KR101308601B1 - Method for providing animation messenger service - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An animation messenger service providing method is provided to enable users using an animation messenger to enjoy a new type of chatting by using a user character. CONSTITUTION: An animation messenger service providing server receives a selection signal of a first and a second user characters corresponding to a first and a second users from a first and a second user terminals (S6100). The server analyzes a message requested according to a message transmission request of the first user terminal to transmit identification information and text information of the first user character to the second terminal (S6200). The server analyzes the message requested according to a message transmission request of the second user terminal to transmit ID information of the second user character and text information of the message to the first user terminal (S6300). [Reference numerals] (AA) Start; (BB) End; (S6100) Receive a selection signal of a first and a second user characters corresponding to a first user and a second user from first and second user terminals; (S6200) Analyze a message requested according to a message transmission request of the first user terminal to transmit identification information and text information of the first user character to the second user terminal; (S6300) Analyze the message requested according to a message transmission request of the second user terminal to transmit ID information of the second user character and text information of the message to the first user terminal

Description

How to provide an animated messenger service {METHOD FOR PROVIDING ANIMATION MESSENGER SERVICE}

The present invention relates to a method of providing an animation messenger service.

As the spread of smart terminals has recently increased, the number of users using free messenger using data communication of smart terminals is increasing. Accordingly, mobile communication companies and large corporations have developed their own messengers to divert users' attention from free messengers. And actively promote it.

In this case, the free messenger service providing method executed in the smart terminal is made in a text-based manner or a method of securing a plurality of sales paths to generate profits from the free messenger. Regarding a method of providing a messenger service, Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2006-0116880 (published Nov. 15, 2006), which is a prior art, discloses a method of animate and displaying a text design.

However, in the method of providing a messenger service, even if the text itself is animated, it can still be recognized as a messenger by users who use various flashes and stickers. In addition, the animation of the text itself cannot realistically express the emotions of the user.

An embodiment of the present invention is to provide a messenger that can give a sense of reality and fun at the same time while minimizing the amount of data transfer, away from the text-based messenger considering the data transfer amount. However, the technical problem to be achieved by the present embodiment is not limited to the technical problem as described above, and other technical problems may exist.

As technical means for achieving the above-described technical problem, an embodiment of the present invention, the first user character and the second user character corresponding to the first user and the second user from the first user terminal and the second user terminal; Receiving a signal for selecting, when receiving a message transmission request for the second user terminal from the first user terminal, by analyzing the message requested to be transmitted, the ID information of the first user character and the text information of the message to the second user terminal Transmitting a message to the first user terminal from the second user terminal, analyzing the requested message and transmitting ID information of the second user character and text information of the message to the first user terminal. Steps. In this case, when the message transmission request event occurs in the first user terminal, the first user terminal analyzes the message and based on the message analyzed on the messenger screen shared between the first user terminal and the second user terminal, The first user character may be displayed with the message such that the appearance of the user character changes.

According to any one of the problem solving means of the present invention described above, users using the animated messenger can enjoy a new type of chat away from the text-based messenger, and can maximize the reality of the person actually meets online. .

1 is a block diagram illustrating an animation messenger service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the animation messenger service providing server shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a screen illustrating an embodiment of a messenger screen shared by a first user terminal and a second user terminal illustrated in FIG. 1.
4 is a screen illustrating another embodiment of a messenger screen shared by a first user terminal and a second user terminal illustrated in FIG. 1.
5 is a diagram illustrating a process of transmitting and receiving data between components included in the animation messenger service providing system of FIG. 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing an animation messenger service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, which will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention, and like reference numerals designate like parts throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is referred to as being "connected" to another part, it includes not only "directly connected" but also "electrically connected" with another part in between . In addition, when a part is said to "include" a certain component, which means that it may further include other components, except to exclude other components, unless specifically stated otherwise, one or more other features It is to be understood that the present disclosure does not exclude the possibility of the presence or the addition of numbers, steps, operations, components, parts, or combinations thereof.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an animation messenger service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, the animation messenger service providing system 1 may include a first user terminal 100, an animation messenger service providing server 300, and a second user terminal 400. However, since the animation messenger service providing system 1 of FIG. 1 is only an embodiment of the present invention, the present invention is not limitedly interpreted through FIG. 1.

