KR100732207B1 - Method and system for providing cartoon service using network - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing a cartoon service using a network. More particularly, when a cartoon production request or a cartoon viewing request is received from a user terminal through a predetermined website, the user terminal sends a web page related thereto. The present invention relates to a cartoon service providing method and system for providing various web services in association with the produced cartoons and controlling the user to make or view the cartoons through the web page. According to the present invention, there is provided a cartoon service providing method comprising: maintaining a user information database including user information associated with a user (the user information includes user identification information and cartoon information associated with the identification information), a user of a user Receiving a predetermined comic production request or comic viewing request associated with comic production from a terminal through a predetermined website, and providing a predetermined web page associated with comic production or comic viewing to the user terminal (the comic viewing and The predetermined predetermined web page is provided with reference to the user information database), controlling the user to produce or view the cartoon through the provided web page, and when the user completes the production of the cartoon, the produced cartoon Use of the above in connection with identifying information of the user Storing in the child information database, and displaying the stored cartoon in a predetermined publication space.

Network, Online, Comics, Production, Magazine, Relay

Description

Manga service provision method and system using network {METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CARTOON SERVICE USING NETWORK}

1 is a view showing a schematic configuration of a comic book service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a cartoon service using the web according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of a user information database according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen for transmitting a cartoon produced by a user using an e-mail according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a diagram illustrating an example of list information of an interested artist registered by a user according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of a user rating information database according to an embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a web page including a cartoon magazine provided in a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

8 is a diagram showing the internal configuration of the cartoon service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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800: cartoon service delivery system

801: User Information Database

802: receiver

803: provider

804: control unit

805: storage unit

806: display unit

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing a cartoon service using a network. More particularly, when a cartoon production request or a cartoon viewing request is received from a user terminal through a predetermined website, the user terminal sends a web page related thereto. The present invention relates to a cartoon service providing method and system for providing various web services in association with the produced cartoons and controlling the user to make or view the cartoons through the web page.

Recently, due to the development of the high speed data communication network, many people use the Internet, and various kinds of web content services are provided with the increase of the use of the Internet. In particular, cartoons, which were conventionally provided only in print media, have recently been provided on the Internet.

In the conventional comic book providing service, a comic produced offline can be digitalized through a scanning process and posted on the Internet. Therefore, the user can browse the comics posted on the Internet or allow other users to browse the comics that he created offline. However, the above cartoon providing service mainly provides a way for many other users to view the cartoon produced by a specific user, and even if the user publishes the cartoon produced on the internet, the cartoon is not produced on the internet but offline. The manga produced is digitized and posted through scanning and other works.

Therefore, there is a problem in the conventional comic providing service that users can freely make cartoons on the Internet or post the produced cartoons directly on the web and provide them to other users. In addition, there is a problem that the interaction between the users through the cartoon can not be made at all simply by posting the produced cartoon.

Therefore, there is a demand for the emergence of a new method and system for providing a cartoon service that can solve the above problems.

The present invention has been made to improve the prior art as described above, when receiving a manga production request or a comic viewing request through a predetermined website from the user terminal to provide a web page associated with this to the user terminal, the web An object of the present invention is to provide a method and a system for providing a comic service, which controls the user to create or view a comic through a page, and provides various web services in association with the produced comic.

In addition, the method and system for providing a comic service according to the present invention not only posts a comic created on the web directly on the web, but also a posting space desired by the user, rather than a limited publishing space such as e-mail, blog, homepage, community It also supports posting directly, so that users can post comics in various publishing spaces without any troublesome posting process.

In addition, the method and system for providing a cartoon service according to the present invention is easy for a user by transmitting the update information to the user when a cartoon related to production or a cartoon associated with another user registered as an interested user is updated. The purpose of this is to confirm the update information.

In addition, the method and system for providing a comic service according to the present invention provides a user with a space where a comic production and a comic view are performed together through a predetermined website, and various interactions based on the comics of a plurality of users in the website. To increase the.

In order to achieve the above object and to solve the problems of the prior art, the method of providing a comic book service according to the present invention, maintaining a user information database containing user information associated with the user (the user information is the user identification information and the Receiving a predetermined cartoon production request or a cartoon viewing request associated with the cartoon production from a user's user terminal through a predetermined website from a user's user terminal; Providing a predetermined web page associated with the web page associated with the comic view (provided by referring to the user information database), controlling the user to create or view a comic book through the provided web page; Remind when user completes cartoon creation Storing the produced cartoons in the user information database in association with identification information of the user, and displaying the stored cartoons in a predetermined publication space.

