KR100713458B1 - Method for processing avata-related event in wireless terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for processing an avatar-related event of a mobile terminal, the process of storing the avatar-related event when generating the avatar-related event, a process of identifying a preset expert to process each of the generated avatar-related events, and calling the identified expert. And a process of processing an avatar-related event, and checking a processing result for each expert who processed the avatar-related event and displaying a representation of a processing result preset for each expert according to the processing result.

Avatar, Event, Character, Mobile Phone

Description

How to handle avatar-related events in mobile terminal {METHOD FOR PROCESSING AVATA-RELATED EVENT IN WIRELESS TERMINAL}             

1 is a block diagram of an entire portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a functional block diagram of a portable terminal controller according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart of an avatar state value change event processing operation according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a flowchart of an alarm event processing operation for checking avatar satisfaction level according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart of an operation of processing a user feedback event according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to an agent device and a method of a mobile terminal, and more particularly, to a method for processing an avatar related event by implementing an avatar agent function.

In general, a mobile terminal refers to a device that a user can carry, and a typical device is a mobile phone. Such mobile phones have been developed to serve a variety of additional functions in addition to the unique phone functions in recent years. Examples of mobile phones having additional functions include a camcorder phone equipped with a camera, a TV phone capable of watching TV (TeleVision), an MP3 phone capable of listening to MP3 (MPEG 3) music files, satellite broadcasting and / or terrestrial broadcasting. For example, a possible Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) phone. In other words, current mobile phones are increasing in number of products having additional functions for processing multimedia data.

On the other hand, a portable terminal having such various additional functions generally includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) display unit, and the LCD display unit can be more effectively used so that the user can easily recognize various additional functions and states of the portable terminal. Various display methods for displaying are being developed. Portable terminals are being developed to display various types of user data. Currently, the user data displayed on the mobile terminal is mainly composed of visual user data such as photo data, characters, animations, and the like. Avatar image data is included among the user data, and portable terminals using the avatar image data have been developed.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for expressing an avatar related event of a mobile terminal through a character agent function.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for selecting and expressing a character UI (user interface) provided by an optimal expert by analyzing events related to avatars generated in a mobile terminal.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION A detailed description of preferred embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that the same components in the figures represent the same numerals wherever possible. Also, in the following description, specific details such as types of events and examples of necessary information for agent representation and the like are shown to provide a more general understanding of the present invention. It will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that the present invention may be readily practiced without these specific details and also by their modifications.

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a mobile terminal that represents a character agent according to an event occurring in the mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, first, a radio communication unit 21 performs a radio communication function of a mobile terminal. The wireless communication unit 21 includes an RF transmitter for upconverting and amplifying a frequency of a transmitted signal, and an RF receiver for low noise amplifying and downconverting a received signal. The key input unit 25 is provided with keys for inputting numeric and character information and function keys for setting various functions. In addition, the key input unit 25 includes keys for controlling a character agent for each event according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The memory 23 may be composed of program memory and data memories. The program memory stores programs for processing call processing and the like of the mobile terminal and programs for controlling an agent expression for events generated according to an embodiment of the present invention, and the data memory stores data generated while performing an operation. Temporarily stored. The data memory also includes a character memory for storing character images for agent representation in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. The character memory may operate as a file system, and may have an index of a memory (or file system) for each character. In this case, the character memory may be configured in various forms that can perform motions, facial expressions, and object expressions, which are detailed components of each character. That is, the character information stored in the character memory may be stored for each type that can represent an agent.

The controller 100 performs a function of controlling the overall operation of the mobile terminal. The control unit 100 includes a modem for modulating and demodulating a signal, a codec for decoding / decoding, and encodes and modulates a transmission signal, and performs a function of demodulating and decoding a received signal. The controller 100 may be a mobile station modem (MSM) chip. The controller 100 controls the operation of the communication mode, the camera mode and the broadcast reception mode according to the user's mode selection. The control unit 100 may independently configure a data processing unit in which a modem and a codec are separated, and may be located between the wireless communication unit 21 and the wireless communication unit 21. The control unit 100 collects an event according to the operation of the mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, controls the agent according to the collected event and performs the function of expressing the processing and status of the event as an agent. The expression may be displayed by selecting a corresponding character in the memory 23.

