JP2003134326A - Image-related data regeneration system and its method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To regenerate sound data corresponding to the contents of a print without printing the sound data in the form of e.g. bar codes, two-dimensional codes, etc., on the print. SOLUTION: The method comprises a step of inputting image data with an identifier buried therein in the form of an electronic watermark at a terminal, a step of sending the inputted image data to a server from the terminal, a step of receiving the image data from the terminal at the server, a step of extracting the identifier in the form of the electronic watermark from the received image data at the server, a step of retrieving image-related data corresponding to the extracted identifier from a database holding the image-related data and a plurality of sets of identifiers corresponding thereto at the server, a step of sending the retrieved image-related data to the terminal from the server, step of receiving the image-related data corresponding to the identifier from the server at the terminal, and a step of outputting the received image- related data from the terminal.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image-related data reproducing system and method using a terminal and a server, and in particular, reading an image in which information is embedded in the terminal
The read image is sent from the terminal to the server, the server extracts the information embedded in the image, searches the data corresponding to the extracted information, sends the searched data from the server to the terminal, The present invention relates to an image-related data reproduction system and method for reproducing data on a terminal.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, voice data is printed on a printed matter in the form of a bar code or a two-dimensional code, the bar code or the two-dimensional code printed on the printed matter is read by a dedicated terminal, and the voice is recorded by the dedicated terminal. There is a technique for reproducing data (conventional technique 1).

Conventionally, there is a technique (conventional technique 2) for providing an automatic voice response service by telephone. In this service, the user makes a call to the telephone number of the device that is providing the automatic voice response service and inputs the number corresponding to the desired service content into the telephone.

Furthermore, conventionally, a picture book in which a picture book whose original language is Japanese is translated into a foreign language has been published (prior art 3).

[0005]

However, in the prior art 1, since the bar code or the two-dimensional code has to be printed on the printed matter, the design on the paper surface of the printed matter may be impaired. Also, the user has to purchase a dedicated terminal for reading a barcode or a two-dimensional code.

[0006] In the conventional technique 2, the user may input an incorrect telephone number, and it is inconvenient and troublesome for the user. Further, when the guide of the automatic voice response service is posted on the printed matter, the design on the paper surface of the printed matter may be damaged.

In the prior art 3, it is necessary to publish picture books translated for each language, but this requires a high cost for each language. Therefore, the number of copies of translated picture books in one language should be increased to some extent. I have to. Therefore, even if a picture book translated into a popular language such as English may be published, a picture book translated into a language that is peculiar to each country or ethnic group and not widely spread in the world may be published. , Considering the profitability, it was not so much.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and reproduces voice data corresponding to the content of the printed matter without printing the voice data in the form of a bar code or a two-dimensional code on the printed matter. It is an object of the present invention to provide an image-related data reproducing system and a method thereof capable of performing.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an image-related data reproducing system and method capable of reproducing audio data corresponding to the content of a printed matter without using a dedicated terminal.

Further, the present invention is an image-related data reproducing system and a system thereof which enables a user to receive an automatic voice response service without printing a telephone number of a device which provides an automatic voice response service on a printed matter. The purpose is to provide a method.

Further, according to the present invention, image-related data reproduction which enables the user to receive the automatic voice response service without inputting the telephone number of the device for which the user provides the automatic voice response service to the telephone set. An object is to provide a system and a method thereof.

Furthermore, the present invention provides an image-related data reproduction system and method that enables a reader to obtain a translated text for each country based on the original picture book even if the translated picture book for each country is not sold. The purpose is to provide.

[0013]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, a terminal and a server are provided, and the terminal includes input means for inputting image data in which an identifier is embedded in the form of a digital watermark, and input. Transmission means for transmitting the image data to the server, reception means for receiving image-related data corresponding to the identifier from the server, and output means for outputting the received image-related data, The server holds a plurality of sets of receiving means for receiving the image data from the terminal, extracting means for extracting an identifier in the form of the digital watermark from the received image data, and image-related data and identifiers corresponding thereto. A database,
Searching means for searching the database for the image-related data corresponding to the extracted identifier; transmitting means for transmitting the searched image-related data to the terminal;
An image-related data reproducing system is provided, which comprises:

In the above image-related data reproducing system, the image-related data may be audio data, and the output means may reproduce the audio data.

