KR100714679B1 - Portable apparatus and method for providing character-image - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a portable terminal device and a method for providing a text image. According to an aspect of the present invention, a portable terminal device includes a user interface module for receiving text data and text information about the text data from a user, and a public network. A public network for transmitting a signal including the text data and the text information to a server connected through the server, and receiving a text image from the server, the text data is edited by the text information, and the edited text data is converted into image data. Receives the text data and the text information from the transmission and reception module and the user interface module to the public network transmission and reception module, and receives the text image from the public network transmission and reception module to provide to the user through the user interface module. Includes a control module.

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Description

Portable apparatus and method for providing a character image {Portable apparatus and method for providing character-image}

1 is an exemplary view showing a system for providing a text image according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram showing the structure of a mobile phone for providing a text image according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is an XML code representing a user interface in which text is input according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is an XML code representing a character image according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a text image according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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110: cell phone

112: control module

114: user interface module

116: public network transmission and reception module

118: storage module

120: external device interface module

The present invention relates to a portable terminal device, and more particularly, to a method of converting a text displayed on a display screen of a portable terminal device into an image.

As portable terminal devices, which perform communication functions such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) and are equipped with various application programs, are widely used, users are demanding more various functions. In particular, with the advent of portable terminal devices with cameras, the functional area of the portable terminal device is further expanded.

Users may take various objects, people, scenery, etc. by using a portable terminal device with a camera and store them in the form of an image file or transmit them to another user's portable terminal device. In addition, a portable terminal device may be connected to an output device such as a printer to output a desired image file.

However, in the related art, there is no environment in which a user inserts a character of a specific font into an image appearing on a display screen of a portable terminal device to simultaneously output an image and a character, or the user can freely specify a font or size of the character.

The portable terminal device may be equipped with an application program that provides all of the above functions, but in this case, there is a problem in that a huge system resource is required.

Therefore, by fully utilizing the system resources of the conventional portable terminal device, the user inserts a character of a desired font in an image displayed on a display screen of the portable terminal device, and further freely designates the size of the character to combine the characters. There is a need for a way to output the image.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to convert a character having a font desired by a user into a text image in a portable terminal device.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a method of displaying an image in which various types of characters are combined and displayed on a display screen of a portable terminal device by specifying a character size, a character color, etc. in addition to the font of the character. .

The objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects that are not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

In order to achieve the above object, a portable terminal device for providing a text image according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a user interface module for receiving text data and text information on the text data from a user, and a server connected through a public network. A public network transmission / reception module and the user for transmitting a signal including text data and the text information, and receiving a text image from which the text data is edited by the text information and the edited text data is converted into image data from the server; A control module for receiving the text data and the text information from an interface module and transmitting the text data and the text information to the public network transmission / reception module, and receiving the text image from the public network transmission / reception module and providing the text image to a user through the user interface module. .

In addition, in order to achieve the above object, the method for providing a text image according to an embodiment of the present invention (a) receiving text data and text information for the text data from a user, and to a server connected through a public network (B) transmitting a signal including the text data and the text information, and receiving a text image from the server, wherein the text data is edited by the text information and the edited text data is converted into image data. (C) providing the user.

Specific details of other embodiments are included in the detailed description and the drawings.

Advantages and features of the present invention and methods for achieving them will be apparent with reference to the embodiments described below in detail with the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments disclosed below, but can be implemented in various different forms, and only the embodiments make the disclosure of the present invention complete, and the general knowledge in the art to which the present invention belongs. It is provided to fully inform the person having the scope of the invention, which is defined only by the scope of the claims. Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to a block diagram or a flowchart illustrating a portable terminal device and method for providing a text image according to embodiments of the present invention. At this point, it will be understood that each block of the flowchart illustrations and combinations of flowchart illustrations may be performed by computer program instructions. Since these computer program instructions may be mounted on a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing equipment, those instructions executed through the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing equipment may be described in flow chart block (s). The instrument may be adapted to create means for performing the functions. These computer program instructions may be stored in a computer usable or computer readable memory that can be directed to a computer or other programmable data processing equipment to implement functionality in a particular manner, and thus the computer usable or computer readable memory. It is also possible for the instructions stored in to produce an article of manufacture containing instruction means for performing the functions described in the flowchart block (s). Computer program instructions It is also possible to mount on a computer or other programmable data processing equipment, so that a series of operating steps are performed on the computer or other programmable data processing equipment to create a computer-implemented process to perform the computer or other programmable data processing equipment. It is also possible for the instructions to provide steps for performing the functions described in the flowchart block (s).

