JP2008219076A - Moving image content file and server unit - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bookmark which can be reproduced from a desired moving image to portable terminal equipment using moving image contents shifting to a plurality of moving images. <P>SOLUTION: The moving image content file is transmitted from the server unit to terminal equipment through a network and is reproduced and displayed by the reproducing means of the terminal equipment. The moving image content file can include an interactive interface object to be an object to be selected and indicated by the input means of the terminal equipment by a viewer at the time of reproduction, and is characterized by: (1) including the plurality of moving images with distinctions of the first one and those other than the first one; and (2) including the interactive interface object for transmitting a message requesting another moving image content file prepared by distinguishing the pertinent moving image as the first one from the terminal equipment onto the network for the respective moving images other than the first one. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

The present invention relates to a content that allows bookmark registration of a desired page and a server device that provides the content when browsing content composed of a large number of pages on a mobile terminal device.

With the spread of mobile terminal devices in recent years, users of mobile terminal devices acquire content including a large number of pages, such as product catalogs, from the WEB site on the Internet, and reproduce and browse them on the display screen of the mobile terminal device. Opportunities are increasing.
At this time, since the display screen of the mobile terminal device is small, in order to automatically display the display size of the content in accordance with the screen size and display it in a large size, video content in Flash Lite format is often used. This type of video content is content for a mobile terminal device, and is divided into video content files having a file capacity that can be received by the mobile terminal device.
This moving image content file is a file that is a combination of moving images (= sequentially moving scenes) composed of sounds, characters, and images. Therefore, the mobile terminal device receives a moving image content file including a moving image to be displayed, and reproduces and displays the moving image.
At this time, the operation end screen of each moving image can be regarded as a page such as a magazine or a catalog as a paper medium. For example, an operation of browsing a magazine or catalog of a paper medium can be expressed on the display device using a moving image as if the page is being paged.

For example, Non-Patent Document 1 discloses a technology for creating a video content file in a Flash Lite format by dividing video content whose screen transitions into a plurality of videos into file capacities that can be received by the mobile terminal device.
Manabu Komatsu, “Creating Mobile Flash Content from the Basics”, First Edition, Technical Review Co., Ltd., September 15, 2004,

By the way, the user of the mobile terminal device acquires and browses the video content from the WEB site and likes the displayed video (= page), and uses the bookmark registration function of the WEB browser to select the video as “favorite”. "Register".
However, in the technique of Non-Patent Document 1, when the Flash Lite format video content that has been “favorite registered” is played back, the video set to be played back first is automatically displayed, and “favorite registration” is performed. There was a problem that the movie could not be played and displayed first.

The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide a bookmark that can be reproduced from a desired video for a mobile terminal device that uses video content that transitions to a plurality of videos. It is to be.

The present invention solves the above problems by the following means. That is, the invention of claim 1 is the moving image content file transmitted from the server device to the terminal device through the network and reproduced and displayed by the reproducing means of the terminal device, wherein the terminal device is a moving image content file. Provided with an input means for accepting an interactive input necessary for a viewer to select or give an instruction, and the reproduction means has a function of accepting an input through the input means as an input event that defines a reproduction operation immediately after The moving image content file can include a dialogue interface object that is a target for a viewer to select and designate with the input means at the time of reproduction. 2) For each video other than the first video, the corresponding video is the first A message requesting the other video content files created contains interactive interface object for transmitting from the terminal device on the network,
This is a moving image content file.

The invention of claim 2 is a moving image content file that is transmitted from a server device to a terminal device through a network and is played back and displayed by playback means of the terminal device,
The terminal device includes an input unit that receives an interactive input necessary for a viewer of moving image content to select or give an instruction, and the playback unit defines an input event that defines a playback operation immediately after the input through the input unit The moving image content file can include a dialog interface object that is a target for a viewer to select and specify with the input means during playback. 2) Files with embedded hyperlinks to other video content files created by distinguishing the corresponding video as the first for each video other than the first. A dialog interface object that sends a message requesting to the network from a terminal device It includes bets, a moving image content file, characterized in that.

