KR101707214B1 - Method for providing video album service based on video telecommunication and Apparatus thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A video album service method and apparatus based on video call are disclosed.
According to the image album service method, an exchange receives a video call recording request from a mobile terminal performing a video call, and requests a service server to record the video call. The service server is connected to the video call channel through the exchange to record the video call. In addition, when the end of recording is requested from the mobile terminal through the exchange, the service server ends the video call recording. The contents of the recorded video call are stored by the service server in various types of image albums. When there is a request from a user connected via a wired / wireless network, the service server displays a list of image albums available for each user, and provides a user with a video album selected by the user.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a video album service method and apparatus,

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing a video album, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for providing a video album based on a video call.

Currently, a mobile terminal is evolving to perform not only a voice communication function but also a function capable of transmitting and receiving data at a high speed. As such, since the mobile terminal can transmit and receive data at a high speed, high-speed data communication can be realized in addition to voice communication through a mobile terminal in a mobile communication network. At this time, the mobile terminal equipped with the camera can photograph the subject and transmit the photographed image and voice to the receiving terminal at the same time. Accordingly, voice data and image data can be transmitted and received between the mobile terminal and another terminal at the same time, and a video call can be performed in the mobile terminal using the same.

Meanwhile, as the video call through the mobile terminal becomes frequent, it is necessary to record the video call contents for various purposes and to store the video call contents. For this purpose, the user uses a mobile terminal, So that a video call can be recorded in the video.

However, since the capacity of the memory mounted in the mobile terminal is still limited, the amount of video calls recorded and stored is limited, and due to the problem of the storage space, There is a problem in that it is necessary to transmit and store the contents of the video call recorded in the recording medium to another medium such as a computer and to store and manage the contents.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a mobile terminal capable of storing contents of a video call performed in a mobile terminal in real time, The present invention provides a method of providing a video album service and a device thereof that can provide the contents of the video album as various image albums for each user.

According to an aspect of the present invention,

A method of providing a video album service by recording a video call provided through a mobile communication network, the method comprising: receiving a video call recording request from a mobile terminal performing a video call; Connecting a channel of the video call to record a content of a video call provided through a channel of the video call and storing the video call; And providing the image album stored for each user through the user's terminal according to a request from a user terminal connected through a wired or wireless network.

According to another aspect of the present invention,

A device for providing a video album service by recording a video call provided through a mobile communication network, the device providing a video call service during the mobile terminal by setting a video call channel between the mobile terminals, An exchange for receiving a video call recording request; And a control unit connected to the switch through an intelligent network and connected to the video call channel when the video call recording request is received from the switchboard to record and store the contents of the video call provided through the video call channel, And a service server for providing the image album stored for each user through the terminal of the user in response to a request from the terminal of the user connected through the wire / wireless network.

According to the present invention, contents of a video call performed between mobile terminals can be stored in real time.

In addition, the contents of a large amount of video call can be stored, if necessary, without regard to the storage capacity.

In addition, the contents of the stored video call can be provided as various types of image albums for each user.

1 is a schematic block diagram of a video call service based on a video call service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a detailed block diagram of the video album service server shown in FIG.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of recording a video call among video album-based service methods according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing contents of a video call recorded as video albums in various forms 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 so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention. 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 order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and similar parts are denoted by like reference characters throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when an element is referred to as "comprising ", it means that it can include other elements as well, without excluding other elements unless specifically stated otherwise. Also, the terms " part, "" module," and " module "in the specification mean units for processing at least one function or operation and can be implemented by hardware or software or a combination of hardware and software .

A video album service method and apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

1 is a schematic block diagram of a video call service based on a video call service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, a video album service apparatus 10 based on a video call according to an embodiment of the present invention includes radio access networks 300 and 400, an exchange 500, and a video album service server 700 .

The radio access networks 300 and 400 control communication between the mobile terminals 100 and 200 by performing a radio resource management function for scheduling radio resources and a handoff function for supporting inter-cell mobility.

The radio access networks 300 and 400 include base stations 310 and 410 and base station controllers 320 and 420.

The base stations 310 and 410 provide communication services such as call, multimedia message transmission, digital broadcasting, digital media streaming, download and upload by relaying through wireless communication to the mobile terminals 100 and 200.

The base station controllers 320 and 420 connected between the base stations 310 and 410 and the switch 500 control the traffic generated in the communication to be transmitted and received to the destination through the base stations 310 and 410.

