JP2010231687A - Printed information voice conversion reproduction system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a voice guide with a language desired by a user, by converting information relating to a photograph, characters, etc. printed in a sightseeing guidebook, etc. into various languages and providing them with voice. <P>SOLUTION: A printed information voice-conversion system consists of a map 1 of temple precincts, and a reading device 5. The map 1 has a language information printed column 2 showing two or more national flags representing respective nations, and the printed column 2 has voice information presenting the language overprinted with a dot code d. When the user selects a desired language from the language information and reads it with the reading device 5, the language information is converted into the desired language and reproduced. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a print information voice conversion reproduction system that provides information related to a photograph or character by voice by reading a dot code printed corresponding to the photograph or character printed on a tourist guide book or the like. .

  In recent years, a printing technology has been developed, and a system for transmitting product descriptions and texts by voice by printing code information on a product catalog or a book and optically reading the code information has been on the market. For example, as such a system, there is a product catalog reproduction ordering system described in Patent Document 1. In this product catalog reproduction ordering system, a code pattern of a two-dimensional data code is printed in addition to a photograph and character information related to the product, and this code pattern is optically read by a pen-type information reproduction device, for example, The sound, price, delivery date, dimensions, etc. generated by a plurality of cut photographs and objects are reproduced by voice.

  In this way, if audio information can be coded, printed, and played back, it will be possible to provide a wide variety of information without increasing the page space, making product judgment easier and ordering easier. And convenient for both consumers.

  For example, when such a system is used for a tourist guide book or the like, it is convenient for tourists because an audio guide regarding a building or a Buddha image can be heard. Here, in recent years, the number of foreign tourists has increased, and foreign languages such as English, Chinese, and Korean may be written together with Japanese in tourist guide books, etc., depending on these various languages. If you can listen to the audio guide, it will be convenient for tourists from all over the world. However, the above system is not configured to provide voice guides by converting into various languages, and it is possible to construct a system that can provide appropriate voice guides for foreign tourists. There wasn't.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 08-7057

  The present invention provides print information that enables voice guidance in a language desired by a user by converting information related to photographs and characters printed in a tourist guide book into various languages and providing them by voice. An object is to provide an audio conversion playback system.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a printed information / audio conversion comprising: a tourist guide book on which an image and audio information related to the image are printed; and a reader capable of reading and reproducing the audio information. The voice information is a dot code printed over the image, and the tourist guide book is printed with language information capable of converting the voice information into a plurality of languages. The language information is converted into a desired language and reproduced by selecting a desired language from the language information and reading it by the reading device.

  In the tourist guide book, character information corresponding to the image and voice information related to the character information are printed, and the voice information is a dot code printed over the character information. Also good.

  The language information may be printed over an image showing national flags of a plurality of countries.

  The image referred to here means information that can be visually recognized other than characters, and is a still image such as a photograph or an illustration. The tourist guide book includes not only a book formed from a plurality of papers, but also a book made of a single sheet, a book formed by folding a sheet of paper, and the like.

  According to the present invention, there is provided a print information audio conversion system comprising a tourist guide book on which an image and audio information related to the image are printed, and a reader capable of reading and reproducing the audio information, The voice information is a dot code printed over the image, and the tourist guide book is printed with language information capable of converting the voice information into a plurality of languages. The language information is converted into a desired language and reproduced by selecting the selected language and reading it with the reading device. This enables voice guidance in the language desired by the user.

The top view of the precinct map which is a part of the printing information audio | voice conversion reproduction system of this invention. 1 is a block diagram of a reading device that is a part of a print information audio conversion reproduction system of the present invention. FIG. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a storage table stored in a storage unit in the reading device, where (a) illustrates a language information storage table, and (b) illustrates a voice information storage table. The figure which shows an example of the reproduction | regeneration information storage table memorize | stored in the memory | storage part in a reader. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an example of use of a print information audio conversion reproduction system of the present invention.

  The form for implementing this invention is demonstrated in detail below. In the following, a case where the present invention is applied to a temple precinct map will be described, but the present invention is not limited to this.

  FIG. 1 is a plan view of a precinct map that is a part of the print information audio conversion reproduction system of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a reader that is a part of the print information audio conversion reproduction system of the present invention, and FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the memory | storage table memorize | stored in the memory | storage part in an apparatus, Comprising: (a) is a figure which shows a language information storage table, (b) is a figure which shows an audio | voice information storage table, FIG. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing an example of use of the print information audio conversion reproduction system of the present invention.

  The print information audio conversion reproduction system of the present invention comprises a precinct map 1 and a reader 5.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the precinct map 1 is a guide map showing where buildings, Buddha statues, etc. in a temple are located within the precinct, and includes a language information printing column 2 in which flags of a plurality of countries are printed. , Photo information printing columns 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 (in the following, the photo information printing column is generally expressed) And the text information print fields 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 (in the following, the names of the photo information print fields 3 are described). When the character information print field is collectively expressed, it is described as “character information print field 4”).

  In the language information print column 2, illustrations representing the flags of a plurality of countries are printed. Here, flags of Japan, China, South Korea, the United States, and France are printed from the left in the figure. On each of these national flags, sound information indicating the language of each country is overlaid with a dot code (details will be described later). Specifically, the Japanese flag is Japanese, the Chinese flag is Chinese, the Korean flag is Korean, the US flag is English, and the French flag is French. The national flag is not limited to this, and the combination and number of national flags are not limited to this.

  In the photo information printing column 3, buildings such as the main hall and five-storied pagoda, Buddha statues, various facilities, etc. are printed with photographs. Similarly to the above, audio information related to each of the photo information printing column 3 is displayed. Overprinted with dot code.

  Character information corresponding to each of the photo information print fields 3 is printed in the character information print field 4, and here, the names of the photo information print fields 3 (for example, main hall and five-storied pagoda) are printed. In the same manner as described above, the audio information related to each of the character information print fields 4 is printed with dot codes.

  Flags displayed in the language information print column 2, pictures of buildings etc. displayed in the photo information print column 3, and names of buildings etc. displayed in the character information print column 4 (in the following, these will be summarized) "Visual information") is printed in color with an ink that absorbs little infrared (eg, a basic color ink, ie, a combination of cyan, magenta, and yellow), while the dot code is infrared on top of these The ink is printed with ink that absorbs water (for example, black oil-based ink).

  The dot code d described above has a dot configuration as shown in the enlarged view in FIG. 1 and corresponds to each language information print field 2, each photo information print field 3, and each character information print field 4. The dot configuration is set differently. This dot code is composed of small dots (6X6 in 0.5 mm square) that cannot be easily seen so as not to disturb the visual sense, and a 6X6 two-dimensional matrix code is used as one data unit. It is said. This dot code d is printed two-dimensionally continuously on the visual information, and is composed of header information d1 and data information d2, and the header information d1 replaces the dot code d with another dot code d. The information specifying the visual information is displayed as the data information d2. The information specifying the visual information is information indicating an ID for specifying each of the information as described later. is there.

  The reading device 5 includes a control unit 51, an operation unit 52, two light sources 53 and 53, two light guides 53a and 53a, a lens 54, a filter 55, an image sensor 56, and a dot pattern recognition CPU 57 in a pen-type housing. , A storage unit 58 and a speaker 59 for outputting various sounds to the outside.

  The reading device 5 is large enough to fit in one hand, the control unit 51 has a function to control the overall operation of the reading device 5, and the operation unit 52 includes a power ON-OF button, a volume adjustment button, It consists of operation buttons that the user operates from the outside, such as a reset button.

  The two light sources 53 and 53 are infrared LEDs that emit infrared rays, and the light guides 53 a and 53 a have a function of guiding the infrared rays emitted from the light sources 53 and 53 to the precinct map 1. The lens 54 is a convex lens that collects infrared reflected light toward the precinct map 1, and the collected reflected light is taken into the image sensor 56 via the filter 55. The dot pattern recognition CPU 57 contains an image processing program.

  A part of the infrared rays irradiated from the light sources 53 and 53 to the precinct map 1 through the light guides 53a and 53a is absorbed by the dot code d, and the infrared rays irradiated to the portion without the dot code d transmit visual information. Reflected and diffused in the precinct map 1. Then, the reflected light is condensed by the lens 54 and taken into the image sensor 56 through the filter 55. The taken image is converted into a digital signal. The dot signal recognition CPU 57 analyzes the dot code d from the data information d2 for the digital signal. The dot combination constituting the dot code d is converted into a numeric code. This numeric code is various IDs to be described later.

  The storage unit 58 is composed of a ROM, and various audio information is stored in the storage unit 58. Specifically, these are stored as a language information storage table T1, a sound information storage table T2, and a reproduction information storage table T3 as shown in FIGS.

  The language information storage table T1 includes a language ID and language information, and each language information is stored in association with a unique language ID. The voice information storage table T2 includes information IDs and voice information, and the voice information related to each of the building, Buddha image, various facilities, and the like is stored in association with a unique information ID.

