KR20030051911A - Image chatting method and system having song service fuction - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method and system for a singing room capable of video chatting are provided to enable many participants to perform a video chatting using a web camera, transmit, and receive a video and voice interactively in a remote place. CONSTITUTION: A user terminal(110) receives a video chatting and a singing room service through an Internet network or a wireless network connection. A server computer(120) authenticates member information of a user who is connected using the user terminal(110), supplies authenticated information to a video chatting singing room, and stores a sound with respect to at least one song. The server computer(120) transmits the song to the user terminal(110) in real time, compresses a sound requested during a transmitting process as a high-quality sound, and transmits the sound to each user terminal(110) of other participants. The server computer(120) is connected to the user terminal(110) of other participants for a chatting through a network, and connects a video and sound signal among the participants.

Description

Image chatting method and system having song service fuction}

The present invention relates to a karaoke system, and more particularly, to a plurality of remote karaoke system that allows a plurality of chat room participants to exchange video and audio with each other at the same time.

Karaoke web server plays a role of mutually transmitting voice and video data through live communication through multiple users accessing through internet network, and general users do not need to purchase additional hardware or install additional software. This is a description of the implementation of the method that can use the system only by connection.

In addition, it provides not only beneficial information to users through real-time text service (news breaking news, stock information, economic trends, entertainment information, etc.) and video services through video data, but also existing karaoke service and TV or outdoor billboards. The biggest advantage is that the commercial advertising that is being conducted in the media can be conducted using the Internet to induce a breakthrough in commercial advertising.

In the case of voice data, it is used as a method of transmitting mutual music signals and voice signals between the user and the web server.

The technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to provide a method and system for providing a remote karaoke service that allows a plurality of participants in the video chat using the web camera and the video chat can exchange video and audio with each other. will be.

1 illustrates a configuration of a video chat karaoke service system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a video chat karaoke service method according to the present invention, which illustrates how the server is driven on a web through a server computer.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a process of transmitting a video, voice, and sound to each user connected to a chat server and a process of using a chat.

4 is a service flowchart of a user for using a video chat karaoke.

5 illustrates a chat room information input window for selecting a chat room for a user to access.

6 illustrates information of a chat room input through a chat room information input window.

7A and 7B illustrate an embodiment of a video chat window for providing a video chat and karaoke service according to the present invention.

The video chat karaoke service method according to the present invention for solving the technical problem is a method for providing a karaoke service to members connected to the chat room for video chat, karaoke service to members connected to the chat room for video chat A method of providing a method comprising: (a) accessing a chat room opened through a web server using a user terminal to access a video chat song service; (b) providing information on the song requested by the user to the chat room through the D / B server, and providing the chat room with sound and video about the music identified through the media server; (c) compressing the sound transmitted by the user's request with voice data in the video chatting song service and transmitting the compressed sound to user terminals of users connected to a chat room; And (d) transmitting voice data of the user input through the user terminal to the members accessing the chat room.

In addition, (e) after the song is completed is characterized in that it further comprises the step of assigning a score to the users participating in the chat room.

In addition, (f) characterized in that it further comprises the step of analyzing the voice data input through the user terminal to convert it into score data to inform all participants participating in the chat room.

In addition, in the step (a), after accessing the web server using the user terminal, the user's member authentication process is requested to the D / B server, and after confirming the member information, the user's member information is displayed on the web server from the D / B server. Before entering the chat song service, the main web page is provided with user information along with a waiting room.

Also, in the step (a), if the second user accesses the chat room, the information of the second user confirmed through the D / B server during the access process is input to the web server during the access process of the second user. Provided to the D / B server is characterized by entering the chat room.

In addition, the step (b) is characterized by providing a list of songs requested by the user to the waiting room, which is the main web page, along with the user ID and the song name of the next song.

In addition, the chat room participants who did not request a song is characterized in that the reservation and transmission of their songs before the selected song is completed.

In addition, it is characterized by showing an advertisement to the participants of the chat room does not sing.

