KR100683239B1 - Method and system for providing online cartoon production service which supports relay mode - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for providing a comic book production service and a system thereof, and more particularly, when a comic book request in a relay mode is received from a first user terminal, a first user of the first user terminal has a comic number of a predetermined number or less. Control to produce a page, and when receiving a manga production request associated with the produced manga page from a second user terminal, control the second user of the second user terminal to produce a manga page continuous with the produced manga page doing It relates to a cartoon production service method and system thereof. In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a cartoon production service, the method comprising: maintaining an image file database storing an image file for generating an image cut (the cartoon includes one or more cartoon pages, and the cartoon page includes one or more image cuts) Configured to receive a cartoon production request in a relay mode from a first user terminal (the relay mode is a production mode in which one or more users continuously create a cartoon page to complete a cartoon), and the first user. Providing a predetermined web page associated with manga production to a terminal, and controlling the first user to produce a manga page including a predetermined number of image cuts using the web page, and completing the production from the first user terminal When receiving information, the produced cartoon page Displaying in time and space, receiving a cartoon production request in a relay mode associated with the displayed cartoon page from a second user terminal, and providing a predetermined webpage associated with cartoon production to the second user terminal; And controlling the second user to produce a cartoon page continuous with the produced cartoon page using the web page.

Online, cartoon, making, relay, continuous

Description

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ONLINE CARTOON PRODUCTION SERVICE WHICH SUPPORTS RELAY MODE}

1 is a view for explaining the operation of the online comic book production service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing an online comic book production service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen for creating a comic page according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for one example of a screen for producing a cartoon page that is continuous with a predetermined cartoon page according to one embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen including information on a progress state of a relay mode according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a diagram illustrating an internal configuration of an online comic book production service providing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

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600: cartoon production service providing system

601: image file database

602: first receiving unit

603: first control unit

604: display unit

605: second receiving unit

606: second control unit

The present invention relates to a method for providing a comic book production service and a system thereof, and more particularly, when a comic book request in a relay mode is received from a first user terminal, a first user of the first user terminal has a comic number of a predetermined number or less. Control to produce a page, and when receiving a manga production request associated with the produced manga page from a second user terminal, control the second user of the second user terminal to produce a manga page continuous with the produced manga page doing The present invention relates to a cartoon production service method and a system thereof.

In general, comics are satires or criticisms of life or society by exaggerating or omitting the nature of things, and have long been popular with people of various classes regardless of gender or age.

In the past, comics, which were provided only on print media offline, have recently been provided on-line, and users' enthusiasm is great, such as recording the highest homepage access rate as a single web content. In addition, animations that feature cartoons have attracted the highest interest and are emerging as high-tech cultural products.

However, many websites that currently provide comics online provide simple images of comic books published offline and provide them as images to users, or unilaterally provide comics produced by specific artists online to users. As a result, there is a limit that the general public cannot satisfy the desire to express a unique scenario in a cartoon.

Also, in recent years, with the development of information and communication, users using the Internet are rapidly increasing, and these users are not only desire to make cartoons online, but also have fun cartoons in the form of games with their family, friends or third parties. I feel the desire to produce successively.

Therefore, the user can easily create a cartoon online, and by adding a game element to the production process of such a cartoon, so that a plurality of users can pursue the fun of connecting various stories of the cartoon according to their ideas. The emergence of a method and system for providing a new cartoon production service has been requested.

The present invention has been made to improve the prior art as described above, when receiving a manga production request in the relay mode from the first user terminal, the first user of the first user terminal produces a cartoon page of a predetermined number or less And receiving a manga production request associated with the produced manga page from a second user terminal to control a second user of the second user terminal to produce a manga page continuous with the produced manga page. An object of the present invention is to provide a cartoon production service method and a system thereof.

In addition, the present invention allows a user to easily create a cartoon online, and by adding a game element to the production process of such a cartoon, a plurality of users to pursue the fun of connecting various stories of the cartoon according to each other's ideas. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for providing a new cartoon production service.

In addition, the method and system for providing a cartoon production service according to the present invention is to provide a user interface that allows the user to easily and simply create a cartoon, so that anyone can easily create a manga without a high level of drawing skills. .