In addition, the cartoon service providing system according to another aspect of the present invention, a user information database containing the user information associated with the user (the user information includes cartoon information associated with the identification information of the user), predetermined from the user's user terminal Receiving unit for receiving a predetermined comic production request or comic viewing request associated with the production of comics through the website of, a providing unit for providing a predetermined web page associated with comic production or comic viewing to the user terminal (prescribed associated with the comic viewing The web page of the user is provided with reference to the user information database), a control unit for controlling the user to create or view the comic through the provided web page, when the user completes the production of the comic cartoon of the user The user information in association with identification information A storage unit for storing in a database, and a display unit for displaying the stored cartoon in a predetermined publication space.

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

1 is a view showing a schematic configuration of a comic book service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

When the comic service providing system 100 receives a comic book production request or a comic book request from the user terminal 115, the comic service providing system 100 provides a web page to the user terminal 115, and the user 110 produces a comic book through the web page. Or control to view. In addition, the cartoon service providing system 100 may store the produced cartoon in association with the user 110 in a predetermined database and display the predetermined cartoon in a predetermined publishing space.

The user terminal 115 is a terminal having a computing capability such as a desktop PC, a notebook PC, a PDA, a mobile communication terminal, and the like with a microprocessor.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a cartoon service using the web according to an embodiment of the present invention. The cartoon service providing method according to the present invention may be performed by the cartoon service providing system 100.

First, in step 201, the cartoon service providing system 100 maintains a user information database including user information associated with a user. The user information includes identification information of the user and cartoon information associated with the identification information. Hereinafter, the user information database will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 3.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of a user information database according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the user information database may include fields of a user identifier 301, a rating 302, a messenger address 303, a comic list 304, and an interest user identifier 305.

The user identifier 301 is information for identifying a user, and information unique to each user such as an ID, an alias, and the like of the user may be used as the user identifier 301.

The rating 302 is information indicating a rating of a user associated with the corresponding user identifier 301. The rating 302 may be determined by referring to a user rating information database described below, and the display of user information may be adjusted differently according to the rating 302. .

The messenger address 303 is information indicating a messenger address of a user associated with the corresponding user identifier 301 and updates messenger address 303 with updated information of a comic associated with the user or a comic associated with an interest user identifier 305. Can be sent to.

The cartoon list 304 represents information about a cartoon produced by a user directly associated with the corresponding user identifier 301, and the cartoon list 304 may include one or more cartoons.

The interested user identifier 305 is identification information of the interested user registered by the user associated with the corresponding user identifier 301, and the user may be provided with cartoon information associated with the user registered as the interested user.

In operation 202, the comic service providing system 100 receives a comic request or comic view request associated with comic production from a user's user terminal through a website. The cartoon service providing system 100 according to the present invention may allow the user to directly produce a cartoon or another cartoon based on the cartoon produced by another user. In addition, in the case of reading a cartoon, it is possible to read both a cartoon produced by the user and a cartoon produced by another user.

The website is a website for providing a cartoon service provided by the cartoon service providing system 100 to a user, and the user may access the website and request a cartoon production or a cartoon reading. When the user requests a cartoon production, the user may select a predetermined button associated with the cartoon production included in the website or input a URL address of a web page associated with the cartoon production. On the other hand, when the user requests to view the comics, the user may select a predetermined button associated with the comic view included in the website or input a URL address of the comic view page.

In operation 203, the cartoon service providing system 100 provides a predetermined web page associated with cartoon production or comic viewing to the user terminal. In this case, a predetermined web page associated with the comic view may be provided with reference to the user information database.

When receiving a manga production request from a user, a web page associated with manga production is provided to the user terminal, and the user may make a manga using the web page. The web page may include a predetermined cartoon production tool for generating a cartoon image by combining, arranging or converting predetermined images, and coloring the generated cartoon image.

When receiving a comic view request from the user provides a web page associated with the comic view to the user terminal, the user can view the comic using the web page. The web page may include cartoon list information including a link to a specific cartoon, and a user may select and read a cartoon from the cartoon list.

In operation 204, the cartoon service providing system 100 controls the user to produce or view a cartoon through the provided web page. A user who is provided with a webpage associated with cartoon production may produce a cartoon through the webpage. According to the present invention, the user can produce a new cartoon or a cartoon using another cartoon already produced by the user.

When the user creates a new cartoon, the cartoon can be produced by generating a cartoon image, coloring the generated cartoon image, and generating text associated with the generated image. The produced cartoon may be classified into genres such as comic, action, genuine, culture, adult, and the like based on the contents of the cartoon.

