JP2011119962A - Video play presenting system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video play presenting system capable of easily creating and presenting a video play of appreciation and participation type in which a user appreciating the video play appears by using a famous story as a topic. <P>SOLUTION: A plurality of video play data of famous stories, known widely to a children as well as to elderly people, are prepared in advance at a video play creating terminal 31. In response to a request from a welfare facility (requester) 20, video play data of one story is selected on the video play creating terminal 31. The image data of a face portion of a character who appears in the story is edited using the image data of the face for editing which is provided by the welfare facility (requester) 20. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a video play providing system for creating and providing a video play to be screened at a welfare facility, and more specifically, a viewer-participatory video play in which a person who views the video play appears in the play. The present invention relates to a video play providing system that creates and provides a video.

  In the welfare facilities for the elderly and children, various events such as Keirokai, Birth Party and Christmas Party are held. At that time, handmade works by facility workers, such as puppet plays, plays, and picture-story shows, may be performed so that the target people, such as the elderly and children, can enjoy each occasion as much as possible. This kind of work is created with the cooperation and cooperation of the facility workers, but daily work such as watching and assistance is busy, so it is necessary to secure time for handmade work year by year. It has become difficult.

  The problem to be solved by the present invention is that an appreciation-participating video drama that a person who appreciates a video drama appears in the drama is easily made using the famous narrative widely known from children to the elderly. It is to provide a video play providing system that can be created and provided to a client.

  In order to solve the above problems, the present invention employs the following technical means.

The video play providing system of the present invention is a video play providing system that creates and provides a video play to be screened at a welfare facility in response to a request from a welfare facility for the elderly or children,
Video drama data storage that stores video drama data consisting of image data of a series of famous stories in a format that can edit the image data of the face part of one or more characters appearing in each story Means,
Editing face image data capturing means for capturing image data of an editing face;
Story selection means for selecting video play data of one story from a plurality of video play data stored in the video play data storage means;
Edit the image data of the face part of the character appearing in the story of the video play data selected by the story selection means, using the editing face image data captured by the editing face image data capture means Video drama data editing means to complete the video drama data,
Video drama data output means for outputting the video drama data completed by the video drama data editing means.

  Here, the “famous tale” refers to famous tales, fairy tales or fables that are widely known from children to the elderly, such as Momotaro, Monkey Crawl, Taro Urashima, Little Red Riding Hood, Aesop fables, etc.

  According to this video play providing system, video play data of one story is selected from a plurality of video play data stored in the video play data storage means, and appears in the story of the selected video play data. By editing the image data of the character's face using the editing face image data captured by the editing face image data capturing means, the person who appreciates the video play himself appears in the play Video drama can be easily created based on prominent stories that are widely known from children to the elderly and provided to clients.

In the video play providing system of the present invention,
Each video drama data stored in the video drama data storage means has, as blank data, image data of the face part of at least one character appearing in the story,
The video drama data editing means includes:
The editing face image data captured by the editing face image data capturing means is used for any of one or more characters appearing in the story of the video play data selected by the story selecting means. Character designation means for designating whether to
The face image that completes the video play data by inserting the editing face image data captured by the editing face image data capturing means into the image data of the character's face designated by the character designating means. And insertion means.

The character designation means includes:
Character list display means for displaying a list of names of characters appearing in the story of the video play data selected by the story selection means;
Character selection means for selecting a character for editing image data of a face portion from among the characters displayed as a list by the character list display means;
The face image insertion means includes
The editing face image data captured by the editing face image data capturing means is processed into a contour shape and dimensions that can be inserted into the image data of the face of the character selected by the editing target character selecting means. Editing face image data processing means;
Face image data insertion means for inserting the face image data processed by the editing face image data processing means into the image data of the face portion of the character designated by the character designating means. Is desirable.

The processing is
A cut-out process for cutting out the image data of the face for editing into a contour shape that can be inserted into the image data of the face of the selected character;
It is desirable to include a size conversion process for converting the editing face image data into dimensions that can be inserted into the selected character face image data.

The editing face image data capturing means includes:
It is desirable to have a function of extracting face portion image data from frame-by-frame image data obtained by photographing with a digital camera, and capturing the extracted image data as face image data for editing. .

The editing face image data capturing means includes:
It has a function of extracting face image data from image data obtained by reading an image of a printed photograph and taking the extracted image data as face image data for editing. desirable.

