JP2007323407A - Advertisement medium production system and software for operating it - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an advertisement medium production system or the like, capable of performing accurate display with reduced operation and high flexibility of layout. <P>SOLUTION: The system comprises a design template DB 21, a design object DB 22, a design work sheet 24, and a design coordinate/attribute recording part 23 capable of recording at least the coordinate and size of a designing object disposed on a template and recording a character content described on the template. The system further comprises a print template DB 41, a print object DB 42 and a print coordinate/attribute recording part 43 responding to the design template DB, design object DB and design coordinate/attribute recording part. Based on data recorded on the recording part 43, printing of higher quality than data recorded in the corresponding design DB and recording part can be performed. This system further comprises a coordinate/attribute conversion part converting data of the design coordinate/attribute recording part while maintaining substantially the same layout in the print coordinate/attribute recording part. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an advertising medium production system such as POP and software for operating the system.

As conventional advertising media production systems, the following patent documents 1 to 3 are known.
JP 2002-7868 JP 2002-117320 A Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2005-128677

  Both systems are intended to be designed directly by advertising users. In addition, characters and objects are replaced within a fixed layout prepared in advance, and the degree of freedom in design is insufficient. In order to improve the degree of freedom of layout, if it is an operation via the Internet, there is a problem of display misalignment due to differences between browsers and clients, and if it is a direct data operation, the print quality will deteriorate or the operation will become heavy There is. In addition, distribution of operation data using a CD-ROM or the like has the disadvantages of leaking valuable high-quality data for printing and reducing options due to capacity limitations.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of such conventional circumstances, an object of the present invention is to provide an advertisement medium production system that is accurate in display and has a high degree of freedom in layout, and software that operates the advertisement medium.

In order to achieve the above object, a feature of the advertisement medium production system according to the present invention is a system for creating an advertisement medium in which characters and figures are arranged on a basic mount,
A design template DB including a plurality of design templates including a design of a basic mount, a design object DB including a plurality of design objects such as a design, and one of the selected design templates are displayed. It is possible to record at least the coordinates and size of the design worksheet arranged on the design template on the design worksheet that displays the design object on the design template so that the design object can be selectively arranged. And a design coordinate / attribute recording unit capable of recording the character content recorded in the template,
A printing template DB, a printing object DB, and a printing coordinate / attribute recording unit corresponding to the design template DB, the design object DB, and the design coordinate / attribute recording unit, respectively.
Higher quality printing is possible than the data recorded in the corresponding design DB and recording unit based on the data recorded in the printing coordinate / attribute recording unit,
A coordinate / attribute conversion unit that converts data in the design coordinate / attribute recording unit to the printing coordinate / attribute recording unit while maintaining substantially the same layout is provided.

Another feature of the system is a system for creating an advertising medium in which characters and figures are arranged on a basic mount,
A design template DB including a plurality of design templates including a basic mount picture, a design object DB including a plurality of design objects such as a picture, and one of the selected design templates are displayed. It is possible to record at least the coordinates and size of the design worksheet arranged on the design template on the design worksheet that displays the design object on the design template so that the design object can be selectively arranged. And a design coordinate / attribute recording unit capable of recording the character content recorded in the template,
A printing template DB, a printing object DB, and a printing coordinate / attribute recording unit corresponding to the design template DB, the design object DB, and the design coordinate / attribute recording unit, respectively.
Higher quality printing is possible than the data recorded in the corresponding design DB and recording unit based on the data recorded in the printing coordinate / attribute recording unit,
Another worksheet for displaying a print template corresponding to the selected design template and displaying a print object corresponding to the selected design object on the print template so as to be selectively arranged. The other worksheet is capable of displaying the selected design template and the selected design object.

  In each of the above features, the design template DB, the design object DB, the design coordinate / attribute recording unit, and the worksheet are incorporated in a display application. According to the same feature, by operating the worksheet on the display application, the inconvenience in the layout due to the model dependence on the network, etc. is alleviated, there is no data, the handling is prepared, and more accurate Layout work is possible.

  When a network is used, a server and a client PC connected to the network via the network are provided, and the design worksheet is displayed on the client PC via the display application.

  In addition to the above features, the design template may include a mount corresponding to different advertising media, and the design object may include a product pattern.

  As software for operating the design template DB, the design object DB, the design coordinate / attribute recording unit, and the worksheet on the display application incorporated in the display application described in the above feature It is also possible to implement the present invention.

  According to the above-described features of the present invention, an advertisement medium production system that is accurate and light in layout can be provided.

  Other objects, configurations, and effects of the present invention will become apparent from the following embodiments of the present invention.

