KR100408751B1 - System and method for making the electronic business card including a photograph - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention receives an electronic business card from the sender using at least one of a short range wireless communication, a wired communication network, and a wireless communication network, and generates an image corresponding to the appearance of the sender through an image input unit configured in the receiver terminal device. The present invention relates to an electronic business card generating system and method comprising a picture of inserting the electronic business card into the electronic business card. And manage.

Description

System and method for making the electronic business card including a photograph}

The present invention relates to a system and method for generating an electronic business card including a picture, and more particularly, to an electronic business card generation system and method including a picture that can grasp information related to an electronic business card using an electronic business card including a picture of an electronic business card provider. It is about.

As the times evolve, human exchange becomes more active, and thus business cards are used as a universal way to provide personal information to others and keep them in constant exchange.

The business card provider possesses the necessary number of business cards made of a material such as paper or plastic card, and is used in the form of providing one by one whenever necessary during the exchange with others.

However, since the conventional business card includes only personal information described in the form of an image of a company logo or the like and a text of the business card provider, there is a inconvenience that the business card recipient may not comprehensively understand the business card and the business card provider.

In addition, the conventional business card has to produce a large amount of new business card every time the personal information of the business card provider is changed, the previous business card is disposed of by losing the necessary value, there is a problem that waste of materials and unnecessary additional costs are generated.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a system and method for generating an electronic business card including a picture which can be integrated into the electronic business card provided by the business card provider and a picture of the business card provider to understand and manage the integrated business card provider. It is.

Another object of the present invention is that when the personal information included in the electronic business card of the business card provider is modified, the electronic business card of the business card provider stored in the terminal device of the plurality of business card recipients is automatically updated with the latest information, so that the latest information is always updated. It is to provide an electronic business card transmission and reception system and method that can manage electronic business cards.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an electronic business card generation system including a photo according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a detailed block diagram of a terminal device for an electronic business card generation system including a photo according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a detailed block diagram of an image input unit according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for generating an electronic business card including a photo according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

5 is an exemplary view of a screen display on which an electronic business card is output according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

6 is an exemplary view of a screen display outputting an electronic business card including a photo according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

100a: sender computer 100b: sender mobile communication terminal

110: receiver terminal device 120: web server

122: processor 124: storage device

130: short message server 220: short-range transceiver

230: wireless transceiver 240: timer unit

250: control unit 260: display unit

270: input unit 280: storage unit

290: Image input unit 292: Camera unit

294: image capturing unit 296: image generating unit

298: compression control

In order to achieve the above object, according to an aspect of the present invention, in the method for inserting the picture of the sender into the electronic business card received from the sender terminal device, using at least one of a short range wireless communication, a wired communication network, a wireless communication network Receiving an electronic business card from the sender, through the image input unit configured in the receiver terminal device to generate an image corresponding to the appearance of the sender, and inserting the image into the electronic business card generating method comprising an electronic business card Provided is a system and apparatus for enabling the execution of a method for generating an electronic business card including a corresponding picture.

In addition, the sender terminal device and the receiver terminal device may be applied to a mobile communication terminal, a computer, a PDA, and the like, and the short range wireless communication may be a Bluetooth (Bluetooth) method, an Infrared Data Association (IrDA) method, or an RF. It can be applied to a communication method, an IR communication method, and the like.

In addition, the step of generating an image corresponding to the appearance of the sender may be characterized in that for transforming the image into a predetermined size for insertion into the electronic business card.

The method may further include assigning an identification code corresponding to the electronic business card to the image; Storing the image or compressing the image so as not to exceed a predetermined file size; The method may further include restoring the compressed image into a form for inserting the compressed image into the electronic business card when a request for reading the electronic business card is input from the receiver.

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

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an electronic business card generation system including a photo according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, an electronic business card generation system including a photograph includes a sender computer 100a, a sender mobile communication terminal 100b, a receiver terminal device 110a (110b hereinafter referred to as 110), a web server 120, The short message server 130 may be included. The web server 120 may include a processor 122, a storage device 124, or the like.

In addition, the mobile communication terminal (100b, 110) that enables the transmission and reception of the electronic business card inputs the appearance of the sender as an image, the camera on / off (112) button to be inserted into the electronic business card (112), The camera lens 114 may include an image input button 116, a display unit 118, and the like. Of course, as described above, the present invention may not be provided with a plurality of buttons, but may be applied using an input unit (ie, a keypad) of the mobile communication terminals 100b and 110. Explain.

