JP2019149184A - Clipping system of posted data - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a system capable of electronically clipping data with a simple operation.SOLUTION: A system includes digital data reception means for receiving digital data transmitted from a user terminal including digital data capturing means for capturing an optional range of a medium, posted data extraction means for extracting posted data associated with the digital data by retrieving medium posted data storage means with reference to the received digital data, posted data clipping means for associating the extracted posted data itself or identification data for identifying the extracted posted data with user information to store the data in clipping data storage means, and user access permitting means for enabling access from a user terminal to perform at least any of browsing permission, downloading permission, and data distribution.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

The present invention relates to a posting data clipping system.

Traditionally, in order to scrap newspapers, magazine articles, and other information, the articles are cut out with scissors, the name and date of the medium are written by hand, pasted on the mount with glue, and organized by genre, etc. The method has been taken.
On the other hand, communication typified by the Internet is now widespread. For example, a database for storing news, articles, readings, various information, various data, and other various contents, a WEB site and server for posting such information, etc. Various services such as provision and distribution of information by devices and others are performed free of charge. For example, there are databases provided by newspaper companies, news distribution companies, etc., news posting websites, various information posting WEB sites, database operators providing various data, various WEB sites, and the like.

  Take article search services and database provision services provided by newspaper publishers and news distributors as an example, and data such as articles stored in the article database is paid or free for user access. Therefore, a system that allows users to browse by searching or the like has become widespread. In addition, as a means of providing such services by tie-up with other companies, for example, securities companies use newspaper article databases free of charge in home trade for the purpose of customer acquisition and customer service on the Internet. Various services such as available services are provided free of charge. Thus, in order to acquire customers, a large amount of capital investment and operation costs are borne, and a large amount of cost is incurred to acquire one user.

  By the way, the article search service and database provision service provided by newspaper companies and news distribution companies were taken as an example, but by using such a service, it is necessary from the data of enormous articles etc. Although it is possible to search for necessary data by searching, etc., articles in all genres and periods of time are stored in the article database, etc. In order to find the necessary data from, data must be narrowed down using various conditions. In other words, the information stored in the database in advance includes data that is not of interest to the user and unnecessary data. Rather, such unnecessary data is probably the majority. Originally, clipping and storage of articles etc., which was conventionally done on a paper basis, was performed by manually extracting only the data of interest and necessary data from a vast amount of information. It is desirable to organize and store it so that it can be found immediately when necessary, and it is desirable that this be realized even when a database or the like is used.

  On the other hand, the clipping and storage of articles, etc. that have been done on a paper basis in the past can be done with various newspapers and magazines, flyers and brochures, advertisements, booklets, and other various media and publications that users have seen. From the vast amount of information, it was done to store data of interest and necessary data.

JP 2002-99744 A

For example, in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-99744, “Personal Digital Library System”, as a personal digital library system, a supplier corresponding to a target digital content according to a contract condition between the supplier and a user. In addition, billing methods and usage methods reflecting the intentions of users have been proposed.
A digital content is transmitted to the user on the supplier side based on the contract terms between the supplier and the user, stored in the user's digital content storage device, and made available to the user. The object to be stored in the digital library system is digitized text information, audio information, image information, video information, or digital content composed of a combination thereof.
Since newspapers, magazines, books, etc. that have been published on a paper basis are stored as digital data, they are not bulky and do not occupy the living space. It can be read again after searching.

However, this invention is also based on a contract between a supplier and a user. For example, a digital data newspaper or the like is distributed electronically to a user by a contract with a certain newspaper company and stored at the user side at the same time. Is.
Therefore, even if this is used, not only data that reflects the user's intention is not narrowed down or extracted, but only information supplied by a specific newspaper company or news distributor (provider such as a database) can be obtained. Absent. In order to target various media and publications for clipping, you must use information sources (WEB sites, databases, etc.) provided by various news and information providers. If it is, it will be expensive for each.
In addition, when a user buys a computer device for storage, the user must back up the data in order to manage the stored data.

