JP2002156981A - System and method for providing terminating sound - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for providing terminating sound which easily provide a favorite phrase of the same music with an MD for a customer as a terminating sound of a PHS or portable telephone to improve the satisfaction of the customer and increase users, eliminates the need to beforehand structure a database of data on terminating sounds, and can store more contents on a terminal and to provide a method for providing terminating sound. SOLUTION: A kiosk terminal is equipped with a DISK unit having a database stored with MD data as data of music to be downloaded to a mini disk, a display part which displays a menu picture, an input part with which a customer easily operates the kiosk terminal, and phrase selection which converts MD music data in MD data that the customer downloads to the mini disk into a terminating sound of a text data part that the customer selects and downloads the converted data into a mobile portable terminal.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention provides a ring tone of a portable mobile terminal having the same music as a music selected by an MD (mini-disc) download service, particularly in a digital content providing terminal such as an MMK (multimedia kiosk). It belongs to a ring tone providing system and method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, kiosk terminals installed in stations, government offices, highway SAs, and the like generally have a visual menu screen, an operation guide by voice, a touch panel, and the like, and are easily provided. It can be operated and performs various procedures and guidance.

[0003] Among the above kiosk terminals, in particular,
A terminal specializing in multimedia content services is called an MMK (Multi Media Kiosk), and the following MMK service contents are available. 1. Digital print service A service for printing photographs taken with a digital camera. 2. Music download service A service to write music to the customer's MD. 3. Mobile service Ringtone download service. Phonebook rewriting service. 4. Ticketing service

[0004]

However, the prior art has the following problems. In the conventional MMK, a music download service for the MD and a ring tone (ringtone) download service are separately provided. Therefore, the customer selects a song that he or she wants to listen to or a favorite song from many songs and downloads it to the MD or mobile phone (or PHS), respectively. It has not responded to customer demand for downloading the same song at the same time.

[0005] Further, in the conventional MMK, since a ring tone stored in a database in advance is downloaded, a customer cannot select a favorite phrase in a song according to his / her preference. Furthermore, since it is necessary to create a database of ringtone data in advance, it has been difficult to store a large amount of content in a terminal.

The present invention has been made in view of such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide a customer with a favorite phrase of the same music as that of an MD as a PHS or a ring tone of a mobile phone. An object of the present invention is to provide a ring tone providing system and method that can improve the satisfaction level and increase the number of customers, eliminate the need to previously store ring tone data in a database, and store more contents in a terminal. .

[0007]

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above problems, the present invention has the following constitution. The gist of the invention according to claim 1 has a function of writing music to a mini-disc and a function of downloading the ring tone data to a mobile portable terminal having a function of receiving and holding ring tone data. A ring tone providing system including a kiosk terminal, wherein the kiosk terminal includes a DISK device including a database storing MD data which is data of music to be downloaded to the mini-disc, and a display for displaying a menu screen. Unit, an input unit for the customer to easily operate the kiosk terminal, and MD music data in the MD data downloaded to the mini-disc by the customer as a ring tone for only the lyrics data part selected by the customer. A phrase selection for converting the data and downloading it to the mobile portable terminal. It resides in the test system. The gist of the invention according to claim 2 is that the phrase selection is performed in accordance with the operation of the customer.
Selecting a phrase to be downloaded as a ring tone of the mobile portable terminal from lyrics data in the data;
The ring tone providing system according to claim 1, wherein the MD music data corresponding to the phrase portion in the data is converted as a ring tone of the mobile portable terminal. The gist of the invention according to claim 3 resides in the ring tone providing system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the kiosk terminal is installed in a convenience store or a facility engaged in music information distribution business. The gist of the invention according to claim 4 is that the mobile portable terminal is a personal handy phone system or a mobile phone carried by the customer, and the ring tone providing system according to any one of claims 1 to 3. Exists. The gist of the invention according to claim 5 is that M data that is stored in a database in advance and that is to be downloaded to the mini disk is M
A ring tone providing method, wherein, of the D data, the MD song data downloaded by the customer to the mini-disc is converted into a ring tone for only the lyrics data portion selected by the customer and downloaded to the mobile portable terminal. Exist. The gist of the invention according to claim 6 is that, in accordance with the operation of the customer, a phrase to be downloaded as a ring tone of the mobile portable terminal is selected from the lyrics data in the MD data, and the phrase in the MD data is selected. 6. The ring tone providing method according to claim 5, wherein the MD music data corresponding to the portion is data converted as a ring tone of the mobile portable terminal. The gist of the invention described in claim 7 resides in software for implementing the ringtone providing method according to claim 5 or 6. The gist of the invention described in claim 8 is that
The present invention resides in a storage medium provided with software for realizing the ring tone providing method according to claim 5 or 6.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG. 1, the ring tone providing system and method according to the present embodiment includes a multimedia kiosk terminal 1, a mini disk 3, a portable / P
HS4.