Next, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings as appropriate.
As shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, the advertisement medium production system 1 according to the present invention includes a server 2, a client PC 3, a printing PC 4, a printer 5, and a network 6. The client PC 3 is mainly installed in a customer company, and the server 2, the printing PC 4 and the printer 5 are installed in a production company. The network 6 is configured by the Internet protocol or other protocols, and connects the server 2 and the client PC 3.

  The server 2 includes a design template DB 21 having a plurality of design templates 21a as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, a design object DB 22 having a plurality of design objects 22a and 22b, And a design coordinate / attribute recording unit 23 for recording layout information and the like.

  The design worksheet 24 is realized by a display application such as a spreadsheet or a word processor, and the design template DB 21, the design object DB 22 and the design coordinate / attribute recording unit 23 are a macro file or a data file of the display application. It is configured using. The design worksheet 24 includes a layout section 24a for performing work on the template 21a, a product section 24b for selecting the product pattern 22a, and an illustration section 24c for selecting the illustration 22b.

  A first selection tag 24x for selecting a template, a consent form creation or purchase order creation screen is provided at the bottom of the layout section 24a, and a second selection tag for selecting a category of the product picture 22a in the product section 24b. 24y is provided, and a third selection tag 24z for selecting a category of the illustration pattern 22c is provided in the illustration section 24c.

  The design worksheet 24 of FIG. 4 operates in a display application. Then, it is displayed on the display 32 via a hypertext language such as a web server or XML that operates in the display server system 25 and a browser that operates in the display client system 31 of the client PC. As described above, since the display application is used, the display layout of the worksheet 24 is hardly influenced by the model dependence, and more accurate layout work on the worksheet 24 is possible.

  The application file has a selection screen as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 for selecting the design template 21 a in conjunction with the design template DB 21. For example, when the top board is selected in FIG. 2, a template corresponding to the theme of FIG. 3 can be selected in a lower category.

  In the example shown in FIG. 5, the top board is selected as the design template 21a, and the title characters 21a1 and the additional characters 21a2 on the mount according to the theme can be freely selected and entered. Further, the product picture 22a and the illustration 22b can be selected as appropriate. As shown in FIG. 8, information such as the coordinates, sizes, orientations, characters, and the like of each pattern in these layouts is recorded in the design coordinate / attribute recording unit 23 as a design coordinate / attribute recording file 23a. Is done.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the printing PC 4 includes a printing template DB 41, a printing object DB 42, and printing coordinates / attribute records corresponding to the design template DB 21, the design object DB 22, and the design coordinates / attribute recording unit 23, respectively. The unit 43 is provided. These 41 to 43 can be printed with higher quality than the data recorded in the corresponding design DBs 21 and 22 and the recording unit 23 based on the data recorded in the printing coordinate / attribute recording unit 43. Further, the printing PC 4 includes a coordinate / attribute conversion unit 44 that converts data in the design coordinate / attribute recording unit to the printing coordinate / attribute recording unit while maintaining almost the same layout. The print data generation unit 45 uses the data 41 to 43 to output a high-quality printed matter to the printer 5.

  Next, an advertising medium production process using the above system will be described. In the server 2, the design worksheet 24 shown in FIG. 4 is operated from the client PC 3 via the network 6 with the design worksheet 24 and the display server system 25 activated. First, the type and theme of the product are selected in FIGS. 2 and 3 (FIG. 6, S1), and the first tag 24x is operated to fill in a slip such as a consent form or purchase order (S2). Pouring, an illustration and a part are selected and arranged on the worksheet 24, and a title or the like is entered (S3-5), and the result is stored and stored in the design coordinate / attribute recording unit (S6). Thereby, the product layout work from the customer is completed.

  By using the design coordinate / attribute recording file recorded in the design coordinate / attribute recording unit 23 of the server 2, a printing coordinate / attribute recording file is created by the printing PC 4. The printing PC 4 may be integrated with the server 2 or separate. First, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the coordinate / attribute conversion unit 44 is activated (S11), the design coordinate / attribute recording file 23a is loaded into the first recording unit 44a (S12), and the printing coordinates / attributes are loaded. The recording file 43a is generated in the second recording unit 44b (S13). The coordinate / attribute conversion unit 44 has another table for converting or associating the items of the first recording unit 44a and the second recording unit 44b as shown in FIG. It is defined by the correspondence as follows. In other words, illustrations, parts, and templates are associated with each other, and their coordinates and size data are converted at a certain scale, and the layout information for design follows the layout for printing in a nearly similar form. (S14) and stored (S15). That is, the coordinate / attribute conversion unit 44 converts the data of the design coordinate / attribute recording unit to the printing coordinate / attribute recording unit in a state where the same layout is maintained.

