JP2002032684A - Contents reservation system, terminal device and reproducing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a contents serevation system, a terminal device and a reproducing device by which the stock status or rental of package media in a store can be known without go all the way to the store. SOLUTION: Request information for requesting information on the stock or renting of package media 1013 and 1014 in the store is transmitted to the computer 1011 of the store after accessing to the computer 1011 of the store from the terminal device such as a portable telephone set 1000, a portable information terminal 1001, a personal computer 1002, etc. In accordance with the received request information, the computer 1011 generates the list of rentable package media managed by the computer in a form which can be displayed by the terminal device and transmits it to the terminal device.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a content reservation system, a terminal device, and a reproduction device that allow the user to know the inventory status or lending information of package media in a store from terminal devices such as a mobile phone, a portable information terminal, and a personal computer. Related to the device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art At present, rental video shops rent video tapes of relatively expensive movies and the like at low cost, so that customers can browse contents at low cost, and there is only one store. It is a system that can make money from multiple customers with tape and balance the merits of both stores and customers. However, in this system, a customer goes directly to a store such as a rental video shop, searches for videos he / she wants to see from the videos on the shelf, and rents it.

[0003]

In this case, even if you go to a store, there is not always a movie you want to watch, and if you want to watch a movie in the middle of a weekday. Watching the movie may not always be available on weekends. In order to check inventory, it is necessary to go to the store at the time of renting, and even if you try to check inventory in advance, you call the store and ask if there is stock, and the clerk responds to it. It is necessary to directly check the store's management terminal or inventory, and the cost of the service is the clerk's labor, so whether it is actually performed depends on the store.

[0004] Further, due to the specialty of the information content, which is a video content having a relatively long time and a story, in order to select a movie that a customer wants to view, not only articles with titles and contents but also posters in movie theaters are required. Or a label on a case corresponding to a pamphlet, or sometimes a digest video corresponding to a trailer in a television or movie theater is also effective information. Also, if you want to sell out like a bookstore,
Because books are ordered, sold reliably to customers, and have a much larger number of copies than videos, returning them is not a significant risk to publishers. But,
Especially when expensive video tapes are rented, purchasing and stocking a large number of expensive videos in advance that are not known to be rented leads to a great risk, and it is difficult to find popular videos. Unable to borrow and unpopular videos, it is difficult for customers to watch.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a content reservation system, a terminal device, and a playback device that enable the user to know the stock status or lending of package media in a store without going to the store.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is directed to a request for accessing stock or lending information of package media in a store from a terminal device such as a mobile phone, a portable information terminal, or a personal computer. Information to the computer at the store, the computer, according to the received request information, based on the inventory or lending information of the package media managed by the computer, the list of package media that can be rented, A content reservation system characterized by having a function of generating the terminal device in a displayable form and transmitting the generated data to the terminal device.

[0007] The present invention is characterized in that the computer has a function of receiving one or more lending reservation request messages selected from the list of lendable package media transmitted from the terminal device. Content reservation system.

The present invention is the content reservation system, characterized in that the computer has a reservation processing function of performing the package medium lending reservation processing in accordance with the contents of the lending reservation request message.

The present invention is the content reservation system, wherein the lending reservation request message includes designation of a lending date or date and time.

According to the present invention, the computer has a storage device, and the storage device includes character information relating to the content recorded on the package medium, and the computer can display the character information on the terminal device. A content reservation system having a function of generating the content in a form and transmitting it to the terminal device.

[0011] The present invention includes a short-time moving image or a still image indicating an outline of the content recorded in the package medium in the storage device, and displays the moving image or the still image on the terminal device. A content reservation system characterized by having a function of generating the content in a possible form and transmitting it to the terminal device.

[0012] In the present invention, the list of package media that can be rented transmitted from the computer is received by the terminal device, and the package media is selected on the list of package media displayed on the terminal device. In the content reservation system, when the name of the package media displayed in the list extends over a plurality of lines, the cursor also covers the entire name of the package media in a plurality of lines. is there.

[0013] The present invention provides a reservation processing function for transmitting, when the designation of the lending date exceeds a default value of a normal reservation period to the terminal device, information on the occurrence of lending reservation costs,
A content reservation system provided in the computer.

[0014] The present invention is a content reservation system, wherein a media duplication device for duplicating a selected package medium in accordance with the lending reservation is connected to the computer.

[0015] The present invention is the content reservation system, wherein the content recorded on the copy of the package medium is encrypted.

According to the present invention, the decryption key information used for decrypting the encrypted content is encrypted with a public key transmitted from the terminal device, and the encrypted decryption key information is encrypted. A content reservation system, wherein the content is transmitted from the computer to the terminal device together with the selected content.

According to the present invention, the terminal device includes the current position of the terminal device or position information indicating the planned route of the owner of the terminal device in the lending reservation request message, and Sent to a computer, the computer has a store database indicating a first store where the computer is installed and stores around the store, and receives the current position of the terminal device or the owner of the terminal device A reservation request message transfer function for searching the store database for a store near the planned travel route in the store database and transferring the rental reservation request message to the second store output as a search result; and the first store. An instruction to deliver the existing content existing in the first store reserved in the first store to the second store by a media or the like A transfer output function for outputting to a person in charge of the first store that transfers the package, and an instruction to create a copy at the second store together with the rental reservation request message to the second store. A content reservation system having a copy creation instruction function and selectively executing any one of the functions.

According to the present invention, a short-range wireless communication interface for performing communication with the terminal device is provided near the package media arrangement place of the store, and the short-range wireless communication interface recorded on the package medium via the interface is provided. The content reservation system is characterized by transmitting a short-time moving image or a still image indicating the outline of the character information and the contents of the content to the terminal device.

According to the present invention, when the computer of the store accepts the rental reservation, a reservation number common to the terminal device and the computer is generated, and the reservation number is received by the terminal device. A content reservation system in which the computer has a function of sending the message together with a message.

