KR200176453Y1 - Apparatus for automatic explanation using voice - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention assigns a unique identifier (ID) to each exhibit displayed in the exhibition hall, and analyzes the identifier generated from the fixing device for the exhibit as the visitor approaches the exhibition, and guides it through the portable device carried by the visitor. And it relates to an automatic voice guidance device of the exhibition hall to listen to the description automatically.

The present invention is characterized in that it is mounted so as to correspond one-to-one to each exhibition in the exhibition hall, and a fixed device for periodically transmitting a remote signal containing a code signal indicating an identifier for each exhibition at a predetermined time period; Receives a remote signal within a region where the user is portable and can receive the remote signal transmitted from the fixed device, detects the code signal included in the remote signal, and classifies the identifier of the corresponding exhibit corresponding to the detected code signal. In addition, the present invention includes a portable device that extracts the pre-stored guide information corresponding to the classified identifier, processes the signal, and outputs the signal so that the user can listen.

The present invention has a convenient advantage by automatically outputting the guide information of the exhibition as the user approaches the exhibit without the need for a separate operation of the user.

Description

Automatic voice guidance device {APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC EXPLANATION USING VOICE}

The present invention relates to an automatic voice guidance device, and more particularly, a unique identifier (ID) is given to each exhibit displayed in the exhibition hall, and an identifier generated from the fixing device for the exhibit as the viewer approaches the exhibit. The present invention relates to an automatic voice guide device for automatically analyzing a guide and a description through a portable device.

In addition, the present invention relates to an automatic voice guidance apparatus for allowing a user to listen to guide information in a language of a corresponding country as a user selects a language of a specific country.

Recently, due to the expansion and development of the cultural industry, large or small exhibitions are held in unspecified places, and these cultural industries are actively encouraged and activated by the government and private organizations.

In the case of small exhibition halls, it is possible to operate only a small number of guides without the need for a separate guide for each exhibition. In general, the organizer feels a burden.

In addition, some exhibition halls have pre-recorded announcements for each exhibition and continuously reproduce the recorded information. However, even in this case, the user can listen to the announcement for a particular exhibition at a time point. The problem arises.

In order to improve these problems, as shown in the Korean Patent Publication No. 97-8644 (published on May 27, 1997), 'Voice guidance apparatus of the exhibition hall' has been proposed.

Referring to FIG. 1, a conventional voice guidance apparatus is described as follows.

As shown in FIG. 1, the conventional voice guidance apparatus includes a key matrix 101 for allowing a user to selectively input a function or a unique number of an exhibition object according to an operation method, and a user's option through the key matrix 101. A microprocessor 102 that analyzes an input and analyzes the corresponding operation to be performed, a display unit 103 for displaying a unique number of an exhibit according to a user's option while being controlled by the microprocessor 102, and an exhibit As the voice data corresponding to the guide information is embedded with the appropriate sound signal, the address of the storage area is designated according to the language type and the unique number of the exhibit, and the corresponding voice data and the sound signal by the address signal of the microprocessor 102. The memory 104 outputs the voice data output from the memory 104 under the control of the microprocessor 102. The voice synthesizer 105 for synthesizing the audio signal and the acoustic signal into the original voice signal, and the voice signal synthesized by the voice synthesizer 105 for a while, to a function selected by the user through the earphone jack 107. It consists of amplifiers 106 to listen to the guidance information. In addition, the power supply unit 108 properly supplies power for operation therein with the power of the built-in battery.

That is, according to the conventional voice guidance apparatus, all the guide information for each exhibit is stored to correspond one-to-one to the unique code of the exhibit. At this time, when the user inputs the unique code for the exhibit into the key matrix 101, the guide information corresponding to the unique code input by the user among the various stored guide information is displayed on the display unit 103 and the earphone jack 107. It is output through voice. Therefore, the user can listen to the guide information of the exhibit.

However, according to the conventional voice guidance apparatus, the following problem (s) occur.

In other words, in order to listen to the voice guidance information of the exhibit, the user must directly input the unique code of the exhibit through the key matrix of the voice guidance apparatus.

