KR20180023879A - Apparatus and method for creating text animation - Google Patents

Abstract

Embodiments disclosed in the present specification relate to a method and apparatus for creating text animation. More particularly, the embodiments relate to a method and apparatus for creating text animation based on text. As a technical means for achieving a technical object, according to one embodiment, the apparatus includes a storage part for storing animation description, and a control part for adding an animation to text based on the description.

Description

[0001] APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING TEXT ANIMATION [0002]

The embodiments disclosed herein relate to a method and apparatus for generating text animation, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for generating text animation based on text.

BACKGROUND ART [0002] As technology advances today, people are performing various tasks using mobile terminals such as mobile phones, PMPs, and PDAs, and fixed terminals such as desktops.

In addition, as these functions are diversified, such a terminal is being implemented as a multimedia player having a combination of functions such as photographing, video shooting, replay of music or video file, game, and reception of broadcasting.

In particular, a terminal provides content to a user in the form of playing back or executing a content provided through an external content providing server or previously stored in an external display device or its own display.

Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 10-2012-0005153 is a related art related to a terminal providing such a content.

However, the conventional terminal merely provides contents that are provided or stored, and it is troublesome to modify and modify the contents.

Therefore, in recent years, a device and a method that can solve such a problem are required.

On the other hand, the background art described above is technical information acquired by the inventor for the derivation of the present invention or obtained in the derivation process of the present invention, and can not necessarily be a known technology disclosed to the general public before the application of the present invention .

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Embodiments disclosed herein are aimed at providing a method and apparatus for generating text animation.

Embodiments also have an object to represent an inputted text in various situations such as an SNS or a messenger service.

Embodiments also aim to utilize text animation in a text editor such as a word processor.

Embodiments also aim to automatically generate kinetic typography or motion graphic art.

Embodiments also aim to generate text animations for music.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a text animation generating apparatus including a storage unit for storing an animation description and a control unit for adding an animation to text based on the description.

According to another embodiment, there is provided a method of generating a text animation, the method comprising the steps of: receiving information on a text to be added with animation; and adding animation to the text based on the animation description, do.

According to yet another embodiment, a computer-readable recording medium on which a program for performing a method of generating a text animation is recorded is disclosed. At this time, a method of generating a text animation may be performed by a text animation generating device, and may include receiving information on a text to which animation is to be added, and adding an animation to the text based on the animation description.

According to yet another embodiment, a computer program stored on a medium for performing a method of generating a text animation, which is performed by a text animation generating apparatus, is disclosed. The method of generating a text animation may include receiving information on a text to which an animation is to be added, and adding animation to the text based on the animation description.

According to any one of the above-mentioned objects of the present invention, the embodiments disclosed herein can disclose a method and apparatus for generating a text animation.

In addition, embodiments can animate input text in various situations such as SNS or messenger service.

Embodiments may also utilize text animation in a text editor such as a word processor. For example, text animations can be applied to typographers of text to prompt the user to quickly recognize and correct typographers.

Embodiments can also automatically generate kinetic typography, motion graphic art, and the like. Experts can easily and quickly create kinetic typography or motion graphics that they produce through difficult processes.

Embodiments also aim to generate text animations for music. For example, kinetic typography or motion graphic art combined with background music can be created easily and quickly. By extending this to music playback applications, you can output high-quality images including kinetic typography or motion graphics when playing music with lyrics.

The effects obtained in the disclosed embodiments are not limited to the effects mentioned above, and other effects not mentioned are obvious to those skilled in the art to which the embodiments disclosed from the following description belong It can be understood.

1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an apparatus for generating a text animation according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
2 and 3 are flowcharts for explaining a method of generating a text animation according to an embodiment.
4 to 7 are diagrams for explaining a method of generating a text animation according to an embodiment.

Various embodiments are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The embodiments described below may be modified and implemented in various different forms. In order to more clearly describe the features of the embodiments, detailed descriptions of known matters to those skilled in the art are omitted. In the drawings, parts not relating to the description of the embodiments are omitted, and like parts are denoted by similar reference numerals throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a configuration is referred to as being "connected" to another configuration, it includes not only a case of being directly connected, but also a case of being connected with another configuration in between. In addition, when a configuration is referred to as "including ", it means that other configurations may be included, as well as other configurations, as long as there is no specially contradicted description.

Hereinafter, embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an apparatus 100 for generating a text animation according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

The text animation generating apparatus 100 is an apparatus for generating an animation based on a text by adding an animation to the text. At this time, the text may include various symbols visually expressing a human language or an idea such as letters, numbers, . According to the embodiment, the text animation generation apparatus 100 can perform typography by moving text dynamically or adding design elements to text.

