JPH06225041A - Simplified electronic publishing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate the wait time to reuse an information medium by connecting an information presenter and a user by a public telephone line network and overwriting new information on the information medium of a portable information reproducing device. CONSTITUTION:In the simple electronic publishing system where information of an IC memory card 3 as the information medium is reproduced by a portable information reproducing device 2, information transfer and recording devices 1 unified with telephone sets are individually prepared for the information presenter and the user and are connected by the public telephone line network. When the information presenter accepts the information transfer request from the user, the presenter stores the telephone number of the user side, the item number of transfer request information, etc., and the user side lights a monitor lamp 10 of the reservation state and sets the automatic reception mode. At the transfer time of reserved information, information is transferred through the public telephone line network, and the signal obtained through a trunk line 26 or the like is converted to binarized parallel data by a MODEM and is successively overwritten in the IC memory card 3 on the user side.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a simple electronic publishing system using a portable information reproducing device which records and reproduces information such as characters, sounds and images.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art It has long been said that the information society is modern, but as a portable information source at an individual level, newspapers,
Paper-based media such as weekly magazines, portable tape playback devices that play back commercially available recorded tapes, etc., as well as recorded compacts that are commercially available
A portable CD reproducing device that reproduces the same CD using a disk (hereinafter abbreviated as a CD), a portable TV that uses public radio waves transmitted by a broadcasting station as a medium, a radio, and the like have only been utilized.

A portable information source (medium) for personal use will be described below.

Paper-based information sources, such as newspapers and weekly magazines, are the most popular at present, and the social infrastructure as a transmission route of information by transporting the media is also in place.
As a result, we can obtain events and incidents all over the world in newspapers at a low price as information recorded in print on the morning newspaper next morning.

However, since it is inexpensive, paper as a medium achieves the purpose of collecting personal information.
It has been thrown into the trash and incinerated. Current,
While deforestation and environmental pollution on a global scale are becoming problems,
There is a growing demand for new media for information that replaces paper, which is discarded without being reused.

As for the portable tape reproducing apparatus, when a user individually desires a commercially available recorded tape or a personally recorded tape as described above, at a desired place,
You can select and play the information you want. In addition, there is also one that realizes a function of locating the information to be heard by adding the heading information to the start position of the recorded information.

However, due to the structure of the medium called a tape, operations such as fast-forwarding and rewinding are necessary for selecting information, which imposes a considerable waiting time on the user, and as a result, the usage form and its usage. The playback information has been limited. That is, the reproduction information is mainly music or a model of vocalization for language practice, and it can be said that most of the usage forms are continuous reproduction of the tape on which the information is recorded. .

Portable televisions and radios are the best in terms of immediacy, and are also excellent in that necessary information can be selected from a plurality of channels. However, the information is sent unilaterally from the broadcasting station according to the program schedule, and it is unlikely that the necessary information is broadcast when the individual needs it. Therefore, in order to obtain the information required by an individual from the television and radio broadcasts when necessary, a procedure of once recording on a video recorder or a tape recorder and then reproducing it is necessary.

However, in order to record the information from the broadcasting station, a time equivalent to the time possessed by the information is required, and the video recorder or tape recorder which is the recording / reproducing apparatus is occupied. Therefore, the information to be recorded is naturally limited to the information commensurate with occupying the device, and it can be said that news programs or the like with high immediacy are hardly recorded.

[0010]

As described above, the conventional portable information medium and information device at the individual level have advantages and disadvantages, and information with high immediacy desired by the user at any time can be obtained. What can be referred to selectively and can easily realize the reuse of information by recording and saving information or the reuse of information medium by overwriting new information on the information medium on which information has already been recorded Did not exist.

Therefore, a simple electronic publishing system using an IC memory card as a medium has been proposed. However, transmission (delivery) of information from the information provider to individual users
Regarding the method, we have proposed a method of installing an information transfer device in a traffic terminal or the like, but it has the problems that transfer time is required until the information is transferred to the recording medium and the system becomes large-scale. It was

[0012] Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a simple electronic publishing system that enables reuse of an information medium to solve this problem.

[0013]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides an information transfer recording device through a public telephone line network, an information provider and an information provider in a simple electronic publishing system in which information on an information medium is reproduced by a portable information reproducing device. The information is provided from the provider of the information to both users individually, and the information is transmitted from the provider to the user by overwriting the information medium of the prepared user's portable information reproducing device with new information and re-writing the information medium. It is characterized in that it can be used.

[0014]

According to the present invention, both the information provider and the user are connected by the public telephone line network, and new information is overwritten on the information medium of the portable information reproducing apparatus, so that there is no waiting time and the information medium is eliminated. It is possible to build a simple electronic publishing system that enables reuse of the.

