KR20030023656A - A flash-based step star growth ABaTa system for a site use rate elevation - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A Flash movie based avatar growth system is provided to make an avatar move, generate a voice, and grow step by step by using the Flash adopted in an animation so that it can enhance a usability of an internet site. CONSTITUTION: The system controls a dynamic avatar, and its motion. The avatar moves according to a control instruction. The growth value of the avatar is increased and the growth level being increased as long as a user remains at a corresponding internet site. When a specific event, for example, a button click, a growth to the next level or a usage of a special item, occurs, the system generates a brilliant screen effect. The system reduces the time to add, modify or delete elements of the avatar by making an avatar movie clip a shared library, and makes the avatar image natural or soft by using a vector image offered by the Flash. The background of the avatar can be instantly changed, and the use of the multimedia can be maximized by special items, for example, a voice or a growth item.

Description

A flash-based step star growth ABaTa system for a site use rate elevation}

The present invention relates to the field of avatar. More specifically, the present invention introduces the concept of voice, clean image, movement, and growth from an existing static avatar to implement a new concept of avatar, which is actually a growing avatar. The present invention relates to a method of implementing a real-time-growing avatar that provides a real feeling of being close to the avatar's final appearance.

In the past, netizens were fascinated by the anonymity of cyberspace, but now they felt the desire to express themselves, creating avatars to satisfy both.

Avatar refers to an alter ego, a person's incarnation, and is an animation character that takes the place of a user in cyberspace. Originally, Avatar is a compound word of the Sankrit word Ava, which means to go down and pass, and Terr, which means land, to refer to the incarnation of God who descended to the land in ancient India. Or in a chat on the web, etc., he pointed to a graphic icon representing himself. In other words, the avatar is a virtual body that represents itself in a graphic-oriented virtual society, connecting the real world and the virtual space, and exists in the midst of anonymity and blindness.

Currently, the above-mentioned avatars are used in cyber shopping malls, virtual education, virtual offices, and the like, in addition to chatting and online games. Recently, the most popular areas for avatars have been introduced and used in online chatting and games.

Conventional avatars were mostly made of pixels, but recently, the trend has been to use neat vector images. Existing avatars are mostly two-dimensional images, and avatars appearing in mud games and online chats are the most beginners. Level. The three-dimensional avatar appeared to complement the problem of the lack of reality of the two-dimensional avatar, and the three-dimensional avatar character has both a three-dimensional feeling and a realistic feeling, but it is still insufficient to make the quality look better in proportion to the current web speed. to be.

In addition, most games and chat services usually provide a combination of a few characters or provide already completed avatars.However, as graphic technology improves, character IDs are not used instead of ready-made items made by service providers. Like this, users have their own avatars that can create their own unique avatar. For example, in the avatar editing system of Korean Patent Application Publication No. 2000-27233 (published date: May 15, 2000), a user selects and combines a desired avatar in the avatar editing system to edit a new avatar. A technique relating to an avatar editing method is disclosed.

However, the avatars provided on the web browsers face the inherent limitations of the web browsers, so that even if there is no motion or movement in the user's use of the avatar, the avatar does not show the real world feeling at all. There was a problem that could not give.

In order to solve such a problem, a method of implementing an avatar using flash has been proposed. As an example, the dynamic avatar generation method of Korean Patent Application Publication No. 2002-70754 (published: September 11, 2002) adds real-time Hangul implementation and user's file control function to produce Flash files, A technique for generating an interactive content by generating a, and inserting an avatar into an animation and a game is disclosed.

The flash is a file format for effectively delivering images, graphics, and sound on the Internet, and was first proposed by Macromedia as a vector-based image-related technology as well as a conventional bitmap image processing technology. Has the same characteristics.

Firstly, Flash is designed for fast rendering of animations and interactive action buttons, optionally bitmap images, which overcomes the disadvantage of not supporting anti-aliasing when rendering existing bitmap images. It supports anti-aliasing on the screen.

Secondly, Flash is composed of tag formats for extensibility with older versions, and supports excellent extensibility.

