KR20020089666A - Method for listening e-b00k using potable phone - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method of listening to e-book using a cellular phone is provided to download contents of e-book through a wireless network or a mobile communication provider from a cellular phone, and to listen to the contents with a voice, thereby enabling a user to freely read the e-book by the cellular phone. CONSTITUTION: When a user selects a book listening mode(301), a controller displays an e-book list stored in a memory on an LCD screen of a display(303). The controller checks whether the user selects an e-book page to listen to from the e-book list(305). If so, the controller reads data corresponding to the selected e-book page from the memory(307). The controller controls a TTS(Text-To-Speech) engine to convert the read data into a voice(309). The controller outputs the converted voice to an earphone or a speaker through a switch(311). If the user inputs an e-book listening complete key, the controller completes(313). If not, the controller checks whether the next page exists(315). If so, the controller returns to the step '307'.

Description

Electronic book listening method using a mobile phone {METHOD FOR LISTENING E-B00K USING POTABLE PHONE}

The present invention relates to an additional service method of a mobile phone, and in particular, it is possible to download the contents of an e-book (eBook) through a mobile communication provider or a wireless network (including a wireless internet network) from a mobile phone and listen to them through a speaker or earphone. The present invention relates to an electronic book listening method using a mobile phone.

'Today's world is a world to read. In order to live in today's world, you cannot live without reading. '' 'As G.L.Bond said, it is an imminent age that you cannot live without reading. Therefore, reading as a living is more urgent than reading as a hobby as in the past. This kind of reading means reading a book. However, it is not to read a book of letters or letters without meaning, but to read while understanding the text represented by the words that have meaning. We understand the profound thoughts, sentiments and contents of the predecessors contained in the book, effectively leading our lives, and enriching our serious lives of expanding our thoughts and expanding our life experiences while making up for the shortages of our lives. Human beings expand, fix and abstract experiences through information obtained from books. Therefore, reading is an intellectual act that advances experience. Normally, the mental growth of man means the upgrading of this experience. ' Through reading, you can sit in Confucius' river, listen to Jeongam, Toegye, and Yulgok, listen to Chung Mu Gong or Caesar's commands, and talk with Dubo and Goethe. It can be. If food is a means of meeting physical needs, then reading can be said to be a form of satisfying mental needs. Therefore, reading to fill mental poverty is the only means of living as a person. Therefore, it would be too natural to be a human being who reads, learns, thinks, and acts upon many books. As long as human beings exist, they are always learning and living, whether consciously or unconsciously. Therefore, continuing education is needed. And the best way of continuing education is reading. This reading acquires a great deal of knowledge in life. So reading is a treasure trove of our knowledge. There are many aspects to human existence. No matter how rich the material civilization is, the lack of nutrients, the food for the inner world, is difficult to enjoy human life properly. Therefore, we must maintain human life by purifying and sublimating human mind. In order to do so, the habit of 'when' and 'where' is to make a habit of reading, to build culture, to form a personality, and to become a desirable human being. Reading is the secret of discipline. The mental world of man cannot be gained by intellectual satisfaction alone. Virtue cultivation must be proportionate. Knowledge without virtue becomes the toxin of human society. Therefore, the basic form of ethics with sound philosophy is to take through reading. Reading is a garden of hobbies. Without hedonism, humans without pleasure are like deserts without oasis. Therefore, having fun is a shortcut to living a healthy life. This pleasure is in line with the hobby. Hence, individual hobbies vary as well as life. It is the only means for this variety of hobbies. Reading is a shortcut to success. For human success, diligence, patience, and effort are essential. But without the attainment of professional knowledge and skills, the accomplishment of the work cannot be promised. Anyone who is engaged in all work needs to get new knowledge and information and be creative in order to grow and develop. Reading is a way of restoring humanity that is declining due to the proliferation of material civilization and is the best way to save and protect 'I' from social evil. Usually, I read to read interesting novels and magazines and have a good time. However, there are cases where professionals read the way to rearrange the theory of their specialty, and the general public reads as a means to cultivate culture and to obtain indirect experience and information to become a desirable human being. Therefore, reading strengthens our minds, inspires us, instills faith and pride, enhances our virtue, cultivates the judgment of Saari, describes the use of things, by the action of human formation with sound minds, It is to increase the value of life so that each can effectively fulfill his task. Reading is the source of wisdom in all cultures that humanity can create. Therefore, reading is a means of indirect experience that matures one's knowledge and experience by passing on the experiences of others who have not experienced them directly. Through this means, it is a short cut of personality that satisfies the qualities and emotions of a living person who forms a new value by understanding and experiencing the world of the future that has not been known until now, and enriches a serious life. However, it is most appropriate to see that reading should be the pivotal role of human formation = personality. In particular, students in the growing age expand their experiences through reading and explore the unknown world to perfect imperfect humans.