[0009] The multimedia kiosk terminal 1 is an MMK (MK) dedicated to multimedia content services.
multi-media kiosk, a magnetic disk device 12 and an LCD 13
, Touch panel 14, phrase selection 15, PHS
A cable 17a, a mobile cable 17b, and an MD writer device 18; a function of writing music to an MD (mini-disc 3); and a function of downloading ringtone data to a PHS or a mobile phone. It is installed in a facility such as a store or CD shop that is involved in music information distribution.

[0010] The portable / PHS4 is a PHS held by a customer.
Alternatively, it is a mobile portable terminal such as a mobile phone, is connectable to the multimedia kiosk terminal 1, and has a function of receiving and retaining ring tone data. Magnetic DISK device 12
Is a storage medium of a magnetic disk, and is MD data which is MD music data to be downloaded to the mini disk 3.
It has a DB 11 which is a database storing data.

The LCD 13 is a liquid crystal display panel, and is a display unit of the multimedia kiosk terminal 1 for displaying a visual menu screen.

The touch panel 14 is an input unit using a touch panel for enabling a customer to easily operate the multimedia kiosk terminal 1 by directly touching the terminal with a finger.

The phrase selection 15 has a function of selecting a phrase to be downloaded as a PHS or a ring tone of a mobile phone from the lyrics data in the MD data in accordance with an operation on the touch panel 14 of the customer. An arrangement section 16 for converting data of the MD music data corresponding to the phrase portion as a ring tone of a PHS or a mobile phone is provided.

The PHS cable 17a is an interface for connecting a PHS (Personal Handy Phone System), and the mobile cable 17b is an interface for connecting a mobile phone. If the customer has a mobile / PHS4 that is a PHS, the customer
When the PHS 4 is connected to the PHS cable 17a, and the mobile phone / PHS 4 is a mobile phone, the mobile phone / P
HS4 is connected to the mobile cable 17b.

The MD writer device 18 is configured to display the MD in the MD data selected by the operation of the customer on the touch panel 14.
It has a function of downloading music data from the magnetic disk device 12 and writing it on the mini disk 3 inserted and set by the customer.

The multimedia kiosk terminal 1 responds to a customer's operation on the touch panel 14 while the customer downloads MD music data to the mini-disc 3.
The MD music data of the lyrics data portion selected by the customer is converted as a ring tone and downloaded to the mobile / PHS4.

Hereinafter, according to the flowchart shown in FIG.
The operation of the present embodiment will be described. The customer connects his / her mobile / PHS 4 to the PHS cable 17a or the mobile cable 17b of the multimedia kiosk terminal 1, sets the mini disk 3 in the MD insertion slot of the MD writer device 18, and checks the LCD 13. Using the touch panel 14, the user selects a MD song to download (steps 1 and 2).

FIG. 3 shows a data flow in the multimedia kiosk terminal 1. The DB 11 has a database in which MD data (1 to nn) is stored. Each of the MD data (1 to nn) includes MD music data (1 to nn) and lyrics data (1 to nn).

In step 1, n is selected by the customer.
When the MD data (n) is selected, the n-th MD data 2 is extracted from the DB 11. When the customer sets the mini-disc 3 in the MD writer device 18 in advance, the MD song data (n) is downloaded from the extracted n-th MD data 2 to the mini-disc 3 (step 3).

