KR100711193B1 - Display method of photo image in wireless photo chatting - Google Patents

Abstract

Applied to a wireless photochat system including a wireless terminal device and a wireless mediation server connected from the wireless terminal device to mediate a photo chat between the wireless terminal devices, the wireless mediation server includes user photo images from a user of the wireless terminal device. Registering as a member by receiving member information; Recognizing the identifier and the display information from the wireless terminal device connected to the space provided for chatting between the N members by the wireless relay server; Dividing the predetermined screen area of each wireless terminal device into (N + N / 2) pieces based on the display information; And resizing the user photo image extracted from the identifier of the wireless terminal device to match the divided area, and allocating the converted user photo image to the divided area so that the converted user photo images face each other with a blank area therebetween. Disclosed is a method of displaying an image in a wireless photochat.

Chat, Photo, Photo, Wireless Internet

Description

Display method of photo image in wireless photo chatting}

1 shows a network configuration to which the present invention is applied.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an image display method according to the present invention.

3 is a screen showing a process of displaying an image according to the present invention.

4 shows a screen displayed on a wireless terminal device of a male member as an actual screen displayed according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 shows a screen displayed on a wireless terminal device of a male member as an actual screen displayed according to another example of the present invention.

The present invention relates to an image display method in a wireless photo chat, and more particularly, to an image display method in a wireless photo chat to display a user photo image of a wireless terminal device participating in a wireless photo chat in real time.

In addition, the present invention relates to an image display method in a wireless photo chat to be displayed by overlaying the connection image showing the state of the couple with the user photo image described above.

In the chat between computer systems, a chat service while viewing a photo image or a video image of each other is performed variously in a 1: 1 or 1: many and many to many forms.

In such a photo chat or a video chat, a chat program that operates on a specific operating system is installed, and the chat program processes and displays the photo image or the video image transmitted from the other party.

In such an environment in which a chat program can be installed, the photo chat is not a problem. However, in a wireless terminal device including a mobile phone, there is not enough space for installing a separate photo chat program.

Therefore, such a photo chat has not been implemented in the mobile environment.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an image display method that can be displayed on each of the wireless terminal device participating in the user photo image corresponding to the wireless terminal device participating in the chat to facilitate the photo chat between the wireless terminal device over the wireless network To provide.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an image display method capable of overlaying and displaying a connection image between displayed photo images according to selection information from each wireless terminal device together with the user photo image.

Other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be more clearly understood through the preferred embodiments described below.

According to the present invention, the present invention is applied to a wireless photochat system including a wireless terminal device and a wireless mediation server connected from the wireless terminal device to mediate a photo chat between the wireless terminal devices, wherein the wireless mediation server is provided by a user of the wireless terminal device. Registering as a member by receiving member information including a user photo image; Recognizing the identifier and the display information from the wireless terminal device connected to the space provided for chatting between the N members by the wireless relay server; Dividing the predetermined screen area of each wireless terminal device into (N + N / 2) pieces based on the display information; And resizing the user photo image extracted from the identifier of the wireless terminal device to match the divided area, and allocating the converted user photo image to the divided area so that the converted user photo images face each other with a blank area therebetween. Disclosed is a method of displaying an image in a wireless photochat.

Preferably, the wireless intermediary server receives the selection information from the wireless terminal device, and forms a connection image having a size corresponding to the empty area and connecting the opposite user photo images based on the selection information; And transmitting the formed connection images to the wireless terminal device to be displayed in the blank area.

Preferably, the display information may be obtained in real time from a WAP browser of a wireless terminal device which is activated at the time of connection or from wireless terminal device information provided corresponding to a user by a mobile communication company.

Example

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described an embodiment of the present invention.

1 shows a network configuration to which the present invention is applied.

Each wireless terminal device, e.g., mobile phones 100, 102, ... 104, is wirelessly connected to the Internet 200 via a wireless network and via a central station 110, 112, ... 114. It may be connected to the intermediate server 300.

Wireless intermediary server 300 has a database 310 for storing a variety of information, including member information, and serves to mediate photo chat between wireless terminal devices (100, 102, 104).

In other words, by allocating a predetermined space in the wireless intermediary server 300 to perform the function of creating and managing a chat room that the wireless terminal devices (100, 102, 104) can participate. Of course, as will be described later, the creation and management of such a chat room may be performed by the wireless relay server 300 itself or at the request of a member.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an image display method according to the present invention, FIG. 3 is a screen showing a process of displaying an image according to the present invention, and FIG. 4 is an actual screen displayed according to an example of the present invention. Shows the screen displayed on the male member's wireless terminal device.

Hereinafter, an image display method according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2 to 4. In the following description, it is assumed that the wireless intermediation server 300 has opened a photo chat room in which four people participate, but is not limited thereto.

First, the wireless relay server 300 receives the user of the wireless terminal device (100, 102, 104) as a member (step S21).

At this time, the identification information (telephone number), user ID, user photo image, password, address, name, gender, etc. of the wireless terminal device can be input as member information for registration, and the wireless relay server 300 is inputted. The member information is stored in the database 310.

When the user connects to the wireless mediation server 300 through his wireless terminal device 100, 102, 104, the wireless mediation server 300 provides and displays a list of photo chat rooms that are currently opened (step S22). .

For example, suppose you have a photo chat room with four participants, and two female members and two male members can participate in it, and another male member participates while one female member and two male members participate. If desired, the gender may be configured to be forced out by checking the gender of the corresponding identifier of the wireless terminal device, and details thereof will be omitted since it is outside the scope of the present invention.

The wireless relay server 300 automatically recognizes an identifier, for example, a phone number and display information, from the wireless terminal device of the member entering the opened photo chat room (step S23).

