KR101295197B1 - Player for e-book, editing and playing method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An electronic book player and an editing/playing method thereof provide various electronic book contents reflecting a user's style or preferences by offering display windows of multimedia data and a dynamic link library file activating the multimedia data at appropriate positions. CONSTITUTION: A data storage unit (700) stores multimedia data and an activation part providing unit (300) provides activation parts (1A-1D) to activate the multimedia data. A coordinate data editing unit (970) sets up layout coordinates for a notification window on a display window which appears when the activation parts get launched. A control unit (500) generates an electronic book's page data comprised of information used to selectively link the activation parts, the notification window coordinates, the multimedia data, the activation parts' style option list setting data. The control unit generates the notification window on one display window as the execution results of a piece of the page data.

Description

Player for E-book, Editing and Playing Method

The present invention relates to an e-book player and a method for editing and playing the same, and more particularly, to provide a variety of contents in an e-book form by linking multimedia data and a dynamic link library providing a function of activating the data. E-book player and its editing and playing method.

Electronic Book (ebook) Contents production is a new information transmission medium that conveniently improves the online inconvenience of publishing and distributing paper books online. It still follows the offline paper book publishing method, reducing the usefulness of the e-book content.

In addition, although the user wants to receive and edit the e-book content according to his or her own style or inclination, there is a problem that the utilization and usage rate of the e-book content decreases because the e-book content set mainly for the publisher, the e-book publisher, is provided to the user as it is. .

Republic of Korea Patent Application Publication No. 10-2012-0110651

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problem, and links the multimedia data and the dynamic link library for activating the multimedia data in the form of various graphics desired by the user, and then links them to one or more display windows at an appropriate position on the display. By arranging and providing the e-book in the form of an e-book, an e-book player capable of providing e-book contents according to a user's desired style or inclination and a method of editing and playing the same are provided.

E-book player of the present invention for achieving the above object, a data storage unit for storing multimedia data; An activation part providing unit providing an activation part for activating multimedia data; A coordinate data editing unit for setting layout coordinate information of a display window occupied in a display window when the active component is executed; And information for selectively linking an active part of the active part providing unit, layout coordinate information of a display window set through the coordinate data editing unit, multimedia data selected from the data storage unit, and style option list setting data of the active part. A control unit for generating page data is included.

The e-book may be composed of aggregated data including cover data, table of contents data, and page data.

The cover data and the page data each include any one of a title of the data, a creator of the data, a brief description of the data, a date of creation of the data, a globally unique identifier, index information for data retrieval, or reference data for recording the source of the data. Can be.

The multimedia data and the activating part are stored separated by a globally unique identifier; The aggregated data may be stored in a single folder identified by a globally unique identifier or as a single encrypted file after the single folder is compressed.

The active part providing unit includes a display execution unit which is an execution function for displaying a display window with layout coordinate information set through the coordinate data editing unit when the active part is executed; When the activation part is executed through the display execution unit and displayed on the display window, the activation option execution unit may be included, which is an execution function that provides a list of style options so that the representation of the screen may be displayed in various kinds.

The controller may allow a plurality of display windows to be simultaneously generated on one display window as a result of executing one of the plurality of page data.

If it is desired to simultaneously generate a plurality of display windows on one display window, the display window screen number editing unit may be configured to selectively set or edit the same screen number in the plurality of page data.

Even if only one page data among a plurality of page data having the same screen number information is executed, the plurality of page data having the same screen number information can be executed simultaneously.

When page data having the same screen number information is executed, execution of page data having other screen number information other than that can be released.

The plurality of display windows may include any one or more of a fixed window in which the coordinate information occupied by the display window does not change when the active component is executed, or a dynamic window in which the coordinate information may be changed.

The active part stored in the active part providing unit may be data of a DLL type, a plug-in type, or an add-on type.

In addition, the e-book editing method of the present invention for achieving the above object is an e-book editing method for generating the cover data, table of contents data and page data constituting the e-book, (a) multimedia at the time of execution of the page data An activation part selection step of selecting and linking an activation part providing an activation function of displaying data; (b) a coordinate data editing step of setting layout coordinate information of a display window displayed when executing an activation part linked to page data through the activation part selection step; And (c) a file selection step of selecting multimedia data which is executed and displayed according to an activation part linked to the page data. and (d) selecting an activation option from a list of style options provided by the activation part so that the multimedia data selected in the page data can be displayed in various kinds of representations.

The coordinate data editing step may further include a display window screen number editing step of generating a plurality of display windows simultaneously displayed on one display window by executing a plurality of page data.

