KR20220040646A - Webtoon having specical effects and webtoon provision system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a webtoon providing system. The system comprises: a webtoon server for providing webtoon content; and a user terminal having a webtoon application installed thereon to play a webtoon and connected to the webtoon server through a network. The webtoon content provided by the webtoon server consists of a plurality of cut images, and the cut images have special effects including sound field effects and animation effects inserted thereinto. The webtoon application is configured to perform the operation of receiving the cut images; the operation of moving the received cut images in a vertical direction in a display of a user terminal; the operation of determining whether special effects exist in the moved cut images; and the operation of playing the special effects.

Description

Webtoon and webtoon providing system with special effects {WEBTOON HAVING SPECICAL EFFECTS AND WEBTOON PROVISION SYSTEM}

The present invention relates to a webtoon and a webtoon providing system, and more particularly, to a webtoon having a special effect such as a sound field or animation effect, and a system for providing the same.

With the recent development of Internet-related technologies, the Internet is creating a new lifestyle. Smartphones, whose penetration rate is rapidly increasing in recent years, are positioning themselves as necessities of modern people as an intelligent terminal that adds computer support functions such as Internet communication and information search to mobile phones.

Due to the spread of the Internet and smartphones, a great change occurred in the comics market, and it was transformed from monographs for script and bookstores to digital webtoons. Webtoon is a compound word of web and cartoon, and refers to comics that are serviced through the Internet.

In the early days of webtoons, it was a short episode format dealing with emotional content or daily life, but it gradually forms a narrative structure and develops with a unique directing method using vertical scrolling. Although the domestic offline publishing comics market continues to shrink due to the threat of comic book rental shops and scanned comics, webtoons are evolving into new forms and being serviced according to changes in the digital environment, becoming the center of the domestic comics market.

The biggest difference between webtoons and existing cartoons is in the division of cuts. In order to read the existing manga on a smartphone, pictures for paper books are displayed on a device with a small screen. However, in webtoons, one cut is placed in the vertical direction to fit the display of the smartphone, and is usually read through vertical scrolling. Due to this, the size of the manuscript used for webtoons also has a structure that is very long compared to the width. Therefore, only vertical scrolling is supported in the current application for playing webtoons, but not horizontal scrolling.

However, some users prefer to view webtoons through horizontal scrolling rather than enjoying webtoon contents through vertical scrolling.

In addition, webtoons are convenient because the user can adjust the speed of reading webtoons and the flow of content according to the speed of reading webtoons. Since there is no additional effect such as the above, and the user has to focus only on the pictures and texts of the webtoon, there is a problem that the fun or interest is lowered compared to the VR toon contents or animation contents described above.

An object of the present invention is to provide a webtoon having a sound field or animation effect and a system for providing the same by supplementing the shortcomings of the webtoon, which may be less interesting or fun, as an invention devised based on the above problems.

According to one aspect of the present invention in order to solve the above problems, a webtoon providing system including a webtoon server for providing webtoon content and a webtoon application for playing webtoon installed and a user terminal connected to the webtoon server through a network is provided provided

The webtoon content provided by the webtoon server consists of a plurality of cut images, and a special effect including a sound field effect or an animation effect is inserted into the plurality of cut images.

In addition, the webtoon application includes: receiving the cut image; moving the received cut image in a vertical direction in a display of a user terminal; determining whether a special effect exists in the moved cut image; and reproducing the special effect. is configured to perform

In the above aspect, the operation of moving the cut image is performed by vertical scrolling or horizontal scrolling input by a user.

In the above aspect, the webtoon application is configured to further perform an operation of displaying an indicator on the user's screen for informing the user that the special effect exists when it is determined that the special effect exists in the moved cut image.

In the above aspect, the application is configured to play a special effect when a horizontal scroll is input by the user while the indicator is displayed on the user's screen.

In the above aspect, the operation of moving the cut image is performed by vertical scrolling or horizontal scrolling input by the user, and when vertical scrolling is generated by the user, the application moves the cut image up and down by the length of the vertical scroll. and when horizontal scrolling is generated by the user, the application moves the cut image up and down by the vertical resolution of the user terminal.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a webtoon having a sound field or animation effect that allows users of the webtoon to enjoy the webtoon in a more interesting and fun way by giving a sound field or animation effect to a webtoon composed of existing pictures and text, and a system for providing the same.

