JPS60116073A - Information furnishing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the number of still picture reproducing devices by repeating reproduction of video signals of still pictures and changing a frame memory of each terminal for indicating in each terminal correspondingly by a multiplexer. CONSTITUTION:A main computer 1 projects a reproduced still picture from a light disk 12 on, for instance, a terminal monitor 20a1, and projects a still picture that indicates an operation on a terminal monitor 20a2. A menu is displayed on a CRT9b by operation. On the other hand, a controlling signal is supplied to a system controller 10 and a VTR in a group of VTR11 that corresponds to a front end processor 8 and the monitor reproduces the recorded part of moving picture, and this video signal is supplied to the monitor 20a1 through a multiplexer 13. Still pictures are selected syccessively and supplied to a frame meory that corresponds to a processor 8a in a group of frame memories 15 and to the monitor 20a2 and recorded.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an information providing system, and more particularly, to an information providing system that provides desired information to a user using images and sounds.

It is equipped with multiple sets of terminal equipment consisting of a CRT that displays a menu consisting of multiple options, a monitor receiver that displays moving images or still images, and an input device that inputs operation start or menu selection. An information provision system has been proposed by the present applicant, Homare, which displays a moving image or a still image on each of the above monitors in response to a menu selection, and provides desired information to the user.

In such a system, each terminal device group is independent and provides information to each user, so it would be expensive to provide a still image playback device for displaying still images on each terminal device group. Therefore, it is desirable to display still images that meet the needs of each terminal equipment group using a small number of still image playback devices.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and provides information that does not require a still image playback device for each of a plurality of terminal equipment groups, requires fewer still image playback devices, and has a low cost overall system. The purpose is to provide a system.

The configuration of the present invention to achieve the above object includes a CRT that displays a menu consisting of a plurality of options, a monitor receiver that displays moving images or still images, and an input device that inputs operation start or menu selection. In an information provision system that is equipped with a plurality of terminal equipment groups consisting of a plurality of terminal devices, and displays moving images or still images on a monitor receiver according to the operation of an input device by the user, and provides information to the user, a plurality of still images are recorded. A still image playback device that plays back a still image video signal according to the operation of an input device, and a still image playback device that records still image video signals provided correspondingly to each of a plurality of terminal equipment groups to reproduce still images. Multiple frame memories that repeatedly play back video signals and display them on the monitor receivers of the respective terminal equipment groups, and still image video signals played back by the still image playback device correspond to the terminal equipment group to which the input device belongs. It consists of a multiplexer that supplies the data to the frame memory.

FIG. 1 shows a system configuration diagram of an embodiment of an information providing system according to the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a main computer, which performs various controls of the entire system. This main computer 1 is provided with a flexible disk device 2 and a magnetic disk device 3 as external memories.

In addition, the operating status of the main computer 1 is displayed on the CRT 4, and the operator can use the keyboard 5 based on this display.
The main computer 1 can be operated using the .

The subcomputer 6 exchanges data with the main computer 1, and similar subcomputers other than the computer 6 are connected to the main computer 1b.

The subcomputer 6 has a magnetic disk device 7 as an external memory.

For example, six front end processors 8a to 8f are connected to the subcomputer 6. The front end processor 8a has a keyboard 9a.

CRT 9b, printer 9c, card reader 9d.

A coin insertion discriminator 9e and the like are connected. Under the control of the subcomputer 6, the front end processor 8a displays a menu consisting of various selection options on the CRT 9b, and also displays a keyboard 9a and a card reader 9.
d. The input data from the coin insertion discriminator 9e is sent to the subcomputer 6, and further the printer 9C is caused to print under the control of the subcomputer 6. The other five front-end processors have the same configuration and operate in the same manner, so their description will be omitted.

In accordance with control signals supplied from the main computer 1, the system controller 10 controls a video tape recorder (hereinafter referred to as rVTRJ) group 11, an optical disk device group 12,
Multiplexer 13, 14゜17, frame memory group 1
5 and Chifre=+-p-16, respectively.

The first VTR group consists of 12 VTRs, with two VTRs for each front end processor 88 to 8f.
is compatible. These operate independently according to control signals from the system controller 10, and the video and audio signals reproduced by each VTR are sent to the multiplexer 1, respectively.
Rel fed to 3.