In addition, the user who sings the song is characterized in that it is also possible to record his song in real time.

In addition, people participating in the chat room is characterized by performing a text chat while using the karaoke service.

In addition, the people participating in the chat room is characterized by participating in the chat room by transforming their appearance to a predetermined character.

In addition, people participating in the chat room is characterized by participating in the video chat by modulating their own voice.

In addition, people participating in the chat room using the voice input device to the voice chat, characterized in that the plurality of people can talk at the same time.

In addition, the people who participated in the chat room can play the music file they have in the chat room, or provide the music file to register, the people who participated in the chat room can search the registered music file to listen to music It is done.

The video chat karaoke service system according to the present invention for solving the other technical problem is a system for providing a karaoke service to a member connected to a chat room for video chat, video chat and karaoke service through the Internet or wireless network connection A user terminal capable of being provided; And authenticating the member information of the user connected using the user terminal, providing the authenticated information to the video chat karaoke, storing the sound for at least one song requested by the video chat karaoke, And a server computer for transmitting a song to the user terminal in real time, and compressing the sound requested during the transmission process to different participants in high quality to a user terminal for each individual, wherein the server computer includes the user terminal of chat users. It is connected to and connected to the network, and provides the function of connecting the video and audio signals between each user between each individual.

In addition, the user terminal is characterized in that any one of PC, notebook, mobile phone, PDA.

The server computer may also include a web server computer for the user to access a website; A chat server computer that accesses a chat room through the website and enables video chat between users through a video chat window for people who participate in the connected chat room; A D / B server computer for storing information of songs to be used in a video chat window to each user connected to the chat server computer; And a media server computer for storing the sound and the video of the selected song to each user connected to the chat server computer, and transmitting the sound and the video in real time at the request of the user.

The video chat window may include a video window showing an image of people participating in the chat room; A chat room member information window showing personal information of people participating in the chat room; A reservation song list window showing a list of songs reserved by the people participating in the chat room; Song lyrics window showing the lyrics for the song; Karaoke function window that provides functions such as scoring, playback, recording, etc. for the song; A video window showing an image while the song is sung; And it is characterized in that the people participating in the chat room includes a text chat window for text chat.

In addition, the video window is characterized in that it has a function that the user can select and view among the video, advertising, news, other video material related to the song.

In addition, the chat server computer may be a user who does not request a song is scheduled to transmit the song before the song is completed, the user who participated in the chat room can be given a score for the song after the individual song is completed And, the user who sings the song is characterized in that it is possible to record his song in real time.

In addition, the media server computer is characterized by showing an advertisement to users who do not sing.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the following examples, and the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 shows the configuration of the video chat karaoke service system according to the present invention, and comprises a user terminal 110 and a server computer 120.

The user terminal 110 is an information communication device that can be provided with video chat and karaoke services through an internet network or a wireless network connection, and a PC, a laptop, a mobile phone, a PDA, and the like are used.

The server computer 120 authenticates the member information of the user connected using the user terminal 110, provides the authenticated information to the video chat karaoke, stores the sound of at least one song requested in the chat room, and stores the sound for a specific user. It transmits in real time by request and compresses the requested sound in high quality to different chat room participants during the transmission process and transmits it to the user terminal 110 for each individual.

In addition, the server computer 120, each individual participating in the order of the song to sing their own after the song is completed, give each individual a score and rank, and each user participating in the chat room with each other at the same time It is possible to transmit their own voice and video, and it is programmed to transform and change voice and video to specific users.

The server computer 120 includes a web server 1210, a D / B server 1220, a media server 1230, and a chat server 1240.

Users access the web server 1210 through the Internet network using the user terminal 110. The member information is authenticated by the D / B server 1220 and is connected to the chat server 1230 with the member information.

When connecting to the chat server 1230 and requesting the application song by accessing the karaoke service function during the video chat request to the media server 1230 through the information received and received the information about the application song to the D / B server 1220 The song is sung through the sound and video of the song provided by the media server 1230 and is programmed to be converted into a real-time file that can be transmitted to each individual.