The camera 35 is driven by the controller 100 when the user selects a camera mode, and photographs a subject to generate a captured image signal. The image processor 37 scales the image signal photographed by the camera 35 according to the size of the display unit 27 to display the image signal through the display unit 27, and in a set manner, the image signal captured in the storage mode. In the mode of encoding and storing the image data and reproducing the received or stored image data, the encoded image data is decoded.

The tuner 31 selects and receives a broadcast signal of a channel set under the control of the control unit 100 in the broadcast reception mode, and the broadcast processor 33 demodulates and decodes the broadcast signal received from the tuner so that the video signal is displayed on the display unit 27. ), And the audio signal is output to the audio processing unit 29. The broadcast signal may be a satellite broadcast signal and may also be a terrestrial broadcast signal.

The display unit 27 may display menus according to the operation of the mobile terminal under the control of the controller 100, and also display characters as output characters corresponding to the event when an event occurs. In addition, the display unit 27 displays an image signal output from the image processing unit 37 or the broadcasting processing unit 33 in the camera mode or the broadcast receiving mode, respectively.

The audio processor 29 processes the audio signal generated in the communication mode under the control of the controller 100 in the communication mode, processes the audio signal generated during the camera shooting under the control of the image processor 37 in the camera mode, and broadcasts the broadcast signal. The broadcast audio signal received under the control of the broadcast processor 33 in the reception mode is processed.

In the portable terminal having the above configuration, the configuration of processing the camera and / or broadcast signal may be omitted, and in this case, the character agent function for the event according to the embodiment of the present invention may be performed. In the following description, it is assumed that the character is an avatar. Therefore, in the embodiment of the present invention, the character agent control for the event of the mobile terminal will be described as the avatar agent control, but the same applies to all images other than the avatar.

2 is a functional block diagram of a portable terminal controller according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to Figure 2, the functional block configuration of the mobile terminal control unit as shown in Figure 2 is a Korean Patent Application No. 2004-78470 (name: intelligent terminal using an artificial intelligence agent, inventors) filed by the applicant of the present application, inventor: Kim Jae-ho And five others). In the following description will be described with reference to the contents disclosed in the domestic patent application No. 2004-78470.

Referring to FIG. 2, first, an event collection part 110 performs a function of collecting events generated in a mobile terminal. Here, the event includes all possible events of the mobile terminal, such as a communication event of the mobile terminal, an event generated in the mobile terminal itself, an event generated by a user's request, and an event according to the multimedia function of the mobile terminal. That is, the events collected by the event collector 110 become the events defined in the mobile terminal. The event collector 110 generates an event message as information for identifying an event generated when an event occurs, and provides the event message to the event transmitter 120.

The event transmitter 120 performs a function of delivering an event message provided by the event collector 110 to a corresponding client. In the following description of the embodiment of the present invention, the event delivery unit 120 is described as delivering the event message only to the agent control unit 130, if there is another component that requires the delivery of the event message can be delivered to the corresponding component. have. In addition, the event transfer unit 120 receives user-defined events not defined in the mobile terminal in addition to the events collected by the event collection unit 100 and delivers them to the agent control unit 130. Here, the user-defined events are referred to as application events, and the application events may be events generated by a game, another application, or a web service program.

When the agent control part 130 receives an event message from the event transmitter 120, the agent control part 130 may store the forwarded event message in an internal buffer and may analyze the event message to express a corresponding character agent. To determine the UI. The event message transmitted from the event transmitter 120 may be an event (events collected by the event collector 100) and application events of the mobile terminal. In the following description will be described based on the agent representation of the events collected by the event collector 110. The agent controller 130 includes a plurality of specialists therein, and selects a specialist corresponding to an event generated while controlling the specialists to perform an agent control function. When the event is received, the agent controller 130 notifies the appropriate experts of the event occurrence according to the received event, and requests the UI from the agent expression unit 140 to display the agent representation of the finally selected expert. . Then, the user's feedback information on the corresponding event is processed according to the user's feedback information received from the agent expression unit 140.

The agent expression part 140 displays a character expression for the corresponding event according to the agent UI information output from the agent controller 130. In this case, the agent expression unit 140 manages a plurality of avatar UIs to be displayed on the display unit 27, and controls to display a corresponding avatar according to the UI information requested by the agent controller 130. When the user generates feedback information while displaying the avatar according to the generated event, the agent expression unit 140 transmits the received feedback information to the agent controller 130. The agent controller 130 performs agent control according to the user feedback information received from the agent expression unit 140.