The invention of claim 3 is a content server device that distributes the moving image content file according to claim 1 or claim 2 to a portable terminal that receives and reproduces the moving image content file over a network, and the first moving image is reproduced. Storage means for storing a moving image content file having file identification information including moving image specifying information, and content for receiving a content transmission request including file identification information transmitted from a terminal device on the network and returning the corresponding moving image content file A transmission means;
A server device characterized by comprising:

By using the moving image specifying information of the file identification information included in the transmitted content transmission request, it is possible to transmit the server device on which the moving image of the moving image specifying information is first reproduced.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the content transmission request is a URL of a redirect page including moving image specifying information. The redirect page URL transmitted from a terminal device on the network is received, and the moving image specifying information of the redirect page URL is received. 4. A redirect page transmission unit that reads and creates and transmits a redirect page in which a URL of a video content file of file identification information including the read video identification information is set. It is a server device.

Here, URL is an abbreviation of “Uniform Resource Locator”, and is a method for describing data (for example, WEB contents) and services (for example, an e-mail destination) existing on the Internet.

The invention according to claim 5 is the server device according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the moving image content file is a Flash Lite file.

The invention of claim 6 is a portable content providing method using the moving image content file of claim 1 or 2, wherein the portable terminal content providing method uses a moving image content file composed of pages including moving image specifying information. Receiving a content file transmission request and transmitting a video content file; receiving a transmitted video content file; selecting and displaying a video; and inputting a bookmark registration instruction A content transmission request step of receiving and transmitting a content transmission request including the content identification information of the displayed moving image and the moving image specifying information; and receiving the transmitted file transmission request, and the file identification information included in the file transmission request Select and return a video content file A content reply step, a content display step of receiving and displaying the returned video content file, and a bookmark registration step of bookmarking the displayed content. This is a mobile terminal content providing method.

According to a seventh aspect of the invention, the content transmission request is a redirect page URL including moving image specifying information, and the content return step receives a redirect page URL having content identification information including moving image specifying information, and the moving image A redirect page in which the URL of the video content file of the file identification information including the specific information is returned, the video content file URL of the redirect page is received, and the video content file of the file identification information included in the video content file URL The mobile terminal content providing method according to claim 6, wherein the mobile terminal content is selected and returned.

The invention of claim 8 is the mobile terminal content providing method according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the moving image content file is a Flash Lite file.

The invention of claim 9 is a computer program that causes a computer to operate as the portable content WEB server device according to any one of claims 3 to 5 by being incorporated in the computer.

The invention of claim 10 is a computer-readable recording medium on which the computer program according to claim 9 is recorded.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a bookmark capable of reproducing portable video content composed of a plurality of videos from a desired video.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining the overall configuration of a portable content providing system 1 according to the present invention. The mobile content providing system 1 is configured by connecting a mobile terminal device 100 and a mobile content WEB server device 300 via a network. The network is a network in which a mobile phone carrier network including an antenna 900 that is wirelessly connected to the mobile terminal device 100 is connected to the Internet 700 via a gateway 800.

The portable content WEB server apparatus 300 creates and stores a moving image content file composed of a plurality of moving images. In the following description of the present embodiment, a Flash Lite video content file is used as the video content file. The mobile content WEB server device 300 transmits the moving image content file to the mobile terminal device 100.

The portable content WEB server device 300 is a server computer controlled by a computer program. The computer program of the portable content WEB server apparatus 300 includes an existing WEB server program and other programs called from the WEB server program (for example, a redirect page creation program described later).

The mobile terminal device 100 receives and plays back the transmitted moving image content file.

The mobile terminal device 100 is a mobile phone.

FIG. 2 is a rough operation flow of the portable content providing system according to the present invention.

The mobile content WEB server apparatus 300 creates and stores a moving image content file in which a predetermined moving image is first played using the moving image content (FIG. 2 (1)).

