KR100597965B1 - The advanced digital audio contents service system and its implementation method for mobile wireless device on wireless and wired internet communication network - Google Patents

Abstract

      The present invention provides a method for converting a user into a ringtone or a ringing tone when a user selects a desired part while listening to audio such as music and voice selected by the user on a wired / wireless data communication network using a mobile communication terminal. .

This includes a first process of playing audio selected by a user on a mobile phone; A second step of selecting, by the terminal, a section that the user wants to convert to an original ringtone or a call connection sound while playing audio; A third step of transmitting the information on the section from the mobile phone to the server and extracting the section from the music file based on the information and converting the section to the original ringtone or call connection sound; The mobile communication terminal receives the converted original ringtone according to the third process and sets the original ringtone to be the original ringtone or through the fourth process of setting the converted ringback tone data as the call ringtone of the user.

Original ringtone, ringtone conversion, ring back tone, mobile phone, data communication network

Description

The advanced digital audio contents service system and its implementation method for mobile wireless device on wireless and wired internet communication network}             

1 shows a general wireless communication state diagram using a mobile phone,

Figure 2 schematically shows the state of the overall system for the audio service method of the present invention,

Figure 3 shows a detailed configuration for performing audio conversion between the service operator and the user mobile phone according to the present invention,

Figure 4 shows a detailed configuration for performing audio conversion in the user mobile phone according to the present invention,

5 is a view for explaining the extraction process of an audio signal for audio conversion of the present invention.

      The present invention relates to an audio service method using a mobile phone and a communication network capable of converting audio signals.

According to the recent rapid development of the technology of the mobile phone (in this specification, the mobile phone refers to a mobile communication terminal capable of wireless Internet as a personal information terminal having a wireless communication function, a computing function and a network function, PDA phone, smartphone Etc. Hereinafter, collectively referred to as "mobile phone".) Types and their spread are rapidly increasing. Mobile phones are increasingly being upgraded from simple voice call functions to information devices that act as personal computers. The development and change of these functions will be greatly influenced by the development of wireless communication network technology such as wireless Internet and various H / W and S / W constituting mobile phones.

The most common service through the mobile phone is a ringtone download service, and the user stores the selected ringtone and uses it as a means of discriminating himself by ringing the selected ringtone when the ring signal is transmitted to his mobile phone.

The ringtones being serviced on the mobile phone can be divided into the original sound ring, which is a ringtone generated based on the original sound, extracted from the midi bell and the record using the MIDI data according to the nature of the sound source.

In general, both MIDI and original sound are downloaded from the company that provides the service. Therefore, there is a disadvantage in that the user only selects the ringtones that are created. Therefore, various methods for finding alternatives are sought. It is becoming.

The above service is a problem that occurs in the same service that tells the other party's own ring back tone (for example, coloring, peeling, etc.) when the incoming call, the present invention collectively referred to these ring tone or ring back tone audio signal It was named.

An object of the present invention is to provide an audio service method and system for converting original audio digital audio data into a mobile phone audio signal using a new type of communication network and a mobile phone capable of converting an audio signal in order to supplement and improve the problems of the prior art. do

In the audio service method using the communication network of the present invention for solving the above technical problem, in the communication between the user mobile phone and the server system using the communication network, the user of the audio for the mobile phone to play a specific section of the original audio reproduced through the mobile phone Transmitting the information related to the start position of the corresponding section and the corresponding audio to the server to convert the signal to the server, and the server receiving the information through the communication network converts the original audio digital audio data into an audio signal for the mobile phone and then converts it into a user's mobile phone. Characterized in that consisting of the step of retransmitting,

In addition, another audio service method using the communication network of the present invention, in the audio service method for converting the original audio data into a mobile phone audio signal at the request of the user using a communication network, the step of authenticating that the request of the subscribed user And extracting the section desired by the user from the original audio digital audio data, converting the converted section into an audio signal for a mobile phone, transmitting the converted audio signal for the mobile phone to a user, and storing it in a storage space allocated to the user. It is characterized by consisting of two steps,

In addition, the mobile phone of the present invention includes an audio reproducing unit for reproducing original audio, an audio selecting unit for requesting a conversion to an audio signal for a mobile phone at a specific point in time during audio reproduction, and a specified starting position. An audio converter converts the original audio data into a mobile phone audio signal for each section, and a storage unit for storing the converted mobile phone audio signal.

       Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of a service method of an audio signal according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. For convenience of description, the audio service method of the present invention will be described by taking a ring service method for a ring tone as an example.

In addition, the terms used in the present invention was selected as a general term widely used as possible now, but in certain cases, the term is arbitrarily selected by the applicant, in which case the meaning is described in detail in the description of the invention, The present invention is to be understood as the meaning of terms rather than names.

1 illustrates a general wireless communication state diagram using a mobile phone.