Here, the chat server 1230 enables video chat between users who are connected to the chat room, and is connected to the personal computers, which are the information communication devices of the chat users, are interconnected by a network, and provide video and audio signals between the users. It provides the function to connect each individual.

A media server computer that stores the sound of one song to be used in a chat room and transmits the sound in real time at the request of a specific user to each individual connected to the chat server (it is only responsible for real-time transmission of the sound requested by the user). )

The chat server computer used in the present invention compresses the sound transmitted by the user's request to the media server computer with the voice data, and then simultaneously to the individual computer, which is the information communication device of the individual, in real time to each individual connected to the chat room. Users who do not request a song will schedule and send their songs before the song is completed and show ads to users who do not sing songs, and after the individual song is completed, It is possible to give a score, and the user who sings the song has the characteristic of real-time recording of his song.

If the user terminal 110 is in the form of a PC using the Internet, access is made through the Internet web browser, and the connection is made through the membership authentication process, and after the connection, the video chat karaoke is automatically driven to each user's PC through the web. In order to download and install the program in real time, the whole program is downloaded and installed in case of a new member, and in case of an existing member, the updated part is automatically downloaded and installed, and thereafter, as well as the access method through the Internet web browser, You can access the video chat karaoke directly.

Figure 2 is a flow chart illustrating a video chat karaoke service method according to the present invention illustrating how it is driven on the web through a server computer.

User A 210 accesses the web server 1210 using his or her information communication device. After access, the web server 1210 requests the member authentication process of the connected user A 210 to the D / B server 1220, checks the information of the user A 210, and then checks the web server at the D / B server 1220. Information of user A 210 is provided to 1210.

After going through the above process, user A 210 accesses the recall chat karaoke. At this time, the web server 1210 provides the information of the authenticated user A 210 to the chat server 1240 and then provides the user information to the waiting room, which is the main page before entering the video chat karaoke. User A 210 enters a chat room or enters a chat room.

If a new user B 220 appears in the chat room, the web server 1210 is connected to the user B 220, and the information of the user B 220 checked through the D / B server 1220 during the connection process is displayed. The information of the user B 220 is provided to the D / B server 1220 to enter the chat room.

In another case, when a specific visitor participating in the chat room is requested to request a sound of a specific song, the music is checked through the media server 1230 after providing the chat room with information requested from the D / B server 1220. In the chat room.

3 illustrates a process in which each user connected to the chat server transmits his or her video, voice, and sound to each user, and a chat using process.

When the user accesses a specific video chat karaoke, it goes through the configuration process as shown in FIG. In the video and audio transmission process, the user 1 accesses the chat server 1240 through the user terminal of the user 1, and then accesses the video and audio of the user and the user 3 through the Internet. Video and audio are transmitted to each user connected through the user terminal of each user.

Here, the sound of the song and the voice signal which is an input signal such as a microphone connected to the user terminal are transmitted in another process. This process is a process of mixing the sound of the song and the sound of the input microphone, and transmitting the sound between each individual in the process of transmitting the individual video and audio for each individual. The process of mixing the two different sounds is embedded in the chat server. It has a form that is mixed with two sounds and converted into a file in real time and transmitted to each individual.

However, the transmission process between individuals is not transmitted after the transmission process of one user's video and audio is completed. Instead, the transmission process can be simultaneously performed between many users connected to each other. However, it is possible to limit the number of simultaneous users to each individual according to the internet condition.

4 is a service flowchart of a user for using a video chat karaoke.

Users who want to use it connect to web server through internet web browser through their information communication device PC. If you are a member through the member authentication process after access, you can access the video chat karaoke, if you are not a member through the member registration process after joining the member through the member authentication process again to the video chat karaoke.

In order to use the chat room during the video chat karaoke process, you have to download and install the video chat program as shown in the picture. If the user using the video chat karaoke for the first time downloads all programs and enters the real-time installation process, and existing users download the updated program immediately or automatically install it in their information communication device and enter the waiting room of the video chat karaoke. Users who enter the waiting room can open a new chat room or select an established chat room and use video chat and karaoke. After use, you can leave the chat room or end the video chat karaoke.

