Systems and methods are described that implement personalized karaoke,
wherein a user's personal home video and photographs are used to form a
background for the lyrics during a karaoke performance. An exemplary
karaoke apparatus is configured to segment visual content to produce a
plurality of sub-shots and to segment music to produce a plurality of
music sub-clips. Having produced the visual content sub-shots and music
sub-clips, the exemplary karaoke apparatus shortens some of the plurality
of sub-shots to a length of a corresponding music sub-clip from within
the plurality of music sub-clips. The plurality of sub-shots is then
displayed as a background to lyrics associated with the music, thereby
adding interest to a karaoke performance.
