JP2004310765A - Clipping system of carried data - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To electronically clip data by a simple operation. <P>SOLUTION: This system is provided with a digital data receiving means which receives digital data transmitted from a user terminal equipped with a digital data fetching means for fetching an arbitrary range of media, a carried data extraction means which extracts carried data associated with the digital data by retrieving a media carried data storage means by referring to the received digital data, a carried data clipping means which stores the extracted carried data itself or identification data for identifying the extracted carried data in a clipping data storage means by associating the data with user information, and a user access permission means which enables access from the user terminal and performs at least either of browse permission, download permission or data distribution. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a posting data clipping system.

Conventionally, in order to scrap newspaper articles, magazine articles, and other information, cut the articles etc. with scissors, write the name and date of the medium by hand, paste it on the mount with glue, and organize it by genre etc. The way has been taken.
On the other hand, communication represented by the Internet has become widespread today, for example, a database for storing news, articles, readings, various information, various data, other various contents, a web site and a server for posting such information. Various services, such as provision and distribution of information by devices and others, are provided for a fee or free of charge. For example, databases and news publication websites provided by newspaper companies and news distribution companies, various information publication WEB sites, database providers providing various data, various WEB sites, and the like.

  As an example, in the case of article search services and database providing services provided by newspaper companies and news distribution companies, data such as articles stored in the article database is paid or free for access from users. Systems that allow users to browse by search or the like have become widespread. In order to provide such services through tie-ups with other business operators, for example, securities companies, etc., use newspaper article databases free of charge at home trade for the purpose of customer acquisition and customer service on the Internet. Various services are provided free of charge, including available services. As described above, a huge amount of capital investment and operating costs are borne for acquiring customers, and a large amount of cost is currently being spent for acquiring one user.

  By way of example, an article search service and a database providing service provided by newspaper companies and news distribution companies have been taken as examples. At any time, the necessary data can be found by searching, etc., but the article database etc. store all the articles of all genres and all the periods, etc. In order to find necessary data from, data must be narrowed down using various conditions. That is, the information stored in the database in advance includes data that is not of interest to the user or unnecessary data, and rather, such unnecessary data is probably the majority. In the first place, clipping and clipping of articles, etc., which was conventionally performed on paper, was performed by manually filtering out only the data of interest or necessary data from the vast amount of information. In some cases, it is desirable that the information be organized and stored so that it can be found immediately when needed, and it is also desired that such information be realized when a database or the like is used.

  On the other hand, the clipping of articles and the like, which was traditionally performed on paper, is based on various newspapers and magazines, flyers and brochures, advertisements, booklets, and various other media and publications that users have seen. Of the vast amount of information that they were interested in and needed to store.

JP-A-2002-99744

For example, in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-99744, "Personal Digital Library System", a personal digital library system is provided in accordance with contract conditions between a supplier and a user in correspondence with target digital content. In addition, billing methods and usage methods that reflect the intentions of users have been proposed.
The digital content is transmitted to the user on the supplier side based on the contract terms between the supplier and the user, stored in the user's digital content storage device, and made available to the user. It is a digital library system, and the objects to be stored are digital contents such as digitized text information, audio information, image information, video information, or a combination thereof.
Because newspapers, magazines, books, etc. that have been published on paper are stored in digital data, they are not bulky and do not occupy the living space, so they can be stored easily without being discarded. It is possible to perform a search or the like and read it back again.

However, the present invention is also based on a contract between a supplier and a user. For example, a digital data newspaper or the like is electronically distributed to a user by a contract with a certain newspaper company, and at the same time, stored on the user side. Things.
Therefore, even if this is used, not only is data narrowed down or extracted that reflects the user's intention, but only information supplied by a specific newspaper company or news distributor (provider of a database or the like) can be obtained. Absent. In order to clip various media and publications, information sources (Web sites, databases, etc.) provided by various news and information providers must be used. In this case, the cost for each will be high.
In addition, when a user replaces a computer device in order to store the data, the user must back up the data in order to manage the stored data.

In order to solve such a problem, some news distribution web sites and the like, as a clipping service, allow users to register media such as newspapers, magazines, and academic journals, and search keywords and genres in advance. By doing so, when an article is found, it is sent by e-mail or the like.
However, also in this case, since only information supplied by an information distribution source such as a contracted newspaper company is targeted, only information supplied by a specific newspaper company or news distributor (provider such as a database) can be obtained. In addition, various media and publications cannot be clipped. Users can't save and register in the database any articles they find, not articles they get with clipping services. Even if the user directly finds an article that he wants to save other than the keyword or genre registered in advance, he cannot save it.

  Users who actually clip information see and hear what, when, where and in what media they are interested in what they need, what they need, and which may be useful in the future, even if they don't know what they need. Such information is unpredictable and often contains valuable information in catalogs, booklets, and other unexpected media.

JP-A-2002-7739

  On the other hand, as a data storage system using a server, for example, in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-7739 “Data storage system, server computer, and recording medium”, a data storage system that securely holds and manages purchased content is used. There has been proposed a system for editing and providing contents so that the contents can be easily used. The content storage server receives the content purchased by the user terminal as a registered member from the content providing server, and stores the content in the stored content database. The user terminal accesses the content storage server to download and use the content.