The display window screen number editing step may include generating a fixed window in which the coordinate information occupied by the display window displayed as a result of the execution of the active part in the display window or a dynamic window in which the coordinate information can be changed. .

After selecting the activation option, the aggregate data of the cover data, table of contents data and page data constituting the e-book is stored in a single folder separated by a globally unique identifier, or the single folder is compressed and then encrypted and then a single file. It may include the step of generating the e-book stored as.

In addition, the e-book player method of the present invention for achieving the above object is an e-book comprising multimedia data linked to the active part, (a) a page selection step of selecting the page constituting the e-book; (b) an activation step of applying an activation part linked to multimedia data included in a page selected through the page selection step; And (c) a play step in which multimedia data activated through the activation step is executed and displayed in any one style selected from a style option list.

The page selecting step may further include selecting a plurality of screen numbers of pages for simultaneously executing a plurality of display windows.

In the play step, a plurality of pages having the same screen number information may simultaneously execute a plurality of display windows on one display window.

In the play step, if any one of a plurality of pages having the same screen number is selected and played, the remaining pages may be played simultaneously.

In the play step, if another page is selected and played, the application of the activated component linked to the page that has already been selected and played may be released.

According to the e-book player of the present invention as described above and the editing and playing method thereof, the dynamic link library for activating the multimedia data in the form of multimedia data and various graphics desired by the user is linked to the appropriate location on the display. By providing one or a plurality of display windows in the form of an e-book, an e-book player capable of providing e-book contents according to a desired style or inclination, and an editing method of the e-book can be provided.

In addition, the dynamic link library used in the e-book player has various functions for representing multimedia data. Therefore, in the market, the user of the e-book player functions as a consumer who purchases a dynamic link library that matches his or her taste. By developing a link library and serving as a supplier to the market, they can eventually meet on a platform called e-book player and create a multimedia market including new e-books.

1 is a block diagram showing an e-book player according to an embodiment of the present invention,
2 is a flowchart illustrating an e-book editing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a block diagram illustrating a method of editing an e-book according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is an exemplary view illustrating a cover and a table of contents editing in an e-book editing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is an exemplary view illustrating an active part providing unit in an e-book editing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 to 9 are exemplary views illustrating page editing in an e-book editing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
10 is an exemplary view illustrating a layout setting in an e-book editing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 11 is an exemplary view illustrating target data selection in an e-book editing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
12 is an exemplary diagram illustrating an option selection in an e-book editing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
13 is an exemplary view showing a result screen through selection of an option in an e-book editing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
14 is a view showing an example of an e-book produced through the e-book editing method according to an embodiment of the present invention,
15 is an exemplary view illustrating an example in which data is stored in an e-book editing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
16 is a flowchart illustrating a method of playing an e-book according to an embodiment of the present invention.
17 to 18 are diagrams for explaining an e-book playing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention.

1 is a block diagram showing an e-book player according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for editing an e-book according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 3 4 is a block diagram illustrating a method of editing an e-book according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is an exemplary view illustrating a cover and a table of contents editing in an e-book editing method according to an embodiment of the present invention. 5 is an exemplary view illustrating an active part providing unit in an e-book editing method according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 6 to 9 are pages in the e-book editing method according to an embodiment of the present invention. 10 is an exemplary diagram for explaining the editing, FIG. 10 is an exemplary diagram for explaining the layout setting in the e-book editing method according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 11 is an embodiment of the present invention FIG. 12 is an exemplary view illustrating a selection of target data in an e-book editing method according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 12 is an exemplary view illustrating an option selection in an e-book editing method according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the e-book editing method according to an embodiment of the present invention is an exemplary view of a result screen through the selection of options, Figure 14 shows an example of an e-book produced through the e-book editing method according to an embodiment of the present invention. 15 is an exemplary diagram illustrating an example in which data is stored in an e-book editing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

The e-book player according to an embodiment of the present invention may be implemented as software in the form of an application running on a PC or an application running on a smartphone, a smart pad, or the like.

As illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 3, the e-book player according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an input unit 100, an active component providing unit 300, a control unit 500, a data storage unit 700, and a display unit. 900, the coordinate data editing unit 970 is included.

The input unit 100 may be a keyboard or a mouse which constitutes a PC, and the display unit 900 may be a monitor which constitutes a PC.

In the case of a touch type monitor or a device using a touch screen such as a smart phone and a smart pad, the input unit 100 and the display unit 900 may be integrally formed.

The data storage unit 700 stores multimedia data such as video, audio, image, text, and the like, and combines two or more of video, audio, image, and text. It may be stored as the formed content.

In addition, the data storage unit 700 stores various setting data files required for producing an e-book according to the present invention.

