JPH11120693A - Communication type music selection and sales system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sales system by which a distribution center that manages musical contents supplied from record manufacturing companies is connected to a store-front vending machine or an automatic vending machine through a communication circuit network and musical software which users select is downloaded to media such as DVD and is sold to users. SOLUTION: The total system 1 has the distribution center 10 of information being a server. This center 10 receives contents of music, etc., and information of advertisement from record manufacturing companies 2 or advertising companies 4 and it is connected to plural store-front vending machines 30 or automatic vending machines 130 working as terminal devices through a communication circuit network 20. Such machine is provided with a display 32, a DVD driver an MD driver 34, a magnetic tape head, etc. The display 32 is provided with a touch panel to allow instructions inputted by users to be sent to the allotting center 10. The musical software selected by a user is downloaded to media in the drivers to be charged.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system for selling music selected by a user from a distribution center by using a vending machine or a vending machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, when a user wants to purchase software such as a desired song, he or she purchases a medium such as a music CD, MD, DVD, tape or the like at which the song is recorded at a record store or the like. ing.

[0003]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] Music CD, MD, DV
In media such as D and tape, in addition to specific songs intended by the user, songs not intended are also collected. Therefore, the user needs to select a desired music piece from the medium. The present invention uses a distribution center connected by a communication network and an over-the-counter vending machine or a vending machine to send a favorite song to be selected by the user to the over-the-counter or vending machine,
The present invention provides a system for recording on a medium such as D, MD, DVD, or tape and selling it to a user.

[0004]

A system according to the present invention comprises a distribution center for managing music software supplied from a record production company, and a vending machine or a vending machine connected to the distribution center via a communication network. And And
An over-the-counter vending machine or vending machine has a display, an input device, and an output device, requests an input music selection from a distribution center, records music software transmitted from the distribution center on a recording medium, and sells the software. It has a function. The vending machine or vending machine includes a scanner and a camera, and a printer that prints information read by the scanner and the camera on a jacket of a recording medium.

[0005]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a music selection and sales system according to the present invention. A system, generally designated by the reference numeral 1,
It has an information distribution center 10 which is a server. This distribution center 10 includes a record production company 2 and an advertising company 4
To receive music and other content and advertising information.

[0006] The distribution center 10 is connected to a plurality of over-the-counter vending machines 30 or vending machines 130 as terminal devices via a communication line network 20. The over-the-counter vending machine 30 or the vending machine 130 includes a display 32 and a driver 34 such as a CD, MD, DVD, or tape. The vending machine 30 is installed in a place where a clerk such as a convenience store is present, and the vending machine 130 operates unattended. Both have a common basic configuration. The display 32 includes a touch panel, and can send a command input by the user to the distribution center 10. This system has the above-described configuration as basic means.

FIG. 2 shows a block chart of the present system. In step S10, the record production company 2 registers (including changes and deletions) of songs, lyrics and images to the distribution center 10. A step S11 displays a menu screen on a store vending machine or a vending machine. The contents are song title, singer,
Singing genre / Song name No.・ Charges, etc. In step S12, the user enters the vending machine or vending machine 30
And the distribution center 10 via the communication line network 20.
And select your favorite song. As a specific operation, the menu for song selection is operated by operating the touch panel or keyboard of the vending machine or vending machine, and the song title and
Selection is made using keywords such as singer name, genre, song name No, composer, lyricist, etc., and the distribution center 10 is answered.

In step S13, it is checked whether there is a jacket creation instruction. If there is no instruction to create a jacket, the process proceeds to step S14, where the distribution center is called from the vending machine to select a song (select a song name, singer name, genre, song name No., composer name, lyricist name, etc. on the touch panel display). . In step S15, the fee is displayed, and payment from the user is confirmed. In step S16, the selected music, lyrics and images are transmitted to the store vending machine or vending machine requested by the distribution center 10 through the communication network 20. The over-the-counter vending machine or vending machine that has received the transmission is a medium C whose content is specified by the user
It is recorded on a D, MD, DVD tape or the like and supplied to the user. The lyrics card of the song selected in step S18 is printed. The lyrics card of the song selected in step S19 is printed.

In step S20, the advertisement sent from the advertising company 4 is played on the display using the recording work time and other idle times. In step S21, when transmission from the distribution center to a vending machine or a vending machine and recording on a medium are completed, a billing process is performed. This process can be performed according to the NTT dial Q2 system. If there is a jacket creation instruction in step S13, the process proceeds to step S22 shown in FIG.

At step S22, a jacket menu is displayed. If there is an instruction to create a picture or jacket brought by the user in step S23, the picture or picture is captured by the scanner. If there is an instruction to photograph the user's face and figure with the camera in step S24, the photograph taken by the camera is taken. If there is a character input instruction from the touch panel or the keyboard in step S25, the character input is captured. In step S26, the upper portion captured on the screen of the store vending machine or the vending machine is displayed as image data. In step S27, the user freely edits and processes the captured image data, and then prints out the image data.

FIG. 3 is a system configuration diagram showing an embodiment having an extended function of the present system. The store vending machine or vending machine 30 has a scanner 4 in addition to the display 32.
0, a camera 42, a keyboard 44, and the like. Camera 4
2 has a function of photographing the user 50 and displaying it on the display 32. The scanner 40 includes a user 50
Has a function of reading pictures, photos, etc. brought by the user and displaying them on the display 32. The touch panel or keyboard 44 displays characters input by the user 50 on the display 32.
Display above. In this example, the character "select sound" is input.

The vending machine or the vending machine 30 is provided with a medium for recording music and images and a jacket for accommodating the medium. The printer 60 has a function of printing information on the display 32 as a cover of a jacket.

The user can print the image displayed on the display 32 on the jacket. The sample jacket 62 held by the device
And a print of an image read by the scanner 40 of the user's figure and a picture / photo brought by the user.

The user can print a favorite jacket by combining images and character information on the display 32. Therefore, a unique music medium can be obtained by music software selected according to the taste recorded on the medium and a jacket having a print created by the user.

[0015]

As described above, the present invention includes a dedicated vending machine or a vending machine connected to a distribution center having music and advertisement information through a communication network, and a user operates the vending machine. Select a favorite song, receive the content from the distribution center, record it on a medium such as a CD, MD, or DVD tape, and display the contents of the screen created by yourself on the surface of the jacket that stores the medium. Can be printed. Therefore, the music software recorded on the medium can be differentiated from others, and a unique medium can be created. Furthermore, since the jacket of the media is also created by yourself, you can get a more unique work. Therefore, the added value of a product combining these becomes large.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the system of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the system of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a system configuration diagram of another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 music selection sales system 2 record production company 4 advertising company 10 distribution center (server) 20 public line network 30 store vending machine 32 display 34 MD driver 36 DVD driver 40 scanner 42 camera 44 keyboard 50 user 52 picture / photograph 60 printer 62, 64 Jacket sample 130 Vending machine

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Mina Iwasaki 504-2 Shinanomachi, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture Within Hitachi Electronics Service Co., Ltd.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A distribution center for managing music software supplied from a record production company, and a vending machine or a vending machine connected to the distribution center via a communication line network. The communication device has a display, an input device, and an output device, and has a function of requesting an input music selection from a distribution center and recording music software transmitted from the distribution center on a recording medium to sell the music. Song selection sales system. 2. The communication type music selection / sales system according to claim 1, wherein the over-the-counter vending machine or the vending machine includes a scanner and a camera, and a printer for printing information read by the scanner and the camera on a jacket of a recording medium.