The mobile content WEB server device 300 selects the video content file requested by the mobile terminal device 100 from the stored video content files and sends it back to the mobile terminal device 100 ((2)). The mobile terminal device 100 receives the requested video content file from the mobile content WEB server device 300 and automatically plays back the first video of the video content file. Next, when a desired moving image is selected from the moving image content files, this is reproduced and displayed ((3)).

The portable terminal device 100 receives an input of a bookmark registration instruction, and issues a transmission request (= URL) of a moving image content file in which the currently displayed moving image is played back to the portable content WEB server device 300 (same as above ( 4)).

The mobile content WEB server device 300 receives the transmission request for the video content file transmitted from the mobile terminal device 100, selects the corresponding video content file from the stored video content files, and returns the response (same as above). (5)). The mobile terminal device 100 receives the moving image content file in which the desired moving image is reproduced first, and reproduces and displays the first moving image ((6)). The mobile terminal device 100 accepts an input for bookmark registration, and bookmarks the URL of the displayed moving image content file ((7)).

FIG. 3 is a detailed configuration diagram of the portable content WEB server apparatus 300. The portable content WEB server apparatus 300 includes a content transmission unit 310, a redirect page transmission unit 320, a moving image data setting unit 340, a moving image content file creation unit 350, and a storage unit 390.

The storage unit 390 stores moving image material data 391 and a moving image content file 393. The video content file 393 is audio, image, or character data described in the Flash Lite format.

The moving image data setting means 340 reads the moving image material data 391 and creates moving image data in which the URL of a redirect page having file identification information including moving image specifying information (for example, a moving image number) is set as a hyperlink. The moving image content file creation unit 350 uses the created moving image data to create and store a moving image content file 391 having file identification information including moving image specifying information of a moving image to be reproduced first.

The content transmission unit 310 receives a URL including file identification information from the mobile terminal device 100 and returns a corresponding video content file. The redirect page transmission unit 320 receives the redirect page URL including the moving image specifying information from the mobile terminal device 100, and redirects the URL of the moving image content file in which the moving image corresponding to the moving image specifying information of the redirect page URL is first played. Set to page and send.

The content transmission unit 310, the redirect page transmission unit 320, the moving image data setting unit 340, and the moving image content file creation unit 350 are computer programs. The storage unit 390 is a semiconductor memory or a magnetic memory.

Note that the moving image data setting unit 340 and the moving image content file creation unit 350 may be provided in a moving image content creation device (not shown) instead of the portable content WEB server device 300. At this time, the mobile content WEB server device 300 receives the video content file from the video content creation device and stores it.

FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 are diagrams for explaining the moving image reproduction characteristics of the moving image content file 391.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a mechanism for reproducing a moving image content file 391 in the Flash Lite format.
When the mobile terminal device 100 receives the video content file 391 in the Flash Lite format, the content player 120 plays back the video 392a that is set to be played back first. Accordingly, a description will be given of a difference in video playback that occurs depending on whether or not a different Flash Lite format video content file 391 is read when a screen transition is made from one video to another.

In the same moving image content file 391s, it is possible to make a transition from one moving image 392x to another moving image 392y to be reproduced and displayed (FIG. 4 (1)).

Next, a case where a moving image is reproduced by moving from a certain moving image content file 391s to a different moving image content file 391t will be described. When a moving image 392a to be reproduced first in a different moving image content file 391t is reproduced and displayed from a moving image 392x of a certain moving image content file 391s, the moving image 392a can be reproduced and displayed ((2)). However, even if an attempt is made to first reproduce a moving image 392b other than the moving image to be reproduced first from a moving image 392x of a certain moving image content file 391s, the desired moving image 392b may be reproduced for the above reason. The video 392a to be played back first is automatically played back and displayed ((3)).

FIG. 5 is an example of a bookmark registration screen for moving image content and a bookmark playback screen.
As shown in FIG. 5 (a), the video content file 391 in the Flash Lite format is registered as a bookmark from the browser menu 124 of the WEB browser 110 when the video 392 “D” is displayed on the playback display screen 120g. A button (= favorite registration button, details of which will be described later) can be called to register a movie 392 “D” (hereinafter referred to as movie “D”) in the movie content file 391 as a bookmark.