[0015]

1 is an external view of a simple electronic publishing system including an information transfer recording device, a portable information reproducing device and an IC memory card according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an information diagram of FIG. FIG. 2 is a top view (1) and a front view (2) of the transfer recording device.

In FIGS. 1 and 2, reference numeral 1 is an information transfer recording apparatus integrated with a telephone, and 2 is a portable information reproducing apparatus, which is a structure for obtaining highly instant information by image and voice information at an arbitrary place. Has become. 3 is an IC memory card. Reference numeral 4 is a handset for use as an ordinary telephone, and 5 is an LCD for displaying a menu when the user selects information to be recorded in the IC memory card 3 and makes a reservation.
The display 6 functions as a normal push button when used as a normal telephone, and as a menu selection button when the user selects and reserves information to be recorded in the IC memory card 3. Button switch group, 7
Is an insertion port of the IC memory card 3, 8 is an eject button of the IC memory card 3, 9 is a monitor lamp showing that the power of the information transfer recording apparatus 1 is turned on, 10 is an IC memory card for the user A monitor lamp 3 indicates that the information to be recorded is selected and reserved, and a monitor lamp 11 indicates that the transfer recording of the information is completed according to the contents reserved by the user.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the structure of the information transfer recording apparatus 1 of FIG. 1, in which 12 is an address bus and 13 is an address bus.
Is a data bus, 14 is a CPU that incorporates micro-codes for controlling each block in the form of ROM, 15 is a font ROM that stores the font of characters to be displayed on an LCD display 16 described later, and LCD display 16 Displays the dial number and time when it is used as an ordinary telephone, and displays a menu when the user selects information to be recorded in the IC memory card 3 and makes a reservation (5 in FIGS. 1 and 2). Corresponding to).

Reference numeral 17 denotes an interface circuit of the LCD display 16, and reference numeral 18 functions as a dial button when used as an ordinary telephone, and the user selects and reserves information to be recorded in the IC memory card 3. In this case, a push button / switch group (corresponding to 6 in FIGS. 1 and 2) that functions as a reservation information selection button, 19 is an interface circuit of the push button / switch group 18, and 20 is inserted into the information transfer recording device 1 for use. IC memory card (corresponding to 3 in FIG. 1) in which information selected by the user is recorded, 21 is a modem for taking out binary serial data from the public telephone line network and converting it to parallel data, 22 is DTMF encoding / Decoder, 23 is a voice signal relay, 24 is a handset (corresponding to 4 in FIGS. 1 and 2), 25 is a speaker, 26 is a relay line connected to a public telephone network not shown, Via the telephone network It is connected to the other side of the information transfer recording apparatus with Figure 3 and equivalent.

The following description will be centered on the user side, assuming that an information transfer recording apparatus similar to the information transfer recording apparatus having the configuration shown in FIG. 3 is also prepared on the information provider side.
When the user requests the transfer record of certain specific information, the user presses a previously promised specific push button switch from the push button switch group 18.

The CPU 14 enables the interface circuit 19 of the push button switch group 18 via the address bus 12 and the push button switch group via the data bus 13.
When the pressing state of 18 is checked and it is recognized that it is the pressing state of a specific push button switch promised in advance, the CPU 14 performs the subsequent operation on the push button switch group 18 and the LCD display.
16 is used to set the mode in which the user selects and reserves the information to be recorded in the IC memory card 20.

When entering the reservation mode, the CPU 14 causes the DTMF
The telephone number of the information provider side is automatically dialed to the encoder / decoder 22 and a series of operations for notifying the information provider that the information transfer reservation is made is executed. At this time, the telephone number and password of the user side are transferred to the information provider side, and after confirming that they match the information registered on the information provider side, the information transfer recording device of the information provider side is transferred. 1 confirms that the information transfer recording device 1 on the user side has entered the reservation mode, and transfers the item number and heading code of the information that can be transferred via the public telephone network to the user side. It waits for a response from the information transfer recording apparatus 1 on the side.

CPU 14 of the information transfer recording device 1 on the user side
When receiving the item number of the transferable information and the code of the headline from the information provider via the relay line 26, the voice signal relay 23 and the modem 21, the CPU refers to the font ROM 15 and reads LC
Converted to a user-readable format on the D display 16 and LC
It is transferred to the interface circuit 17 of the D display 16.

The user selects the information to be recorded on the IC memory card 20 by referring to the item numbers and headings of the information that can be transferred from the information provider displayed on the LCD display 16, and the push button switch group. The transfer of information is reserved by pressing the number corresponding to the above information out of 18.