In the above-mentioned image-related data reproducing system, the image-related data may be second image data, and the output means may reproduce the second image data.

In the above image-related data reproducing system, the image-related data may be a telephone number of an automatic voice response service, and the output means may call the telephone number.

In the above image-related data reproduction system, the image-related data may be a telephone number of an automatic music reproduction response service, and the output means may make a call to the telephone number.

In the above image-related data reproducing system, the image-related data is URL (Uniform Resource).
Locator), and the output means is the URL
May make a request to the Internet according to.

In the above image-related data reproducing system, the URL may be the URL of a home page.

In the above image-related data reproducing system, the home page may have a hyperlink to another home page.

In the above-mentioned image-related data reproducing system, the home page may describe the telephone number of the automatic voice response service.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a terminal, a processing server, and a home server are provided, and the terminal is input means for inputting image data in which an identifier is embedded in the form of a digital watermark, and the input means. Transmission means for transmitting the image data to the processing server, wherein the processing server receives the image data from the terminal, and extracts an identifier in the form of the digital watermark from the received image data. Extracting means, a database holding a plurality of sets of each image-related data and an identifier corresponding thereto, a searching means for searching the database for the image-related data corresponding to the extracted identifier, and the searched image-related Transmitting means for transmitting data to the home server;
The home server comprises: receiving means for receiving image-related data corresponding to the identifier from the processing server;
An output unit for outputting the received image-related data is provided, and an image-related data reproducing system is provided.

[0023]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

[Embodiment 1] Embodiment 1 of the present invention is a voice reproduction system and method using a terminal and a server.

Referring to FIG. 1, the audio reproduction system according to the first embodiment includes a terminal 101 and a processing server 111. The terminal 101 includes a data input unit 102, a data transmission unit 103, a data reception unit 104, and an audio reproduction unit 105. The processing server 111 includes a data reception unit 112, an embedded information extraction processing unit 113, a voice DB (database) 114, a voice DB search unit 115, and a data transmission unit 11.
6 is provided.

The data input unit 102 reads the image data in which the audio data identifier is embedded in the form of a digital watermark. The data input unit 102 is a camera provided in the terminal 101, but instead, it may be a camera or an image scanner connected to the terminal 101. The data transmission unit 103 processes the e-mail to which the image data read by the data input unit 102 is attached as the processing server 111.
Send to. This email contains the email address assigned to the terminal 101 as the sender email address. The data receiving unit 104 receives an electronic mail to which voice data is attached from the processing server 111. The voice reproduction unit 105 reproduces the voice data attached to the electronic mail received from the processing server 111.

The terminal 101 is, for example, a mobile phone, a PHS (Personal Handy Phone) terminal, a PDA (Perso).
nal Digital Assistant) or the like, but may be a personal computer.

The data receiving unit 112 of the processing server 111
Receives an e-mail with image data attached from the terminal 101. Further, the data receiving unit 112 extracts and outputs the sender email address included in the received email and the image data attached to the received email. The embedded information extraction processing unit 113 extracts the identifier of the voice data embedded in the image data attached to the received e-mail. The voice DB 114 holds a plurality of sets of voice data and corresponding identifiers. The voice DB search unit 115 searches the voice DB 114 for voice data corresponding to the identifier of the voice data extracted by the embedded information extraction processing unit 113. The data transmitting unit 116 transmits, as the transmission destination email address, the transmission source email address extracted by the data receiving unit 112 of the email to which the searched voice data is attached.

Next, the operation of the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the data input unit 102 of the terminal 101 reads the image data including the identifier of the voice data printed on the printed matter by the operation of the user (step S121). Next, the data transmission unit 103 transmits the e-mail to which the read image data is attached to the processing server 111 (step S122).

Specifically, the application downloaded and activated by the terminal 101 from the WWW server for providing the service according to the present embodiment activates the mailer, and the destination electronic mail of the e-mail to be transmitted by this mailer. Set the e-mail address of the server to be the destination e-mail address in the E-mail address field. And
The user performs an operation for attaching the read image data to the email to be sent, and performs an operation for sending the email.

