JP2002073480A - Preparing apparatus for comic mail and delivery apparatus therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a preparing apparatus and a delivery apparatus for a comic mail capable of transmitting and receiving E-mail in which texts and images are mixed without consideration of a terminal capability of the receiving person by the transmitting person, with synthesizing texts into image information to express texts for an information terminal having various display capabilities, and with performing an expansion and reduction processing according to the terminal, moreover, capable of acquiring a high definition image display effect to a terminal with a liquid crystal display. SOLUTION: In the preparing apparatus, by giving a character identifier to a mail, the deliver apparatus extracts the given identifier, performs a determination of a character image, a synthesize of character images into texts and an enlarging and reducing processing for an image which is synthesized based on information from a receiving terminal so as to store it into the delivery apparatus.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technology of an electronic mail device for synthesizing and distributing text and image.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional technique will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a conventional mail creation device and mail delivery device according to the prior art.

In FIG. 2, 201 is a means for creating a mail, 202 is a means for transmitting a mail, 203 is a means for storing a mail, 204 is a means for receiving a mail, and 205 is a means for displaying a mail.

In the conventional e-mail apparatus, the transmitting terminal creates text information and image information related to the text in the mail creating means 201 in a form of attaching the image information to the text. (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) to encode and send text and image information, and send mail
203 had accumulated. On the receiving terminal side, the mail was received by the mail receiving means 204, the attached image was developed, and text and image information were displayed on the mail display means 205.

[0006] In recent years, it has become common for receiving terminals to receive mails with terminals having various display capabilities such as personal computers, mail terminals, PDAs (Personal Data Assistants), and mobile phones.

[0007] Such a receiving terminal often does not have a means for developing the image, and is configured not to receive the attached image information or to download the image using a server that stores mail in advance. After deployment, the receiving terminal accessed the server and displayed the image on the terminal side (what is called Web mail) to display the image.

[0008]

As described above, it is possible for the transmitting terminal to transmit text information and image information in association with each other.

[0009] However, since it is unknown at the time of transmission when a receiving terminal side has a terminal having a display capability to read a mail, it is impossible to view the entire image on a mobile phone having a relatively small display area. Therefore, a large amount of scroll operation may be forced.

In the method in which the mail is stored in the server and accessed by the receiving terminal, the received mail is written in HTML format (H
It needs to be stored in the server in the Hyper Text Markup Language (yper Text Markup Language), and it is impossible to browse the associated text information and image information at the same time.

[0011] Therefore, an object of the present invention is to select relevant image information from text information and text information without considering the terminal at which the receiving side receives the mail at the mail transmitting side, and to provide the text information. A cartoon that can send and receive e-mail text with mixed text and images even on a terminal with a limited display area by combining the image information and the image information and displaying the image size freely according to the display capability of the receiving terminal. An object of the present invention is to provide a mail creation device and a comic mail delivery device.

[0012]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention extracts a character identifier inserted into a text, selects a character from the extracted character identifier, and stores information on the selected character. It is characterized by combining text information and enlarging / reducing a synthesized image based on display terminal information.

Further, in the enlargement / reduction processing, a sub-pixel processing for enabling a high-definition image display on a liquid crystal display device is used.

[0014]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a comic mail creation device and a comic mail distribution device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, 101 is a means for creating a mail, 102 is a means for sending a mail, 103 is a means for extracting an identifier for identifying a character from the sentence of a sent mail, and 104 is a character for extracting a character from the extracted identifier. Means 105, means for holding character image information, 106
Is a means for synthesizing a character and an e-mail text, 107 is a means for scaling an image size according to a display capability, 108 is a means for accumulating e-mail, 109 is a means for acquiring information of a display terminal, and 110 is an e-mail receiving means Means 111 is a means for displaying a mail.

The transmitting terminal comprises mail creating means 101 and mail transmitting means 102, and the receiving terminal comprises mail receiving means 1
10 and mail display means 111. Note that the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal may be independent of each other, or may be configured as an integral unit. Further, the character identifier extracting means 103, the character selecting means 104, the character holding means 10
5. The character synthesizing means 106, the scaling processing means 107, the mail storage means 108, and the terminal information obtaining means 109 are configured in the server of the Internet service provider.

First, regarding the mail creation processing on the sending side,
This will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is an example of a mail document created on the transmission terminal side. The transmitting terminal for creating / transmitting the mail document in FIG. 5 and the receiving terminal for receiving / displaying the mail document may be any of a personal computer, a mail terminal, a PDA, and a mobile phone.