1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a webtoon providing system according to the present invention.
2 is a block diagram schematically showing the internal configuration of a webtoon providing system according to the present invention.
3 is a view for explaining a cut image used in the webtoon providing system according to the present invention.
4 is an explanatory diagram for explaining displaying a special effect using a cut image used in the webtoon providing system according to the present invention.
5 is an explanatory diagram for explaining screen movement through horizontal scrolling using a cut image used in the webtoon providing system according to the present invention.
6 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of a webtoon application in the webtoon providing system according to the present invention.

Advantages and features of the present invention, and methods for achieving them, will become apparent with reference to the embodiments described below in detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments disclosed below, but will be implemented in various different forms.

In the present specification, the present embodiment is provided to complete the disclosure of the present invention, and to fully inform those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains to the scope of the invention. And the invention is only defined by the scope of the claims. Accordingly, in some embodiments, well-known components, well-known operations, and well-known techniques have not been specifically described in order to avoid obscuring the present invention.

Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout. And, the terms used (mentioned) in this specification are for the purpose of describing the embodiments and are not intended to limit the present invention. In this specification, the singular also includes the plural unless specifically stated otherwise in the phrase. In addition, elements and operations referred to as 'include (or include)' do not exclude the presence or addition of one or more other elements and operations.

Unless otherwise defined, all terms (including technical and scientific terms) used herein may be used with the meaning commonly understood by those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention belongs. In addition, terms defined in a commonly used dictionary are not ideally or excessively interpreted unless they are defined.

1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a communication environment of a webtoon system 10 . As shown in FIG. 1 , the webtoon system includes a webtoon server 100 that provides a webtoon service and one or more user terminals 200 connected to the webtoon server 100 through a network such as the Internet.

Webtoon content is produced and stored in the webtoon server 100 , and when a user accesses the webtoon server 100 through the user terminal 200 and selects a desired webtoon content to view, the webtoon content is displayed on the screen of the user terminal 200 . will become

The user terminal 200 is equipped with a memory means such as a notebook computer, a workstation, a palmtop computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a web pad, a smart phone, a tablet PC, etc. as well as a general desktop computer, It may be configured as a terminal equipped with a microprocessor and having an arithmetic capability.

In addition, a dedicated webtoon application for playing webtoon content according to the present invention may be further installed in the user terminal 200 .

2 is a diagram illustrating in more detail the internal configuration of the user terminal 200 and the webtoon server 100 . The user terminal is not limited thereto, but it will be described below as a smart phone that is currently widely used in large numbers.

The smartphone 200 includes a processor 210, a communication means 213, an input/output means 230, and a display 240, and although not shown, may further include a storage means such as a memory, and a data bus. . The data bus connects the aforementioned components 210 to 240215 with each other and enables communication (eg, control messages or data) between the components.

The processor 210 may include at least one of a central processing unit, an application processor, and a communication processor (CP). The processor may execute, for example, an operation or data processing related to control and/or communication of at least one other component of the smartphone 200 .

In addition, the processor 210 may generate screen data displayed through the display 240 . In addition, the processor 210 may control the communication means 220 to receive screen data from another device such as the webtoon providing server 100 .

The processor 210 may be implemented as, for example, a system on chip (SoC). According to an embodiment, the processor 210 may further include a graphic processing unit (GPU) and/or an image signal processor. The processor 210 may include at least some of the components (eg, a cellular module). The processor 210 may load a command or data received from at least one of other components (eg, a non-volatile memory) into a volatile memory for processing, and store the result data in the non-volatile memory.

The input/output means 230 includes an input/output interface, which transmits commands or data input from a user or other external device to other component(s) of the smartphone 200 , or other components of the smartphone 200 . Commands or data received from (s) can be output to the user or other external device. The input device includes, for example, at least one of a touch panel, a pen sensor, a key, or an ultrasonic input device, but in this embodiment the input device preferably includes a touch panel.

The display 240 may display various contents (eg, text, images, video, icons, and/or symbols, etc.) and/or various information (eg, multimedia data or text data, etc.) to the user. The display 240 may include a liquid crystal display (LCD), an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display, a light emitting diode (LED) display, a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) display, or an electronic paper display. The display 240 may display screen data under the control of the display driver integrated circuit.