JP-A-2001-306831

  Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2001-306831 entitled "Digital Data Banking System" proposes a system in which various digital data contents of a customer are temporarily stored and billed accurately according to the actual storage size and storage time. . This is a digital data banking system that temporarily stores digital data contents owned by customers and charges a storage fee. Digital data contents owned by the customer are stored as digital data contents by writing means for taking in via a network in response to a request from the customer, and the stored digital data content is stored in the network in response to a request from the customer. Hand over to the customer.

However, in the former case, the content purchased by the user terminal, which is a registered member, is received from the content providing server, and the data to be stored is limited to data stored and stored in advance by the content providing server. . In addition, in order to store data, a user must go through a process of identifying and purchasing data from data stored in the content providing server.
In the latter case, the digital data contents owned by the customer are captured and stored via a network at the request of the customer, and the entire data to be stored must be uploaded by the user in a state suitable for storage. Must. In other words, all data must be prepared and uploaded by the user, even if it is a huge amount of data. Also, when capturing images, all data to be stored must be captured. Must be captured and uploaded. For data of a plurality of pages, an operation such as reading all pages with a scanner is required.
However, data clipping needs to be a simple operation that can be continuously used as easily as possible. For example, in the case of clipping of articles, it is usually assumed that even if you do not read the entire article, just looking at the headline or photo etc. and keeping it temporarily as it may be useful, clipping the data electronically It is desired that the same processing can be performed in order to perform the above processing.

Therefore, the present invention solves the above-mentioned various problems, and according to the present invention, information such as various media and publications is targeted for clipping, and a user is previously selected from information sources provided by various news and information providers. It is an object of the present invention to provide an electromagnetic and online clipping system that is not manually performed in a state where data has been narrowed down or extracted.
Unlike conventional clipping services, articles and other various information you find are stored as if you were scrapping a newspaper, without being caught by the information provider, the source media, and the genre of information. It is an object to provide a system that can be implemented.

In order to solve the above problem, in the invention according to claim 1,
Input means, control means, display means, output means, a server system that is accessed from a user terminal such as a computer having a storage means and the like, and information processing is performed by operation at the user terminal,
Digital data receiving means for receiving digital data transmitted from a portable information terminal such as a mobile phone or a user terminal such as a personal computer, comprising digital data capturing means for capturing an arbitrary range of media as digital data,
With reference to the received digital data, search for the publication data associated with the digital data and the media publication data storage means for storing news and other publication data published on newspapers and other media on which information is physically posted. Means to extract and extract posting data;
A publication data clipping unit that stores the extracted publication data itself or identification data for identifying the extracted publication data in the clipping data storage unit in association with the corresponding user information;
The publication data itself or the identification data for identifying the publication data stored in the publication data clipping means is made accessible to an access request from a user terminal, and browsing permission, download permission, and data distribution for the access request to the clipping data are made. And a user access permission unit that performs at least one of the following.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, in the invention according to claim 2,
2. The publication data clipping system according to claim 1, wherein the news and other publication data stored in the media publication data storage means are the same data as the data published on the media.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, in the invention according to claim 3,
The news and other publication data stored in the media publication data storage means are news and other data summaries, data related to the publication data, and data stored corresponding to data published on other media. Item 1 is a clipping system for posting data described in item 1.

Further, in order to solve the above-mentioned problem, in the invention according to claim 4,
The publication data extracting means refers to the received digital data, and extracts the publication data associated with the digital data.
OCR reading means for reading the received digital image data by OCR;
The publication according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the retrieval is performed by a character search unit that performs a search by referring to the media publication data storage unit based on the character data read by the OCR reading unit. It is a data clipping system.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, in the invention according to claim 5,
The publication data extracting means refers to the received digital data, and extracts the publication data associated with the digital data.
The received digital image data is image-analyzed and extracted by an image search unit that performs a comparison search process with the publication data itself or the corresponding image data stored in the media publication data storage unit. It is a publication data clipping system according to any one of claims 1 to 3.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, in the invention according to claim 6,
The publication data extracting means refers to the received digital data, and extracts the publication data associated with the digital data.
2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said digital voice data is extracted by a character search means for performing a search with reference to said media publication data storage means based on character data read by voice analysis means for voice analysis of the received digital voice data. 3 is a clipping system for posted data described in any one of (1) to (3).

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, in the invention according to claim 7,
The publication data extracting means refers to the received digital data, and extracts the publication data associated with the digital data.
4. A publication data clipping system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the retrieval is performed by a character search means for performing a search by referring to the media publication data storage means based on the received digital character data. It is characterized by being.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, in the invention according to claim 8,
When receiving digital data from a portable information terminal such as a mobile phone or a user terminal such as a personal computer,
Upon receiving the date and time, title, keywords, and other accompanying information sent from the user terminal,
The publication according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the publication data clipping unit stores the extracted publication data in the clipping data storage unit in association with the extracted publication data itself or identification data for identifying the extracted publication data. It is a data clipping system.