The activation component providing unit 300 stores activation component data providing an activation function so that multimedia data stored in the data storage unit 700 can be activated.

In the present invention, the dynamic linking library (hereinafter referred to as 'DLL') data is stored and used as an active part data providing an activation function on the Microsoft Windows operating system, the DLL is the data It provides an activation function so that the multimedia data stored in the storage unit 700 can be activated.

For reference, DLL data is data used to provide an activation function on a Windows operating system, and plug-in and add-on data may be used to provide an activation function depending on the operating system.

The activated component provider 300 may store a plurality of DLL data classified according to an activation function.

For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the DLL data is stored with a globally unique identifier (GUID) that is not duplicated as 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, etc. for each activation function. May be divided into a function of activating the display, a function of activating the video data, and a function of activating the image data.

The active part providing unit 300 may have two execution units.

One of them is a display execution unit 310 which is an execution function for displaying the display window 940 according to the layout coordinate information set by the coordinate data editing unit 970 when the active component is executed, and the other is the display execution unit ( When the activation component is executed through 310 and displayed on the display window 940, the activation component execution unit 330 is provided as an execution function that provides a list of style options so that various representations of the screen may be displayed.

The style option list provided by the multimedia data and activation option execution unit 330 is stored through a global unique identifier so as not to be duplicated.

The coordinate data editing unit 970 sets layout coordinate information of the display window 940 occupied on the display window 980 when the active component is executed.

The controller 500 controls the e-book player to create, edit, and play the e-book, and display the output on the display 900.

As illustrated in FIG. 3, the e-book includes set data 910 including cover data 920, table of contents data 930, and page data 6A, 6B, 6C, and 6D; do.

The page data 915 includes information for selectively linking an active part of the activation part providing unit 300, layout coordinate information of the display window 940 set through the coordinate data editing unit 970, and the data storage unit 700. In the selected multimedia data, the active part is configured to include the style option list setting data.

On the other hand, the activation part linked to the page data 915 is not inserted into the actual activation part, the activation part stored in the activation part provider 300 is linked to be inserted.

In this way, the data amount of the page data can be reduced.

Hereinafter, a process of editing an e-book through the e-book player according to the present invention will be described.

First, the e-book player provided in the form of an application or an application is operated by operating the input unit 100.

Subsequently, as shown in FIG. 4, as the edit screen state of the e-book player displayed on the display unit 900, a screen on which the aggregate data 910 is displayed is displayed.

Next, the cover data 920 is set to have a book shape (S101), and the table of contents data 930 is set (S102).

The label data 920 is set with a title of the data, a maker of the data, a brief description of the data, a date of creation of the data, a globally unique identifier, index information for data retrieval, and reference data for recording the source of the data.

Subsequently, the page data 915 constituting the table of contents data 930 is set on the screen on which the aggregate data 910 is displayed (S103).

Subsequently, as shown in FIG. 5, the active component to be linked to the page data is selected (S104).

In the present invention, since the DLL data is used as an activation part, when the activation part is called, DLL data providing various activation functions are displayed, and the user may select the desired DLL data.

On the other hand, the setting can be changed for the page data already set.

As shown in Fig. 6, a page edit window for editing the settings of the page data is displayed, the title of the data, the author of the data, a brief description of the data, the date of creation of the data, a globally unique identifier, and index information for data retrieval. And reference data recording the source of the data, and already linked active parts, etc., may be changed to other ones.

As shown in FIG. 7 through the page editing window, one display window 940 is generated in one display window 980, or one display window 980a as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, respectively. , 980b may also generate a plurality of display windows 940a, 940b, 940c, 940d, and 940e.

As shown in Figs. 8 and 9, in order to generate a plurality of display windows simultaneously on one display window, the same screen number may be set in the plurality of display windows.

The display windows 940a and 940b illustrated in FIG. 8 may be displayed together on one display window 980a since the screen numbers of the display windows corresponding to the reference numeral 980a are set.

That is, when it is desired to simultaneously generate a plurality of display windows 940a and 940b in one display window 980a, a display window screen number editing unit may be provided for selectively setting or editing the same screen number in the plurality of page data. have.

Likewise, the display windows 940c, 940d, and 940e illustrated in FIG. 9 may be displayed together on one display window 980b because screen numbers of display windows corresponding to the reference numeral 980b are set.

In addition, the display windows may be configured as a fixed window that does not change the coordinate information occupied by the display window in the display window when the active component is executed or a dynamic window in which the coordinate information may be changed.

Display windows corresponding to reference numerals 940a, 940c, and 940d represent examples of fixed windows, and reference numerals 940b and 940e represent examples of dynamic windows.

