JP2014215725A - Method for supporting wedding reception - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide technical means capable of increasingly dramatizing a wedding reception.SOLUTION: An invitation letter for a wedding reception guest contains a card. When the wedding reception guest activates a browser of a smartphone SM and accesses an URL written in the card, a posting reception site is displayed on a smartphone SM screen. The wedding reception guest can transmit a congratulatory image and a congratulatory message for a bridal couple via the posting reception site. The congratulatory image and the congratulatory message from the wedding reception guest are displayed on a screen by a projector PJ in a wedding reception room.

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for supporting the operation of a wedding reception.

  Various technologies for supporting the operation of wedding receptions have been proposed. For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a technique that enables wedding prints such as a wedding reception invitation, a table of seats, and a welcome board to be electronically created in accordance with the operation of the terminal. The electronic generation control device disclosed in this document 1 is a product catalog list database of wedding printed materials, a product sample photograph database of basic designs of wedding printed materials for each type, and a color scheme and design details for each basic design product. Each pattern photo database, user registration database that records registration data entered by the user on the registration web page input screen for electronic commerce of wedding prints, when the user selects one of the basic design products , A manuscript input database that records manuscript input files and manual files for selecting the color and design for the merchandise and inputting text and photo manuscripts into the selected merchandise; User order database ordered using To Bei. The electronic generation control device of Document 1 takes out corresponding information in various databases in accordance with a user's operation, and generates a wedding print by processing the extracted information.

JP 2001-290898 A

  By the way, many wedding reception invitees have a desire to send a message of congratulations to the bride and groom before the day of the wedding reception. For this reason, a system for soliciting congratulatory messages and images from the invitees to the bride and groom from before the wedding reception to the day of the wedding reception, and building a system for disclosing such information at the wedding reception on the wedding reception day. If possible, it should be possible to further enhance the effect of the wedding reception, but such a system has not yet been put into practical use.

  This invention is made | formed in view of such a subject, and it aims at providing the technical means which can raise the effect of a wedding reception more.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention provides a terminal for a bride and groom at a wedding reception, a terminal for an inviter of the wedding reception, a terminal of a creator of the memorial album for the wedding reception, and a venue for the wedding reception. A wedding reception support method by a system including an image display device installed and a server, wherein the inviter's terminal is connected to the bride and groom before the wedding reception day and on the wedding reception day. A first step of posting a blessing message and a blessed image via a posting reception site or an e-mail message, and the server storing the posted blessing message and a blessed image in a storage means; and on the day of the wedding reception The server transmits each set of a blessing message and a blessing image in the storage means one by one in response to a request from a terminal connected to the image display device, After the second process in which the image display device sequentially displays the congratulatory message and the congratulatory image received from the server, and after the wedding reception, the terminal of the bride and groom receives the congratulatory message and congratulatory image in the storage means. Of these, the one that needs to be posted on the commemorative album is selected via the posting browsing site, and the server selects that from the group of congratulatory messages and congratulatory images in the storage means selected through the posting browsing site. The third process for associating the identification information to be shown and the creator's terminal obtains a blessing message and a blessing image in the storage means that are associated with the identification information via the management site, and obtains A commemorative album on which the blessing message and the blessed image are posted is output to the printing device. To provide a wedding reception support method and a fourth stroke.

  In the present invention, a wedding reception invitee can send a congratulatory image and a congratulatory message to the bride and groom through the server. In the present invention, the congratulatory image and the congratulatory message stored in the server are displayed on the image display device in the reception hall. Further, in the present invention, a commemorative album is automatically generated that includes a blessed image and a blessed message stored in the server, which are selected by the bride and groom. Therefore, according to the present invention, the effect of the wedding reception can be enhanced.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the system which implement | achieves the wedding reception support method which is one Embodiment of this invention. It is a data structure figure of the database of the server of the system. It is a flowchart which shows the posting reception process before the wedding reception of the system. It is a figure which shows the card | curd C1 sent to the invitee of a wedding reception in the system. It is a figure which shows the electronic mail edit screen in the system. It is a figure which shows the login screen for contribution reception in the system. It is a figure which shows the contribution reception site in the system. It is a figure which shows the contribution reception site in the system. It is a flowchart which shows the reception process on the day of the wedding reception of the system. It is a figure which shows the card | curd C2 set | placed at each seat of the meeting place of the wedding reception in the system. It is a figure which shows the imaging | photography posting screen in the system. It is a figure which shows the frame selection screen in the system. It is a figure which shows the message input screen in the same system. It is a flowchart which shows the projection assistance process in the system. It is a flowchart which shows the hall | operating company management process in the system. It is a figure which shows the log-in screen for venue management companies in the system. It is a figure which shows the management site for venue management companies in the system. It is a figure which shows the new registration screen of the management site for venue management companies in the system. It is a figure which shows the registration change screen of the management site for venue management companies in the system. It is a flowchart which shows the insertion object selection assistance process in the same system. It is a figure which shows the posting browsing site in the same system. It is a flowchart which shows the album production provider corresponding | compatible process in the same system. It is a figure which shows the login screen for album production companies in the same system. It is a figure which shows the management site for album creation companies in the same system. It is a figure which shows the reception selection screen of the management site for album production companies in the same system. It is a figure which shows the download screen of the management site for album creation companies in the same system.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a system 1 that realizes a wedding reception support method according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the system 1 includes a smartphone SM, a personal computer PC, a printing device PRNT, a projector PJ, and a server 10. The smartphone SM is a terminal used by the bride and groom and the invitee at the wedding reception. Personal computer PC is a wedding reception support company (hereinafter referred to as a wedding reception support company), a company operating a wedding reception hall (hereinafter referred to as a venue management company), and creation of a wedding reception memorial album. Is a terminal used by a business operator (hereinafter referred to as an album creator). The personal computer PC of the album creator is connected to the printer PRNT. The projector PJ is an image display device that projects an image toward a screen installed at a wedding reception hall. The server 10 is a device that provides various web services under the management of the reception support company.

  The server 10 includes a communication interface 11, a CPU 12, a RAM 13, a ROM 14, and a hard disk 15. The communication interface 11 transmits and receives data to and from a device connected to the Internet 90. The CPU 12 executes various programs stored in the ROM 14 and the hard disk 15 while using the RAM 13 as a work area. The ROM 14 stores an IPL (Initial Program Loader) and the like. The hard disk 15 stores a database DB and a wedding reception support program PR.

FIG. 2 is a diagram conceptually showing the data structure of the database DB. The database DB has a plurality of tables TB-m (m = 1 to M, m is an index indicating a wedding reception, and M is the total number of wedding receptions) each corresponding to a wedding reception scheduled to be held. Each record of the table TB-m corresponding to one wedding reception in the database DB includes “ID”, “Date”, “Time”, “Number of people (groom side)”, “Number of people (bride side)”, “ It has 11 fields of “number of people (total)”, “number of people (total)”, “both bride and groom”, “venue”, “message”, “photograph”, and “necessity of posting”. The “ID” field indicates identification information ID _Y (six-character unique character string) unique to the wedding reception. The “Date” field indicates the date of the wedding reception. The “held time” field indicates the holding time of the wedding reception. The field “number (groom side)” indicates the number of invitees on the groom side at the wedding reception. The field “number of people (bride side)” indicates the number of invitees on the bride side at the wedding reception. The “number (total)” field indicates the total number of invitees on the groom side and the bride side at the wedding reception. The field of “Bride and groom's family” shows the sex of the groom and the bride at the wedding reception. The “Venue” field indicates the name of the room that will be the venue for the wedding reception. The field of “Message” indicates a blessing message (text data) from the wedding reception invitee to the bride and groom. The “photograph” field shows a blessed image (image data) from the wedding reception invitee to the bride and groom. The “necessity of posting” field indicates identification information ID _ALBM indicating that the bride and groom at the wedding reception have set a blessing message and a blessing image as a commemorative album.

The wedding reception support program PR has the following four functions.
a1. Post acceptance function This responds to the request from the inviter's smartphone SM, and returns the screen data (HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) data) of the post acceptance site, and the invitee sends it via the post acceptance site or an e-mail message. The blessed message and the blessed image posted are received, and the received blessed message and blessed image are stored in the corresponding table TB-m in the database DB.
b1. Projection support function This is a set of congratulatory messages and congratulatory images stored in the corresponding table TB-m in the database DB in response to a request from the personal computer PC connected to the projector PJ in the wedding reception hall. And a set of these blessing messages and blessed images are sent to the personal computer PC in the hall one by one.
c1. Posting target selection support function This responds to the request from the bride and groom's smartphone SM, returns the screen data of the posting browsing site, and the congratulations album and the congratulatory message selected by the bride and groom via this posting browsing site The identification information ID _ALBM is stored in association with the blessing message and the blessing image that are the posting target in the corresponding table TB-m in the database DB.
d1. Posting target providing function This is the identification information ID _ALBM of each set of blessed messages and blessed images stored in the corresponding table TB-m in the database DB in response to a request from the personal computer PC of the album creator. Is a function of reading out the associated message and transmitting the read blessing message and blessed image to the personal computer PC of the album creator.

  Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. The processing of the present embodiment includes pre-marital reception post acceptance processing, wedding reception on-the-day post acceptance processing, projection support processing, venue operator support processing, placement target selection support processing, and album creation business support processing.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing post acceptance processing before a wedding reception. This process is executed before the day of the wedding reception. In the present embodiment, a card C1 that describes the contents of the service of the wedding support company is enclosed in an invitation mailed to the wedding party invitee. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the card C1. On the upper side of the card C1, the letters “Live Wedding”, which is the service name of the service of the reception support company, are written. Below that is written the text "You can see your congratulatory photos and messages on our dedicated blog." Underneath it is the text “Live Wedding is a service that allows you to send your messages and photos to the two and view the photos sent by you on the blog.” Below that, the words “We are waiting for a warm message to you” are written. Underneath it is written the text “If you send a message on the wedding day, there may be a lottery in the lottery ...”.

On the lower left side of the card C1, the characters “Access from mobile phone, please read the QR code (registered trademark) on the right” are written. On the right side, a QR code (registered trademark) of an e-mail address to which a blessing message and a blessing image are posted is written. In the lower center of the card C1, the characters “Access from PC” are written. Below that, the URL of the posting reception site (“http://live-wedding.jp” in the example of FIG. 4) is written. On the lower right side of the card C1, the characters “login ID” are written. Below that, the identification information ID _Y (“Lw1234” in the example of FIG. 4) of the wedding reception where the inviter is invited is written.

  When the invitee wants to send a congratulatory message and a congratulatory image to the bride and groom, he or she takes a picture of the QR code (registered trademark) on the card C1 with the camera of his smartphone SM, or starts up the browser of the smartphone SM and opens the card C1 An operation for instructing access to the above URL is performed. When the QR code (registered trademark) on the card C1 is photographed (S100: Yes), the inviter's smartphone SM converts the QR code (registered trademark) to an e-mail address (FIG. 5) as shown in FIG. In this example, an e-mail editing screen addressed toukou1234@live-wedding.jp) is displayed (S110). The invitee inputs a blessing message (in the example of FIG. 5, congratulations on getting married! Looking forward to the wedding reception) in the text entry field 31 of this editing screen, and one of the captured images is used as a blessing image. Attach and select the “Send” button 32.

When the “send” button 32 is selected (S120: Yes), the inviter's smartphone SM transmits an e-mail message including a congratulatory message and a congratulatory image (S130). This electronic mail message is sent to the server 10. When the server 10 receives the email message, the database DB creates a new record including the identification information ID _{Y of the} wedding reception to which the inviter of the sender of the email message is invited, the blessing message in the email message, and the blessing image. Are added to the corresponding table TB-m (S140).

  When an operation for instructing access to the URL on the card C1 is performed (S200: Yes), the inviter's smartphone SM transmits a message (HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) request) for browsing the posting acceptance site. (S210). This message is sent to the server 10. When the server 10 receives the message, it returns the screen data of the login screen for posting acceptance (S220). The screen data of the login screen for posting acceptance is sent to the invitee's smartphone SM.

  When the inviter's smartphone SM receives the screen data of the posting acceptance login screen, the invitation accepting smartphone SM displays the posting acceptance login screen (S230). As shown in FIG. 6, the post acceptance log-in screen is marked with the words “Please enter the ID listed in the invitation. You can send messages and photos to two people who are happy.” Below that, the characters “ID” are written. On the right is an ID input field 41. Below that is a button 42 labeled "Authentication".

The invitee inputs the six-digit character written as the login ID on the card C1 into the ID input field 41 and selects the “authentication” button 42. When this operation is performed (S240: Yes), the smartphone SM transmits a message including the 6-digit character input in the ID input field 41 as the identification information ID _Y (S250). This message is sent to the server 10. Server 10 receives the message, as identification information ID _Y in the message it is determined whether match with those in the table TB-m, the identification information ID _Y in the message are in the table TB-m If they match (S260: Yes), the screen data of the posting acceptance site is returned (S270). The screen data of the posting acceptance site is sent to the inviter's smartphone SM.

  When the inviter's smartphone SM receives the screen data of the posting reception site, it displays the posting reception site (S280). As shown in FIG. 7, there is a posting input field 51 in the center of the posting receiving site. Below the post input field 51 is a photo input field 52. Below the photo entry field 52 is a button 53 labeled “Post”. As shown in FIG. 8, the invitee inputs a blessing message (in the example of FIG. 8, “Congratulations on getting married. One of the images is attached as a blessed image to the photo input field 52, and the “Post” button 53 is selected.

When the operation of selecting the “post” button 53 is performed (S290: Yes), the inviter's smartphone SM transmits a message including a congratulatory message and a congratulatory image (S300). This message is sent to the server 10. When the server 10 receives the message, the server 10 sends a new record including the identification information ID _{Y of the} wedding reception to which the inviter of the sender of the message is invited, the blessing message and the blessing image in the e-mail message, in the corresponding table of the database DB. It adds to TB-m (S310).

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the wedding reception day post acceptance process. This process is performed during the wedding reception on the wedding reception day. In the present embodiment, a card C2 describing the contents of the service of the wedding reception support business is placed at each invitee's seat in the wedding reception hall. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the card C2. On the upper part of the card C2, characters “How to Use Live Wedding Application Live Wedding” are written. On the left side of card C2, “Smartphone”, “1 iphon“ Apple Store ”, Android“ play store ”,“ 2 “Live Wedding” Search ”,“ 3 Live The characters “Download wedding app”, “4 Launch app after downloading”, and “Enter a 56-digit ID and follow the on-screen instructions after login” are written.

In the middle right of the card C2, on the right side of "cell phone mail", "1 Enter the email address [xxxxxxxx.com] as the destination of the cell phone email or from the QR code (registered trademark) on the left to the email send screen", "2
"Enter a message", "3 Attach a photo when sending a photo * For the convenience of displaying a blog, we recommend a photo with a width of 480 x 800 pixels (equivalent to the mobile standby size) or less", "4 Send a message “Posting complete! Message will be posted on the blog” and the QR code (registered trademark) of the e-mail address where the congratulatory message and congratulatory image will be posted.

  In the lower part of card C2, “You can see happy messages from everyone!”, “1 Access to http://live-wedding.jp”, “Enter 26-digit ID [Lw1234]”, Each letter of “3 You can see photos and messages uploaded by everyone” is written.

  If the invitee wants to send a congratulatory message and congratulatory image to the bride and groom during the wedding reception, download the live wedding app on their smartphone SM or launch it with their smartphone SM camera Photograph the QR code (registered trademark) on C2, or start up the browser of the smartphone SM and perform an operation to instruct access to the URL on the card C2.

  When the operation of starting up the live wedding app is performed (S400: Yes), the inviter's smartphone SM displays a shooting posting screen (S410). FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a shooting posting screen. On the shooting posting screen, a shot image IM of the camera (in the example of FIG. 11, a shot image of the bride) and a shooting button 62 are displayed. The inviter performs an operation of placing the bride and groom in the angle of view of the camera of the smartphone SM and touching the shooting button 62.

  When an operation of touching the shooting button 62 is performed (S420: Yes), the inviter's smartphone SM displays a frame selection screen (S430). FIG. 12 shows a frame selection screen. In the center of the frame selection screen, a plurality of types of frames FR-k (k = 1 to K, where k is an index indicating a frame, K is an index indicating a frame, in which a captured image IM of the camera at the time when the shooting button 62 is touched The composite image CIM fitted into one (total number of types of frames) (frame FR-3 in the display example of FIG. 12) is displayed. Below the composite image CIM, reduced images FR′-k (k = 1 to K) of frames FR-k (k = 1 to K) are arranged in the horizontal direction. The reduced image FR′-k (k = 1 to K) is scrolled in the left-right direction by performing an operation (flick operation) to move left and right by touching with a finger. Below the reduced image FR′-k (k = 1 to K), there are a button 64 labeled “CANCEL” and a button 65 labeled “SET”. The inviter selects the frame FR-k (k = 1 to K) to embed the captured image IM of the camera and touches the “OK” button 65.

  When the “enter” button 65 is touched (S440: Yes), the inviter's smartphone SM displays a message input screen (S450). FIG. 13 shows a message input screen. In the center of the message input screen, a composite image CIM when the button 65 is selected is displayed. A character input field 66 is displayed below the composite image CIM. Below the character input field, there are a button 64 marked “Cancel” and a button 67 marked “Post”. The inviter inputs characters (in the example of FIG. 13, “Ai-chan! Congratulations!”) In the character input field 66 and performs an operation of touching the “post” button 67.

When the “post” button 67 is touched (S460: Yes), the inviter's smartphone SM uses the input characters in the input field 66 of the frame selection screen as a blessing message and the composite image CIM on the same screen as a blessing image. Then, a message including the blessing message and the blessing image is transmitted (S470). This message is sent to the server 10. When the server 10 receives the message, the server 10 sends a new record including the identification information ID _{Y of the} wedding reception to which the inviter of the sender of the message is invited, the blessing message and the blessing image in the e-mail message, in the corresponding table of the database DB. It adds to TB-m (S480).

  When the inviter photographs the QR code (registered trademark) on the card C2 with the smartphone SM (S490: Yes), the same processing as steps S110 to S140 in the post-marriage post accepting processing is performed. By performing this series of processing, the congratulatory message and the congratulatory image created by the inviter during the wedding reception are sent to the server 10 as an e-mail message, and the corresponding table TB-m in the database DB of the server 10 is sent. Accumulated. When the invitee starts up the browser of the smartphone SM and instructs access to the URL on the card C2 (S500: Yes), the same processing as steps S210 to S310 in the post-marriage post accepting processing is performed. By performing this series of processing, the congratulatory message and congratulatory image created by the inviter during the wedding reception are sent to the server 10 via the posting reception site, and the corresponding table TB- of the database DB of the server 10 is sent. accumulated in m.

  FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating the projection support process. This process is performed during the wedding reception on the day of the wedding reception. In the present embodiment, the wedding reception support provider brings his / her personal computer PC to the wedding reception hall and connects the personal computer PC and the projector PJ. After that, a predetermined application in the personal computer PC is started up, and an operation for instructing projection of a congratulatory message and a congratulatory image is performed.

  When this operation is performed (S800: Yes), the personal computer PC of the reception support company transmits a message requesting a blessing message and a blessing image (S810). This message is sent to the server 10. Upon receiving the message, the server 10 performs distribution processing (S820). In this distribution process, the server 10 reads each set of the blessing message and the blessed image stored in the table TB-m of the corresponding wedding reception in the database DB, and transmits the blessing message and the blessed image one by one. Repeat the process.

  The personal computer PC of the reception support business operator performs projection processing (S830). In the projection process, the personal computer PC of the reception support provider supplies a congratulatory message and a congratulatory image to the projector PJ every time a congratulatory message and congratulatory image are received from the server 10. The projector PJ performs a process of projecting the image indicated by the output signal of the personal computer PC of the reception support company on the screen in the reception hall.

  Here, during the wedding reception, the server 10 performs the projection process and the above-mentioned wedding reception day posting acceptance process in parallel. Therefore, when a congratulatory message and a congratulatory image are transmitted from the inviter's smartphone SM to the server 10 during the wedding reception, the new congratulatory message and congratulatory image are added to the projection target of the projector PJ.

  FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing the venue operator handling process. In this embodiment, the wedding reception support company issues a unique ID and password to the venue management company. When the venue operator wants to check the management information of the wedding reception in the hotel he manages, the operation of starting the browser of his personal computer PC and instructing access to the URL of the venue management site I do.

  When this operation is performed (900: Yes), the personal computer PC of the venue operator transmits a message requesting browsing of the venue management site (S910). This message is sent to the server 10. Upon receiving the message, the server 10 returns screen data of the venue login screen (S920). The screen data of the venue login screen is sent to the invitee's smartphone SM.

  When receiving the screen data of the venue login screen, the personal computer PC of the venue management company displays the venue login screen (S930). As shown in FIG. 16, the text “venue management screen” is written on the venue login screen. Below that, the characters “ID” are written. Below that, the word “password” is written. There is an ID input field 141 to the right of “ID”. There is a password input field 142 to the right of the characters “password”. Below that is a button 143 labeled “Authentication”.