Third, Flash is a compressed format file for delivery to clients almost indefinitely over a network called the Internet.

Fourth, Flash has the simplicity of being automatically played in the client's operating system by automatically downloading a very simple and small plug-in.

Fifth, Flash maintains file independence, and plug-ins do not require any extension font files or other files.

Sixth, flash works just fine without counting on special hardware from a myriad of hardware, such as many different kinds of monitors.

Seventh, Flash supports high-speed rendering so there is no interruption in streaming.

However, in this method of implementing an avatar in Flash, the size of the avatar flash paring (swf) becomes so large that it takes a long time to download a new element when adding, modifying, or deleting an element, and even if the avatar has movement, the scene changes. If there is no transition, even if there is a transition of scenes, or if there is no transition of scenes, even if there is a transition of scenes, the transitions are not smooth and the realism is reduced. there was.

The purpose of the present invention is to use such a conventional bitmap and static boring avatar to make the most of the vector image, and to utilize the animation effect and the flash which can use the multimedia to realize a more active and cleaner avatar to move freely and grow. Introducing a simple way to create and grow yourself on the web simply by staying away from your avatar, which always stays in place, increasing your sense of accomplishment and providing the feeling of actually living on the web. That is, the present invention provides a method of implementing a real-time flash avatar having a natural and moving avatar on the web.

1 is a system configuration diagram illustrating various features that can be obtained in various aspects when a growth avatar is generated according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart of data exchange of various servers required for the overall system when generating a growth avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flow chart showing in detail the flow of use of the entire user when generating a growth avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart illustrating the flow used by the entire user when generating a growth avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention in a simplified manner than in FIG. 3.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a process of obtaining a growth value required for growth, that is, going to a next stage in a growth stage when generating a growth avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining an item and a payment method of an avatar when generating a growth avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a flowchart illustrating a process of contesting an avatar when generating a growth avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention.

8 is a flowchart illustrating a path for obtaining a necessary growth value of an avatar when generating a growth avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention.

9 is an example of the overall display of an avatar when a growth avatar is generated according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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6: Avatar service DB server 7: Web server

11: User DB 13: Avatar DB Mysq

As a means of achieving the above object, the composition of the present invention includes a control step of controlling a dynamic growth avatar and a growth value required for the growth, and a step of evolving the growth value to a next level as a collection of a certain amount. Implementing a more advanced avatar than a flash avatar.

Hereinafter, the most preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily implement the present invention. Other objects, features, and advantages of the operation, including the object, operation, and effect of the present invention, will become more apparent from the description of the preferred embodiment.

For reference, various embodiments of the present disclosure may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, as well as other equivalent embodiments.

1 is a system configuration diagram illustrating various features that can be obtained in various aspects when a growth avatar is generated according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As illustrated in FIG. 1, various advantages in implementing the growth avatar are described. First of all, stability ensures the proper speed according to the system environment and the safe operation of the service is possible based on this.

Second is flexibility. It is a system that can support various business models as well as the efficiency of construction by supporting the effective linkage with other services.

Third is functionality. Various functions can be implemented to meet various business requirements.

Fourth is convenience. It supports efficient and stable integration of services through the use of management tools that minimize the burden on managers for management and interworking with various internal systems.

Finally, scalability. It is composed of distributed system for predictable server expansion according to increase of users.

2 is a flowchart of data exchange of various servers required for the overall system when generating a growth avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The overall system 10 of the avatar shown in FIG. 2 is an avatar service DB server 6 and a web server 7 for processing image synthesis modules among modules that are avatar service imging pcocessing servers and a module processing server other than imaging procesing during avatar service ( 8) and the avatar system by interworking with the source storage, maintenance and function update Testing Server (9) of the avatar service.

3 is a flowchart specifically illustrating a flow of use of an entire user when generating a growth avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The user shown in FIG. 3 may obtain various information such as items and popularity information from the avatar DB Mysql 13 by setting a cookie after authenticating with the user DB 11 in the overall avatar web server. Through 12, the charging associated with the avatar such as the avatar item may be linked, and other services 14 such as chat or game may be utilized by using the avatar. The manager 16 may use the avatar management tool or various statistics using the avatar server.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart illustrating the flow used for the entire user when generating a growth avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention in a simplified manner than in FIG. 3.