In this case, each component of FIG. 1 is generally connected through a network 200. For example, as shown in FIG. 1, the first user terminal 100 and the animation messenger service providing server 300 may be connected through a network 200. In addition, the animation messenger service providing server 300 may be connected to the second user terminal 400 through the network 200, and the first user terminal 100 may be the animation messenger service providing server 300 through the network 200. It may be connected to the second user terminal 400 via). Here, the network 200 refers to a connection structure capable of exchanging information between nodes such as terminals and servers. An example of the network 200 is an Internet, a LAN (Local Area Network) ), Wireless LAN (Local Area Network), WAN (Wide Area Network), PAN (Personal Area Network), 3G, 4G, LTE, Wi-Fi and the like. In addition, the first user terminal 100, the animation messenger service providing server 300, and the second user terminal 400 disclosed in FIG. 1 are not limited to those illustrated in FIG. 1.

When a plurality of first user terminals 100 and second user terminals 400 are provided, the animation messenger service providing server 300 may send a message from the first user terminal 100 to the second user terminal 400. When transmitting, the first user terminal 100 and the second user terminal 400 may be connected to communicate with any one of the plurality of second user terminals 400 to which a response message for the message is transmitted. For example, an embodiment of the present invention provides an interface for transmitting a message to the second user terminal 400 through a message input window operating in an application installed in the first user terminal 100, and the first user. A conversation request to be transmitted from the terminal 100 to the second user terminal 400 may be received, and the received conversation request and message may be transmitted to the second user terminal 400. In one embodiment of the present invention can provide a web-to-phone, phone-to-phone, phone-to-web message transmission function, the transmission function is the user of the mobile terminal, the fixed terminal and the user of the mobile terminal In terms of facilitating inter-communication functions, it may provide a different aspect of utility than web-to-web chat.

The first user terminal 100 may be a terminal for transmitting a message to the second user terminal 400. The first user terminal 100 may download the animation messenger application according to an embodiment of the present invention from the animation messenger service providing server 300 or at least one server (not shown) that distributes the application. The animation messenger application installed in the first user terminal 100 may receive update data in real time or periodically from the animation messenger service providing server 300 or at least one server that distributes the application. The first user terminal 100 may be implemented as a terminal capable of accessing a server or terminal in a remote place through the network 200. The first user terminal 100 is a wireless communication device that is guaranteed to be portable and mobility, for example, a PCS (Personal Communication System), a GSM (Global System for Mobile communications), a PDC (Personal Digital Cellular), a PHS System, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), an IMT (International Mobile Telecommunication) -2000, a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) -2000, a W-CDMA (W-CDMA) A handheld based wireless communication device such as a smartphone, a smartpad, a tablet PC, and the like.

The second user terminal 400 may be a terminal that transmits a message back to the first user terminal 100 in response to the message transmitted from the first user terminal 100. The second user terminal 400 may download the animation messenger application according to an embodiment of the present invention from the animation messenger service providing server 300 or at least one server (not shown) that distributes the application. The animation messenger application installed in the second user terminal 400 may receive update data in real time or periodically from the animation messenger service providing server 300 or at least one server that distributes the application. The second user terminal 400 may be implemented as a terminal that can access a server or terminal in a remote location through the network 200. The second user terminal 400 is a wireless communication device that is guaranteed to be portable and mobility, for example, a PCS (Personal Communication System), a GSM (Global System for Mobile communications), a PDC (Personal Digital Cellular), a PHS System, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), an IMT (International Mobile Telecommunication) -2000, a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) -2000, a W-CDMA (W-CDMA) A handheld based wireless communication device such as a smartphone, a smartpad, a tablet PC, and the like.

Referring to the animation messenger service providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention as an example.

Recently, with the increase of smart pads, tablet PCs, and smart phones, various types of messengers having conversations using these devices have been developed and used. Currently, developed and distributed messengers cannot replace text-based conversations. For example, suppose A and B are lovers and have long distance relationships. Except for video chat, the two lovers can't reproduce the same situation with real meeting. In such a case, using the animated messenger service according to an embodiment of the present invention, A and B select a wallpaper of a place where they want to date, their face is actually inserted or similar to their own face or their own mind. Select the character you like.

In this case, when A and B execute an animation messenger according to an embodiment of the present invention and transmit a message, A and B may have a conversation at a desired place. In addition, assuming that A and B want to express affection, a live virtual date can be made by transmitting a motion message using their character, that is, the character expresses his or her desired motion as it is. Of course, although it is possible to meet online via video chat, in consideration of data consumption and data transmission delay of video chat, the animation messenger according to an embodiment of the present invention may provide a different utility from video chat.

Also, even if you type any sentence, word, chat term, symbol, etc., even if you do not use stickers, emoticons, flash emoticons, etc., you can create an environment where characters can actually communicate by expressing their feelings or actions. Can provide. For example, if the user sends a chat message "I'm hungry," the user's character may grab a hungry expression. In addition, when saying, "What shall we eat lunch?", The character may have a troubled expression and gesture. The message can be placed, for example, in the form of a speech bubble around the character to send the message in a cartoon format.