In order to provide a mobile communication service to the mobile terminals 100 and 200, the exchange 500 is connected to the radio access networks 300 and 400 and performs basic service processing for the mobile communication service, incoming and outgoing call processing of the subscriber, Registration and handoff procedures, and interworking with other networks. In particular, when there is a specific key input from the user of the mobile terminals 100 and 200 during a video call between the mobile terminals 100 and 200, the exchange 500 according to the embodiment of the present invention transmits the video call channel to the intelligent network 600, To the video album service server 700 connected to the video album service server 700. Here, the specific key used for recording the video call is already set between the mobile terminals 100 and 200 and the exchange 500 as a start key and an end key.

The video album service server 700 is connected to the intelligent network 600 and records video call contents provided through a video call channel connected from the switch 500 through the intelligent network 600 and stores the video call contents as a video album And provides a service for downloading image albums stored through a wired / wireless connection using a mobile terminal 100, 200 or a computer, for example, a wired / wireless Internet connection.

The radio access networks 300 and 400 and the exchange 500 constitute a mobile communication network for providing mobile communication services to the mobile terminals 100 and 200.

The intelligent network 600 is a network in which a communication service is intelligent by connecting a computer to an existing communication network such as a mobile communication network including radio access networks 300 and 400 and an exchange 500, Point: SSP), Service Control Point (SCP), and Service Management System (SMS).

2 is a detailed block diagram of the video album service server 700 shown in FIG.

2, the image album service server 700 includes an intelligent network interface 710, a database 720, a member management unit 730, a recording unit 740, a video album providing unit 750, and a control unit 760 ).

The intelligent network interface 710 is a communication network interface for connecting the image album service server 700 to the intelligent network 600.

The database 720 stores various data and the like necessary for the video album service server 700 to provide the video album service based on the video call. In particular, the database 720 includes a member information database (DB) 721 for storing information of a member who subscribes to a video album service according to an embodiment of the present invention, a video call recording And a video album database (DB) 722 for storing data by organizing and storing image albums for each member. Here, the member information database 721 stores therein information such as a phone number of a member mobile terminal used for recording a video call, information for video-albumization of a recorded video call, data such as age, sex, , A password used when playing or downloading a video album, and the like.

The member management unit 730 uses the member information database 721 of the database 720 to determine whether the user is a member of a user requesting to record a video call or to play or download a video album. In addition, the member management unit 730 proceeds with the membership registration process at the request of the user via the Internet.

The recording unit 740 records the content of the video call provided through the video call channel connected to the switch 500 through the intelligent network 600 and stores the video call in the video album DB 722. At this time, the recording unit 740 stores images recorded for each member based on the telephone number of the mobile terminal of the member, and stores the images based on the recording date and time for the image album service. For example, the recording unit 740 may collect video call contents recorded in a specific ages for each member in the order of date and time, and store the video conversations as managed by age groups. In addition, the recording unit 740 may store the recorded video call contents to be managed as the position-based image album based on the position where the member is located when recording the video call.

In addition, the recording unit 740 may record a still image of a specific part of the stored video call, for example, a first video, a last video, or a video after a specific time elapses from the start of recording as a still video, As a representative image of the image.

The image album providing unit 750 provides the member with the image of the album stored in the image album DB 722 at the request of the member. At this time, the video album service server 700 can directly reproduce and provide the video in the form of a download, or directly to the connected mobile terminal or computer of the connected member according to the selection of the member.

In addition, the image album providing unit 750 may provide only a representative image of the video call contents recorded for each member, so that the member can select the representative image. Also, such a representative image can be provided for the member to select based on criteria such as the recorded date and time, the age of the member, and the like.

While the recording unit 740 records the content of the video call and stores the content of the recorded video call in the video album DB 722 in the form of various video albums, The recording unit 740 stores the contents of the video call recorded by each member but stores the date and time, the age of the member, the location information of the mobile terminals 100 and 200 at the time of recording, When the image album providing unit 750 provides the image album according to the request of the member, the image album providing unit 750 may provide the image album as a form requested by the member. For example, when a member requests a recorded video album by making a video call with a member of a called terminal, the telephone number of the called terminal among the contents of the video call stored for each member is the same as the telephone number of the called terminal requested by the member And provides the member with a video album formed by collecting only the contents of the album.

The control unit 760 records a video call performed between the mobile terminals 100 and 200 according to a user's request and stores the video call in the form of an image album in the database 720 and is stored in the database 720 according to a user's request The recording unit 740, and the image album providing unit 750 in order to provide the contents of the video call corresponding to the image album having the image album as a download or as a download form.

Hereinafter, a method of providing a video album based on a video call according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

The user of the mobile terminal 100 that has transmitted the video call to the mobile terminal 200 requests the user to record the video call, but the user of the mobile terminal 200, which is the called terminal, It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the recording of the video call can be performed even when the video call recording is requested by referring to the following description.