In order to solve such problems, some news distribution WEB sites, etc., as a clipping service, users register in advance the target media such as newspapers, magazines, and academic journals, and search keywords and genres. By doing so, when an article is found, it is sent by e-mail or the like.
However, even in this case, only information supplied by an information distribution source such as a contracted newspaper company is targeted, so only information supplied by a specific newspaper company or news distributor (provider such as a database) can be obtained. Information such as various media and publications cannot be the target of clipping. It is not possible to save and register an article that you find yourself, rather than an article that a user has obtained through a clipping service. Even if the user directly finds an article that the user wants to save, other than keywords and genres registered in advance, it cannot be saved.

  Users who actually clip information see and hear what, when, and in what media they are interested in, need information, and do not know if it is necessary but may be useful in the future This is something that cannot be predicted, and valuable information is often published in catalogs, booklets, and other unexpected media.

JP-A-2002-7739

  On the other hand, as a data storage system using a server, for example, in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-7739 “Data storage system, server computer, and recording medium”, a data storage system that securely holds and manages purchased content, and a user A system that edits and provides content for easy use has been proposed. The content storage server receives the content purchased by the user terminal as a registered member from the content providing server and holds it in the storage content database. The user terminal accesses the content storage server and downloads and uses the content.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-306831

  Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-306831 “Digital Data Banking System” proposes a system that temporarily stores various digital data contents of customers and charges accurately according to the actual storage size and storage time. . This is a digital data banking system for temporarily storing digital data contents owned by customers and charging a storage fee. The digital data content owned by the customer is stored as digital data content by the writing means that takes in via the network in response to the request from the customer, and the stored digital data content is stored in response to the request from the customer. Is handed over to customers.

However, in the former case, the content purchased by the user terminal as a registered member is received from the content providing server, and the data to be stored is limited to the data stored and stored in advance by the content providing server. . In order to store the data, the user must go through a process of specifying and purchasing the data from the data stored in the content providing server.
In the latter case, the digital data content owned by the customer is acquired and stored via the network at the request of the customer, and the entire data to be stored must be uploaded in a state suitable for storage. I must. In other words, even if there is a huge amount of data, all data must be uploaded after being prepared by the user, and all data to be stored must be captured even when captured as an image. Must be uploaded after uploading. For multi-page data, operations such as reading all pages with a scanner are required.
However, data clipping must be a simple operation that can be used as easily and continuously as possible. For example, in the case of article clipping, it is usually assumed that it may be useful just by looking at a headline or a picture without reading the whole article, so it is assumed that it may be useful for the time being, so clipping of data is electronic It is desirable that the same processing can be performed in order to perform the above.

Therefore, in order to solve the above-mentioned various problems, in the present invention, information such as various media and publications is subject to clipping, and the user is preliminarily selected from information sources provided by various news and information providers. The object is to provide a clipping system that is electromagnetic and on-line rather than manual, with the data narrowed down and extracted.
Unlike conventional clipping services, articles and other information that you find yourself are stored as if you were scrapping a newspaper, without being caught by the information provider, information source media, and information genre. An object of the present invention is to provide a system that can be realized.

In order to solve the above problem, in the invention according to claim 1,
A server system that is accessed from a user terminal such as a computer provided with an input means, a control means, a display means, an output means, a storage means, etc., and performs information processing by operation in the user terminal,
A digital data receiving means for receiving digital data transmitted from a portable information terminal such as a mobile phone or a user terminal such as a personal computer, comprising a digital data capturing means for capturing an arbitrary range of media as digital data;
Referring to the received digital data, search for media posting data storage means for storing news and other posted data posted in newspapers and other media that physically place information on posted data associated with the digital data Publishing data extracting means to extract,
Publication data clipping means for storing the extracted publication data itself or identification data for identifying the extracted publication data in association with corresponding user information and storing it in the clipping data storage means,
The publication data itself stored in the publication data clipping means or the identification data for identifying the publication data can be accessed in response to an access request from the user terminal, and browsing permission / downloading permission / data distribution for the clipping data access request It is a publication data clipping system provided with user access permission means for performing at least one of the above.

In order to solve the above problem, in the invention according to claim 2,
The news or other publication data stored in the media publication data storage means is the publication data clipping system according to claim 1, which is the same data as the data published on the media.

