Typing-game machine and database system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10181235-B2
Application number	US-37203306-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 10, 2006
Priority date	Mar 11, 2005
Publication date	Jan 15, 2019
Grant date	Jan 15, 2019

Abstract

A typing-game machine has a storage unit for storing a set of a video data item and a song data item for each song, a music playing unit for playing a song based on a song data item, a first image display unit for sequentially displaying a character string which is a part of lyrics of the song being played, a second image display unit for displaying a video image based on a video data item associated with the song being played, and a database making unit. A course of a game is controlled based on whether a character string inputted by typings of keys agrees with the character string displayed or not. The database making unit makes a database with respect to each song about the number of times a video image associated with a song is displayed along with a play of the song.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A typing-game machine comprising:
a storage unit that stores data associated with a song, the song needing an advertising effect for promoting sales, the data associated with the song comprising a set of a video data item and a song data item, the set of the video data item and the song data item demonstrating the advertising effect;
a music playing unit that plays the song based on the song data item among a plurality of song data items stored in the storage unit;
a first image display unit that sequentially displays, in accordance with a play of the song made through the music playing unit, a character string which is a part of lyrics of the song;
a second image display unit that displays a video image based on, among a plurality of video data items stored in the storage unit, the video data item associated with the song played by the music playing unit;
an input unit, comprising a plurality of keys respectively associated with a plurality of characters;
a determination unit that determines, based on a criterion included in the song data item, whether a character string inputted by typing the plurality of keys of the input unit agrees with the character string displayed through the first image display unit;
a game course control unit that controls a course of a game based on a result of a determination made by the determination unit;
a database making unit that makes, as a database of sales-promotion advertising rates, a database with respect to the song about a number of times the video image associated with the song is displayed through the second image display unit along with the play of the song made through the music playing unit; and
an advertising-rates determination unit which determines advertising rates based on the database made by the database making unit and includes an advertising-rates table indicating an advertising rate corresponding to the number of times the video image is displayed, the advertising rate corresponding to the number of times belonging to a first range being different from the advertising rate corresponding to the number of times belonging to a second range,
wherein the database making unit comprises a plurality of storage areas, and makes the database by counting the number of times the video image associated with the song is displayed and storing the counted number of times in a storage area corresponding to a group to which the song belongs among the plurality of storage areas, and
wherein the advertising-rates determination unit determines the advertising rate for each group to which the song belongs based on the advertising-rates table and the number of times, which is stored in the corresponding storage area of the database, the video image associated with the song is displayed.

2. The typing-game machine according to claim 1 , wherein the database making unit makes the database whose data are separated for a company to which the song belongs, and
wherein the advertising-rates determination unit determines, based on the database made by the database making unit, advertising rates with respect to the company.

3. The typing-game machine according to claim 1 , wherein the database making unit makes the database whose data are separated for a company to which the song belongs; and
the advertising-rates determination unit determines, based on the database made by the database making unit, advertising-rates with respect to a singer of the company.

4. A database system including a plurality of typing-game machines and a server connected in communication with the respective typing-game machines via a network, the typing-game machines comprising:
a storage unit that stores data associated with a song, the song needing an advertising effect for promoting sales, the data associated with the song comprising a set of a video data item and a song data item, the set of the video data item and the song data item demonstrating the advertising effect;
a music playing unit that plays the song based on the song data item among a plurality of song data items stored in the storage unit;
a first image display unit that sequentially displays, in accordance with a play of the song made through the music playing unit, a character string which is a part of lyrics of the song;
a second image display unit that displays a video image based on, among a plurality of video data items stored in the storage unit, the video data item associated with the song played by the music playing unit;
an input unit, comprising a plurality of keys respectively associated with a plurality of characters;
a determination unit that determines, based on a criterion included in the song data item, whether a character string inputted by typing the plurality of keys of the input unit agrees with the character string displayed through the first image display unit ; and
a game course control unit that controls a course of a game based on a result of a determination made by the determination unit,
wherein the server comprises:
a database making unit that makes, as a database of sales-promotion advertising rates, a database with respect to the song about a number of times the video image associated with the song is displayed in each typing-game machine through the second image display unit along with the play of the song made through the music playing unit; and
an advertising-rates determination unit which determines advertising rates based on the database made by the database making unit and includes an advertising-rates table indicating an advertising rate corresponding to the number of times the video image is displayed, the advertising rate corresponding to the number of times belonging to a first range being different from the advertising rate corresponding to the number of times belonging to a second range,

wherein the database making unit comprises a plurality of storage areas, and makes the database by counting the number of times the video image associated with the song is displayed and storing the counted number of times in a storage area corresponding to a group to which the song belongs among the plurality of storage areas, and
wherein the advertising-rates determination unit determines the advertising rate for each group to which the song belongs based on the advertising-rates table and the number of times, which is stored in the corresponding storage area of the database, the video image associated with the song is displayed.

5. The database system according to claim 4 , wherein the database making unit makes the database whose data are separated for a company to which the song belongs, and
wherein the advertising-rates determination unit determines, based on the database made by the database making unit, advertising rates with respect to the company.

6. The database system according to claim 4 , wherein:
the database making unit makes the database whose data are separated for a company to which the song belongs; and
wherein the advertising-rates determination unit determines, based on the database made by the database making unit, advertising rates with respect to a singer of the company.

7. An apparatus comprising:
a storage unit that stores data associated with a song, the song needing an advertising effect for promoting sales, the data associated with the song comprising a set of a video data item and a song data item, the set of the video data item and the song data item demonstrating the advertising effect;
a music playing unit that plays the song based on the song data item among a plurality of song data items stored in the storage unit;
a first image display unit that sequentially displays, in accordance with a play of the song made through the music playing unit, a character string which is a part of lyrics of the son

Assignees

• Kogo Junichi
• Universal Entertainment Corp

Inventors

• Kogo Junichi

Classifications

• B42D17/00 Primary

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• B42P2241/02

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• B42F7/065

  made of transparent material · CPC title

• B42P2221/06

  with information carrying means, e.g. advertisement · CPC title

• B42F9/00

  Filing appliances with devices clamping file edges; Covers with clamping backs (B42F13/00, B42F17/00 take precedence) · CPC title