In order to achieve the above object and solve the problems of the prior art, the method for providing a cartoon production service according to the present invention, maintaining an image file database for storing an image file for generating an image cut (the cartoon is one or more cartoons) Page, wherein the cartoon page is composed of one or more image cuts, and receiving a cartoon production request in a relay mode from a first user terminal (in the relay mode, one or more users continuously produce cartoon pages. Is a production mode for completing a cartoon of the cartoon), and provides the first user terminal with a predetermined web page associated with the cartoon production, wherein the first user uses the web page to create a cartoon page including a predetermined number of image cuts. Controlling to produce, from the first user terminal Displaying the produced cartoon page in a predetermined publication space when receiving the fee information, receiving a cartoon production request in a relay mode associated with the displayed cartoon page from a second user terminal, and the second user. Providing a predetermined web page associated with manga production to the terminal, and controlling the second user to produce a manga page continuous with the produced manga page using the web page.

In addition, the cartoon production service providing system according to another aspect of the present invention, an image file database for storing an image file for generating an image cut (the cartoon is composed of one or more pages, the page is composed of one or more image cuts) A first receiving unit for receiving a manga production request in a relay mode from a first user terminal (The relay mode is a mode in which one or more users to produce a manga page by continuously creating a manga page), the first user terminal A first controller for providing a predetermined web page associated with cartoon production, and controlling the first user to produce a cartoon page including a predetermined number of image cuts using the web page; A display unit for displaying in a posting space of the second user terminal A second receiving unit for receiving a manga production request in a relay mode associated with the displayed manga page, and a predetermined web page associated with manga production to the second user terminal, wherein the second user reads the web page. And a second controller for controlling to produce the produced cartoon page and the continuous cartoon page.

Hereinafter, a method and system for providing an online comic book production service supporting a relay mode according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a view for explaining the operation of the online comic book production service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

When the manga production service providing system 100 receives a manga production request in a relay mode from the first user terminal 115a, the manga production service providing system 100 controls the first user 110a to produce a manga page of a predetermined number or less, and the second. When receiving a manga production request associated with the produced manga page from the user terminal 115b, the second user 110b causes the manga page consecutive to the produced manga page to be produced.

The user terminals 115a and 115b collectively refer to various devices that can be connected in a wired / wireless communication network to a terminal having a computing capability by including a microprocessor such as a desktop PC, a notebook PC, a PDA, a mobile communication terminal and the like.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing an online comic book production service according to an embodiment of the present invention. The online comic book production service providing method according to the present invention may be performed by the comic book production service providing system 100.

First, in step 201, the cartoon production service providing system 100 maintains an image file database storing an image file for generating an image cut.

The cartoon consists of one or more cartoon pages. The cartoon page is composed of one or more image cuts and may be used as a basic unit representing a cartoon screen. That is, the cartoon page may mean a unit of work that is made available to other users by posting the created cartoon on the web.

The image cut may be divided into an image cut currently being produced as a working image cut. For example, in the working image cut, operations such as adding or modifying an image may be performed.

The image file database stores various image files for each field, for example, a person, a prop, a speech bubble, a background, a foreground, and the like, and a user selects one or more image files stored in the image file database. By combining the selected image files, one image cut can be completed.

In operation 202, the comic production service providing system 100 receives a comic production request in a relay mode from the first user terminal.

The relay mode is a production mode in which one or more users continuously create a cartoon page to complete one cartoon, and an unspecified other user may subsequently produce a cartoon already produced by a specific user. In this case, in the relay mode, while one user is producing a cartoon, other users may control not to produce the cartoon until the user finishes producing the cartoon.

Further, according to another embodiment of the present invention, one or more users may simultaneously produce each manga page and then complete one manga by arranging or arranging the produced manga pages in order.

In operation 203, the comic production service providing system 100 provides a predetermined web page associated with comic production to the first user terminal, and the first user includes a predetermined number of image cuts using the web page. To create a comic page.

The web page may include a predetermined cartoon production tool capable of producing an image cut, and the first user may perform an operation such as modifying, copying, deleting, or adjusting an image file using the cartoon production tool. You can easily create a cartoon.