In the configuration as shown in FIG. 2, when processing only the events of the mobile terminal collected by the event collector 110, the event transmitter 120 may be omitted. Here, the internal buffer of the agent control unit 130 will be referred to as a blackboard.

Referring to the configuration and operation of the agent control unit 130 as described above in more detail, the agent control unit 130 is called according to each event type to perform a predetermined professional task and then output a number of experts respectively (specialist), a blackboard used for storing various information including information of event messages, a supervisory unit that selects one of these experts when multiple experts output valid results, and events generated The avatar value storage unit for storing the numerical value of the avatar and an expert management unit for selecting the corresponding experts from the expert list for each event when an event occurs and controlling the agent according to the event are provided.

Specialists are experts who contribute to solving a problem. They are experts in confined areas and write intermediate answers on a blackboard, while priorities and user preferences for intermediate answers. display preferences. Each expert is asked to determine the state of the blackboard to calculate priorities and user preferences, and write intermediate answers to the blackboard. Such an expert is called at an avatar state change event according to a feature of the present invention to perform each corresponding set action. For example, as the avatar state value changes, an expert performs an operation for expressing an appropriate man to the user. Perform an operation of confirming satisfaction of the avatar to the user.

Blackboard is a work environment and information space where professionals communicate with each other. Basically, it allows the experts to write down intermediate answers. The advantages of the blackboard pattern are as follows. First, you can easily integrate different experts of different kinds. Secondly, because each specialist has less influence on each other, they can be developed independently and modularly. Third, they are resilient to various changes, such as changing algorithms for experts and adding new ones.

If more than one expert is selected for an event, the expert management will ask the supervisor to select the specialist most closely related to the received event. The supervisor then selects the most relevant experts by analyzing the data on the blackboard, priorities based on events, and user preferences. That is, the supervisor performs the operation of transmitting the confirmation result to the expert manager by checking the priority / execution of the expert. In addition, the expert management unit according to the characteristics of the present invention when the event (that is, the avatar state change event) occurs when calling the experts to check the experts called according to the event occurred, and the result of the confirmation from the supervisory department (that is, selected experts ) To ensure proper UI is displayed.
At this time, the internal value of the avatar is changed by various events, agent functions, and user feedback generated from the mobile terminal. In addition, various application events that can use the avatar value affect the avatar value. As the internal value changes, the avatar interface changes and the avatar grows over time, which is the concept of avatar development. . The mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention introduces avatar development on the basis of an artificial intelligence agent system. To this end, the embodiment of the present invention proposes and informs the user of various actions based on various events occurring in the mobile terminal, thereby enabling the user to use the terminal more effectively and fun. The value of the avatar also changes according to these events and the user's feedback behavior.

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Table 1 below shows specific examples according to embodiments of the present invention. <Table 1> shows the use case of the event (use case), event classification, event judgment time, event behavior (processing) time, event parameters (required information), frequency and time, condition example, UI text, user selection Matters and the like are summarized and displayed. In addition to the above events, other necessary events may be further added or deleted.

Hereinafter, an avatar-related event processing operation will be described in more detail in the event processing of the mobile terminal according to the feature of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart of an avatar state value change event processing operation according to an embodiment of the present invention. For convenience of description, only an operation in the agent control unit is shown. When the avatar status value change event occurs, the event collecting unit collects it and provides it to the event delivery unit, and the event delivery unit provides it to the expert management unit of the agent control unit in step 1602. Accordingly, the expert manager stores the received avatar state change event in the blackboard in step 1604, and then, in step 1606, the expert manager identifies the experts called at the avatar state change event in the internal expert list and calls each expert in step 1608. (In the example of FIG. 3, the expert with expert ID 36 is called).

The expert of the called expert ID 36 checks the preset notification according to the avatar status value in step 1610. That is, the ID 36 expert pre-stores information for displaying the avatar as an appropriate content according to each avatar state value change, and accordingly the notification content corresponding to the avatar state value change event is received. You will be confirmed. In step 1614, the ID 36 expert returns 'YES' to the expert manager.

