System for marking a singing voice and displaying a marked result for a karaoke machine

Patent 5395123 Issued on March 7, 1995. Estimated Expiration Date:

July 13, 2013. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Abstract Claims Description Full Text

Patent References

Musical performance unit
Patent #: 4546687
Issued on: 10/15/1985
Inventor: Minami

Vocal display device Patent #: 5208413
Issued on: 05/04/1993
Inventor: Tsumura, et al.

Inventor

Kondo, Tadami

Assignee

Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Video Center

Application

No. 091159 filed on 07/13/1993

US Classes:

273/454, Electric84/615, Selecting circuits381/56, MONITORING OF SOUND434/307AKaraoke

Examiners

Primary: Kuntz, Curtis
Assistant: Kelly, Mark D.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Koda and Androlia

International Class

A63B 065/00

Foreign Application Priority Data

1992-07-17 JP

Abstract

A system for marking a singing voice and displaying a marked result for a karaoke machine. The system comprises a data storage means, a comparison and marking means, a display means, a control mean. The data storage means stores a standard singing voice data on a basis of which a singing voice of a singer inputted from a microphone is marked. The comparison and marking means compares the singing voice with the standard singing voice data and marks the singing voice. The display means displays a result of a score of the singing voice marked by the comparison and marking means, and has a course which is composed of a series of display units and a goal display. The control means controls the display means. The control means illuminates the display units of the number corresponding to the marked score, also illuminates the goal displays if the marked score reaches a predetermined perfect score, and increases or decreases the number of the illuminating display units by the predetermined and also the marked score according to the increasing or the decreasing number of the illuminating display units if the marked score belongs to a predetermined range of scores.