Next, as shown in FIG. 10, coordinate information of the display window displayed when the active component linked to the page data is executed through the coordinate data editing unit 970 is set (S105).

8 and 9, when a plurality of display windows 940a, 940b, 940c, 940d, and 940e are set in one display window 980a and 980b, the respective display windows are displayed when the active component is executed. Set the coordinate information.

Subsequently, as shown in FIG. 11, the multimedia data to be inserted into the page data at which the coordinate information is set when the activation component is executed is retrieved from the data storage unit 700 and displayed.

As shown in FIG. 11, the multimedia data stored in the data storage unit 700 is displayed through the data selector 950, and the user inserts into page data of the multimedia data displayed through the data selector 950. The multimedia data desired to be selected can be selected (S106).

Next, as shown in FIG. 12, the style option list 960 provides a list of style options to be displayed in various types when the active component is executed and displayed in the page data. The display type may be selected to display data (S107).

For example, the style option list displayed in the style option selector 960 may be displayed as Scatter style, Book style, Cloud style, Listbox style, Carousel style, Library Container style, etc. in the case of image data.

Subsequently, when one display type is selected from the list of style options, multimedia data activated by the active component is displayed on the display window through the display execution unit 310.

FIG. 13 illustrates an example in which multimedia data displayed by any one type of option list provided through the option execution unit 330 is displayed on a display window of a dynamic window type.

In this way, the step S103 to step S107 are repeated to store the page data 915 constituting the set data 910 (S108), so that the e-book 990 is formed in an actual book form as shown in FIG. I can produce it.

As described above, the e-book 990 manufactured in the form of a book is stored in a single folder generated by being classified as a global division creator as shown in FIG. 15 in the data storage unit 700, or the e-book 990 is The single stored folder may be compressed and encrypted into a single file and stored in the data storage 700.

Here, the reason for storing the e-book 990 in a single folder is for convenience when the e-book 990 is driven later, and the reason for storing the e-book 990 in a single file is a communication network. This is for convenience when transmitting via.

FIG. 16 is a flowchart illustrating a method of playing an e-book according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 17 to 18 illustrate examples of an e-book playing method according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is also.

As shown in FIG. 14, when the e-book 990 is completed and displayed through the display unit 900, and the user selects the e-book 990 that he wishes to view through the input unit 100, the e-book 990 is displayed in FIG. 17. As shown, a cover 991 made of cover data 920 of the e-book 990 and a table of contents 993 made of table of contents data 930 are displayed (S201).

Next, as shown in FIG. 18, the table of contents 993 is selected to open a page 995 composed of page data 915 (S202).

Another e-book may be selected and displayed (S203).

Next, the page desired to be viewed is selected from the expanded pages 995 (S204).

There may be a display window formed as a result of the execution of the plurality of pages (S205), and if the display window consisting of the plurality of pages is selected (S206), an active part corresponding to each of the plurality of pages included in the display window may be selected. There is (S207).

Subsequently, the selected active part is loaded and executed (S208), and a display window is displayed according to preset coordinate information (S209).

Subsequently, control of the position of the data stored in each page and the execution information is transferred to the executed active part (S210).

Subsequently, the multimedia data inserted in each page is displayed in a selected display form from the list of style options provided by the active component (S211).

In addition, if the page is in the form of a dynamic window, coordinate information of the page may be changed through the input unit 100.

When a plurality of pages exist in one display window, the plurality of pages each have the same screen number information. Therefore, even if only one of these pages is executed, the remaining pages are executed simultaneously.

Subsequently, when a page existing in another display window that is not being displayed is newly selected (S212), the active component loaded in the page data is released and the previously displayed display window is closed. That is, the play request is requested to the executed active part (S213), the memory used by the executed active part is initialized (S214), and only the page existing in the newly selected one display window is executed.

This allows optimal use of finite resources such as computer CPU speed and memory size.

In addition, when the display window previously displayed in step S212 is closed and then reopened, the execution result may be removed only on the screen so that the execution result does not change.

Meanwhile, the electronic book editing method according to the steps S101 to S108 and the electronic book playing method according to the steps S201 to 214 according to the present invention can be programmed and stored on a recording medium such as a CD-ROM, a memory, a ROM, or an EEPROM to be read by a computer. You can also save it.

In the above description, the present invention has been described with reference to preferred embodiments, but the present invention is not necessarily limited thereto, and a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains does not depart from the technical spirit of the present invention. It will be readily appreciated that various substitutions, modifications and variations can be made.

