KR20100000201A - Method and apparatus for searching person network connecting two actors - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An individual network search method for searching individual network between two actors through movie information of two actors and actor information of the movie are provided to supply information of related actors of the movie and movie information of the two actors after inputting the name of the two actors. CONSTITUTION: An input unit receives the name of a second actor and a first actor(S201). A search unit refers to the first relation actor(S203). The first relation actor acts in a movie of a first actor. The first relation actor acts in the movie of the first actor. A relation setting unit compares the name of the first relation actor and name of the second actor(S204). A display unit indicates the connection relations in the screen of the user terminal(S205).

Description

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING PERSON NETWORK CONNECTING TWO ACTORS}

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for searching for a person network connecting two actors, and more particularly, to searching for a person network between two actors using information of a movie starring two actors and information of an actor starring in the movie. A method and apparatus are provided.

As the Internet becomes popular, the amount of information provided through the Internet is increasing exponentially, and Internet sites providing various kinds of information are also gradually increasing.

However, it is not easy to find the necessary information in the flood of information, and the information search through the search engine provided by each Internet site provides only the sequential search results of the ranking by the topic or frequency of the information search. The search engine provided in the Internet site has a disadvantage in that unnecessary information is searched due to the duplication of web pages by providing only information including each word or morpheme of the search keyword inputted during the information search.

In particular, if you want to search for a specific person to find nearby people associated with that person, for example, if you want to find actor (s) who co-starred in a movie such as movie star A, search for that person to show that person There was an inconvenience of having to re-enter the relevant search word several times, such as receiving information about a movie and re-searching related people through the provided movie information.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 4, when searching for a specific movie actor, there have been a number of attempts to show information related to a movie in which the movie actor appeared through various visualizations, but based on the information of actors in each movie. Attempts to show the character network path between actors have not been proposed yet.

An object of the present invention is to visualize and provide information on a movie and a relationship information between related characters by two actors through a method and a device network search method and device connecting two actors.

Another object of the present invention is to alleviate the inconvenience of having to search several times to find information about a movie starring an actor and information about actors starring together in a movie.

The objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects that are not mentioned will be clearly understood from the following description.

In order to achieve the above object, in accordance with an aspect of the present invention, a method for searching a person network for connecting two actors includes (a) receiving a name of a first actor and a name of a second actor, (b) the first actor Searching for a first relationship actor that appeared in the same movie as (c) if there is the second actor among the first relationship actors, displaying a connection network between the first actor and the second actor; (D) searching for the secondary relationship actor that appeared in the same movie as the first relationship actor if there is no second actor among the first relationship actors, and (e) the second relationship If there is the second actor among the actors, displaying the connection network between the first actor and the second actor.

In order to achieve the above object, a person network search apparatus for connecting two actors according to another aspect of the present invention includes an input unit for receiving a name of a first actor and a name of a second actor, and appearing in the same movie as the first actor. A search unit for searching for a first relational actor, and searching for a second relational actor in the same movie as the first relational actor when there is no second actor among the first relational actors And a display unit configured to display a connection network between the first actor and the second actor when either the primary actor or the secondary actor is the second actor.

Specific details for achieving the above object will be apparent with reference to the embodiments described below in detail with the accompanying drawings.

However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments disclosed below, but may be configured in different forms, and the present embodiments are intended to complete the disclosure of the present invention and to provide general knowledge in the technical field to which the present invention belongs. It is provided to fully inform those who have the scope of the invention.

According to one of the problem solving means of the person network search method and apparatus connecting the two actors of the present invention described above, there are one or more of the following effects.

Just by entering the names of the two actors there is an advantage that can provide information about the movie appeared between the actors and the actors who appeared together in the movie.

In addition, even when the two actors have never appeared together, by visualizing and displaying a network of connected persons directly or indirectly based on the information of the movie, information about the actor's movie and the actors who appeared together in the movie are displayed. This has the advantage of eliminating the inconvenience of having to search several times to find.

In addition, there is an advantage of providing intuitive information about the surrounding people associated with a specific person.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION 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, and like reference numerals designate like parts throughout the specification.

For reference, in the entire specification, when a part is "connected" to another part, it is not only "directly connected" but also "electrically connected" with another element in between. Also includes.