While downloading the MD music data (n) to the mini-disc 3, the LC of the multimedia kiosk terminal 1
D13 displays the phrase of the lyrics data (n) of the nth MD data 2 currently downloaded on the LCD 13 (step 4). The customer selects a phrase on the touch panel 14 by looking at the lyrics data (n) displayed on the screen of the LCD 13 to determine which part of the currently downloaded song is to be used as the ring tone by the phrase selection 15 (step 5). , Step 6). FIG. 4 shows a screen display of operation buttons on the LCD 13 and the touch panel 14 when a phrase is selected. The LCD 13 displays the information of the lyrics data (n), and the customer selects the phrase by moving the black triangle using the touch buttons at the bottom while watching the displayed lyrics data n. The area between the black triangles is the selected phrase. Here, as a modified example, a function for viewing the selection range may be provided.

After the phrases are selected in Steps 5 and 6, the multimedia kiosk terminal 1 extracts the ringtone portion from the MD music data (n), arranges it into the ringtone in the arrangement section 16, and arranges it. The download of the incoming call melody data 7 to the portable / PHS 4 is started (step 7).

The ring tone providing system and method according to the embodiment are configured as described above, and have the following effects.

The customer can easily download a favorite phrase of the same music as the mini-disc as a ringtone, thereby improving customer satisfaction and serving as an appealing point of the service, thereby increasing the number of customers.

Also, by arranging the ringtone from the MD data, it is not necessary to prepare the data of the ringtone in a database in advance, so that more contents can be stored in the terminal.

Note that, in the present embodiment, the present invention is not limited to the above, and can be applied to a mode suitable for applying the present invention.

Further, the number, position, shape, etc. of the above-mentioned constituent members are not limited to the above-mentioned embodiment, but can be set to a suitable number, position, shape, etc. for implementing the present invention.

In each of the drawings, the same components are denoted by the same reference numerals.

[0028]

Since the present invention is configured as described above, it is possible to easily provide a customer with a favorite phrase of the same music as the MD as a ring tone of a PHS or a mobile phone, and the customer satisfaction This makes it possible to increase the number of users and increase the number of users, and eliminates the need to create a database of the ringtone data in advance, so that more contents can be stored in the terminal.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a system configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a data flow in a multimedia kiosk terminal.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a screen display of operation buttons on an LCD and a touch panel when a phrase is selected.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Multimedia kiosk terminal 2 nth MD data 3 Mini disk 4 Mobile / PHS 7 Ringing melody data 11 DB 12 Magnetic DISK device 13 LCD 14 Touch panel 15 Phrase selection 16 Arrangement part 17a PHS cable 17b Mobile cable 18 MD writer device

Claims (8)

[Claims] An incoming call provided with a kiosk terminal having a function of writing music to a mini-disc and a function of downloading said ring tone data to a mobile portable terminal having a function of receiving and holding ring tone data. A sound providing system, wherein the kiosk terminal includes: a DISK device including a database storing MD data which is music data to be downloaded to the mini-disc; a display unit for displaying a menu screen; An input unit for easily operating the kiosk terminal, and converting the MD music data in the MD data downloaded by the customer to the mini-disc as a ringtone only for the lyrics data part selected by the customer. A ring tone providing system comprising: selecting a phrase to be downloaded to a mobile portable terminal. 2. The phrase selection includes selecting a phrase to be downloaded as a ring tone of the mobile portable terminal from lyrics data in the MD data according to an operation of the customer, and selecting the phrase in the MD data. The ring tone providing system according to claim 1, wherein the MD music data corresponding to the portion is converted as a ring tone of the mobile portable terminal. 3. The ringtone providing system according to claim 1, wherein the kiosk terminal is installed in a convenience store or a facility engaged in a music information distribution business. 4. The ringtone providing system according to claim 1, wherein said mobile portable terminal is a personal handyphone system or a mobile phone carried by said customer. 5. MD data, which is music data to be downloaded to the mini-disc previously stored in a database, is stored in the database, and the MD music data downloaded by the customer to the mini-disc is converted into lyrics data selected by the customer. A method of providing a ringtone, comprising converting data only as a ringtone and downloading the data to a mobile terminal. 6. A phrase to be downloaded as a ring tone of the mobile portable terminal is selected from lyrics data in the MD data according to an operation of the customer, and the phrase corresponding to the phrase portion in the MD data is selected. The method according to claim 5, wherein the MD music data is converted as a ring tone of the mobile portable terminal. 7. Software for realizing the ringtone providing method according to claim 5. 8. A storage medium comprising software for realizing the ringtone providing method according to claim 5. Description: