KR20050068918A - System and method for providing intellectual type audio service using wireless networks - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing intelligent audio service using a wireless network.

In the intelligent audio service providing system using the wireless network according to the present invention, the audio server analyzes the control signal according to the operation of the user's audio terminal device until the audio data is accumulated enough to analyze the user's music propensity. Automatically analyze the user's music propensity by recording user response to music files. Based on the analysis result, the music file is automatically collected and managed according to the music propensity of the user, and the automatic performance list is constructed using the tag information of the selected music file. Then, when the user presses the automatic play button of the audio terminal device, the music file according to the automatic play list is reproduced and output through the audio terminal device.

This can reduce the time and cost of searching and downloading music files.

Description

Intelligent audio service providing method and system using wireless network {SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTELLECTUAL TYPE AUDIO SERVICE USING WIRELESS NETWORKS}

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing an intelligent audio service using a wireless network, and to an intelligent audio service providing method and system for automatically collecting and listening to music files suitable for the analysis of a user's musical taste. will be.

Conventional audio systems, such as audiocassette players, play the media on which the music is stored and deliver the music to the user. Recently, however, as audio data in digital formats such as MP3 is widely moved, users download music suitable for their tastes from the Internet, store them in a personal personal computer (PC), and listen to them by playing them. At this time, the user spends a lot of time selecting and downloading a large amount of music files existing on the Internet, which are suitable for his or her taste, and it is difficult to manage music files that occupy a considerable capacity of the PC even after downloading. There is this. Therefore, there is a demand for an audio service method that automatically collects music files suitable for a user's musical taste and listens to them easily.

In the prior art, Korean Patent Publication No. 2001-0104032, "Acoustic service method and apparatus using the Internet," is known. This prior art inputs a one-touch shortcut key for requesting music for a desired user environment from a plurality of one-touch shortcut keys provided in the terminal with one touch, and music data corresponding to the user environment from a user environment music request signal corresponding to the specific one-touch shortcut key. Play and output music data through a server that provides. However, this prior art provides a user environment based on extremely general and limited classification criteria according to mental state, age, and listening purpose. Therefore, there is a limit in reflecting individual tastes in listening to music.

In addition, as a related art, "Wireless network audio system" of Korean Patent Publication No. 2003-0057356 is known. This prior art relates to a system that allows a plurality of users to listen to audio while using different systems in different ways, but to an intelligent audio service that allows the user to easily listen to the music most suitable for the current user environment or taste. It is not considered.

The present invention is to solve the above problems, the technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is based on the analysis of the user's music listening form of the digital music file suitable for the user's personality automatically downloaded and stored from the Internet and stored music file The present invention provides an intelligent audio service providing method and system using a wireless network that can be easily listened to when a user desires through a wireless network.

In order to solve this problem, the present invention provides an intelligent audio service providing method for automatically providing a sound service according to a user's preference through a wireless network.

An intelligent audio service providing method using a wireless network according to an aspect of the present invention comprises the steps of: a) automatically analyzing the music propensity of a user; b) automatically collecting and managing music files according to the analyzed music tendency of the user, and constructing an automatic performance list by using tag information of the collected music files; c) searching for and transmitting an automatic performance list according to the user when the user presses the automatic performance button of the audio terminal device; And d) reproducing and outputting the music file according to the automatic performance list transmitted from step c) through the audio terminal device.

In this case, step a) may include a-1) receiving a control signal according to an operation of the audio terminal device of the user; a-2) analyzing the received control signal; a-3) recording a user response to the corresponding music file according to the analyzed control signal; And a-4) analyzing the music propensity of the user based on the user response recording result.

The method may further include transmitting audio data of the corresponding music file to the audio terminal device when the control signal analyzed from a-1) has a meaning of requesting reproduction of a new music file.

In step a-1), an identifier of the audio terminal device may be transmitted simultaneously with the control signal.

The present invention provides an intelligent audio service providing system that automatically provides a sound service according to a user's preference through a wireless network.

An intelligent audio service providing system using a wireless network according to another aspect of the present invention, controls the overall operation according to the user command input through the audio terminal device, automatically analyzes the music propensity of the user and based on the analysis result A control unit for automatically selecting and collecting music files according to the music inclination of the user and configuring an automatic performance list using tag information of the selected music files; An audio data storage unit for storing the music file collected through the Internet network in a digital audio format; An external internet connection unit connecting the audio server and the internet network; An intelligent audio extractor for analyzing the music tendency of the user and automatically collecting and managing music files according to the music tendency of the user; And a wireless network connection unit wirelessly connected to the audio terminal device.

