Patent ID: 6056555
Filing Date: 2000-05-02
Classification: G09B,G10H,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
A karaoke apparatus responsive to a request of a music piece for producing karaoke accompaniment to accompany a live singing voice of the music piece while reproducing a background video associated with the music piece, the karaoke apparatus comprising:a sound source device that produces the karaoke accompaniment of the music piece in response to the request;a storage device that stores video data representative of a piece of the background video which is associated with the music piece, the piece of the background video having a time length normally longer than a time length of the music piece;a central processing unit that variably designates a read start point from which the piece of the background video should be reproduced; anda drive device responsive to the request for accessing the storage device to reproduce the background video from the read start point.