KR100359128B1 - Searching method in 3-dimension virtual space and computer-readable medium recording the method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a retrieval method in a three-dimensional virtual reality space on the Internet and a recording medium recording the method. To achieve the above object, the retrieval method stores sites registered on a server by country and directory. And providing a three-dimensional virtual reality space having a specific search space to the Internet sites on the communication network, and allocating a site related space among the three-dimensional virtual reality spaces to a plurality of registered sites. Step, when the user to search for access to the server through the communication network, generating and controlling a plurality of intellectual virtual objects acting under the control of the user and the user controls the intellectual virtual objects to control the three-dimensional virtual reality Navigate the space and search for the sites you want to find According to the present invention, including the step of allowing the user to search on the three-dimensional graphics without inputting the characters.

Description

Searching method in 3-dimension virtual space and computer-readable medium recording the method}

The present invention relates to a retrieval method on the Internet, and more particularly, to a retrieval method in a three-dimensional virtual reality space on the Internet and a recording medium recording the method.

The rate of use is rapidly increasing to the extent that the Internet is indispensable in business and life. In addition, the number of Internet sites is growing exponentially. Therefore, search sites that find information on various sites scattered on the Internet are gaining popularity from netizens. Various different search systems are currently used on the Internet.

Such search systems receive a search word (keyword) from a computer user and provide a list of sites that contain keywords, that is, computer users can obtain desired information.

By the way, existing search systems widely used on the Internet such as AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, Yahoo, Simmani, etc., although the database and the search method of the recorded information are different, all of them have inconvenience of having to input characters. In addition, the search results are also expressed in letters, which have no advertising effect on the sites obtained.

Therefore, users always had to know keywords, especially when searching foreign sites, it was difficult because they could not enter keywords in the language of the country.

On the other hand, since each site of the Internet is operated by people, and users who use the Internet are also people, it does not solve the user's satisfaction in obtaining simple information.

In other words, just as we stop by a general store to find and pick things, each site on the Internet is like a room or building where users can find information more interesting than current search systems. Could be.

An object of the present invention, in order to solve the above problems, users can search while moving the three-dimensional graphics virtual space, the three-dimensional graphics search in the virtual space consisting of the Internet site is composed of the three-dimensional graphics virtual space To provide a way.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a computer readable recording medium having recorded the above method.

1 is a system configuration diagram of a three-dimensional graphics retrieval system according to the present invention.

2 is a view showing a screen when a user joins as a member in an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a screen showing that the screen of the three-dimensional earth image is displayed in the embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram when a user selects Korea in an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a diagram illustrating a screen when a user selects a directory of 'a shopping life family' according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a screen when a user enters a 'grocery' building in an embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a flowchart illustrating a process of a search method in a three-dimensional virtual space according to the present invention.

In order to achieve the above object, in a search method on a communication network such as the Internet, a three-dimensional virtual reality storing sites registered on a server by country and directory, and having a search space having a specific width in the Internet sites. Providing space on the communication network; Allocating respective site-related spaces in the 3D virtual reality space to the plurality of registered sites; Creating and controlling a plurality of intellectual virtual objects acting under the control of the user when the user to be searched connects to the server through the communication network; And allowing the user to control the cadastral virtual objects to search the sites desired by the user while moving on the 3D virtual reality space. do.

In order to achieve the above another object, a step of storing sites registered in the server for each country and directory, and providing the Internet sites on the communication network a three-dimensional virtual reality space having a specific search space; Allocating respective site-related spaces in the 3D virtual reality space to the plurality of registered sites; Creating and controlling a plurality of intellectual virtual objects acting under the control of the user when the user to be searched connects to the server through the communication network; And a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for causing the user to control the cadastral virtual objects to search the sites desired by the user while moving on the three-dimensional virtual reality space. .

First, in order to understand the present invention, virtual reality will be described.

As an information society, a new space called 'virtual reality' was provided to human beings. 'Virtual reality' means to reproduce the physical situations that can actually exist, and new spaces have been created for humans to build.

One of the best technologies available to date is the Active Worlds program, developed by Cof of the United States as the best technology that enables virtual reality construction to replace real architecture.

Active Worlds Universe sets up a character that moves and speaks like its own alternation, an avatar, an intellectual virtual object, in another virtual reality, such as the real world. We can meet with different characters and have a conversation in real time while looking at each other's characters so that we can live in virtual reality with different purposes.

