JP2002278866A - Device/system for changing display language, user terminal, method for changing display language, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device/system/method for changing a display language and a program for changing the display language of distribution information based on information concerning a user terminal. SOLUTION: The display language changing device 20 for changing the display language of the distribution information to be distributed to the user terminal 30 is provided with a user terminal information receiving part 200 for receiving information on the user terminal, a language specifying part 202 for specifying the display language which has to be displayed on the user terminal based on the received information on the user terminal, and a transmission part 206 for transmitting the distribution information to be displayed in the display language specified by the language specifying part to the user terminal.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a display language changing device, a display language changing system, a user terminal, a display language changing method, and a program. In particular, the present invention provides a display language change device, a display language change system, a display language change method, and a display language change system for changing a display language of distribution information distributed to a user terminal.
And programs.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, contents such as maps have been distributed to many users via the Internet. Depending on the content to be distributed, the user can select a display language to be displayed on the content.

[0003]

However, many contents have only one display language, or the user must select the display language by himself. Therefore, the present invention provides a display language change device, a display language change system, a user terminal, a display language change method, which can solve the above problems,
And to provide programs. This object is achieved by a combination of features described in the independent claims. The dependent claims define further advantageous embodiments of the present invention.

[0004]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a display language changing apparatus for changing a display language of distribution information distributed to a user terminal, wherein information relating to the user terminal is transmitted from the user terminal. A user terminal information receiving unit for receiving, a language specifying unit for specifying a display language to be displayed on the user terminal based on the received information about the user terminal, and a user for transmitting distribution information displayed in the display language specified by the language specifying unit And a transmitting unit for transmitting to the terminal.

[0005] The information on the user terminal may be information for specifying an area where the user terminal is sold. The information on the user terminal may be a telephone number of the user terminal. The information on the user terminal may be model information indicating the model of the user terminal.

A distribution information database for storing distribution information in a plurality of display languages and storing the distribution information in a display language specified by the information about the user terminal received by the user terminal information receiving unit from the distribution information database. The transmitting unit may further include an extracting unit for extracting, and the transmitting unit may transmit the distribution information extracted by the extracting unit to the user terminal.

[0007] A distribution information database for storing distribution information for each display language, and extraction for extracting distribution information expressed in a display language specified by information on the user terminal received by the user terminal information receiving unit from the distribution information database. And a transmitting unit that transmits the distribution information extracted by the extracting unit to the user terminal.

[0008] Distribution information displayed in a predetermined language is
Further comprising a translation unit for translating into a display language specified by the information on the user terminal received by the user terminal information receiving unit,
The transmitting unit may transmit the distribution information translated by the translating unit to the user terminal.

[0009] A location acquisition unit for acquiring the location of the user terminal, and map information including the location of the user terminal acquired by the location acquisition unit, wherein the information about the user terminal received by the user terminal information reception unit is displayed in a specified display language. May be further provided with a map information transmitting unit that transmits the information to the user terminal.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a display language changing system for changing a display language of distribution information, comprising: a display language changing device for changing a display language of distribution information; A user terminal that receives information about the user terminal, and a language that specifies a display language to be displayed on the user terminal based on the received information about the user terminal. A transmitting unit that transmits distribution information displayed in the display language specified by the language specifying unit to the user terminal;

[0011] The information on the user terminal may be information for specifying an area where the user terminal is sold. The information on the user terminal may be a telephone number of the user terminal. The information on the user terminal may be model information indicating the model of the user terminal. The user terminal may further include a recording medium that is detachable and stores information about the user terminal, and the user terminal information receiving unit may receive information about the user terminal stored in the recording medium.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a user terminal for receiving distribution information via a display language changing device for changing a display language of distribution information, the user terminal being detachable from the user terminal, and A recording medium reading unit that receives data from a recording medium that stores user information about a user, and a transmission unit that receives user information stored in the recording medium from the recording medium, and transmits the user information to make the display language changing device recognize the display language. And

[0013] According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a display language changing method for changing a display language of distribution information to be distributed to a user terminal, the method comprising the steps of: receiving information relating to a user terminal; A display language to be displayed on the user terminal is specified based on the display language, and distribution information displayed in the display language specified by the language specifying unit is transmitted to the user terminal.

The information on the user terminal may be information for specifying an area where the user terminal is sold. The information on the user terminal may be a telephone number of the user terminal. The information on the user terminal may be model information indicating the model of the user terminal.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer program for changing a display language of distribution information to be distributed to a user terminal, the user terminal information receiving module receiving information relating to the user terminal; A language specifying module for specifying a display language to be displayed on the user terminal based on information on the user terminal, and a transmission module for transmitting distribution information displayed in the display language specified by the language specifying unit to the user terminal.