Next, as shown in FIG. 5B, when the video content file 391 registered in the bookmark is played back using the “favorite playback” function of the WEB browser, the video 392a “ A "is reproduced and displayed on the display screen 120h. In other words, if the bookmark registration of the video content file 391 in Flash Lite format is “favorite playback”, if the video displayed at the time of registration is different from the video that is played back first, it is not the registered video. The first movie to be played is displayed.

FIG. 6 is a detailed configuration diagram of the mobile terminal device 100. The mobile terminal device 100 includes a WEB browser 110 and a content player 120.

The WEB browser 110 connects to the portable content WEB server device 300 using the URL including the file identification information, receives the returned moving image content file 391, and transmits the first moving image content file 391 to the content player 120. Let it play. The WEB browser 110 accepts the selection of “favorite registration” from the browser menu, and records the URL including the file identification information of the moving image content file 391. The content player 120 receives a moving image selection input of the moving image content file 391 and reproduces the selected moving image.

The WEB browser 110 and the content player 120 are computer programs.

7 to 10 are explanatory diagrams of display screens of the mobile terminal device 100. FIG.

FIG. 7 shows a screen 120a for playing back the selected moving image of the moving image content file 391.
On the moving image playback screen 120a, the selected moving image (= moving image “D”) and a “browser menu” button 124 displayed by the WEB browser 110 are displayed. The displayed “register bookmark” button 122 is one of interactive interface objects provided in the content being played back, not the browser menu 124 of the WEB browser 110, and is particularly related to the moving image “D”. . In the “bookmark registration” button 122, a redirect page URL including specific information of the moving image “D” is set as a hyperlink.
However, when the selected moving image is a moving image to be reproduced first, the “register bookmark” button 122 is not displayed.

FIG. 8 is a redirect page display screen 120b. On the redirect page display screen 120 b, “Please bookmark using the“ favorite registration function ”of the terminal on the next screen to be displayed” and a “browser menu” button 124 are displayed.

FIG. 9 shows the first screen 120c of the moving image content file 391 on which the moving image “D” is reproduced first. The moving image playback screen 120c displays a moving image “D” that the content player 120 first plays, and a “browser menu” button 124 that the WEB browser 110 displays. The moving image “D” to be reproduced first does not include the “bookmark registration” button 122.

FIG. 10 is a browser menu display screen 120d. On the browser menu display screen 120d, buttons such as “reload”, “favorite registration”, “favorite list”, “screen memo save”, “image save”, and “mail creation” are displayed. The browser menu display screen 120d shows a state in which the “favorite registration” button 125 is selected.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram of a processing procedure of the mobile terminal device 100. The mobile terminal device 100 displays a moving image whose moving image specifying information is “D” on the display screen 120a. The movie “D” includes a “bookmark registration” button 122 (FIG. 11 (1)). When the “bookmark registration” button 122 is pressed, the portable terminal device 100 uses the redirect page URL including the specific information of the video “D” by the hyperlink set in the “bookmark registration” button 122. Connect to device 300. (Same as (2)).

The WEB server device 300 receives the moving image specifying information of the redirect page URL, calls a redirect page creating program for creating a page for redirecting the URL of the moving image content file 391s that first reproduces the moving image “D”, and outputs the result. . Send back. The portable terminal device 100 receives this redirect page and displays it on the display screen 120b ((3)). The mobile terminal device 100 connects to the WEB server device 300 using the URL included in the redirect page. (Id. (4)).

Since the WEB server device 300 returns the moving image content file 391s designated by the URL, the mobile terminal device 100 receives this. (Id. (5)). The mobile terminal device 100 displays the moving image “D” that is played back first in the received moving image content file 391s on the display screen 120c. The content of the moving image “D” (= moved image to be reproduced first) does not include the “bookmark registration” button 122 (same as (6)).