The CPU 14 enables the interface circuit 19 of the push button switch group 18 via the address bus 12 and the push button switch group via the data bus 13.
Sequentially checking the pressed state of 18 and returning the code of the item number of transferable information transferred from the information provider to the user side to the information provider via the modem 21, the voice signal repeater 23 and the relay line 26. Request transfer of the information.

Upon receiving the information transfer request from the user, the information provider side stores the telephone number of the user and the item number of the information requested to be transferred, and confirms that the information transfer reservation has been accepted. Notify the user side. After confirming the acceptance notification, the user monitors and displays the reservation lamp 10
Is lit, and stores the item number of the information requested for transfer,
Further, after setting the automatic reception mode in preparation for the information transfer from the information provider, the line with the information provider side is closed and the reservation operation is completed.

At the transfer time of the information reserved in the above procedure, the information provider side dials based on the stored telephone number of the user and waits until the line with the user is connected. After the line with the user side is connected, the information provider side first notifies the user side that the transfer of the necessary information is started based on the stored item number of the information requested by the user side to be transferred. To do. On the user side, after confirming that the IC memory card 20 has been inserted into the information transfer recording device 1 and is in a writable state, the user side requests the information provider side to start the transfer of information.

Upon confirming the request, the information provider side starts the transfer of information via the public telephone line network. On the user side, the signal obtained via the relay line 26 and the voice signal repeater 23 is converted into binarized parallel data by the modem 21, and then the data is transferred to the IC memory by the CPU 14 via the data bus 13. Sequentially written on the card 20.

When the transfer data ends, the information provider side transfers a check sum code together with a predetermined information transfer end code to the user side to notify that the information transfer is completed. When the user recognizes the information transfer end code, the CPU 14 calculates the check sum in the IC memory card 20, compares the check sum with the check sum code transferred from the information provider, and matches the check sum code. After confirming that it is present, a predetermined write completion code is transferred to the information provider side, the reserved monitor lamp 10 is turned off, transfer recording is performed, and when recording is completed, the transfer recording completion monitor lamp 11 is turned on. Turn off the light.

On the information provider side, when the write completion code is confirmed by turning off the monitor lamp 11, the line connection with the user is released, the stored telephone number of the user side and the information item requested to be transferred. The number and the like are erased and a series of transfer processing is ended.

[0030]

As described above, in the simple electronic publishing system of the present invention, the IC memory card is used as the information medium, and the information is transmitted from the information provider to the individual user through the public telephone line network. By preparing the information transfer recording device for each of the information provider side and the user individual side, new information is overwritten on the information medium of the portable information reproducing device, and the information medium can be reused. As a result, it becomes possible to suppress a large amount of paper consumption.

In the present invention, an IC memory card is used as a portable information recording / reproducing apparatus for information, but a removable hard disk drive may be used, for example. May be.
Further, in the present invention, the system on the transfer side is configured to use a large-capacity auxiliary storage device, so that an automated system for information transfer requests from a plurality of users is also possible.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view of a simplified electronic publishing system including an information transfer recording device, a portable information reproducing device, and an IC memory card according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2A and 2B are a top view (1) and a front view (2) of the information transfer recording apparatus of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the information transfer recording apparatus of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Information transfer recording device, 2 ... Portable information reproducing device,
3,20 ... IC memory card, 4,24 ... Handset,
5, 16 ... LCD display, 6, 18 ... Push button switch group, 7 ... IC memory card insertion slot, 8 ... IC
Memory card eject button, 9 ... power monitor lamp, 10 ... reserved monitor lamp, 11 ... recording monitor lamp, 12 ... address bus, 13
… Data bus, 14… CPU, 15… Font RO
M, 17 ... Interface circuit of LCD display, 19 ...
Interface circuits for pushbutton switches, 21 ...
Modem, 22 ... DTMF encoder / decoder, 23 ... Voice signal repeater, 25 ... Speaker, 26 ... Relay line.

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Shohei Yumida 1006 Kadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka Prefecture Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. In a simple electronic publishing system in which information on an information medium is reproduced by a portable information reproducing device, an information transfer recording device via a public telephone line network is provided to each of the information provider and the user. The provision and transmission of the information from the provider to the user is characterized in that the information medium of the prepared portable information reproducing device of the user is overwritten with new information and the information medium can be reused. Simple electronic publishing method. 2. The information transmitted from an information provider to an individual user is a combination of at least one of characters, voices, still images, and moving images. Simple electronic publishing method. 3. An information medium for a portable information reproducing device, I
2. A C memory card is used.
Or the simple electronic publishing method described in 2.