Further, in order to solve the above problem, in the invention according to claim 9,
The posting data itself stored in the clipping data storage means or the identification data for identifying the extracted posting data is data for identifying the posting data in response to an access request from the user terminal, or date and time, title, keyword, and other data. 9. A search device according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the search device is configured to be searchable based on the accompanying information, extract search data in response to the search request, and enable any of browsing permission, download permission, and data distribution. The feature is that it is a posting data clipping system described in Crab.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, in the invention according to claim 10,
The posting data clipping means can extract other posting data related to the posting data based on the data identifying the posting data, the date and time transmitted from the user terminal, the title, the keyword, and other accompanying information. Item 9 is a posting data clipping system.

Further, in order to solve the above problem, in the invention according to claim 11,
Edit data output means for editing the publication data stored in the clipping data storage means according to a predetermined layout, and outputting the edited data,
The posting data clipping system according to any one of claims 1 to 10, which outputs the data as data that can be transmitted to a user terminal.

Further, in order to solve the above problem, in the invention according to claim 12,
The editing data output means, the layout specification data transmitted from the user terminal, or the extraction conditions and other editing specification data of the publication data to be edited, among the transmission conditions to the user terminal of the edited and output data to the user terminal 12. A posting data clipping system according to claim 11, wherein an editing process and an output process are performed according to at least one of them.

According to the present invention, information such as various media and publications is targeted for clipping, and in a state where the user has previously narrowed down and extracted data from information sources provided by various news and information providers. It is possible to provide a clipping system that is electromagnetic and online rather than manually.
Unlike conventional clipping services, articles and other various information you find are stored as if you were scrapping a newspaper, without being caught by the information provider, the source media, and the genre of information. A system that can be implemented can be provided.
It is easy to use and can be used as easily as possible.For example, if you are clipping an article, you do not need to read the entire article, just look at the headline or photo etc. and keep it for the time being as it may be useful It is possible to provide a system capable of performing the work electronically.
As a result, it is possible to store data extracted by narrowing down only the data of interest or necessary data manually in advance, and to organize and store the data so that it can be found immediately when necessary.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
The publication data clipping system of the present invention is a server system that is accessed from a user terminal such as a computer having an input unit, a control unit, a display unit, an output unit, a storage unit, and the like, and performs information processing by operation at the user terminal.
FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an example of a basic configuration of the system of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a system configuration diagram showing another example of the basic configuration of the system of the present invention.

The system of the present invention is a server system that performs information processing by operation from a user terminal accessed through communication means represented by the Internet, and is provided to be connected to a network represented by the Internet. Accessed from the connecting user terminal.
Here, the network widely includes a network form connected by a dedicated line, a corporate LAN, a corporate LAN, a WAN, etc., including the Internet. Further, the form of the communication line used here broadly includes a form of wired communication and wireless communication, and includes a form using satellite communication, Bluetooth and the like.
As a user terminal for connecting to the server system of the present invention, a wireless communication terminal such as a mobile phone equipped with a browser function connectable to the Internet or the like, a mobile information terminal, a personal computer, a workstation or the like is usually used. A computer terminal is used. In addition, the user terminal widely includes devices such as an Internet TV, a game device, a video conference system, and other home electric appliances having a network connection function.
Further, a telephone, a facsimile machine, or the like connected to the network can be used as the user terminal.

The computer terminal includes a control unit, a storage unit, an input unit, an output unit, a display unit, and the like. In a typical mode, the apparatus is provided with a function of transmitting and receiving data by connecting to a computer network represented by the Internet, and includes an application program such as a browser, e-mail software, and a word processor, and an operating system (OS).
Next, the server system of the present invention can usually be constituted by an application server, a database server, an authentication server, a WEB server, and, if necessary, a mail server and other various devices.
Each of these servers includes a form that is physically provided on the same device, a form that is physically composed of a plurality of devices, and a form that is physically composed of a plurality of devices connected via a network. If various similar functions are realized, various forms are included.

  According to the system configuration shown in FIG. 1, the system according to the present invention comprises a server system including a media publication data storage unit for storing news and other publication data posted on newspapers and other media for physically posting information. In preparation. The media publication data storage means is a database for storing news, articles, readings, various information, various data, other various contents, etc., a WEB site for posting such information, a server device, and other storage means. For example, there is a case where a newspaper company or the like having an article database builds the system of the present invention in its own system.

On the other hand, according to the system configuration shown in FIG. 2, the media publication data storage means does not necessarily need to be provided in the server system constituting the system of the present invention, and is transmitted from the server system via communication means represented by the Internet. It may be provided as a database that can be accessed by the user, a WEB site for posting such information, a server device, or other storage means. For example, databases and news publication websites provided by newspaper companies and news distribution companies, various information publication Web sites, database providers providing various data, various Web sites, and the like are provided. Is also good. For example, there is a case where the system of the present invention searches a database or the like owned by another company and extracts data.
Also, by combining the systems of FIGS. 1 and 2, the system of the present invention has its own media publication data storage means, and at the same time, searches the database or the like owned by another business operator from the system of the present invention to retrieve data. You may make it extractable.