In addition, since the memory built into each voice guide device is limited in storage capacity, there is a limitation in storing voice guide information in various languages. In this case, it is a result of increasing the economic burden on the organizer to expand the memory or to install a plurality of voice guide devices corresponding to each language of each country in the corresponding exhibition.

Therefore, the present invention is to solve such a problem (s), the purpose of the present invention is to automatically display the exhibition information to be displayed automatically as the user accesses the exhibition without the user's separate operation To provide a voice guidance device.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to maximize the voice guidance effect by listening to the voice guidance information in the language of the corresponding country by placing the voice guidance information recorded in the languages of various countries for each country, the user desired country It is to provide an automatic voice guidance system of an exhibition hall.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to form a kit (Kit) for voice guidance information recorded in various languages of each country, and according to the user's desired country, the kit stored in the language of the corresponding country to the voice guidance device By mounting and using, it provides an automatic voice guidance device of the exhibition hall that eliminates the economic burden.

1 is a schematic block diagram of a conventional voice guidance apparatus,

2 is a schematic system configuration diagram of an automatic voice guidance apparatus applied to the present invention,

3 is a schematic block diagram of a fixing device of the automatic voice guidance apparatus according to the present invention,

Figure 4 is a schematic block diagram of a portable device of the automatic voice guide device according to the present invention,

5 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the controller illustrated in FIG. 4.

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200: fixed device 201: code modulator

202: remote signal generator 203: high frequency generator

204: infrared ray generating unit 205, 304: antenna

206: battery 300: portable device

301: remote signal receiving unit 302: high frequency receiving unit

303: infrared receiver 305: code demodulator

306: operation panel 307: display unit

308: memory 309: interface unit

310: voice data processing unit 311: digital / analog converter

312: amplifier 313: control unit

A feature of the present invention for achieving such an object (s) is that it is mounted so as to correspond to each exhibit in the exhibition hall one-to-one, and periodically transmits a remote signal containing a code signal indicating an identifier for each exhibit at a predetermined time interval. A fixing device; Receives a remote signal within a region where the user is portable and can receive the remote signal transmitted from the fixed device, detects the code signal included in the remote signal, and classifies the identifier of the corresponding exhibit corresponding to the detected code signal. And a portable device which extracts previously stored guide information corresponding to the classified identifiers, processes a voice signal, and outputs the audio signal so that the user can listen.

Here, the fixing device includes a code modulator for repeatedly outputting a predetermined time by modulating a predetermined identifier into a code signal; A remote signal generator for converting a code signal output from the code modulator into a remote signal and outputting the remote signal; And a battery for supplying driving power to the stationary device.

In addition, the portable device includes a remote signal receiver for receiving a remote signal transmitted from the fixed device and classifying and detecting a code signal included in the remote signal; A code demodulation unit for demodulating the classification detected code signal to detect an identifier of the fixed device; A memory in which voice data corresponding to at least one guide information is stored; A control unit which detects one voice data corresponding to the detected identifier among at least one voice data stored in the memory; A voice data processor for signal-processing the detected voice data into a digital voice signal; A digital / analog converter for restoring the signal-processed digital voice signal into an analog voice signal for each channel; An amplifier for amplifying the restored analog audio signal for each channel to a predetermined size that can be heard by a user and supplying the same to an audio output terminal; And a battery for supplying driving power to the portable device.

At this time, the remote signal generation unit, and a high frequency generator for carrying out the modulated code on a carrier of a predetermined frequency; An antenna for transmitting a high frequency remote signal modulated by the high frequency generator; The remote signal receiving unit includes: an antenna for receiving a high frequency remote signal received through an antenna in the remote signal receiving unit; It may also include a high frequency receiver for separating the code signal from the received high frequency remote signal.

The remote signal generator includes an infrared ray generator for emitting infrared rays corresponding to the unique code; The remote signal receiver may include an infrared receiver that receives infrared rays and detects a unique code corresponding to the received infrared rays.

The portable device stores guide information in at least one country-specific language in a memory; The apparatus may further include a language selection key for selecting any national language among at least one national language stored in the memory.

In addition, the portable device may further include a display unit for displaying the language for each country selected by the language selection key.

