KR101841231B1 - Method of reorganizing and transmitting video contents - Google Patents

Abstract

According to the present disclosure, as a method for reconstructing video contents in a video contents providing server, provided is the method for reconstructing video contents, which includes the steps of: separating image data and basic audio data for the video contents if the video contents are stored in a database of the video contents providing server; separately storing the separated image data and basic audio data in the database, wherein the basic audio data is associated with the image data; storing one or more additional audio data in a language other than the language of the basic audio data to be associated with the image data; and storing one or more subtitle data to be associated with the image data. Accordingly, the present invention can improve accessibility to the video contents.

Description

Method of reorganizing and transmitting video contents

The present invention relates to a method for reconstructing and providing moving picture contents, more specifically, separating video data of a moving picture content and basic voice data, storing additional voice data in a language different from the basic voice data in association with the video data, The subscriber's terminal may merge the video data and the basic / additional voice data based on the IP address of the subscriber and provide the video data and the basic / additional voice data to the subscriber's terminal, And a method for merging and viewing additional audio data.

Conventional on-line video contents can be provided to a single country with only one voice service included in one video content, or can be provided to a viewer in accordance with a selection of a viewer, .

In this case, a viewer who uses a language other than the service area may not recognize the voice and may give up watching. In addition, in the case of a video service according to the selection of an individual language, a video content provider has difficulty in storing and managing language-specific video contents for the same video.

1. Published Patent No. 2006-0133137 2. Patent Publication No. 2004-0020696

The object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for separating and storing video data and audio data for one video content and storing the video data as audio data for different languages in one video data, And then provides them in a separate form or in a combined form together with the image data to easily serve various countries as one online image contents service.

In the present disclosure, the position of a viewer who wants to view each video content is selected by, for example, a language commonly used at a position of the viewer based on GeoIP, and when there is no voice data for a common language, caption function can be applied to provide an environment in which viewers at all locations can view.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of reconstructing video content on a video content providing server, the method comprising: separating video data and basic audio data for the video content when the video content is stored in a database of the video content providing server; Storing the video data and the basic audio data separately in the database, the basic audio data being associated with the video data; and one or more additional audio data in a language other than the language of the basic audio data, And associating one or more subtitle data with the video data, and storing the associated subtitle data in association with the video data.

In one embodiment, the FFMPEG technique may be used to separate video data and basic audio data for the moving picture content.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing video content in a video content providing server, the method comprising: detecting an IP address of the subscriber when receiving a request to view video content from a subscriber terminal; Extracting voice data corresponding to the location of the subscriber from a database in the moving picture contents providing server, the voice data including additional voice data in a language other than the basic voice data and the language of the basic voice data, And merging the video data and the audio data of the moving picture content and transmitting the merged video data and the audio data to the terminal of the subscriber, / RTI >

In one embodiment, the merging may include merging subtitle data associated with the IP address together with the basic speech data if there is no speech data in the language corresponding to the IP address.

In one embodiment, the merging may include merging subtitle data associated with the basic audio data with the basic audio data if there is no subtitle data associated with the IP address.

In one embodiment, when receiving the selection information on the voice data and the caption data from the terminal of the subscriber, the video data, the voice data, and the caption data are merged according to the selection information from the subscriber terminal To the subscriber station.

In one embodiment, the merge step may include merging the video data, the audio data, and the caption data according to the setting information regarding the voice data and the caption data of the subscriber.

In one embodiment, the merging includes merging the video data, the audio data, and the caption data based on the preference regarding the audio data and the caption data of the subscribers corresponding to the IP address can do.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing video content in a video content providing server, the method comprising: detecting an IP address of the subscriber when receiving a request for viewing video content from a subscriber terminal; Extracting from the database in the moving picture content providing server voice data corresponding to the location of the subscriber, the voice data including additional information including basic voice data and additional voice in a language other than the language of the basic voice data; And transmitting the video data and the extracted voice data to the terminal of the subscriber so that the video data and the voice data can be merged and viewed at the terminal of the subscriber, Is provided.

In one embodiment, in the case where there is no voice data in the language corresponding to the IP address, the transmitting step may include transmitting the subtitle data to the subscribers' The subtitle data associated with the address can be transmitted together.

In one embodiment, the transmitting may include transmitting, if there is no caption data associated with the IP address, caption data associated with the basic voice data.

In one embodiment, when receiving the selection information on the voice data and the caption data from the terminal of the subscriber, the video data, the voice data, and the caption data are transmitted to the subscriber terminal in accordance with the selection information from the subscriber terminal. To the terminal.