In addition, when a part is said to "include" a certain component, which means that it may further include other components, except to exclude other components unless otherwise stated.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying configuration diagram or processing flow chart, it will be described in detail for the practice of the present invention.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a person network search apparatus connecting two actors according to an embodiment of the present invention.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the person network search apparatus 100 connecting two actors may include a person relation DB 110 that stores detailed information and movie information of the actor, the name of the first actor, and the name of the second actor. The input unit 120 that receives the input searches for the first relationship actor that appeared in the same movie as the first actor, and when there is no second actor among the first relationship actors, the user who appeared in the same movie as the first relationship actor If there is a second actor in one of the search unit 130, the first relationship actor, and the second relationship actor that searches for the second relationship actor, one of the first relationship actor and the second relationship actor And a relationship setting unit 140 for establishing a relationship between the second actor and the second actor, a display unit 150 for displaying a connection network between the first actor and the second actor, and a controller 160 for controlling the above-described parts.

For reference, the components shown in FIG. 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention mean software components or hardware components such as a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), and perform predetermined roles. .

However, 'components' are not meant to be limited to software or hardware, and each component may be configured to be in an addressable storage medium or may be configured to reproduce one or more processors.

Thus, as an example, a component may include components such as software components, object-oriented software components, class components, and task components, and processes, functions, properties, procedures, and subs. Routines, segments of program code, drivers, firmware, microcode, circuits, data, databases, data structures, tables, arrays, and variables.

Components and the functionality provided within those components may be combined into a smaller number of components or further separated into additional components.

First, the person relation DB 110 of the apparatus 100 illustrated in FIG. 1 stores detailed information of an actor who has appeared in a movie in association with predetermined movie information and predetermined movie information. Here, the movie information may include a movie title, a director, a star actor, a play time, and the like, and the detailed information of the actor may include personal information such as the name of the actor, the date of birth, and the academic background and the title of the movie.

At this time, the information of the 'star actor' in the movie information may include not only the name of the star actor, but also information indicating whether the actor is a main character of the movie or a supporting or simply appearance. In addition, the 'movie title' information in the detailed information of the actor may include not only the movie title, but also information indicating whether the actor played the main role in the movie, or not supporting the main role or supporting the role.

Meanwhile, when the name of the first actor and the name of the second actor are input through the input unit 120, the search unit 130 searches for detailed information of the first actor from the person relation DB 110 and the first actor appears. Retrieve movie information for a movie.

For example, assuming that a user inputs 'Son Ye Jin' as the first actor and 'Song Il Guk' as the second actor in order to search the character networks of two actors 'Shon Ye Jin' and 'Song Il Kook', the search unit 130 ) Searches for detailed information about 'Son Ye Jin' in the person relation DB 110, and the movie information of the movie starring 'Shon Ye Jin', for example, 'the work', 'Love Story', 'Eraser in my head' '(Omit below) extracts information.

In addition, the search unit 130 extracts the name of the actor appeared in the movie from the person relationship DB (110) of the extracted movie information.

In the following embodiments, the search unit 130 may search for the names of the actors who appeared in the 'definition of work' among the extracted movie information, for example, 'Shon Ye Jin', 'Song Il Kook', 'Hyun Young', 'Park Yong Woo', Extract Park Jun-gyu (hereinafter omitted).

On the other hand, the relationship setting unit 140 compares with each other whether there is a name that matches the name of the second actor of the name of the actor extracted by the search unit 130.

Referring to the above-described embodiment, the relationship setting unit 140 is the name of the actor extracted from the search unit 130, namely 'Shon Ye Jin', 'Song Il-guk', 'Hyun-young', 'Park Yong-woo', 'Park Jun-gyu' 2 If there is a matching name ('Song Il Kook') by comparing the name of the actor, that is, the name of the actor matching 'Song Il Kook', 'Son Ye Jin' and 'Song Il Kook' Set up a relationship between two actors.

For reference, the search unit 130 may select and extract actors who appeared in a movie according to the 'personal network search level'. For example, when the 'personal network search level' is set to 'starring', The searcher 130 may extract only the main actor from the actors who appeared in the movie, and may extract all the actors who appeared in the movie including the main actor when the 'personal network search level' is set to 'normal'.

Here, the 'personal network search level' may be set through a predetermined interface, and may be set together when inputting the name of the first actor and the name of the second actor to search for a person network connecting the two actors. .

Meanwhile, the display unit 150 displays the connection relationship set by the relationship setting unit 140 on the screen of the user terminal. In this case, the first actor and the second actor having a connection relationship may be displayed as a portrait picture as well as the name, and the connection relationship between the first actor and the second actor may be represented by a line, and the connection relationship represented by the line. The award may show the title of the movie starring the two actors.