The optical disk device group 12 is composed of two optical disk devices, and these optical disk devices operate independently according to control signals from the system controller 10. A large number of still images with different contents are recorded on the optical disks installed in each of the two optical disk devices, and each disk device plays back the still image specified by the control signal, and sends the reproduced video signal of the still image to the multiplexer. 14.

The multiplexer 14 is connected to each of the 12 frame memories constituting the frame memory group 15 and converts the still image video signal supplied from the source disk device group 12 to the signal specified by the control signal from the system controller 10. supply to the frame memory. Frame memory group 1501
Two frame memories correspond to each of the front end processors 83 to 8f, one of which corresponds to each front end processor corresponds to the right monitor, which will be described later, and the other corresponds to the left monitor. There is. Each frame memory records a still image video signal supplied from the optical disk device group 12 via the multiplexer 14, respectively. Further, each frame memory repeatedly reproduces a video signal of a still image already recorded when specified by a control signal from the system controller 10 and supplies the same to the multiplexer 13 .

The multiplexer 13 supplies the audio signals from the V'l'' 1 group 11 to the multiplexer 17, and also outputs the VTRT signals according to the control signal from the system controller 10.
The video signal of the R group upper 1 or the still image video signal from the frame memory group 15 is transmitted to 12 monitors 20ax and 20a.
z, -20ft, and 20f2 to display images.

The tape recorder 16 plays back a tape recorded with background music or the like in response to a control signal from the system controller 10, and sends the audio signal to the multiplexer 17.
supply to. The main computer 1 also supplies a control signal to the speech synthesizer 18 to operate it. The audio synthesizer 18 synthesizes various audio information stored in the magnetic disk device 19 to generate an audio signal, and supplies this to the multiplexer 17. The multiplexer 17 outputs the 12 audio signals from the multiplexer 13 and the tape recorder 1 according to the control signal from the system controller 10.
6 or the audio signal from the voice synthesizer 18 as appropriate to select or superimpose the audio signal from the voice signal from the voice synthesizer 18 to generate the six systems of sub-powers 21a to 21.
The signal is supplied to each f and causes them to produce sound.

Here, a front end processor 8a, a keyboard 9a
, CRT 9b, printer 9c, card reader 9d, coin insertion discriminator 9e, etc., monitors 20a1, 20a2, and speaker 21a constitute a terminal equipment group 22a, and other front-end processors are also connected to the front-end by the same equipment. It consists of In other words, the terminal equipment group - has one CRT and two monitors.

Next, the operation of one embodiment of the system of the present invention will be explained using the flowchart shown in FIG.

The main computer 1 normally displays a still image of the wedding venue guide reproduced from the optical disk device group 12 on the left monitor (for example, monitor 20a) of each terminal device group, and displays the still image of the wedding venue guide on the right monitor (for example, monitor 20a2). shows a still image of a card being inserted into a card reader.

In this state, when a card is inserted into the card reader 9d or a coin is thrown into the coin insertion discriminator 9e, the main computer 1 starts the program shown in the second figure.

At step 30, according to the instructions from the twin computer 1, the subcomputer 6 uses the front end processor 8.
Send menu display information read from the disk device 7 to the CRT 9b, and send information such as "1. Wedding hall information, 2.
．． A menu for selecting business information such as "Real estate information, etc." is displayed.

Next, in step 3, the system controller 10
A control signal is supplied to the VTR, which corresponds to the front-end processor 8a in the VTR group 1 building and which corresponds to the left monitor, to display the recorded portion of the video that divides and displays the business guide on one screen. is reproduced, and this video signal is supplied to the monitor 20a z via the multi-breather 13 and displayed there. Finally, in step 32, a control signal is supplied to the system controller 10, and a static image with the words "Select the desired number" inserted into the screen for operating the keyboard from one of the optical disk devices in the optical disk device group 12 is displayed. Images are selectively reproduced and supplied via the multiplexer 14 to the frame memory corresponding to the front end processor 8a of the frame memory group 15 and corresponding to the right monitor, where they are recorded. This still image is repeatedly reproduced, and its video signal is supplied to the monitor 20a2 via the multiplexer 13 and displayed there. Further, in step 33, a control signal is supplied to the voice synthesizer 18, and the voice synthesizer 18 synthesizes a voice such as "Select the desired number", and this voice signal is supplied to the speaker 21a via the multiplexer 17. , pronounced by .