[0020] In the present invention, when the reservation number sent together with the reservation acceptance message is received, the reservation number is transferred from the terminal device to another terminal device, and the reservation number stored in the terminal device is erased. This is a content reservation system having a number management function.

According to the present invention, in a terminal device such as a mobile phone, a portable information terminal, a personal computer or the like having a wireless communication and displaying characters and images, a computer in a store is accessed to inventory or lend package media in the store. Having a function of requesting information, a function of receiving the list of rentable package media generated and transmitted in a form that can be displayed by the computer, and a function of displaying the received list of rentable package media. Is a terminal device.

The present invention is a terminal device having a function of selecting one or more from the list of package media that can be lent, and transmitting a selected lending reservation request message.

The present invention is the terminal device, wherein the lending reservation request message includes designation of a lending date or date and time.

The present invention is characterized in that the list of package media that can be rented includes character information on moving image content recorded on the package medium, and the list including the character information is received. It is a terminal device.

According to the present invention, the list of package media that can be rented includes a short-time moving image or a still image indicating an outline of the moving image content recorded on the package medium, and the character information is stored in the list. A terminal device for receiving the list.

According to the present invention, the function of displaying the received list of package media that can be rented is displayed by superimposing a cursor for selecting the package media on the list of package media and displaying the cursor on the list. If the name of the package medium extends over a plurality of lines, the cursor also covers the entire name of the package medium on the plurality of lines.

The present invention is characterized in that the terminal device has a public key and a secret key unique to the terminal device, and has an encryption processing function of decrypting information encrypted with the public key with the secret key. It is.

The present invention relates to contents recorded on the package media via a short-range wireless communication interface for communicating with the terminal device, which is provided near the package media arrangement place of the store. A terminal device having a function of receiving and displaying a short-time moving image or still image indicating an outline of character information and contents.

The present invention provides a route management function for detecting the current position of the terminal device and managing the current position information and the planned movement position information of the terminal device, and a function of transmitting the current position information and the planned movement position information. And a function of receiving and displaying position information of a store that receives the package media transmitted from the computer system.

According to the present invention, there is provided the terminal device wherein the current position information and the scheduled position information are transmitted after being encrypted.

According to the present invention, there is provided a terminal having a function of receiving a decryption key for decrypting encrypted content recorded in a package medium to be lent after transmitting the request message for lending reservation. Device.

[0032] The present invention is the terminal device, characterized by transmitting a public key unique to the terminal device before receiving the decryption key, and receiving a decryption key encrypted with the public key.

The present invention has cryptographic information processing means having a public key cryptographic processing function, and the cryptographic processing means has a function of encrypting and decrypting information and a public key and a secret key unique to the terminal device. The terminal device is characterized in that the secret key unique to the terminal device cannot be referred to from outside the cryptographic information processing means, and is detachable from the terminal device.

The present invention relates to a reproducing apparatus for decoding and reproducing encrypted image data in the form of a package medium such as a video tape or an optical disk, and the reproducing apparatus decodes the encrypted image data. It can be connected by wire or wirelessly to a terminal device having a decryption key, receives a decryption key for decrypting the encrypted image data from the terminal device, and decrypts the encrypted image data using the decryption key. A playback device having a function of playing back music.

[0035]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of an embodiment of a content reservation system according to the present invention.

The customer accesses the rental video shop 1010 using terminal devices such as a mobile phone 1000 having a non-communication communication function such as a Web browser, a portable information terminal 1001, and a personal computer (hereinafter referred to as a PC) 1002. . The access route is mobile phone 1000
PC in the rental video shop 1010 directly from the communication base station 1020 via the gateway 1021.
A route from the communication base station 1030 of the portable information terminal 1001 to the PC 1011 via the general telephone network 1031 and the non-telephone communication gateway 1032; and a general telephone network 1031 and the gateway from the customer's PC 1002. There is a route to the PC 1011 through 1032.

PC1 of rental video shop 1010
011 is a mobile phone 1000, a mobile information terminal 1001,
A terminal device such as the PC 1002 can access a shared database for managing the rental video shop 1010 or a shared database for managing the incoming video and the rental status.
Based on the list of all the videos on the video tape 1013 and the optical disk 1014 and the information requesting each piece of lending information, the list of package media that can be rented is stored in the portable telephone. It is generated in a form that can be displayed by a terminal device such as the information terminal 1001 or the PC 1002 and transmitted to the terminal device.

PC 1 of rental video shop 1010
011 further stores information about the video to be stored in a large-capacity storage device 1012 such as a hard disk attached to the PC 1011 in the form of characters or a digest video,
In response to a request from the customer's terminal device, it can be sent to the customer's terminal device through the route and reproduced.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the embodiment of the mobile phone 1000 shown in FIG.

The cellular phone 1000 includes a CPU 2000, a ROM browser software 2001, a cache memory 2002, a liquid crystal display device 2003, and a detachable memory 20.
04, a communication control circuit 2005, an antenna 2006, a keypad 2008, a graphic control circuit 2009, a connection PC-I / F 2010 to an external device, and the like. In communication, the radio wave 2011 is received by the antenna 2006, and the communication control circuit 2005 processes the received radio wave. Similarly, transmission is performed by processing a voice or signal transmitted by the communication control circuit 2005 and transmitting the radio wave 2011 via the antenna 2006.
In addition, a smart battery and a charge control circuit (not shown)
It has power control and so on.

The software for controlling the mobile phone 1000 is included in the ROM browser software 2001. Browser software similar to an Internet browser is used as software for controlling a non-communication communication screen described later. Is in.
In actual communication, screen information described in the received screen description language such as HTML is transmitted to the ROM browser software 200.
1 to display on the liquid crystal display device 2003. According to the displayed screen, input is performed using the keys of the keypad 2008 used for inputting a normal telephone number and the like.
The input is transmitted by the communication control circuit 2005 as a radio wave 2011 as a transmission path.