The sender computer 100b that can be held by the sender 100, the sender mobile communication terminal 100a and the receiver terminal device 110 that can be held by the receiver are configured to transmit and receive electronic business cards. It may be included, and may be applied to a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) or the like, which is not shown in FIG. 1.

In addition, a method of transmitting the electronic business card to the receiver by the sender may be variously applied as follows according to the distance between the sender and the receiver.

First, in the case of a sender and a receiver located at a short distance, the sender selects one of a plurality of electronic business cards stored in the computer 100a or the mobile terminal 100b, and selects a 'Bluetooth method' or a 'wireless infrared communication'. The business card is transmitted to the receiver's mobile communication terminal 110 or a computer (not shown) using a transmitter capable of short-range wireless communication.

Of course, in this case, the receiver's mobile communication terminal 110 and the computer include a receiver capable of short-range wireless communication of 'Bluetooth' and 'Infrared Data Association (IrDA)'.

Hereinafter, the above-described 'Bluetooth (Bluetooth) method', 'Infrared Data Association (IrDA) method' will be briefly described in order to facilitate the understanding of short-range communication.

The 'Bluetooth method' is small for installation (e.g. 0.5 square inch), inexpensive for installation (e.g. about $ 5) and low power consumption (e.g. , 100mW) is a method for wireless link (Radio Link, 2.4GHz ISM Open Band) in a small area between portable devices such as mobile communication terminals, portable computers, network access points, and other peripheral devices.

In addition, in terms of reach, the Bluetooth method is capable of transmitting and receiving data up to a radius of about 10 meters in 'In Room' (ie office, conference room, home, etc.) and 'Personal' (ie user's surrounding) space. Can be.

'Infrared Data Association' (IrDA) method is capable of transmitting and receiving data of about 11,200 bits per second by using infrared rays between electronic devices, and mutual interference or It is widely used for portable computers due to its high stability without the risk of malfunction of other devices.

The electronic business card that can be transferred from the sender computer 100a or the sender mobile communication terminal 100b to the receiver mobile communication terminal 110 or the receiver computer (not shown) is the computer 100a or the mobile communication terminal 100b. Can be generated using

First, the method of using the computer 100a may be written through an electronic business card management program installed in the computer, or may be connected to the web server 120 through a communication network, and the electronic business card may be accessed through a form provided by the web server 120. After creation, it can be downloaded to the computer 100a.

Second, the method using the mobile communication terminal 100b is prepared through an electronic business card management program installed in the mobile communication terminal, or through a form provided by the web server 120 by accessing the web server 120 through a communication network. The electronic business card can be created and downloaded to the mobile communication terminal 100b.

When the recipient receives the electronic business card generated as described above from the sender via the mobile communication terminal 110 through short-range wireless communication, personal information such as a sender's name, a telephone number, a company name, etc. is stored in the received electronic business card. Can be included.

If the recipient wishes to insert the picture of the sender into the received electronic business card to facilitate the management of the electronic business card, first select the camera on / off button 112 to turn the camera on. Turn on

The camera lens 114 is directed toward the sender, and the image input button 116 is selected to convert the sender's image into an image and insert it into the electronic business card. Of course, in this case, when the camera lens 114 is positioned at the rear of the mobile communication terminal 110 and a desired image is output with reference to the display unit 118 outputting a screen input through the camera lens 114. The image input button 116 may be selected to input a desired image.

In addition, the sender may insert his own image into the electronic business card and transmit the image to the receiver in the process of generating the electronic business card, or insert a plurality of images into one electronic business card.

The case where the image of the sender or the receiver is inserted into the electronic business card will be described in detail later with reference to the illustration and flowchart of the screen display.

Next, a method of transmitting and receiving an electronic business card in the case of a sender and a receiver located at a remote location will be described with reference to the illustrated system configuration. The sender's electronic business card transmitted to the receiver is stored in a web server. An example will be described.

The sender inputs the receiver's mobile communication terminal telephone number using the sender computer 100a or the sender mobile communication terminal 100b to request transmission of the sender's electronic business card to the web server 120 through the communication network.

The web server 120 searches for the electronic business card of the sender previously stored in the storage device 124 using the processor 122 and transmits the searched electronic business card to the short message server 130 of the mobile communication service provider.