The method of providing an animation messenger service according to an embodiment of the present invention is to provide a messenger capable of providing realism and fun at the same time while minimizing the amount of data transfer by avoiding the text-based messenger considering the data transfer amount. Accordingly, users using the animated messenger according to an embodiment of the present invention can enjoy a new type of chat away from the text-based messenger.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an animation messenger service providing server illustrated in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a messenger screen shared between a first user terminal and a second user terminal illustrated in FIG. 1. 4 is a screen illustrating another embodiment of a messenger screen shared by the first user terminal and the second user terminal illustrated in FIG. 1.

Referring to FIG. 2, the animation messenger service providing server 300 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a receiver 310 and a transmitter 330. In addition, the animation messenger service providing server 300 according to an embodiment of the present invention may further include an analysis unit 350, a weighting unit 370, and a sound source inserting unit 390.

An animation messenger service providing server 300 or another server (not shown) that operates in conjunction with the animation messenger service providing server 300 according to an embodiment of the present invention may display an animation messenger application, a program, a web page, and the like. When transmitted to the terminal 100 and the second user terminal 400, the first user terminal 100 and the second user terminal 400 may install or open an application, a program, a web page, or the like for a corresponding service. In addition, the animation messenger program may be driven in the first user terminal 100 and the second user terminal 400 by using a script executed in a web browser. In addition, in addition to the animation messenger service providing server 300, it can be downloaded, installed or opened in an online market, an App Store, and the like. Here, a web browser is a program that enables a WWW (World Wide Web) service, and is a program for receiving and displaying hypertext described in hypertext mark-up language (HTML), for example, Netscape (Netscape) An Explorer, chrome, and the like. Further, the application refers to an application on the terminal, for example, an app (app) running on a mobile terminal (smart phone). An app can be downloaded and installed from the mobile app marketplace, a virtual marketplace where mobile content can be bought and sold freely.

In this case, the network 200 connection means that the first user terminal 100 and the second user terminal 400 are connected to each other so as to be able to communicate. Creating the network 200 connection may include an animation messenger service providing server 300. Means creating a communication object at a communication contact for communication with a terminal connected to the network 200. The animation messenger service providing server 300 may exchange data with each other through a communication object.

The receiver 310 receives a signal for selecting a first user character and a second user character corresponding to the first user and the second user from the first user terminal 100 and the second user terminal 400. In this case, the receiving unit 310 may map and store the first user character selected by the first user terminal 100 and the first user, and similarly store the mapping by the second user terminal 400 and the character selected by the second user. And database it. Through this, when each user transmits a message to each other, data based on actions, gestures, and facial expressions mapped to the message may be transmitted to each other faster.

When the transmission unit 330 receives a message transmission request for the second user terminal 400 from the first user terminal 100, the transmitter 330 analyzes the message requested for transmission and provides ID information of the first user character and text information of the message. Transmit to the second user terminal 400. In addition, upon receiving a message transmission request for the first user terminal 100 from the second user terminal 400, the message requested for transmission is analyzed and the first user terminal receives ID information of the second user character and text information of the message. Send to 100.

Here, the analysis unit 350 analyzes the message requested to be transmitted. Since the chat terminology does not use only formalized words, such as written words, each word, sentence, symbol, number, etc., is divided into syllables and phonemes. In this case, the gestures, actions, expressions, and emotions of the characters corresponding to the message should be searched and analyzed. Therefore, the analysis unit 350 may analyze the message requested to be transmitted and transmit the corresponding data to the second user terminal 400 so that the appearance of the first user character changes together with ID information and text information of the first user character. . Alternatively, as the number of users increases, the load applied to the animation messenger service providing server 300 may increase, so that the functions of the analyzer 350 may be embedded in each of the user terminals 100 and 400 to perform an analysis function. The animation service providing server 300 may perform a function of delivering only text information of a message and ID information of a character.

In the former case, the animation messenger service providing server 300 includes a database (not shown), and matches each chat term and character's gestures, actions, and facial expressions to a database. At this time, since there is a limit in manually matching each chat term and the appearance change of the character, a fuzzy learning algorithm is used to collect chat terms using a web crawler and match the chat term with the gesture, action, and expression of the character. You can learn using. Through this learning process, it is possible to map various chat terms and appearance change data of characters, and a database can be more extensively constructed.