The screen information received by the mobile phone 1000 is stored in the cache memory 2002, and is lost when the cache memory 2002 becomes full or overflows or when the user intentionally clears the cache memory 2002. Even after disconnection, except for minutes, ROM
With the browser software 2001, it can be displayed on a liquid crystal display screen.

The information temporarily stored in the cache memory 2002 includes not only a communication screen but also a video digest image of a moving image or a still image to be described later. Information temporarily stored in the cache memory 2002 and desired to be stored can be moved to the removable memory 2004 and stored. Also, this removable memory 2004
May be removed and attached to a PC (not shown) to use the information. Further, information to be stored is stored in the mobile phone 10.
00 and a PC (not shown) may be connected by the PC-I / F 2010 to perform direct transfer.

The portable information terminal 100 shown in FIG.
1. Personal computer (hereinafter referred to as PC) 100
The block diagram showing the internal configuration of the second embodiment is basically the same as that of the portable telephone 1000 in FIG. 2. In the case of a personal computer (hereinafter referred to as a PC) 1002, a radio wave 2011 as a transmission path is provided on a line. replace.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the screen and operation surface of the liquid crystal display device 2003 shown in FIG. 2 in the mobile phone 1000 shown in FIG.

The mobile phone 1000 has a liquid crystal screen 3000
And five buttons 300 arranged below the LCD screen 3000
0,3001,3002,3003,3004,300
5 When the button (Internet access) button 3000 is pressed, the rental video shop 10 shown in FIG.
Ten PCs 1010 are accessed. The PC 1010 generates a short-time moving image or a still image indicating the outline of the character information and the contents of the package media stored in the attached storage device 1012 in a form that can be displayed on the mobile phone 1000 and transmits the generated moving image or still image to the mobile phone 1000.

The mobile phone 1000 receives the data, displays a menu (not shown) on the liquid crystal screen 300, and selects “rental video” in the menu display with a cursor. become.

FIG. 3A is a screen showing how to reserve a video by displaying characters. On the liquid crystal screen 3000, a list of the video stock list of the rental video shop inquired is shown. Here, a list of things that are not borrowed at the time of this access and are in stock is displayed, but a list of all videos owned by this shop is displayed, and "now renting", " Information such as "Scheduled to be returned on day XX" may be attached.

Here, when a button 3002 arranged on the left below the liquid crystal screen 3000 is pressed, access to the rental video shop is logged out, and the screen returns to a normal telephone standby screen.

The buttons 3003 and 3004 arranged vertically at the center below the liquid crystal screen 3000 have a cursor scroll function as shown by the guide displayed at the bottom of the screen 3000. The pointing cursor 3006 on the video inventory list displayed on the LCD screen 3000 is
When the user scrolls up and down with the buttons 3003 and 3004, and presses the button 3005 when the cursor 3006 matches the title of the desired video, detailed information on the video is displayed like a liquid crystal screen 3010. Here, in addition to the title of the video, the names of the director and the leading actor, and a synopsis are displayed. Here, when the button 3002 is pressed, the screen returns to the display screen 3000 of the video stock list list shown on the liquid crystal screen 3000.

On the liquid crystal screen 3010, a button 300
When 5 is pressed, the screen transits to a liquid crystal screen 3020 for reserving this video. On this screen, you can select a reservation method for this video. One of three menus is selected with a cursor 3006 scrolling up and down with buttons 3003 and 3004, and a reservation is made with a button 3005.

No. One regular reservation is reserved for the customer for the default value of the regular reservation period specified by the rental video shop (one week for this video). In this case, the fee required for reserve is free.
No. The extended reservation method 2 is a method of making a reservation by specifying the date, including the specification of the date or date and time, when the customer absolutely wants to see it two weeks later, for example. In this case, the reservation is made according to the date. The fee is charged separately from the rental fee, and a “￥” mark is displayed on the menu to inform the customer of the fact. No. The home delivery of No. 3 is a menu for delivering the rented video to the home or a place designated by the customer, and the home delivery fee required for the delivery is separately from the rental fee. "¥" mark is displayed.

In mobile phone 1000, button 300
When a reservation is made in step 5, a lending reservation request message is transmitted from the mobile phone 1000, and the PC 1011 of the rental video shop 1010 receives the request, and performs a lending reservation process for the reserved packaged media. At this time, PC 101
1 generates a reservation number common to the mobile phone 1000 and sends the reservation number to the mobile phone 1000 together with a reservation acceptance message. When the mobile phone 1000 receives the reservation number, the mobile phone 1000 can transfer the reservation number to another mobile phone. When the mobile phone 1000 transfers the reservation number, the mobile phone 1000 deletes the reservation number stored in the mobile phone 1000.

In this embodiment, the case of rental is described, but it may be used as a way of selling videos. In each case, No. 1 and No. In the second reservation, the video is delivered when the customer actually goes to the shop.

FIG. 3 (b) is a screen displaying a video reservation by text display with an image introducing the contents of the video and showing how to reserve the video.

The display of the video stock list on the liquid crystal screen 3030 is the same as the liquid crystal screen 3000 shown in FIG. Here, No. The title of No. 3 is displayed in a folded two-line display because the number of characters is longer than the width of the liquid crystal screen. In this case, the cursor 3006 for selecting the title also changes to a two-line shape so as to select the entire title.

When the title is selected by pressing the button 3005, the screen transits to the liquid crystal screen 3040. This has the same function as the liquid crystal screen 3010 in FIG.
A digest of the content of the video can be displayed as a moving image 3041. And here, the moving image 3041
Because the area of the liquid crystal screen 3040 is occupied in FIG.
Cannot be displayed on the same screen. Therefore, the detailed information of the video is scrolled and displayed using the buttons 3003 and 3004 in the same manner as the liquid crystal screen 3030. This function may be realized on the liquid crystal screen 3010 in FIG. Moving image 3041
May be an MPEG1 image with a high image quality and a high compression rate used for a video CD or the like, or may be an image format with a higher compression rate such as an MPEG4 image.