In addition, the portable device preferably stores the guide information in a memory for each country's language, and the memory can be selectively replaced with the portable device.

The portable device further includes an interface unit for data communication with an external device; Preferably, the guide information stored in the memory is updated, registered and deleted by the control signal and data from the external device; At this time, the external device may be a general-purpose computer.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiment (s) of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. First, in adding reference numerals to the elements of each drawing, it should be noted that the same elements are denoted by the same reference numerals as much as possible even if they are displayed on different drawings. In addition, in the following description, many specific details such as components of a specific circuit are shown, which are provided to help a more general understanding of the present invention, and the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. It is self-evident to those of ordinary knowledge in Esau. In describing the present invention, when it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Figure 2 is a schematic system configuration of the automatic voice guidance device applied to the present invention, Figure 3 is a schematic block diagram of a fixing device of the automatic voice guidance device according to the present invention, Figure 4 FIG. 5 is a schematic block diagram of a portable device of the automatic voice guidance apparatus, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the controller shown in FIG. 4.

2 to 4, a fixing device 200 is installed at a predetermined position of an exhibition stand for displaying an exhibit, and fixed as the user approaches the fixing device 200 while carrying the portable device 300. The high frequency signal or the infrared signal generated by the device 200 is received by the portable device 300 and configured to operate the portable device 300.

Here, a detailed configuration of the fixing device 200 will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

The code modulator 201 stores identifier (ID) information for identifying the fixed device 200 and digitizes the identifier information to be transmitted to the portable device 300 through the remote signal generator 202. Modulated to the coded signal. That is, the code modulator 201 stores unique identifier information for identifying the exhibited exhibit, and the identifier information is set and stored at a different value for each fixing device 200 attached to each exhibit.

The remote signal generator 202 converts the code modulated by the code modulator 201 into a specific form (eg, a high frequency signal or an infrared signal) so that the portable device 300 can receive the remote code. In this case, the remote signal generator 202 may be formed of a high frequency generator 203 or an infrared ray generator 204 and other devices capable of generating remote signals. That is, the high frequency generator 203 carries a modulated carrier on the digital code signal modulated by the code modulator 201 and transmits the modulated wave through the antenna 205. The infrared generator 204 transmits the code modulator 201. The infrared ray corresponding to the digital code signal is sent by controlling the lighting state of the infrared ray generating means such as a laser diode according to the digital code signal modulated by the &quot;

The battery 206 supplies driving power to each component in the fixing device 200.

A detailed configuration of the portable device 300 will be described with reference to FIG. 4 as follows.

The remote signal receiver 301 is composed of a high frequency receiver 302 or an infrared receiver 303 and other devices capable of receiving remote signals to correspond to the remote signal generator 202 of the fixing device 200. That is, the high frequency receiver 302 receives the high frequency signal (code signal and carrier wave) transmitted from the fixing device 200 and received by the antenna 304, removes the carrier wave, detects only the digital code signal, and the infrared receiver unit. 303 receives the infrared signal transmitted from the fixing device 200 and detects only the digital code signal.

The code demodulator 305 demodulates the code signal detected by the remote signal receiver 301 to detect an identifier corresponding to the code signal.

The operation panel (OPE) 306 is arranged with a plurality of function keys to allow the user to select various functions of the portable device. In particular, the operation panel 306 includes a language selection key for selecting a language for each country.

The display unit 307 displays various operation states of the portable device. In particular, the display unit 307 displays the language of the selected country when the language of the specific country is selected by the language selection key on the operation panel 306.

In addition, simple information such as the identifier and the name of the whole body being guided and the language of the country selected by the operation panel 306 are displayed.

The memory 308 stores guide information of each exhibition object in correspondence with an identifier of each exhibition object displayed in the exhibition hall. At this time, the memory 308 may be stored separately in the guide information of each exhibition according to the storage capacity of each country language, it is stored in the form of a kit according to the language of each country to selectively replace the portable device 300 It can also be configured to be mounted.