Also, the text animation generation apparatus 100 may be implemented as an electronic terminal or a server-client system in which an application for generating text animation is installed.

When the text animation generating apparatus 100 is implemented as a server-client system, the text animation generating apparatus 100 may include an electronic terminal equipped with a client for interaction with a user.

At this time, the server of the server-client system may be implemented as a computing device capable of communicating with the electronic terminal installed with the client via a network, and may include a storage device capable of storing data or a third server (not shown) Data can be stored.

On the other hand, when the text animation generation apparatus 100 is implemented as an electronic terminal, the electronic terminal may include an interface (application) for generating text animation and an interface capable of interacting with a user.

The above-described electronic terminal may be implemented as a computer, a portable terminal, a television, a wearable device, or the like. Here, the computer includes, for example, a notebook computer, a desktop computer, a laptop computer, and the like, each of which is equipped with a web browser (WEB Browser), and the portable terminal may be a wireless communication device , Personal Communication System (PCS), Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), Personal Handyphone System (PHS), Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), Global System for Mobile communications (GSM), International Mobile Telecommunication (IMT) (W-CDMA), Wibro (Wireless Broadband Internet), Smart Phone, Mobile WiMAX (Mobile Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) (Handheld) based wireless communication device. In addition, the television may include an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), an Internet television (TV), a terrestrial TV, a cable TV, and the like. Further, the wearable device is an information processing device of a type that can be directly worn on a human body, for example, a watch, a glasses, an accessory, a garment, shoes, and the like. The wearable device can be connected to a remote server via a network, Lt; / RTI >

The concrete configuration of the text animation generating apparatus 100 will be described with reference to FIG. 1, the text animation generating apparatus 100 may include an input / output unit 110, a communication unit 120, a storage unit 130, and a control unit 140.

According to an embodiment, the input / output unit 110 may include an input unit for receiving input from a user, and an output unit for displaying information such as a result of a task or a state of the text animation generation apparatus 100. [ For example, the input / output unit 110 may include an operation panel for receiving user input and a display panel for displaying a screen.

In particular, the input unit may include devices capable of receiving various types of user input, such as a keyboard, a physical button, a touch screen, a camera or a microphone. Further, the output unit may include a display panel, a speaker, a headset, or the like. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the input / output unit 110 may include various input / output support structures.

According to the embodiment, the input unit may receive input from the user or select text to which the animation is to be added. In addition, the output unit can output the animation-applied text.

Meanwhile, the communication unit 120 can perform wired / wireless communication with other electronic terminals or networks. To this end, the communication unit 120 may include a communication module supporting at least one of various wired / wireless communication methods. For example, the communication module may be implemented in the form of a chipset.

The wireless communication supported by the communication unit 120 may be Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity), Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth, UWB (Ultra Wide Band), NFC (Near Field Communication), or the like. The wired communication supported by the communication unit 120 may be, for example, USB or High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI).

According to the embodiment, the communication unit 120 can transmit and receive various data necessary for adding animation to the text. For example, the text to which the animation is to be added may be received from another electronic terminal.

Meanwhile, the storage unit 130 may temporarily or permanently store data for animation generation. For example, an application for performing the animation generation method can be stored, and the received or selected text can be stored. Also, an animation description can be stored. At this time, "animation description" refers to data including information describing animations such as design and motion to be applied to the text.

The storage unit 130 may include a solid state drive (SSD), a flash memory, a magnetic random access memory (MRAM), a phase change RAM (PRAM), a ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) hard disk, And may include synchronous random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), and the like.

The controller 140 controls the overall operation of the text animation generating apparatus 100 and may include a processor such as a CPU.

According to an embodiment, the control unit 140 can generate a text animation based on arbitrary text given thereto. At this time, the arbitrary text may be inputted or received through the input unit from the user, and may be used as a basis of the text animation by selecting part or all of the text stored in the storage unit 130 from the user. The selection of the text may be performed through the communication unit 120 according to the embodiment.

In addition, the controller 140 may 'layer' text as a unit element to perform a text animation generation method. Here, 'layering' refers to dividing text into unit elements including at least one of a paragraph, a sentence, a word, a character, a stroke, and a character constituent vertex. At this time, the controller 140 may combine the divided hierarchical layers to generate a tree structure. For example, by creating a tree structure with each unit element as a node, it is possible to systematically organize the hierarchical relationship of each hierarchy.