The above summary of the present invention does not list all of the necessary features of the present invention, and a sub-combination of these features can also be an invention.

[0017]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described through embodiments of the present invention. However, the embodiments do not limit the claimed invention, and all combinations of the features described in the embodiments are described. Is not necessarily essential to the solution of the invention.

(First Embodiment) FIG. 1 schematically shows a display language changing system according to a first embodiment. The display language change system includes a display language change device 20 and a user terminal 30. The user terminal 30 is connected to a recording medium 832 as an example of a recording medium, receives information about the user terminal from the recording medium 832, and transmits the information to the display language change device 20 via the network 10. The display language changing device 20 changes the display language of the distribution information according to the information on the user terminal received from the user terminal 30 and transmits the distribution information to the user terminal 30.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the display language changing device 20. The display language changing device 20 includes a user terminal information receiving unit 200, a language specifying unit 202, an extracting unit 204, a transmitting unit 206, and a location obtaining unit 208.
, A map information extraction unit 210 and a language database 230
, A distribution information database 232, and a map information database 234. The language database 230 stores model information indicating the model of the user terminal 30 in association with display language identification information for identifying a display language. The distribution information database 232 stores distribution information to be distributed to the user terminal 30 in association with display language identification information. The map information database 234 stores map information distributed to the user terminal 30.

The user terminal information receiving section 200 receives model information indicating the model of the user terminal 30 from the user terminal 30 and sends the model information to the language specifying section 202. The language identification unit 202 extracts the display language identification information stored in association with the received model information from the language database 230 and sends it to the extraction unit 204. The extracting unit 204 extracts the distribution information stored in association with the received display language identification information from the distribution information database 232 and sends it to the transmission unit 206.

The location acquisition unit 208 receives terminal location information indicating the location of the user terminal 30 from the user terminal 30 and sends it to the map information extraction unit 210. Map information extraction unit 21
0 extracts the map information stored in association with the received terminal location information from the map information database 234 and sends it to the transmission unit 206. The transmission unit 206 includes the extraction unit 20
4 and the map information received from the map information extraction unit 210 are transmitted to the user terminal 30.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the data format of the language database 230. Language database 230
Has a model information field and a display language field. The model information field stores model information indicating the model of the user terminal 30. The display language field stores display language identification information for identifying a display language displayed in distribution information distributed to the user terminal 30. As described above, by storing the model information of the user terminal 30 in association with the display language identification information, the display language changing device 20 can specify the display language according to the model of the user terminal 30. For example, if the user terminal 30 is a model sold in Japan, the display language is likely to be Japanese. Therefore, the display language changing device 20 can specify the display language as Japanese by the language database 230 and transmit the distribution information in Japanese as the display language to the user terminal 30.

Here, the language database 230 stores the display language identification information in association with the model information.
As another example, the display language identification information may be stored in association with the telephone number.

FIG. 4 shows an example of the data format of the language database 230 according to such a modification. The language database 230 stores the display language identification information in association with the prefix of the telephone number. Display language change device 20
Can determine the area where the user terminal 30 was purchased from the country code of the telephone number, that is, the prefix number. Thereby, the display language changing device 20 can transmit to the user terminal 30 the distribution information of the display language that is likely to be used in the area where the user terminal 30 was purchased.

FIG. 5 shows an example of the data format of the distribution information database 232. The distribution information database 232 has a table for each content of the distribution information. Each table includes a display language field and a distribution information field. The distribution information database 232 has a display language field and a distribution information field.
The display language field stores display language identification information for identifying a display language. The distribution information field stores distribution information to be distributed to the user terminal. For example, the table of the content 1 includes distribution information "1Japanese",
Although the content is the same as "1Japanese", the display language stores the distribution information "1English" or the like in English.

Here, the contents of the distribution information stored in the respective tables are all the same. Alternatively, as another example, the contents may be changed for each language. For example, when the user terminal 30 requests information about the university, the distribution information when the display language is Japanese is information about the university in Japan, and the distribution information when the display language is English is English. It may be information on universities in the sphere.

Further, the distribution information database 232 according to the present embodiment stores a table for each content of the distribution information. Alternatively, as another example, the table may be stored for each display language. Good. In this case, each table stores a plurality of pieces of distribution information having the same display language and different contents.

FIG. 6 shows an example of the data format of the map information database 234. The map information database 234 has a table for each display language. Each table includes a terminal location information field and a map information field. The terminal location information field stores terminal location information indicating the location of the user terminal 30. The terminal location information is, for example, information for identifying a mobile base station with which the user terminal 30 can communicate. The map information field stores map information including the location of the user terminal 30 indicated by the terminal location information.