If the user decides to rent this video on the liquid crystal screen 3040, the liquid crystal screen 3 shown in FIG.
When the button 3005 is pressed as in the operation at 010, the screen transitions to the liquid crystal screen 3050. This screen is also shown in Fig. 3 (a)
3A has the same function as the liquid crystal screen 3020, but FIG. 3A shows character information such as a title and a director. On the other hand, the liquid crystal screen 3050 has, for example, a video case label, a movie pamphlet, and the like. Still image 3 same as poster
051 is displayed to indicate to the customer that this video has been selected in a visually recognizable manner. Subsequent operations are the same as those in FIG. 3A, and a description thereof will be omitted.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration for distributing a moving image in an embodiment of the content reservation system according to the present invention. The mobile phone 1000 is connected to the communication base station 102.
0 is connected by radio waves. Video shop PC1011
Is transmitted to the communication base station 102 via the gateway 1021.
0, and through this route, the mobile phone 1000
Can access the PC 1011 of the video shop. Mass storage device 10 attached to PC 1011
12, a video tape 1013 and an optical disk 1014
Is recorded as a digest of a part of the moving image recorded in the.
The digest video can be viewed on the mobile phone 1000.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the embodiment of the data reservation system according to the embodiment of the content reservation system according to the present invention, which distributes data indicating the video stock status and the lending status.

The mobile phone 1000 is connected to the PC 1011 of the video shop via the communication base station 1020 and the gateway 1021, as in FIGS. The PC 1011 of the video shop is provided with a mass storage device 1012, a list of videos released to the world, a list of videos held by the video shop, the current rental status, the expected return date, and each video. And information such as digest video and the like. All of this information is transmitted to the communication line 1022 in response to a button operation on the mobile phone 1000.
The transmission to the mobile phone 1000 has already been described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 4, and the description is omitted here.

Here, of these pieces of information, a list of videos released to the world and a digest video already held by the shop are passed to the customer without passing through the communication line 1022, so that a limited It shows how to reduce the load on the communication line, which is a resource. The mobile phone 1000 has an interface for mounting a multimedia card (hereinafter, referred to as MMC) 5030 including a flash memory, a CPU, and the like. This corresponds to the removable memory 2004 in FIG.

The video shop P
The C1011 directly records a list of videos released to the world, a list of videos held by the shop, information on the contents of each video, a digest video, and the like. This information is updated in a timely manner by transmitting information via communication lines, and the most real-time information, such as the current lending status and expected return date,
As described with reference to FIG. 1, the video is transmitted in a form according to the request of the terminal using the communication line in the form of whether the customer wants to watch the video or whether the video can be rented. In addition to the above information, personal information such as a customer ID number can be recorded in the MMC 5030.

The MMC 5030 has a built-in encryption processing circuit having a built-in CPU, and information and personal information relating to these contents are encrypted and stored. Even when connected to another PC, they are read and used for other purposes. It is possible to make it impossible. The information described in the MMC 5030 is added to the information of the DVD-RAM drive or CD-R drive (not shown) connected to the PC 5020.
It is also possible to supply the data by an optical disk 5050 created by a rewritable disk writer.

This optical disk 5050 is stored in the customer's PC 5
060, and is written to the MMC 5030 of the mobile phone 1000 directly connected to the customer's PC 5060 by the PC-I / F 2010 in FIG. The program for writing is built in the optical disk 5050, and the information is written in the MMC 5030 in an encrypted state. Here, when the PC 5060 and the mobile phone 1000 are directly connected 5061 to perform writing, the MMC 5040 may not be detachable in the mobile phone 1000 but may be completely embedded therein.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a content reservation system according to the present invention, in which communication is performed while concealing customer information on a mobile phone.

In the mobile phone 1000 etc., the customer ID 60
01, customer address data 6002, reservation request message 6003, and store public key 6004 are recorded. These pieces of information may be stored in the memory of the mobile phone 1000 or the like.
May be in the MMC 5030 shown in FIG. Of these, the customer ID 6001 and the customer address data 6002 that need to be kept secret are recorded in a state where they cannot be directly read from outside.

When making a video reservation as shown in FIG.
The customer ID 6001, customer address data 6002, and reservation request message 6003 are input to the encryption processing circuit 6005, and are encrypted using the store public key 6004. Here, the store public key 6004 is a key downloaded from the PC 1011 of the video shop at the time of a rental member contract with the video shop or by means of communication at any time when the public key itself is updated. The encrypted information is
It can only be decrypted using the private key corresponding to the public key held by the video shop. Therefore, the encryption processing circuit 6005
The information encrypted by is not sent to the inside even if intercepted from outside, and is securely transmitted to the PC 1011 of the video shop while keeping the information secret.

The PC 1011 has an internal encryption processing circuit 60.
11, the information is decrypted using its own secret key, and the customer ID, customer address data, and reservation request message are extracted. Then, if necessary, the data stored in the PC 1011 at the time of the rental member contract is checked against the format of the customer ID, address data, and reservation request message,
Make sure the information in the booking request is correct,
Perform processing according to the contents of the reservation request message.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a state in which contents to be rented or sold in the embodiment of the contents reservation system according to the present invention are created in response to a request.

FIG. 7 (a) is a diagram showing how a content is created by a video shop. The PC 1011 of the video shop has a large-capacity storage device 10 attached thereto.
12 stores moving image content data such as a digitized movie. This data is basically MPEG
2 and so on. The video shop receiving the video rental or purchase request from the customer uses the DVD-RAM or DVD-R drive 7020 connected to the PC 1012 to transfer the moving image content stored in the mass storage device 1012 to the DVD-R.
Write to the optical disk in the AM or DVD-R drive 7020.