Also, the WWW page for providing the service according to the present embodiment may describe the e-mail address of the server as the destination e-mail address. In this case, the user can activate the mailer by selecting the e-mail address of the server and send the e-mail with the read image data as an attachment file.

Next, the data receiving unit 1 of the processing server 111
12 receives the electronic mail with the image data attached from the terminal 101, and extracts the sender electronic mail address (the electronic mail address of the terminal 101) and the image data from the electronic mail (step S123). Next, the embedded information extraction unit 113 extracts the identifier of the audio data embedded as a digital watermark in the extracted image data (step S124). Next, the voice DB search unit 115 searches the voice DB 114 for voice data corresponding to the extracted identifier of the voice data (step S).
125). Next, the data transmitting unit 116 transmits the electronic mail to which the retrieved voice data is attached to the electronic mail address of the terminal 101 (step S126).

Next, the data receiving unit 10 of the portable terminal 101
4 receives the e-mail with the voice data attached from the processing server 111 (step S127). Next, the voice reproduction unit 105 reproduces the voice data attached to the received e-mail (step S128).

Here, a technique for embedding a digital watermark in a print image and a technique for extracting a digital watermark from a read print image will be described.

The technique of embedding a digital watermark in an image includes, for example, a rudimentary method of embedding in a specific bit plane such as LSB (Least Significant Bit) in a spatial domain, a method of converting into a frequency domain and embedding in a frequency component, etc. Are known. Various other digital watermark technologies are described in, for example, "Digital watermark technology (new multimedia protection technology)" (Kushio Matsui, published by Morikita Publishing).

When the image data is read by the camera, the lightness, the hue, the color saturation, the scale, the rotation angle, etc. are different depending on the environment at the time of reading, so the bit information when the image data is created cannot be reproduced as it is. However, for example, a standard pattern is prepared as a part of the digital watermark, and the brightness, hue, color saturation, scale, rotation angle, etc. of the read image data are adjusted, and when the standard pattern can be reproduced, the digital pattern is reproduced. The other part of the watermark may be extracted.

The second image data such as moving image data or still image data may be used instead of the audio data. In this case, the audio DB 114 is replaced with the image DB that holds the second image data and the identifier corresponding to the second image data, and the audio reproduction unit 105 is replaced with the image reproduction unit that reproduces the image.

Further, instead of the voice DB 114, the channel and the broadcast time of each TV program are replaced with a TV program DB stored in combination with the identifier of the TV program, and the fixed I
Have a home server with a P address at home,
After connecting the VTR to the home server and storing the IP address of the home server in the terminal 101, the following can be performed.

That is, the terminal 101 inputs a desired TV program in the TV program guide in which the identifiers of the TV programs are embedded by the data input unit 102, and the data transmission unit 103
The IP address of the home server and the inputted image of the television program are transmitted to the server 111, and the server 111 displays the channel and the broadcast time of the television program corresponding to the identifier of the television program included in the received image of the television program on the television. Search from the program DB and send to the home server. Then, the home server causes the VTR to record according to the channel and the broadcast time of the received TV program. Alternatively, the home server transfers the channel and broadcast time of the received TV program to the VTR.

Further, instead of the voice DB 114, the cooking procedure by microwave oven of each dish is replaced with the cooking recipe DB stored in combination with the corresponding identifier, and a home server having a fixed IP address is placed at home. With the microwave oven connected to the home server and the IP address of the home server stored in the terminal 101, the following can be performed.

That is, the terminal 101 inputs the image of the desired dish of the dish book in which the identifier of the cooking procedure by the microwave of each dish is embedded in the image of the dish by the data input unit 102, and the data transmission unit 103, The home server IP address and the input food image are transmitted to the server 111, and the server 111 searches the food recipe DB for a food procedure corresponding to the food procedure identifier included in the received food image, Send to home server. Then, the home server controls the microwave oven according to the received cooking procedure. Alternatively, the home server transmits the received cooking procedure to the microwave oven.

[Second Embodiment] A second embodiment of the present invention is an automatic voice response service system and method using a terminal and a server.