The present invention is to actually design the building in the virtual space using the three-dimensional virtual reality program and to advertise various sites in the building, the building is linked to the actual site so that the actual access.

The avatar (character) moves in the direction of the mouse movement in the building.

Next, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a system configuration diagram of a three-dimensional graphics retrieval system according to the present invention.

In Fig. 1, the server 14 is a server computer installed in a company operating a 'three-dimensional graphic retrieval system' according to the present invention. Also, 16, 18, and 20 are sites on the Internet that are members of a server.

The server 14 receives membership from companies that operate sites on the Internet, and allows these members to rent and occupy rooms in a virtual building as offline.

At this time, the size of the room to rent can be configured to change the membership fee according to the cost of the differential depending on the size of the room.

Therefore, those who wish to own a large room must pay a higher membership fee.

Each site can then decorate their room to suit their intentions or tastes.

Meanwhile, the server 14 divides each site by directory like a general search system and stores domain names, IP addresses, keywords and summary data of the sites in a database.

Here, summary data is an important description of the site.

Each directory has a root structure in which the upper directory is divided into a plurality of lower directories.

The plurality of user computers 10 of FIG. 1 are computers used by those who access a site operated by the server 14 to retrieve information on the Internet.

The computer must be able to access the Internet by running a web browser such as Explorer or Netscape, and it must have enough memory and a CPU to run the 3D graphics search system on the computer.

On the other hand, these users must be registered as a member of the company operating the three-dimensional graphics retrieval system according to the present invention in order to determine their character.

2 is a diagram illustrating a screen when a user registers as a member.

As shown in Fig. 2, the user inputs his or her personal details such as his name, social security number and address, and enters his ID and password in the same way as a general site in order to register as a member.

On the other hand, you can choose the character you want.

At this time, you can select the character specification you want by default, which is the character's sex, skin color, hair shape, clothes, height, weight, and face shape.

After the user selects his character's specifications in this way, the server forms the character according to the user's options and shows it to the user.

This character will appear every time the user connects to this 'three-dimensional retrieval system' site, which will make the user feel as if he is inside the site.

In particular, there are companies that make characters similar to the face of users these days, so if a character that resembles you appears and moves on this site, it will make you feel like you are walking around the site.

Next, a process of the 3D graphic retrieval method will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

7 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a search method in a three-dimensional virtual space according to the present invention.

After the user has signed up as a member, he accesses the site (102) and enters his or her ID to check whether the user of the ID is a member or not.

After being identified as a member, a three-dimensional globe-shaped image is displayed as shown in FIG. 3 (104). When the user selects an icon and moves the mouse, the earth image moves along with the movement of the mouse.

The user then selects by clicking on the country where the site he or she wishes to search is located.

In this case, the user may select a language from English, which is a universal language, and a native language of a selected country (108).

4 is a diagram when a user selects Korea.

When the user selects Korea, a map of Korea is displayed and the map is divided into a plurality of directories.

These directories include, for example, health hospital medicine, economic corporation finance, news media, computer internet, culture and arts religion, dictionary reference, shopping family, school academy education, travel leisure sports, entertainment hobby entertainment, political and social law. . However, these directories are just one example.

If the user selects a directory of 'shopping family' from the directory (112), there is a building such as a grocery store, a shopping mall, a computer mall, etc., as shown in FIG.

These characters are characters of those who have already chosen the directory of 'Shopping Life Family', and the characters of the user also appear here.

The other windows on this screen display the IDs of these characters, so you can monitor where you are at the current ID.

At this time, if the user wants to chat with other characters, they can enter the chat mode and chat.

However, if the user wants to search more quickly, the directory on the map is first selected, and when the user zooms in to the directory, the subdirectory screen of the selected directory is displayed.

It's like a subdivision on a map.

For example, if the user selects Seoul, it is as if there is a phrase in Seoul, and there is a sin under the phrase.

Therefore, the user can access many sites graphically by selecting the directories he wants from the upper directory if he wants more information.

6 shows a screen when the user enters the inside of a 'grocery' building.

As shown in FIG. 6, a screen in which a sign such as fruit or alcoholic beverages is hanged is displayed in each room in the building (114). This sign is mainly sold on the site and corresponds to keywords. However, you can walk your own 'IP address' with this sign.

