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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 21, 1994
Norio Chaya, Nagoya, JP;
Hiroshi Nishikawa, Nagoya, JP;
Koichi Hayashi, Nagoya, JP;
Hiroyuki Takada, Aichi-ken, JP;
Yasutada Aoyama, Inazawa, JP;
Yasuhiro Funahashi, Nagoya, JP;
Osamu Nishimura, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Xing, Inc., Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A compact image karaoke device with only a small number of image disks which provides the impression of having a great many background images. Two players are provided for reading background images from image disks. Background images are selected from at least one image unit group corresponding to at least one image genre corresponding to selected song genre and are read by the two players and changed at random, for example, every 30 seconds. By editing the display of background images in this manner, a great number of background image series can be obtained for combinations of the background images. Images obtained and displayed corresponding particularly to the starting portion of the song are provided only on the number of images available. Therefore, even if a great number of songs are consecutively selected, a user will not feel as though the same images are being repeatedly shown.