When a return is made from the called expert (ie, ID 36 expert), the expert management department provides the supervisor with the expert ID (expert ID 36) that returned YES in step 1620, and the supervisory department subsequently executes the priority / execution of the experts in step 1622. In step 1624, the controller transmits the result of checking whether the expert / execution is the highest priority to the expert management. Accordingly, the expert management unit checks the UI-ID of the highest priority or the expert to be executed in step 1626, and then transmits the UI-ID to the agent expression unit in step 1628 so that the corresponding UI is expressed. At this time, when the UI-ID is transmitted from the expert management unit to the agent expression unit, the notification content information is also transmitted at the same time, and the agent expression unit expresses the corresponding notification content when the UI is expressed. As such, the ID 36 expert and the UI according to the operation of the avatar state value change inform the user of the change of the avatar state value through the UI, so that the user can be more interested in the result.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an alarm event processing operation for confirming avatar satisfaction according to an embodiment of the present invention, and illustrates only an operation in the agent control unit for convenience of description. Referring to FIG. 4, when an alarm event of ID 48 is delivered in step 1702, the expert management unit stores the alarm event received in step 1704 on the blackboard, and then calls an alarm event of ID 48 from an internal expert list in step 1706. Each expert is called in step 1708 (the expert with expert ID 48 is called in FIG. 4).

The expert with ID 48 called up resets the alarm, eg N days later, in step 1710. In this way, the alarm is reset after N days and is operated again. Accordingly, the expert of ID 48 is repeatedly called and operated every N days. In step 1714, the expert with ID 48 returns 'YES' to the expert management. At this time, the expert of the ID 48 does not perform a separate operation for checking the avatar satisfaction according to an embodiment of the present invention, and simply performs an alarm for only the avatar satisfaction checking time.

When a return is made from the called expert (ie, ID 48 expert), the expert management department provides the supervisor with the expert ID (expert ID 48) that returned YES in step 1720, and the supervisory department then prioritizes / executes the expert in step 1722. In step 1724, the check result is transmitted to the expert management unit. Accordingly, the expert management unit checks the UI-ID of the highest priority or the expert to be executed in step 1726, and then transmits the UI-ID to the agent expression unit in step 1728 so that the corresponding UI is expressed. For example, such an ID 48 expert can tell the user via the UI, for example, "Avatar is pleased with your master?" As such, the UI expression includes contents for confirming avatar satisfaction, and contents of selection items for receiving user feedback (for example, 'very satisfied', 'slightly satisfied', 'normal', ' A little dissatisfied ”, or“ very dissatisfied ”). By confirming this UI expression, the user selects an appropriate item, and feedback information on the user's selection of this item is then processed by an avatar management expert. This user feedback information processing will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 5.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of processing a user feedback event (ie, an event according to a representation in a corresponding UI-ID of an expert of ID 48 as illustrated in FIG. 4) according to an embodiment of the present invention. Only the operation in the agent control unit is shown. Referring to FIG. 5, when the user feedback event according to the corresponding UI-ID expression of the ID 48 expert as illustrated in FIG. 4 is delivered in step 1802, for example, an event of ID 48 is delivered, the expert manager may receive the received information in step 1804. The alarm event is saved to the blackboard, and the avatar management expert is called in step 1806.

In step 1810, the called avatar management expert changes the avatar emotion value low or high according to the corresponding user feedback event. In step 1814, the controller returns 'NO' to the expert management unit.

As described above, the system-related event processing operation of the mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention can be made. Meanwhile, in the above description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. Can be implemented. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be defined by the described embodiments, but by the claims and equivalents of the claims.

As described above, the embodiment of the present invention adds a character agent function to the mobile terminal to express the generation and processing of the event when the event of the mobile terminal is generated by the corresponding avatar UI. I can express it.

Claims (5)

In the avatar-related event processing method of a mobile terminal, Storing the avatar-related event when it occurs; Identifying an expert preset to process each of the avatar-related events; Calling the identified expert to process the generated avatar-related event; And checking a processing result for each expert who processed the avatar related event and displaying a representation related to a preset processing result for each expert according to the processing result. The method of claim 1, wherein the avatar-related event comprises an avatar avatar value change event, an avatar-related user feedback event, and an alarm event set by an expert performing the avatar-related operation. The method of claim 2, wherein the first expert processing the battery state change event stores preset notification information for each avatar state, and checks corresponding notification information according to the avatar state change. The processing related expression of the first expert is an avatar-related event processing method, characterized in that the expression for notifying the confirmed notification information. The method of claim 2, wherein the second expert processing the second alarm event among the alarm events set by the expert performing the avatar-related operation resets the second alarm event, The processing related expression of the second expert is an avatar related event processing method, characterized in that the expression asking the satisfaction of the avatar. The method of claim 2, wherein the third expert processing the avatar-related user feedback event changes the avatar emotion value in a preset manner according to the content of the feedback event.

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