Therefore, the present invention is a large number of individuals using the video chat karaoke after opening a chat room, while enjoying their video and voice in real-time transmission of the video and audio data to each other and provides a service of all functions as in the existing video chat room Karaoke system is built in the video chat room is a system that allows video chat while enjoying karaoke. In this case, the video and audio data are transmitted directly between individual computers, not through the video chat karaoke system server.

In particular, the accompaniment used in karaoke can be transmitted in real time to each chat room participant along with the accompaniment of a specific input device microphone or a headset. It is used in such a way that it is transmitted from each individual without loss.

5 to 7 illustrate an embodiment of a video chat karaoke service according to the present invention.

5 illustrates a chat room information input window for selecting a chat room for a user to access.

When a user inputs a chat room to select a desired chat room in the chat room information input window, information according to the input content is transmitted to the user's terminal for display.

FIG. 6 illustrates information of a chat room input through a chat room information input window, and includes a chat room list window 610, an attribution window 620, a date partner window 630, a member information window 640, and a chat room information window 650. )

The chat room list window 610 is composed of an established chat room name, chat room theme, and the number of participants.

Attribution window 620 is a function of enabling a one-to-one chat at any time, by entering the ID of a specific individual in the waiting room, input posts, the contents of the conversation appear in the attribution window in the waiting room.

Such an attribution window 620 has functions such as an attribution, opening a room, participating in a room, changing the name of the screen, refreshing, reporting and setting.

Attribution is the ability to enter a post when sending a specific individual, the opening of the room is a function to create a chat room, room participation is to join the room of their choice, change the nickname is the function of changing the name, Refresh is a general web refresh function, and reporting is a function to report a bad user to the chat operator, the setting is the environment settings, message preferences, boilerplate settings.

Date partner window 630 shows the opposite sex at a similar age as his own, the date of setting the date has a feature that the list of the date is different.

The member information window 640 is fixed as a male or female character at the first entry and his information is displayed.

Character selection function can be selected by the character of his choice, click the OK after selecting the desired character is registered, ID, name, gender, the current location is displayed in the member information window (640).

The friend registration function registers the member displayed in the personal information window as his friend.

Send a message function: Send a message to a specific individual. The dating function requests a date from a specific individual, but only to the opposite sex.

The Go To Room feature automatically enters a chat room with a specific person (personal 1: 1 chat room), but only when someone else's information is displayed.

The chat room member information window 650 clicks on a desired chat room in the chat room list to display information on the people who are chatting in the chat room.

7A and 7B illustrate an embodiment of a video chat window for providing a video chat and karaoke service according to the present invention.

FIG. 7A illustrates a case of 1: 1 private, only two first video windows 710 appear, and FIG. 7B illustrates a case other than 1: 1 private.

The video chat window includes a first video window 710, a chat room member information window 720, a reserved song list window 730, a song lyrics window 740, a karaoke function window 750, a second video window 760, and It is composed of a text chat window (770).

The first video window 710 is a window showing images of people participating in the chat room, and may display itself as a character image.

The chat room member information window 720 is a window showing a list of people participating in the chat room. When any one of the lists is selected, the chat room member information window 720 shows personal information of the selected person.

The reserved song list window 730 is a window showing a list of songs reserved by the people participating in the chat room, and the ID of the person who reserved the song and the next song to be displayed.

The song lyrics window 740 is a window showing the lyrics of the song when the reserved song is played in the reserved song list window 730 that appears by clicking on the selection.

The karaoke function window 750 is a window that provides functions such as scoring, playing, recording, etc. for the song, and assigns a score to the person who sang the song, and records or sang a song. This is the function window where you can listen to the song again.

The second video window 760 shows an image while the song is called, and has a function for the user to select and view a video, advertisement, news, or other video data related to the song.