In order for the first user to produce a comic page, first, a selection of one or more predetermined images is received from the first user, one or more image files associated with the selected image are extracted from the image file database, and the extraction is performed. One or more image files can be synthesized to produce an image cut. Hereinafter, an embodiment of creating a comic page according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen for producing a comic page according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, a user may create a comic page 302 using a comic production tool provided on a web page. Comic page 302 may include one or more image cuts (eg, four). The image cut 301 currently being worked on may be a working image cut.

The user may select a field of an image to be inserted into the work image cut 301 of “Portrait, Prop, Speech Bubble, Background, Foreground” 303, and select an image of one of a plurality of images included in the selected field. have.

For example, when the user selects "person" among the above fields, a detailed image field such as "face, facial expression, motion" for the person may be further selected. In addition, when the user selects "expression" in the detailed image field, an image associated with one or more facial expressions is provided, and the user may select a desired image among the provided images. By selecting the image of the field in the same manner as described above to display the working image cut (301), by performing operations such as moving, copying, deleting, pasting, resizing, rotating, etc. on the displayed image An image cut can be generated.

A user who has requested a manga production in the relay mode may produce a manga based on a manga page, and the first user may produce a predetermined number of manga pages. For example, when a cartoon page that can be produced by one user is three pages, the first user may produce a cartoon page of up to three pages. That is, it is possible to produce freely from 1 page to 3 pages according to their choice.

In addition, when one cartoon page includes four image cuts, the first user may complete the production of one cartoon page without producing all four image cuts. That is, even if the user produces only one image cut, a cartoon page may be produced according to the user's selection.

In operation 204, when the comic production service providing system 100 receives production completion information from the first user terminal, the comic production service providing system 100 displays the produced comic page in a predetermined publication space.

The posting space may be a posting space associated with the first user, for example, a personal relay bulletin board capable of posting a cartoon or a predetermined community relay bulletin board subscribed to with the first user. That is, when the produced cartoon is posted on a personal bulletin board, an unspecified number of users who read the cartoon may produce the cartoon in a relay mode. In addition, when the produced cartoon is posted on a predetermined community bulletin board, the cartoon can be produced in a relay mode by a user subscribed to the community.

In this case, the cartoon posted in the posting space can be controlled by other users but not modified or deleted by other users.

In operation 205, the comic production service providing system 100 receives a comic production request in a relay mode associated with the displayed comic page from a second user terminal.

The second user may view the cartoon produced by the first user through the relay bulletin board. When the second user requests a manga production while viewing the manga, a manga production request in a relay mode may be transmitted to the manga production service providing system 100. In addition, the second user may perform a production request for the cartoon and the continuous cartoon without reading the cartoon produced by the first user.

Meanwhile, after the first user produces a cartoon, the second user may produce a cartoon that is continuous with the produced cartoon, and then may be made by the first user again. That is, the cartoon production in the relay mode may be possible in the order of "first user-> second user-> first user ...". Alternatively, the user who once participated in the relay mode may control not to participate in the manga production again until the manga production in the relay mode is completed.

In operation 206, the comic production service providing system 100 provides a predetermined web page associated with comic production to the second user terminal, and the second user continues the comic page generated using the web page. To create an old comic page.

As described above, the web page may include a predetermined cartoon production tool capable of producing an image cut, and the second user may create a cartoon continuous with the cartoon using the cartoon production tool. Detailed description of the production of the comic page is sufficient to refer to the description of FIG. 3, and thus a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

When the cartoon production service providing system 100 receives a request associated with the completion of the cartoon page production from the second user terminal, the cartoon production service providing system 100 is pre-produced by the first user to include one or more cartoon pages produced by the second user. The cartoon can be updated. For example, if a cartoon page of three pages produced by a first user is displayed on the relay bulletin board, and the second user creates a cartoon page of two pages and requests termination, the cartoon posted on the relay bulletin board is displayed. May be updated to include the cartoon page of the sum of the two pages and may be displayed on the relay bulletin board.

Like the first user, the second user may produce a predetermined number of comic pages. For example, when a manga page that can be produced by one user is three pages, the second user may produce a manga page from at least one page up to three pages.

In addition, the cartoon production service providing system 100 may control to complete the entire cartoon production when the number of the total cartoon pages continuously produced by one or more users satisfies a predetermined number. In this case, when the continuous comic pages produced by the second user satisfy a predetermined number, the entire comic production may be terminated. For example, if all of the comic pages that make up a manga produced in relay mode are set to 30 pages, you can control the production of all manga to end when the manga page production for the last 30th page is completed. have.