In the latter case, the chat terminology and character appearance data of the database are transmitted by the animation messenger service providing server 300, and the database constructed through the web crawler and the fuzzy learning algorithm is updated in each user terminal. It may also transmit to (100, 400). In this case, the update may operate in a background mode so that the user does not recognize the update. Therefore, when the message transmission request event occurs, the first user terminal 100 analyzes the message and based on the message analyzed on the messenger screen shared between the first user terminal 100 and the second user terminal 400. The first user character may be displayed together with the message such that the appearance of the first user character changes. Referring to FIG. 3A, when it is said, "Let's go for something delicious, ㅋㅋ", it can be seen that the facial expression of the female character changes to a smiley shape, and the hand is covering the mouth according to the female character. In addition, referring to FIG. 3B, in the case of (a), "ㅠㅠ" is inserted into the message, the faces of the two characters change into a crying shape, and the hands are also wiping tears, and in the case of (b), the message "ㅋㅋ" It can be seen that the face of the two characters is inserted into a smile shape, and the hand is also taking an action such as holding a stomach or covering a mouth. In the case of (c), the character of the user who sends the message "bad guy-" has an angry expression and gesture, and the character of the user who sends the message "Hull" has a surprised expression and gesture. .

In addition, when the second user terminal 400 receives the ID information of the first user character 100 and the text information of the message, the text information is analyzed and the appearance of the first user character is changed based on the analyzed information. The first user character may be displayed with the message. In this case, the message may be located in a speech bubble window positioned to approach the first user character. Here, the height of the speech bubble window may be lowered from the top to the bottom in the order of inputting the chat. For example, when the speech bubble is first placed on the first user character and the second user character appears and the speech bubble is next placed, the speech bubble of the first user character may be positioned higher than the speech bubble of the second user character. Below the speech bubble, the user's name and the time at which the message was transmitted may be displayed together.

The first message transmission request event occurs in the first user terminal 100 and the second user terminal 400, respectively, and the second message transmission request event occurs in the first user terminal 100 or the second user terminal 400. If so, the first scene corresponding to the first message transmission request event may move upward and a second scene corresponding to the second message transmission request event may be displayed on the messenger screen. For example, if the first user character writes "hungry" and the second user character writes "me too" in a cartoon-like form, the next scene is because all the people in the chat are speaking. The character of the user who speaks first is placed in the next scene.

At this time, the size of each scene and the character can be adjusted, it can be optimized to the size suitable for each user terminal (100, 400). For example, assuming a conversation between a tablet PC and a smartphone, it can be optimized according to the tablet PC's aspect ratio and the smartphone's aspect ratio, and not set to scroll too much to read the old conversation again. Can be. In addition, when the first user character speaks first, when the first user character is located in the center while the second user character appears while speaking, the first user character moves from one center to one side or the other side. The second user character may be located opposite the first user character.

In addition, the background of each scene is provided to be set by each user, the background set by any one of the users participating in the chat may be applied to all common, or set by each user You can also make the wallpaper apply only to you. At this time, the background screen may reflect the weather in conjunction with the weather application to maximize the realism, in this case, by registering the message receiving receiver in the OS data received by the weather application in each user terminal (100, 400) It can be implemented by the method of receiving.

In addition, the background screen may include a TV-shaped item, and the size of the TV content may not exceed the size of the item. In this case, the TV content may be configured to be played on a background screen or a graphic area having a predetermined size, without being limited to an item. For example, suppose you have Santa, Rudolph, and Snowman in the background. In such a case, it is possible to play TV contents on the Santa's face, to transfer the contents to the Rudolph's Kona, or to reproduce the TV contents on the face or the face of the snowman. In addition, the TV content may include VOD or real-time TV, and may provide MP3 and radio content instead of TV content. This allows you to watch TV together and listen to the radio while chatting to maximize the realism. Also, a graphic user interface (GUI) for controlling TV content may be displayed on the background screen. At this time, the graphic user interface area may include at least one of a power control area, a volume control area, a channel control area, a TV contents sharing control area, and a screen size control area of TV contents. For example, suppose that a TV content playing item is placed on a wallpaper. In this case, the user can turn on or off the power by manipulating the TV content playback item on the messenger screen, increase or decrease the volume, and increase or decrease the size of the screen. At this time, the TV content reproduction item can be sold separately, for example, as a KBS TV content reproduction item, an MBC TV content reproduction item, an SBS TV content reproduction item, and the like. . ≪ / RTI > In addition, the TV content playback item may include various types of items such as, for example, a full-length VOD of a specific drama, an entertainment, a cultured content, a music video of a specific singer, a VOD related to an entertainer belonging to a specific entertainment, .

In addition, when a group chat occurs in which at least one user terminal participates in addition to the first user terminal 100 and the second user terminal 400, at least one user character corresponding to the at least one user terminal is displayed on the messenger screen. It can be located at. Here, the first user character and the second user character, and at least one user character can be moved position. When a group chat occurs, characters and speech bubbles may be crowded on one screen. In this case, only faces of each character may be displayed, and faces may use their own real photos and the like. It can also be implemented by placing a speech bubble.