  According to the video play providing system of the present invention, the video drama data of the participation participation type that the person who appreciates the video play himself appears in the play is based on the famous story widely known from children to the elderly. It can be easily created and provided to the client.

The conceptual diagram which illustrates the whole structure of the video play provision system concerning this invention Conceptual diagram of an image having image data of the character's face as blank data Figure showing a display example of the story selection screen The figure which shows the example of a display of a character list display screen The figure which shows the example of a display of an edit image allocation screen Explanatory drawing of cutting process Illustration of resizing process Conceptual diagram after editing the image of FIG.

Hereinafter, the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described.
FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram illustrating the overall configuration of a video play providing system according to the present invention.
In response to a request from a welfare facility 20 (requester) 20 for the elderly or children, this video play providing system 1 plays an audience-participatory video play to be screened at the welfare facility 20 (requester) 20 This is a system created and provided by the video drama producer 30.

  The video play producer 30 includes a video play creation terminal 31 connected to the Internet 40, a keyboard 32, a mouse 33, a scanner device 34, and a medium read / write device (medium R / W) 35 connected to the video play creation terminal 31. Is held. The video play creation terminal 31 is a general-purpose personal computer, and is a general computer component (illustrated) such as a CPU, a main memory, a mass storage device (HDD, etc.), a communication interface, an input / output interface, and an image display device. (Omitted).

The video drama creation terminal 31 is installed with an application program (“video drama creation application”) for realizing this video drama provision system. The video drama creation terminal 31 executes the video drama creation application to execute video drama data storage means 31a, editing face image data fetch means 31b, story selection means 31c, video drama data editing means 31d, and face image insertion. It functions as means 31g and face image data insertion means 31k.
The video drama creation application includes a program that enables selection of the presence or absence of dialogue sound recorded in the video drama. The function of this program makes it possible to select either editing of video play data in which the speech of the characters of the story is recorded or video play data in which no speech is recorded. Video drama data in which dialogue audio is recorded can be created by selecting a standard type or selection type (with recorded audio), which will be described later, as the editing type. Video drama data in which no speech is recorded can be created by selecting a selection type (no recorded audio) or a participation type, which will be described later, as the editing type.

The video drama data storage means 31a stores video drama data consisting of image data of a series of well-known stories widely known from children to the elderly in the faces of one or more characters appearing in each story. A plurality of image data of a part are stored in a format that can be edited.
Each video drama data stored in the video drama data storage means 31a has image data of the face portion of at least one character appearing in the story as blank data (blanc) (see FIG. 2). . Each scene image used for each video drama data is an original illustration image prepared by the video drama producer 30.

  The editing face image data capturing means 31b extracts face part image data from frame-based image data obtained by photographing with a digital camera (including a camera mounted on a mobile phone), and A function of taking the extracted image data as face image data for editing, and extracting face image data from the image data obtained by reading the printed photographic image with the scanner device 34, and extracting the extracted image data. And a function of capturing image data as face image data for editing. As a technique for extracting the image data of the face portion, the image data of the face portion included in the image is extracted based on the positional relationship of the eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, etc. in the image and the detection result of the face contour. Any known technique can be used.

The story selection means 31c has a function for selecting video play data of one story from a plurality of video play data stored in the video play data storage means 31a.
The story selection means 31c has a function of displaying a list of story names of stories of editable video play data on the image display device of the video play creation terminal 31 (see FIG. 3). The operator of the video play creation terminal 31 can select one story from the stories displayed on the image display device by operating the keyboard 32 and the mouse 33.

The video drama data editing means 31d uses the editing face image data acquisition means 31b to import the image data of the face of the character appearing in the story of the video drama data selected by the story selection means 31c. It is responsible for the function of editing the face image data to complete the video play data.
The video drama data editing means 31d includes one or a plurality of characters appearing in the story of the video drama data selected by the story selection means 31c using the editing face image data acquired by the editing face image data acquisition means 31b. The character designation means 31f for designating which of the characters to use and the editing face image data fetched by the editing face image data fetching means 31b are designated by the character designation means 31f. And face image insertion means 31g for completing the video play data by inserting it into the image data of the face portion of the character.