700: data storage unit 300: active part providing unit
500: control unit 940: display window
970: coordinate data editing unit 980: display window

Claims (22)

A data storage unit 700 storing multimedia data;
An activation part providing unit 300 for providing activation parts 1A, 1B, 1C, and 1D for activating multimedia data;
A coordinate data editing unit 970 for setting layout coordinate information of the display window 940 occupied by the display window 980 when the active component is executed; And
Information for selectively linking an active part of the active part providing unit 300, layout coordinate information of the display window 940 set through the coordinate data editing unit 970, multimedia data selected from the data storage unit 700, and activation The control unit 500 is configured to generate the page data 915 of the e-book consisting of the style option list setting data of the part.
The control unit (500) is an e-book player, characterized in that as a result of the execution of one of a plurality of page data, a plurality of display windows (940) are simultaneously generated on one display window (980). The e-book player according to claim 1, wherein the e-book comprises set data (910) including cover data (920), table of contents data (930), and page data (915). 3. The cover data 920 and the page data 915 each include a title of the data, a creator of the data, a brief description of the data, a date of creation of the data, a globally unique identifier, index information or data for data retrieval. E-book player, characterized in that any one of the reference data to record the source of. 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the multimedia data and the active part are stored separated by a globally unique identifier; The aggregate data (910) is stored in a single folder identified by a globally unique identifier, or the e-book player, characterized in that stored in a single encrypted file after compressing the single folder. The method of claim 1, wherein the active component provider 300
A display execution unit 310 which is an execution function for displaying the display window 940 with layout coordinate information set by the coordinate data editing unit 970 when the active component is executed; Activation option execution unit 330, which is an execution function that provides a list of style options so that when the activation component is executed through the display execution unit 310 and displayed on the display window 940, the representation of the screen can be displayed in various kinds. E-book player, characterized in that it is configured to include. delete The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a display window screen number editing unit for selectively setting or editing the same screen number in a plurality of page data when it is desired to simultaneously generate a plurality of display windows 940 on one display window 980. EBook player. The e-book player according to claim 7, wherein even if only one page data of the plurality of page data having the same screen number information is executed, the plurality of page data having the same screen number information is also executed simultaneously. The e-book player according to claim 8, wherein if the page data having the same screen number information is executed, execution of the page data having other screen number information is canceled. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of display windows includes at least one of a fixed window in which coordinate information occupied by the display window does not change or a dynamic window in which coordinate information can be changed. Book player. The e-book player according to claim 1, wherein the active part stored in the active part providing unit (300) is data of a DLL type, a Plug-in type, or an Add-on type. In the e-book editing method for generating cover data, table of contents data and page data constituting the e-book,
an activation part selection step of selecting and linking an activation part providing an activation function for displaying multimedia data when the page data is executed;
(b) a coordinate data editing step of setting layout coordinate information of a display window displayed when executing an activation part linked to page data through the activation part selection step; And
(c) a file selection step of selecting multimedia data which is executed and displayed according to an activation part linked to the page data;
(d) selecting an activation option from a list of style options provided by the activation part so that the multimedia data selected in the page data can be displayed in various kinds of representations,
And the coordinate data editing step further comprises a display window screen number editing step of generating a plurality of display windows simultaneously displayed on one display window by executing a plurality of page data. delete The method of claim 12, wherein the display window screen number editing step
And generating a fixed window in which the coordinate information occupied by the display window displayed as a result of the execution of the active component in the display window or a dynamic window in which the coordinate information can be changed. 13. The method of claim 12, wherein after selecting the activation option
Create an e-book in which the aggregate data 910 of the cover data, table of contents data and page data constituting the e-book is stored in a single folder divided by a globally unique identifier or encrypted after the single folder is compressed and stored as a single file. E-book editing method comprising the step. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the electronic book editing method of any one of claims 12, 14 and 15. In the e-book 990 consisting of multimedia data linked to the active component,
(a) a page selection step of selecting a page 995 constituting the e-book 990;
(b) an activation step of applying an activation component linked to multimedia data included in the page 995 selected through the page selection step; And
(c) a play step in which multimedia data activated through the activation step is executed and displayed in any one style selected from a style option list;
Including;
And selecting a plurality of screen numbers of pages for simultaneously executing a plurality of display windows. delete The method of claim 17, wherein in the playing step
And a plurality of pages having the same screen number information simultaneously executes a plurality of display windows on one display window. 20. The method of claim 19, wherein in the playing step
And selecting and playing any one of a plurality of pages having the same screen number, the remaining pages are played simultaneously. 20. The method of claim 19, wherein in the playing step
And selecting another page to play, releases the active component linked to the page that has already been selected and played. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the electronic book playing method according to any one of claims 17 and 19-21.

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