In one embodiment, the transmitting step may include transmitting the video data, the audio data, and the caption data according to the setting information regarding the voice data and the caption data of the subscriber.

In one embodiment, the transmitting step includes transmitting the video data, the audio data, and the caption data based on the preference regarding the audio data and the caption data of the subscribers corresponding to the IP address can do.

In another aspect, there is provided a computer-readable medium having recorded thereon a program, the program including instructions for performing the above-described method when executed by a computer.

According to the disclosed embodiments, unlike the conventional online video contents service in which separate service forms for respective languages are constituted and maintained and different language-specific video contents data for respective languages are secured and stored, Since video / audio contents can be easily provided in various languages in various countries, it is possible to improve accessibility to video contents.

In the present disclosure, a language used at a position of a viewer is selected based on a position of a viewer who wants to view each video content, and when there is no voice data for a common language at the corresponding position, By applying the function, it is possible to provide an environment in which all viewers at any position can view. This disclosure is based on the viewer's location and is therefore applicable to viewers of multi-lingual countries such as Canada, Belgium, and Switzerland.

1 is a diagram of a system environment for providing services for reconstructing and providing video content to subscribers, according to one embodiment of the present disclosure;
2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of reconstructing moving picture contents according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
3 is a flow chart illustrating a method of providing video content in accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure.
4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing moving picture contents according to another embodiment of the present disclosure.

Brief Description of the Drawings The advantages and features of the present disclosure and how to accomplish them will become apparent with reference to the embodiments described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood, however, that the present disclosure is not limited to the embodiments disclosed herein but may be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the specific embodiments set forth herein, To fully explain the scope of the invention to a person skilled in the art, and this disclosure is only defined by the scope of the claims.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure. For example, an element expressed in singular < Desc / Clms Page number 5 > terms should be understood to include a plurality of elements unless the context clearly dictates a singular value. Also, in this disclosure, it is to be understood that the terms " comprises, " or " having ", and the like, specify only those features, integers, steps, operations, elements, The use of the term does not exclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, numbers, steps, operations, elements, parts or combinations thereof. Further, in the embodiments described herein, 'module' or 'sub-unit' may mean at least one function or a functional part performing an operation.

In addition, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, unless otherwise defined, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this disclosure belongs. Terms such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries should be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the meaning in the context of the relevant art and may be interpreted in an ideal or overly formal sense unless explicitly defined in the specification of the present disclosure It does not.

Embodiments of the present disclosure will now be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, in the following description, when there is a possibility that the gist of the present disclosure may be unnecessarily blurred, a detailed description of widely known functions and configurations will be omitted.

1 is a diagram of a system environment for providing services for reconstructing and providing video content to subscribers, according to one embodiment of the present disclosure;

Referring to FIG. 1, a system environment 100 for a method of providing a moving picture service, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, may include a moving picture content providing server 110. The video content providing server 110 may be connected to the video service web or the subscriber's terminal 120-1, 120-2 ... 120-n through the network 130 so as to be able to communicate. Here, the network 130 may be an Internet network, a mobile communication network (e.g., a WCDMA network, a GSM network, a CDMA network, etc.), a wireless Internet network (e.g., a Wibro network, a WiMAX network, Wired / wireless networks, and the like. In one embodiment, the moving picture content providing server 110 may be a collocated server such as a dedicated server, a hosting server, or a cloud server.

The video content providing server 110 includes a video content DB (database) 111 for storing video content (e.g., a movie or a TV program), a video data DB 112 for storing only video data of the video content, A voice data DB 113 for storing associated voice data, and a caption data DB 114 for storing caption data associated with the video contents. The video contents DB 111, the video data DB 112, the voice data DB 113 and the caption data DB 114 are stored in a flash memory type, a hard disk type a random access memory (RAM), a static random access memory (SRAM), a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM) (ROM), an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), a programmable read-only memory (PROM) magnetic memory, a magnetic disk, and an optical disk.

The terminals 120-1, 120-2 ... 120-n may be connected to various types of handheld-based wireless communication devices, such as notebook computers, note pads, etc., smart phones, A smart TV, a computer, a server, and the like capable of communicating with other devices through the network 120. However, the types of the terminals 120-1, 120-2 ... 120-n are not limited thereto.