The audio terminal apparatus may include a controller configured to control the overall operation of the audio terminal apparatus and to transmit an identifier of the audio terminal apparatus to the audio server simultaneously with a corresponding control signal when the automatic play button is pressed; A network connection unit wirelessly connected to the audio server; An audio data temporary storage unit for temporarily storing audio data of the music file received from the audio server before playing the audio data; A codec for decompressing and outputting the audio data temporarily stored in the audio data temporary storage unit; And an audio signal reproducing unit for signal processing and amplifying and outputting the audio data decompressed from the codec.

The audio server may recognize the audio terminal device corresponding to the identifier by analyzing the identifier.

The control unit of the audio terminal device may include: a control button generally operated to listen to music; And an automatic playing button for playing the automatic playing list constructed according to the music analysis of the automatically analyzed user.

In the present invention, there is provided a recording medium on which a program having a function of automatically providing a sound service according to a user's preference through a wireless network is recorded.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention. Like parts are designated by like reference numerals throughout the specification.

First, an intelligent audio providing system using a wireless network according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1.

1 is a block diagram of an intelligent audio service providing system using a wireless network according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, an intelligent audio service providing system using a wireless network according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes an audio server 100.

The audio server 100 analyzes the musical taste of the user and automatically collects and manages music files suitable for the taste by accessing a specific web server 400 through the Internet network 300. At this time, each music file has its own tag, and the audio server 100 searches, collects, and manages the music file through this tag information. The audio server 100 transmits the music file to the audio terminal device 200 of the user connected through the wireless network when the user desires.

The audio terminal device 200 is connected to the audio server 100 through a wireless network, receives a music file, and outputs it.

Next, an audio server 100 and an audio terminal device 200 of an intelligent audio providing system using a wireless network according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2 to 3.

2 is a configuration diagram of an audio server in an intelligent audio providing system using a wireless network according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a configuration of an audio terminal device in an intelligent audio providing system using a wireless network according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is also.

First, as shown in FIG. 2, the audio server 100 includes a control unit 110, an audio data storage unit 120, an external internet connection unit 130, an intelligent audio extraction unit 140, and a wireless network connection unit 150. do.

The controller 110 controls the overall operation of the intelligent audio control system according to the input user command. The controller 110 analyzes an identifier of the audio terminal 200 that is simultaneously transmitted with a control signal according to the auto play button through a wireless network when the auto play button is pressed to automatically play music corresponding to a user's preference. Recognize the audio terminal device.

The audio data storage unit 120 converts and stores audio data purchased or collected from an audio source (a conventional audio device such as a cassette player and a CD player and audio data on the Internet) into a digital audio format.

The digital audio format music file converted as described above has tag information in addition to the music data. For example, a tag for an MP3 music file may be composed of [track / title / artist / album name / genre / detail]. In the present invention, such a tag information is used to analyze a user's disposition, manage music files according to the analyzed user disposition, and construct a list.

The external internet connection 130 connects with the external internet to collect audio data on the internet.

The intelligent audio extractor 140 analyzes a user's music listening form to analyze a user's musical taste and collects and manages audio data corresponding thereto through the Internet.

When the user presses the automatic play button of the audio terminal device 200, the wireless network connection unit 150 transmits the audio data selected through the intelligent audio extractor 140 to the audio terminal device 200. Connect with the device 200. In addition, the wireless network connection unit 150 may be implemented by adopting one of wireless LAN, Bluetooth, and ultra-wideband (UWB), and control signals between the audio server 100 and the audio terminal device 200 as well as audio data. Send it.

As shown in FIG. 3, the audio terminal device 200 includes a controller 210, a wireless network connection unit 220, an audio data temporary storage unit 230, a codec 240, and an audio signal reproducing unit 250. .

The controller 210 controls the overall operation of the audio terminal device 200. In addition, the control unit 210 includes control buttons for listening to music, such as play, reverse, and skip, and auto play buttons for automatically selecting and playing music suitable for a user's taste.

The controller 210 automatically analyzes the music propensity of the user and selects a music file according to the music propensity of the user based on the analysis result. In addition, the control unit 210 automatically collects and manages music files according to the music propensity of the user by accessing the web server 400 through the Internet network 300, and automatically plays the list using the tag information of the selected music files. Configure

The wireless network connection unit 220 connects to the audio server 100 to receive audio data wirelessly from the audio server 100.

The audio data temporary storage unit 230 temporarily stores the audio data received from the audio server 100 before playing the audio data.

The codec 240 decompresses and outputs audio data of the audio data temporary storage unit 230.

The audio reproducing unit 250 processes and amplifies and outputs the audio data decompressed from the codec 240, and finally outputs the amplified audio signal through an output terminal such as a speaker or a headphone terminal to reproduce the audio data.