Here, the map information database 234 has a table for each display language. However, as another example, a table may be provided for each terminal position information. In this case, each table stores the same map information in association with the display language.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation of the display language changing device 20. User terminal information receiving unit 200
Receives the model information from the user terminal 30 (S10
0). The location acquisition unit 208 receives terminal location information indicating the location of the user terminal 30 from the user terminal 30 (S
102). Next, the language specifying unit 202 extracts display language identification information for identifying a display language stored in association with the model information received by the user terminal information receiving unit 200 from the language database 230 (S104). Next, extractor 2
04 extracts the distribution information stored in association with the display language identification information extracted by the language identification unit 202 from the distribution information database 230 (S106). The map information extraction unit 210 extracts, from the map information database 234, map information stored in association with the terminal location information received by the location acquisition unit 208 (S108). Next, the transmitting unit 206 transmits the distribution information extracted by the extracting unit 204 and the map information extracted by the map information extracting unit 210 to the user terminal 30.
(S110).

As described above, the display language changing device 20 can specify the display language based on the model information of the user terminal 30 and transmit the distribution information of the specified display language to the user terminal 30. Thereby, the display language changing device 20
Even when the user of the user terminal 30 is in a language zone different from the language of the country where the user terminal 30 was purchased, the information of the language that the user normally uses can be transmitted.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of the display language changing device 20. Display language change device 2
0 is the CPU 700, the ROM 702, and the RAM 704
, A communication interface 706, a hard disk drive 710, a floppy (registered trademark) disk drive 712, and a CD-ROM drive 716. The CPU 700 operates based on programs stored in the ROM 702 and the RAM 704. The communication interface 706 communicates with the outside via the Internet 10. A hard disk drive 710 as an example of a storage device stores setting information and a program for operating the CPU 700.

The floppy disk drive 712 reads data or a program from the floppy disk 714 and provides the read data or program to the CPU 700. The CD-ROM drive 716 reads data or a program from the CD-ROM 718 and provides it to the CPU 700. The communication interface 706 transmits and receives data by connecting to the Internet 10.

The software executed by the CPU 700 is:
It is stored in a recording medium such as a floppy disk 714 or a CD-ROM 718 and provided to the user. The software stored on the recording medium may be compressed or uncompressed. The software is installed on the hard disk drive 710 from the recording medium, and is stored in the RAM 704.
And executed by the CPU 700.

The software stored in the recording medium and provided, that is, the software installed in the hard disk drive 710, has a user terminal information receiving module, a language specifying module, and a transmitting module as functional components. The processing performed by these modules on the computer and performed by the CPU 700 is the same as the function and operation of the corresponding members in the ticket issuing server 20 according to the present embodiment, and therefore the description thereof is omitted.

A floppy disk 714 or a CD-ROM 718 as an example of a recording medium shown in FIG. 8 stores part or all of the functions of the ticket issuing server 20 in all the embodiments described in the present application. can do.

These programs are directly stored in R
The program may be read out to the AM and executed, or may be read out to the RAM and executed once after being installed in the hard disk drive. Further, the program may be stored on a single recording medium or a plurality of recording media. The modules stored in the recording medium may provide their respective functions in cooperation with the operating system. For example, the function may be requested to the operating system to perform a part or all of the function, and the function may be provided based on a response from the operating system.

As a recording medium, a floppy disk,
In addition to CD-ROM, optical recording media such as DVD, MD
, A magneto-optical recording medium such as a PD, a tape medium, a magnetic recording medium, and a semiconductor memory such as an IC card or a miniature card. Alternatively, a storage device such as a hard disk or a RAM provided in a server system connected to a dedicated communication network or the Internet may be used as a recording medium, and the program may be provided to the display language changing device 20 via the communication network.

Such a recording medium is used only for manufacturing the display language changing device 20, and the manufacture and sale of such a recording medium as a business infringe the patent right based on the present application. It is obvious that

FIG. 9 shows a user terminal 3 according to the present embodiment.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the H.0. The user terminal 30 includes an antenna 800 and a transmission / reception amplification unit 828.
, A radio unit 802, and a baseband signal processing unit 804
, A storage unit 806, a control unit 812, and an audio processing unit 81
4, LED 816, ringer 818, display unit 820
, An input unit 822, a speaker 824, and a microphone 826
And a recording media drive 830.