On the other hand, in order to facilitate the description of the present invention, a mobile phone will be described as an example of a portable terminal device and a printer will be described as an example of an output device. In addition, hereinafter, when the character data having character information such as an arbitrary font, size, color, etc. is converted into image data, the image data is referred to as a 'character image'.

1 is an exemplary view showing a system for providing a text image according to an embodiment of the present invention, the system is a server connected to the public network 130 and the public network 130, such as a mobile phone 110 and a wireless telephone network used by the user The printer 170 is connected to the mobile phone 110 and outputs an image stored in the mobile phone 110.

It is assumed that the user wants to insert a character, for example, text 'Happy Birthday', into an image already stored in the mobile phone 110 using the mobile phone 110.

First, the user inputs the text 'Happy Birthday' through the text input menu provided by the mobile phone 110 and specifies text information such as font, size, and color of the text. Then, the text and the text information is transmitted to the server 150 through the public network (130). At this time, the server 150 has a function to edit the characters, each country has a character and information, such as font, size, color, etc., using this information to edit a specific character, edited Convert a character to an image. That is, the server 150 functions to generate a text image.

Therefore, when the server 150 receives the text and the text information from the mobile phone 110, the server 150 generates the text image and transmits the text image to the mobile phone 110 through the public network 130.

The mobile phone 110 shows the received text image to the user, and may be synthesized with the already stored image or stored as a separate text image file according to the user's selection. In addition, a user synthesizes a text image with an already stored image and outputs it to the printer 170, or delivers a document described in a markup language that defines a screen including the text image to the printer 170. You can also output

The communication method between the mobile phone 110 and the printer 170 uses a USB, Bluetooth communication method or follows a protocol for outputting information stored in the mobile phone 110 to the printer 170 according to a conventional technique. Can be.

2 is a block diagram showing a structure of a mobile phone for providing a text image according to an embodiment of the present invention, a user interface module 114, a control module 112, a public network transmission and reception module 116, an external device interface module 120 ), Storage module 118.

The user interface module 114 provides a user interface for allowing a user to enter text and to select text information for the text, and receives the text and the text information from the user.

The public network transceiver module 116 transmits a signal including the text data and the text information to a server connected through the public network 130. Then, a text image is received from the server.

The control module 112 receives the text data and the text information from the user interface module 114, transmits the text data and the text information to the public network transmission / reception module 116, and receives the text image from the public network transmission / reception module 116 to receive the user interface module. Provided to the user through 114.

The storage module 118 stores the text image according to a user's selection.

The external device interface module 120 transmits to the printer 170 a document described in a markup language defining an image combined with the text image or a screen including the text image.

In this case, the 'module' refers to a hardware component such as software or a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), and the module plays a role. However, modules are not meant to be limited to software or hardware. The module may be configured to be in an addressable storage medium and may be configured to execute one or more processors. Thus, as an example, a module may include components such as software components, object-oriented software components, class components, and task components, and processes, functions, properties, procedures, subroutines. , Segments of program code, drivers, firmware, microcode, circuits, data, databases, data structures, tables, arrays, and variables. The functionality provided by the components and modules may be combined into a smaller number of components and modules or further separated into additional components and modules.

Hereinafter, the operation between the respective modules will be described in detail.

When the user selects a menu for inputting text provided by the mobile phone 110, the UI module 114 provides an area for inputting text to the user.