Referring to FIG. 3, the automatic voice response service system according to the second embodiment includes a terminal 201, a processing server 211 and an automatic voice response service server 221. The terminal 201 includes a data input unit 202, a data transmitting unit 203, a data receiving unit 204, and an automatic voice response reproducing unit 2.
It is equipped with 05. The processing server 211 includes the data receiving unit 21.
2, embedded information extraction processing unit 213, telephone number DB21
4. Telephone number DB search unit 215 and data transmission unit 216
Equipped with.

The data input unit 202 reads the image data in which the identifier of the automatic voice response service telephone number is embedded in the form of a digital watermark. The data input unit 202 is a camera provided in the terminal 201, but instead, it may be a camera or an image scanner connected to the terminal 201. The data transmission unit 203 is a data input unit 202.
The electronic mail to which the image data read by is attached is transmitted to the processing server 211. This e-mail contains the e-mail address assigned to the terminal 201 as the sender e-mail address. Further, the data transmission unit 203 makes a call to the automatic voice response service telephone number described in the text of the electronic mail received from the processing server 211. The data receiving unit 204 receives, from the processing server 211, an electronic mail in which the automatic voice response service telephone number is described in the text. In addition, the data receiving unit 2
04 receives the voice of the automatic voice response service from the automatic voice response service server 221. The automatic voice response reproducing unit 205 reproduces the voice of the automatic voice response service received from the automatic voice response service server 221.

Similar to the first embodiment, the terminal 201 may be, for example, a mobile phone or a PHS (Personal Handy Phone).
e) A terminal, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) or the like is assumed, but it may be a personal computer.

The data receiving unit 212 of the processing server receives the electronic mail to which the image data is attached from the terminal 201. Further, the data receiving unit 212 extracts and outputs the sender email address included in the received email and the image data attached to the received email. The embedded information extraction processing unit 213 extracts the identifier of the automatic voice response service telephone number embedded in the image data attached to the received electronic mail. The telephone number DB 214 holds a plurality of sets of automatic voice response service telephone numbers and corresponding identifiers. The telephone number DB search unit 215 searches the telephone number DB 214 for an automatic voice response service telephone number corresponding to the identifier of the automatic voice response service telephone number extracted by the embedded information extraction processing unit 213. Data transmission unit 21
6 transmits the electronic mail address in which the retrieved automatic voice response service telephone number is described in the text as the destination electronic mail address, which is the source electronic mail address extracted by the data receiving unit 212.

When a call is received, the automatic voice response service server 221 transmits the voice of the automatic voice response service to the other party.

Next, the operation of the second embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the data input unit 202 of the terminal 201 reads the image data including the identifier of the automatic voice response service telephone number printed on the printed matter by the operation of the user (step S231). Next, the data transmission unit 203 transmits the e-mail to which the read image data is attached to the processing server 211 (step S23).
2).

Specifically, the application downloaded and activated by the terminal 201 from the WWW server for providing the service according to the present embodiment activates the mailer, and the destination electronic mail of the e-mail to be transmitted by this mailer. Set the e-mail address of the server to be the destination e-mail address in the E-mail address field. And
The user performs an operation for attaching the read image data to the email to be sent, and performs an operation for sending the email.

Also, the WWW page for providing the service according to the present embodiment may describe the e-mail address of the server as the destination e-mail address. In this case, the user can activate the mailer by selecting the e-mail address of the server and send the e-mail with the read image data as an attachment file.

Next, the data receiving unit 2 of the processing server 211
12 receives the electronic mail with the image data attached from the terminal 201, and extracts the sender electronic mail address (the electronic mail address of the terminal 201) and the image data from the electronic mail (step S233). Next, the embedded information extraction unit 213 extracts the identifier of the automatic voice response service telephone number embedded as a digital watermark in the extracted image data (step S234).
Next, the telephone number DB search unit 215 searches the telephone number DB 214 for the automatic voice response service telephone number corresponding to the extracted identifier of the automatic voice response service telephone number (step S235). Next, the data transmission unit 216
An electronic mail in which the retrieved automatic voice response service telephone number is described in the text is transmitted to the electronic mail address of the terminal 201 (step S236).

