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Karaoke apparatus with individual scoring of duet singers

US5804752A · kind A · utility

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21Claims
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Filing dateAug 26, 1997
Grant dateSep 8, 1998
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Expiry dateAug 26, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10H2210/261
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

The karaoke apparatus is constructed for accompanying a karaoke music on a singer according to music information. In the karaoke apparatus, a providing device provides the music information containing accompaniment data and at least first reference data and second reference data, respectively, corresponding to a first part and a second part of the karaoke music. A generating device generates the karaoke music according to the accompaniment data while a first singer sings the first part along with the karaoke music and a second singer sings the second part along with the karaoke music. A collecting device collects a first singing voice of the first singer and a second singing voice of the second singer during progression of the karaoke music. An extracting device extracts from the collected first singing voice a first music property characteristic to a singing skill of the first singer, and separately extracts from the second singing voice a second music property characteristic to a singing skill of the second singer. A scoring device compares the first music property with the first reference data to evaluate the singing skill of the first singer, and compares the second music prope…

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