KR20010035359A - Internet Wedding Album Service Business Model & System - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An electronic wedding album service business model and system is provided to enable a user to upload digital film or photos taken in a studio, to select wanted design and photos and to send the produced album to other people over the internet. CONSTITUTION: The system comprises a photo image recognition program, an auto image cropping/thumbnail and naming program, an auto editing program, and a file transmission program. The photo image recognition program recognizes the scanned photo image sort, and classifies the recognized image. The auto image cropping/thumbnail and naming program cuts the recognized photo image according to a memory capacity and size, and granting a code to the cut image. The auto editing program edits the photo images in a standardized album structure. The file transmission program transmits the edited photo images over the internet.

Description

Business model and system for Internet wedding album service {Internet Wedding Album Service Business Model & System}

The present invention is an Internet service business model that provides differentiated services from the existing wedding photography market through the Internet Wedding Album Service System as an Internet business model.

The key to operating the Internet Wedding Album Service System is the consistency of the digital processing process and the Auto Editing System, which shows customers their wedding albums on the Internet in a short time. Existing method uses a method in which individual operators manually scan the film and manually operate an image editing program to retrieve and digitize each image, which requires a lot of manpower and time. All the processes from scanning, screen adjustment, editing, saving, and internet electronic album production are done automatically, which makes it possible to increase the efficiency and productivity of electronic album production.

The process of Auto Editing System is firstly recognized as 'Photo Image Recognition', 'Auto Cropping & Thumbnail Image and Name Generation', and 'Auto Editing', and 'Transfer File to Web'. It is supposed to be a process.

The Internet Wedding Album Service System dramatically shortens the time required for wedding album makers to make albums from customer shooting, and takes about one week after shooting through the Internet Wedding Album Service. The photos can be searched, ordered, and verified on the Internet to create wedding albums. In addition, various digital imaging services other than photography were provided to increase the added value of photographic images.

Conventional wedding album market needs the following requirements from the wedding album production studio and the customer's point of view.

end. Wedding Album Production Studio

1. There is almost no difference between other wedding album production studios and services

2. There is no value-added service differentiation method to distinguish high-quality wedding album and general wedding album as products.

3. The customer's satisfaction with the wedding album is low due to insufficient participation in the process of selecting the photo for the album.

4. The need for wedding album production studio promotion and commerce in the online market is recognized.

I. Wedding album customer

1. It takes a long time (about a month or so) to see the album after shooting.

2. I am dissatisfied with the selection of a photo by a studio photographer as a unilateral album photo.

3. There is a desire to show a wedding album online to remote relatives and friends.

The present invention is to solve the problems of the existing wedding album makers and to create a wedding album customers, to provide an opportunity to enter the wedding photo market online and to provide a service system and method respectively for the needs of wedding album customers. There is this.

In order to achieve the above objectives, first of all, it is necessary to develop products for the content and profit structure necessary for wedding album makers to enter online commerce.

The present invention provides a differentiated service from competing wedding album makers because the service allows customers to view their wedding photography photos on the Internet at a rapid time, and customer satisfaction by participating in the wedding album production directly. It is a service system that creates additional revenue by differentiating from other album production studios by providing image supplementary services such as wedding CD production, wedding invitations, calendars, business cards, and special photo frames to wedding album makers. In addition, the wedding album can be shown to customers' relatives and friends on the Internet, creating a private and personal community.

Therefore, the existing wedding album production studio can generate diverse and sustainable revenue sources through its own customer management program, away from the one-time product production through the existing album production service, and create second and third customers through online marketing and customer management. Do it.

Photographs requested and taken by customers are digitalized through this electronic album service system and implemented on the Internet so that photo studios and customers can be connected online and customers can create and order albums directly (Fig. 1).

The production process of the electronic album through this system digitizes the existing wedding photobook production process and processes all the processes online so that not only customers but also photo shooters (photo studios) improve customer satisfaction and reduce costs. (Drawing 2)

Auto Editing system, the core of this service, is the coherence of image digital processing and production. Through a consistent process, the integrated management and production of analog film or photographs on the Internet is managed.

The digital image program used in this service is reproduced on the Internet through the Auto Editing System, a self-developed application that automatically inputs photographic images from the Frontier Digital Imaging Processer manufactured by Fuji, Japan.

Fuji's Frontier digital Imaging Processer is a high-speed device that digitizes more than one image per second, and digitally prints the stored data at any time through an image automation program. You can print out all sorts of photo production orders over the Internet. Shorten the album production time.

The system can be connected to the studio and the customer via the Internet to immediately confirm the order and produce can significantly shorten the album production time, as well as easy to connect to other digital photo modification or photo synthesis.

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Claims (1)

'Image Image Recognition Program' for recognizing and classifying the types of photo images scanned based on the Auto Editing system, and 'Sub Image Formation', which cuts the recognized photo images according to a defined capacity and size and assigns codes based on their unique numbers. Cropping & Thumbnail image and name generation program, and 'Auto Editing and Document Creation System' that configures the above to standardized electronic album editing structure, and 'File Transfer Program' to send it as web document.