Display information includes horizontal and vertical sizes and maximum supported colors. The display information may be obtained from a WAP browser of a wireless terminal device activated at connection or provided from a mobile communication company corresponding to a user and obtained from wireless device information stored in a database 310.

The wireless relay server 300 divides the predetermined area among the valid screen areas into six pieces based on the display information obtained from each of the entering wireless terminal devices (step S24). In this embodiment, the number of participants is divided into six because there are four participants. However, in general, when the number of participants is N, the number of participants may be divided into (N + N / 2).

Referring to FIG. 3, areas N1, N3, N4, and N6 14, in which four user photo images are to be arranged, and empty areas N2 and N5 in which a connection image, which will be described later, are arranged, are formed in the predetermined area 10. The designated area 10 refers to an area excluding a text area in which a message is to be displayed. If the text does not need to be displayed, all of the valid screen areas may be set as the defined area 10.

The wireless relay server 300 recognizes an identifier for each of the wireless terminal devices 100, 102, 104 entering the photo chat room, extracts a corresponding user photo image from the database 310 based on the identifier, and extracts the extracted user. The size is converted so that the photo image is matched with the divided area (step S25).

That is, the user photo image is converted into a kind of thumbnail image.

Subsequently, the converted user photo images are allocated to the divided areas so as to face each other with a blank area therebetween (step S26).

That is, referring to FIG. 3, user photo images are allocated to N1, N3, N4, and N5 of the divided regions, respectively. Referring to the actual screen of FIG. 4 (a), each user photo image is arranged in two vertical lines facing each other and waits for user input.

This process is repeated until all the specified participants participate, and when all the participants are filled, a message for selecting a counterpart for matching a couple is displayed. That is, Figure 4 (a) shows the screen of the male member, a message to select the other female member is displayed.

Subsequently, when a selection for the other party is made from each of the wireless terminal devices 100, 102, and 104, the wireless relay server 300 receives the selection information from each wireless terminal device (step S27).

The wireless relay server 300 forms a connection image having a size corresponding to the empty area based on the received selection information and connecting the user photo images (step S28).

To this end, the wireless relay server 300 calculates the central coordinate of the vertical axis of each of the thumbnail photo images arranged in the divided region, and sets the coordinate position within ± 5% of the vertical axis as the start / end coordinates based on the vertical axis. Refer to the selection information to form a connection image connecting each photo image.

As the connection image, an arrow, a dotted line or a solid line may be used, or a specific shape column such as a heart may be used.

Thereafter, the formed connection image is transmitted to the wireless terminal devices 100, 102, and 104, respectively, to be displayed in the blank area of the wireless terminal device (step S29). At this time, the connection image includes both a line such as an arrow and its background image. Since the connection image is the same size as the empty area, it may be displayed as if the photo images are connected correctly.

Referring to FIG. 4 (b), it can be seen that each photo image is interconnected using an arrow.

Variant

Although the above has been described with reference to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, various modifications are possible at the level of those skilled in the art.

(1) The used photo image is inputted and stored by the user at the time of registration, and can be registered through a mobile communication company with a specified telephone number or by using a mail account and a wireless terminal device dedicated to a wireless relay server. Various image file formats such as JPG, Tiff, Gif, BMP, PNG or EMF can be used.

(2) As described above, the display information may be obtained in real time from a WAP browser of a wireless terminal device that is activated at the time of connection, or may be provided from the wireless terminal device information stored in the database 310 by being provided corresponding to a user in a mobile communication company. While the latter is mainly used, the former can be used in combination with a change in the wireless terminal device.

(3) The same applies when a member opens a photo chat room, and the wireless relay server performs the above process at the request of the member.

(4) In the above embodiment, the photo chat between the wireless terminal apparatuses has been described, but the present invention can also be applied to the photo chatting between the wireless terminal apparatus and the wired terminal apparatus, that is, the cellular phone and the computer system.

In this case, a user who accesses and participates from a computer system can be identified by an IP address.

(5) As shown in FIG. 5, the user photo images may be arranged to face each other in the horizontal direction.

In this case, in order to form a linked image, the center coordinates of the horizontal axis of each of the thumbnail photo images arranged in the divided area are calculated, and the coordinate position within ± 5% of the horizontal axis is set as the start / end coordinates based on this. Linking each photo image by referring to the information forms a linking image.

As described above, according to the present invention, the user can participate in the user photo image corresponding to the wireless terminal device participating in the chat so that the photo chat between the wireless terminal devices via the wireless network can be made smoothly without installing a separate photo chat program. There is an advantage that can be displayed in real time to each of the wireless terminal device.

In addition, there is an advantage in that the connection image between the displayed photo image can be displayed by overlaying the user photo image according to selection information from each wireless terminal device.

Claims (3)

Applied to a wireless photo chat system including a wireless terminal device and a wireless mediation server connected from the wireless terminal device to mediate a photo chat between the wireless terminal devices. Recognizing identifiers and display information from a wireless terminal device connected to a space provided for chatting between N members by the wireless relay server; Dividing the predetermined screen area of each of the wireless terminal devices into (N + N / 2) pieces based on the recognized display information; Converting sizes of the user photo images extracted from the database to match the divided areas based on the identifiers of the wireless terminal devices; And Disposing each converted user photo image; And each user photo image is allocated to the divided areas so as to face each other with a blank area therebetween. The method of claim 1, Receiving, by the wireless relay server, selection information from the wireless terminal device, and forming a connection image having a size corresponding to the blank area and connecting the opposing user photo images based on the selection information; And And transmitting the formed connection image to the wireless terminal device to be displayed on the blank area, respectively. The method of claim 1, wherein the display information is obtained in real time from a WAP browser of the wireless terminal device which is activated upon connection or from wireless terminal device information provided to a user by a mobile communication company.

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