Figure 2 shows an audio service method through the conversion of the audio signal of the present invention, in the case of converting the original audio to a mobile phone audio signal used for a specific purpose in the mobile phone, the mobile phone audio signal has a ring tone and a ring back tone Included. In FIG. 2, for example, the same structure is applied to a ring tone service method on a mobile phone using a wired / wireless data communication network according to the present invention and a service system for implementing the same. The user subscribes to the service operator. At this time, the service operator's Internet server system writes the user's subscription details in the user DB, and allocates the user's original ringtone storage space of the appropriate size to the user in advance, or integrates the database's information with the user's information. In addition, the user accesses the wireless Internet server system provided by the service operator through his mobile phone (mobile phone, etc.), and downloads the audio playback system for the mobile phone (represented by the audio playback unit in FIG. 3). Install on your phone. This audio reproducing unit in the present invention may be downloaded from a service operator or may be a system already existing in a mobile phone.

After the user completes the above subscription procedure and installation of the audio file playback system for the mobile phone, the user accesses the wireless Internet server system of the service operator using the audio file playback system for the mobile phone installed in the user's mobile phone. Music can be played by downloading or streaming audio files for mobile phones provided by DB.

3 is a first embodiment of audio selection and transform generation of the present invention. If the user wants to select the original ringtone or ring back tone while listening to the audio selected by the audio player on the mobile phone, the user inputs a request for this from the audio selector at the beginning of the section, and the audio selector inputs the input. Based on the signal, the information of the audio file being played and the time information of the section within the audio file are generated and transmitted to the audio conversion generation system of the service operator through the wireless Internet data communication network. The service operator's audio conversion generation system is composed of information analysis unit, audio extraction unit, and encoding elements. It transmits or encodes the ring back tone and registers the ring back tone on the mobile number requested by the user.
In relation to this, by the user's selection, the time information generated by the audio selection unit in the user's mobile phone means a reproduction time of the corresponding section provided in the original audio, that is, when the time information is provided to the service operator, The information analysis unit in the audio conversion generation system will be used as the starting position information for generating the original ringtone desired by the user. However, the method of determining the starting position by using the time information will be apparent to any person skilled in the art.

In the case of the original ringtone, the user checks the transmitted original ringtone through the audio reproducing unit that is driven on his mobile phone, and stores the ringtone in the bellows storage space built into the mobile phone. When a signal is detected, the stored original ringtone is played through the ringtone playback device for mobile phones built into the phone. In the case of a call ring tone, when a call is received from the outside or when a call is made outside, the call ring tone is reproduced in the call waiting state according to the registration position of the ring tone.

The audio conversion generation system of the service operator of FIG. 3 will be described in more detail as follows. The original ringtone information data generated by the user's input is transmitted to the information analysis unit in the mobile phone ringtone generation server system through the wireless Internet data communication network. At this time, the original ringtone information data includes information on what the audio file requested by the user, the time information of the start position to be converted into the ringtone in the audio file, and the telephone number of the mobile phone to finally transmit the converted original ringtone. The information analysis unit converts the mobile phone audio file existing on the server into PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) wave (WAV) data using the transmitted original ringtone information data, or the original digital audio corresponding to the audio file for mobile phone. Based on the mobile phone number from the data, the end point is formed in a form suitable for the memory size of the mobile phone, and this section is extracted to generate PCM wave data for input into the encoding apparatus. The generated PCM type wave data is converted into ringtone data through an encoding device and output, and the output data is transmitted to a cellular phone designated by a user through a wireless Internet data communication network. In the case of the ring back tone, the extracted digital audio data can be converted into PCM data to be registered in the ring back tone.

2 and 3 illustrate an embodiment of a form in which an audio signal is mainly converted into an original ringtone, but a user-specified original sound may also be converted into a call connection sound, in which case the converted audio signal is downloaded to a user's mobile phone. It will be stored only in the user's storage space of the service operator, and when making a call with the user's mobile phone, the call back tone can be heard by the caller during the call waiting time.

FIG. 4 is a second embodiment of audio selection and conversion generation of the present invention, in contrast to the embodiment of audio conversion through a service operator in FIG. It is a figure for description. In general, similar to the case of Figure 3, but the embodiment of the case where the audio conversion generation work performed on the server of the service operator can be performed in the mobile phone. In particular, when audio is extracted from the audio extracting unit in the mobile phone and stored in the form of a ringtone, there may be a case where encoding is required depending on the form of the ringtone audio signal used in the mobile phone and the case is immediately stored without encoding.

However, in the case of FIG. 4, the data is converted into a ringing signal and stored in the storage unit of the mobile phone. In the case of the ringing tone, the ringing tone signal must always exist on the server. It must be transferred back to the service operator's ring back tone storage.

5 is a diagram for a detailed understanding of a part of setting an end position in an audio extraction unit in an audio conversion generation system of a service operator. Original ringtone or call connection sound according to the present invention is a view for explaining a variable end section selection method according to the mobile phone to be used in the audio extraction unit of the conversion generation system, the mobile phone can store the individual ringtones according to the type of the terminal The capacities are different and there is a high possibility that the memory will change in the future as technology advances. Accordingly, by processing individual information of the terminal in the audio conversion generation system for mobile phones, it is possible to immediately respond to the development of the terminal. The location where the user feels to be used as a ringtone is important because of the nature of the ringtone, and the starting position is important, and it must be able to support playback for a certain period of time.

Accordingly, based on the original ringtone information data input by the user, the user wants to extract the desired audio and start time information from the audio, based on the starting position corresponding to the start time information from the original digital audio data and the phone number of the mobile phone to be transmitted. The end position is determined according to the acquired memory information of the mobile phone.

In the case of a mobile phone with less memory allocated to the ringtone storage space, it extracts the original data of short length based on the start position as in section 1, and in the case of a mobile phone with a large memory, it extracts the original data of long length as in section 2. . When the size of the memory allocated to the ringtone storage space increases with the development of the technology in the future, by changing the end position as shown in section 3 to provide the original sound ringtone for the mobile phone.

In summary, when the audio is extracted from the server, it analyzes the transmitted mobile phone information and performs the best audio extraction for the mobile phone. Of course, in this case, the user can select the end position, which is used as a reference for determining the end position. Will be done. In addition, as shown in Embodiment 2 of FIG. 4, when the audio is converted in the mobile phone itself, the user may directly select the end position, or the audio extracting unit in the mobile phone may be configured to be automatically optimized for the mobile phone and set the end position. In addition, the description of FIG. 5 is a description when applied to a ring tone, but a similar principle may be applied to setting a ring tone stored in a call ring tone storage server of a user.

1 to 5 have been described with reference to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, those skilled in the art can be variously modified and changed within the scope without departing from the spirit or prospects of the present invention. It should be understood that such modified embodiments should fall within the appended claims of the present invention.

First, the general original ringtone or ring back tone service is not possible to receive the service if the user wants a different part of the audio because the user has to choose the service among the contents provided by the service operator unilaterally, but the present invention By utilizing the technology of the user can directly save the desired part of the various audio that they heard as the ringtone ringtone or ringtone, so that most users of the ringtone or ringtone ringtone that wants to differentiate from other users can improve the system It is possible to activate the services utilized.

Second, because you can use the desired part as the ringtone while listening to the audio directly from the mobile phone, it is easy to use by immediately listening and converting and saving, compared to the method of converting the audio signal section through the Internet, and the copyright provided through the mobile service In this regard, there is no fear of infringement of related rights because it uses audio that has already been resolved.

Third, in the conventional method, since the number of ringtone storage spaces built into the mobile phone is limited, if all the storage spaces are used, the ringtones used in the past must be found and downloaded in the same way as the first one. Since there is a separate storage space for the original ringtone for the user, the original ringtone can be downloaded immediately, thus eliminating the burden on the number of ringtone storage spaces built into the mobile phone.

Fourth, in the case of the existing method, since the size of the ringtone storage space varies depending on the mobile phone, it was necessary to prepare and prepare original ringtones of different lengths for the same audio. However, when using this service, it corresponds to the size of the ringtone storage space of the mobile phone to be transmitted. Since the original sound ring tone is generated dynamically, the cost burden for the original sound ring service can be greatly reduced.

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In the communication between the user mobile phone and the server system using a communication network, Transmitting the start time information and the audio file information of the corresponding section to the server through the communication network to convert the specific section into the ring tone for the mobile phone while the user is listening to the original audio through the mobile phone; The server, having received the start time information and the audio file information through the communication network, extracts the original sound audio file existing in the server system from the audio file information, and based on the start time information, a specific section in the extracted audio file. Converting the ringtone into a mobile phone, and transmitting the converted ringtone to the user's mobile phone. delete delete The method of claim 1, The signal transmitted from the user mobile phone to the server further comprises the user mobile phone information, the audio service method using a communication network. The method of claim 4, wherein The server receiving the time information on the start position of the original sound audio to be converted into the ring tone for the mobile phone and the user mobile phone information determines the end position of the original sound audio to be converted based on the user mobile phone information, Audio service method using a communication network, characterized in that for converting the audio to ringtones for mobile phones. The method of claim 1, And transmitting the time information on the end position of the original audio to be converted into a ring tone for a mobile phone and transmitting the user mobile phone information. The method of claim 6, The server receiving the time information on the start position and the end position of the original audio to be converted into the ringtone for the mobile phone and the user's mobile phone information may be converted based on the start position and the end position time information designated by the user. Determining a section, and if the section to be converted exceeds the allowable value based on the mobile phone information, adjusting the section to the maximum allowable section. delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete delete

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