  The character designating means 31f includes a character list display means 31h that displays a list of names of characters appearing in the story of the video play data selected by the story selection means 31c (see FIG. 4), and a character list display means. Character selection means 31i for selecting a character for editing image data of the face portion from among the characters displayed as a list by 31h. As shown in FIG. 4, the character list display screen displays a list of names of characters appearing in the selected story, and insert image reference buttons B1 and B2 to the right of each character name. , ... are displayed. When the inserted image reference buttons B1, B2,... Are clicked, a reference screen for editing face image data captured by the editing face image data capturing means 31b is displayed. The operator of the video play creation terminal 31 operates the mouse 33 to sequentially click the inserted image reference buttons B1, B2,... To open the reference screen, and the face image for editing in the reference screen. By selecting the data, editing face image data can be assigned to each character. When the assignment of the editing face image data for each character is completed, a screen displaying a list of the names of the characters and the file names of the editing face image data assigned to the characters is displayed (see FIG. 5). ) Is displayed on the image display device.

The face image insertion unit 31g includes an editing face image data processing unit 31j and a face image data insertion unit 31k.
The editing face image data processing unit 31j functions to process the editing face image data assigned to each character into contour shapes and dimensions that can be inserted into the image data of each character's face. have. The processing process includes a cutting process (see FIG. 6) for cutting the editing face image data into a contour shape that can be inserted into the image data of the selected character's face part, and an editing face image. Size conversion processing (see FIG. 7) for converting the data into dimensions that can be inserted into the image data of the face of the selected character.
The face image data insertion means 31k has a function of inserting the face image data processed by the editing face image data processing means 31j into the image data of the face portion of the character designated by the character selection means 31i. (See FIG. 8).

  The video play data output means 31e has a function of outputting the video play data completed by the video play data editing means 31d. The output format of the video play data includes data transmission to the request source and data writing to the recording medium.

Hereinafter, an operation of the video play providing system 1 configured as described above will be described.
The video drama producer 30 provides information regarding the video drama creation service to the welfare facility 20 (requester). The information includes information such as a list of story names, a list of characters in each story, a selection item for each edit type of a video play, a creation fee for each edit type, and the like. There are three types of editing types: standard type, selection type, and participation type. In the standard type, a moving image or a still image can be selected as a video, and a pre-recorded audio that is prepared in advance as audio is used. The selection type is a type in which a moving image or a still image can be selected as a video, and the presence or absence of recorded audio can be selected. In the case of no recorded sound, participants can participate in the video drama in real time by speaking the characters of the characters during the video drama. The participation type is a type that provides costumes for disguise in addition to a selection-type video play. In the case of the participation type, it is possible to perform a surprise effect such that a character who has appeared in the video play suddenly appears in the screening venue. The created video plays are stored on a DVD in any type and provided to a welfare facility 20 (requester). In addition to the DVD, a script of the video play is provided to the welfare facility 20 (requester).

  The welfare facility 20 (requester) requests the video drama producer 30 to create a video drama. At that time, the welfare facilities etc. (requesting party) 20 are requested to fill in a request form in which necessary items such as the name of the story to be created, the names of actors of each character (names of participants in the facility), editing types, etc. are entered. The image (original image) of the actor (participant in the facility) who is jealous of the character is sent to the video play producer 30. As a method for this, the request form and the original image data are produced from the personal computer (PC) 21 of the welfare facility 20 (request source) or the mobile phone 22 via the Internet 40 using an e-mail or a file transfer system. The method of transmitting to the trader 30 can be mentioned. It is also possible to send a request form and a photograph 23 as an original image to the postal mail, or send a recording medium 24 such as a CD or DVD in which the request form and the original image data are recorded to the postal mail.

The video drama producer 30 operates the video drama creation terminal 31 based on the contents of the request received from the welfare facility (request source) 20 to create a video drama in the following procedure.
Step S1: Select video drama data of a story requested to be created from a plurality of video drama data prepared in advance.
Step S2: Import face image data for editing from the original image. When the image data of the original image is sent, the face image data for editing is taken in from the received image data. When a photograph that has been printed is delivered, the image data of the face portion is captured from the image data obtained by reading the image of the photograph with the scanner device 34.
Step S3: By editing the image data of the face portion of the character appearing in the story of the video play data selected in step S1, using the editing face image data captured in step S2, video play data To complete.