The news and other publication data stored in the media publication data storage means are, as a typical example, the same data as the data published on actual media. For example, newspapers, magazines, books, catalogs, brochures, flyers, advertisements, other publications, and other materials stored on physical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs, which are actually published as physical objects The same contents as the data described therein as various media are data stored as digital data. The data includes character data, image data, and other various data formats.
In addition, news and other publication data stored in the media publication data storage means include, as another typical example, a movie, a video, a program, a commercial film, a video, a CD-ROM, a DVD, and the like that actually exist physically. The same contents as moving image data, animation data, slide show data, presentation data, and audio data stored in physical media such as the digital data are stored as digital data.

The publication data stored in the media publication data storage means does not necessarily have to be the same as the contents actually published in newspapers, magazines, various publications, and various media.
As a typical example, news and other publication data stored in the media publication data storage means are stored in correspondence with news and other data summaries, data related to the publication data, and data published on other media. Data. It is only necessary that the contents published in actual newspapers, magazines, various publications and various media, etc., and the data stored in the media publication data storage means be stored in the media publication data storage means in association with each other. It is.

Next, the system according to the present invention includes a digital data receiving means for receiving digital data transmitted from a portable information terminal such as a mobile phone or a user terminal such as a personal computer. Data receiving means is provided.
In order to perform data clipping processing using the system of the present invention, an arbitrary range of media is captured as digital data from the user terminal and transmitted to the server system in order to identify the posted data on the server system side. Need arises. If the media is a newspaper or a magazine, any part of the article or page that the user wants to clip, such as a part of the article, a headline, or a photograph, is captured as digital data. Even if the whole article or the like is not taken in, or a part of the article is taken in as digital data, any range may be used as long as the server system can determine which article is based on the taken-in range.
The captured digital data can use image data, character data, audio data, and other various data formats. Regardless of the data format, it is sufficient that at least a part of the data to be clipped is captured so that the posted data such as the captured media can be determined on the server system side.

As described above, the user terminal accessing the server system includes various devices. As a typical example, taking a mobile phone as an example, the digital data capturing means has the following form.
When digital data is textual information, it is necessary to input media publication data, such as newspaper headlines and product names in catalogs, in characters. Use an externally mounted keyboard or the like.
If the digital data is audio information, it is necessary to input media publication data, such as newspaper headlines and catalog product names, video serifs and titles, music titles and parts of lyrics, and so on. As the data capturing means, a microphone of a mobile phone or a microphone externally attached to the mobile phone is used.
When the digital data is image information or moving image information, it is necessary to input media publication data, for example, a headline of a newspaper, a product name or a product photograph of a catalog, one frame of a video, a jacket photo of a music CD, or the like as an image. For this reason, as the digital data capturing means, an image (or moving image) capturing means such as a camera attached to a mobile phone, or an image (or moving image) capturing means such as a camera externally attached to a mobile phone is used. Used.

Furthermore, a personal computer will be described as a typical example of a user terminal accessing the server system. The digital data capturing means has the following form.
When digital data is text information, it is necessary to input media publication data, such as newspaper headlines and product names in catalogs, using characters, so digital data capture means such as keyboards, tablets, mice, and touch panels Character input means or these externally mounted character input means are used.
If the digital data is audio information, it is necessary to input media publication data, such as newspaper headlines and catalog product names, video serifs and titles, music titles and parts of lyrics, and so on. As the data capturing means, a microphone attached to the user terminal or a microphone attached externally is used.
When the digital data is image information or moving image information, it is necessary to input media publication data, for example, a headline of a newspaper, a product name or a product photograph of a catalog, one frame of a video, a jacket photo of a music CD, or the like as an image. For this reason, as the digital data capturing means, an image (or moving image) capturing means such as a camera attached to the user terminal or an image (or moving image) capturing means such as an externally mounted camera is used.

  Further, as another typical example of the user terminal accessing the server system, a network connection device such as a facsimile machine or a telephone can be used. When transmitting data to the server system using these as user terminals, various known CTI systems and unified message systems are used to perform A / D conversion and data conversion for analog lines. Then, it is necessary to convert the data into a data format that can be stored in the server system, or to transmit the data through various IP telephone networks connected using the Internet. Further, by providing facsimile receiving software on the server system side, it is possible to automatically take in data transmitted from a facsimile apparatus (user terminal) as digital image data upon reception.

When using a keyboard such as a telephone, a keyboard such as a kiosk terminal or a dedicated terminal, or a character inputting device such as a touch panel as digital data capturing means, media publication data such as a headline of a newspaper or a product name of a catalog may be represented by characters. By inputting, digital data is captured as character information.
If a microphone such as a telephone is used as the digital data capture means, enter the media publication data, such as newspaper headlines and catalog product names, video serifs and titles, music titles and parts of lyrics, by voice. As a result, digital data is captured as audio information.
When a facsimile machine or the like is used as digital data capturing means, media publication data, such as newspaper headlines, catalog product names, product photos, one frame of video, and music CD jacket photos, can be input as images. Digital data is captured as image information and moving image information.

The digital data captured as described above is transmitted from the user terminal, received by the digital data receiving means in the server system, and stored for data processing described later.
Further, the data transmitted from the user terminal and received by the digital data receiving means includes user identification data such as a user ID for identifying a user, in addition to the digital data for identifying posted data.
Further, when receiving the digital data, as necessary, it receives the date and time, the title, the keyword, and other accompanying information transmitted from the user terminal, and stores them for data processing described later.