In addition, the weighting unit 370 transmits the message requested to be transmitted to the first user terminal 100 and the second user terminal 400 as it is, if the message requested to be transmitted includes the general text, and the message requested to be transmitted. Includes a text forming an ironic method, the NOT request may be included in the message to be transmitted to the first user terminal 100 or the second user terminal 400.

For example, "good" generally means GOOD, but "good" means "NO GOOD." In other words, due to the nature of the Korean language, you can frequently use irony. If you make a good expression up to this case, the flow of conversation can be interrupted, and the character can make a happy expression in a sad conversation and a sad expression in a happy place. In order to prevent this, when a sentence or a symbol forming an ironic method is transmitted, the NOT operator may be inserted to oppose the word.

For example, in general, if the sentence is A (really) + B (good), B is a verb, A is a role of adverb adhering to the verb, and the role of the verb is a main function. If A is a sentence of A (puck) + B (good) in a sentence such as using irony, A should play a role of NOT, so it should not express facial expressions or gestures related to B. The character of the expression or gesture must be displayed. Therefore, it is possible to determine whether to apply the expression or gesture of the character according to the words or context forming the irony. By classifying various patterns of language, it is possible to classify emotions in detail by applying not only words such as adverbs and adjectives that form and use commonly used types and contexts, but also meanings that vary according to endings and investigations. Can be. Since the user who selects such a function uses a character that can understand and express his / her mind better, each character can be felt as a person instead of a machine, and empathy can be made. The animation messenger can be recognized as an intelligent service.

When the message requested to be transmitted includes a symbol, the weighting unit 370 extracts an area including a symbol among the messages requested to be transmitted, and an area after the last word among words included in the message to which the extracted request is transmitted. In this case, the symbol may be weighted and transmitted to the first user terminal 100 or the second user terminal 400. For example, users who use chat often express their feelings last. For example, if you say, "Do you hate me? You hate me ㅠ _ ㅠ", you may want to refine the words by adding "ㅠ _ ㅠ" rather than "Hate you." Even in this case, if you focus on the word "hate" and look angry, the person may be offended. Therefore, a weight between "ㅠ _ ㅠ" can be made to make an expression between "hate" and "ㅠ _ ㅠ".

In addition, each character can also learn facial expressions and gestures through fuzzy learning algorithms, as well as database typed characters. In the above-described example, assuming that the expression of "hate" is a sharp expression and that the expression of "ㅠ _ ㅠ" is a crying expression, if the expression of medium is to be made according to such weight, Learning can be done by moving feature points.

In addition, another method of interpreting a message for determining the expression of a character is described below. The method to be described below may be executed in each of the user terminals 100 and 400 or may be executed in the animation messenger service providing server 300.

First, we define a string based on the facial expression provided by the character. For example, the string based on the smiley expression may be "ㅋㅋ", "ㅎㅎ", "haha", "fuhu", "hihi", "fuha", etc., and the strings based on the crying expression are "ㅠㅠ", "TTTT" "," Black "," whit ", etc., the strings based on angry expressions may be"-"," ㅡ ㅡ ", etc., and the strings based on surprised expressions are" 헉 "," hak "," hull " It can be "gassing", "phantom", etc.

Then, by checking whether the corresponding string exists in the message input by the user, the output shown in Table 1 and Equation 1 can be obtained.

0 One 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 One 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 uh My example spirit anger , second half on you radish Slim 펐 uh ㅠ ㅠ 0 One 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 One 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 That Run place hemp G membrane on The half I'm this more la Lol Lol Lol

You can get (<b>, 1, 18) for "ㅠㅠ". This is a crying expression, repeated only once, meaning starting at the 18th. Also, (<a>, 2, 35) can be obtained for "ㅋㅋㅋ". In other words, it is a smiley expression, and repeatability means 2 (based on ㅋㅋ and then add one after ㅋ), starting at the 35th time.

The final score for each expression may be calculated using Equation 2 below based on the value for the expression (score, score, position) calculated above.

Here, w (p) can be calculated by the following equation (3).

Here, w (p) is a weight according to the location, x is an expression, f is an expression score, p is the location of the message, message-length means the total length of the message. The final facial expression may be set to an facial expression score having the largest value among f (a) to f (d).

The meaning of the w (p) expression starts from two assumptions. The first is that the word used in the back is more likely to indicate the emotion of the current user than the emotional expression word used in the front, and the second is to use the same or similar weights by determining that the emotions are mixed when the positions are similar. Taking w (p) as an example, when f (b) = 1 * (19/38) = 0.5 and f (a) = 2 * (36/38) = 1.894, the final expression is <a>. You can choose to smile.