The interface unit 309 interfaces with communication with an external device (especially a general purpose computer). That is, the portable device 300 is connected to an external device such as a general purpose computer in order to store the guide information in the memory 308. At this time, the interface unit 309 interfaces the communication state with the external device. By such a configuration, the new guide information can be updated and registered at any time in the memory 308 in the portable device 300 in response to the replacement of the exhibit.

The voice data processor 310 converts the guide information corresponding to each exhibit detected from the memory 308 into a voice signal form that can be identified by the user. That is, the voice data processor 310 processes the guide information stored in the data form in the memory 308 in the form of a digital voice signal.

The digital / analog converter 311 converts the digital voice signal processed by the voice data processor 310 into an analog voice signal. At this time, the digital-to-analog converter 311 separates the synthesized voice data for each channel L_ch and R_ch and converts them into analog voice signals divided into left and right channels L_ch and R_ch.

The amplifier 312 amplifies the intensity of the voice signal for each channel converted by the digital / analog converter 311 to a size that can be heard by the user.

The controller 313 controls the overall components described above.

The battery 314 supplies driving power to each component in the portable device 300.

Referring to Figure 5 with respect to the operation of the present invention having such a configuration as follows.

When the fixing device 200 is operated by the driving power supplied from the battery 206, the fixing device 200 attached to each exhibition object in the exhibition hall transmits a unique code indicating an identifier of the exhibition object at a predetermined period. That is, the code modulator 201 generates a code signal by modulating a previously stored identifier, and transmits the generated code signal to the remote signal generator 202 in units of a predetermined period. The remote signal generator 202 carries the code signal on the carrier via the high frequency generator 203 and transmits the code signal through the antenna 205 or the infrared signal corresponding to the code signal by the infrared generator in the infrared generator 204. Emits. At this time, the signal transmission method by the infrared generation unit 204 has the advantage that the disturbance by the surrounding objects does not occur, instead of the short transmission distance of the code signal, the signal transmission method by the high frequency generation unit 203 There is an advantage that the code signal can reach the portable device 300 at a long distance instead of the disturbance caused by the object, so that the remote signal generator 202 according to the state of the exhibition hall, the high frequency generator It is preferable to use either 203 or the infrared ray generating unit 204 selectively.

At this time, when the user approaches the remote signal receiving area of the fixed device 200 attached to any exhibition in a state where the portable device 300 is carried, the code signal transmitted from the remote signal generator 202 is transmitted to the portable device ( It is received by the remote signal receiving unit 301 of 300 (S1). At this time, the received signal includes a unique code corresponding to the exhibit.

The remote signal receiver 301 classifies and detects the unique code included in the code signal through the high frequency receiver 302 or the infrared receiver 303, and transmits the detected unique code to the code demodulator 305.

The code demodulator 305 demodulates the classified unique codes, detects an identifier corresponding to the corresponding code signal (S2), and transmits the same to the controller 313, and the controller 313 responds to a plurality of exhibits. The guide information corresponding to the detected identifier is extracted from the memory 308, respectively, in the guide information stored in step S5.

Thereafter, the controller 313 transmits the guide information extracted from the memory 308 to the voice data processor 310, and the voice data processor 310 restores the voice data transmitted from the controller 313 to a digital voice signal. . The recovered digital voice signal is converted into an analog voice signal by the digital-to-analog converter 311, and then amplified to a size sufficient for a user to listen to by the amplifier 312, and then output through the voice output terminal ( S6). Accordingly, the user may listen to the corresponding guide information by connecting the earphone or the headphone to the voice output terminal.

Here, the memory 308 may be configured in the form of a kit in which each language is stored separately, or may be in a form in which all the languages of the country are stored in the memory 308. If the memory 308 is configured in the form of a kit in which the language of each country is stored separately, the portable device 300 may selectively mount and use the memory 308 stored in the language of the desired country.

In addition, when all the national languages are all stored in the memory 308, when the user selects a language (eg, Korean) of a specific country with a language selection key on the operation panel 306 (S3), each of the languages stored in the memory 308 is stored. The guide information corresponding to Korean among the languages of each country is classified (S4), and among the classified Korean guide information, guide information corresponding to the identifier detected through the above step S2 is detected (S5).

At this time, by displaying the language of the specific country selected by the user on the display unit 307, the user can visually confirm the selection of the language for the country.

