JPH0950282A - Portable information terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Structure] The mobile information terminal has a communication function with the karaoke device, and the music selection information can be transmitted / received and further registered. [Effect] The operation of inputting music selection information to the karaoke device can be performed promptly and without performing complicated operations as in the past.
It becomes possible to input the music selection information accurately.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable information terminal having a bidirectional communication function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As shown in FIG. 12, a karaoke device for selecting and playing information desired by a user from a large number of karaoke information and optical communication for inputting music selection information desired by the user to the karaoke device. There is a system that uses a terminal with a function (hereinafter, remote control). In FIG. 12, 10
6 is a karaoke device, 107 is a remote controller, and 104 is a receiving unit for receiving the music selection signal transmitted from the remote controller by optical communication.

This remote controller has not only a function of inputting to the karaoke device but also a function of setting a scale desired by the singer and displaying a reserved song list on the karaoke device. These karaoke equipment products are sold by various companies.

[0004]

With the remote controller of the karaoke apparatus of the conventional example, after referring to the song list or the like in which the user's desired song selection information is printed, the corresponding code is entered and transmitted to the karaoke apparatus. There must be.

Even if the tunes are known, a complicated process is required to look at the tune list in order to obtain the corresponding code. By the way, when a user sings using a karaoke device, the songs that can be sung generally tend to be fixed depending on the user. Therefore,
There is a problem that it is a wasteful process to input the user's unique song code into the remote controller after searching the song list. In some cases, the song selection information may be input to the karaoke apparatus by another user during the search, and the number of singing songs may be reduced because the user cannot input the song selection information desired by the user. Also, if you want to know the song being sung by another person,
It is complicated that you have to ask.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a portable information terminal with a two-way communication function with a karaoke device to store and retrieve songs, song codes, etc. Use a remote control that allows you to enter song codes into the device.

[0007]

In the portable information terminal, it is possible to store and retrieve the song, song code, etc., so that the user can input the song selection information to the karaoke device if he or she inputs the desired song and song code in advance. At this time, it may be displayed in a list, instructed, and then transmitted to the karaoke apparatus.

Furthermore, when another person wants to know the song being sung, the portable information terminal can acquire and store the song and the song code from the karaoke device by the bidirectional communication function with the karaoke device. This also simplifies the process of inputting a song in the mobile information terminal.

[0009]

EXAMPLE This example will be described below. FIG. 1 is a system diagram for explaining the first embodiment of the present invention.

First, in FIG. 1, 100 is a portable information terminal with a remote controller (hereinafter, remote controller portable terminal), and 101
Is a display screen, 103 is a transmission unit of optical communication for transmitting a music selection signal or the like to the karaoke device 106, 104 is its reception unit, 105 is a transmission unit for transmitting a signal from the karaoke device 106, and 102 is It is a receiving unit of the remote control terminal 100.

The remote control terminal 100 includes an optical communication transmission unit 10
By providing the receiving unit 104 and the transmitting unit 105 for the optical communication in the receiving unit 102 and the karaoke device 106, information such as a music selection signal can be exchanged between the remote control terminal 100 and the karaoke device 106.

Next, FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the configuration of the remote control terminal 100. In FIG. 2, 1 is a CPU and 2 is a memory (RA
M, ROM and flash memory are included), 3 is a local bus, 4 is a display memory (hereinafter, VRAM), 6
Is, for example, a display device composed of a liquid crystal display, 5
Is a drive circuit of the display device 6, 7 is a hard disk drive and a control circuit (hereinafter, HD), 8 is a floppy disk drive and a control circuit (hereinafter, FD), 9 is a CDROM drive and a control circuit (hereinafter, CD-ROM), Reference numeral 10 is an interrupt control unit that interrupts the CPU 1 by an interrupt control signal, and 83 manages time data, and timer management that outputs an interrupt control signal to the interrupt control 10 when the time data designated by the user is reached. A part 11 is an operation part for operating the device shown in FIG.
Is a music selection information transmission / reception unit for exchanging information with the karaoke device 106, and 13 is a list information acquisition unit.

In FIG. 2, HD7, FD8 and CD-ROM 9 are shown as data recording / reading devices, but not all of them are necessarily required, and the scope of the present invention described below can be realized. It can be configured by freely selecting.