In order to solve the above problem, in the invention according to claim 3,
News and other publication data stored in the media publication data storage means are data stored corresponding to news and other data summaries, data related to publication data, and data published on other media. It is the clipping system of the publication data of item | term 1.

In order to solve the above problem, in the invention according to claim 4,
The process of extracting the posting data associated with the digital data with reference to the received digital data by the posting data extracting means,
OCR reading means for reading received digital image data by OCR;
The publication according to any one of claims 1 to 3, which is extracted by a character search means that performs a search with reference to the media publication data storage means based on the character data read by the OCR reading means. It is a data clipping system.

In order to solve the above problem, in the invention according to claim 5,
The process of extracting the posting data associated with the digital data with reference to the received digital data by the posting data extracting means,
The received digital image data is subjected to image analysis and extracted by image search means for performing comparison search processing with the posted data itself or corresponding image data stored in the media posting data storage means. A publication data clipping system according to any one of claims 1 to 3.

In order to solve the above problem, in the invention according to claim 6,
The process of extracting the posting data associated with the digital data with reference to the received digital data by the posting data extracting means,
2. The character search means for performing a search with reference to the media publication data storage means based on the character data read by the voice analysis means for voice analysis of the received digital voice data. It is the clipping system of the publication data in any one of -3.

In order to solve the above problem, in the invention according to claim 7,
The process of extracting the posting data associated with the digital data with reference to the received digital data by the posting data extracting means,
The publication data clipping system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the publication data is extracted by a character search means that performs a search with reference to the media publication data storage means based on the received digital character data. It is characterized by being.

In order to solve the above problem, in the invention according to claim 8,
When receiving digital data from a mobile information terminal such as a mobile phone or a user terminal such as a personal computer,
Receive the date / time, title, keyword, and other accompanying information sent from the user ’s device,
8. The publication according to claim 1, wherein the publication data clipping means stores the extracted publication data itself or identification data identifying the extracted publication data in association with the clipping data storage means. It is a data clipping system.

In order to solve the above problem, in the invention according to claim 9,
The publishing data itself stored in the clipping data storage means or the identification data for identifying the extracted publishing data is the data for identifying the publishing data or the date / time, title, keyword, etc. in response to the access request from the user terminal. The search according to any one of claims 1 to 8, further comprising search means that is made searchable based on the accompanying information, and that extracts posted data in response to a search request and enables any one of browsing permission, downloading permission, and data distribution. It is a clipping system of the publication data described in the above.

In order to solve the above problem, in the invention according to claim 10,
The publication data clipping means can extract other publication data related to the publication data based on the data that identifies the publication data, the date and time sent from the user terminal, the title, keywords, and other accompanying information. Item 9. The publication data clipping system according to Item 9.

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

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

According to the present invention, information such as various media and publications is subject to clipping, and the user has previously narrowed down or extracted data from information sources provided by various news and information providers. Instead of manual work, an electromagnetic and online clipping system can be provided.
Unlike conventional clipping services, articles and other information that you find yourself are stored as if you were scrapping a newspaper, without being caught by the information provider, information source media, and information genre. It is possible to provide a system that can be realized.
With simple operations, you can continue to use it as easily as possible. For example, if you are clipping an article, you can save it as it may be useful just by looking at a headline or a photo without reading the entire article. A system capable of electronically realizing the work can be provided.
As a result, it is possible to store the data extracted by narrowing down only the data of interest or necessary data manually in advance, and to organize and store the data so that it can be quickly searched when necessary.

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

The system of the present invention is a server system that performs information processing by an operation from a user terminal that is accessed via a communication means represented by the Internet, and is provided by being connected to a network represented by the Internet. It is accessed from the connected user terminal.
Here, the network includes a wide variety of forms such as the Internet, a network connected by a dedicated line, an intra-company LAN, an inter-company LAN, and a WAN. In addition, the form of the communication line used here widely includes forms of wired communication and wireless communication, and includes forms using satellite communication, Bluetooth, or the like.
As a user terminal for connecting to the server system of the present invention, a wireless communication terminal including a mobile phone equipped with a browser function connectable to the Internet or the like, a portable information terminal, a personal computer, a workstation, etc. A computer terminal is used. In addition, user terminals widely include devices such as Internet TV, game devices, video conference systems, and other home appliances having a network connection function.
In addition, a telephone set, a facsimile machine, or the like connected to the network can be used as a user terminal.