As such, the importance of reading cannot be overemphasized. However, in a complex and diversified social structure such as modern society, it is harder to think than to spend time reading books. Life is busy, and spare time is reduced by that amount. Therefore, in order to read a book, you must deliberately spend some time reading yourself and find an online or offline bookstore to buy the book. Once you have bought a book, you should always carry it with you so that you can read it anytime, anywhere. But carrying a book makes me feel that it's not as easy as it sounds. Moreover, carrying a book for the situation at that time is almost impossible. The fact that society is complicated and diversified means that there are so many kinds of culture and knowledge required, and so many books about culture and knowledge are required. For those who don't have much free time, it's hard to know what kind of new book they've been out to these days and which books are bestsellers.

Mobile phone technology, which started from the concept of walking and talking, opened the first-generation mobile communication era with analog and completed the second-generation mobile communication with CDMA. And the new technology of 3rd generation mobile communication IMT-2000 is in the beginning of service. Mobile phones now offer additional services such as electronic organizers, calculators, and Internet access using mobile phones, as well as the services of calls. Since mobile phones are now always carried as essentials, these value-added services can be a very important buying and selling strategy for users, as well as for cell phone suppliers and service providers. Now, it is not only considering the brand or call quality when purchasing a mobile phone, but also carefully considering the additional services provided. Each handset manufacturer and service provider continues to develop new services. Good service can never be ignored because it leads to the purchase of a mobile phone.

On the other hand, since the mobile phone is carried by the user as described above, it will give a great advantage to the user if a service for reading using the mobile phone is provided. In addition, if a user can purchase only the necessary passages (pages) of a desired book through a mobile phone, the mobile phone user has the advantage of being able to read the desired book anytime and anywhere with only the mobile phone, and it will definitely contribute to the increase in sales for the mobile phone manufacturer or service provider. .

However, one disadvantage of reading by using a mobile phone is that the liquid crystal of the mobile phone terminal is small, the amount of text or the size of the text that can be seen at a time is very limited. Even if the mobile phone provides the book information, it is very cumbersome for the user to check the text through the small LCD screen, and it is inconvenient to operate the mobile phone every time to read the next paragraph.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic book listening method using a mobile phone which can be freely read whenever and wherever necessary using a mobile phone.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for listening to an electronic book using a mobile phone, which downloads the contents of a book required through a mobile phone and listens to the user with the contents of the book by voice when reading anytime and anywhere.

In order to solve the above object, an electronic book listening method using a mobile phone equipped with a speech synthesis engine for converting a text into a voice according to the first aspect of the present invention is provided. Accessing the e-book providing server by using; Selecting an e-book page to listen to when the e-book providing server is connected, and downloading data corresponding to the selected e-book page; Converting the downloaded e-book page data into speech by driving the speech synthesis engine; And outputting the converted e-book page voice through an earphone or a speaker.

In addition, the electronic book listening method using a mobile phone according to the second aspect of the present invention is characterized by further comprising the step of storing the downloaded electronic book page data in a memory.

In addition, the electronic book listening method using a mobile phone according to the third aspect of the present invention, when the downloaded e-book page data is stored in the memory, a specific e-book page to be listened to among the e-book page data stored in the memory from the user Receiving data selected; Reading the selected e-book page data from the memory; Converting the read e-book page data into a voice by driving the speech synthesis engine; And outputting the converted e-book page voice through an earphone or a speaker.