  The venue operator enters his / her ID and password in the ID input field 141 and password input field 142 and selects the “authentication” button 143. When this operation is performed (S940: Yes), the venue operator's personal computer PC transmits a message including the ID in the ID input field 141 and the password in the password input field 142 (S950). This message is sent to the server 10. Upon receiving the message, the server 10 determines whether the ID and password in the message match those of the venue operator, and if the ID and password in the message match those of the venue operator ( (S960: Yes), the screen data of the venue management site is returned (S970). The screen data of the venue management site is sent to the personal computer PC of the venue operator.

When receiving the screen data of the venue management site, the personal computer PC of the venue management company displays the venue management site (S980). FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a venue management site. On this venue management site, the text “XXXXX (XXXXX is the name of the venue operator) management screen” is written. Below that, a button 144 labeled "New creation" is displayed. Below that, the management information of the wedding reception (specifically, the venue of the wedding reception, the date and time, the number of persons, the names of the bride and groom's family, and the identification information ID _Y of each wedding reception) and the button labeled "Details" List 145 including a set of 147-g (g = 1 to G, g is an index indicating a wedding reception scheduled to be held, G is the total number of wedding receptions scheduled to be held, and G = 3 in the example of FIG. 17) Is displayed. Below that, a button 146 labeled “Logout” is displayed.

In this venue management site, the venue operator can newly register the wedding reception management information and change the registered management information. More specifically, the venue operator selects the button 144 marked “Newly created” when newly registering wedding reception management information. When this operation is performed (S990: Yes), the venue operator's personal computer PC displays a new registration screen (S1000). As shown in FIG. 18, the new registration screen includes “Reception”, “Date”, “Time”, “Number of participants (groom)”, “Number of participants (bride)”, “Number of participants (total)”. , And “access ID” are written. The columns to the right of each of the words “banquet”, “date”, “time”, “number of participants (groom)”, “number of participants (bride)”, and “number of participants (total)” are blank. . The right column of the character "access ID" is identification recompense IN _Y which are numbered newly are written. In the lower part of the registration screen, a button 149 labeled “Register” and a button 150 labeled “Cancel” are displayed. The venue operator enters the corresponding information in each column to the right of each character on this screen, and then selects the “Register” button 149.

  When this operation is performed (S1010: Yes), the venue operator's personal computer PC will display the “banquet”, “date”, “time”, “number of participants (groom)”, “number of participants (bride)” ”,“ Number of participants (total) ”, and a message including registration information in each column to the right of the characters“ access ID ”is transmitted to the server 10 (S1020). This message is sent to the server 10.

  Upon receiving the e-mail message, the server 10 generates a new wedding reception table TB-m in the database DB, and the “ID”, “date”, “time”, “ The registration information in the message is written in the fields of “number of participants (groom)”, “number of participants (bride)”, “number of participants (total)”, and “both brides and grooms” (S1030).

  Further, when changing the registered management information, the venue management company selects the button 147-g (g = 1 to G) corresponding to the wedding reception to be changed. When this operation is performed (S1040: Yes), the personal computer PC of the venue management company displays a registration change screen (S1050). As shown in FIG. 19, “Reception”, “Date”, “Time”, “Number of participants (groom)”, “Number of participants (bride)”, “Number of participants (total)”, and Management information of the wedding reception corresponding to the selected button 147-j is displayed in the right column of each character of “access ID”. Below that, a button 149 labeled “Register” and a button 150 labeled “Cancel” are displayed. The venue operator rewrites the contents of desired registration information on the registration change screen, and then selects the “Register” button 149.

  When this operation is performed (S1060: Yes), the venue operator's personal computer PC will display the “banquet”, “date”, “time”, “number of participants (groom)”, “number of participants (bride)” ”,“ Number of participants (total) ”, and a message including registration information in each column to the right of the characters“ access ID ”is transmitted to the server 10 (S1070). This message is sent to the server 10.

  Upon receipt of the e-mail message, the server 10 selects the one at the wedding reception corresponding to the button 147-j selected from the table TB-m (m = 1 to M) in the database DB, and this table TB- m's “ID”, “Bride and Groom”, “Date”, “Hour”, “Number of Participants (Groom)”, “Number of Participants (Bride)”, “Number of Participants (Total)”, “Bride and Groom Both Houses” The information in the message is overwritten in each field (S1080).

  FIG. 20 is a flowchart showing the posting target selection support process. In the present embodiment, after the wedding reception, the bride and groom start up the browser of their smartphone SM and perform an operation to instruct access to the URL of the posting browsing site.