First, an embodiment of the present invention will be described on the assumption that the mobile terminal 100 is a mobile terminal that originated a video call, and that the mobile terminal 200 is a called mobile terminal receiving a video call.

The mobile terminal 100 or 200 has already made a video call through the wireless access networks 300 and 400 and the exchange so that the mobile terminals 100 and 200 have already started a video call, ).

In addition, the image album service according to the embodiment of the present invention may include a process of recording and storing contents of a video call performed between the mobile terminals 100 and 200, and a process of recording the content of the stored video call in various forms As a video album of the process can be described separately.

Hereinafter, a process of recording and storing contents of a video call will be described first.

A user of the mobile terminal 100 who wishes to record the contents of the video call, i.e., video call contents, while the mobile terminals 100 and 200 are performing the video call, records the video call with the exchange 500 A special key such as "# "," * ", or a numeric key is pressed to request the start of recording of the video call contents (S110).

In this way, when there is an input of a specific start key for requesting recording of video call contents from the mobile terminal 100 during a video call, the exchange 500 transmits a video call recording request To the image album service server 700 (S120). At this time, the exchange 500 transmits the telephone number of the mobile terminal 100 or 200 requesting the video call recording together with the video call recording request. If the image album providing unit 750 provides a video album for each telephone number of the called terminal that has made a video call for each member, the exchange 500 transmits the telephone number of the mobile terminal 200, which is the receiving terminal, To be transmitted to the service server 700. When the video album service for each mobile terminal 100 in which the video call is recorded for each member is available, the exchange 500 also provides the location information of the mobile terminal 100 to the video album service server 700. In addition, if there is a necessary criterion for processing the contents of the video call recorded by the video album service server 700 into various types of video album and providing the video album to the member, the exchange 500 transmits information necessary for the reference to the video album service server (700).

Next, the video album service server 700 and the member management unit 730, under the control of the control unit 760, determine whether the user who requests the video call recording through the telephone number of the mobile terminal 100, (S130).

If the user requesting the video call recording is not a member, the member management unit 740 transmits a message to the mobile terminal 100 to request the membership registration (S140), and ends without performing the video call recording.

However, if it is determined that the user who requested the video call recording by the member management unit 730 is a member, the recording unit 740 transmits the video call recording request to the switching center 500 via the intelligent network 600 connected through the intelligent network interface 710 A video call channel provided between the mobile terminals 100 and 200 is connected (S150), the video call content provided through the connected video call channel is recorded (S160), and the video data corresponding to the recorded video call content is recorded And stores it in the video album DB 722 (S170). At this time, the content of the video call recorded according to various criteria may be stored for each member for various types of image albums provided to the member in the image album providing unit 750 in the future.

Meanwhile, when a specific end key for terminating the recording of the video call currently being performed by the user of the mobile terminal 100 during recording of the video call, for example, a specific end key different from the above specific start key, The switch 500 requests the video album service server 700 to terminate the video call recording in response to the specific end key input in step S190.

Accordingly, the image album service server 700 terminates the recording of the video call contents currently being performed through the recording unit 740 in response to the recording end request from the switchboard 500 (S192) The connection of the video communication channel is canceled (S194).

Next, a process of providing the contents of the video call recorded as various image albums will be described with reference to FIG.

First, in order to receive a video album recorded through the video album service server 700, the user connects to the video album service server 700 through the wired or wireless Internet using his or her mobile terminals 100, 200, And requests a video album service (S200, S210).

In this manner, if there is a video album service request from the user, the member management unit 730 confirms whether the user is a member by using the telephone number of the connected user or the password input through the user's computer (S220) . In other words, if there is a member whose phone number of the mobile terminal accessed by the user or the password inputted through the computer connected to the user corresponds to the member information stored in the member information DB 721, .

If the user who requested the image album service is not a member, the member management unit 740 transmits a message to the mobile terminal 100 or the user's computer (S230) to end the membership request without providing the image album service .

However, if the user requesting the image album service is authenticated as a member, the image album providing unit 750 of the image album service server 700 can receive service of various types of image albums under the control of the control unit 760 A list of image albums is displayed (S240). At this time, the image album providing unit 750 can display the still image representative of the image album available when displaying the image album list.

If there is a selection input from the user for the display of the image album list, the image album providing unit 750 processes the video call contents of the member stored in the image album DB 722 in the selected image album format (S250) To the user (S260). At this time, the image album is provided in the form of direct reproduction through a mobile terminal or a computer accessed by the user, or as a download form as a video album file. For example, the image album providing unit 750 can provide various types of image albums to the user, such as image albums by age of members, image albums by location, and image albums by video call partners.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, It belongs to the scope of right.