According to an embodiment, even when all 30 pages are not completed, it is possible to control the cartoon production in the relay mode to be terminated when receiving a termination request associated with the entire cartoon production from the second user terminal.

On the other hand, when the production of the entire cartoon is finished, a predetermined message associated with the end of the cartoon production can be displayed on the terminal of the user, the second user if the second user terminal.

Hereinafter, a method of creating a continuous comic page in a relay mode will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5.

First, FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen for producing a predetermined cartoon page and a continuous cartoon page according to one embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 4, the second user may view the comic page 401 produced by the first user, and may check progress information 402 and 403 of the comic page creation in the relay mode. . Page 402 represents a comic page already produced by the first user, and page 403 represents a comic page that the second user can produce in succession to page 402. Therefore, when the second user selects the page 403 while viewing the comic page 401, a predetermined web page including the comic book production tool of FIG. 3 may be provided to the second user terminal. . In this case, the second user may create a predetermined cartoon page continuous with the cartoon page 401 using the cartoon production tool. When the second user completes the production of the comic page, the completion of the production may be requested to the comic production service providing system 100 by selecting a predetermined end button 304 associated with the comic production.

5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen including information on a progress state of a relay mode according to an embodiment of the present invention.

When the cartoon is produced in the relay mode, information on the progress of the cartoon production in the relay mode may be provided. As shown in FIG. 5, one cartoon may be composed of 30 cartoon pages, and displays a cartoon page 501, a cartoon page 502 currently produced, and a cartoon page 503 already produced. can do. Therefore, a user who participates in or wants to participate in the cartoon production in the relay mode can easily check the progress of the cartoon production.

In addition, the comic production service providing system 100 may provide a "play mode" to change the text of the comic produced by another user, that is, dialogue. In "Punch Mode" you can only make corrections to the "Balloon" field in the image cut. The pun mode may be provided together with the relay mode, or may be provided separately from the relay mode. For example, the dialogue information of the cartoon produced by the first user may be changed by the second user to produce a cartoon of new content. Thus, the present invention can increase interest by allowing users to actively participate in cartoon production as well as to view the cartoon.

Hereinafter, the cartoon production service providing system according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 6.

6 is a diagram illustrating an internal configuration of an online comic book production service providing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 6, the comic book production service providing system 600 according to the present invention includes an image file database 601, a first receiver 602, a first controller 603, a display unit 604, and a second. The receiver 605 and the second controller 606 may be included.

The image file database 601 stores an image file for generating an image cut. The cartoon consists of one or more pages, and the page consists of one or more image cuts. The image cut may be used as a basic unit representing a cartoon screen.

The image file database 601 stores various image files for each field, for example, a person, a prop, a speech bubble, a background, a foreground, and the like, and when receiving a manga production request from a user, the image file database 601 By extracting a predetermined image file and combining the extracted image files, one image cut can be completed.

The first receiving unit 602 receives a manga production request in a relay mode from the first user terminal. The relay mode is a mode in which one or more users continuously create a cartoon page to produce a cartoon, and an unspecified other user may subsequently produce a cartoon already produced by a specific user.

In the relay mode, while one user is producing a cartoon, other users are prevented from producing the cartoon until the user has finished producing the cartoon, or one or more users simultaneously create each cartoon page and then the cartoon is produced. You can also arrange or arrange pages to complete a cartoon.

The first control unit 603 provides the first user terminal with a predetermined web page associated with the cartoon production and controls the first user to produce the cartoon page including a predetermined number of image cuts using the web page. do. The web page may include a predetermined cartoon production tool capable of producing an image cut, and the first user may perform an operation such as modifying, copying, deleting, or adjusting an image file using the cartoon production tool. I can produce a manga.

The display unit 604 displays the produced cartoon page in a predetermined publication space. The posting space may be a posting space associated with the first user, for example, a personal relay bulletin board capable of posting a cartoon or a predetermined community relay bulletin board subscribed to with the first user.