When the “browser menu” button 124 is pressed, the mobile terminal device 100 displays the menu of the WEB browser, and when the “favorite registration” button 125 is selected, the moving image content file in which the moving image “D” is reproduced first. The URL of 391s is registered in the WEB browser 110. (Same as (7)).

Note that the URL of the moving image content file 391s where the moving image “D” is reproduced first may be directly set as a hyperlink in the “bookmark registration” button 122. At this time, there is no need to display a redirect page.

In addition, since the “Browser Menu” button 124 is displayed when the moving image to be played back at the beginning of the moving image content file is displayed, the “Register Bookmark” button 122 may be displayed without being displayed. .

Next, examples will be described.
(Example 1)
An example in which a moving image content file in which one page of a catalog or information magazine is configured as one moving image will be described.

FIG. 12 is a diagram for explaining a processing procedure for bookmarking a catalog page using a moving image content file. The moving image of the moving image content file 391 is configured such that the catalog page is paged and the operation end screen displays one page of the catalog. In the moving image content file 391, a moving image content file in which each page of the catalog is reproduced first is prepared.

A moving image content file 391 composed of four pages will be described as an example. The mobile terminal device 100 uses the video content file 391f that plays back the first page first, plays back the fourth page of the catalog and the “bookmark registration” button 122 on the content player 120, and displays them on the display screen 120a. At the same time, the WEB browser 110 displays a “browser menu” button 124 on the display screen 120c (FIG. 12 (1)). When the “bookmark registration” button 122 on the display screen 120a is pressed, the mobile terminal device 100 sets the URL set in the “bookmark registration” button 122 (= the URL of the video content file 391s from which the fourth page is reproduced first). Is used to connect to the WEB server device 300 ((2)).

The WEB server device 300 returns a moving image content file 391s in which the fourth page designated by the URL is first played back ((3)).

The mobile terminal device 100 receives the moving image content file 391s that the fourth page reproduces first, and updates the moving image content file 391 stored in the storage unit 190. Next, the content player 120 reproduces the fourth page and displays it on the display screen 120c. At the same time, the WEB browser 110 displays a “browser menu” button 124 on the display screen 120c. (Id. (4)).

(Example 2)
An example in which the URL of the moving image content file 391 is transmitted by e-mail will be described.
FIG. 13 is a diagram for explaining the procedure for sending the URL of the content by e-mail. FIG. 13 illustrates (a) a moving image playback screen 120e [D] including an “introducing to friends” button 126 and (b) a mail creation screen 120f.

FIG. 13A illustrates a moving image playback screen 120e. On the moving image reproduction screen 120e, a moving image “D” including an “introducing to friends” button 126 and a “browser menu” button 124 displayed by the WEB browser 110 are displayed. The “Introduce to Friend” button 126 has a function for starting a mail creation screen including a communication text (text) describing the URL of the video content file 391s where the displayed video is played first. . For example, the embedded URL and communication text are “subject =“ recommended content ”body =“ text: recommended URL http: // www.... ”GetURL (mailto: mail address)”. Here, in “recommended URL http: // www....”, The URL of the moving image content file 391s where the moving image [D] is reproduced first is described. When the “Introduce to Friend” button 126 on the video playback screen 120e is pressed, an email creation screen 120f is displayed.

FIG. 13B illustrates a mail creation screen 120f.
In the mail creation screen 120f, the “TO:” field accepts input of a mail address. In the "Body: Recommended URL http: // www ...." field, additional messages are entered as necessary. When the “Send” button 128 is pressed, an e-mail is sent.

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a bookmark that can be reproduced from a desired moving image to a mobile terminal device that uses portable moving image content in the FlashLite format.