The text chat window 770 is a general chat window for the people who participated in the chat room, and shows a different letter or display form in the chat window when a chat comes from the chat room. In addition, the text chat window 770 includes a function to enable writing only to a specific person among those who participated in the chat room and when writing to everyone who participated in the chat room.

The text chat window 770 includes various buttons such as text color, self introduction, image, inviting, environment setting, listening to the broadcast, leaving the room, font size, and the like.

Text color is a function that can change the color of the text used in the chat room, self-introduction is a function that shows your basic information in the chat window, image is a function to select the picture and image that can be used during chat, erase the chat This function is used when you want to delete all posts in the window. Invite is a function used when you invite a specific person in the waiting room or other chat room to your room. It is a function to set the environment for, and listening to the broadcast is a function for listening to this broadcast if the owner of the chat room establisher winamp broadcast. And exiting the room is a function used when you want to leave the current chat room, the font size is to change the size of the font in use.

Characteristic features of the video chat karaoke service according to the present invention are as follows.

In the video chat karaoke, Windows Media Player is INVADE, so real-time karaoke is possible. In the video chat karaoke, if the selected accompaniment has only an input device such as a microphone or a headset, the input device is connected to the sound card. Recording is possible. And, the song that is called in the chat room is transmitted to each individual in a Peer to Peer method, and at this time, the song that is loaded in real time by the encoding function built in the chat server is encoded in a real-time file form and then transmitted to each individual in real time.

If a large number of people participate in a chat room, if a particular person selects a song first or is using accompaniment for karaoke, it is automatically reserved in the song reservation window such as the song of the next selector. Automatically play in order.

In addition, each individual who participates in the chat room after the song ends is given a score to the user who sang the song, and the ranking of the users who participated in the chat room is given through the assigned score.

In addition, the chat room has a built-in playback function that enables playback of music files contained in its own hard disk, so you can use video chat karaoke while playing music, and sing a song if a specific song is being played in the karaoke room. Other users who participated in the chat room except the user can maximize the advertising effect because the video of the karaoke does not appear, but advertisements or banners are shown.

In addition, it is possible to control a variety of karaoke functions because the built-in shortcut to the next pause, which is a general player function, and a mute function of the accompaniment sound being played.

And, the characteristic function of the video chat is as follows.

Each person's video and audio is transmitted to the users who participated in the chat room by Peer to Peer method without having a file server. In other words, it is possible to send one's voice to the state even while an individual is talking to him, thus enabling multi-party conversation with several people.

Rather than simply transmitting video and audio data to individuals, video and audio can be modified. In other words, after clicking a specific function, the user's cam is displayed on the video in the chat room in a mosaic form, or the voice data transmitted through the microphone to the microphone or the headset is modulated and deformed so that each user has a different form from the original voice. Provide the ability to send them.

The drawings and specification are merely exemplary of the invention, which are used for the purpose of illustrating the invention only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims or claims. Therefore, those skilled in the art will understand that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible from this. Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention will be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

According to the present invention, the video chat service is combined with a real-time karaoke service, and the video chat is possible in real-time transmission with a large number of users, giving a plan to the formation of a more interesting community, and further to the Internet real-time multimedia service Can lead the process.

Claims (21)