Hereinafter, an operation process of an intelligent audio providing system using a wireless network according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 4 to 5.

4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of an intelligent audio service providing system using a wireless network according to an embodiment of the present invention. Here, since the description of the operation procedure corresponding to the normal music listening is a well-known technique, only the operation procedure of the intelligent audio service providing system according to the automatic performance according to the user's inclination will be described. For convenience of explanation, it is assumed that one audio terminal device 100 is used by one user.

First, as shown in FIG. 4, an intelligent audio service providing system using a wireless network according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is intelligent until data for analyzing a user's music listening form is accumulated to some extent for automatic performance according to a user's inclination. An initial learning period of the audio service providing system is required. During this period, the audio server 100 analyzes the user's usual music listening form for each audio terminal device 200 and analyzes the user's disposition (S400).

The audio server 200 accesses the web server 400 through the internet network 300 based on the analysis result of the user disposition, and uses the Internet robot technology to select a music file corresponding to the corresponding condition among the music files existing on the Internet. Search and collect. The audio server 200 manages using the tag information of the collected music file (S410). Here, since the Internet robot technology is a known technology used in the Internet search engine field, a description thereof will be omitted.

The audio server 100 selects music files collected from the web server 400 and music files stored in the audio server 100, and configures an automatic performance list for each user by selecting a music file corresponding to a user's musical taste. Maintain an automatic play list (S420).

On the other hand, the user may operate the normal audio terminal device 200 to listen to music by selecting himself, or may input an automatic play button to automatically play music corresponding to his or her preferences (S430). At this time, when the user presses the automatic play button, the control signal including the identifier of the audio terminal device 200 is transmitted to the audio server 100 through the wireless network (S440). As such, the audio server 100 receiving the control signal from the audio terminal device 200 recognizes the audio terminal device 200 and searches for an automatic performance list corresponding to the user (S450). The audio server 100 wirelessly transmits the corresponding music files to the audio terminal device 200 from the found automatic performance list (S460). At this time, the automatic performance list is a music file automatically accumulated during the initial learning period based on the analysis result of the user disposition from the audio server 200. Then, the music file wirelessly transmitted to the audio terminal device 200 is temporarily stored in the audio terminal device 200 (S470). The music file stored as described above is reproduced and output through the speaker of the audio terminal device 200 (S480).

Hereinafter, a user propensity analysis process automatically executed in the audio server 100 which is a feature of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 5.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a user disposition analysis during an operation of an intelligent audio service providing system using a wireless network according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 5, a button related to playback (for example, play, skip, repeat, etc.) for a user to listen to a music file through the audio terminal device 200. Press (S401), the control signal associated with the button is transmitted to the audio server 100 (S402). Upon receiving this, the audio server 100 analyzes the control signal (S403).

If the analyzed control signal requests reproduction of a music file that is not temporarily stored in the audio terminal device 200, such as a reproduction request or a skipping request for a new file, the audio server 100 is connected to the Internet network 300. The user accesses the web server 400 to search for the corresponding music file and transmits the audio data of the corresponding music file to the audio terminal device 200 (S404). On the other hand, when the analyzed control signal requires the audio terminal device 200 to play the music file temporarily stored, the music file stored in the audio terminal device 200 is played as it is.

The audio server 100 records a user response as information on the corresponding music file according to the control signal analyzed by the audio terminal device 200 (S405). For example, if a user presses the "Skip" button to skip to a particular music file in the middle of a performance, "-1"; if he presses the "Repeat" button for repeat listening, "+2" for simple playback If you press the "Play" button, a score of "+1" is assigned. As such, the audio server 100 records and manages user responses to all music files stored in the audio server 100. These steps (S401-S405) are repeated until a certain amount of data for analyzing the form of listening to music for the automatic performance according to the user's disposition.

In this way, if the user response record is accumulated for a predetermined time, the audio server 100 analyzes the user's musical taste (S406). At this time, a list is constructed according to the analyzed user disposition using the tag information of each music file.

By combining the user response information and the attribute information of the music file according to the tag information from the above-described step (S405), more specific information such as "artist" or "genre" may be obtained with respect to the type of music that the user enjoys. In other words, it is possible to analyze the user's musical taste by finding common attributes of the music files with high user response scores. For example, suppose a user A enjoys music in the order of Mozart's Symphony, Mozart's Piano Concerto, and Beethoven's Symphony in order. It is possible to conclude that Mozart prefers music of "genre", and most of all, Mozart.

In this way, by analyzing the process of listening to the music of the usual users, it provides a function to automatically collect, manage and automatically play music files according to the user's taste.