The computer terminal includes control means, storage means, input means, output means, display means, and the like. Further, it is a normal form to connect to a computer network typified by the Internet and have a function of transmitting and receiving data, and an application program such as a browser, e-mail software, and a word processor, and an operating system (OS).
Next, the server system of the present invention can usually be constituted by an application server, a database server, an authentication server, a WEB server, a mail server if necessary, and other various devices.
Each of these servers includes a form that is physically provided in the same apparatus, a form that is physically composed of a plurality of apparatuses, or a form that is physically composed of a plurality of apparatuses connected via a network. As long as the same function is realized, various forms are included.

  According to the system configuration shown in FIG. 1, the system according to the present invention includes a media posting data storage means for storing news and other posted data that is posted on a newspaper or other media on which information is physically posted. In preparation. The media posting data storage means is a database for storing news, articles, readings, various information, various data, and other various contents, a WEB site for posting such information, a server device, and other storage means. For example, this is the case when a newspaper company that owns an article database has built the system of the present invention in its own system.

On the other hand, according to the system configuration shown in FIG. 2, the media publication data storage means does not necessarily have to be provided in the server system constituting the system of the present invention. May be provided as an accessible database, a WEB site for posting such information, a server device, or other storage means. For example, there are databases provided by newspaper companies, news distribution companies, etc., news posting websites, various information posting WEB sites, database providers that provide various data, various WEB sites, and the like. Also good. For example, it is a case where data is extracted by searching a database or the like held by another business operator from the system of the present invention.
In addition, by combining the system of FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the company's own media posting data storage means is held in the system of the present invention, and the database etc. held by other operators etc. are searched from the system of the present invention to retrieve the data. Extraction may be possible.

The news and other posted data stored in the media posted data storage means is, as a typical example, the same data as the data posted on the actual media. For example, newspapers that are published as physically existing objects, magazines, books, catalogs, brochures, flyers, advertisements, other publications, and other stored in physical media such as CD-ROM and DVD The same contents as the data posted there as various media are data stored as digital data. The data includes character data, image data, and other various data formats.
The news and other posted data stored in the media posted data storage means include, as another typical example, movies, videos, programs, commercial films, videos, CD-ROMs and DVDs that actually exist physically. The same contents as moving image data, animation data, slide show data, presentation data, and audio data stored in physical media such as are data stored as digital data.

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

Next, the system of the present invention includes a digital data capturing unit that captures an arbitrary range of media as digital data, and receives digital data transmitted from a portable information terminal such as a mobile phone or a user terminal such as a personal computer. Data receiving means are provided.
In order to perform data clipping processing using the system of the present invention, an arbitrary range of media is captured as digital data from the user terminal and transmitted to the server system in order to identify the posted data on the server system side. Need arises. If the media is a newspaper or a magazine, any part of the article or page that the user wants to clip, such as a part of the article, a headline, or a photo, is captured as digital data. Even if the entire article or the like is not captured, or a part of the article is captured as digital data, it may be within a range where the server system can determine which article is based on the captured range.
Digital data to be captured can use image data, character data, audio data, and other various data formats. Regardless of the data format, it is only necessary that the server system side can discriminate the posted data such as the captured media by capturing at least a part of the data to be clipped.

As described above, various devices are included in the user terminal that accesses the server system. As a typical example, a mobile phone will be described as an example. The digital data capturing means has the following configuration.
If the digital data is text information, it is necessary to input the media publication data, such as newspaper headlines or catalog product names, so that the digital data can be captured by using a mobile phone keyboard or mobile phone. Use an external keyboard.
When digital data is audio information, it is necessary to input media publication data such as newspaper headlines and catalog product names, video lines and titles, music titles and parts of lyrics, etc. As the data capturing means, a microphone of a cellular phone or a microphone externally attached to the cellular phone is used.
When the digital data is image information or moving image information, it is necessary to input media publication data such as newspaper headlines, catalog product names and product photos, one frame of video, and a music CD jacket photo as images. Therefore, as digital data capturing means, image (or moving image) capturing means such as a camera attached to a mobile phone, or image (or moving image) capturing means such as a camera externally attached to the mobile phone is included. Use.