The video content providing server 110 separates the video data and the basic audio data for the video content and registers them in the video data DB 112 when they are registered in the video content DB 111. [ And the voice data DB 113, respectively. The basic voice data (e.g., "English" in the case of the movie "The Hunger Games" produced by Hollywood USA) is stored in the voice data DB 113 in association with the video data. Additional voice data other than basic voice data such as "English", "Korean", "Chinese", "Japanese", "German", "French" and the like are stored in the voice data DB 113 in association with the video data. Subtitle data related to "English", "Korean", "Chinese", "Japanese", "German", "French" and the like are stored in the caption data DB 114 in association with image data.

Although it is possible to use the FFMPEG technique to separate basic audio data from video contents, it is not limited thereto.

When the video content providing server 110 receives a viewing request for video contents from one of the subscriber's terminals 120-1, 120-2 ... 120-n, the video content providing server 110 detects the IP address of the subscriber and determines the location of the subscriber . Although it is possible to use the GeoIP technique to determine the location of the subscriber, it is not limited thereto.

In one embodiment, when the subscriber's IP address corresponds to Japan, the video content providing server 110 merges the video data of the video content and the voice data corresponding to the location of the subscriber, The voice data can be transmitted to the subscriber's terminal. In another embodiment, when the subscriber's IP address corresponds to Japan, the video content providing server 110 transmits the video data of the video content and the voice data corresponding to the location of the subscriber, To the subscriber's terminal, so that the subscriber's terminal can view the merged voice data by merging the voice data.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of reconstructing moving picture contents according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

The video content providing server 110 separates the video data and the basic voice data for the video content when the video content (for example, a movie or a TV program) is registered in the video content DB 111 of the video content providing server 110 (S201). The basic voice data is, for example, "English" in the case of the movie "The Hunger Games" produced in Hollywood, USA. The basic voice data related to "English" is stored in the voice data DB 113 in association with the video data (S202). Additional voice data other than basic voice data such as "English", "Korean", "Chinese", "Japanese", "German", "French" are stored in the voice data DB 113 in association with the video data (S203). Subtitle data related to "English", "Korean", "Chinese", "Japanese", "German", "French" and the like are stored in the caption data DB 114 in association with the video data (S204).

3 is a flow chart illustrating a method of providing video content in accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure.

The video content providing server 110 detects the IP address of the subscriber when receiving a viewing request of video contents from one of the subscriber's terminals 120-1, 120-2 ... 120-n (S301) (S302), extracts audio data corresponding to the location of the subscriber from the audio data DB 113 (S303), and stores the video data of the video content and the audio data corresponding to the location of the subscriber (S304). For example, in the case of the movie " The Hunger Games " produced in Hollywood, USA, the basic voice data stored in association with the image data is "English ". If the IP address of the subscriber corresponds to "Japan ", additional voice data of" Japanese "is extracted and merged with the video data. The video content providing server 110 transmits the merged video data and voice data to the subscriber's terminal.

In one embodiment, merging (S304) may include merging subtitle data associated with the IP address together with basic audio data if there is no audio data in the language corresponding to the IP address. For example, when "Arabic" voice data does not exist in the voice data DB 113 but "Arabic" caption data exists in the caption data DB 114 when the IP address corresponds to "Saudi Arabia", basic voice data ( (I.e., "Arabic") associated with the IP address with the image data, together with the title (e.g., "English" in the case of the "Hunger Games" movie).

In one embodiment, merging (S304) may include merging subtitle data associated with basic audio data with basic audio data if there is no subtitle data associated with the IP address. For example, when "Arabic" voice data does not exist in the voice data DB 113 and "Arabic" caption data does not exist in the caption data DB 114 when the IP address corresponds to "Saudi Arabia" (I.e., "English") associated with the title (i.e., "English").

In one embodiment, in the case of receiving the selection information on the voice data and the caption data from the subscriber terminal, the step of merging the video data, the voice data, and the caption data according to the selection information from the subscriber terminal, . For example, if the subscriber whose IP address is "Korea" selects audio data as "English" and caption data as "Korean", the moving picture content providing server 110 transmits audio data in "English" Merged with the video data, and transmits the merged caption data to the subscriber terminal.

In one embodiment, merging (S304) may include merging the video data, the audio data, and the caption data according to the setting information regarding the voice data and the caption data of the subscriber. For example, if the subscriber having the IP address of "Korea" is set to prefer the basic voice data in the foreign language and the subtitle data in "Korean" for the video content produced in the foreign country, 110 merges the caption data and the basic voice data in "Korean" with the image data and transmits them to the subscriber's terminal.