At this time, the moving image content is encrypted and written on the optical disc, and even if the content is copied, it can be viewed only by the person who rents the content.
The PC 1011 prints the package label of the content stored in the mass storage device 1012 by the printer 7030. This printer 7030
May be an ink jet printer, a laser beam printer, a sublimable thermal transfer printer, or a hot melt thermal transfer printer. A video package 7040 to be rented or sold to a customer is completed by putting an optical disk on which encrypted moving image content is recorded and a package label in a case.

For the creation of this video package, the customer may reserve the time to go to the shop and schedule it accordingly, and the recording format may be MPEG.
In addition to the high-definition video format such as MPEG2, the format may be converted to another format such as MPEG1 according to a customer's request. In addition, the moving image content may be encrypted using the customer's public key at the time of receiving the reservation, or the moving image data encrypted with the content-specific key may be prepared in advance. Good. In this case, the key for browsing the moving image data is sent to the customer's mobile phone 1000 in various ways shown in FIG. The shop that creates the content and the shop that passes to the customer may be the same or different shops, and the shop where the customer stops may be automatically set in addition to the designation by the customer. I do.

FIG. 7B is a diagram showing a situation where a customer browses a rented or purchased video package 704.
The optical disk of No. 0 is reproduced using the player 7050. By directly connecting the player 7050 to the mobile phone 1000 by short-range data communication using radio waves or infrared rays (not shown) as an interface with the mobile phone 1000, or by directly connecting the MMC card described in FIG.
The viewing key received at the time of rental or purchase of the video package is sent to the player 7050, and the player 7
050 decrypts the encrypted moving image content using the received browsing key and outputs the decrypted moving image content to a monitor 706 such as a television.
0 to allow the customer to watch the video.

Here, in the case of rental, there is a viewing period, and information indicating the viewing period is described in addition to the key information in the video package or the mobile phone 1000. When the expiration date has passed, the key in the mobile phone 1000 is automatically erased, or when the player 7050 mounts the optical disc and sends the key from the mobile phone 1000,
Erasing the entire encrypted moving image content in the video package or the data at the entry point can make browsing beyond the expiration date impossible. If this time limit is indefinite, it corresponds to purchase. If the customer wants to extend the viewing period, the mobile phone 10
A request for extension is made to the video shop from 00, and the video shop sends encryption information for rewriting the expiration date in the video package and the expiration date information in the terminal for extension of the expiration date. This information is decrypted by the encryption processing circuit 6005 in the mobile phone 1000 shown in FIG.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the internal configuration of the MMC 5030 used in FIG. 5 in the embodiment of the content reservation system according to the present invention.

In the present embodiment, the MMC 5030 has the same configuration as an IC card used for electronic money and the like.
With MF (Master File) as the root, there are a plurality of DFs (Dedicated Files) below it, DF1 is used for rental, and DF2 is used for electronic money, for example. DF1
Below this is an EF (Elementary File), which describes various information related to the content reservation system of the present invention. The EF1 has a user ID that has subscribed to the video shop and a public key and a private key of the customer. EF2
Contains the ID of the video package to be rented or purchased / purchased. In EF3, the viewing keys corresponding to these video packages are described. Video I
Since the videos of D1 and ID3 have been rented or purchased, there are corresponding viewing keys,
2 has no viewing key because it is before rental or purchase.

The MMC 5030 may be a memory card as long as the DF name and EF name are not disclosed, but the DF1 is a program, and a public key or video ID can be read out by inputting a command from the outside, The browsing key transmitted from the video shop and stored in the EF2 can be decrypted using the key.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a flow of using the content reservation system according to the embodiment of the present invention while giving the browsing key confidentially to the customer.

The customer of the terminal device such as the mobile phone 1000
When a video to be rented or purchased is specified to the PC (personal computer) 1011 of the rental video shop (9000), the video specification information 9001 is stored in the PC 10
The PC 1011 prepares a browsing key for browsing the video (9100). The mobile phone 1000 subsequently sends the public key 9011 of the customer of the mobile phone 1000 (9010),
The PC 1011 receives the public key of the customer (9110) and uses it to encrypt the video viewing key (9120). Then, when the customer comes to the store, the encrypted video viewing key 9021 is transmitted to the customer's mobile phone 1000 (9130), and the customer's mobile phone 1000 receives the encrypted viewing key (9020). .
And the shop is a video 9141 with encrypted video
To the customer (9140), and the customer receives the video (903).
0). The customer decrypts the received encrypted browsing key using his private key in his mobile phone 1000 (904).
0), the encrypted video is decrypted using the decrypted browse key, and the video of the video is browsed.

The method according to this flow is applicable not only to the case where the video shop creates a video package every time the customer instructs as shown in FIG. 7, but also to a medium such as a DVD-ROM in which a pre-encrypted video is recorded. Also, the present invention can be similarly applied to a case of lending while setting a viewing period.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing a method of automatically setting a place where a customer receives a video booked by the customer in the content reservation system according to the present invention.

In FIG. 10, a video shop 1001
Reference numeral 1 denotes a video shop to which a customer first made a rental member contract, and the customer basically rents at this video shop. In the case of this embodiment, a case is shown in which the customer's scheduled travel route is away from the video shop that is normally used. In other words, customers can book videos booked on their mobile phones without deviating from their original travel route.
It shows how to receive.

On this map, the location where the customer is currently located 10
There are many video shops 10010,
There are 10011, 10012, and 10013, which are affiliated stores of the video shop 10011 with which the customer has made a membership contract. The customer's home location is 10020
Then, the route that passes when returning home is 10021. The video shops 10010 and 10012 within a circle 10030 having a radius designated by the customer in advance are candidates for the customer to receive the video package. From these, the customer designates the place and the time at which the customer receives the video package. Prepare a video to hand to the customer in the store. If the customer receives the video package when returning home, the video shop 1001 along the return route specified by the customer in advance.
3 is a candidate, from which the customer specifies the location and the time of receipt, and the video shop prepares a video to be passed to the customer at the specified store.