In order to use the growth avatar of the present invention as shown in FIG. 4, once the user has subscribed to the site, and after various settings are made, the avatar can be changed in the menu of the avatar (clothes, voices, and backgrounds). . To use a shop related to growth, you can use the avatar's main shop to purchase and use items related to the avatar or growth items related to growth.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a process of obtaining a growth value required for growth, in order to go to the next stage, from a growth stage when generating a growth avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In order to grow the avatar as shown in Figure 5, you can buy and use special activities related to the growth in various activities such as the corresponding bulletin board of the site and the character shop, or obtain a certain amount of growth value by activities in programs such as quizzes or other chats. The principle is to grow to the next level once the growth is gathered.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for easily explaining a corresponding item and a payment method of an avatar when generating a growth avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 6, the item and payment method of growth avatar can be given to a friend by purchasing a growth item or other item in a character shop, and can write it on their own, and the payment is processed by the billing module upon request. It's paid and you're automatically charging your cache.

7 is a flowchart illustrating a process of a contest using an avatar when generating a growth avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the case of using the contest using the growth avatar as shown in FIG. 7, when the user registers the avatar by the contest system (18) separately from the contest system (17), the users are given a certain amount of popularity and the total ranking is expressed. Do it.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating a path for obtaining a required growth value of an avatar when generating a growth avatar according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in Fig. 8, the growth value of the growth avatar is acquired through contents in various sites and stored in the avatar growth value DB 19 to manage growth-related data. The content obtainable to increase the growth value shown in FIG. 8 is illustrated as a virtual example.

9 is an example of the overall display of male and female avatars when a growth avatar is generated according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 9, the basic standard model of the growth avatar is the same, and is divided into the top and the bottom, and the growth avatar model and other backgrounds, music, and items are listed at the top, and the growth data which is the core of the growth avatar is at the bottom. Will be displayed.

The displayed contents are graphs of the current growth avatar level, the avatar's current state (mood and other states), and the growth value up to the next level.

According to the above configuration, the operation of the real-time flash growth avatar having a natural motion as in the other real world in one embodiment of the present invention is as follows.

According to the concept of the increase of the component value of the avatar, it is increased by a certain amount according to the use of various activities and items and stored in the avatar server 6. Next, when programmed and activities required for avatar growth as shown in FIGS. 5 and 8 are reached to the required growth values of each stage, the program is evolved to the next stage and stored in the avatar server 6.

All of the related items or other images of the growth avatar are flash files (swf), in which the movement variables and the screen effects are stored.

Next, the avatar server extracts information on the component of the user's avatar stored in the user DB 11 and loads the avatar information selected by the user into the empty movie clip inside the avatar flash swf. To print.

In addition, when the user changes the appearance of the growth avatar composed of flash in the site, the changes are stored in the user DB (11).

As shown in Fig. 8, how can the avatars grow in the bulletin board or the character shop's special items (growth items) and how long they stay on the site? The growth of the avatars by participation in events, chats, etc. is raised by the use of various contents. I can see you come.

As described in the above embodiments, the present invention is not only a function of changing clothes by simply changing clothes, but also raising clothes directly from childhood to adult so that the user's ideas can be sufficiently reflected. As a growing avatar that grows up to be a great adult while dressing and managing other conditions, you will have the look you want when you are an adult, which will not only increase your sense of achievement on the user side, but also increase your confidence and sensitivity in real life. In addition, the company will not only generate a second profit, but also actively utilize various contents such as more advanced chats and quizzes using growth avatars to provide better contents to users. You will be able to see.

Claims (3)

Control phase controlling overall avatar function and growth of dynamic and growing avatars (Independent Terms) The avatar evolves (changes) to the next level in response to a command of the corresponding control level. A method of implementing a real-time flash avatar having three-dimensional and natural movement by using various events and specific items of the avatar evolved in the next step. (Dependent port)