The user can easily create a cartoon image by arranging predetermined pieces of the graphic provided by the cartoon service providing system 100 respectively, and the image pieces can be provided to the user free or for a fee. In this case, the paid picture pieces may include new styles, new kinds of pictures, or very popular pictures, and may be sold to users who wish to produce better quality cartoons. As such, in the case of generating a cartoon image using the paid picture pieces, the user may pay a predetermined amount for the paid picture pieces, so that the operator of the comic service providing system 100 sells the picture pieces. Can make money.

On the other hand, in addition to using the picture pieces provided by the comic book service providing system 100, the user may post the picture pieces of the comics drawn by the user directly on the web. In this case, another user may use the picture fragment that the user directly draws and posts on the web. In addition, a virtual point may be given to the user who posted the picture fragment according to the frequency with which the picture fragment drawn directly and posted on the web is used by other users.

When the user makes a cartoon using a cartoon already produced by another user, a "relay" method of successively producing the contents of the cartoon produced by one or more other users, and changes the text content of the cartoon produced by another user. Manga can be produced using a "play" method or a "coloring" method of changing the coloring of a manga that has been produced by another user.

On the other hand, a user who has received a web page associated with a comic view can view the comics using the webpage, and the user can read the comics produced by the user and the comics produced by another user.

In operation 205, the cartoon service providing system 100 stores the produced cartoon in association with identification information of the user in the user information database when the user completes production of the cartoon.

For example, referring to FIG. 3, when the user identifier of the user is "iron" and the cartoon produced by the user is "round the world," the comic list is associated with the user whose user identifier is "iron" in the user information database. You can save it by adding "round the world".

In operation 206, the comic book service providing system 100 displays the stored comic book in a predetermined publication space. The publishing space is a space associated with the user, for example, a bulletin board for posting a cartoon, and all the cartoons produced by the user may be displayed in the posting space.

The user may allow the posting space to post a cartoon produced by the user or a cartoon produced by another user. In this case, the posting space may be provided separately for each user, and each user may play the same role as a kind of exhibition room in which each user collects his or her favorite cartoons and publishes them. In addition, the user may decorate the posting space to his or her taste using background music, a background picture, etc. desired by the user.

The cartoon displayed in the publication space may be given a rating by one or more other users, and may also allow other users to create a new cartoon using the displayed cartoon. Accordingly, the cartoon service providing system 100 may provide a predetermined point in association with a user who produced a cartoon that is frequently used by other users.

In addition, the cartoon service providing system 100 may receive a predetermined e-mail address or a pre-stored e-mail address from the user, and transmit the produced manga to the input e-mail address.

For example, referring to FIG. 4, the user may directly input an e-mail address to be transmitted to the e-mail address input window 401 or select an e-mail address to be transmitted from a pre-stored e-mail address. In addition, as shown by the reference numeral 403, the title of the cartoon to be sent to the e-mail address or the user information of the cartoon can be attached to send the e-mail.

In the present invention, an e-mail address can be selected through "Find friend 402". When the user clicks "Find friend 402", the user terminal provides a predetermined e-mail address list including one or more e-mail addresses to the user terminal, and the user can select a specific e-mail address from the provided e-mail address list. have.

In addition, the cartoon service providing system 100 may transmit the stored cartoon to a posting space associated with at least one of a blog, a homepage, and a community associated with the user. When the blog, homepage, community is provided by the comic service providing system 100, the It is possible to post a cartoon simply by selecting a predetermined button for posting the produced cartoon to a blog, a homepage, or a community. Accordingly, by allowing the produced cartoon to be transmitted to a blog, a homepage, a community, and the like, the user can directly publish the cartoon in various publishing spaces without a separate process for posting the cartoon to the blog, the homepage, or the community.

In addition, the cartoon service providing system 100 may provide the user with cartoon information associated with the user of interest of the user.

In order to provide cartoon information of the interested user to the user, first, an interest user registration for another user is requested from the user. The user may input identification information of the user who is to be registered as the interested user, for example, a user ID or a user alias, and request registration as the interested user. Next, the requested other user is stored in the user information database as the interested user associated with the identification information of the user, and the update information is provided to the user when the cartoon associated with the stored interested user is updated. For example, when the user of interest generates a new cartoon or modifies a previously produced cartoon, the updated information may be transmitted to the user terminal so that the user may check the updated cartoon.

In addition, a user may register a specific cartoon among cartoons produced by other users, and the registered cartoon may include a link to move directly to the publication space where the cartoon is displayed, if desired by the user, such as a bookmark.

5 is a diagram illustrating an example of list information of an interested artist registered by a user according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

As shown by reference numeral 501 of FIG. 5, when a user requests registration of one or more interested users, user information associated with the requested interested users may be provided to the user terminal. The user information associated with the interested user may include a user rating of the interested user, the number of cartoons produced by the interested user, or most recently produced cartoon information.