The communication means 220 may be connected to a network through wireless communication to communicate with an external device (eg, the webtoon server 100 ). Wireless communication is, for example, LTE, LTE Advance (LTE-A), code division multiple access (CDMA), wideband CDMA (WCDMA), universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS), Wireless Broadband (WiBro), or Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). ) may include cellular communication using at least one of, and the like, and wireless communication is wireless fidelity (WiFi), Bluetooth, Bluetooth low energy (BLE), Zigbee, near field communication (NFC), or radio frequency ( RF) may further include at least one of.

A dedicated webtoon application 250 is installed in such a smart phone, and the dedicated webtoon application receives the webtoon content from the server through the components of the smartphone as described above and controls the input/output means, for example, the user's screen scrolling direction. It detects and displays the webtoon on the display.

The webtoon server 100 may include a processor 110 , a communication means 120 , and a database 130 , and may further include a memory, an input/output interface, and a data bus, although not shown.

Cut images of webtoons may be stored in the database. The storage device 227 may store cut image information, image location information, thumbnail image information, and animation content in association.

The processor 110 may be configured to process instructions of a computer program by performing basic arithmetic, logic, and input/output operations. The processor 110 may be configured to execute instructions according to program codes stored in the memory.

The communication means 120 may be connected to a network and provide a function for communicating with a smart phone.

3 is a diagram for explaining a cut image used in a webtoon, FIG. 3 (A) is a diagram showing the configuration of the cut image, FIG. 3 (B) is a diagram for explaining that the cut image is reproduced on a smartphone It is also

As shown in FIG. 3 , the webtoon content consists of a plurality of cut images 300 , and each of the plurality of cut images 300 consists of a plurality of scenes.

As described above, each of the plurality of cut images used in the webtoon is configured to have a longer length in the vertical direction than in the horizontal direction, for example, but not limited thereto, but is not limited thereto. or, in some cases, may be formed in a form whose length is not specified by a specific standard.

As such, when the rectangular cut image is displayed on the smartphone 200, horizontal pixels are fixed and displayed by the application, so as shown in FIG. 3B, some along the vertical direction of the cut image 300 images are not displayed.

Accordingly, the user can view scenes not displayed on the smartphone by using the cut image by using vertical scrolling on the screen of the smartphone 200 .

On the other hand, hidden properties are provided in the cut image of the webtoon according to the present invention, and the hidden properties include special effects such as sound, video, and animation.

[Table 1]

Table 1 is a table for explaining cut images constituting webtoon content created and stored in the server. As shown in Table 1, the webtoon content cuts the link including the content name, the cut image constituting the corresponding content, the effect included in the cut image, the location of the effect in the cut image, and the location where the effect is stored in the database. Save with images.

For example, when the user calls the cut image number 1 (CI_01) of Webtoon 1 through the application, the server stores the cut image (CI_01), the presence or absence of special effects, location information of special effects, and the location where the special effects are stored. of link information to the application.

Therefore, when the application receives the cut image of the webtoon, it is possible to determine whether a special effect is included in the received cut image, where the special effect is included in the image, and where the special effect is stored. do.

That is, assuming that one cut image corresponds to the CI_01 cut image in Table 1, and the cut image consists of 760 (px) X 7000 (px), the server transmits this cut image, contains, and the special effect is located at the vertical 4400PX point, and the location where the corresponding special effect is stored is transmitted, and the webtoon application calls the corresponding special effect based on this information to display it on the screen or auditory will be heard as

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a process of displaying a special effect using information about the presence or absence of the special effect, the location of the special effect, and the storage location of the special effect as described above.

As shown in FIG. 4 , the webtoon application 250 receives the cut image 300 from the webtoon server 100 . At this time, the webtoon application 250 receives from the webtoon server 100 whether there is a special effect (existence), the location of the special effect (L4400PX), and the storage location information of the special effect.

Then, the application 250 displays the cut image on the display of the smartphone from above as shown in (A) of FIG. At this time, since the location of the special effect (L4400PX) is located outside the display of the smartphone, an image including a part of scene 01 and scene 02 is displayed on the display of the smartphone, like a general webtoon.

Afterwards, when the user pushes up the cut image through vertical scrolling on the screen of the smartphone, a position including a special effect (vertical 4400PX) is located in the display screen of the smartphone as shown in (B) of FIG. .

The application determines whether the location containing the special effect (vertical 4400PX in the cut image) is located within the display screen of the smartphone, and in that case, displays an indicator informing the user that the special effect exists in the location containing the special effect do.

When the indicator is displayed on the screen, the user can know that the special effect is included in the scene, and the user performs horizontal scrolling on the touch screen.