The server system preferably includes a user information database that stores user information and an authentication unit that performs user authentication based on user identification data such as a user ID. Data clipping is performed in association with the identification data. Preferably, a storage area for each corresponding user is provided. The user information includes personal information such as a user's name, date of birth, age, and e-mail address, and authentication information such as an ID and a password. The user accesses the user terminal to register the user information and register as a member. Thus, these pieces of information are stored.
Further, the use of the service by the system of the present invention may be started without the user registration process. For example, by sending an article to the clipping service company's server system by notifying the user's telephone number or e-mail address, the user is automatically registered. In the server system, the user is notified for each notified telephone number or e-mail address It is a form that performs management.

Next, the system of the present invention includes a publication data extracting unit that extracts publication data associated with the digital data by referring to the received digital data by referring to the media publication data storage unit.
The publication data extracting means is based on digital data such as image data, character data, and audio data transmitted from the user terminal, and includes a publication data storage means provided in the server system, or another server, database, or WEB connected to the Internet or the like. A site or the like is searched to extract various publication data as described above.
A process of extracting the publication data associated with the digital data with reference to the received digital data with reference to the media publication data storage unit will be described using a specific example. For example, an article to be stored is photographed with a camera-equipped mobile phone, and transmitted by e-mail to a server system of the present invention provided by a clipping service company or the like. You don't have to shoot the whole article. Only part of the article is needed. In the server system, the received image is subjected to OCR processing to extract a character string. The heading can be determined from the difference in the size of the characters in the photographed article. Instead of an image, a part of an article can be directly input manually and sent as character information from the beginning by e-mail or the like. Alternatively, it is also possible to extract a character string by performing OCR processing on an image on the user's camera-equipped mobile phone, and transmit the character string to the server system by e-mail. An article database such as a Y newspaper or an N newspaper is searched using the extracted character string as a “keyword”. When an article is found, clipping is performed by saving the article itself or the article number.

In the case where digital data transmitted from the user terminal is image data, an example of a typical extraction process is an OCR reading unit that reads the received digital image data by OCR and a character data read by the OCR reading unit. And a character search means for performing a search with reference to the media publication data storage means.
Another example of typical extraction processing in the case where digital data transmitted from the user terminal is image data is to analyze the received digital image data and store it in the media posting data storage means. The image data is extracted by an image search unit that performs a comparison search process with the posted data itself or the corresponding image data.

In the case where the digital data transmitted from the user terminal is audio data, an example of a typical extraction process is based on character data read by audio analysis means for analyzing the received digital audio data based on the media publication data. And character search means for performing a search with reference to the storage means.
An example in which a user performs clipping using audio data is a form in which a headline or a book title of interest in a newspaper article is read out and transmitted from a mobile phone. According to another example, by recording a part of the lyrics of the music, or singing and recording by the user and transmitting it from the mobile phone, the server system determines the music and extracts and stores the audio data of the music. It is a form that does.

  An example of a typical extraction process when the digital data transmitted from the user terminal is character data is based on character data read by character analysis means for analyzing the received digital character data, and the media publication data storage described above. The character string is extracted by the character search means for performing a search by referring to the means.

Next, the system of the present invention includes a posting data clipping unit that stores the extracted posting data itself or identification data for identifying the extracted posting data in the clipping data storage unit in association with the corresponding user information. I have.
The posted data extracting means is based on digital data such as image data, character data, and audio data transmitted from the user terminal, and is based on posted data storage means provided in the server system, or another server, database, or WEB connected to the Internet or the like. A site or the like is searched, and the various types of publication data described above are extracted, and the publication data itself or the identification data for identifying the extracted publication data is stored in the clipping data storage unit in association with the corresponding user information. .
The clipping data storage means is a server device such as a database server or a WEB server that performs data clipping in association with user identification data by identifying a user by a user ID or the like, a hard disk, and other storage means. Preferably, a storage area for each corresponding user is provided.

When the posting data itself is stored in the clipping data storage means, for example, when the posting data stored in the server system of the present invention is extracted, the posting data is stored in a predetermined storage area of the clipping data storage means. I do. When the publication data is extracted from another server, database, WEB site or the like connected to the Internet or the like, the publication data is downloaded to the server system of the present invention and stored in a predetermined storage area of the clipping data storage means. .
On the other hand, when the identification data for identifying the publication data is stored instead of the publication data itself, data such as a URL for identifying the location of the publication data and a file name of the publication data are stored in a predetermined format of the clipping data storage means. Store in the storage area.

Next, the system of the present invention, when receiving digital image data from a portable information terminal such as a mobile phone or a user terminal such as a personal computer, the date and time transmitted from the user terminal, title, keyword, and other accompanying information Can be received, and when the posting data clipping means stores the posting data in association with the user ID or the like, the date and time of transmission, the title, the keyword, the posting data itself extracted in association with other accompanying information, or The identification data for identifying the extracted publication data is stored in the clipping data storage means.
As a result, the clipped publication data can be searched for, extracted, edited, output, etc., based on the date and time of transmission, title, keyword, and other accompanying information.