Of course, when the web server 120 transmits the electronic business card information to the short message server 130, the web server 120 uses the 'IWF (Interworking Function)' combined with the short message server 130. Through the above-described 'interworking function (IWF)' the short message server 130 can be connected to the external communication network.

The short message server 130 transmits the electronic business card information received from the web server 120 to the mobile communication terminal 110 of the receiver, wherein the electronic business card information received from the terminal device of the receiver is combined with the terminal device ( 118).

Even in this case, when the sender inserts the sender's image into the electronic business card, the electronic business card including the image may be output to the display unit 118 of the receiver's mobile communication terminal 110.

Of course, if the electronic business card information received from the short message server 130 is undesired information, the recipient may delete the corresponding information, and if the information is desired, the receiver stores the information in a storage unit in the mobile communication terminal 110. By managing or by requesting the storage of the electronic business card to the web server 120, it can be stored and managed in the storage device 124 of the web server 120.

2 is a detailed block diagram of a terminal device for an electronic business card generation system including a photo according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the terminal device 210 for an electronic business card generation system including a photo includes a short range transceiver 220, a wireless transceiver 230, a timer 240, a controller 250, and a display 260. ), An input unit 270, a storage unit 280, an image input unit 290, and the like.

The short range transmitter / receiver 220 transmits a specific electronic business card to a receiver terminal device located at a short distance and receives a specific electronic business card from a sender terminal device located at a short distance. As the method for short-range transmission / reception, the above-described Bluetooth (Bluetooth) method, Infrared Data Association (IrDA) method, RF (RF) method, and the like may be applied.

The wireless transceiver 230 transmits and receives an electronic business card through a web server and a short message server when the electronic business card is transmitted and received between a remote sender and a receiver.

The timer 240 recognizes the reception time information of the electronic business card received through the short range transceiver 220 or the wireless transceiver 230.

The control unit 250 outputs the electronic business card received from the sender terminal device through the short range transmission / reception unit 220 or the wireless transmission / reception unit 230 through the display unit 260, and stores the electronic business card at the request of the receiver. And a short distance transceiver 220 or a wireless transceiver 230 that transmits the electronic business card to the external terminal device.

In addition, the control unit 250 may include a function for converting the electronic business card received through the short range transceiver 220 or the wireless transceiver 230 into a form that can be output to the terminal device display, a short range transceiver ( 220 or a function for converting the electronic business card into a form suitable for transmitting and receiving the electronic business card through the wireless transceiver 230.

The display unit 260 outputs the electronic business card information produced by the sender using a terminal device (ie, a mobile communication terminal), or outputs the electronic business card received through the short range transceiver 220 or the wireless transceiver 230. Or outputting a guide message relating to the use of an electronic business card. In addition, the display unit 260 may include the time information recognized by the timer unit 240 and output it.

The input unit 270 inputs corresponding information when the sender produces a business card using the terminal device 210, or receives the sender's electronic business card through the short range transceiver 220 or the wireless transceiver 230 to display the information. It is a means for inputting selection function information (for example, storing, editing, deleting, etc.) related to the electronic business card information outputted at 260.

The storage unit 280 stores the electronic business card when the receiver requests to store the electronic business card received through the short range transceiver 220 or the wireless transceiver 230. In addition, the storage unit 280 controls the electronic business card received through the short-range transceiver 220 or the wireless transceiver 230 under the control of the controller 250 for each corresponding information (eg, name, phone number, Image, etc.) may be stored in a separate table corresponding to the identification code assigned to each, or the electronic business card may be stored in one table according to the storage code selection information of the receiver.

Even when a user connects to a web server (see 120-FIG. 1) to produce an electronic business card, a part of the electronic business card may include image information desired by the user (for example, a company logo or personal photo information). In this case, the storage unit 280 may store not only personal information (for example, name, phone number, etc.) but also corresponding image information.

In addition, the terminal device may further include a location detecting unit that can provide location information on receiving the corresponding electronic business card by using a 'GPS (Global Positioning System)'. If the sender and the receiver send and receive an electronic business card in the same place (for example, a conference room, etc.), the location sensor operates and automatically inputs information on the place where the electronic business card was exchanged. Easy to grasp

Of course, when the location detection unit is applied in parallel with the above-described timer unit 240, the time and space information indicating when and where the recipient received the electronic business card is output so that the receiver can easily manage the electronic business card. Become.