  The print data generation unit 45 loads the data of the template DB 41, the print object DB 42, and the print coordinate / attribute record 43, and outputs the printed matter from the printer 5 with high quality print accuracy. Thereafter, the output medium is cut and affixed to a board or the like, whereby the advertising medium is completed by the producer and supplied to the customer.

Finally, modifications of the above embodiment will be described.
In the above embodiment, the design worksheet 24 is displayed on the client PC 3 via the display server system 25, the network 6, and the display client system 31. However, it is also possible to omit 24, 6, 31 and supply a medium on which a file for operating 21, 22, 23 is operated 24, and perform customer-side layout on one personal computer. . In this case, for example, the layout content may be received as a recording file in accordance with the format of the application software by the printing PC 4 via an e-mail or a recording medium, and the subsequent work may be performed.

  In the above embodiment, the coordinate / attribute conversion unit 44 performs data conversion between the design coordinate / attribute recording unit 23 and the printing coordinate / attribute record 43. However, the coordinate / attribute conversion unit 44 may be omitted, and another worksheet may be provided on the printing PC. The other worksheets can display the data of 21 to 23 and the data of 41 to 43 simultaneously in parallel, so that the operator can refer to the layout of the design coordinate / attribute recording file 23a and print the coordinates / attributes for printing. A recording file 43a can be created.

  INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention can be used as a system for creating an advertising medium that allows a customer to freely select and layout a template theme and design.

It is a block diagram which shows the whole structure of the advertising media production system which concerns on this invention. It is a template type selection screen. It is a template theme selection screen. It is a figure which shows the display screen of a worksheet. It is a layout example on a template. It is a flow which shows the layout work on a template. It is a flowchart which shows the step until the conversion in a coordinate / attribute conversion part. It is a figure which shows the conversion state in a coordinate / attribute conversion part.

Explanation of symbols

1: advertisement medium production system, 2: server, 3: client PC, 4: PC for printing, 5: printer, 6: network, 21: design template DB 21a: design template, 22: design object DB, 22a, 22b: Design object, 23: Design coordinate / attribute recording section, 24: Design worksheet, 25: Display server system, 31: Display client system, 32: Display 41: Print template DB, 42: Print object DB 43: Print coordinate / attribute record 44: Coordinate / attribute conversion unit 45: Print data generation unit

Claims (6)

An advertisement medium creation system for creating an advertisement medium in which characters and figures are arranged on a basic mount,
A design template DB including a plurality of design templates including a basic mount picture, a design object DB including a plurality of design objects such as a picture, and one of the selected design templates are displayed. It is possible to record at least the coordinates and size of the design worksheet arranged on the design template on the design worksheet that displays the design object on the design template so that the design object can be selectively arranged. And a design coordinate / attribute recording unit capable of recording the character content recorded in the template,
A printing template DB, a printing object DB, and a printing coordinate / attribute recording unit corresponding to the design template DB, the design object DB, and the design coordinate / attribute recording unit, respectively.
Higher quality printing is possible than the data recorded in the corresponding design DB and recording unit based on the data recorded in the printing coordinate / attribute recording unit,
An advertising medium creation system comprising a coordinate / attribute conversion unit that converts data in the design coordinate / attribute recording unit to the printing coordinate / attribute recording unit while maintaining substantially the same layout. An advertisement medium creation system for creating an advertisement medium in which characters and figures are arranged on a basic mount,
A design template DB including a plurality of design templates including a basic mount picture, a design object DB including a plurality of design objects such as a picture, and one of the selected design templates are displayed. It is possible to record at least the coordinates and size of the design worksheet arranged on the design template on the design worksheet that displays the design object on the design template so that the design object can be selectively arranged. And a design coordinate / attribute recording unit capable of recording the character content recorded in the template,
A printing template DB, a printing object DB, and a printing coordinate / attribute recording unit corresponding to the design template DB, the design object DB, and the design coordinate / attribute recording unit, respectively.
Higher quality printing is possible than the data recorded in the corresponding design DB and recording unit based on the data recorded in the printing coordinate / attribute recording unit,
Another worksheet for displaying a print template corresponding to the selected design template and displaying a print object corresponding to the selected design object on the print template so as to be selectively arranged. The other medium worksheet is capable of displaying the selected design template and the selected design object. 3. The advertisement medium creation system according to claim 1, wherein the design template DB, the design object DB, the design coordinate / attribute recording unit, and the worksheet are incorporated in a display application. 4. A server and a client PC connected to the network via a server and provided with a display device, wherein the design worksheet is displayed on the client PC via the display application. The advertisement medium creation system described in Crab. The advertisement medium creation system according to claim 1, wherein the design template includes a mount corresponding to a different advertisement medium, and the design object includes a product pattern. Software for operating the design template DB, the design object DB, the design coordinate / attribute recording unit, and the worksheet on the display application incorporated in the display application according to claim 3 .