Next, the data receiving section 20 of the portable terminal 201
4 receives the electronic mail in which the automatic voice response service telephone number is described in the text from the processing server 211 (step S237). Next, when the user selects the automatic voice response service telephone number described in the body of the received email, the data transmission unit 203 calls the automatic voice response service server 221, and the data reception unit 204
Upon receiving the voice of the automatic voice response service from the automatic voice response service server 221, the automatic voice response reproducing unit 205
The voice of the automatic voice response service is reproduced (S238).

Incidentally, instead of the automatic voice response service,
A mode of using the automatic music reproduction response service can also be considered as a modification of this embodiment. That is, the image data input by the data input unit 202 is used as the image data of an advertisement of a music CD published in a music magazine or the like, and a telephone of a server that provides an automatic music reproduction response service of the music recorded on this music CD in this image. By setting the number as the identifier, the automatic music reproduction response service system can be configured by using the configuration of this embodiment as it is.

[Third Embodiment] A third embodiment of the present invention is a picture book translation system and method using a terminal and a server.

Referring to FIG. 5, the picture book translation system according to the third embodiment includes a terminal 301, a processing server 311, and ht.
A tp (hypertext transfer protocol) server 321 and an automatic voice response service server 331 are provided. Terminal 30
1 includes a data input unit 302, a data transmission unit 303, a data reception unit 304, a data browsing unit 305, and an automatic voice response reproduction unit 306. The processing server 311 includes a data receiving unit 212, an embedded information extraction processing unit 313, and a URL (U
niform Resource Locator) DB 214, URL DB
The search unit 315 and the data transmission unit 316 are provided.

The data input unit 302 reads the image data in which the identifier of the URL of the home page that displays the picture book translation service menu is embedded in the form of a digital watermark. Although the data input unit 202 is a camera provided in the terminal 301, it may be a camera or an image scanner connected to the terminal 301 instead. The data transmission unit 303 transmits the electronic mail to which the image data read by the data input unit 302 is attached to the server 311. This email contains the email address assigned to the terminal 301 as the sender email address. Further, the transmitting unit 303 transmits a request for the homepage of the URL described in the body of the received electronic mail and the homepage linked to the homepage to the Internet. Furthermore, the data transmission unit 3
03 makes a call to the automatic voice response service telephone number described in the home page of the URL described in the text of the electronic mail received from the processing 311 server. The data receiving unit 304 receives, from the processing server 311, an e-mail in which the URL of the home page displaying the picture book translation service menu is described in the text. The data receiving unit 304 also receives the home page requested by the data transmitting unit. Further, the data receiving unit 204 receives the voice of the automatic voice response service from the automatic voice response service server 331. The data browsing unit 305 is the data receiving unit 30.
4 displays the home page received on the screen. The automatic voice response reproducing unit 306 uses the automatic voice response service server 33.
The voice of the automatic voice response service received from 1 is reproduced.

Similar to the first and second embodiments, the terminal 301 may be, for example, a mobile phone or a PHS (Personal Handy Handy).
A Phone) terminal, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), etc. are assumed, but a personal computer may be used.

The data receiving unit 312 of the processing server 311
Receives an e-mail with image data attached from the terminal 201. Further, the data receiving unit 312 extracts and outputs the sender electronic mail address included in the received electronic mail and the image data attached to the received electronic mail. The embedded information extraction processing unit 313 extracts, from the image data attached to the received e-mail, the identifier of the URL of the home page embedded in the image data and displaying the picture book translation service menu. URL
The DB 314 holds a plurality of sets of URLs of homepages that display picture book translation service menus and corresponding identifiers. The URL DB search unit 315 of the homepage that displays the translation service menu of the picture book corresponding to the URL of the homepage that displays the translation service menu of the picture book that has been identified and extracted by the embedded information extraction processing unit 313. URL to URL
Search from the DB 314. The data transmission unit 316 uses the retrieved URL as the source e-mail address extracted by the data reception unit 312 from the home page displaying the picture book translation service menu. Send as address.

The http server 321 has a home page that displays a picture book translation service menu and a home page that displays translated texts of the texts on each page of the picture book in each language, and requests them to the requester who requested them. Send to the original.