When the application detects that the user has performed horizontal scrolling on the touch screen, the application calls a special effect from the previously received special effect storage information, and the special effect such as animation or video or special effect such as sound effect The effect is executed.

The special effect may consist of, but not limited to, files such as gif, swf, wav, mp3, mp4, flash, etc. In this case, the application is capable of playing the aforementioned gif, swf, wav, mp3, mp4, flash. Regeneration means may be included.

On the other hand, if the user does not want a special effect while an indicator indicating that a special effect is included is displayed on the screen, the user performs vertical scrolling as before, and the application moves to the cut image without displaying the special effect. will perform

5 is an explanatory diagram for explaining movement of a cut image using horizontal scrolling. As described above, the webtoon application 250 according to the present invention supports the movement of the cut image through vertical scrolling as well as movement of the cut image through horizontal scrolling.

For example, when a cut image is received from the webtoon server 100 as shown in FIG. 5A , the webtoon application 250 displays the received cut image on the display from the top (starting pixel line). At this time, the vertical pixels of the cut image displayed on the screen correspond to the vertical pixels of the smartphone screen.

That is, the application calculates the vertical pixels of the user's smartphone. For example, for convenience of explanation, it is assumed that the user's smartphone has a resolution of 760px X 2280px.

When the user performs horizontal scrolling on the screen on which the application is displayed, the application provides the next screen to be displayed with reference to the resolution (760px X 2280px) of the smartphone. In this case, since the vertical resolution of the smartphone is 2280px, the next screen to be displayed corresponds to the image from 2280px to 4560px in the vertical direction of the cut image, and the next screen corresponds to the image from 4560px to 6841px in the vertical direction of the cut image do.

That is, as shown in Fig. 5, whenever the user performs horizontal scrolling, the application provides the next screen by setting the vertical final pixel line of the cut image displayed on the current screen as the vertical starting pixel line of the image of the next screen. .

Meanwhile, as described above, while the user performs horizontal scrolling to move the cut image, pixels including special effects may be provided on the screen. If the user performs horizontal scrolling while the vertical pixel containing the special effect is within the display screen, the application calls the special effect from the previously received special effect storage information, as in the above example. Then, special effects such as animations and moving pictures or special effects such as sound effects are executed on the screen.

On the other hand, if the user does not want a special effect while an indicator indicating that a special effect is included is displayed on the screen, the user can perform vertical scrolling. In this case, the application does not display the special effect and the cut image is vertical movement is performed.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying a cut image in a webtoon application using a cut image including a special effect as described above.

6, the user first accesses the webtoon server 100 through the webtoon application in step S111, selects a cut image of the desired webtoon content, and requests the cut image of the selected webtoon content from the webtoon server 100. .

The webtoon server 100 transmits the cut image of the webtoon content selected by the user, and the webtoon application receives the cut image in step S112.

In the subsequent step S113, the webtoon application reads the special effect information inserted into the cut image or transmitted along with the cut image, and stores it. Here, the special effect information may include vertical pixel information in which a special effect is inserted in the image and a link to a location in which the special effect is stored.

In the subsequent step S114, the webtoon application waits for the user to scroll. The user may move the cut image by using horizontal scrolling or vertical scrolling.

In the subsequent step S115, it is determined whether horizontal scrolling or vertical scrolling is generated from the touch screen of the screen. In step S115, horizontal or vertical scrolling has occurred, and the step proceeds to S116, and in step S116, the cut image is moved in response to the user's horizontal or vertical scrolling.

For example, when the user uses vertical scrolling, the application moves the cut image upward by the length of the vertical scroll, whereas when the user uses horizontal scrolling, the cut image is displayed by the length corresponding to the vertical resolution of the user's smartphone. will move

On the other hand, if the user scroll is not input in step S115, the step proceeds to S114 and the webtoon application continues to wait for the user to scroll.

After the cut image is moved in response to scrolling in step S116, it is determined whether a pixel including a special effect is located in the moved screen in step S117.

After the cut image is moved in step S117, if it is determined that a special cell including a special effect exists in the displayed screen, the webtoon application creates a special effect notification indicator at the corresponding pixel position and overlays it on the cut image to display it.

Meanwhile, if it is determined in step S117 that there is no pixel including a special effect in the screen, the step proceeds to S121 and the application displays only the cut image.