In one embodiment, merging (S304) may include merging the video data, the audio data, and the caption data based on the preference regarding the voice data and the caption data of the subscribers corresponding to the IP address . For example, if a plurality of subscribers whose IP address of the subscriber is "Korea " is found to prefer basic voice data in foreign language and subtitle data in" Korean " The content providing server 110 merges the caption data and the basic voice data in the "Korean" format with the video data and transmits it to the subscriber's terminal. If the subscriber's IP address is found to be "German", the majority of the subscribers prefer to have additional audio data "German" and no audio for video content produced in other countries, the video content providing server 110 merges the additional voice data of "German " with the video data and transmits it to the subscriber's terminal. Subscribers by IP address can continuously update the preference for voice data and caption data by collecting configuration information on voice data and caption data of subscribers and statistical information.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing moving picture contents according to another embodiment of the present disclosure.

The video content providing server 110 detects a subscriber's IP address when receiving a request for viewing video content from one of subscriber's terminals 120-1, 120-2 ... 120-n (S401) (S402). Then, voice data corresponding to the position of the subscriber is extracted from the voice data DB 113 (S403), and the subscriber's terminal can view and merge the video data and voice data , The video data of the video contents, and the extracted voice data to the subscriber's terminal (S404). For example, in the case of the movie " The Hunger Games " produced in Hollywood, USA, the basic voice data stored in association with the image data is "English ". If the IP address of the subscriber corresponds to "Japan ", additional voice data of" Japanese "is extracted and transmitted to the subscriber's terminal together with the video data.

In one embodiment, the step of transmitting (S404), when there is no voice data of the language corresponding to the IP address, may be performed in association with the IP address so that the subscriber's terminal may merge the caption data together with the video data and the voice data, And transmitting the created caption data together. For example, when "Arabic" voice data does not exist in the voice data DB 113 when the IP address corresponds to "Saudi Arabia", but "Arabic" caption data exists in the caption data DB 114, And transmits the associated caption data (i.e., "Arabic") together.

In one embodiment, transmitting (S404) may include transmitting subtitle data associated with basic audio data if there is no subtitle data associated with the IP address. For example, when "Arabic" voice data does not exist in the voice data DB 113 and "Arabic" caption data does not exist in the caption data DB 114 when the IP address corresponds to "Saudi Arabia" (I.e., "English") associated with the title (i.e., "English").

In one embodiment, the method further includes transmitting the video data, the audio data, and the caption data to the subscriber terminal according to the selection information from the subscriber terminal, when receiving the selection information on the voice data and the caption data from the subscriber terminal can do. For example, if the subscriber whose IP address is "Korea" selects audio data as "English" and caption data as "Korean", the moving picture content providing server 110 transmits audio data in "English" And transmits the subtitle data together with the video data to the subscriber terminal.

In one embodiment, transmitting (S404) may include transmitting video data, audio data, and caption data according to the setting information regarding the voice data and the caption data of the subscriber. For example, if the subscriber having the IP address of "Korea" is set to prefer the basic voice data in the foreign language and the subtitle data in "Korean" for the video content produced in the foreign country, 110 transmits the caption data and the basic voice data of "Korean" together with the video data to the subscriber's terminal.

In one embodiment, the step of transmitting (S404) may include transmitting video data, audio data, and caption data based on the preference regarding voice data and caption data of subscribers corresponding to the IP address . For example, if a plurality of subscribers whose IP address of the subscriber is "Korea " is found to prefer basic voice data in foreign language and subtitle data in" Korean " The content providing server 110 transmits the caption data and the basic voice data in "Korean" together with the video data to the subscriber's terminal. If the subscriber's IP address is found to be "German", the majority of the subscribers prefer to have additional audio data "German" and no audio for video content produced in other countries, the video content providing server 110 transmits additional voice data of "German" together with the video data to the subscriber's terminal. Subscribers by IP address can continuously update the preference for voice data and caption data by collecting configuration information on voice data and caption data of subscribers and statistical information.

The present disclosure proposes a suitable method for providing one video content to a multinational audience by automatically providing an optimized audio service for the video to the viewer according to the viewing position of the viewer viewing the video content on the online video content service. This disclosure may be applied to non-online services other than video content services provided online.

Although the method has been described through specific embodiments, the method may also be implemented as computer readable code on a computer readable recording medium. A computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording devices in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored. Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical data storage, and the like. In addition, the computer-readable recording medium may be distributed over a network-connected computer system so that code that can be read by the computer in a distributed manner can be stored and executed. And, functional programs, codes, and code segments for implementing the above embodiments can be easily inferred by programmers in the technical field to which this disclosure belongs.