According to the embodiment, the controller 140 may perform the following method to layer the text. First, the control unit 140 generates a mesh in the form of a vector based on the shape of the text, and layers the text into a unit element based on the mesh. For example, a vector-shaped mesh can be created and layered based on the font of each character. For example, the control unit 140 can decompose text based on a mesh in units of a character, a character stroke, a character configuration vertex, and the like. It is also possible to express a character stroke and a character configuration vertex based on a mesh as a tree structure connecting a character-character stroke-character configuration vertex as a lower layer of the character.

In addition, the control unit 140 can decompose special characters such as punctuation marks included in text into special character units. Special characters can also be identified and layered in mesh units.

Further, the control unit 140 can decompose the text into morphemes and classify the text into unit elements based on the decomposed morpheme. For example, in the same sentence such as "Ji-su is told to Young-hee," the proper noun can be broken down into the morpheme unit of "withdrawal" and " That is, the control unit 140 can decompose the 'evolve' and 'a' into separate unit elements according to a grammar, and can generate a tree structure by classifying them into the same hierarchy, for example, a word hierarchy. At this time, the control unit 140 can apply animation based on the information on the grammar structure analyzed for each unit element, and the unit elements of the word hierarchy can be divided into lower-level unit elements, for example, letters, .

Meanwhile, the control unit 140 may generate a text animation according to the animation description. The animation description is data describing an animation to be applied to the text, and the controller 140 can implement various types of animation according to the animation description. In addition, the control unit 140 may apply the data included in the animation description to each layer.

Also, according to the embodiment, the animation description may include separate data corresponding to each layer. At this time, the detail unit of the description which is specifically applied to each layer of the text is referred to as hierarchical animation data. In other words, the layer animation data may include data set for each layer of the animation to be applied to the text.

In this case, the types of data that can be described by the layer animation data included in the animation description include translation, rotation, scale, shearing, whether the 3D font is present, 3D font depth, , Text color, outline thickness, outline color, texture within text, transparency, and various values describing at least one of text design and motion.

In addition, the controller 140 can borrow various types of animation in setting the animation to the hierarchy of the tree structure.

According to the embodiment, the control unit 140 can apply the above-described animation data to each unit element included in the hierarchy of the corresponding text according to the setting. Also, different animation data can be applied to each layer.

For example, when the controller 140 applies the animation description to each layer, the text animation may be generated by first applying the upper layer animation data and adding the lower layer animation data thereto.

The animation description may include key framing, procedural modeling, physics simualation, etc. to determine the value of the layer animation data.

Herein, the key framing refers to a frame in each static state constituting a dynamic animation (a representation unit of an animation, which may include at least one of text and text unit elements in this specification) Is stored in correspondence with the flow of time, and a smooth motion is generated by inferring the value between the positions of the frames in each stationary state.

In addition, procedural modeling refers to a modeling method for automatically generating complex objects based on algorithms that describe geometric deformations. For example, it can be modeled according to an algorithm based on the fractal theory of geometry.

The physical simulation refers to a task of predicting the physical change of a virtual object according to a predetermined physical law. For example, after applying a force to a virtual object to which a physical property such as mass is given, a movement trajectory according to a predetermined physical law can be calculated.

In applying the values of the layer animation data according to the animation description, the controller 140 may perform at least one of an arithmetic operation such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division between the layer animation data values and a coordinate system transformation operation between the upper and lower layers The obtained value can be applied to the text unit element of the upper-lower layer.

In this way, the control unit 140 can prevent the layer animation data from colliding or contradicting by applying and acquiring the value of the layer animation data according to the above-described embodiment.

The animation description may also include data that sets the timing for animation application between layers. For example, the layer animation data may be set to be sequentially applied at intervals of 0.1 second, or the layer animation data may be set to be randomly applied between 0.0 second and 1.0 second, .

For example, the layer animation data to be applied to the paragraph layer may include a setting such that the position value of the paragraph starts from the left side of the screen and ends from the right side of the screen. At this time, the control unit 140 may further apply the character layer animation data for setting a time difference for each character included in the paragraph layer to the animation data of the paragraph layer described above. In this case, the control unit 140 may set the position of the paragraph to start from the left side of the screen and end at the right side of the screen, and to move each character with a time difference of 0.05 second interval. In this way, the controller 140 applies animations moving from the left to the right of the screen to the paragraph hierarchy. In the tree structure, for each character layer which is a lower layer of the paragraph hierarchy, each character is moved Layer animation data can be applied.

Meanwhile, the text animation generation apparatus 100 may provide a message transmission service for transmitting and receiving a message composed of text between users. At this time, the message transmission service may include a text message service such as SMS or MMS, and an SNS service. At this time, the control unit 140 may add animation to the text when transmitting and receiving text between users.