In the present embodiment shown in FIG. 2 for realizing the system of FIG. 1, it is possible to create song selection information to be reserved in the karaoke device 106 while transmitting and receiving information between the karaoke device 106 and the remote control terminal 100. Yes, Figures 4-8
This will be described below with reference to FIG.

Here, FIG. 4 shows a screen presented to the user during execution of the present embodiment, FIG. 5 shows a table for storing data displayed on the display screen of FIG. 4, and FIGS. 3 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the device.

Reference numeral 110 in FIG. 4 is a display screen of a music table for displaying registered music because it is frequently accessed because it is a song owned by the user. A tablet is attached to the display screen of FIG. 4, and it is detected that the user touches a designated area with a finger, a pen, or the like, and the desired music is selected by selecting music from the music table display 110 and selecting buttons 111 to 125. It is possible to execute the processing of.

First, the process in the case where the user transmits to the karaoke device 106 the music piece that the user desires to sing as music selection information will be described.

When the music table display 111 in FIG. 4 is pressed, the operation unit 11 in FIG. 2 detects it, and the interrupt control 10 causes CP.
A process for interrupting U1 and displaying the song table display 110 is activated. This processing is the music table display (F10) of FIG. 6, and when the user subsequently selects the music desired to be sung from the music table display 110 of FIG. 4, the remote control terminal 100 of FIG. 2 acquires the music selected by the user ( F11), search the music management table 130 of FIG.
The song code of the user-selected song and the attribute data are acquired (F12), and finally, the transmission code of the search result and the attribute data are transmitted to the karaoke device 106 by the user pressing the send 112 (F13), and the process is ended. (F1
4).

Here, the attribute data means "pitch", "performance speed", "echo", and "arrangement" (hereinafter, these four items are collectively referred to as "individual mode") in the music management table 130 of FIG. It is data that can be changed according to the taste and personality of the singing user. Of course, the items are not limited to the attribute data shown in FIG. 5, and items can be appropriately added and deleted. Here, the process when the user changes the attribute data will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

When the user selects a song desired to be sung from the song table display 110 in FIG. 4, the remote control terminal 100 of FIG. 2 acquires the user-selected song and further searches the song management table 130 of FIG. 5 to select the user. The song code of the song and the attribute data are acquired (F20). When the remote control terminal 100 detects that the user's personal mode button (pitch 117, playing speed 118, echo 119, or arrangement 120) is pressed, attribute data setting and change preparations are made (F21), and the user is set to FIG. UP124, DO
When the set amount is changed by the WN 125, the adjustment value is acquired (F22), and then the song management table 130 of FIG.
Is stored (F23), and the process is terminated (F24).

Next, while the karaoke device 106 is playing an arbitrary tune, a process of acquiring the tune from the karaoke device 106 according to an instruction from the remote control terminal 100 and storing it in the tune management table 130 of FIG. 5 is illustrated. This will be described using 7.

When the remote control terminal 100 detects that the user has pressed the read button 115 in FIG. 4, the remote control terminal 100 transmits the song code to the karaoke device 106 using the song selection information transmitting / receiving section 12 in FIG. Request (F1). After receiving the song code returned by the karaoke apparatus 106 based on this request and accompanying data such as the song name, pitch, and performance speed (F2), the song management table 130 of FIG. 5 is stored (F3). The process ends (F4).

In addition, when the song code is obtained by pressing the reading 115, when a new song code is input, and when the remote control terminal 100 is used to transmit song selection information to the karaoke device 106 and sing. The date and time is stored in the song date and time column of the song management table 130 of FIG.

Since the song date and time and the registration date and time are displayed on the song table display 110 of FIG. 4, they serve as a guide when the user selects a song song.

By the way, the music management table 130 shown in FIG.
A method of acquiring a large number of music list information in advance in the remote control terminal 100 when a music piece is input to the remote control terminal 100 will be described below.

The list information acquisition unit 13 of FIG. 2 performs a process of acquiring a large number of music list information in advance in the remote control terminal 100. A specific method is to connect a memory card storing song list information to read, to receive and store song list information with a pager,
Cellular phones, mobile communication devices such as PHS (Personal Handy-phone System), etc. may be acquired and stored by wired (telephone, ISDN, LAN, optical fiber cable, ATM (asynchronous transfer mode)) communication. In each case The list information acquisition unit 13 executes the input / output processing of.

The music list information acquired by the list information acquisition unit 13 is presented to the user by pressing the list display 123 in FIG. 4, so the user selects the music desired to be sung and the music management table in FIG. The music is input to 130.