2, the sound source inserter 390 analyzes the message requested to be transmitted from the first user terminal 100 or the second user terminal 400, and if the analyzed message includes the general text, the transmission request. When a sound source corresponding to the received message is selected and transmitted to the first user terminal 100 or the second user terminal 400, and if the analyzed message includes text forming irony, it is opposite to the requested message. The sound source may be selected and transmitted to the first user terminal 100 or the second user terminal 400. This, using the associative action, can create a revenue structure that can lead to the sale of music.

Further, the first user character and the second user character include a face shape and a body shape, the face shape is changed based on a facial expression corresponding to the analyzed message, and the body shape is a body corresponding to the analyzed message. It can be changed based on the operation. Referring to FIG. 3C, whenever a user inputs a letter or a space character, Equation 1 to Equation 3 are performed to show a result currently calculated in a mini-picture format on an input window. Looking at (a), you can see that the smiley face is automatically selected if only "ㅋㅋ" is entered.If you enter "ㅋㅋㅠㅠ", you can see that the crying face is selected automatically. If you type "ㅋㅋㅠㅠ", but the expression similar to the user's own emotions is not selected, it can be seen that manually selected. In other words, if the final result is not the same as the intention of the user, the user may directly specify the facial expression.

In addition, referring to FIG. 3D, an embodiment is shown in which some operate in cartoon mode and some in text mode. Cartoon mode can be configured as a user's option, and if the option is activated, past conversations before the last conversation scene can use a chat window in the same format as a normal messenger. In such a case, when the past conversation is to be confirmed, the scene including the character or the background for the past conversation disappears, so that the previous conversation can be easily confirmed even with a small upward scroll. In addition, referring to FIG. 3E, an embodiment in which a user inputs his / her own picture corresponding to various expressions of the character and designates it as a new own character. As shown in (a), the user may select a smiley face picture as a smiley face character from his own picture and extract only the face portion as shown in (b). In addition, each of the user terminals 100 and 400 may scale (b) to the size of the character's face and then transmit the picture to the animation messenger service providing server 300 by attaching a unique ID. Accordingly, the unique character as shown in (c) may be displayed on the messenger screen shared between the first user terminal 100 and the second user terminal 400. In addition, each character can be implemented as vector data that can be assigned to the face, torso, arms, legs, etc. All of the components of the object, so if you specify the face as an object and only remove the face object, only the body can be seen. Therefore, the present invention may be implemented by alpha blending a face photograph to a character having only a torso.

If the message transmission event generated in the first user terminal 100 or the second user terminal 400 is an operation message transmission event, the operation corresponding to the requested operation message is the first user terminal 100 and the second user. In order to be displayed on the terminal 400, the motion of the first user character or the second user character is changed at regular time intervals, and the series of motions of the first user character or the second user character that is changed at regular time intervals is displayed on the messenger screen. It may be made in one scene displayed on. This is, for example, in order to express a reality such as actually having a conversation with A and B, unlike the existing flash emoticon, it can express that the character of his own directly to the character of the opponent.

Referring to FIG. 3F, FIG. 3F shows the location of the speech bubble when a majority of the people chat. In this case, although FIG. 3F illustrates a case where four people chat, the algorithm to be described below may operate regardless of the number of people. For example, when only two people exist in a scene, only the space of a scene that each character may occupy is different from the following, and the algorithm may be the same.

The animation messenger service providing server 300 first determines the number of characters that can be located in a scene, and arranges the characters and the speech bubbles in a case where a large number of people chat. For example, assuming that messages are transmitted in A-B-C-D order as shown in FIG. 3F, A may be placed at the top, B and C below, and D at the bottom. In this case, if the X-axis represents the relative position of the character, the Y-axis represents the relative height of the speech bubble, the position of each Y-axis can be determined according to the time that the speech bubble located on the Y-axis. In addition, the X-axis where the character is located may also change continuously for diversity of the scene. Therefore, the position of the Y axis may change based on the X axis, which is the relative position of the character. In addition, the position of the speech bubble is located above the head of the character, but the speech balloon of the person who speaks first may be located above or to the left of the speech speaker of the person speaking later in the same order as the reading order.

In addition, the scene may change when the scene exceeds the maximum capacity that can be included, or when the user A's character is present in the current scene and the user A's message arrives again. have.

Referring to FIG. 4A, each of the user terminals 100 and 400 may display an operation selection window as shown in FIG. 4A when the user touches the screen with his / her finger over his or her character. In this case, when the KISS is selected in the operation selection window of FIG. 4A, the operation as shown in FIG. 4B may be played in each of the user terminals 100 and 400. In addition, when the HIT is selected in the operation selection window of FIG. 4A, the operation as shown in FIG. 4C may be played in each of the user terminals 100 and 400. 4A and 4C are screen shots of a series of operations at predetermined time intervals.