Further, according to an example of another preferred embodiment, the posting data clipping means relates to the posting data based on the data for identifying the posting data, the date and time, the title, the keyword, and other accompanying information transmitted from the user terminal. Another publication data can be extracted as a result of search. For example, based on the digital data transmitted by the user to identify the posted data, the relevant posted data is extracted from a server, a database, a web site, or the like, and another posted data related to the posted data is identified with the same or other data. From the server, database, WEB site, etc., and associates these publication data with each other, downloads them to the server system of the present invention, and stores them in a predetermined storage area of the clipping data storage means.
For example, if a user specifies a newspaper article as the publication data to be clipped by sending digital data, the related article of another newspaper company may be clipped at the same time, or if a certain product catalog is designated as the publication data to be clipped, This is effective when clipping the product catalog of the same genre of the user. As the conditions for extracting relevant publication data, the user can also specify the same publication date and issue date, select and specify media to be searched and extracted, and various other conditions.

  Although the publication data clipping means has been described mainly assuming that it is provided in the server system, the publication data clipped in the user terminal may be stored and accumulated. For example, the clipped posting data may be transmitted from the server system to the user each time. Alternatively, the information may be transmitted from the server system of the present invention to a storage location designated by the user, for example, a server device managed by the user, and stored and accumulated.

Next, the system of the present invention makes the posting data itself or the identification data identifying the posting data stored in the posting data clipping means accessible to an access request from the user terminal, and responds to the access request to the clipping data. A user access permission unit that performs at least one of browsing permission, download permission, and data distribution is provided.
The user access permission means automatically browses or downloads the posted data clipped by the user for a user who has been authenticated based on the above-mentioned user identification data such as a user ID, or obtains a predetermined condition. Or data distribution from the server system side according to the above. The user identification data may be a telephone number or an e-mail address.
On the other hand, as another operation form of the user access permission means, there is a method of making the system of the present invention usable under predetermined conditions. For example, access permission is determined based on the number of uses, usage conditions, etc., or access permission is determined based on billing processing. Users who satisfy the specified conditions are automatically viewed by posting data clipped by that user. The data may be downloaded, downloaded, or distributed from the server system according to predetermined conditions.

For example, the server system operator keeps up to 100 entries free of charge to acquire new users. In the case of a free user, old data is automatically discarded when the number reaches 100 or more. Before discarding, send an e-mail notifying the user of the destruction to urge the user to switch to a paid user. For data that exceeds 100, a prescribed data storage fee such as "10 yen / month for a month: general paper, 20 yen / month / month for a professional / society journal" is collected. It is an example. Alternatively, the fee is charged according to the number of stored items and the data amount. Alternatively, when the user permits the advertisement distribution, the advertisement article is clipped at the same time as the posting data, so that the charged fee is discounted or free.
Various methods can be used for performing the charging process, and all payments can be made by credit card payment or bank debit, prepaid method, or other various methods, and are not particularly limited.

Next, the publication data itself stored in the clipping data storage means or the identification data for identifying the extracted publication data is used in response to an access request from the user terminal or based on the date and time, title, keyword, and other accompanying information. It is possible to search, and it is possible to provide search means for extracting posted data in response to a search request and enabling any of browsing permission, download permission, and data distribution.
If the search means allows searching for data that identifies the posted data, or based on the date and time, title, keyword, and other accompanying information, the user may want to view or download only the specified posted data, If you want to view or download only the clipped posting data during the period, or if you want to view or download the posting data only in a specific genre or in a state classified by a specific genre, based on various accompanying information You can search and extract.

Further, in a case in which the server system distributes the clipped data, a distribution period (for example, every month), a distribution format (e-mail, on a WEB site, etc.), a distribution condition (posted data is The user may set so that the distribution is performed according to the data to be identified, the date and time, the title, the keyword, other accompanying information, or a case where the data amount becomes a certain amount.
As described above, for example, the clipped publication data can be transmitted from the server system to the user each time.
Further, as another example of the distribution, the clipped data is automatically output on a server system, such as printout, or output and stored on a CD-ROM, DVD, or other external storage medium. , Can be output. The output printed matter and the external storage medium may be stored on the server system administrator side, or may be delivered to the user. When such various output forms are adopted, the output period (for example, every one month), the output format (printout, recording on an external storage medium, etc.), the output condition (data for identifying posted data, or date and time, The user can set so that the output is performed according to a title, a keyword, other accompanying information, or a case where a predetermined data amount is reached), delivery conditions, and the like.

Next, the server system preferably edits the posted data stored in the clipping data storage means according to a predetermined layout, and includes edited data output means for outputting the edited data, and as data that can be transmitted to the user terminal. Output.
Viewing posted data that users have clipped in the past on the WEB site, distributing according to predetermined distribution conditions, or combining multiple previously posted data into one downloadable data file And output such as browsing, downloading, distribution, etc. is made possible.
When browsing the WEB site, a data file may be generated in accordance with a predetermined layout or the like, or stored in an edited data format and data content so that it may be downloaded at any time, and clipping is added. In such a case, the information may be updated and stored.