The user information database maintains messenger information associated with a user. Therefore, when providing update information of a cartoon to the user terminal, the update information may be provided to a messenger associated with the messenger information. The update information may include an updated cartoon title or a user identifier of the cartoon, and may also include a link to a publication space of the updated cartoon.

That is, when the user is accessing the messenger associated with the messenger address, the update information of the manga associated with the interested user is transmitted to the messenger so that the user does not have to access the manga service providing system 100 to update information about the interested user. Make sure to check.

In addition, the cartoon service providing system 100 may maintain a user rating information database including rating information of a user associated with the user. The rating information of the user includes different icon information according to the corresponding rating, and when the user accesses the cartoon service providing system 100, the icon information of the rating associated with the user may be displayed together. Hereinafter, the user rating information database will be described with reference to FIG. 6.

6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of a user rating information database according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 6, the user's rating may be determined according to the user's score, and each user rating may include a rating icon associated with the corresponding user rating. For example, when a user of the "novice student" grade is connected, "single-lined pencil" may be displayed, and when a user of the "beginner cartoonist" grade is connected, the "single-lined nib" may be displayed.

The user grade information may be determined according to a score selected by referring to at least one or more of recommendation information, inquiry information, continuous production information, text change information, and color change information of another user about the cartoon produced by the user. For example, the score may be determined by the sum of the popularity index and the creation index associated with the user. For example, the recognition index may include "recommendations + total views / 10 + original comics, relays, puns, and coloring. Number / 2 ", and the creative index may be selected as" original + relay, pun, coloring number / 2 ". In addition, the ranking of the user may be selected to the score.

The recommendation information may indicate the number of recommendations of other users of the cartoon produced by the user, and the inquiry information may indicate the number of inquiries of other users of the cartoon produced by the user. Original means the number of cartoons produced and completed by the user. The relay may indicate the number of times that the contents of the produced cartoon are subsequently produced, the pun may change the text contents of the produced cartoon, and the coloring may indicate the number of changes in coloring of the produced cartoon. That is, the rating of the user may be selected with reference to the degree of the cartoon production of the user and the degree of recognition that the produced cartoon is obtained to other users, and the formula for selecting the score may be changed and applied by a system administrator.

In addition, the comic service providing system 100 may provide a comic magazine by the user. The cartoon magazine includes one or more links associated with the display of the produced cartoon or one or more links associated with user information of the user. Hereinafter, the cartoon magazine will be described with reference to FIG. 7.

7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a web page including a cartoon magazine provided in a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 7, the comic magazine may include one or more links 701 associated with the display of the produced comic book and one or more links 702 associated with user information of the comic book. The link 702 may be a link to a web page including the interview information of the corresponding author. That is, a magazine including information of various kinds of comics and authors, such as an offline comic magazine, may be provided.

Hereinafter, a cartoon service providing system according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 8.

8 is a diagram showing the internal configuration of the cartoon service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 8, the cartoon service providing system 800 according to the present invention includes a user information database 801, a receiver 802, a provider 803, a controller 804, a storage 805, and a display. Section 806.

The user information database 801 includes user information associated with a user. The user information may include a user identifier, a user class, a messenger address of the user, a cartoon list associated with the user identifier, and an interest user identifier.

The receiving unit 802 receives a predetermined comic production request or comic viewing request associated with comic production from a user's user terminal through a predetermined website. The website is a website for providing a cartoon service provided by the cartoon service providing system to the user, and the user may access the website and request a cartoon production or a cartoon reading.

The providing unit 803 provides the user terminal with a predetermined web page associated with cartoon production or comic view. The cartoon production and the associated web page may include a predetermined cartoon production tool for generating an image, color, and text of the cartoon, and the web page associated with the comic view may include cartoon list information including a link to a specific cartoon. It may include.

The controller 804 controls the user to produce or view a cartoon through the provided web page. The controller 804 may control the user to make a new cartoon or to produce a cartoon using a cartoon already produced by another user. In addition, the controller 804 may control the user to view a cartoon produced by the user and a cartoon produced by another user.

The storage unit 805 stores the produced cartoon in association with the identification information of the user when the user completes the production of the cartoon in the user information database.

The display unit 806 displays the stored cartoon in a predetermined publication space. In addition, the display unit 806 may transmit the stored cartoon to a posting space associated with at least one of a blog, a homepage, and a community associated with the user. In addition, a predetermined e-mail address may be input from the user or a pre-stored e-mail address may be selected, and the produced cartoon may be transmitted to the input e-mail address.