The method of providing an animation messenger service according to an embodiment of the present invention is to provide a messenger capable of providing realism and fun at the same time while minimizing the amount of data transfer by avoiding the text-based messenger considering the data transfer amount. Accordingly, users using the animated messenger according to an embodiment of the present invention can enjoy a new type of chat away from the text-based messenger.

2 to 4 is not described with respect to the method of providing the animation messenger service is the same as described above with respect to the animation messenger service providing method through FIG. Omit it.

5 is a diagram illustrating a process of transmitting and receiving data between components included in the animation messenger service providing system of FIG. 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, an example of a process of transmitting and receiving a signal according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 5. However, the present invention is not limited to such an embodiment, and according to various embodiments described above, It is apparent to those skilled in the art that the process of transmitting and receiving the shown data can be changed.

Referring to FIG. 5, the animation messenger service providing server 300 transmits an animation messenger application to the first user terminal 100 and the second user terminal 400 (S5700).

The first user terminal 100 and the second user terminal 400 respectively install and execute an application (S5200), and the first user terminal 100 sets a first user character to transmit a signal, and a second user The terminal 400 likewise sets a second user character and transmits a signal (S5300).

When the first user terminal 100 composes a message (S5400) and requests a message transmission to the animation messenger service providing server 300 (S5410), the animation messenger service providing server 300 analyzes the transmitted message to generate a message. 1 The user ID information and text information of the message is extracted (S5500). Meanwhile, the first user terminal 100 analyzes the created message (S5430), and displays the first user character together with the message so that the appearance of the first user character changes based on the analyzed message (S5450).

The animation messenger service providing server 300 checks whether the user is a sound source service request user (S5600), selects a sound source corresponding to the extracted information (S5630), and transmits information about the sound source to the first user terminal 100. The transmission is transmitted to the second user terminal 400 (S5650).

The second user terminal 400 analyzes the received information and displays the first user's character together with the message so as to change the appearance of the first user's character (S5700). In this case, when the sound source information is received, the second user terminal 400 may play the music as the background music.

When the first user terminal 100 writes an operation message (S5800), the first user terminal 100 performs a message transmission request to the animation messenger service providing server 300 (S5810), and analyzes the created message ( In operation S5830, the operation of the first user character is changed at a predetermined time interval and displayed (S5850).

In addition, the animation messenger service providing server 300 receiving the message transmission request from the first user terminal 100 analyzes the transmitted operation message and extracts ID information and operation message information of the first user character (S5900), The transmission is transmitted to the second user terminal 400 (S5930). In this case, the second user terminal 400 analyzes the received information and changes the operation of the first user character at predetermined time intervals and displays the result (S5950).

Such matters not described with respect to the method of providing the animation messenger of FIG. 5 may be easily inferred from the same or as described above with respect to the method of providing the animation messenger service through FIGS. Do it.

The order between the above-described steps S5100 to S5950 is merely an example, and the present invention is not limited thereto. That is, the order between the above-described steps (S5100 to S5950) may be mutually changed, and some of the steps may be simultaneously executed or deleted.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing an animation messenger service according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 6, a signal for selecting a first user character and a second user character corresponding to the first user and the second user is received from the first user terminal and the second user terminal (S6100).

When the message transmission request for the second user terminal is received from the first user terminal, the message requested for transmission is analyzed and the ID information of the first user character and the text information of the message are transmitted to the second user terminal (S6200). .

When the message transmission request for the first user terminal is received from the second user terminal, the message requested for transmission is analyzed and the ID information of the second user character and the text information of the message are transmitted to the first user terminal (S6300).

Here, the first user terminal analyzes the message when a message transmission request event occurs in the first user terminal, and based on the message analyzed on the messenger screen shared between the first user terminal and the second user terminal, the first user. The first user character is displayed with the message so that the appearance of the character changes.

6 that is not described with respect to the method of providing the animation messenger service of FIG. 6 may be easily inferred from the same or as described above with respect to the method of providing the animation messenger service through FIGS. 1 to 5. Omit it.

An animation messenger service providing method according to an embodiment described with reference to FIG. 6 may also be implemented in the form of a recording medium including instructions executable by a computer such as an application or a program module executed by a computer. Computer readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media. In addition, the computer-readable medium may include both computer storage media and communication media. Computer storage media includes both volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. Communication media typically includes any information delivery media, including computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave, or other transport mechanism.