In the method of providing karaoke service to the members connected to the chat room for video chat, (a) accessing a chat room established through a web server using a user terminal and accessing a video chat song service; (b) providing information on the song requested by the user to the chat room through the D / B server, and providing the chat room with sound and video about the music identified through the media server; (c) compressing the sound transmitted by the user's request with voice data in the video chatting song service and transmitting the compressed sound to user terminals of users connected to a chat room; And (d) transmitting the requested song to the members connected to the chat room, the voice data of the user input through the user terminal, video chat karaoke service method. The method of claim 1, (e) After the song is completed, the video chat karaoke service method characterized in that it further comprises the step of assigning a score to the users who participated in the chat room. The method of claim 1, and (f) analyzing the voice data input through the user terminal, converting the voice data into score data, and informing all participants participating in the chat room. The method of claim 1, wherein step (a) After accessing the web server using the user's terminal, request the user's member authentication process to the D / B server, confirm the member's information, and then enter the user's member information on the web server from the D / B server before entering the video chat song service. The video chat karaoke service method, characterized in that provided with the user information in the waiting room, the main web page. The method of claim 1, wherein step (a) If the second user accesses the chat room, the second user's information confirmed through the D / B server during the connection process is provided to the D / B server by providing the second user's information to the web server during the second user's access process. How to enter the video chat karaoke, characterized in that the entry. The method of claim 1, wherein step (b) A video chat karaoke service method comprising providing a list of songs requested by a user to a waiting room, which is a main web page, along with a user ID and a song title of a next song. The method of claim 1, Participants of the chat room who have not requested a song further have a step of reserving and transmitting their song before the selected song is completed. The method of claim 1, The video chat karaoke service method characterized by showing an advertisement to the participants of the chat room that does not sing. The method of claim 1, User singing a video chat karaoke service method characterized in that it is also possible to record their songs in real time. The method of claim 1, The video chat karaoke service method characterized in that the text chat is possible while people participating in the chat room using the karaoke service. The method of claim 1, The video chat karaoke service method characterized in that people participating in the chat room to participate in the chat room by transforming their appearance into a predetermined character. The method of claim 1, Video chat karaoke service method characterized in that people participating in the chat room participates in video chat by modulating their own voice. The method of claim 1, A video chat karaoke service method characterized in that the people participating in the chat room using the voice input device to have a voice conversation, and the plurality of people can talk at the same time. The method of claim 1, The people who participated in the chat room can play the music file they have in the chat room or provide the music file to register, and the people who participated in the chat room can search the registered music file and listen to the music. Video chat karaoke service method. In the system for providing a karaoke service to a member connected to a chat room for video chat, A user terminal capable of receiving a video chat and karaoke service through an internet network or a wireless network connection; And Authenticate the member information of the user connected using the user terminal, provide the authenticated information to the video chat karaoke, store the sound for at least one song requested by the video chat karaoke, the user's requested song It transmits to the user terminal in real time, and a server computer for compressing the sound requested during the transmission process to the different participants with high quality to each individual user terminal, The server computer The video chat karaoke service system, characterized in that connected to the network of the user terminal of the chat users are interconnected and provides a function to connect the video and audio signals between each individual between each user. The method of claim 15, wherein the user terminal Video chat karaoke service system characterized in that any one of PC, laptop, mobile phone, PDA. 16. The server computer of claim 15, wherein the server computer is A web server computer for the user to access the website; A chat server computer that accesses a chat room through the website and enables video chat between users through a video chat window for people who participate in the connected chat room; A D / B server computer for storing information of songs to be used in a video chat window to each user connected to the chat server computer; And Video chat karaoke service system comprising a media server computer for storing the sound and video for the song selected to each user connected to the chat server computer, and transmits the sound and video in real time at the request of the user . The method of claim 17, wherein the video chat window A video window showing images of people participating in the chat room; A chat room member information window showing personal information of people participating in the chat room; A reservation song list window showing a list of songs reserved by the people participating in the chat room; Song lyrics window showing the lyrics for the song; Karaoke function window that provides functions such as scoring, playback, recording, etc. for the song; A video window showing an image while the song is sung; And Video chat karaoke service system, characterized in that the people participating in the chat room includes a text chat window for text chat. The method of claim 18, wherein the video window Video chat karaoke service system characterized in that it has a function that the user can select from among the video, advertising, news, other video material related to the song. 18. The computer of claim 17, wherein the chat server computer is Users who do not request a song can reserve their own song before the selected song is completed, and after the individual song is completed, users who participate in the chat room can score the song. Video chat karaoke service system characterized in that it is possible to record their songs in real time. 18. The system of claim 17, wherein the media server computer is Video chat karaoke service system characterized by showing the advertisement to users who do not sing.