Image reproducing apparatus for musical accompaniment

Claim 2

An image reproducing apparatus comprising: a music information reproducer for reproducing musical information, lyrics information or still picture information from a music information recording medium on which said musical information, said lyrics information or said still picture information relating to a plurality of music pieces are recorded; and an image information reproducer for retrieving moving picture information in a predetermined order in correspondence with respective music pieces in said music information recording medium from an image information recording medium on which moving picture information divided into a plurality of moving picture information segments is recorded, and reproducing said moving picture information segments.

Claim 3

An image reproducing method comprising: reproducing musical information, lyrics information or still picture information from a music information recording medium on which said musical information, said lyrics information or said still picture information relating to a plurality of music pieces are recorded; and retrieving moving picture information in a predetermined order in correspondence with respective music pieces in said music information recording medium from an image information recording medium on which moving picture information divided into a plurality of moving picture information segments is recorded, and reproducing said moving picture information segments.

Claim 4

An image reproducing apparatus comprising: music information reproducing means for reproducing musical information, lyrics information or still picture information from a music information recording medium on which said musical information, said lyrics information or said still picture information relating to a plurality of music pieces are recorded; image information reproducing means for retrieving moving picture information in a predetermined order in correspondence with respective music pieces in said music information recording medium from an image information recording medium on which moving picture information divided into a plurality of moving picture information segments is recorded, and reproducing said moving picture information segments; and control means for controlling to output, as a still picture, a final moving picture information segment of an arbitrary moving picture information segments for a time period until retrieval of a moving picture information segments succeeding to said arbitrary moving picture information segments is finished and reproduction thereof is then started.

Claim 5

An image information recording medium reproduced by a musical accompaniment playing apparatus comprising: musical accompaniment information reproducing means for reproducing MIDI sound source control information from a musical accompaniment information recording medium on which the MIDI sound source control information for controlling MIDI sound source means to generate musical accompaniment information in conformity with a MIDI standard is stored; said MIDI sound source means for generating the musical accompaniment information by the MIDI sound source control information reproduced by said musical accompaniment information reproducing means; an acoustoelectric transducer for transforming a voice sung by a singer to an electric signal to output it as voice information; mixing means for mixing the musical accompaniment information and the voice information to output it as mixed musical information; sound output means for transforming the mixed musical information to sound to output it; image information reproducing means for reproducing image information from an image information recording medium on which image information is recorded; image display means for displaying an image according to said reproduced image information; and control means for controlling the output timings of sound outputted from said sound output means and an image displayed by said image display means; said image information recording medium comprising an image information segment recording area for storing therein a plurality of image information segments relating to a plurality of images which can be displayed in conformity with the musical accompaniment information and retrieval address information segments for retrieving said individual image information segments.

Claim 6

A musical accompaniment playing apparatus comprising: musical accompaniment information reproducing means for reproducing MIDI sound source control information from a musical accompaniment information recording medium comprising a MIDI source control information recording area including an image control information recording area for storing the MIDI sound source control information for controlling MIDI sound source means to generate musical accompaniment information in conformity with a MIDI standard and for storing image control information for allowing said control means to control the output timing of an image display; said MIDI sound source means for generating said musical accompaniment information by the MIDI sound source control information reproduced by said musical accompaniment information reproducing means; an acoustoelectric transducer for transforming a voice sung by a singer to an electric signal to output it as voice information; mixing means for mixing the musical accompaniment information and the voice information to output it as mixed musical information; sound output means for transforming the mixed musical information to sound to output it; image information reproducing means for reproducing image information from said image information recording medium described in claim 5; image display means for displaying an image of said reproduced image information; and control means for controlling the output timings of sound outputted from said sound output means and an image displayed by said image display means; wherein said control means controls to allow said image information reproducing means to retrieve, from the internal portion of said image information recording medium, said image information segments in conformity with the musical accompaniment information on the basis of the image control information to cause said image display means to dispay an image of said image information segments, and to allow said image display means to display, as a still image, a final image information segment of an arbitrary image information segments for a time period until an image information segments succeeding to said arbitrary image information segments are retrieved and a first image thereof is then displayed.