The method of providing an animation messenger service according to an embodiment of the present invention described above may be executed by an application (which may include a program included in a platform or an operating system, etc., which is basically installed in a terminal). The user may be executed by an application (ie, a program) installed directly on the master terminal through an application providing server such as an application store server, an application, or a web server associated with the corresponding service. In this sense, the method for providing a messenger list according to the embodiment of the present invention described above is implemented as an application (ie, a program) that is basically installed in a terminal or directly installed by a user, and is a computer-readable recording medium such as a terminal. Can be recorded.

The foregoing description of the present invention is intended for illustration, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be easily modified in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features of the present invention. will be. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single entity may be distributed and implemented, and components described as being distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.

The scope of the present invention is shown by the following claims rather than the above description, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention. do.

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In the animation messenger service providing method executed by the animation messenger service providing server,
Receiving a signal for selecting a first user character and a second user character corresponding to the first user and the second user from the first user terminal and the second user terminal;
When receiving a message transmission request for the second user terminal from the first user terminal, and analyzes the transmission request message and transmits the ID information of the first user character and the text information of the message to the second user terminal. step;
When receiving the message transmission request for the first user terminal from the second user terminal, and analyzes the transmission request message and transmits the ID information of the second user character and the text information of the message to the first user terminal. step
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The first user terminal analyzes the message when a message transmission request event occurs in the first user terminal, and based on the analyzed message on a messenger screen shared between the first user terminal and the second user terminal. Displaying the first user character with the message such that the appearance of the first user character changes;
When the first message transmission request event occurs in the first user terminal and the second user terminal, respectively, and the second message transmission request event occurs in the first user terminal or the second user terminal, the first message transmission request The first scene corresponding to the event moves upward, and the second scene corresponding to the second message transmission request event is displayed on the messenger screen.
The appearance of the first user character and the second user character is a gesture, an operation including collecting a chat term using a web crawler, the chat term and the feature points of the first user character and the second user character And learning using a fuzzy algorithm to match facial expressions,
Appearance of the first user character and the second user character is determined by the following equation, animation messenger service providing method:

Here, w (p) means the weight according to the location, x means the facial expression, f means the facial expression score, p means the location of the message, message-length means the total message length , w (p) is

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The method of claim 1,
When receiving the ID information of the first user character and the text information of the message, the second user terminal analyzes the text information and changes the appearance of the first user character based on the analyzed information. 1 display the user character with the above message,
And the message is located in a speech bubble window positioned to be in proximity to the first user character.
The method of claim 1,
When a message transmission request event occurs in the first user terminal, the first user character is located at the center of a first scene on the messenger screen.
When a message transmission request event occurs in the second user terminal, the first user character moves to one side of the first scene and the second user character is displayed on the other side.
The message sent by the first user terminal is located above the message sent by the second user terminal, animation messenger service providing method.
delete The method of claim 1,
When a group chat occurs in which at least one user terminal other than the first user terminal and the second user terminal occurs,
At least one user character corresponding to the at least one user terminal is located on the messenger screen,
And the first user character and the second user character and the at least one user character can move their positions.
The method of claim 1,
When the message requested to be transmitted includes the general text, transmit the message requested to be transmitted to the first user terminal or the second user terminal,
If the message to be transmitted includes a text forming an ironic method, including the NOT operator in the message to be transmitted to transmit to the first user terminal or the second user terminal, animation messenger service providing method.
The method of claim 1,
If the message requested to be transmitted includes a symbol, an area including the symbol is extracted from the message requested to be transmitted.
When the extracted area is the area after the last word among the words included in the transmission request message, weighting the symbol is transmitted to the first user terminal or the second user terminal, providing an animation messenger service Way.
The method of claim 1,
When the message transmission event generated in the first user terminal or the second user terminal is an operation message transmission event,
Change the operation of the first user character or the second user character at predetermined time intervals such that the operation corresponding to the requested operation message is displayed on the first user terminal and the second user terminal,
And a series of operations of the first user character or the second user character changing at regular time intervals are performed within one scene displayed on the messenger screen.
The method of claim 1,
Analyze the message requested to be transmitted from the first user terminal or the second user terminal,
When the analyzed message includes general text, the sound source corresponding to the requested message is selected and transmitted to the first user terminal or the second user terminal,
If the analyzed message includes the text forming the irony method, selecting a sound source that is opposite to the message requested to be transmitted to the first user terminal or the second user terminal, animation messenger service providing method.
The method of claim 1,
The first user character and the second user character includes a face shape, body shape,
And wherein the face shape is changed based on a facial expression corresponding to the analyzed message, and the body shape is changed based on a body motion corresponding to the analyzed message.
In the method for providing an application that operates in conjunction with the animation messenger service providing server for executing the animation messenger service providing method,
The animation messenger service providing server performs the method according to any one of claims 1 to 3 and 5 to 10.

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