The image input unit 290 performs an appropriate operation so that the receiver can receive the sender's image from the sender without the sender's image and insert the sender's image into the electronic business card.

Since a brief description for the operation of the image input unit 290 has already been described with reference to FIG. 1, the description thereof will be omitted herein. Hereinafter, the internal configuration of the image input unit 290 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 3.

3 is a detailed block diagram of an image input unit according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the image input unit 290 may include a camera unit 292, an image capture unit 294, an image generator 296, a compression control unit 298, and the like.

As described above with reference to FIG. 1, when the receiver receives an electronic business card through short-range wireless communication from the sender through the mobile communication terminal 110, the receiver captures an image of the sender as an image and inserts it into the received electronic business card. To do this, first, the camera on / off button 112-FIG. 1 configured in the mobile communication terminal 110-FIG. 1 is selected to turn on the camera unit 292.

The camera unit 292 converts an image input through the camera lens 114-FIG. 1 into a digital signal, and displays the image input by the control of the controller 250-FIG. 2. )

If the receiver selects an image input button (see 116-FIG. 1) when it is output as a desired image (e.g., a smiling figure, etc.) with reference to the appearance of the sender displayed on the display unit 260-FIG. (250-FIG. 2) captures an image output on the display unit 260-FIG. 2 using the image capture unit 294, and outputs it via the display unit 260-FIG.

The image generating unit 296 generates an image corresponding to a predetermined image size and file size by using the image captured by the image capturing unit 294 and separately separates the identification code and the image file included in the electronic business card. The assigned identification code is assigned to the corresponding image, and the image is stored in the storage unit 280 to be managed in association with the electronic business card under the control of the controller 250-FIG. 2.

In addition, as illustrated in FIG. 3, a compression controller 298 that compresses the image generated by the image generator 296 again may be included. Although not illustrated in FIG. 3, the compression controller 298 may be used. The receiver may further include an image restoration unit for restoring the corresponding image to the original image when the recipient requests a search for the electronic business card corresponding to the compressed image.

The method of compressing the image through the compression control unit 298 may be applied to any method as long as the image compression is possible such as 'run length encoded', 'Microsoft Video', and 'Intel Indeo'.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for generating an electronic business card including a photo according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, in step 310, the receiver mobile communication terminal receives an electronic business card from the sender using near field communication. The electronic business card received in step 310 may include personal information such as a sender's name, telephone number, company name, and image information such as a company logo and a sender image.

In step 320, the receiver mobile communication terminal checks whether an image input is requested from the receiver. The method of checking whether an image input is requested in step 320 is performed by checking whether the camera on / off button 112-see FIG. 1 is selected by the receiver as described above with reference to FIG. The method can be applied.

According to the check result of step 320, if an image input is requested from the receiver, the process proceeds to step 330, and if not, the step ends. Of course, it may include a management step such as storing or deleting the corresponding electronic business card received in step 310 before ending the step.

In operation 330, an image input through the camera lens 114 included in the mobile communication terminal (see FIG. 1) is output through the display unit 118 included in the mobile communication terminal.

In step 340 the mobile communication terminal checks whether the image input button 116-see FIG. 1 is selected to insert a particular image from the recipient into the electronic business card received in step 310.

If the image input button for inserting the specific image into the electronic business card is selected as a result of the check in step 340, the process proceeds to step 350; otherwise, the step ends. Of course, this may also include a management step such as storing or deleting the corresponding electronic business card received in step 310 before ending the step.

In operation 350, the receiver mobile communication terminal generates a sender image by using the image output on the display unit. Step 350 may include modifying the image to a predetermined image size to insert the sender's image into the electronic business card.

In step 360, the receiver mobile communication terminal checks whether there is an image already inserted in the electronic business card in order to insert the image generated in step 350 into the electronic business card.

If there is an image already inserted as a result of the check in step 360, the process proceeds to step 370, and if not, the process proceeds to step 380.

In step 370, the mobile communication terminal checks whether a request for deleting an image generated in step 350 is input from the receiver. As a result of the check in step 370, if the recipient wishes to delete the image created in step 350, the step ends, otherwise proceeds to step 380 to insert the image into the electronic business card.

