video packet data train and the audio packet data train into the video/audio composite stream; and

additional data input means for inputting the additional video stream into the data memory means, the additional data input means including;

a video encoder receiving a set of analog additional video signals, digitizing the set of analog video signals into a set of digital additional video signals, and encoding the set of digital additional video signals into a set of digital additional video data; and

a video packetizer receiving the set of digital additional video data and converting the set of digital additional video data into the additional video packet data train as the additional video stream.

16. A video/audio data supplying device as claimed in claim 15, wherein the data input means and the additional data input means are detachably mounted with the video/audio data supplying device.

17. A video/audio data supplying device for supplying video and audio data, the device comprising:

data memory means for storing a video/audio stream and an additional video stream separately from each other, the video/audio stream being comprised of the combination of a video packet data train and an audio packet data train, the additional video stream including an additional video packet data train;

data retrieving means for retrieving the video/audio stream and the additional video stream from the data memory means;

data composing means for composing the retrieved video/audio stream and the additional video stream into a single composite video/audio stream; and

supply means for supplying the composite video/audio stream to an output terminal.