Patent ID: 6077084
Filing Date: 2000-06-20
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
A karaoke system for reproducing a recorded musical accompaniment of a music to sing together with a composite image of lyric words and background image, comprising:a database including reproduction type data of said musical accompaniments and said composite images of a large amount of music, synthesis type data, lyric display data and management data thereof,each of said reproduction type data of said musical accompaniments comprising an audio data of each music generated by recording while said musical accompaniment is actually played and a video data of the corresponding music generated from an analog video data filmed adapting to the content of the music,each of said synthesis type data containing data for generating said musical accompaniment by controlling a synthesizer,said lyric display data being data for displaying a sequence of lyric words in synchronism with progress of said musical accompaniment;database managing means for accessing said database and taking out arbitrary data;reproduction type data processing means for processing said reproduction type data of musical accompaniment and synchronously outputting said musical accompaniment and said composite image through an audio reproduction system and a video reproduction system;music generation processing means for controlling said synthesizer on the basis of said synthesis type data and outputting a generated musical accompaniment through said audio reproduction system; andlyric display processing means for sequentially displaying said lyric word image on a display of said video reproduction system on the basis of said lyric display data,said reproduction type data processing means including execution means of a video only reproduction mode for partially reproducing only video data in said audio-video data for musical accompaniment for outputting a desired part of selected background image of a selected music from said video reproduction system,image borrowing scenario data expressing identification information of a plurality of said desired parts of selected background images to be borrowed in time series being recorded corresponding to said synthesis type data,said recorded musical accompaniment reproducing system reading out said reproduction type data for said musical accompaniment and said lyric display data of a requested music for synchronous process by said reproduction type data processing means and said lyric display processing means when the reproduction type data of said musical accompaniment is registered in said database, andsaid recorded musical accompaniment reproducing system reading out said synthesis type data, said lyric display data and said image borrowing scenario data of said requested music for synchronous process by said music generation processing means, said lyric display processing means and said video only reproduction mode processing means when said reproduction type data of said musical accompaniment of said requested music is not in said database.