After displaying the special effect indicator in step S118, the webtoon application waits for the user to scroll in step S119. When horizontal scrolling is generated from the user in step S119, the webtoon application receives the special effect from the location where the special effect is stored and plays the special effect.

However, when the user performs vertical scrolling in step S119, the step proceeds to S116 to use the cut image in response to the user's scrolling without displaying a special effect.

After the webtoon application displays a special effect (eg, animation effect) in step S120, the step proceeds to S121 and the webtoon application returns to the original cut image screen.

According to the present invention, by giving a sound field or animation effect to an existing webtoon composed of pictures and text, users of the webtoon can enjoy the webtoon in a more interesting and fun way.

In addition, according to the present invention, since the screen can be moved using horizontal scrolling as well as vertical scrolling when turning the screen of the webtoon, the operability of the webtoon can be further improved.

The device described above may be implemented as a hardware component, a software component, and/or a combination of the hardware component and the software component. For example, devices and components described in the embodiments may include, for example, a processor, a controller, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), a digital signal processor, a microcomputer, a field programmable gate array (FPGA). , a programmable logic unit (PLU), microprocessor, or any other device capable of executing and responding to instructions, may be implemented using one or more general purpose or special purpose computers. The processing device may execute an operating system (OS) and one or more software applications running on the operating system. A processing device may also access, store, manipulate, process, and generate data in response to execution of the software. For convenience of understanding, although one processing device is sometimes described as being used, one of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that the processing device includes a plurality of processing elements and/or a plurality of types of processing elements. It can be seen that it can include For example, the processing device may include a plurality of processors or one processor and one controller. Other processing configurations are also possible, such as parallel processors.

The software may include a computer program, code, instructions, or a combination of one or more thereof, which configures a processing device to operate as desired or is independently or collectively processed You can command the device. The software and/or data may be any kind of machine, component, physical device, virtual equipment, computer storage medium or apparatus, to be interpreted by or to provide instructions or data to the processing device. may be embodied in The software may be distributed over networked computer systems and stored or executed in a distributed manner. Software and data may be stored in one or more computer-readable recording media.

The method according to the embodiment may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer means and recorded in a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the medium may be specially designed and configured for the embodiment, or may be known and available to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tapes, optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs, and magnetic such as floppy disks. - includes magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specially configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine language codes such as those generated by a compiler, but also high-level language codes that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like.

As described above, although the embodiments have been described with reference to the limited embodiments and drawings, various modifications and variations are possible from the above description by those skilled in the art. For example, the described techniques are performed in an order different from the described method, and/or the described components of the system, structure, apparatus, circuit, etc. are combined or combined in a different form than the described method, or other components Or substituted or substituted by equivalents may achieve an appropriate result.

Therefore, other implementations, other embodiments, and equivalents to the claims should be construed as falling within the scope of the following claims.

100: webtoon server
110: server-side processor
120: communication means or communication interface
130: database or storage means
200: user terminal
210: user terminal side processor
220: communication means or communication interface
230: input/output means or input/output interface
240: display means

Claims (5)

A webtoon providing system comprising a webtoon server for providing webtoon content and a user terminal on which a webtoon application for playing webtoon is installed and connected to the webtoon server through a network,
The webtoon content provided by the webtoon server consists of a plurality of cut images, and a special effect including a sound field effect or animation effect is inserted into the plurality of cut images,
The webtoon application is
receiving the cut image;
moving the received cut image in a vertical direction in a display of a user terminal;
determining whether a special effect exists in the moved cut image; and
reproducing the special effect;
characterized in that it is configured to perform
Webtoon delivery system.
According to claim 1,
The operation of moving the cut image is characterized in that it is performed by vertical scrolling or horizontal scrolling input by a user.
Webtoon delivery system.
According to claim 1,
The webtoon application is configured to further perform an operation of displaying an indicator on the user's screen for informing the user that the special effect exists when it is determined that the special effect exists in the moved cut image
Webtoon delivery system.
4. The method of claim 3,
The application is characterized in that it is configured to reproduce a special effect when a horizontal scroll is input by the user while the indicator is displayed on the user's screen
Webtoon delivery system.
3. The method of claim 2,
The operation of moving the cut image is performed by vertical scrolling or horizontal scrolling input by a user,
When a vertical scroll is generated by the user, the application moves the cut image up and down by the length of the vertical scroll,
When horizontal scrolling is generated by the user, the application moves the cut image up and down by the vertical resolution of the user terminal.
Webtoon delivery system.

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