In addition, the electronic book listening method using a mobile phone according to the fourth aspect of the present invention is characterized in that it further comprises the step of displaying the list of audible books stored in the display unit when the electronic book page data stored in the memory.

1 is a block diagram of a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present invention

2 is a control flowchart for downloading e-book data from a mobile phone according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a control flowchart for listening to an e-book downloaded from a mobile phone according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

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111: control unit 112: duplexer

113: wireless receiver 114: frequency synthesizer

115: wireless transmission unit 116: voice processing unit

117: switch portion 118: ringer portion

119: memory 120: speech synthesis engine

121: key input unit 122: display unit

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. First of all, in adding reference numerals to the components of each drawing, it should be noted that the same components have the same reference numerals as much as possible even if they are displayed on different drawings. Detailed descriptions of well-known functions and configurations that are determined to unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention will be omitted.

1 is a block diagram of a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The control unit 111 controls the overall operation of the mobile phone, and controls corresponding components when the e-book listening function according to the present invention is selected as well as the mobile phone unique function.

The duplexer 112 receives a radio signal received from the antenna ANT and outputs it to the radio receiver 113, and outputs a transmission signal received from the radio transmitter 115 through the antenna.

The wireless receiver 113 outputs the data to the controller 111 when receiving data, and outputs the wireless voice signal received in the call mode to the voice processor 116.

The frequency synthesizer 114 generates a local oscillation signal for demodulating a received signal in response to a reception channel under the control of the control unit 111, and generates a transmission carrier signal and outputs it to the wireless transmitter 115.

The wireless transmitter 115 synthesizes a voice signal received from the voice processor 116 and a carrier signal received from the frequency synthesizer 114 under the control of the controller 111 in the call mode. )

The voice processing unit 116 demodulates the coded voice received from the wireless receiving unit 113 and outputs it to the speaker SPK through the switch unit 117 and converts the voice signal into an electrical voice signal by the microphone MIC. A signal is encoded by an electrical voice signal received through the switch unit 117 and output to the wireless transmitter 115.

The ringer unit 118 outputs a ringing tone when receiving a ring signal under the control of the control unit 111.

The memory 119 may include a ROM in which a program storing control data necessary for controlling the control unit 111 is embedded, a non-volatile memory (NVM) for storing various telephone numbers and names, and the like. And a RAM for temporarily storing and processing data generated during the program control. Meanwhile, the memory 119 stores an electronic book data file received through wireless communication.

A voice synthesis engine (TTS: Text-To-Speech: TTS engine) 120 converts an e-book related text file stored in the memory 119 into a voice to convert a speaker (SPK) through the switch unit 117. Or outputs voice to earphone (E / M).

The key input unit 121 has a key matrix structure (not shown), includes a numeric key for dialing and various function keys, generates a key input signal corresponding to a key input by a user, and outputs it to the controller 111. do.

The display unit 122 uses, for example, an LCD (liquid crystal display device), and displays the state and operation process of the mobile phone under the control of the control unit 111, and the electronic book listening function is selected according to the present invention. When the contents of the electronic book are being listened to, the related information (book name / author / current page / remaining page, etc.) of the electronic book outputted through the voice can be displayed to inform the user.

2 is a control flowchart for downloading e-book data from a mobile phone according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

First, in step 201, the controller 111 attempts to access the e-book providing server when the user requests an access from the user through the key input unit 121. The e-book providing server may be a server operated on the web through a wireless Internet network in the mobile phone, or may be a service server provided by a communication provider. In step 201, if the e-book providing server is successfully accessed, the control unit 111 proceeds to step 203. If the access fails, the control unit 111 retries a predetermined number of times and terminates if the connection fails continuously.

In step 203, when the controller 111 confirms the connection of the e-book providing server through the display unit 122, the controller 111 displays the e-book information search screen on the display unit 122 to allow the user to select an e-book and page. (Or table of contents or paragraph) is selected through the corresponding key input of the key input unit 121. In addition to key input, a page to be downloaded may be selected by manipulating an icon displayed on the LCD screen. In step 203, when the controller 111 determines that the page of the electronic book to be downloaded from the user is selected, the controller 111 proceeds to step 205 and requests the electronic book providing server to transmit the page, and the electronic book selected by the user in step 205. Download the document data corresponding to the page of.