On the other hand, when the exhibit is replaced with a new one in the exhibition hall, the guide information about the exhibit is stored in the memory 308 from an external device through the interface unit 309 of the portable device 300. Thus, new guide information can be updated.

At this time, the battery 314 supplies the driving power to each component in the portable device 300, so that the portable device 300 can be operated.

As described above, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiment (s) have been described, but various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiment (s) but should be defined by the utility model registration claims as described below and equivalents to the utility model registration claims.

As a result, according to the automatic voice guidance apparatus of the exhibition hall according to the present invention, the following advantage (s) occurs.

That is, it is convenient to automatically output the guide information of the exhibition as the user approaches the exhibit without the need for a separate operation of the user.

In addition, by storing the voice guidance information recorded in the languages of different countries for each country, by allowing the user to carry a voice guidance device that stores the voice guidance information in the language of the country as the user specifies the desired country, The guidance effect is maximized.

In addition, by using the voice guidance information recorded in the language of several countries (Kit) for each country (Kit), and by specifying the desired user country by installing the kit stored in the language of the relevant language in the voice guidance device, economical The burden is eliminated.

Claims (10)

A fixing device mounted to correspond to each exhibition in the exhibition hall one-to-one and periodically transmitting a remote signal including a code signal representing an identifier for each exhibition at a predetermined time period; And A code signal included in the remote signal is detected by receiving the remote signal within an area where a user is portable and can receive the remote signal transmitted from the fixed device, and corresponds to the detected code signal. And a portable apparatus for classifying the identifiers of the exhibits, extracting pre-stored guide information corresponding to the classified identifiers, processing a voice signal, and outputting the audio signal for a user to listen to. The method of claim 1, wherein the fixing device, A code modulator for modulating the predetermined identifier into the code signal and repeatedly outputting the code at a predetermined time period; A remote signal generator for converting the code signal output from the code modulator into a remote signal and outputting the remote signal; And Automatic voice guidance device comprising a battery for supplying a driving power to the fixed device. The method of claim 1, wherein the portable device, A remote signal receiving unit which receives the remote signal transmitted from the fixing device and classifies and detects the code signal included in the remote signal; A code demodulation unit for demodulating the classification detected code signal to detect the identifier of the fixed device; A memory in which voice data corresponding to at least one guide information is stored; A controller for detecting any one of the voice data corresponding to the detected identifier among the at least one voice data stored in the memory; A voice data processor which processes the detected voice data into a digital voice signal; A digital / analog converter for restoring the signal-processed digital voice signal into an analog voice signal for each channel; An amplifier for amplifying the restored analog audio signal for each channel to a predetermined size that a user can hear and supplying the same to an audio output terminal; And Automatic voice guidance device including a battery for supplying a driving power to the portable device. The method of claim 2 or 3, The remote signal generator includes a high frequency generator for modulating the unique code on a carrier of a predetermined frequency; And An antenna for transmitting a high frequency remote signal modulated by the high frequency generator; The remote signal receiver may include an antenna for receiving the high frequency remote signal received through the antenna in the remote signal generator; And And a high frequency receiver for separating a code signal from the received high frequency remote signal. The method of claim 2 or 3, The remote signal generator includes an infrared ray generator for emitting infrared rays corresponding to the unique code; The remote signal receiver comprises an infrared receiver for receiving the infrared rays and detecting a unique code corresponding to the infrared rays received. The method of claim 3, wherein the portable device, The guide information in at least one national language is stored in the memory; And a language selection key for selecting an arbitrary country language among the at least one country language stored in the memory. The method of claim 6, wherein the portable device, And a display unit for displaying a language for a corresponding country selected by the language selection key. The method of claim 3, wherein the portable device, And the guidance information is individually stored in the memory for the language of each country, and the memory is selectively replaceable and mounted on the portable device. The method of claim 3, wherein the portable device, An interface unit for data communication with an external device; And the guidance information stored in the memory is updated, registered, and deleted by the control signal and data from the external device. The method of claim 9, wherein the external device, Automatic voice guide device, characterized in that the general-purpose computer.