The second receiving unit 605 receives a cartoon production request in a relay mode associated with the displayed cartoon page from a second user terminal. The second user may view the cartoon produced by the first user through the relay bulletin board. The second user may request the production of a cartoon while viewing the cartoon or may request the production of the cartoon and the continuous cartoon without reading the cartoon.

The second controller 606 provides the second user terminal with a predetermined web page associated with cartoon production, and controls the second user to produce a cartoon page continuous with the produced cartoon page using the web page. do. The second user may create a cartoon continuous with the cartoon using the web page. When receiving the end of manga page production from the second user terminal, the manga produced by the first user may be updated to include one or more manga pages produced by the second user.

The method of providing a comic book production service according to the present invention may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed by various computer means and recorded in a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. Program instructions recorded on the media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and magnetic disks, such as floppy disks. Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. The medium may be a transmission medium such as an optical or metal wire, a waveguide, or the like including a carrier wave for transmitting a signal specifying a program command, a data structure, or the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

While specific embodiments of the present invention have been described so far, various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be defined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by those equivalent to the scope of the claims.

According to the present invention, when a manga production request in a relay mode is received from a first user terminal, the first user of the first user terminal is controlled to produce a manga page having a predetermined number or less, and the production is performed from a second user terminal. When receiving a request for producing a comic associated with a comic page, the second user of the second user terminal controls to make a comic page continuous with the produced comic page Provided are a method for manga production service and a system thereof.

In addition, according to the present invention, the user can easily create a cartoon online, and by adding a game element to the production process of such a cartoon, a plurality of users have the fun of connecting various stories of the cartoon according to each other's ideas A method and system for providing a new cartoon production service are provided for pursuing.

In addition, according to the method and system for providing a comic book production service according to the present invention, by providing a user interface for easy and simple comic book production, the user can easily make a comic book without anyone having a high level of drawing skills.

Claims (9)

In the method of providing cartoon production service online, In response to receiving a request for producing a comic from a first user terminal, providing a web page including a comic creation tool to the first user terminal; Controlling a manga page to be produced in the web page by a first user of the first user terminal utilizing the manga production tool; If the production completion information is received from the first user terminal, displaying the produced cartoon page in a publishing space; Receiving a manga production request from a second user terminal in relation to the manga page displayed in the publication space, and providing a web page including the manga production tool to the second user terminal; And And controlling, by the second user of the second user terminal utilizing the cartoon production tool, a cartoon page to be produced in the web page continuously with the cartoon page produced by the first user. The step of controlling, by the first user, to produce a cartoon page in the web page, Generating the production completion information in the first user terminal provided with the web page when the produced cartoon page satisfies the selected number Cartoon production service providing method comprising a. delete delete The method of claim 1, If the total number of manga pages continuously produced by one or more users satisfies a predetermined number, controlling to stop manga production Cartoon production service providing method comprising a further. The method of claim 1, The step of controlling, by the first user, to produce a cartoon page in the web page, Maintaining an image file database storing an image file for generating an image cut included in the comic page; Receiving a selection of one or more images from the first user terminal; Extracting from the image file database one or more image files associated with the selected image; And Synthesizing the extracted one or more image files to produce an image cut Cartoon production service providing method comprising a. The method of claim 1, When receiving the production completion information from the second user terminal, displaying the comic page produced by the second user in the publication space so that the comic page produced by the first user is continuously included in the comic page.  Cartoon production service providing method comprising a further. The method of claim 4, wherein If the cartoon production ends, displaying a predetermined message associated with the termination of the cartoon production on the user terminal of the corresponding user; Cartoon production service providing method comprising a. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method of claim 1. In the system for providing cartoon production service online, In response to receiving a manga production request from a first user terminal, providing a web page including a manga production tool to the first user terminal, and by the first user of the first user terminal utilizing the manga production tool, A first controller for controlling a cartoon page in the web page; A display unit configured to display the produced cartoon page in a publication space when receiving production completion information from the first user terminal; Regarding the cartoon page displayed in the publication space, receiving a cartoon production request from a second user terminal, providing a web page including the cartoon production tool to the second user terminal, using the cartoon production tool A second control unit which controls, by a second user of a second user terminal, a cartoon page to be produced in the web page continuously with the cartoon page produced by the first user, The first control unit, And if the produced cartoon page satisfies the selected number, the production completion information is generated by the first user terminal provided with the web page.

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