The figure explaining the whole structure of the portable content provision system by this invention Rough operation flow of portable content providing system according to the present invention Detailed configuration diagram of portable content web server apparatus 300 The figure explaining the transition of the moving image of the moving image content file 391 Example of a favorite playback screen for video content registered as a bookmark Detailed configuration diagram of the mobile terminal device 100 A screen 120a for playing back the selected moving image of the moving image content file 391. Redirect page display screen 120b First screen 120c of video content file 391 on which video “D” is played first Browser menu display screen 120d Explanatory drawing of the process sequence of the portable terminal device 100 Explanatory diagram of the process for bookmarking catalog pages The figure explaining the procedure which transmits the URL of contents by E-mail

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Portable content provision system 100 Portable terminal device 110 WEB browser 120 Content player 300 Portable content WEB server device 310 Content transmission means 320 Redirect page transmission means 340 Movie data setting means 350 Movie content file creation means 390 Storage means 391 Movie material data 393 Movie Content file 700 network

Claims (10)

A video content file that is transmitted from the server device to the terminal device through the network and reproduced and displayed by the reproduction means of the terminal device,
The terminal device includes an input unit that receives an interactive input necessary for a viewer of moving image content to select or give an instruction, and the playback unit defines an input event that defines a playback operation immediately after the input through the input unit It has a function to accept as
The moving image content file can include a dialogue interface object that is a target to be selected and instructed by the viewer by the input means during reproduction,
further,
1) Consists of multiple videos with distinction between first and non-first,
2) For each video other than the first, it includes a dialog interface object that causes the terminal device to send a message on the network requesting another video content file created by distinguishing the corresponding video as the first.
This is a video content file. A video content file that is transmitted from the server device to the terminal device through the network and reproduced and displayed by the reproduction means of the terminal device,
The terminal device includes an input unit that receives an interactive input necessary for a viewer of moving image content to select or give an instruction, and the playback unit defines an input event that defines a playback operation immediately after the input through the input unit It has a function to accept as
The moving image content file can include a dialogue interface object that is a target to be selected and instructed by the viewer by the input means during reproduction,
further,
1) Consists of multiple videos with distinction between first and non-first,
2) For each video other than the first, an interactive interface object for sending a message requesting a file embedded with a hyperlink to another video content file created by distinguishing the corresponding video as the first from the terminal device to the network Including,
This is a video content file. A content server device that distributes the moving image content file according to claim 1 or 2 to a portable terminal that receives and reproduces the moving image content file via a network, and includes file identification information including moving image specifying information of the first reproduced moving image Storage means for storing a video content file having information;
A content transmission means for accepting a content transmission request including file identification information and returning a corresponding video content file;
A server device comprising: The content transmission request is a URL of a redirect page including moving image specifying information,
Redirect page transmission that accepts a redirect page URL, reads the moving image specifying information of the redirect page URL, and creates and transmits a redirect page in which the URL of the moving image content file of the file identification information including the read moving image specifying information is set. means,
The server apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising: The video content file is a Flash Lite file.
The server device according to claim 3 or 4, wherein A portable content providing method using the moving image content file according to claim 1 or 2,
A mobile terminal content providing method using a video content file composed of a video including video specifying information,
A file transmission step of receiving a content file transmission request and transmitting a video content file;
A selection display step of receiving the transmitted video content file and selecting and displaying a video using an interactive interface object;
A content transmission request step for receiving an input of a bookmark registration instruction and transmitting a file transmission request having file identification information including moving image specifying information of the displayed moving image;
A content reply step of accepting the transmitted file transmission request and selecting and returning a video content file of file identification information included in the file transmission request;
A content display step of receiving and displaying the returned video content file;
Bookmark registration step for bookmarking the displayed content;
A mobile terminal content providing method, characterized in that it is performed by a procedure including: The content transmission request is a redirect page URL including moving image specifying information,
The content return step receives a redirect page URL including moving image specifying information, returns a redirect page in which the URL of the moving image content file of the file identification information including the moving image specifying information is set, and returns the moving image content file of the redirect page Receiving the URL, selecting and returning the video content file of the file identification information included in the video content file URL;
The mobile terminal content providing method according to claim 6. The video content file is a Flash Lite file.
8. The mobile terminal content providing method according to claim 6 or 7, wherein: A computer program that causes a computer to operate as the server device according to any one of claims 3 to 5 by being incorporated in the computer. According to the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable recording medium on which the computer program according to claim 9 is recorded.

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