  The video drama producer 30 writes the video drama data completed in step S3 on a delivery DVD (not shown) using the medium R / W31. Then, the DVD (not shown) is delivered to a welfare facility or the like (requester) 20 together with a script or the like. Examples of delivery methods include direct handing by visiting a welfare facility 20 (requester), sending by mail, and the like. In addition, after confirming the payment of the fee, a method for notifying the welfare facility etc. (request source) 20 of the download password and enabling the welfare facility etc. (request source) 20 to download from the server (not shown) of the video play producer 30. There is also.

  As described above, according to this video drama providing system 1, in response to a request from a welfare facility (request source) 20, video drama data of one story among a plurality of video drama data prepared in advance. The image data of the face portion of the character appearing in the story of the selected video play data is edited using the face image data for editing provided from the welfare facility 20 (requester). By doing so, welfare facilities, etc. (requester) can easily create a video drama that appears in the play by a person who appreciates the video drama, using famous stories that are widely known from children to the elderly. 20 can be provided.

  At the welfare facility 20 (requester) 20, the DVD delivered from the video drama producer 30 is set in the playback device, and the video drama data recorded on the DVD is played back to the TV monitor or personal computer monitor. By projecting, it is possible for a person who appreciates a video drama to enjoy an audience-participatory video drama that appears in the drama. By projecting the replayed video onto the projector screen, a large number of people can enjoy the powerful video drama projected on the large screen.

  The video play providing system of the present invention is not only a system for creating participatory video plays to be screened in welfare facilities, but also participatory video plays to be screened in a wide range of places such as wedding entertainment and year-end parties. It can also be used as a creation system.

1 Visual drama provision system 20 Welfare facilities (requester)
30 Video drama producer 31 Video drama creation terminal 31a Video drama data storage means 31b Editing face image data import means 31c Story selection means 31d Video drama data editing means 31e Video drama data output means 31f Character designation means 31g Face image insertion Means 31h Character list display means 31i Character selection means 31j Editing face image data processing means 31k Face image data insertion means 40 Internet

Claims (6)

Video drama data storage that stores video drama data consisting of image data of a series of famous stories in a format that can edit the image data of the face part of one or more characters appearing in each story Means,
Editing face image data capturing means for capturing image data of an editing face;
Story selection means for selecting video play data of one story from a plurality of video play data stored in the video play data storage means;
Edit the image data of the face part of the character appearing in the story of the video play data selected by the story selection means, using the editing face image data captured by the editing face image data capture means Video drama data editing means to complete the video drama data,
And a video play data output means for outputting the video play data completed by the video play data editing means. Each video drama data stored in the video drama data storage means has, as blank data, image data of the face part of at least one character appearing in the story,
The video drama data editing means includes:
The editing face image data captured by the editing face image data capturing means is used for any of one or more characters appearing in the story of the video play data selected by the story selecting means. Character designation means for designating whether to
The face image that completes the video play data by inserting the editing face image data captured by the editing face image data capturing means into the image data of the character's face designated by the character designating means. The video play providing system according to claim 1, further comprising insertion means. The character designation means includes:
Character list display means for displaying a list of names of characters appearing in the story of the video play data selected by the story selection means;
Character selection means for selecting a character for editing image data of a face portion from among the characters displayed as a list by the character list display means;
The face image insertion means includes
The editing face image data captured by the editing face image data capturing means is processed into a contour shape and dimensions that can be inserted into the image data of the face of the character selected by the editing target character selecting means. Editing face image data processing means;
And face image data insertion means for inserting the face image data processed by the editing face image data processing means into image data of the face portion of the character designated by the character designating means, The video play providing system according to claim 2. The processing is
A cut-out process for cutting out the image data of the face for editing into a contour shape that can be inserted into the image data of the face of the selected character;
4. The video play providing system according to claim 3, further comprising: a size conversion process for converting the image data of the editing face into a size that can be inserted into the image data of the selected character's face. The editing face image data capturing means includes:
It has a function of extracting face image data from frame-based image data obtained by taking a picture with a digital camera, and importing the extracted image data as face image data for editing. The video play providing system according to any one of claims 1 to 4. The editing face image data capturing means includes:
It has a function of extracting face part image data from image data obtained by reading a printed photographic image, and taking the extracted image data as face image data for editing. The video play providing system according to any one of claims 1 to 4.

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