  The editing data output means is at least one of a layout specification data transmitted from the user terminal, a condition for extracting the publication data to be edited and other editing specification data, or a condition for transmitting the edited and output data to the user terminal. According to the above, the editing process and the output process can be performed. If the clipping period is specified as the publication data extraction condition, it is possible to edit, for example, the data for each clipped publication data every month. Also, if the publication date and publication date of the original newspaper / magazine etc. are specified as the publication data extraction condition, it is possible to edit, for example, the data for each publication / published publication data every month. Editing can be performed according to conditions such as each original publication medium and each genre of publication data, and these conditions can be combined.

Various additional functions can be added to the system of the present invention. For example, a user can access a WEB site to search for stored articles, and further manually organize them by operation.
Images taken from digital cameras and scanners as well as camera-equipped mobile phones can be sent from personal computers. It is also possible to mail the article itself cut with scissors and register the data with a clipping service company.
The location of the posting data is unknown online, or it is impossible to determine which posting data is based on the digital data transmitted from the user terminal, or the data that is clipped as a result of the search on the server system side for other reasons In the case where the data cannot be searched and extracted, the digital data such as the image data transmitted from the user terminal can be stored as it is, or the characters in the image can be extracted by OCR or the like and made into a database to be searched. You can also do so.
Booklet articles, bus stop timetables, handwritten documents, and the like that cannot be searched online can be stored as images, characters in the images can be extracted, and a database can be searched for.
In addition, it is also possible to add the user's comment or comment to the clipped posting data and store it.

Hereinafter, a basic processing flow of the present invention will be described.
3 to 7 are flowcharts showing an example of the flow of the basic processing of the present invention. Note that the processing flow shown here is merely an example, and various applications and modifications are possible.
First, processing for performing clipping will be described.
In the user terminal, a scanner, a camera, a microphone, a keyboard, and other digital data capturing means are activated (S100). The digital data capturing means captures the posted data by photographing, recording, recording, character input, etc. (S101). For example, a part of a newspaper article is photographed, a product catalog is read by a scanner, and a keyword is inputted.
Next, the user terminal is connected to the Internet or the like (S102), and accesses the server system (S103). Access to the server system may precede digital data capture. A digital data transmission menu is selected, and a transmission screen or the like is displayed (S104). Digital data to be transmitted is specified in the user terminal (S105). At this point, digital data may be captured by digital data capturing means. Also, a plurality of articles or other publication data may be imported.
If necessary, the user terminal inputs genre, keyword, comment and other accompanying information (S106). These inputs, confirmations, etc. are sent to the server system (S107). As a transmission method, a method of transmitting an e-mail to a predetermined e-mail address, a method of transmission from a WEB site, and other transmission methods can be used.

The server system receives the data transmitted from the user terminal (S108). User identification data such as a user ID, an e-mail address, and a telephone number are extracted (S109), and it is determined whether or not the authentication means has been registered as a user (S110). If not, a user registration process is performed (S111). .
Next, referring to the data received by the digital data receiving means (S112), the data format of the digital data is determined (S113). For example, it is determined whether the data is image data, character data, or audio data.
According to the determined data format, etc., OCR, image analysis, character analysis, voice analysis, etc. are performed (S114), and character data for search, image analysis data, etc. The posted data extracting means searches the server or another server or the like (S115).
The publication data extracting means extracts the publication data as a result of the search (S116).
When extracting related data, the posted data extracting means extracts related data as a result of the search (S117).
The storage location of the extracted data is determined based on the user identification data (S118), and the posting data clipping unit stores the posting data in a predetermined storage location (S119), so that clipping is performed. If there is related posting data, accompanying information, etc., it is stored in association with the posting data (S120). If the data cannot be searched and extracted online, or if the data originally does not exist online, the digital data transmitted from the user terminal should be stored as it is or after OCR or the like. Can be.

Next, processing such as browsing of clipped data will be described.
The user terminal is connected to the Internet or the like (S200), and accesses the server system (S201). A clipping data output menu is selected, and an output designation screen is displayed (S202).
Output conditions such as browsing, downloading, and distribution are designated on the user terminal (S203). The user specifies search / extraction conditions for data to be viewed from the clipped data. If necessary, for example, the identification information, genre, keyword, and other accompanying information of the posted data are designated as extraction conditions (S204).
Also, edit / output conditions such as layout information and distribution conditions are specified (S205). The layout information specifies a layout for browsing on a web site, a layout of a data file to be downloaded, a layout of information to be distributed, and the like. The distribution condition is a specification of a distribution format such as an e-mail or an attached file, a distribution date and time, and other conditions.
These data are transmitted to the server system (S206) and received by the server system (S207). User identification information such as a user ID, an e-mail address, and a telephone number is determined (S208), and the clipped publication data is extracted according to the received extraction condition (S209). The output format is determined according to the output condition (S210), and the data transmitted to the user terminal is edited according to the editing / output condition to generate a data file (S211). The data file to be distributed or the like may be generated in advance in accordance with layout information specified by the user, data extraction conditions, editing conditions, and the like, and stored in the server.
The data is transmitted to the user terminal (S212), received by the user terminal (S213), and the clipped data is viewed, downloaded, and distributed.