In the flowchart shown in FIG. 4, step 370 is described only for the sender image generated through step 350, but may also be applied to a case where the receiver deletes an existing image inserted in step 370 and replaces it with a newly generated image. have.

5 is an exemplary diagram of a screen display on which an electronic business card is output according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 6 is an exemplary view of a screen display on which an electronic business card including a photo is output according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. to be.

Referring to FIG. 5, the electronic business card may include a sender's name, address, telephone number, fax number, company logo, and the like, and the electronic business card may be stored or deleted according to the receiver's intention.

In order to facilitate management of the electronic business card in a state in which the receiver receives the electronic business card of FIG. 5, the receiver may capture the image of the sender as an image and insert it into the electronic business card.

Since the method of inserting the sender's image into the electronic business card has been described in detail above, it will be briefly described here.

First select the camera on / off button 112-see FIG. 1 to turn the camera on, point the camera lens 114-FIG. 1 towards the sender, and then enter the image input button 116. 1) to convert the sender's image into an image and insert it into the electronic business card.

When the sender's image is inserted into the electronic business card by the above-described method, the screen as shown in FIG. 6 is output on the display unit of the receiver's mobile communication terminal.

As described above with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 4, since the number of sender images that can be inserted into the electronic business card can be selectively applied according to the purpose, the number of sender images can be limited to a single number or a plurality of numbers.

Referring to FIG. 6, the electronic business card includes not only personal information such as a sender's name, address, telephone number, fax number, company logo, but also an image of the sender.

As shown, the sender image may be inserted in a plurality of quantities so that a plurality of sender images may be linked to one electronic business card, and the operation may be performed. When the plurality of images are linked to one electronic business card, the sender image may be output at the bottom of FIG. You can view multiple images by selecting the 'View Next Photo' button.

In addition, when the recipient wants to change the inserted image, the corresponding image may be deleted by selecting the 'delete' button, and another image of the sender may be inserted by selecting the 'take picture' button.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and many variations are possible by those skilled in the art within the spirit of the present invention.

As described above, the present invention can integrate and understand the electronic business card and the business card provider by inserting a picture of the business card provider into the electronic business card provided from the business card provider.

In addition, when the personal information included in the business card provider's electronic business card is corrected, the business card provider's electronic business card stored in the terminal apparatuses of the plurality of business card recipients is automatically updated with the latest information, and the electronic business card of the latest information is always managed. can do.

Claims (9)

A method of inserting a picture of a sender into an electronic business card received from a sender terminal device, Receiving an electronic business card from the sender using at least one of a short range wireless communication, a wired communication network, and a wireless communication network; Generating a video image corresponding to the sender by using an image input unit configured in a receiver terminal device; Transforming the image to a predetermined size for insertion into the electronic business card; Storing the image; Inserting the image into the electronic business card Electronic business card generation method comprising a photo, characterized in that it comprises a. The method of claim 1, The sender terminal device and the receiver terminal device is at least one of a mobile communication terminal, a computer, a PDA Electronic business card generation method comprising a photo characterized in that. The method of claim 1, The short range wireless communication may be at least one of a Bluetooth method, an Infrared Data Association (IrDA) method, an RF communication method, and an IR communication method. Electronic business card generation method comprising a photo characterized in that. delete The method of claim 1, Assigning an identification code corresponding to the electronic business card to the image; Electronic business card generation method comprising a photograph further comprising a. The method of claim 1, Compressing the image so as not to exceed a predetermined file size; Restoring the compressed image into a form for inserting the compressed image into the electronic business card when a request for reading the electronic business card is input from the receiver; Electronic business card generation method comprising a photograph further comprising a. A system for inserting a picture of a sender into an electronic business card received from a sender terminal device, A receiving unit for receiving an electronic business card from the sender; A camera unit for inputting an image of the sender; An image generator which generates a picture of the sender by using the input image; A storage unit for storing the electronic business card and the picture of the sender Electronic business card generation system comprising a photo, characterized in that it comprises a. The method of claim 7, wherein The image generating unit gives an identification code corresponding to the identification code included in the electronic business card to the picture of the sender. Electronic business card generation system comprising a picture, characterized in that. The method of claim 7, wherein A compression control unit for compressing the image so as not to exceed a predetermined file size; An image restoration unit for restoring the compressed image into a form for inserting the compressed image into the electronic business card Electronic business card generation system comprising a photo further comprising a.