In addition, the text animation generation apparatus 100 may provide a text editor such as a word processor. At this time, the control unit 140 can generate the text animation in the text editor. For example, text animations can be applied to typographical errors in the text to allow the user to quickly recognize and correct typographical errors.

The control unit 140 may add animation to the text based on the music information. For example, the control unit 140 may analyze the music and add animation to the text based on the analyzed music information.

For example, the control unit 140 may obtain the BPM of the music or the BPM of the music by analyzing the input sound source or the selected music. At this time, the controller 140 may generate a text animation according to the BPM of the music. Alternatively, it is possible to acquire at least one of the size of the music, the size of the music, the height of the music, and the height of the music in the received sound source, and the text animation can be generated accordingly.

At this time, the control unit 140 may output the text animation together with the reproduction of the music. For example, when playing music containing lyrics, a high-quality image can be output by providing kinetic typography or motion graphics using text animation generated according to music information.

2 and 3 are flowcharts for explaining a text animation generation method according to the embodiments. The method of generating a text animation according to the embodiments shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 includes steps that are processed in a time-series manner in the text animation generation apparatus 100 shown in FIG. Therefore, the contents described above with respect to the text animation generation apparatus 100 shown in FIG. 1 can be applied to the text animation generation method according to the embodiment shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, even if omitted from the following description.

Referring to FIG. 2, the text animation generation apparatus 100 may receive information about a text to which animation is to be added (S21). For example, the user can receive text from the user or select the stored text. Or receive text to add animation from another electronic terminal.

In addition, the text animation generating apparatus 100 may add animation to the text based on the animation description (S22). At this time, the animation description may be temporarily or permanently stored in the text animation generation apparatus 100, and may be received from another electronic terminal.

Referring to FIG. 3, the text animation generating apparatus 100 may layer text into unit elements in adding animation to text (S22) (S31). For example, a unit element may be hierarchized into a unit element including at least one of a paragraph, a sentence, a word, a character, a stroke of a character, and a character constituent vertex. For example, a vector-shaped mesh may be generated based on the shape of the text, and the text may be hierarchized into unit elements such as a character, a character stroke, and a vertex based on the mesh. Also, the text animation generation apparatus 100 may decompose the text into morphemes according to the grammar and layer them. In addition, the text animation generation apparatus 100 may generate a tree structure by arranging unit elements in a parent-child concept.

At this time, the text animation generating apparatus 100 may add animation to the unit element (S32). To this end, the animation description may include hierarchical animation data, and the text animation generation apparatus 100 may generate text animation by applying hierarchical animation data to each hierarchy. That is, the text animation generating apparatus 100 can generate the text animation by applying the hierarchical animation data to the unit elements of the text based on the tree structure.

According to the embodiment, the text animation generation apparatus 100 can generate an animation by applying the operation result of the data value included in the layer animation data to the text.

Also, according to the embodiment, the text animation generation apparatus 100 may generate a text animation in the SNS service. For example, animation can be added to text transmitted and received between users. In addition, the text animation generating apparatus 100 may add animation to the text to be edited in the text editor. The text animation generation apparatus 100 may also receive music information and add animation to the text based on the music information.

4 to 7, an exemplary diagram for explaining a text animation generation method according to an embodiment is shown. FIGS. 4 to 7 sequentially illustrate an embodiment in which animations generated by the text animation generation apparatus 100 are output, according to the flow of time.

Referring to FIG. 4, the text animation generating apparatus 100 receives a text of "Simung" from a user through a text input interface 401 and outputs a character "Sim 402". Next, referring to FIG. 5, the text animation generation apparatus 100 outputs a character " shim 402 ", and after a predetermined time passes, a text " sham 403 " Respectively. 6, the text animation generating apparatus 100 outputs an animation that increases the size of the text and increases transparency with respect to the character " shim 402 " after a predetermined time has elapsed after outputting " And the like. 7, the text animation generation apparatus 100 increases the transparency of the " shim 402 " so as not to output it, and increases the size of the text with respect to the character " Kung 403 " . In this way, the text animation generation apparatus 100 hierarchically classifies the text " shimku " in units of letters " shim " and " shim ", applies layer animation data, and applies animation to each character according to each timing .

According to the embodiment as described above, the text animation generation apparatus 100 can automatically generate a kinetic typography or motion graphic art based on the text input or selected by the user. This allows a professional to quickly and easily create kinetic typography or motion graphics that can be created through difficult processes.