After the user inputs the desired text, the user interface module 114 provides an interface for specifying character information such as font, size, and colors of the text, and the user selects the desired font, size, and colors. In this case, the user may select only one piece of text information or an initial value may be set for the text information not selected. In this case, the text and character information input by the user may be represented by XML, which is illustrated in FIG. 3. That is, in the 'font' element of the 'image1_text' class, the user inputs the text 'Happy Birthday', and it is selected that the font is italic, the size is 1, and the color is blue. Can be.

The user interface module 114 receives text and text information from the user and transmits the text and text information to the control module 112. The control module 112 transmits the text and text information to the server 150 connected to the public network transmission / reception module 116.

As described above, the server 150 generates a text image, transmits the generated text image back to the mobile phone 110 through the public network 130, and the public network transmission / reception module 116 of the mobile phone 110 transmits the text image. Receive

The control module 112 receives the text image from the public network transmission / reception module 116 and transmits the text image to the user interface module 114, and the user interface module 114 displays the text image on the screen of the mobile phone 110 to the user. do. In this case, the displayed text image may be combined with an image already stored in the mobile phone 110 according to a user's selection, and this function may be performed by the control module 112. The synthesized image may be output to the printer 170 through the external device interface module 120. In addition, the user may store the text image or the synthesized image in the storage module 118.

In addition, the external device interface module 120 may transmit a document described in a markup language that defines a screen including the text image to the printer 170 instead of the synthesized image. In this case, the printer 170 should have a function to interpret the document and perform an operation accordingly. The document may be generated by the user interface module 114 or the control module 112, an example of which is shown in FIG. It is shown. That is, it indicates that the source of the character image is "image / happy.png" in the 'img' element of the 'image1_text' class.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a text image according to an embodiment of the present invention.

By the user's selection, an image editing application program embedded in the mobile phone 110 is executed (S510). At this time, the image editing application program provides a function that allows the user to output the image displayed on the screen by connecting to another output device, and also allows the user to input text specific to the image displayed on the screen, and font on the input text. It provides an interface for selecting character information representing attributes such as, size, and color.

When the user selects text and text information (S520), the mobile phone 110 transmits the text and text information to the server 150 (S530).

The server 150 generates the text image by applying the received text information to the text (S540), and transmits the generated text image back to the mobile phone 110 (S550).

Upon receiving the text image from the server 150, the mobile phone 110 synthesizes the text image with another image already stored in the mobile phone 110 according to a user's selection, or defines a screen including a text image including a text image ( A document described in Markup Language) is generated (S560). Then, when the synthesized image or the document is transmitted to the printer 170 (S570), the printer 170 outputs the synthesized image or processes the document to output the corresponding image (S580).

The present invention described above is capable of various substitutions, modifications, and changes without departing from the spirit of the present invention for those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. It is not limited to drawing.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a user applies attributes such as font, size, color, etc. to text input using a portable terminal device, and synthesizes the text to which these attributes are applied, and outputs the result by combining with other images. There is.

Claims (5)

A user interface module for receiving text data and text information on the text data from a user; Sends a signal including the text data and the text information to a server connected through a public network, and after the text data is edited by the text information by the server, the edited text data is converted into image data Public network transmission and reception module for receiving; And A character including a control module that receives the text data and the text information from the user interface module and transmits the text data and the text information to the public network transmission / reception module, and receives the text image from the public network transmission / reception module and provides the text image to a user through the user interface module. Portable terminal device for providing an image. The method of claim 1, The text information may include a text image including font information, text size information, or color information of text. The method of claim 1, And a external device interface module configured to receive an image including the text image from the control module and transmit the image to the device for outputting the image. (A) receiving, by the portable terminal device, text data and text information on the text data from a user; (B) transmitting, by the portable terminal device, a signal including the text data and the text information to a server connected through a public network; (C) receiving, by the server, the text data after the text data has been edited by the text information, and providing the user with a text image in which the edited text data has been converted into image data. How to give it. The method of claim 4, wherein The step (c) further comprises the step of outputting an image including the received text image.

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