  The reproduction information storage table T3 is a storage table showing combinations of the language information storage table T1 and the voice information storage table T2. Specifically, for example, if the audio information is related to the main hall, as the information for explaining the main hall, the audio information reproduced in six countries of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, American and French Is remembered. In the present embodiment, 6 languages as language information and 6 pieces of voice information, 6 × 6 = 36 pieces of voice information are stored. The storage unit 58 may be constituted by various storage media such as an SD card or a micro SD card inserted in the cartridge provided in the reading device 5.

  Next, referring to FIG. 5, an example of use of the print information / voice conversion system configured as described above will be described together with an operation description. In this example, the worshiper is assumed to be French.

  First, the precinct map 1 and the reading device 5 are rented to worshipers who visit the precincts of the temple. The worshiper visits the precinct while referring to the precinct map, and when he / she comes to the main hall, turns on the power of the reading device 5 and sets the pen tip of the reading device 5 to the language information printing field 25 (STEP 1). Then, in the reading device 5, the reading operation of the dot code printed over the language information printing field 25 and the analysis operation of the language ID corresponding to this dot code are performed based on the language information storage table T1, and the language ID is It is set to “0010” and temporarily stored in the control unit 51. When this analysis is completed, a voice “Chinese” is output from the speaker 59 in Chinese.

  Subsequently, the pen tip of the reading device 5 is moved in the direction of the arrow to align with the photo information printing field 31 (STEP 2). Then, in the reading device 5, the reading operation of the dot code printed over the photo information printing column 31 and the analysis operation of the information ID corresponding to this dot code are performed based on the audio information storage table T2, and the information ID Is set to “0110” and temporarily stored in the control unit 51. When this analysis operation is completed, an AND processing operation of the language ID and the information ID is further performed by the control unit 51, and a composite ID is calculated by the control unit 51 with reference to the reproduction information storage table T3 by this AND processing operation. Corresponding audio is output from the speaker 59.

  Specifically, the AND processing operation will be described. In STEP 1, the language ID is analyzed as “0010”, and in STEP 2, the information ID is first analyzed as “0110”. Next, by taking the AND, the composite ID that is the AND of the language ID and the information ID is analyzed as “00100110”. Then, the reproduction information storage table T3 is searched, and the language information and voice information corresponding to the analyzed composite ID are detected. As a result, the explanation about the main hall is output as voice in Chinese.

  In addition, after the above-mentioned “description about the main hall is voiced in Chinese” or in the middle, when the voice explanation about the five-storied pagoda is desired, the pen point of the reading device 5 is set to the photo information printing column 32 or According to the character information printing field 42, the reading device 5 will “output a description about the five-storied pagoda in Chinese”. In this case, in the reading device 5, the information ID is changed to “0111” while the language ID is held at “0010”, and the composite ID is converted to “00100111”.

  On the other hand, when changing the language to, for example, Japanese from the state in which the audio information is related to the main hall, first, the pen tip of the reading device 5 is set to the language information print field 21, and then the pen tip is set to a desired photograph. According to the information printing column 3, for example, the photo information printing column 32, “the description about the five-storied pagoda is voiced and output in Japanese”. In this case, in the reading device 5, the language ID is changed from “0010” to “0001”, the information ID is changed from “0110” to “0111”, and the composite ID is converted to “00010111”. It will be.

  As described above, in the print information voice conversion system of the present invention, explanations related to buildings, Buddha images, various facilities, and the like can be provided to the voice in the language desired by the user.

1 Precinct Map 2, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 Language Information Print Field 3, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 Photo Information Print Field 4, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 Character Information Print field 5 Reading device 51 Control unit 52 Operation unit 53 Light source 53a Light guide 54 Lens 55 Filter 56 Image sensor 57 Dot pattern recognition CPU
58 storage unit 59 speaker d dot code d1 header information d2 data information T1 language information storage table T2 audio information storage table T3 reproduction information storage table

Claims (3)

A print information audio conversion system comprising a tourist guide book on which an image and audio information related to the image are printed, and a reader capable of reading and reproducing the audio information,
The audio information is a dot code printed over the image,
The tourist guide book is printed with language information capable of converting the audio information into a plurality of languages,
A print information speech conversion system, wherein a user selects a desired language from the language information and reads the language with the reading device, whereby the language information is converted into a desired language and reproduced.   In the tourist guide book, character information corresponding to the image and sound information related to the character information are printed, and the sound information is a dot code printed over the previous character information. The print information voice conversion system according to claim 1.   The print information / speech conversion system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the language information is printed on an image showing national flags of a plurality of countries.

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