The user can pass the street while moving the mouse in the direction of the street while looking at each sign. At this time, if there is a favorite signboard (ie, a site) of the user, when the user clicks on the signboard, brief information is provided (118).

For example, if you click on a sign that says 'sell alcohol,' you sell all the famous alcoholic beverages in the world. A summary, such as', is provided so that users can get brief information about the site.

Therefore, the user can know the characteristics of the site without having to visit the site one by one.

When the user finds the site he wants to find, he selects the IP address of the Internet to be connected to, accesses the Internet site (120), and finishes all processes.

On the other hand, a site that provides a 'three-dimensional graphics search method' according to the present invention is also possible to search the text to enter a search word. However, since such a text search system is a currently known technique, description thereof is omitted.

Meanwhile, embodiments of the present invention can be written as a program that can be executed on a computer. That is, the various steps included in the method according to the invention can be stored on a computer readable recording medium. The media includes recording media such as magnetic storage media (e.g., ROM, floppy disk, hard disk, etc.), optical read media (e.g., CD-ROM, DVD, etc.) and carrier waves (e.g., transmitted over the Internet). .

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and of course, modifications can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

For example, in the present embodiment, the membership fee is paid to the members who live in the virtual building, but it may be operated free of charge.

In addition, unlike the present embodiment, each virtual building on the street may be an Internet site having respective IP addresses.

Therefore, the scope of the claims in the present invention will not be defined within the scope of the detailed description, but will be limited to the claims below.

According to the present invention, a user can search while moving a 3D graphic virtual space, and a site system allocated to the 3D graphic virtual space includes a search system, a search method, and a recording medium recording the method of advertised texts of sites. Given this, Internet users can search on three-dimensional graphics without users entering text.

And, the user may have a feeling of searching for information as if walking through a shopping mall.

In addition, since site advertisements are attached to site spaces allocated to the 3D graphic virtual spaces, the advertisements of the sites may also be applied to users who want to search.

On the other hand, since the name of the company or domain name of the company that operates the site is displayed in the advertisement of the site, the advertisement effect on the site is great.

Finally, the user has a wide range of choices because the user uses the graphic and text search in parallel.

Claims (10)

In a search method on a communication network such as the Internet, (a) storing, on a telecommunication network, a three-dimensional virtual reality space in which sites registered by a server are stored for each country and directory, and having a search space having a specific area for the Internet sites; (b) allocating respective site-related spaces in the three-dimensional virtual reality space to the plurality of registered sites; (c) creating and controlling a plurality of intellectual virtual objects acting under the control of the user when the user to be searched connects to the server through the communication network; And and (d) allowing the user to control the cadastral virtual objects so as to search the sites desired by the user while moving on the 3D virtual reality space. . The method of claim 1, The site-related spaces in the three-dimensional virtual reality space are hyperlinked with the actual site, so that the user connects to the real site through the site-related spaces. The method according to claim 1 or 2, And retrieving the plurality of intellectual virtual objects. The method of claim 1, In the 3D virtual reality space, the site-related space provided in the 3D virtual reality space of step (b) is in the form of a building on the 3D virtual reality space and is hyperlinked with the actual site. How to search. The method of claim 1, 2 or 4, Searching in the three-dimensional virtual reality space, characterized in that the search in the step (d) can be searched by text. The method of claim 1, 2 or 4, Site-related spaces provided in the three-dimensional virtual reality space of step (b) is divided into sectors or directories, and the sectors or directories are divided into sections on a graphic in a map form and displayed. Search method in virtual reality space. The method of claim 6, The map graphic is a map of a plurality of countries that actually exist, and a user can select a country and a language to search for in the 3D virtual reality space. delete delete In a recording medium recording a search method on a communication network such as the Internet, Storing sites registered in a server for each country and directory, and providing the Internet sites with a three-dimensional virtual reality space having a specific search space on the communication network; Allocating respective site-related spaces in the 3D virtual reality space to the plurality of registered sites; Creating and controlling a plurality of intellectual virtual objects acting under the control of the user when the user to be searched connects to the server through the communication network; And A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program which causes the user to control the intellectual virtual objects to search the sites desired by the user while moving on the three-dimensional virtual reality space.