Since there is a form of the karaoke device different from that of FIG. 1, it will be described below with reference to FIG. FIG.
Is called online karaoke, and is a karaoke device 20.
No. 1 has no performance data, and the performance data in the host station 200 is acquired by the communication means. In this case, it is also possible to directly transmit the music selection information from the remote control terminal 100 to the host station 200, and the communication means can be implemented by mobile communication device or wire (telephone, ISDN, LAN, optical fiber cable) communication. Is. Also in this case, the list information acquisition unit 13 of FIG. 2 can acquire a large number of music list information in advance in the remote control terminal 100. Note that the processing in the list information acquisition unit 13 has already been described above, and will be omitted here.

However, a similar process can be performed by the music selection list information transmitting / receiving unit 14 shown in FIG.

In FIG. 3, the music selection list information transmitting / receiving unit 14
The functions of both the music selection information transmission / reception unit 12 and the list information acquisition unit 13 in FIG. 2 can be executed together, and the number of structural blocks of the remote control terminal 100 can be reduced by one compared with FIG.

10 and 11 show the music selection information transmitting / receiving unit 1
2, list information acquisition unit 13, music selection list information transmission / reception unit 1
This is a summary of the means for realizing the specific item 4. The elements in the figure include FIGS. 2 and 3 which make up the entire system. 11 is based on the communication karaoke device of FIG. 9, and FIG. 10 is based on the karaoke device of FIG. As shown in FIG. 11, the list information acquisition unit 1
3 can be used as the music selection list information transmission / reception unit 14 by using mobile communication as a specific implementation means of the music selection information transmission / reception unit 12 and the music selection information transmission / reception unit 12. In that case, the configuration of FIG. Similarly, a wired (telephone, ISDN, LAN, optical fiber cable, A
TM) communication is used to select music list information transmission / reception unit 14
Can also be used as the above, and even in that case, the configuration of FIG. 3 is obtained.

In the above description, the karaoke device is the source of information data, but the present invention is also effective for a device that supplies audio, video and information data.

[0033]

Since the portable information terminal can input the music selection information to the karaoke device and can register the desired music and the music code in advance, when the music selection information is input to the karaoke device, it is displayed as a list. After instructing, it may be transmitted to the karaoke device. As a result, it becomes possible to input the music selection information to the karaoke device easily, accurately and quickly.

Further, the portable information terminal can acquire and store a song and a song code from the karaoke device by the bidirectional communication function with the karaoke device. by this,
The process of inputting a song into the portable information terminal is also simplified.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the system of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the system of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a display screen of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a table for managing data according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing by a user operation and a device according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a flow of user operation and processing in the apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing by a user operation and a device according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram summarizing specific means for exchanging data according to the present invention.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram summarizing specific means for exchanging data according to the present invention.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory view showing a conventional example for the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

100 ... Remote control terminal, 103 ... Optical communication transmission section of remote control terminal, 104 ... Optical communication reception section of remote control terminal, 1
04 ... Optical communication receiver of karaoke device, 105 ... Optical communication transmitter of karaoke device.

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Takao Iwatani 292 Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa Hitachi, Ltd. multimedia system development headquarters (72) Inventor Akira Naito Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 292 Hitachi Co., Ltd. Multimedia system development headquarters

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. Portable information comprising means for storing music selection information desired by a user to sing, search means for the music selection information, and means for transmitting a search result of the music selection information to a karaoke device. Terminal. 2. The portable information terminal according to claim 1, wherein a pitch, a playing speed, an echo effect, and an arrangement when the karaoke apparatus is made to play are set to desired values and are added to music selection information and transmitted. 3. A portable information terminal according to claim 1, comprising means for transmitting and receiving information to and from the karaoke device, and capable of acquiring song selection information possessed by the karaoke device. 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the music list information is acquired from a memory card, a CD-ROM, a pager,
Means for obtaining via mobile communication wireless communication, telephone, I
A portable information terminal equipped with means for acquiring via SDN, an optical fiber cable, and an ATM wire line. 5. The portable information terminal according to claim 3, wherein the karaoke device acquires information from a host station having performance information by communication, and has means for transmitting a search result of music selection information to the host station. . 6. The karaoke apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the karaoke apparatus acquires information from a host station having performance information by communication, and the music selection information is provided with a communication means capable of being acquired from the host station. Portable information terminal.