When an incoming call is received, the automatic voice response service server 331 transmits the voice of the automatic voice response service to the other party.

Next, the operation of the third embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the data input unit 302 of the terminal 301 reads the image data printed on the picture book and containing the identifier of the URL of the home page for displaying the translation service menu of the picture book by the user's operation (step S).
341). Next, the data transmission unit 303 sends the email with the read image data attached to the processing server 311.
(Step S342).

Specifically, the application downloaded and activated by the terminal 301 from the WWW server for providing the service according to the present embodiment activates the mailer, and the destination electronic mail of the e-mail to be transmitted by this mailer. Set the e-mail address of the server to be the destination e-mail address in the E-mail address field. And
The user performs an operation for attaching the read image data to the email to be sent, and performs an operation for sending the email.

Further, the e-mail address of the server which is the destination e-mail address may be described in the WWW page for providing the service according to the present embodiment. In this case, the user can activate the mailer by selecting the e-mail address of the server and send the e-mail with the read image data as an attachment file.

Next, the data receiving unit 3 of the processing server 311
12 receives the e-mail with the image data attached from the terminal 301, and extracts the sender e-mail address (e-mail address of the terminal 301) and the image data from the e-mail (step S343). Next, the embedded information extraction unit 313 is an identifier embedded in the extracted image data as a digital watermark, and is the U of the home page that displays the picture book translation service menu.
Those corresponding to the RL are extracted (step S344).
Next, the URL DB search unit 315 searches the URL DB 314 for the URL of the home page that displays the picture book translation service menu corresponding to the extracted identifier (step S345). Next, the data transmission unit 316
An e-mail in which the URL of the home page displaying the translation service menu of the searched picture book is described in the text is transmitted to the e-mail address of the terminal 301 (step S).
346).

Next, the data receiving section 30 of the portable terminal 301
4 receives the e-mail in which the URL of the home page displaying the picture book translation service menu is described in the text from the processing server 311 (step S347). Next, the UR of the homepage that displays the picture book translation service menu described in the body of the email received by the user
When L is selected, the data transmission unit 316 transmits the request for the homepage to the http server 321, and the http server 321 sends the request.
The server 321 sends the home page displaying the picture book translation service menu to the terminal 301, and the data receiving unit 30
4 receives the home page displaying the picture book translation service menu, and the data browsing unit 305 displays the home page displaying the picture book translation service menu on the screen (S).
348). FIG. 7 shows an example of a home page displaying a picture book translation service menu. Hyperlinks are attached to the underlined characters on the screen shown in FIG. 7.

When the user selects the character information of the English translation, for example, "text text" in the English column,
To select the text information of the French translation, click "text texte" in the French column. To select the text information of the German translation, click "Text" in the German column.
When selecting “text”, the text information of the Spanish translation, when selecting “text texto” in the Spanish column, the data transmission unit 316 selects the home page corresponding to the selected one (that is, the selected text). Ht request for home page that displays translated text in the selected language of the page
It is transmitted to the tp server 321. The http server 321 sends the requested home page to the terminal 301, and the terminal 3
The data reception unit 304 of 01 receives the home page transmitted from the http server 321, and the data browsing unit 305 displays the home page.

For example, when the user selects voice information of an English translation, "voice voice" in the English column, and when selecting voice information of a French translation, "voice" in the French column. voix ", when selecting the voice information of the German translation," voice stimme "in the German column,
When selecting the voice information of the Spanish translation, when selecting "voice voz" in the Spanish column, the data transmission unit 316 calls the telephone number of the automatic voice response service according to the selected one. multiply. That is, the data transmission unit 316 makes a call to the telephone number of the automatic voice response service that reads the translated text in the selected language of the selected page. The automatic voice response service server 331 transmits the voice of the requested automatic voice response service to the terminal 301, and the data receiving unit 304 of the terminal 301 receives the voice transmitted from the automatic voice response service server 331 and automatically The voice response reproducing unit 306 reproduces the voice.

It should be noted that instead of preparing translations of language sentences in each country's language on the homepage, prepare sentences with expressions modified according to age groups, prepare sentences in dialect, and prepare sentences. You may prepare the audio read aloud, or prepare background music.