The antenna 800 transmits the upstream RF signal amplified by the transmission amplifier, receives the high band downstream RF signal, and sends it to the low noise amplifier. The transmission / reception amplification unit 828 includes a transmission amplifier that amplifies a transmission RF signal and a low-noise amplifier that amplifies a reception RF signal, and demultiplexes an RF transmission signal and an RF reception signal.

Radio section 802 performs pure synchronous detection on the received signal received from transmission / reception amplification section 828, performs A / D conversion, and sends the signal to baseband signal processing section 804. The wireless unit 802
Performs D / A conversion on the transmission signal subjected to baseband spreading by the baseband signal processing unit 804, and converts the transmission signal into an RF signal by orthogonal modulation. The baseband signal processing unit 804 performs baseband signal processing on the transmission signal and the reception signal. The baseband signal processing unit 804 performs processing such as despreading, path recognition, chip synchronization, error correction decoding, data demultiplexing, and diversity handover synthesis on a reception signal transmitted from the radio unit 802, for example, and transmits the signal. Data is subjected to processing such as error correction coding, framing, data modulation, and spread modulation.

The storage unit 806 stores data, program codes, and the like. The storage unit 806 includes, for example, a RAM
808 and a ROM 810. The RAM 808 stores various types of data such as key-inputted setting conditions, telephone directory data, character data, and image data. ROM 810 is
Program code for operating the user terminal 30,
The telephone number data unique to the user terminal 30 is stored.
The storage unit 806 stores a plurality of RAMs 808 and a plurality of ROs.
M810.

Display unit 820 displays the received character data and the like. The display unit 820 is, for example, a liquid crystal display. The input unit 822 receives various data inputs, processing instructions, and the like from the user. The audio processing unit 814 converts the audio received through the microphone 826 into an audio electric signal. The sound processing unit 814 performs a conversion process on the sound electric signal to generate sound from the speaker 140.

The LED 816 is a light emitting diode (LE)
D: Light Emitting Diode). The ringer 818 generates a ringing tone when an incoming signal is received. The control unit 812 controls the entire device and the electric circuit based on a program or the like stored in the ROM 810.

Recording medium 83 as an example of a recording medium
2 stores information about the user terminal 30 such as model information of the user terminal 30. Further, the recording medium 832 may store user information regarding the user. Recording media drive 830 as an example of a recording medium reading unit
Reads data such as information on the user terminal 30 from the recording medium 832 and sends the data to the control unit 812. Thus, the recording medium 83 that can be replaced with the user terminal 30
By storing information and the like regarding the user terminal 30 in 2, the user can easily exchange information and the like regarding the user terminal 30 even when the user terminal 30 such as a mobile phone is replaced.

(Second Embodiment) Next, a display language changing device 20 according to a second embodiment will be described. FIG.
It is a block diagram showing the functional composition of display language change device 20 concerning a 2nd embodiment. The display language changing apparatus 20 according to the present embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that it does not include the extraction unit 204 and the distribution information database 232, and further includes the distribution information receiving unit 214 and the translation unit 212. This is different from the display language changing device 20.

The distribution information receiving unit 214
The distribution information desired by the user is received from the user terminal 30 and sent to the translation unit 212. The language specifying unit 202 converts the display language stored in association with the model information received from the user terminal information receiving unit 200 into the language database 230.
And sends it to the translation unit 212. The translation unit 212 translates the distribution information received from the distribution information reception unit 214 into the display language received from the language identification unit 202, and
Send to 06. The transmission unit 206 transmits the distribution information received from the translation unit 212 to the user terminal 30. The other configurations and operations of the display language changing device 20 are the same as those of the display language changing device 20 according to the first embodiment, and a description thereof will not be repeated.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiment, the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to the scope described in the above embodiment. Various changes or improvements can be added to the above embodiment. It is apparent from the description of the appended claims that embodiments with such changes or improvements can be included in the technical scope of the present invention.

[0050]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, a display language change apparatus, a display language change system, a display language change method, and a program for changing a display language of distribution information based on information about a user terminal. Can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically illustrating a display language change system according to a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of a display language changing device 20.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a data format of a language database 230.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a data format of a language database 230 according to a modification.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data format of a distribution information database 232;

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a data format of a map information database 234.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation of the display language changing device 20.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of a display language changing device 20.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of a user terminal 30.