This processing is performed by the PC 10111 of the video shop which receives the personal information such as the current position and the moving route from the customer to the home while concealing it by the method shown in FIG. 6, and puts a calculation load on the terminal of the customer. Instead, it is possible to list customers and collect customer information at the same time.

As a specific operation, the customer makes a rental reservation by communicating with the video shop 10011 that made the rental reservation, and at the same time, receives the video package to be rented near the customer's own scheduled travel route. The message, the scheduled route and the scheduled time are sent to the PC of the video shop 10011. The PC of the video shop 10011 selects an optimal video shop to deliver the video to the customer from the affiliated store location database of the PC and the planned route and time of the customer transmitted from the customer.

As a first method of actually delivering a video for which a rental reservation has been made to a customer, a rental reservation message from the customer is sent to the video shop 10010, and the video shop 10010 can rent a video package reserved for rental from its own stock. Is determined. If lending is possible, the video shop 10010 informs the customer that the video tape reserved in the video shop 10010 is to be delivered directly or via the video shop 10011.

As a second method, a rental reservation message from a customer is sent to rental video shops 10011 to 10012, and video packages in stock in video shop 10011 are conveyed to 10012. At this time, the PC of the video shop 10011 prints or outputs an instruction to deliver the specified video package to the video shop 10012 on the display of the PC, and instructs the person in charge of transporting the luggage such as the clerk of the video shop to the designated person. Is sent to the video shop 10012. The same processing may be performed when the video shop 10010 has no stock in the first method. Then, the video shop 10012 notifies the customer that the video package reserved in the video shop 10012 is to be delivered, directly or via the video shop 10011.

As a third method, a rental reservation message from a customer is sent to rental video shops 10011 to 10013. And rental video shop 100
At 13, as described in FIG.
An instruction to create a video package to be rented using DR or the like is issued. The video shop 10013 creates a video package according to the instructions, and the video shop 10013 directly or
011 to the customer via the video shop 100
In step 13, the user is notified that the reserved video package will be delivered.

As to which of these methods to select, the above three methods may be sent by the rental video shop 10011 to the customer's mobile phone as a selection menu screen so that the customer can make a selection. In addition, the above three methods and the selection of the store to be delivered are determined by the time required to implement the first method, the time required to implement the second method (transport time of the video package), The time required to realize the third method (the time required to create a video package) is compared with the customer's scheduled travel route and scheduled time.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a configuration in which a customer selects a video in a rental video shop in an embodiment of a content reservation system according to the present invention.

In FIG. 11 (a), many video packages 7040 are lined up on the shelf of a rental video shop. Usually, while watching this video package 7040, sometimes picking it up, the customer can download the video to be rented. select. In the present embodiment, each video package 70
An interface 110 for performing short-distance data communication using a radio wave or an infrared ray with the mobile phone 1000 immediately below 40
20 are installed. Through this interface 11020, text information about the content recorded on the package medium and a short-time moving image or still image indicating an outline of the content can be transmitted to the mobile phone 1000. You can browse the digest video and related information of the video as shown in b). The interface 11020 corresponds to each video package on a one-to-one basis.
040 may be prepared, or may be provided in units of shelves or several video packages so that digest video and related information of video packages in front of and around the customer can be viewed. Good.

FIG. 11B is a diagram showing a screen displayed on mobile phone 1000 in the present embodiment. Liquid crystal screen 3000 of mobile phone 1000 has the same video as that shown in FIG. The inventory list is displayed. Here, even if they are lined up on the shelf, those that are out of stock due to rental or the like need not be displayed in this list. Some of the video stock lists in the liquid crystal screen 3000 are masked like a part 11031. This indicates a video in which a digest moving image or related information cannot be received because the distance exceeds the distance that can be connected by the interface 11020 in FIG. 11A. As the customer moves in front of the shelves of the video shop, the location of this mask will also move. Therefore, when a customer searches for a video to be rented, it is possible to search for the location of the video by walking while looking at the list.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing the flow of communication information in FIGS. 1 and 7 in the embodiment of the content reservation system according to the present invention.

The customer accesses the online reservation system 12030 in the PC 1011 (FIG. 1) of the rental video shop using the mobile phone 1000 having a non-call communication function such as a Web browser or a portable information terminal (not shown). The access route is a route from the communication base station 1020 of the mobile phone 1000 to the online reservation system 12030 via the gateway 1021, and a route from the communication base station 1030 to the online reservation system 12030 via the general telephone network 1031. There is.

In the present embodiment, the case where the video shop shown in FIG. 7 creates a video package every time the customer instructs is described, and the reservation request information 12031 transmitted from the customer is described above. It is transmitted to the online reservation system 12030 through any route.

The online reservation system 12030 sends an instruction to create a copy of the designated content according to the reservation request information from the customer, to the media copy system 7020.
Send to The media duplication system 7020 sends, to the image database 1012, a reservation number 12041 capable of specifying the content such as a video title specified by the customer. From the image database 1012, the image data 12051 of the corresponding content is transmitted to the media duplication system. 7020.

The image data 12051 may be encrypted in advance, and the media duplication system 70
The encrypted image data 12042 may be recorded on the medium 7040 as a result. Note that the mobile phone 1000 displays the reservation request information 12031.
Is transmitted to the online reservation system 12030, and when the reservation contract is established, the decryption key of the encrypted content is transmitted to the mobile phone 1000.

The medium 7040 on which the encrypted image data is recorded is loaded into a media player 7050 of the customer at the time of playback. Next, the mobile phone 1000 transmits the decryption key 12002 received at the time of contract to the media player 7050. This transmission is performed by the media player 705.
0 and the mobile phone 1000 may be connected by wire, or may be wirelessly connected using infrared rays, weak electric waves of specific power saving, or the like, but the secure transfer of the decryption key from the store to the customer described with reference to FIG. It is necessary to safely pass the decryption key to the media player 7050 in a manner similar to that described above in a manner that is not intercepted by another device or another person.