The method of providing a comic book service using a network 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 claims below, but also by the equivalents of the claims.

According to the present invention, when receiving a comic production request or a comic viewing request from a user terminal through a predetermined website, providing a web page related to the user terminal, the user through the web page to produce or view the comics The present invention can provide a comic service providing method and system for providing various web services in association with the produced comic book.

In addition, according to the present invention, by posting a cartoon produced by the user directly on the web, as well as by posting directly in the publishing space desired by the user rather than a limited publishing space such as e-mail, blog, homepage, community Allow users to post comics in a variety of publishing spaces without the hassle of posting.

In addition, according to the present invention, if the cartoon involved in the production or the cartoon associated with the other user registered as the user of interest is updated, the user can easily check the update information by transmitting the update information to the user can do.

In addition, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a user with a space in which a cartoon production and a cartoon reading are performed through a predetermined website, and increase various interactions based on the cartoons of a plurality of users in the website.

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In the method of providing a cartoon service using a network, Maintaining a user information database comprising user information associated with a user, wherein the user information includes identification information of the user and comic information associated with the identification information; Receiving a predetermined comic production request or comic viewing request associated with comic production from a user's user terminal through a predetermined website, and providing a predetermined webpage associated with comic production or comic viewing to the user terminal; Controlling the user to produce or view a cartoon through the provided web page, and storing the produced cartoon in the user information database in association with identification information of the user when the user completes production of the cartoon; Displaying the stored cartoon in a predetermined publication space; Receiving a predetermined e-mail address or selecting a pre-stored e-mail address from the user and transmitting the produced comic book; Transmitting the stored cartoon to a publishing space associated with at least one of a blog, a homepage, and a community associated with the user; And Providing a comic magazine comprising one or more links associated with the display of the produced comic book or one or more links associated with user information of the user Including, And the web page comprises a cartoon creation tool for generating a cartoon image by combining, arranging or converting images, and coloring the generated cartoon image. delete delete The method of claim 1, Receiving an interest user registration request for another user from the user; Storing the requested other user as an interested user associated with the identification information of the user in the user information database; And Providing update information of the comics associated with the interested user to the user terminal; Cartoon service providing method characterized in that it further comprises. The method of claim 4, wherein The user information database further maintains messenger information associated with the user, And providing the update information of the comic to the user terminal comprises transmitting the updated information to a messenger associated with the messenger information. The method of claim 1, Maintaining a user rating information database including rating information of a user associated with the user, wherein the rating information of the user includes different icon information according to the rating; More, Selecting a user rating of the user by referring to the user rating information database; And Displaying corresponding icon information according to the selected user level; Cartoon service providing method comprising a. The method of claim 6, The user rating information is selected by referring to at least one of recommendation information, inquiry information, continuous production information, text change information, and color change information of another user with respect to the cartoon associated with the user. . The method of claim 6, The user rating information is selected by referring to at least one or more of the original cartoon production information, continuous production information, text change information, color change information of the user. delete The method of claim 1, The step of controlling the user to produce a cartoon, Creating a cartoon image by arranging a predetermined picture piece provided through the web page, The figure sculpture is a cartoon service providing method, characterized in that provided to the user free or paid according to the style, type or popularity. The method of claim 10, Posting the user-created picture fragment on the web page; And Assigning a predetermined virtual point to the user according to the frequency of use of the other user by the piece of the picture Cartoon service providing method characterized in that it further comprises. 12. A computer readable recording medium storing a program for executing the method of any one of claims 1, 4, 8, 10 or 11. In the system for providing a cartoon service using a network, A user information database comprising user information associated with a user, the user information comprising cartoon information associated with identification information of the user; A providing unit which receives a predetermined cartoon production request or a cartoon viewing request associated with cartoon production from a user's user terminal through a predetermined website, and provides a predetermined web page associated with cartoon production or cartoon viewing to the user terminal; A control unit which controls the user to produce or view a cartoon through the provided web page; A storage unit for storing the produced cartoons in the user information database in association with identification information of the user when the user completes the production of the cartoons; A display unit configured to display the stored cartoon in a predetermined publication space; A cartoon transmission unit which receives a predetermined e-mail address from the user or selects a pre-stored e-mail address and transmits the produced cartoon; A cartoon posting unit for transmitting the stored cartoon to a publishing space associated with at least one of a blog, a homepage, and a community associated with the user; And Cartoon magazine providing unit for providing a cartoon magazine containing one or more links associated with the display of the produced cartoon or one or more links associated with the user information of the user Including, The web page generates a cartoon image by combining, arranging or transforming the images, and a cartoon production tool for coloring the generated cartoon image Cartoon service providing system comprising a.

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