When the electronic book page data is downloaded through the wireless receiver 113, the controller 111 stores the electronic book page data in the electronic book storage area of the memory 119 in step 207 and assigns and manages the list.

If the electronic book voice output currently downloaded through the key input unit 121 is selected by the user in step 209, the control unit 111 reads the downloaded electronic book from the memory 119 in step 211. The electronic book text (text) data read by the synthesis engine 120 is converted into voice and output to the speaker or earphone through the switch unit 117.

In step 209, the controller 111 terminates the e-book download program according to the present invention if the currently downloaded e-book voice output is not selected by the user.

3 is a control flowchart for listening to an electronic book downloaded from a mobile phone according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

In step 301, if the user selects the book listening mode through the key input unit 121, the controller 111 proceeds to step 303. Otherwise, if the other mode is selected, the controller 111 ends the e-book listening program according to the present invention and the corresponding mode. Perform

In step 303, the controller 111 displays a list of e-books stored in the memory 119 on the liquid crystal display of the display unit 122. In operation 305, the controller 111 checks whether an electronic book page to be listened to by the user is selected from the displayed electronic book list. If the electronic book page to be listened to is selected as a result of the test, the process proceeds to step 307.

In step 307, the controller 111 reads data corresponding to the selected electronic book page from the memory 119.

The control unit 111 controls the voice synthesis engine 120 to convert the read data into a TTS conversion in step 309.

In operation 311, the control unit 111 outputs the voice converted by the voice synthesis engine 120 to the earphone E / M or the speaker SPK through the switch unit 117 to be listened to by the user. To help.

During the voice output of the e-book, the control unit 111 terminates when the e-book listening end key (or a hand signal detection) is received from the user in step 313. Otherwise, the control unit 111 proceeds to step 315. When the voice conversion output of the electronic book of the current page is completed, it is checked whether the next page exists. If present, the process returns to step 307 and sequentially performs the subsequent processes. If the next page does not exist, the process returns to step 313 or ends. do.

As mentioned above, a mobile phone user has a predetermined cost (the cost of purchasing an electronic book page by page due to a copyright issue. It may be much lower than the cost of purchasing a book. If you pay only), you can choose the contents of the books you want and purchase them, and you can listen to them through your earphones or speakers without any inconvenience to read them. For example, in the case of poetry, you can buy only your favorite poems, and once you download and save it, you can listen to the poem you want by listening to the poems.

On the other hand, in the detailed description of the present invention has been described with reference to specific embodiments, of course, various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be defined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by the equivalents of the claims.

As described above, the present invention can freely download an electronic book from a mobile phone and listen to it whenever necessary, so that the user can freely read anywhere anytime when carrying only the mobile phone.

In addition, the present invention has the advantage of saving the cost and time of purchasing a book in a bookstore, and providing a mobile phone additional service more beneficial to the user.

Claims (4)

In an electronic book listening method using a mobile phone having a speech synthesis engine for converting text to speech, Accessing the e-book providing server using a wireless network when a user requests a connection from the e-book providing server; Selecting an e-book page to listen to when the e-book providing server is connected, and downloading data corresponding to the selected e-book page; Converting the downloaded e-book page data into speech by driving the speech synthesis engine; And And outputting the converted e-book page voice through an earphone or a speaker. The method of claim 1, And storing the downloaded e-book page data in a memory. The method of claim 2, If the downloaded e-book page data is stored in the memory, selecting, by the user, specific e-book page data to be listened from among the e-book page data stored in the memory; Reading the selected e-book page data from the memory; Converting the read e-book page data into a voice by driving the speech synthesis engine; And And outputting the converted e-book page voice through an earphone or a speaker. The method of claim 3, wherein And displaying a list of audible books stored in the display unit when selecting the electronic book page data stored in the memory.