In FIG. 5, a character identifier is inserted in the mail text to be created. In FIG. 5, the character identifier is described in the text as described above. However, a method of analyzing the mail text and determining the character identifier may be considered. The mail document created by the mail creation unit 101 in FIG. 1 is transmitted by the mail transmission unit 102.

Next, the process of storing the transmitted mail document in the comic mail distribution device (server) will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, the transmitted mail document is received by the server, and a character identifier extracting process 302 is performed. When a character identifier can be extracted, a character selection process 304 is performed to determine a character from the identifier. The image information of the character is stored in the character holding means 105 in FIG. FIG. 4 shows an example of image information stored in the character holding means.

After selecting a character, the server performs terminal information acquisition processing 305 to acquire the displayable size of the receiving terminal. A scaling process 307 using a scaling algorithm such as simple pixel thinning is performed based on the acquired display size. If the acquired image display size is a high-resolution display, the scaling process is skipped. After the enlarging / reducing process, a character synthesizing process 308 for synthesizing text information and character image information is performed. The result is stored in the server by the mail storing process 309. FIG. 6 shows an example of a mail document stored in the server.

After the above-described processing, on the receiving terminal side,
The mail document shown in FIG. 6 is acquired by the mail receiving unit 110 at the receiving terminal, and the mail document is displayed on the mail display unit 111.

As described above, according to the comic mail creation device and the comic mail distribution device in the above embodiment,
There is the effect that the mail can be delivered in a format in which the text of the mail and the comic image matched to the contents of the mail are combined without considering the display capability of the receiving terminal on the transmitting terminal side.

In the above-described embodiment, the case where a general image enlarging / reducing algorithm is used for the enlarging / reducing process has been described. Apply
This has the effect that a high-definition image can be displayed.

Further, in the above embodiment, the case where the character holding means stores a standard image size has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and stores image information according to the display terminal size. In this case, the same effect can be obtained.

Also, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the enlargement / reduction processing is performed after the text information and the character image information are combined has been described. However, the synthesis processing is performed after the text information and the image information are separately subjected to the enlargement / reduction processing. Similar effects can be obtained in the case of implementation.

[0028]

In the comic mail creating apparatus and the comic mail distribution apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention, a character identifier is inserted into a text, and the character and the terminal information are determined by the server. Has an effect that a mail document in which a character and a sentence are combined in a size corresponding to the terminal can be displayed.

In the comic mail creation device and the comic mail distribution device according to the second aspect of the present invention, by adopting an enlargement / reduction method utilizing the display characteristics of the liquid crystal display, image deterioration in the reduction processing in the liquid crystal display terminal is achieved. This has the effect that high-definition characters can be displayed.

In the comic mail creating apparatus and the comic mail distribution apparatus according to claims 3 and 4 of the present invention, the processing load on the server is reduced by adapting the enlargement / reduction processing of the image information to only the text information. It has the effect of being able to.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a comic mail creation device and a comic mail distribution device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a mail creation device and a mail delivery device according to a conventional example.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing processing of the comic mail creation device and the comic mail distribution device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of character image information stored in a character holding unit in the comic mail creation device and the comic mail distribution device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a mail text created by the comic mail creation device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of mail text stored in the comic mail delivery device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 101, 201 mail creation means 102, 202 mail transmission means 103 character identifier extraction means 104 character selection means 105 character holding means 106 character synthesis means 107 scaling processing means 108, 203 mail storage means 109 terminal information acquisition means 110, 204 mail reception means 111,205 Mail display means

Claims (4)

[Claims] An electronic mail including a plurality of images by combining a text and a character for expressing the text, and displaying the received mail on a liquid crystal display by enlarging or reducing the image in accordance with the display capability of a display terminal. A device for displaying on a terminal a character identifier extracting means for extracting a character identifier from a received mail, a means for holding a character, a means for selecting a character based on the extracted character identifier, and a method for extracting the extracted character and text. Means to synthesize,
A comic mail creating device comprising: means for acquiring display terminal information; means for enlarging and reducing an image synthesized based on display terminal information; and means for storing the scaled mail. 2. The comic mail creation device and comic mail distribution device according to claim 1, wherein the enlargement / reduction processing means is an enlargement / reduction processing means using a sub-pixel processing method. 3. The comic mail creating apparatus and the comic mail distribution apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the character holding means holds a character image of a size corresponding to the terminal. 4. The comic mail creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the text document is subjected to scaling processing by the scaling processing means, and the character synthesizing means is means for synthesizing the scaled image information and the scaled text information. Email delivery device.