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

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

When using a keyboard such as a telephone, a keyboard such as a kiosk terminal or a dedicated terminal, and a character input means such as a touch panel as digital data capture means, the media publication data, such as newspaper headlines or catalog product names in characters By inputting, digital data is taken in as character information.
When using a microphone such as a telephone as a means for capturing digital data, input media publication data such as newspaper headlines and catalog product names, video lines and titles, music titles and parts of lyrics, etc. by voice. Thus, digital data is taken in as audio information.
When a facsimile machine or the like is used as the digital data capturing means, media publication data such as newspaper headlines, catalog product names and product photos, one frame of video, and a jacket photo of a music CD are input as images. Digital data is captured as image information or moving image information.

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

Further, the server system is preferably provided with a user information database for storing user information and an authentication means for performing user authentication using user identification data such as a user ID. Data clipping is performed in association with identification data. It is desirable to provide a storage area for each corresponding user. User information includes personal information such as the user's name, date of birth, age, and e-mail address, and authentication information such as IDs and passwords. The user information is accessed from the user terminal and registered as a member. This information is stored.
Further, the service use by the system of the present invention may be started without user registration processing. For example, user registration is performed automatically by notifying the user's phone number or email address and sending an article to the clipping service company's server system. In the server system, the user is notified for each notified phone number or email address. It is a form that performs management.

Next, the system of the present invention is provided with publication data extraction means for referring to the received digital data and extracting publication data associated with the digital data with reference to the media publication data storage means.
The posted data extracting means is based on digital data such as image data, character data, and voice data transmitted from the user terminal, or is provided with a posted data storage means provided in the server system, or another server, database, WEB connected to the Internet or the like. Search the site etc. and extract various kinds of publication data as mentioned above.
With reference to the received digital data, a process for extracting the publication data associated with the digital data with reference to the media publication data storage means will be described as a specific example. For example, an article to be saved is photographed with a camera-equipped mobile phone, and is sent by e-mail to a server system of the present invention provided by a clipping service company or the like. You don't have to shoot the entire article. Only part of the article is required. In the server system, the received image is subjected to OCR processing to extract a character string. The headline can be determined from the difference in the size of characters in the photographed article. It is also possible to manually input a part of an article instead of an image and send it as text information from the beginning by e-mail or the like. Alternatively, the user's camera-equipped mobile phone side may perform OCR processing on the image to extract the character string, and send the character string to the server system by e-mail. Article databases such as Y newspaper and N newspaper are searched using the extracted character string as a “keyword”. When an article is found, clipping is performed by saving the article itself or the article number.

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

In the case where the digital data transmitted from the user terminal is audio data, an example of typical extraction processing is based on the character data read by the audio analysis means for analyzing the received digital audio data, and the media publication data described above Extraction is performed by character search means for performing a search with reference to the storage means.
An example in which the user performs clipping using audio data is a form in which headlines of interest in newspaper articles, titles of books, etc. are read out and transmitted from a mobile phone. According to another example, a part of the lyrics of the music is recorded, or the user sings and records it and transmits it from the mobile phone, so that the server system discriminates the music and extracts and stores the audio data of the music. It is a form to do.

  In the case where the digital data transmitted from the user terminal is character data, an example of representative extraction processing is based on the character data read by the character analysis means for analyzing the received digital character data, and the media publication data storage described above It is extracted by a character search means for performing a search with reference to the means.

Next, the system of the present invention includes a publication data clipping means for storing the extracted publication data itself or identification data for identifying the extracted publication data in association with corresponding user information and storing it in the clipping data storage means. Yes.
The posting data extracting means is based on digital data such as image data, character data, and voice data transmitted from the user terminal, or the posting data storage means provided in the server system, or another server, database, WEB connected to the Internet or the like. Searching a site or the like, extracting various kinds of publication data as described above, and storing the identification data for identifying the publication data itself or the extracted publication data in the clipping data storage means in association with the corresponding user information. .
The clipping data storage means is a server device such as a database server or a WEB server, a hard disk, or other storage means that performs data clipping in association with user identification data by identifying a user by a user ID or the like. It is desirable to provide a storage area for each corresponding user.