In addition, when a user clicks a movie title on a connection relationship indicated by a line, detailed information about the movie may be provided as a separate screen. When the actor's portrait picture is clicked, the detailed information of the actor is separated. It may be provided as a screen.

As described above, if there is a movie starring the first actor and the second actor together, a direct relationship may be established between the two actors based on the movie title starring together, but there is no movie starring the two actors together. You may not.

Hereinafter, when there is no movie in which two actors co-star, the relationship between the two actors will be described.

If, in the relationship setting unit 140, the names of the actors extracted from the searcher 130 and the names of the second actors are matched with each other, and if they do not match, the searcher 130 extracts the actors previously extracted. Detailed information of the following (hereinafter referred to as primary relationship actor) is retrieved to extract movie information about a movie in which the primary relationship actor appeared.

Subsequently, the searcher 130 retrieves the extracted movie information from the person relationship DB 110 and extracts the name of the actor (star hereinafter referred to as a second relationship actor) who appeared in the movie.

Thereafter, the relationship setting unit 140 compares whether the name of the second relationship actor and the name of the second actor that are extracted by the search unit 130 match each other, and sets a relationship between the two actors when they match.

If the comparison doesn't match,

1. The search unit 130 retrieves the extracted detailed information of the second relationship actor from the person relationship DB 110, extracts movie information about the movie starring the second relationship actor,

2. The search unit 130 retrieves the extracted movie information from the person relation DB 110 and extracts the name of the actor (star third actor) who appeared in the movie.

3. After that, the relationship setting unit 140 compares the names of the third actors extracted from the searcher 130 with the names of the second actors, and sets a relationship between the two actors if they match.

As a result of the comparison, if it does not match, the search unit 130 and the relationship setting unit 140 repeats the above-described steps 1 to 3 until matching data is found. Accordingly, the second actor may be searched for in the relationship actor corresponding to the fourth, fifth, sixth, or more orders.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a person network search process connecting two actors according to an embodiment of the present invention.

For convenience of explanation, the apparatus 100 illustrated in FIG. 1 will be described. The person relation DB 110 stores detailed information and movie information of the actor, and the user can access the user through a predetermined interface as shown in FIG. 3A. Assume that you enter the name of the actor and the name of the second actor.

Here, the movie information may include a movie title, director, actor, and playing time, etc. The detailed information of the actor may include personal information such as the name of the actor, date of birth, academic background, etc., and the title of the movie.

For reference, 'appearance actor' information among the movie information stored in the person relation DB 110 may include not only the name of the actor, but also information indicating whether the actor is a main character of the movie or a supporting or simply appearance. have. In addition, the 'movie title' information in the detailed information of the actor may include not only the movie title, but also information indicating whether the actor played the main role in the movie, or not supporting the main role or supporting the role.

First, when the input unit 120 receives the name of the first actor and the name of the second actor (S201), the search unit 130 retrieves the detailed information of the first actor from the person relationship DB 110 to search for the first actor. Extract the movie information for the movie starring (S202).

After step S202, the search unit 130 retrieves the extracted movie information from the person relation DB 110, and extracts the name of the actor (called the primary relationship actor) who appeared in the movie (S203).

In this case, the number of primary relationship actors may be one or more.

After step S203, the relationship setting unit 140 compares whether the name of the first relationship actor extracted by the search unit 130 and the name of the second actor match each other (S204).

As a result of the comparison, the display unit 150 displays the connection relationship set by the relationship setting unit 140 on the screen of the user terminal (S205).

In this case, the first actor and the second actor having a connection relationship may be displayed as a portrait picture as well as a name. The connection relationship between the two actors may be indicated by a line, and the two actors appear on the connection relationship indicated by the line. One movie title may be displayed.

In addition, when the user clicks the title of the movie, detailed information about the movie may be provided as a separate screen, and when the actor's portrait picture is clicked, detailed information about the actor may be provided as a separate screen. have.

If the result of step S204 does not match, the search unit 130 retrieves the movie information about the extracted movie of the first actor from the character relationship DB 110, and appeared in the movie (hereinafter, The name of the secondary relationship actor is extracted (S206).

After step S205, the relationship setting unit 140 compares whether the second relationship actor and the second actor extracted by the search unit 130 match each other (S207), and if there is a match, sets the relationship between the two actors, If they do not match, the order is increased, and the process of steps S206 and S207 is repeated to set up the character network between the two actors.

