Image reproducing apparatus, image information recording medium, and musical accompaniment playing apparatus

A method for reproducing music information and image information for music pieces comprising the steps of:

• reproducing music information including musical accompaniment information and lyrics information from a music information recording medium on which said musical accompaniment information and said lyrics information relating to a plurality of music pieces are recorded;
• successively retrieving moving picture information segments, from a image information recording media on which moving picture information divided into a plurality of moving picture information segments is recorded, in one of reproduction orders determined in correspondence with the respective music pieces in said music information recording medium;
• and
• successively reproducing said retrieved moving picture information segments so as to form successive image.

An information reproducing apparatus for synchronously reproducing musical accompaniment information and image information for music pieces, comprising:

• musical accompaniment information reproducing means for reproducing musical accompaniment information from a music information recording medium on which musical accompaniment information for a plurality of music pieces are recorded;
• and
• image information reproducing means for reproducing moving image information, in synchronous with the musical accompaniment information, from an image information recording medium on which image information comprised of a plurality of moving picture information segments is recorded,
• wherein said image information reproducing means successively retrieves and reproduces the moving picture information segments, in accordance with one of a plurality of reproduction control information each determined in correspondence with the respective music information pieces, so as to form successive images, said reproduction control information comprising information relating to the reproduction order of the moving picture information segments.

An apparatus for reproducing musical accompaniment information and image information for music pieces comprising:

• MIDI sound source means for generating musical accompaniment control information in conformity with a MIDI standard from a musical accompaniment information recording medium on which MIDI sound source control information for music pieces are recorded;
• musical accompaniment information reproducing means for reproducing musical accompaniment information in accordance with said MIDI sound source control information;
• an acoustoelectric transducer for transforming a voice sung by a singer to an electric signal to be outputted as voice information;
• mixing means for mixing the musical accompaniment information and the voice information to be outputted as mixed musical information;
• sound output means for transforming the mixed musical information to sound to be outputted;
• image information reproducing means for reproducing image information from an image information recording medium on which image information comprised of a plurality of picture information segments are recorded;
• and
• control means for controlling the output timing of the image reproduced by said image information reproducing means to be synchronous with the sound outputted from said sound output means,
• wherein said image information reproducing means retrieves and reproduces the picture information segments in accordance with one of a plurality of reproduction control information determined in correspondence with the respective music piece, said reproduction control information comprises information relating to sets of the picture information segments and reproduction order of the set of the picture information segments corresponding to the respective music pieces.