When the posting data itself is stored in the clipping data storage means, for example, when the posting data stored in the server system of the present invention is extracted, the posting data is stored in a predetermined storage area of the clipping data storage means. To do. When publication data is extracted from another server connected to the Internet, database, WEB site, etc., the publication data is downloaded to the server system of the present invention and stored in a predetermined storage area of the clipping data storage means. .
On the other hand, when storing the identification data for identifying the publication data, not the publication data itself, the URL for identifying the location of the corresponding publication data, the file name of the publication data, etc. Store in the storage area.

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

Further, according to an example of another preferred embodiment, the publication data clipping means relates to the publication data based on the data identifying the publication data, the date and time transmitted from the user terminal, the title, the keyword, and other accompanying information. Another publication data can be extracted as a result of the search. For example, based on the digital data sent by the user to identify the posting data, the corresponding posting data is extracted from the server, database, WEB site, etc., and another posting data related to this posting data is the same or other. Are extracted from a server, a database, a WEB site, etc., and these posted data are associated with each other, downloaded to the server system of the present invention, and stored in a predetermined storage area of the clipping data storage means.
For example, when a user designates a newspaper article as the publication data to be clipped by sending digital data, other articles are clipped as related data from another newspaper company, or a product catalog is designated as publication data to be clipped. This is effective when clipping a product catalog of the same genre. As related publication data extraction conditions, the publication date and publication date are the same, selection / designation of media to be searched / extracted, and various other conditions can be specified by the user.

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

Next, the system of the present invention makes the publication data itself or the identification data for identifying the publication data stored in the publication data clipping means accessible for the access request from the user terminal, and for the access request to the clipping data. User access permission means for performing at least one of browsing permission, download permission, and data distribution is provided.
The user access permission means automatically browses, downloads or downloads the posting data clipped by the user for a user who is authenticated based on the user identification data such as the user ID described above, or a predetermined condition. The server system may distribute data according to the above. The user identification data may be a telephone number or an email address.
On the other hand, another operational form of the user access permission means is one that makes the system of the present invention usable under predetermined conditions. For example, access permission is determined based on the number of usages, usage conditions, etc., or access permission is determined based on billing processing. For users who satisfy certain conditions, the posted data clipped by the user is automatically viewed. Or download, or data distribution from the server system side according to a predetermined condition.

For example, the server system operator stores up to 100 records for free to acquire new users. In the case of a free user, the old data is automatically discarded when the number is over 100. Before discarding, send an e-mail to notify the user of the disposal and prompt the user to switch to a paid user. For the amount exceeding 100 cases, a predetermined data storage fee such as “10 yen per month / case: general paper, 20 yen / month: technical journal / conference journal” is collected. It is an example. Or it is an example which charges according to the number of cases and the amount of data stored. Or, if the user permits the advertisement distribution, the advertisement article is clipped at the same time as the publication data, so that the charged fee is discounted or free.
Various methods can be used as a method for performing the charging process, and all payments can be made by credit card payment or bank withdrawal, prepaid method, and other various forms, and are not particularly limited.

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

In addition, when adopting a form in which the clipped data is distributed from the server system side, the distribution period (for example, every month), the distribution format (e-mail, on the WEB site, etc.), distribution conditions (publishing data Depending on the data to be identified or the date / time, title, keyword, other accompanying information, or a certain amount of data, etc., the user can also set delivery.
As described above, for example, clipped publication data can be transmitted from the server system to the user each time.
Further, as another example of distribution, the clipped data is automatically printed out on the server system side, or output / stored on a CD-ROM, DVD or other external storage medium. Can be output. The output printed matter and the external storage medium may be stored on the server system administrator side or delivered to the user. When these various output formats are adopted, the output period (for example, every month), the output format (printout, recording on an external storage medium, etc.), the output conditions (data for identifying the posted data, or date / time, The user can also set the output to be performed according to the title, keyword, other accompanying information, or when the data amount reaches a certain amount), the delivery conditions, and the like.