The media player 7050 decrypts the encrypted video data recorded on the medium 12060 using the received decryption key, and decrypts the decrypted video data 12071.
To a display / audio system 7060 composed of a television monitor, an audio amplifier, speakers, and the like,
The display / audio system 7060 watches the video.

When the contract for the online reservation is completed, a message indicating the completion of the contract is transmitted to the customer's mobile phone. At this time, the online reservation system 12030 uses the contract reservation ID indicating this contract. A number is generated and sent to the mobile phone 1000 together with a contract completion message.

The actual reception of the media is performed by collating the contract reservation number in the mobile phone at the store. This is performed only in or near the store shown in FIG. The collation is performed using a communication means capable of communication. Furthermore, by passing this reservation number to a customer's family, for example, by communication means, it is possible for a person other than the customer to receive the media. At this time, the reservation number is transferred by a method similar to the transmission of the decryption key in FIG. 9 using a secure method that is not intercepted by another person, so that the third party can illegally receive the media. It is possible to prevent that.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing the flow of communication information in FIGS. 1, 7 and 10 of the embodiment of the content reservation system according to the present invention.

The method of making a reservation and the writing and reproduction of image data to and from the medium are exactly the same as those in FIG. 12, and a description thereof will be omitted. In the present embodiment, a description will be given of the flow of information in the case where a store to which media is to be delivered to a customer is specified using the current position and route information of the mobile phone shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 10, the reservation request information 12031 transmitted from the mobile phone 1000 includes the location information of the mobile phone, such as the location information of the customer who owns the mobile phone. . This information is processed by the information distribution management device 13040, and information other than the location (Location) information is sent to the media duplication system 7020 as in FIG. 12, and the media duplication process shown in FIG. 12 is performed.

The location information 13041 sent to the information distribution management device 13040 is
090, the information distribution management device 13040 selects a store near the location of the mobile phone 1000 or a mobile route near the customer who owns the mobile phone from the store database 13090, By presenting the store list to the customer and having the customer select the store, the store that delivers the media to the customer is determined. The media duplication system 7020 may be performed at the determined store, or may distribute media created at an integrated media duplication center that supplies media to some stores.

[0107]

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a content reservation system, a terminal device, and a playback device that enable the user to know the inventory status or lending of package media in a store without having to go to the store.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of an embodiment of a content reservation system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of an embodiment of the mobile phone 1000 in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a screen and an operation surface of the liquid crystal display device 2003 in FIG. 2 in the mobile phone 1000 in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration for distributing a moving image in the content reservation system according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of distribution of data indicating a stock status and a rental status of a video in the embodiment of the content reservation system according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a content reservation system according to the present invention in which communication is performed while concealing customer information on a mobile phone;

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a state in which content to be rented or sold is created in response to a request in the embodiment of the content reservation system according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the internal configuration of the MMC 5030 used in FIG. 5 in the embodiment of the content reservation system according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a flow in which the browsing key is passed to the customer and used while keeping the browsing key confidential in the embodiment of the content reservation system according to the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a method of automatically setting a place where a customer receives a video booked by the customer in the embodiment of the content reservation system according to the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a configuration in which a customer selects a video in a rental video shop in the embodiment of the content reservation system according to the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a flow of communication information in FIGS. 1 and 7 in the embodiment of the content reservation system according to the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a flow of communication information in FIGS. 1, 7 and 10 of the embodiment of the content reservation system according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1000: mobile phone, 1001: mobile information terminal, 100
2 personal computer, 1010 rental video shop, 1011 PC (personal computer), 1012 large-capacity storage device attached, 1013 video, 1014 optical disk, 1020, 1030 communication base station, 1021, 1032 gateway, 103
1: General network 3000: LCD screen, 3001, 30
02, 3003, 3004, 3005 ... button, 300
6 cursor, 3041 moving image, 3051 still image, 6001 customer ID, 6002 address data, 60
03: reservation request message, 6004: store public key, 60
05, 6011: encryption processing circuit, 7020: DVD-
RAM and DVD drive, 7040: Video package, 10,000: Current location, 10010, 1001
1,10012,10013… Video shop, 100
20 ... Home location, 10030 ... Yen, 11020 ... Interface.

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Shigeyuki Sudo 292 Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture F-term in the Digital Media Development Division, Hitachi, Ltd. 5B049 BB60 CC06 CC27 GG00

Claims (29)