Claims (14)

A method for providing a video album service by recording a video call provided through a mobile communication network,
Receiving a video call recording request from a mobile terminal performing a video call;
Connecting a channel of the video call to record a content of a video call provided through a channel of the video call and storing the video call; And
And providing the image album stored for each user through the user terminal according to a request from a user terminal connected through a wired / wireless network,
When a content of the video call is stored as a video album, a still image of a certain portion of the content of the video call is stored in correspondence with a representative video of the content of the video call,
When the request for providing the image album is received from the user terminal, the representative image corresponding to the contents of the video call stored corresponding to the user is displayed, and the representative image selected by the user is displayed on the displayed representative image And provides the contents of the corresponding video call through the terminal of the user
Video album service method. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the receiving of the recording request comprises:
Receiving a start key indicating a video recording call request from a mobile terminal that is performing the video call through an exchange of the mobile communication network; And
The exchange requesting the service server providing the video album service to record the video call
/ RTI > 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the recording and storing comprises:
Determining whether the service server is a user of the mobile terminal;
If the user of the mobile terminal is a member, connecting the channel of the video call through the exchange to the service server;
Recording the content of the video call provided through the channel of the video call; And
Storing the content of the video call recorded so as to correspond to the user of the mobile terminal
/ RTI > The method of claim 3,
The service server transmits at least one of the telephone number of the mobile terminal, the telephone number of the other party mobile terminal performing the video call with the mobile terminal, and the location information of the mobile terminal together with the video call recording request from the exchange Wherein the method comprises the steps of: The method of claim 3,
In the step of recording the contents of the video call,
When the exchange of the mobile communication network receives and transmits the end key indicating the end of the video call recording from the mobile terminal that has requested the video call recording, the service server ends the operation of recording the content of the video call Characterized by a video album service method. The method of claim 3,
Wherein the providing step comprises:
Determining whether the user is a member connected to the service server through the wired / wireless network;
If the user connected to the service server is a member, displaying a list of image albums available for each user; And
Providing a video album corresponding to a selection of a user connected to the service server from the video album list to a user connected to the service server
/ RTI > The method according to claim 6,
Wherein the step of displaying a still image representing a content of a video call corresponding to the user displays the still image as the video album list. The method according to claim 6,
The method of claim 1,
Wherein a video album corresponding to the user's selection is reproduced through a user terminal connected to the service server or as a video album file as a download form to the user terminal. An apparatus for providing a video album service by recording a video call provided through a mobile communication network,
An exchange for providing a video call service during the mobile terminal by setting a video call channel between the mobile terminals and receiving a video call recording request from the mobile terminal during the video call during the mobile terminal; And
Wherein the video call connection unit is connected to the exchange through an intelligent network and connects to the video call channel when the video call recording request is received from the exchange and records and records contents of the video call provided through the video call channel, And a service server for providing the image album stored for each user through the user's terminal according to a request from a terminal of a user connected via a network,
When the service server stores the content of the video call as a video album, the service server stores a still portion of the content of the video call corresponding to the representative video of the content of the video call, Displaying the representative video corresponding to the content of the video call stored corresponding to the user when there is a provision request and displaying the content of the video call corresponding to the representative video selected by the user in the displayed representative video, Provided through the terminal of
Video album service device. 10. The method of claim 9,
The service server,
A recording unit for recording contents of a video call provided through a video communication channel connected to the exchange through the intelligent network and storing the contents for each user;
A video album providing unit for providing a video call content recorded for each user to the user terminal in the form of a video album according to a user's request; And
A controller for controlling the recording unit and the image album providing unit to record the content of the video call being performed during the mobile terminal and providing the content of the video call recorded by the user in response to the user's request,
Wherein the video album service device comprises: 11. The method of claim 10,
The service server,
A database for storing data necessary to provide a video album based video call service; And
A member management unit for determining whether a user who requests to record a video call or provide a video album using the member information stored in the database,
Further comprising: 12. The method of claim 11,
The database includes:
A member information database for storing information of a user subscribed to the video album service through the service server; And
A video album database for storing contents of a video call recorded at the request of the user;
Wherein the video album service device comprises: 13. The method of claim 12,
Wherein the recording unit stores a still image of the video call as an image representative of the content of the video call when storing the content of the video call in the video album database,
The image album providing unit displays the still image in place of the still image when displaying a list of image albums to be provided to the user when the user requests the image album
Wherein the image album service apparatus comprises: 10. The method of claim 9,
The exchange receives a specific start key from a mobile terminal performing a video call, requests the service server to record the video call, receives a specific end key from the mobile terminal, and transmits the video call recording end Wherein the requesting unit requests the video album service apparatus to transmit the video album service request.

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