Next, the server system preferably includes editing data output means for editing the posted data stored in the clipping data storage means in accordance with a predetermined layout and outputting the edited data. The data can be transmitted to the user terminal. Output.
You can browse the past data clipped by users on the WEB site, distribute according to the specified distribution conditions, or combine multiple past clipped data into one downloadable data file This enables processing such as browsing, downloading, and delivery.
When browsing the WEB site, a data file may be generated according to conditions such as a predetermined layout, or stored in an edited data format / data content so that it may be downloaded at any time, and clipping is added. In the case of being updated, it may be updated and stored.

  The edit data output means includes at least one of layout designation data transmitted from the user terminal, extraction conditions of the posted data to be edited, other edit designation data, or transmission conditions of the data to be edited and output to the user terminal. Thus, the editing process and the output process can be performed. If a clipping period is specified as the posting data extraction condition, for example, editing can be performed to collect data for each clipped posting data clipped every month. Further, if the date of publication or issue date of the original newspaper / magazine is designated as the publication data extraction condition, for example, editing can be performed to collect data for each published / published publication data. Editing can also be performed according to conditions such as the original publication media and the genre of the publication data, and these conditions can also be combined.

In addition, various additional functions can be added to the system of the present invention. For example, the user can access the WEB site to search for stored articles, and can manually organize the articles by operation.
Images taken from not only camera-equipped mobile phones but also digital cameras and scanners can be sent from a personal computer. Articles cut with scissors can be mailed and registered with a clipping service company.
Data that is clipped as a result of the search on the server system because the location of the posted data is unknown online, or the digital data sent from the user terminal cannot determine which posted data, or for other reasons Can be searched and extracted, digital data such as image data transmitted from the user terminal can be stored as it is, or characters in the image can be extracted by OCR, etc., converted into a database, and searched It can also be done.
Booklet articles that cannot be searched online, bus stop timetables, handwritten documents, etc. can be stored as images, and the characters in the images can be extracted and converted into a database so that they can be searched.
It is also possible to store the clipped publication data after adding user comments and annotations.

The basic processing flow of the present invention will be described below.
3 to 7 are flowcharts showing an example of the basic processing flow of the present invention. Note that the processing flow shown here is merely an example, and various applications and modifications are possible.
First, a process for performing clipping will be described.
In the user terminal, digital data capturing means such as a scanner, a camera, a microphone, a keyboard and the like are activated (S100). The digital data capturing means captures the posted data by photographing, recording, recording, inputting characters, etc. (S101). For example, a part of a newspaper article is photographed, a product catalog is read by a scanner, or a keyword is input.
Next, the user terminal is connected to the Internet or the like (S102), and the server system is accessed (S103). Access to the server system may be preceded before digital data is captured. A digital data transmission menu is selected and a transmission screen or the like is displayed (S104). Although digital data to be transmitted is designated at the user terminal (S105), the digital data may be captured by the digital data capturing means at this time. Multiple articles and other published data may be imported.
If necessary, a genre, a keyword, a comment and other accompanying information are input at the user terminal (S106). These inputs and confirmations are made and transmitted to the server system (S107). As a transmission method, a method of transmitting to a predetermined electronic mail address by electronic mail, a transmission method from the WEB site, and other transmission methods can be used.

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

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

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, information such as various media and publications is subject to clipping, and a user can preliminarily store data from information sources provided by various news and information providers. It is possible to provide an electromagnetic and online clipping system that has been narrowed down and extracted, rather than manually.
As a result, unlike conventional clipping services, you can save articles and other information you find yourself as if you were scrapping a newspaper, without being caught by the information provider, the source media, and the information genre. In addition, a system that can be made into a database can be provided.
Furthermore, according to the present invention, it is possible to continue using it as easily as possible with a simple operation. For example, if the article is clipped, it may be useful just by looking at a headline or a photograph without reading the entire article. For the time being, it is possible to provide a system capable of electronically realizing the work of keeping it.
As a result, it is possible to store the data extracted by narrowing down only the data of interest or the necessary data manually in advance, and to organize and store the data so that it can be quickly searched when necessary.
For example, an article can be found online by simply taking a part of the article with a camera-equipped mobile phone and sending it by e-mail. Since it is created as a database at the time of registration, searching and so on can be performed easily, and it is easier than cutting with scissors and pasting with glue, and it does not take up the file location.

