KARAOKE APPARATUS AND LYRICS DISPLAYING METHOD AT THE KARAOKE APPARATUS USING KERNING TECHNOLOGY

摘要

PURPOSE: A karaoke apparatus and a lyrics display method thereof are provided to display a lyrics image in consideration of characters which are displayed in a lyrics image. CONSTITUTION: A font image storage unit(240) stores a font image. A cheating information storage unit(230) stores cheating information for determination of display interval between adjacent characters. A control unit(260) generates a lyrics image by using a font image corresponding to the font image storage unit from characters of lyrics information. [Reference numerals] (210) Song image synthesizing unit; (220) Song information storage unit; (230) Cheating information storage unit; (240) Font image storage unit; (250) Font image size storage unit; (260) Control unit; (261) Lyric data determining unit; (262) Font data extraction unit; (263) Display gap determining unit; (264) Lyric image synthesizing unit; (265) Background image generating unit; (AA) Image data; (BB) Font size to be displayed; (CC) Selected font image; (DD) Index; (EE) Cheating information; (FF) Lyric data; (GG) Selected song index