[Claims] 1. A terminal device, such as a mobile phone, a portable information terminal, or a personal computer, accesses a computer of a store and sends request information for requesting stock or lending information of package media of the store to the computer of the store. In accordance with the received request information, the terminal device can display the list of package media that can be rented, based on the inventory status or lending information of the package media managed by the computer. A content reservation system having a function of generating the content in a form and transmitting it to the terminal device. 2. The content reservation system according to claim 1, wherein the computer receives, from the terminal device, a request message for requesting one or more selected lending reservations from the list of package media available for lending. A content reservation system having the function of performing 3. The content reservation system according to claim 2, wherein said computer has a reservation processing function of performing a package media lending reservation process in accordance with the contents of said lending reservation request message. system. 4. The content reservation system according to claim 2, wherein the request message for lending reservation includes designation of a lending date or date and time. 5. The content reservation system according to claim 1, wherein the computer has a storage device, and the storage device includes character information on the content recorded on the package medium, and the computer includes the character information. A content reservation system that has a function of generating the content in a form that can be displayed on the terminal device and transmitting the generated content to the terminal device. 6. The content reservation system according to claim 5, wherein the storage device includes a short-time moving image or a still image indicating an outline of contents of the content recorded on the package medium. A content reservation system having a function of generating a still image in a form displayable on the terminal device and transmitting the still image to the terminal device. 7. The contents reservation system according to claim 1, wherein the list of rentable package media transmitted from the computer is received by the terminal device, and the list of package media displayed on the terminal device is displayed. A cursor for selecting the package medium is displayed on top of the package medium, and when the name of the package medium displayed on the list extends over a plurality of lines, the cursor also covers the entire name of the package medium on a plurality of lines. A content reservation system characterized by the following. 8. The content reservation system according to claim 4, wherein a reservation processing function of transmitting information on occurrence of a rental reservation fee to said terminal device when the designation of said rental date exceeds a default value of a normal reservation period. , A content reservation system provided in the computer. 9. The content reservation system according to claim 3, wherein a media copying device for creating a copy of the selected package media in accordance with said lending reservation is connected to said computer. . 10. The content reservation system according to claim 9, wherein the content recorded on the copy of the package medium is encrypted. 11. The content reservation system according to claim 10, wherein the decryption key information used for decrypting the encrypted content is encrypted with a public key transmitted from the terminal device, and A content reservation system, wherein decryption key information is transmitted from the computer to the terminal device together with the encrypted content. 12. The content reservation system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device has a current position of the terminal device or position information indicating a planned route of movement of the owner of the terminal device. Including, transmitted from the terminal device to the computer, the computer has a store database indicating the first store in which the computer is installed and stores around the store, the received current of the terminal device A reservation request message transfer that searches the store database for a store located in the vicinity of the location or the route to be moved by the owner of the terminal device, and transfers the rental reservation request message to the second store output as a search result. Function and the existing content existing in the first store reserved in the first store. A transport output function for outputting an instruction to be delivered to the second store to a person in charge of the first store for transporting the luggage such as media; 2. A content reservation system having a copy creation instruction function of transferring an instruction to create a copy at a second store, and selectively executing any one of the functions. 13. The content reservation system according to claim 1, further comprising: a short-range wireless communication interface for communicating with said terminal device near said package media arrangement place of said store, and via said interface. Transmitting a short-time moving image or a still image indicating character information and an outline of the content recorded on the package medium to the terminal device. 14. The content reservation system according to claim 3, wherein when the computer in said store accepts said lending reservation, a reservation number common to said terminal device and said computer is generated, and said reservation number is entered. The content reservation system, wherein the computer has a function of sending the terminal device together with a reservation acceptance message. 15. The content reservation system according to claim 14, wherein when receiving the reservation number sent together with the reservation acceptance message, the reservation number is transferred from the terminal device to another terminal device and stored in the terminal device. A reservation number management function for erasing the reservation number. 16. A terminal device, such as a mobile phone, a portable information terminal, or a personal computer, having wireless communication and displaying characters and images, accesses a computer in a store,
A function of requesting inventory or lending information of package media at the store, a function of receiving the list of package media that can be rented and generated and transmitted by the computer, and the package media that can be rented and received A terminal device having a function of displaying a list. 17. The terminal device according to claim 16, further comprising a function of selecting one or more from the list of package media that can be rented, and transmitting a selected lending reservation request message. apparatus. 18. The terminal device according to claim 16, wherein the lending reservation request message includes designation of a lending date or a date and time. 19. The terminal device according to claim 16, wherein the list of package media that can be rented includes character information on moving image content recorded on the package medium, and the list including the character information is stored in the list. A terminal device for receiving. 20. The terminal device according to claim 16, wherein the list of package media which can be rented includes a short-time moving image or a still image showing an outline of the contents of the moving image content recorded on the package medium. And receiving the list including the character information. 21. The terminal device according to claim 16, wherein the function of displaying the received list of package media that can be rented is displayed by overlapping a cursor for selecting the package media on the list of package media. If the name of the package medium displayed in the list extends over a plurality of lines, the terminal device also covers the entire name of the package medium with the plurality of lines. 22. The terminal device according to claim 16, comprising a public key and a secret key unique to said terminal device, and having a cryptographic processing function of decrypting information encrypted with said public key with said secret key. A terminal device characterized by the above-mentioned. 23. The terminal device according to claim 16, wherein said package media is provided via a short-range wireless communication interface for communication with said terminal device, which is provided near said package media arrangement place of said store. A terminal device having a function of receiving and displaying a short-time moving image or a still image indicating character information and an outline of the content recorded in the content. 24. The terminal device according to claim 16, wherein a route management function for detecting a current position of said terminal device and managing current position information and scheduled movement position information of said terminal device, and said current position information and movement information. A terminal device having a function of transmitting scheduled position information and a function of receiving and displaying position information of a store that receives the package media transmitted from the computer system. 25. The terminal device according to claim 24, wherein the current position information and the scheduled movement position information are transmitted after being encrypted. 26. The terminal device according to claim 17, further comprising a function of receiving a decryption key for decrypting the encrypted content recorded in the package medium to be lent after transmitting the request message for lending reservation. A terminal device comprising: 27. The terminal device according to claim 26, wherein a public key unique to said terminal device is transmitted before receiving said decryption key, and a decryption key encrypted by said public key is received. Terminal device. 28. A terminal device according to claim 16, further comprising cryptographic information processing means having a public key cryptographic processing function, wherein said cryptographic processing means has a function of encrypting and decrypting information and a function unique to said terminal device. A terminal device having a public key and a secret key, wherein the terminal device has a structure in which a secret key unique to the terminal device cannot be referred to from outside the cryptographic information processing means and is detachable from the terminal device. 29. A playback device for decoding and playing back encrypted image data in the form of package media such as a video tape or an optical disk, wherein the playback device uses a decryption key for decoding the encrypted image data. Can receive a decryption key for decrypting the encrypted image data from the terminal device, and decrypts and reproduces the encrypted image data using the decryption key. A reproducing apparatus having a function of performing