  When this operation is performed (S1100: Yes), the bride and groom's smartphone SM transmits a message requesting the posting browsing site (S1110). This message is sent to the server 10. Upon receiving the message, the server 10 reads each set of the blessing message and the blessing image stored in the corresponding table TB-m in the database DB, generates screen data of the posting browsing site in which these are embedded, The screen data is returned (S1120). The screen data of the posting viewing site is sent to the bride and groom's smartphone SM.

  When the smartphone SM of the bride and groom receives the screen data of the posting browsing site, the posting browsing site is displayed (S1130). FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a posting browsing site. In this posting browsing site, an image 71-n (in which a blessing message is connected to a blessing image in each group of a blessing message and a blessing image posted from the inviter between the sending of the invitation and the end of the wedding reception is displayed. n = 1 to N, n is an index indicating a group of a blessing message and a blessed image, N is a total number of a group of a blessing message and a blessed image), and a button 72 labeled “Send” is displayed.

  The bride and groom touch the “Send” button 72 after selecting an image 71-n (n = 1 to N) displayed on the posting browsing site to be included in the memorial album.

  When this operation is performed (S1140: Yes), the bride and groom's smartphone SM transmits to the server 10 a message including the congratulatory message and the congratulatory image selected on the posting browsing site (S1150).

Upon receipt of the message, the server 10 searches for the one selected on the posting viewing site from each set of congratulatory message and congratulatory image stored in the table TB-m of the corresponding wedding reception in the database DB, The identification information ID _ALBM is stored in association with the searched blessing message and blessed image (S1160).

  FIG. 22 is a flowchart showing the album creation business support process. In the present embodiment, the wedding reception support business issues a unique ID and password to the album creation business. When an album creator wants to obtain a congratulatory message or image of a wedding reception for which he or she has been working on creating an album, he / she launches his personal computer PC browser and instructs access to the URL of the album creation management site. Perform the operation.

  When this operation is performed (1200: Yes), the personal computer PC of the venue management company transmits a message requesting browsing of the album creator management site (S1210). This message is sent to the server 10. Upon receiving the message, the server 10 returns screen data of the album creator login screen (S1220). The screen data of the venue login screen is sent to the invitee's smartphone SM.

  Upon receiving the screen data of the album creator login screen, the personal computer PC of the album creator displays the album creator login screen (S1230). As shown in FIG. 23, the letters “album creator management screen” are written on the album creator login screen. Below that, the characters “ID” are written. Below that, the word “password” is written. There is an ID input field 151 to the right of the characters “ID”. There is a password input field 152 to the right of “password”. Below that is a button 153 labeled “Authentication”.

  The album creator enters his / her ID and password in the ID input field 151 and password input field 152 and selects the “authentication” button 153. When this operation is performed (S1240: Yes), the venue operator's personal computer PC transmits a message including the ID in the ID input field 151 and the password in the password input field 152 (S1250). This message is sent to the server 10. Upon receiving the message, the server 10 determines whether the ID and password in the message match those of the album creator, and if the ID and password in the message match those of the album creator ( (S1260: Yes), the screen data of the album creator management site is returned (S1270). The screen data of the album creator management site is sent to the personal computer PC of the album creator.

  Upon receiving the screen data of the album creator management site, the personal computer PC of the album creator displays the album creator management site (S1280). FIG. 24 is a diagram showing an album creator management site. On the album creation management site, the text “□□□□ (□□□□ is the name of the album creator)” is displayed. Below that are the wedding reception venues and buttons 155-h (h = 1 to H) marked as “details” (h = 1 to H, h is an index indicating the wedding reception venue, and H is the wedding reception. In the example of FIG. 24, a list 153 including each set of H = 3) is displayed. Below that, a button 154 labeled “Logout” is displayed.

  The album creator selects one of the buttons 155-h (h = 1 to H) at the wedding reception hall where he / she is undertaking the album creation. If this operation is performed (S1290: Yes), the personal computer PC of the album creator will display the reception selection screen (S1300). As shown in FIG. 25, on the reception selection screen, the management information of each wedding reception already held in the venue corresponding to the button 155-h selected on the previous screen and the button 158-i (i = 1 to I) (i is an index indicating a wedding reception, I is the total number of wedding receptions, and I = 2 in the example of FIG. 25).