It is a system configuration figure showing an example of the basic composition of the system of the present invention. It is a system configuration figure showing an example of the basic composition of the system of the present invention. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the flow of a basic process of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the flow of a basic process of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the flow of a basic process of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the flow of a basic process of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the flow of a basic process of this invention.

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A server system that is accessed from a user terminal such as a computer provided with an input means, a control means, a display means, an output means, a storage means, etc., and performs information processing by operation in the user terminal,
A digital data receiving means for receiving digital data transmitted from a portable information terminal such as a mobile phone or a user terminal such as a personal computer, comprising a digital data capturing means for capturing an arbitrary range of media as digital data;
Referring to the received digital data, search for media posting data storage means for storing news and other posted data posted in newspapers and other media that physically place information on posted data associated with the digital data Publishing data extracting means to extract,
Publication data clipping means for storing the extracted publication data itself or identification data for identifying the extracted publication data in association with corresponding user information and storing it in the clipping data storage means,
The publication data itself stored in the publication data clipping means or the identification data for identifying the publication data can be accessed in response to an access request from the user terminal, and browsing permission / downloading permission / data distribution for the clipping data access request And a user access permission means for performing at least one of the following: a publication data clipping system. 2. The posting data clipping system according to claim 1, wherein the news and other posting data stored in the media posting data storage means are the same data as the data posted on the media. News and other publication data stored in the media publication data storage means should be data stored in correspondence with news and other data summaries, data related to publication data, and other data published on media. The posting data clipping system according to claim 1, wherein the system is a clipping system. The process of extracting the posting data associated with the digital data with reference to the received digital data by the posting data extracting means,
OCR reading means for reading received digital image data by OCR;
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the data is extracted by a character search unit that performs a search with reference to the media publication data storage unit based on the character data read by the OCR reading unit. Clipping system for published data described in Crab. The process of extracting the posting data associated with the digital data with reference to the received digital data by the posting data extracting means,
The received digital image data is subjected to image analysis and extracted by image search means for performing comparison search processing with the posted data itself or corresponding image data stored in the media posting data storage means. The posting data clipping system according to claim 1, wherein the posting data clipping system is provided. The process of extracting the posting data associated with the digital data with reference to the received digital data by the posting data extracting means,
Based on the character data read by the voice analysis means that analyzes the received digital voice data, the character search means performs a search with reference to the media publication data storage means, and is extracted by the character search means The posting data clipping system according to claim 1. The process of extracting the posting data associated with the digital data with reference to the received digital data by the posting data extracting means,
4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein extraction is performed by character search means that performs a search with reference to the media publication data storage means based on the received digital character data. Clipping system for published data. When receiving digital data from a mobile information terminal such as a mobile phone or a user terminal such as a personal computer,
Receive the date / time, title, keyword, and other accompanying information sent from the user ’s device,
The said publication data clipping means is associated with the extracted publication data itself or the identification data for identifying the extracted publication data, and is stored in the clipping data storage means. Clipping system for published data described in Crab. The publishing data itself stored in the clipping data storage means or the identification data for identifying the extracted publishing data is the data for identifying the publishing data or the date / time, title, keyword, etc. in response to the access request from the user terminal. A search means that is made searchable on the basis of accompanying information and that extracts posted data in response to a search request and enables any one of browsing permission, downloading permission, and data distribution is provided. The clipping system of the publication data in any one of 1-8. The publication data clipping means can extract other publication data related to the publication data based on the data that identifies the publication data, the date and time sent from the user terminal, the title, keywords, and other accompanying information. The posting data clipping system according to claim 9, wherein the system is a clipping system. Editing data output means for editing the posted data stored in the clipping data storage means according to a predetermined layout and outputting the edited data is provided,
11. The publication data clipping system according to claim 1, wherein the system is output as data that can be transmitted to a user terminal. The edit data output means includes the layout specification data transmitted from the user terminal, the extraction conditions of the posted data to be edited, other edit specification data, or the transmission conditions of the data to be edited and output to the user terminal. 12. The posted data clipping system according to claim 11, wherein an editing process and an output process are performed in accordance with at least one of them.