FIG. 10 is a display language change device 2 according to a second embodiment.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the first embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 10 network 20 display language changing device 30 user terminal 200 user terminal information receiving unit 202 language specifying unit 204 extracting unit 206 transmitting unit 208 location obtaining unit 210 map information extracting unit 230 language database 232 distribution information database 234 map information database 700 CPU 702 ROM 704 RAM 706 Communication interface 710 Hard disk drive 712 Floppy disk drive 714 Floppy disk 716 CD-ROM drive 718 CD-ROM

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Akira Amino 4-5-31, Sekicho Minami, Nerima-ku, Tokyo (72) Inventor Takahiro Yamashita 4-46-8 Nagasaki, Toshima-ku, Tokyo F-term (reference) 5B085 AA08 BA07 BC02 BE07 BG07 CA03 CE04 5K067 AA34 DD51 EE02 FF02 FF07 FF23 HH23 KK15

Claims (19)

[Claims] 1. A display language changing device for changing a display language of distribution information to be distributed to a user terminal, comprising: a user terminal information receiving unit that receives information about the user terminal; A language specifying unit that specifies a display language to be displayed on the user terminal; and a transmission unit that transmits the distribution information displayed in the display language specified by the language specifying unit to the user terminal. Display language change device. 2. The display language change device according to claim 1, wherein the information on the user terminal is information for specifying an area where the user terminal is sold. 3. The display language changing device according to claim 1, wherein the information on the user terminal is a telephone number of the user terminal. 4. The display language changing device according to claim 1, wherein the information on the user terminal is model information indicating a model of the user terminal. 5. A distribution information database that stores the distribution information in a plurality of display languages and stores the distribution information in the display language specified by information about the user terminal received by the user terminal information receiving unit. An extraction unit for extracting distribution information from the distribution information database, wherein the transmission unit transmits the distribution information extracted by the extraction unit to the user terminal. The display language changing device described in Crab. 6. A distribution information database that stores the distribution information for each display language, and the distribution information expressed in the display language specified by the information about the user terminal received by the user terminal information receiving unit. 5. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: an extraction unit configured to extract the distribution information from the distribution information database, wherein the transmission unit transmits the distribution information extracted by the extraction unit to the user terminal. Display language changing device. 7. The transmitting unit, further comprising: a translating unit that translates the distribution information displayed in a predetermined language into the display language specified by the information on the user terminal received by the user terminal information receiving unit. The display language changing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting unit transmits the distribution information translated by the translation unit to the user terminal. 8. A location acquisition unit for acquiring a location of the user terminal, wherein the information on the user terminal received by the user terminal information reception unit is displayed in the display language for specifying, and the location acquisition unit acquires the information. The display language changing device according to claim 1, further comprising: a map information transmitting unit configured to transmit map information including a location of the user terminal to the user terminal. 9. A display language change system for changing a display language of distribution information, comprising: a display language change device for changing a display language of the distribution information; and a user terminal for receiving the distribution information from the display language change device. The display language changing device comprises: a user terminal information receiving unit that receives information about the user terminal; a language specifying unit that specifies a display language to be displayed on the user terminal based on the received information about the user terminal. A transmission unit for transmitting the distribution information displayed in the display language specified by the language specifying unit to the user terminal. 10. The system according to claim 9, wherein the information on the user terminal is information for specifying an area where the user terminal is sold. 11. The information relating to the user terminal is a telephone number of the user terminal.
Or the display language change system according to 10. 12. The display language change system according to claim 9, wherein the information on the user terminal is model information indicating a model of the user terminal. 13. The user terminal is detachable,
And a recording medium for storing information on the user terminal, wherein the user terminal information receiving unit receives information on the user terminal stored in the recording medium. Display language change system described. 14. A user terminal for receiving distribution information via a display language changing device for changing a display language of the distribution information, said user terminal being detachable from said user terminal and storing user information relating to said user. A recording medium reading unit that receives data from a recording medium, and a transmission unit that receives the user information stored in the recording medium from the recording medium, and transmits the user information to cause the display language change device to recognize the display language. A user terminal, comprising: 15. A display language changing method for changing a display language of distribution information to be distributed to a user terminal, the method comprising receiving information on the user terminal, and displaying the information on the user terminal based on the received information on the user terminal. A display language to be specified, and the distribution information displayed in the display language specified by the language specifying unit is transmitted to the user terminal. 16. The display language changing method according to claim 15, wherein the information on the user terminal is information for specifying an area where the user terminal is sold. 17. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information on the user terminal is a telephone number of the user terminal.
The display language changing method according to 5 or 16. 18. The display language changing method according to claim 15, wherein the information on the user terminal is model information indicating a model of the user terminal. 19. A computer program for changing a display language of distribution information to be distributed to a user terminal, comprising: a user terminal information receiving module for receiving information on a user terminal; A language specifying module for specifying a display language to be displayed on the user terminal; and a transmission module for transmitting the distribution information displayed in the display language specified by the language specifying unit to the user terminal. program.