Karaoke system

A karaoke system comprising:

• a main unit;
• and
• a display unit connected to said main unit through a wire or by wireless;
• said display unit being fed with image data for displaying words of a music piece on said display unit and music data for playing accompaniment music of the music piece from said main unit, thereby a karaoke performance is carried out according to words displayed on said display unit and accompaniment music outputted from said display unit;
• said main unit including an input control unit and a controller unit for processing audio and video data and control signal's input from a user through the input control unit to enable a series of images to be displayed on said display unit to provide a story and corresponding sounds and speech to accompany the story as controlled by the user for presentation of the story through a series of images;
• said main unit being constructed so as to permit said display unit to display images constituting at least one story in order and so as to output words and accompaniment music of a music piece associated with the story to said display unit during the course of the story.

A combination handheld karaoke and story microphone system that can be operatively connectable to a television display unit comprising:

• a body member having a lower handle portion for grasping by a user's hand and an upper head control portion;
• a microphone mounted on the head control portion for picking up sounds to enable a user to sing and/or speak into the microphone to provide a first audio signal;
• input control unit mounted on the head control portion to enable the user to input control signals;
• a receptor connector on the body member;
• a cartridge unit for storing audio and video data removably connected to the receptor connector, the audio and video data enabling a second audio signal to be broadcast and the video data enabling video signals to generate images to be displayed by the television display unit, the input control signals enable the user to control the broadcast and display of the first and second audio signals and the video signals, the cartridge unit includes data representative of a story that the user can interact with through the input control unit;
• a controller unit mounted in the body member for reading and processing audio and video data from the cartridge unit and processing control signals from the user;
• an audio signal processing section to process the first and second audio signals;
• a video signal processing section to process the video signals from the control unit;
• and
• means for transmitting the audio and video signals to the television display wherein a compact and handheld karaoke microphone system can provide a mix of audio signals from the microphone and the cartridge unit and video signals from the cartridge unit drive the television display unit.