The term " part " used in the above embodiments means a hardware component such as a software or a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or an ASIC, and the 'part' performs certain roles. However, 'part' is not meant to be limited to software or hardware. &Quot; to " may be configured to reside on an addressable storage medium and may be configured to play one or more processors. Thus, by way of example, 'parts' may refer to components such as software components, object-oriented software components, class components and task components, and processes, functions, , Subroutines, segments of program patent code, drivers, firmware, microcode, circuitry, data, databases, data structures, tables, arrays, and variables.

The functions provided within the components and components may be combined with a smaller number of components and components or separated from additional components and components.

In addition, the components and components may be implemented to play back one or more CPUs in a device or a secure multimedia card.

The method of generating a text animation according to the embodiments described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3 may also be embodied in the form of a computer-readable medium for storing instructions and data executable by a computer. At this time, the command and data may be stored in the form of program code, and when executed by the processor, a predetermined program module may be generated to perform a predetermined operation. In addition, the computer-readable medium can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media. The computer-readable medium can also be a computer storage medium, which can be volatile and non-volatile, implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data, Volatile, removable and non-removable media. For example, the computer recording medium may be a magnetic storage medium such as an HDD and an SSD, an optical recording medium such as a CD, a DVD and a Blu-ray Disc, or a memory included in a server accessible via a network.

Also, the method of generating a text animation according to the embodiments described with reference to Figs. 2 and 3 may be implemented as a computer program (or a computer program product) including instructions executable by a computer. A computer program includes programmable machine instructions that are processed by a processor and can be implemented in a high-level programming language, an object-oriented programming language, an assembly language, or a machine language . The computer program may also be recorded on a computer readable recording medium of a type (e.g., memory, hard disk, magnetic / optical medium or solid-state drive).

Therefore, a method of generating a text animation according to the embodiments described with reference to Figs. 2 and 3 can be implemented by a computer program as described above being executed by a computing device. The computing device may include a processor, a memory, a storage device, a high-speed interface connected to the memory and a high-speed expansion port, and a low-speed interface connected to the low-speed bus and the storage device. Each of these components is connected to each other using a variety of buses and can be mounted on a common motherboard or mounted in any other suitable manner.

Where the processor may process instructions within the computing device, such as to display graphical information to provide a graphical user interface (GUI) on an external input, output device, such as a display connected to a high speed interface And commands stored in memory or storage devices. As another example, multiple processors and / or multiple busses may be used with multiple memory and memory types as appropriate. The processor may also be implemented as a chipset comprised of chips comprising multiple independent analog and / or digital processors.

The memory also stores information within the computing device. In one example, the memory may comprise volatile memory units or a collection thereof. In another example, the memory may be comprised of non-volatile memory units or a collection thereof. The memory may also be another type of computer readable medium such as, for example, a magnetic or optical disk.

And the storage device can provide a large amount of storage space to the computing device. The storage device may be a computer readable medium or a configuration including such a medium and may include, for example, devices in a SAN (Storage Area Network) or other configurations, and may be a floppy disk device, a hard disk device, Or a tape device, flash memory, or other similar semiconductor memory device or device array.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the above-described embodiments are for illustrative purposes only and that those skilled in the art will readily understand that various changes and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. You will understand. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are to be considered in all respects only as illustrative and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single entity may be distributed and implemented, and components described as being distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.

It is to be understood that the scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than the foregoing description and should be construed as including all changes and modifications that come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims, .

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Claims (14)

A storage unit for storing the animation description; And
And a control unit for adding an animation to the text based on the description. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein,
Layering the text into a unit element, and adding an animation to the unit element. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein,
Generating a vector-shaped mesh based on the shape of the text, and layering the text into a unit element based on the generated mesh. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein,
Decomposing the text into morphemes, and layering the text into unit elements based on the decomposed morphemes. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein,
Generating a tree structure based on the unit element, and adding an animation based on the tree structure. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the animation description includes hierarchical animation data,
Wherein,
And applying the hierarchical animation data to the unit element to add animation to the text. The method according to claim 6,
Wherein,
And applying an operation result of a data value included in the hierarchical animation data to an animation to the text. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the text animation generating device comprises:
Provide SNS service,
Wherein,
And adds animation to texts transmitted and received between users in the SNS service. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the text animation generating device comprises:
Provide a text editor,
Wherein,
And adds an animation to the text to be edited in the text editor. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein,
And receives the music information and adds animation to the text based on the received music information. As the text animation generation device performs,
Receiving information about a text to which animation is to be added; And
And adding an animation to the text based on the animation description. 12. The method of claim 11,
Wherein adding animation to the text comprises:
Layering the text into unit elements; And
And adding an animation to the unit element. A computer-readable recording medium on which a program for performing the method according to claim 11 is recorded. A computer program stored in a medium for performing the method according to claim 11 performed by a text animation generation device.

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