[0072]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The following effects are exhibited.

Since the data identifier is embedded in the image in the form of a digital watermark, the design on the paper surface of the printed matter is not damaged. Further, the space of the page is not pressed by the voice associated with the image, the voice of the automatic voice response service, and the like.

Since the server extracts the digital watermark from the image data, the terminal does not have to be equipped with software for that purpose. Therefore, the capacity of the storage unit of the terminal is not pressed, and the excessive CPU performance of the terminal is not required. Further, the software can be upgraded only by the software installed in the server, and therefore the user's hand is not bothered.

From the user's point of view, it is possible to listen to the voice data associated with the image data or listen to the voice of the automatic voice response service by simply reading the image data using the terminal and transmitting it to the server. You can

From the perspective of the user, the translation of the sentence in the picture book can be read or listened to by simply reading the picture book using the terminal and transmitting it to the server. Also, from the viewpoint of the publisher, it is not necessary to publish the translated version of the picture book for each language, which saves costs. Also, from the perspective of the publisher, foreigners can purchase Japanese picture books, so the sales volume for each edition can be increased.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a voice reproduction system using a terminal and a server according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing an operation of a voice reproduction system using a terminal and a server according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an automatic voice response service system using a terminal and a server according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram showing an operation of an automatic voice response service system using a terminal and a server according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a picture book translation system using a terminal and a server according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a conceptual diagram showing an operation of a picture book translation system using a terminal and a server according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a translation service menu in a picture book translation system using a terminal and a server according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

101, 201, 301 terminals 102, 202, 302 Data input section 103, 203, 303 data transmission unit 104, 204, 304 Data receiver 105 audio playback unit 111, 211, 311 processing server 112, 212, 312 data receiving unit 113, 213, 313 Embedded information extraction processing unit 114 voice DB 115 Voice DB Search Unit 116, 216, 316 Data transmission unit 205, 306 Automatic voice response playback unit 214 phone number DB 215 Telephone number DB search section 221 and 331 automatic voice response service server 305 Data browsing section 314 URL DB 315 URL DB search section 321 http server