On the other hand, by utilizing the storage space of the audio server in which music files are stored, a plurality of audio terminal devices can play different music at the same time, it is possible to solve the problem of audio data sharing and management between the plurality of audio terminal devices.

An intelligent audio service providing method using a wireless network according to an embodiment of the present invention described above is implemented in a program and can be read in a recording medium (CD-ROM, RAM, floppy disk, hard disk, magneto-optical disk, etc.). Can be stored.

The above embodiments are intended to illustrate the present invention, the scope of the present invention is not limited to the embodiments, it can be modified or modified by those skilled in the art within the scope of the invention defined by the appended claims.

According to the present invention, by analyzing the music that a user normally enjoys and automatically collecting and managing similar types of music through the Internet, it is possible to save the cost and time for the user to manually search and download from the Internet. In addition, the user's convenience is increased because the music files stored in the computer are automatically and systematically managed according to the preference.

In addition, it is possible to solve the audio data sharing problem and the management problem between the plurality of audio terminal devices by playing different music at the same time by using the storage space of the audio server.

1 is a block diagram of an intelligent audio service providing system using a wireless network according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram of an audio server according to FIG. 1.

3 is a block diagram of an audio terminal device according to FIG. 1.

4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of an intelligent audio service providing system using a wireless network according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a user disposition analysis during an operation of an intelligent audio service providing system using a wireless network according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (9)

An intelligent audio service providing method for automatically providing a sound service according to a user's preference through a wireless network, a) automatically analyzing the music propensity of the user; b) automatically collecting and managing music files according to the analyzed music tendency of the user, and constructing an automatic performance list by using tag information of the collected music files; c) searching for and transmitting an automatic performance list according to the user when the user presses the automatic performance button of the audio terminal device; And d) reproducing and outputting the music file according to the automatic performance list transmitted from step c) through the audio terminal device; Intelligent audio service providing method using a wireless network comprising a. The method of claim 1, wherein step a) comprises: a-1) receiving a control signal according to an operation of the user's audio terminal device; a-2) analyzing the received control signal; a-3) recording a user response to the corresponding music file according to the analyzed control signal; And a-4) analyzing the music propensity of the user based on the result of recording the user response; Intelligent audio service providing method using a wireless network comprising a. The method of claim 2, Transmitting the audio data of the corresponding music file to the audio terminal device when the control signal analyzed from a-1) has a meaning of requesting reproduction of a new music file; Intelligent audio service providing method using a wireless network further comprising. The method of claim 2, In step a-1), an intelligent audio service providing method using a wireless network in which an identifier of the audio terminal device is transmitted simultaneously with the control signal. An intelligent audio service providing system that automatically provides a sound service according to a user's preference through a wireless network, Control the overall operation according to the user command input through the audio terminal device, automatically analyzes the music propensity of the user, and automatically selects and collects and manages music files according to the music propensity of the user based on the analysis result, A controller configured to construct an automatic performance list using tag information of a music file; An audio data storage unit for storing the music file collected through the Internet network in a digital audio format; An external internet connection unit connecting the audio server and the internet network; An intelligent audio extractor for analyzing the music tendency of the user and automatically collecting and managing music files according to the music tendency of the user; And A wireless network connection unit wirelessly connected to the audio terminal device Intelligent audio service providing system using a wireless network comprising a. The method of claim 5, wherein the audio terminal device, A controller for controlling the overall operation of the audio terminal device and transmitting an identifier of the audio terminal device to the audio server at the same time as a corresponding control signal when the automatic play button is pressed; A network connection unit wirelessly connected to the audio server; An audio data temporary storage unit for temporarily storing audio data of the music file received from the audio server before playing the audio data; A codec for decompressing and outputting the audio data temporarily stored in the audio data temporary storage unit; And An audio signal reproducing unit for signal processing and amplifying and outputting the audio data decompressed from the codec Intelligent audio service providing system using a wireless network comprising a. The method of claim 6, And the audio server analyzes the identifier and recognizes an audio terminal device corresponding to the identifier. The method of claim 6, wherein the control unit of the audio terminal device, Control buttons generally operated for listening to music; And An automatic playing button for playing an automatic playing list constructed according to the music analysis of the automatically analyzed user Intelligent audio service providing system using a wireless network comprising a. A recording medium having recorded thereon a program having a function of automatically providing a sound service according to a user's preference through a wireless network, a) automatic analysis of the music propensity of the user; b) automatically collecting and managing music files according to the analyzed music tendency of the user, and constructing an automatic performance list by using tag information of the collected music files; c) searching for and transmitting an automatic performance list according to the user when the user presses the automatic performance button of the audio terminal device; And d) a function of reproducing and outputting a music file according to the automatic performance list transmitted from step c) through an audio terminal device; Record carrier that implements.