The album creator selects one of the buttons 158-i (i = 1 to I) for the wedding reception for which he / she is undertaking the album creation. When this operation is performed (S1310: Yes), the personal computer PC of the album creation company displays a download screen (S1320). As shown in FIG. 26, “Reception”, “Date”, “Time”, “Number of participants (groom)”, “Number of participants (bride)”, “Number of participants (total)”, and “ In the column to the right of each character of “access ID”, the number of congratulatory photos associated with the wedding reception information and identification information ID _ALBM corresponding to the button 158-i selected on the previous screen (example in FIG. 26). In this case, the color of the mount of the commemorative album (pink in the example of FIG. 26) is displayed. Below that, a button 160 labeled “download” and a button 161 labeled “cancel” are displayed.

The album creator selects the “Download” button 160. When this operation is performed (S1330: Yes), the personal computer PC of the album creator transmits a message including identification information ID _Y to the right of the characters “access ID” on the download screen (S1340). This message is sent to the server 10.

Upon receiving the message, the server 10 performs a search process (S1350). In the search process, the table TB-m in the database DB that stores the identification information ID _Y in the message is set as the search target table TB-m, and the blessed message and the blessed image in the search target table TB-m are stored. From each set, a search is made for items associated with the identification information ID _ALBM .

  The server 10 transmits each set of the blessing message and the blessed image searched from the search target table TB-m in the search process to the personal computer PC of the album creator (S1360). When the personal computer PC receives each set of the congratulatory message and the congratulatory image from the server 10, the personal computer PC outputs image data in which these sets are laid out for one page to the printing apparatus PRNT (S1370). The printing apparatus PRNT generates a commemorative album for the wedding reception by printing the image data supplied from the personal computer PC on a sheet (S1380).

  The above is the details of the configuration of the present embodiment. In this embodiment, a wedding reception invitee can send a congratulatory image and a congratulatory message to the bride and groom through the server 10 from a website, e-mail, or app. In the present embodiment, the congratulatory images and congratulatory messages stored in the server 10 are displayed on the screen by the projector PJ in the reception hall. Further, in the present embodiment, a commemorative album is automatically generated that includes a blessed image and a blessed message stored in the server 10 that are selected by the bride and groom. Therefore, according to this embodiment, the effect of the wedding reception can be enhanced.

As mentioned above, although one Embodiment of this invention was described, you may add the following modifications to this embodiment.
(1) In the embodiment described above, the projector PJ is installed in the wedding reception hall, and a congratulatory image and a congratulatory message are displayed on the projector PJ. However, a large liquid crystal display may be installed in the wedding reception hall, and a congratulatory image and a congratulatory message may be displayed on the liquid crystal display.

(2) In the above embodiment, a wedding reception invitee can post a congratulatory image and a congratulatory message through one of the website, e-mail, and app. However, the blessed image and the blessed message may be posted only from the website.

(3) In the above embodiment, the inviter may be able to transmit a congratulatory image and a congratulatory message from the mobile phone.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Wedding reception support system, 10 ... Server, 11 ... Communication interface, 12 ... CPU, 13 ... RAM, 14 ... ROM, 15 ... Hard disk, SM ... Smartphone, PC ... Personal computer, PRNT ... Printing apparatus, PJ ... Projector.

Claims (1)

A terminal of the bride and groom of the wedding reception, a terminal of the invitee of the wedding reception, a terminal of the creator of the memorial album of the wedding reception, an image display device installed in the venue of the wedding reception, and a server A wedding reception support method using a system including:
Before the day of the wedding reception and on the day of the wedding reception, the inviter's terminal posts a congratulatory message and a congratulatory image to the bride and groom via a posting reception site or an e-mail message, and the server A first step of storing the posted blessing message and blessed image in the storage means;
On the day of the wedding reception, in response to a request from a terminal connected to the image display device, the server transmits each set of a blessing message and a blessing image in the storage means one by one, and the image display A second step in which the apparatus sequentially displays the congratulatory message and congratulatory image received from the server;
After the wedding reception, the terminal of the bride and groom selects a blessing message and a blessing image in the storage means that need to be posted on a memorial album via a posting browsing site, and the server stores the storage means A third step of associating identification information indicating the selection of the blessing message and the blessing image within the group selected through the posting viewing site;
The creator's terminal acquires a blessing message and a blessing image in the storage means associated with the identification information via the management site, and outputs the acquired blessing message and a blessing image to the printing device And a fourth step of generating a commemorative album on which the blessing message and the blessing image are posted.