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[Claims] 1. A terminal and a server, wherein the terminal includes input means for inputting image data in which an identifier is embedded in the form of a digital watermark, and transmission means for transmitting the input image data to the server. A receiving unit that receives the image-related data corresponding to the identifier from the server; and an output unit that outputs the received image-related data; and the server receives the image data from the terminal. Extracting means for extracting an identifier in the form of the digital watermark from the received image data, a database holding a plurality of sets of each image-related data and an identifier corresponding thereto, the image-related data corresponding to the extracted identifier Searching means for searching the database, and sending means for sending the searched image-related data to the terminal, Image related data reproducing system, characterized in that it comprises. 2. The image-related data reproducing system according to claim 1, wherein the image-related data is audio data, and the output means reproduces the audio data. . 3. The image-related data reproducing system according to claim 1, wherein the image-related data is second image data, and the output means reproduces the second image data. Image related data playback system. 4. The image-related data reproducing system according to claim 1, wherein the image-related data is a telephone number of an automatic voice response service, and the output means makes a call to the telephone number. Image related data playback system. 5. The image-related data reproduction system according to claim 1, wherein the image-related data is a telephone number of an automatic music reproduction response service, and the output means makes a call to the telephone number. Image-related data playback system. 6. The image-related data reproducing system according to claim 1, wherein the image-related data is URL (Uniform Resource Loca).
The image-related data reproduction system is characterized in that the output means issues a request to the Internet according to the URL. 7. The image-related data reproducing system according to claim 6, wherein the URL is a home page URL. 8. The image-related data reproduction system according to claim 7, wherein the homepage has a hyperlink to another homepage. 9. The image-related data reproducing system according to claim 7, wherein the homepage describes a telephone number of an automatic voice response service. 10. A terminal inputs image data in which an identifier is embedded in the form of a digital watermark, the terminal transmits the input image data to a server, and the server uses the terminal. Receiving the image data from the server, the server extracting an identifier in the form of the digital watermark from the received image data, the server, the image-related data corresponding to the extracted identifier A step of searching a database holding a plurality of sets of image-related data and identifiers corresponding thereto; a step of transmitting the searched image-related data to the terminal by the server; And receiving the image-related data received by the terminal. Image related data reproducing method characterized by comprising an output step of force, the. 11. The image-related data reproducing method according to claim 10, wherein the image-related data is audio data, and the output step is a step in which the terminal reproduces the audio data. Image-related data reproduction method. 12. The image-related data reproducing method according to claim 10, wherein the image-related data is second image data, and in the outputting step, the terminal reproduces the second image data. A method for reproducing image-related data, which is characterized by being a step. 13. The image-related data reproducing method according to claim 10, wherein the image-related data is a telephone number of an automatic voice response service, and in the output step, the terminal calls the telephone number. A method for reproducing image-related data, which is characterized by being a step. 14. The image-related data reproducing method according to claim 10, wherein the image-related data is a telephone number of an automatic music reproduction response service, and in the outputting step, the terminal calls the telephone number. A method for reproducing image-related data, which is characterized by the steps of: 15. The image-related data reproducing method according to claim 10, wherein the image-related data is URL (Uniform Resource Loca).
tor), and in the output step, the terminal is a URL
A method for reproducing image-related data, characterized in that the method comprises the step of issuing a request to the Internet according to. 16. The image-related data reproducing method according to claim 15, wherein the URL is a URL of a home page. 17. The image-related data reproducing method according to claim 15, wherein the home page has a hyperlink to another home page. 18. The image-related data reproducing method according to claim 16, wherein the home page describes a telephone number of an automatic voice response service. 19. A terminal, a processing server, and a home server, wherein the terminal inputs input means for inputting image data in which an identifier is embedded in the form of a digital watermark, and sends the input image data to the processing server. And a receiving unit that receives the image data from the terminal, an extracting unit that extracts an identifier in the form of the digital watermark from the received image data, and each image-related data. And a database holding a plurality of sets of identifiers corresponding to the database, search means for searching the image related data corresponding to the extracted identifiers from the database, and transmitting the searched image related data to the home server The home server receives image-related data corresponding to the identifier from the processing server. An image-related data reproducing system comprising: a receiving unit that outputs the image-related data and an output unit that outputs the received image-related data. 20. A terminal inputs image data in which an identifier is embedded in the form of a digital watermark, the terminal transmits the input image data to the processing server, and the processing server Receiving the image data from the terminal, the processing server extracting an identifier in the form of the digital watermark from the received image data, the processing server corresponding to the extracted identifier Searching the image-related data from a database holding a plurality of sets of image-related data and identifiers corresponding thereto; the processing server transmitting the searched image-related data to the home server; A server receiving image-related data corresponding to the identifier from the processing server; The home server outputs the received image-related data, and the image-related data reproducing method. 21. Receiving means for receiving image data in which an identifier is embedded in the form of a digital watermark from a terminal, extracting means for extracting the identifier in the form of a digital watermark from the received image data, and each image related data And a database holding a plurality of sets of identifiers corresponding thereto, a searching unit that searches the image-related data corresponding to the extracted identifiers from the database, and a transmitting unit that transmits the searched image-related data to the terminal. And a server. 22. The server according to claim 21, wherein the image-related data is audio data. 23. The server according to claim 21, wherein the image-related data is second image data. 24. The server according to claim 21, wherein the image-related data is a telephone number of an automatic voice response service. 25. The server according to claim 21, wherein the image-related data is a telephone number of an automatic music reproduction response service. 26. The server according to claim 21, wherein the image-related data is URL (Uniform Resource Loca).
a server characterized by being a tor). 27. The server according to claim 26, wherein the URL is a URL of a home page. 28. The server according to claim 27, wherein the home page has a hyperlink to another home page. 29. The server according to claim 27, wherein the home page describes a telephone number of an automatic voice response service. 30. Receiving means for receiving image data in which an identifier is embedded in the form of a digital watermark from a terminal, extracting means for extracting the identifier in the form of a digital watermark from the received image data, and each image-related data And a database holding a plurality of sets of identifiers corresponding thereto, a searching unit that searches the image-related data corresponding to the extracted identifiers from the database, and a transmitting unit that transmits the searched image-related data to a home server And a server.