3A to 3C illustrate examples of a person network search screen connecting two actors according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Through the input interface as shown in FIG. 3A, the name of the first actor 'Ahn Sung-ki' and the name of the second actor 'Jo Seung-woo' may be input.

 3B is a result of inputting the name of the first actor as 'Ahn Sung-ki' and the name of the second actor as 'Jo Seung-Woo', in which the two actors are indirectly connected to each other through the first and second relationship actors. You can see it. That is, through the results shown in FIG. 3b, it can be seen that the movie starring 'Ahn Sung-ki' and 'Jo Seung-woo' does not exist together.

Specifically, the first actor 'Ahn Seong-ki' and the actors who appeared directly in the film together with the first relationship actors are actors (1-1), actors (1-2), actors (1-3), actors (1- 4), and the actor (2-1), the second actor, has appeared with the actor (1-1), actor (1-4) and the second actor, 'Jo Seung-woo' It can be seen that. In addition, the actor (2-2), the second relationship actor, has appeared together with the actor (1-4), the first relationship actor, and Cho Seung-woo, the second actor, and the actor, the second relationship actor ( 2-3) appeared with the first actor (1-2) and the second actor 'Jo Seung-woo', and the second actor (2-4) was the first actor. It can be seen that he has appeared with In actor (1-3) and the second actor 'Jo Seung-woo'.

Therefore, the first actor 'Ahn Seong-ki' and the second actor 'Jo Seung-woo' have the interconnection information through the first relationship actor and the second relationship actor, and through this connection information, the character network between the two actors You will be able to recognize at a glance.

For reference, when one of the two actors' pictures is clicked, a separate screen displaying detailed information of the two characters may be provided as shown in FIG. 3C. Otherwise, a separate screen showing only the detailed information of the actors is provided. May be

Although the present invention has been described with reference to movies and movie actors, the present invention is not necessarily limited thereto. The present invention can be applied to a network of characters in various fields such as dramas and actors who appear in dramas, albums, and artists participating in albums.

The foregoing description of the present invention is intended for illustration, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be easily modified in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features of the present invention. will be.

Therefore, it should be understood that the embodiments described above are exemplary in all respects and not restrictive.

For example, each component described as a single type may be implemented in a distributed manner, and similarly, components described as distributed may be implemented in a combined form.

The scope of the present invention is shown by the following claims rather than the above description, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention. do.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a person network search apparatus connecting two actors according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a person network search process connecting two actors according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3A to 3C are screens showing a search result of a person network connecting two actors according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a web site displaying a movie actor search result according to the related art.

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110: person relation DB

120: input unit

130: search unit

140: relationship setting unit

150: display unit

160: control unit

Claims (9)

How to search for a network of people that connects two actors (a) receiving a first actor's name and a second actor's name, (b) searching for a first relationship actor that appeared in the same movie as the first actor, (c) displaying the connection network between the first actor and the second actor when there is the second actor among the first relationship actors, (d) if there is no second actor among the first relationship actors, searching for a second relationship actor who appeared in the same movie as the first relationship actor; and (e) displaying the connection network between the first actor and the second actor when there is the second actor among the second relationship actors; Person network search method comprising a. The method of claim 1, (f) if there is no second actor in the second relationship actor, searching for a third relationship actor in the same movie as the second relationship actor; and (g) displaying the connection network between the first actor and the second actor if there is the second actor among the tertiary relationship actors; Person network search method further comprising a. The method of claim 1, The actor in the connection network is displayed as a portrait picture, and the connection path between the displayed actors is indicated by a line. The method of claim 3, wherein And a title of a movie in which two actors connected to each other are displayed on the connection path indicated by the line. The method of claim 4, wherein And when the connection path is selected, displaying detailed information of a movie corresponding to the selected connection path. The method of claim 1, And when the actor displayed on the connection network is selected, displaying detailed information of the selected actor. In a device for searching a network of people connecting two actors, Person relation DB which stores actor's detailed information and movie information An input unit for inputting the name of the first actor and the name of the second actor, Search for the first relationship actor that appeared in the same movie as the first actor in the person relation DB, and if there is no second actor among the first relationship actors, search for the same movie as the first relationship actor. A search unit for searching for secondary actors who appeared, and A display unit for displaying a connection network between the first actor and the second actor when the second actor is in one of the first relationship actor and the second relationship actor Including, person network search device. The method of claim 7, wherein The actor's detailed information includes the actor's name, date of birth, education, and title of the film. The method of claim 7, wherein Wherein the movie information includes a movie title, director, actor, and playing time.

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