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, various media and publications are targeted for clipping, and a user can pre-select data from information sources provided by various news and information providers. It is possible to provide an electromagnetic and online clipping system in a state where the filtering and extraction are performed, not manually.
Unlike conventional clipping services, this allows you to save articles and other information you find as if you were scrapping a newspaper, without being caught by the information provider, information source media, or information genre. In addition, a system that can be converted into a database can be provided.
Further, according to the present invention, it is possible to continue using the game as easily as possible with a simple operation.For example, if the clipping of an article is performed, it may be useful just to look at a headline or a photograph without reading the entire article. It is possible to provide a system that can electronically realize the operation of storing the information for the time being.
As a result, it is possible to store data extracted by narrowing down only data of interest or necessary data manually in advance, and to organize and store the data so that it can be found immediately when necessary.
For example, an article can be found online by simply taking a part of the article with a camera phone and sending it by e-mail. Since the database is created at the time of registration, search and the like can be easily performed, and it is easier than cutting with scissors and pasting with glue, and does not take up the place of the file.

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram illustrating an example of a basic configuration of a system of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram illustrating an example of a basic configuration of a system of the present invention. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a basic processing flow of the present invention. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a basic processing flow of the present invention. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a basic processing flow of the present invention. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a basic processing flow of the present invention. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a basic processing flow of the present invention.

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Input means, control means, display means, output means, a server system that is accessed from a user terminal such as a computer having a storage means and the like, and information processing is performed by operation at the user terminal,
Digital data receiving means for receiving digital data transmitted from a portable information terminal such as a mobile phone or a user terminal such as a personal computer, comprising digital data capturing means for capturing an arbitrary range of media as digital data,
With reference to the received digital data, search for the publication data associated with the digital data and the media publication data storage means for storing news and other publication data published on newspapers and other media on which information is physically posted. Means to extract and extract posting data;
A publication data clipping unit that stores the extracted publication data itself or identification data for identifying the extracted publication data in the clipping data storage unit in association with the corresponding user information;
The publication data itself or the identification data for identifying the publication data stored in the publication data clipping means is made accessible to an access request from a user terminal, and browsing permission, download permission, and data distribution for the access request to the clipping data are made. And a user access permission unit that performs at least one of the following. 2. The posting data clipping system according to claim 1, wherein the news and other posting data stored in the media posting data storage means are the same data as the data posted on the media. The news and other publication data stored in the media publication data storage means shall be news and other data summaries, data related to the publication data, and data stored corresponding to data published on other media. 2. The posting data clipping system according to claim 1, wherein The publication data extracting means refers to the received digital data, and extracts the publication data associated with the digital data.
OCR reading means for reading the received digital image data by OCR;
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the character data read by the OCR reading means is searched for by a character search means for performing a search by referring to the media publication data storage means. A data clipping system described in Crab. The publication data extracting means refers to the received digital data, and extracts the publication data associated with the digital data.
The received digital image data is image-analyzed and extracted by an image search unit that performs a comparison search process with the publication data itself or the corresponding image data stored in the media publication data storage unit. The clipping system for posted data according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein The publication data extracting means refers to the received digital data, and extracts the publication data associated with the digital data.
Based on character data read by voice analysis means for voice analysis of the received digital voice data, search is performed by referring to the media publication data storage means, and is extracted by a character search means. The clipping system for posted data according to any one of claims 1 to 3. The publication data extracting means refers to the received digital data, and extracts the publication data associated with the digital data.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the digital character data is extracted by a character search means for performing a search by referring to the media publication data storage means based on the received digital character data. Posting data clipping system. When receiving digital data from a portable information terminal such as a mobile phone or a user terminal such as a personal computer,
Upon receiving the date and time, title, keywords, and other accompanying information sent from the user terminal,
8. The clipping data storage unit according to claim 1, wherein the posting data clipping unit stores the extracted posting data in the clipping data storage unit in association with the extracted posting data itself or identification data for identifying the extracted posting data. A data clipping system described in Crab. The posting data itself stored in the clipping data storage means or the identification data for identifying the extracted posting data is data for identifying the posting data in response to an access request from the user terminal, or date and time, title, keyword, and other data. Claims characterized in that the search means is made searchable based on the accompanying information, and is provided with search means for extracting posted data in response to a search request and enabling one of browsing permission, download permission, and data distribution. 9. A clipping system for posted data according to any one of 1 to 8. The posting data clipping means should be able to extract other posting data related to the posting data based on the data identifying the posting data, the date and time transmitted from the user terminal, the title, the keyword, and other accompanying information. 10. The posting data clipping system according to claim 9, wherein Edit data output means for editing the publication data stored in the clipping data storage means according to a predetermined layout, and outputting the edited data,
11. The posting data clipping system according to claim 1, wherein the clipping data is output as data that can be transmitted to a user terminal. The editing data output means, the layout specification data transmitted from the user terminal, or the extraction conditions and other editing specification data of the publication data to be edited, among the transmission conditions to the user terminal of the edited and output data to the user terminal 12. The posting data clipping system according to claim 11, wherein the editing process and the output process are performed according to at least one of them.