Thereafter, in step 34, it is determined whether or not a menu has been selected by operating the keyboard 9a, and after waiting for the menu selection, the process proceeds to further subdivided selection processing of the selected construction work. The subsequent selection process also has substantially the same structure as steps 30 to 34 described above, and the explanation thereof will be omitted.

When the selection process is completed and the desired wedding venue, budget, etc. have been determined, the process moves to step 35 where an introduction process is performed.

For example, if the wedding hall guide is selected at step 34, then at step 35, a video of the exterior of the desired wedding hall selected from the VTR corresponding to the front end processor 83 of the VTR group 11 and corresponding to the left monitor is played. It is displayed on the it1 monitor 20a1. Further, in step 36, the environment around the desired wedding hall reproduced by any one of the optical disk devices of the optical disk device group 12;
Still images of the lobby, garden, wedding hall, waiting room, and banquet hall are reproduced and displayed one after another on the monitor 20a2. Furthermore, in step 37, the voice synthesis device 1 generates voices such as guidance and explanations corresponding to the still images displayed on the monitor 20a2.
8, and the background music sound reproduced from the tape recorder 16 is superimposed on this sound, and the sound is output from the speaker 21a.

The monitors 20a1 and 20a2 and the speakers 2 confirm that the wedding hall guidance has been completed in the same way as steps 35 to 37 above.
1a, the program shown in FIG. 2 is terminated.

In this way, the video signals of still images reproduced by the 1202 optical disk devices in the optical disk device group are once recorded in frame memories provided for two devices corresponding to each terminal device group, and then repeatedly played back. Therefore, an optical disk device is not required for each of a plurality of terminal equipment groups, the number of optical disk devices is small, and the price of the entire system is reduced.

As explained above, the information providing system according to the present invention includes a still image playback device that records a plurality of still images and plays back video signals of the still images according to the operation of an input device, and a plurality of sets of terminals. a plurality of frame memories provided corresponding to each of the device groups to record the supplied still image video signals, repeatedly reproduce the still image video signals, and display the still image video signals on the monitor receivers of the respective terminal device groups; It is characterized by a multiplexer that supplies the video signal of the still image reproduced by the still image reproduction device to the frame memory corresponding to the terminal device group to which the input device belongs, so that the input device can be configured to correspond to the pressure of each terminal device group. This has the effect that a still image reproducing device is not required, the number of still image reproducing devices is small, and the price of the entire system is reduced.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of an embodiment of the system of the present invention,
FIG. 2 is a flowchart of an example of a program executed by the main computer in the same example. 1... Main computer 3, 7.19... Magnetic disc device 4.9b... CRT display device 5.92...
Keyboard 6...Subcomputer 8a, +3f...Front end processor 9C...
・Printer 9d...Card reader 9e...Coin insertion discriminator 10...System controller 11...VTR group 12...Optical disk device group 13.14.17...Multiplexer 15... ...Frame memory group 16...Tape recorder 18...Speech synthesizer 20ax, 20a2, 20fs, 20f2-Monitor receiver 2]a, 21f...Speaker 22a...Terminal equipment group Patent applicant Corporation Nkb

Claims (1)

[Claims] It is equipped with multiple sets of terminal equipment consisting of a CRT that displays a menu with multiple options, a monitor receiver that displays moving images or still images, and an input device that inputs operation start or menu selection. In an information providing system that displays a moving image or a still image on the monitor receiver in response to the operation of the input device by a user, and provides information to the user, a plurality of still images are recorded and the information is displayed in response to the operation of the input device. a still image reproducing device for reproducing a still image video signal; and a still image reproducing device provided corresponding to each of the plurality of terminal equipment groups to record the supplied still image video signal and repeatedly play the still image video signal. a plurality of frame memories for playing back and displaying on the monitor receivers of respective terminal equipment groups, and a frame memory corresponding to the terminal equipment group to which the input device belongs, the video signals of still images played back by the still image reproduction device; An information providing system characterized by comprising a multiplexer that supplies information to a multiplexer.