In the embodiments disclosed herein, the arrangement of the components shown may vary depending on the environment or requirements in which the invention is implemented. For example, some components may be omitted or some components may be integrated into one. In addition, the arrangement order and connection of some components may be changed.

While the foregoing has been shown and described with respect to various embodiments of the disclosure, it is to be understood that the present disclosure is not to be limited to the specific embodiments set forth hereinabove, and that the above-described embodiments are intended to cover any variations, It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure. Accordingly, the technical scope of the present disclosure should be determined only by the appended claims.

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Claims (15)

delete delete A method for providing video content and reconfiguring video content at a video content providing server,
Separating video data and basic audio data for the moving picture content when the video content is stored in a database of the moving picture content providing server;
Storing the separated image data and the basic voice data separately in the database, wherein the basic voice data is associated with the image data;
Storing one or more additional voice data in a language other than the language of the basic voice data in association with the video data;
Storing one or more subtitle data in association with the video data;
Detecting an IP address of the subscriber when receiving a viewing request of the video content from the subscriber terminal;
Determining a location of the subscriber based on the IP address;
Extracting audio data corresponding to the location of the subscriber from a database in the moving picture content providing server, the audio data including the basic audio data and the additional audio data in a language other than the language of the basic audio data; Wow,
Merging the video data and the audio data of the moving picture content;
Transmitting the merged video data and the audio data to the terminal of the subscriber
The method comprising the steps of: The method of claim 3,
Wherein the merging comprises:
Merging the subtitle data associated with the IP address together with the basic speech data if there is no speech data in the language corresponding to the IP address
The method comprising the steps of: The method of claim 3,
Wherein the merging comprises:
Merging the subtitle data associated with the basic audio data together with the basic audio data if there is no subtitle data associated with the IP address
The method comprising the steps of: The method of claim 3,
When receiving the selection information on the voice data and the caption data from the terminal of the subscriber, merges the video data, the voice data, and the caption data according to the selection information from the subscriber terminal to the subscriber terminal Step
Further comprising the step of reconstructing and providing the moving picture content. The method of claim 3,
Wherein the merging comprises:
And merging the video data, the audio data, and the caption data according to the setting information related to the audio data and the caption data of the subscriber. The method of claim 3,
Wherein the merging comprises:
And merging the video data, the audio data, and the caption data based on the preference regarding the audio data and the caption data of the subscribers corresponding to the IP address. A method for providing video content and reconfiguring video content at a video content providing server,
Separating video data and basic audio data for the moving picture content when the video content is stored in a database of the moving picture content providing server;
Storing the separated image data and the basic voice data separately in the database, wherein the basic voice data is associated with the image data;
Storing one or more additional voice data in a language other than the language of the basic voice data in association with the video data;
Storing one or more subtitle data in association with the video data;
Detecting an IP address of the subscriber when receiving a viewing request of the moving image content from the subscriber terminal;
Determining a location of the subscriber based on the IP address;
Extracting audio data corresponding to the location of the subscriber from a database in the moving picture content providing server, the audio data including the basic audio data and the additional audio data in a language other than the language of the basic audio data; Wow,
Transmitting the video data and the extracted voice data to the subscriber's terminal so that the subscriber's terminal can view the video data and the voice data in a merged manner
The method comprising the steps of: 10. The method of claim 9,
Wherein the transmitting comprises:
Transmitting the caption data associated with the IP address together so that the subscriber's terminal can view the caption data together with the video data and the voice data when there is no voice data corresponding to the IP address
The method comprising the steps of: 10. The method of claim 9,
Wherein the transmitting comprises:
If there is no caption data associated with the IP address, transmitting caption data associated with the basic voice data
The method comprising the steps of: 10. The method of claim 9,
Transmitting the video data, the audio data, and the caption data to the subscriber terminal according to the selection information from the subscriber terminal when receiving the selection information on the voice data and the caption data from the subscriber terminal
Further comprising the step of reconstructing and providing the moving picture content. 10. The method of claim 9,
Wherein the transmitting comprises:
And transmitting the video data, the audio data, and the caption data according to the setting information regarding the voice data and the caption data of the subscriber. 10. The method of claim 9,
Wherein the transmitting comprises:
And transmitting the video data, the audio data, and the caption data based on the preference regarding the audio data and the caption data of the subscribers corresponding to the IP address. 17. A computer-readable medium having recorded thereon a program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by a computer, perform the method of any one of claims 3 to 14.

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