KR20100078186A - Process automation method and system for manufacturing publication - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A process automation method for manufacturing publication, and a system thereof are provided to efficiently use the storage space of a database for storing image data by managing a group picture at the minimum data storage space. CONSTITUTION: A user terminal(100) displays a person list for classifying original image data and a reduced image corresponding to raw image data. When the person selection information corresponding to the reduced image is inputted, the user terminal stores an image matching information and the original image data corresponding to the image designation information as an image data management server(140). The image data management server registers the reduced image, the image designation information and the original image data to correspond to the person selection information.

Description

Process automation method and system for manufacturing publication

The present invention relates to publication production, and more particularly, to a method and system for automating a publication production process.

Recently, with the rapid development of digital technology, images such as photographs, which are stored in a conventional print form, are generated as various types of digitized data and stored in digital recording media.

However, such image data is generally stored in a digital processing device such as a hard disk or a memory device, but there is a problem that the image data may be lost due to an error of the digital processing device or an accidental deletion by a user.

In addition, image data generally has a problem that a large data storage area is required due to its large size.

In particular, the conventional photo printing service method has a problem that the storage area becomes larger as the image data is managed based on the user.

For example, when one group picture including 10 people is stored for each 10 users, the same single picture is individually stored in each of the 10 storage areas, thereby increasing the storage area as a whole.

The increase of the storage area has a problem of securing a large database when various services for providing image data received by a user, such as a digital camera, are output from a user.

In addition, in the case of digital image data such as a photo, since the size of the data is large, it takes a long time to transmit the image data to the service provider, and the operation speed of the user terminal is slowed while transmitting the image data.

In order to solve the conventional problems as described above, the present invention proposes a method and system for managing image data that does not need to store image data in a user terminal.

And in case of providing image data storage and related services, it is possible to manage image data with minimum data storage space even for group photos, so the image data management method and system that can efficiently use the storage space of database for storing image data Is to suggest.

Accordingly, the present invention proposes a method and system for managing image data that can be more usefully used when a large number of group pictures exist, such as a kindergarten, a school, or a club, and image data must be generated and managed over a long period of time.

In addition, in managing group photos, instead of managing all subjects (that is, characters) in units of photos, the individual photos can be easily registered and managed in units of subjects, thereby managing image data and selecting whether to print or not. It is to propose a method and system for managing image data that facilitates the operation.

In addition, by implementing image data classification and image data transfer steps separately, it is possible to quickly classify and verify image data, and manage image data that does not affect the operation speed of a user terminal such as a PC even when transmitting a large amount of image data. It is proposed a method and system.

Still other objects of the present invention will be readily understood through the following description of the embodiments.

In order to achieve the above object, according to an aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of managing image data.

According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, in the image data management system including a user terminal and an image data management server, the method of the user terminal to manage the image data, the original image data stored in any folder Displaying a person list for classifying the corresponding reduced image and the original image data (a); (B) generating the corresponding image designation information to the image data management server when the person selection information corresponding to the arbitrary reduced image is input; And determining (c) whether to be in a standby mode and transmitting original image data corresponding to the image designation information to the image data management server when the standby mode is in the standby mode. There is provided an image data management method for setting and registering a reduced image, the image designation information, and the original image data to correspond to the person selection information.

The image designation information and the reduced image of the image data may be stored as a temporary file. When requesting the transmitted image designation information to the image data management server, the temporary file stored in the user terminal is searched for, and the temporary file is stored. If it does not exist, the image data information may be requested to the image data management server.

In step (b), when the person selection information corresponding to the arbitrary reduced image is input, the background color of the reduced image may be changed.

The image designation information may be at least one of setting information about a person to whom the image data is designated, directory information where the designated original image data is stored, and a file name of the original image data.

According to another preferred embodiment of the present invention, in the image data management system including a user terminal and an image data management server, the image data management server performs image data management, comprising: a reduced image of original image data; (A) receiving image designation information generated in the user terminal from the user terminal according to person selection information corresponding to a person list; Receiving (b) the original image data; And setting and registering the reduced image, the image designation information, and the original image data to correspond to the person selection information, wherein the reception of the original image data is performed when the user terminal is in a standby mode. An image data management method is provided.

The image designation information and the reduced image of the image data may be stored in the user terminal as a temporary file.

The image designation information may be at least one of setting information about a person to whom the image data is designated, directory information where the designated original image data is stored, and a file name of the original image data.

According to another preferred embodiment of the present invention, in the image data management system including a user terminal and an image data management server, the method of the user terminal to manage the image data, the original image data stored in any folder (A) displaying a reduced image corresponding to the character list and a character list for classifying the original image data; (B) receiving predetermined person selection information corresponding to an arbitrary reduced image by constantly limiting a classifiable area of image data when a preset classification criterion is selected; (C) generating image designation information corresponding to the person selection information corresponding to any reduced image and transmitting the same to the image data management server; And determining (d) whether the standby mode is in a standby mode and transmitting original image data corresponding to the image designation information to the image data management server. There is provided an image data management method for setting and registering a reduced image, the image designation information, and the original image data to correspond to the person selection information.

The image designation information and the reduced image of the image data may be stored as a temporary file.

The image designation information may be at least one of setting information about a person to whom the image data is designated, directory information where the designated original image data is stored, and a file name of the original image data.

As described above, the present invention has an advantage that the processing capacity of the server processing the image data is reduced without affecting the operation speed of the user terminal even when transmitting the image data.

In addition, the user does not need to separately record the image data on the digital recording medium, and the user can check and manage the image data at any time, and there is an advantage in that a service such as printing of image data and album production is provided.

As the invention allows for various changes and numerous embodiments, particular embodiments will be illustrated in the drawings and described in detail in the written description. However, this is not intended to limit the present invention to specific embodiments, it should be understood to include all transformations, equivalents, and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention. In the following description of the present invention, if it is determined that the detailed description of the related known technology may obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The terms first, second, etc. may be used to describe various components, but the components should not be limited by the terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular example embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. In this application, the terms "comprise" or "have" are intended to indicate that there is a feature, number, step, operation, component, part, or combination thereof described in the specification, and one or more other features. It is to be understood that the present invention does not exclude the possibility of the presence or the addition of numbers, steps, operations, components, components, or a combination thereof.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a diagram schematically showing the configuration of an image data management system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, an image data management system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes an image data management server 140 connected to a user terminal 100 through a communication network 130.

After the user terminal 100 accesses the image data management server 140 through the communication network 130, the user stores a storage unit (for example, a hard disk (HDD) inside the user terminal 100, the user terminal 100). Image data stored in a portable storage device connected to the < RTI ID = 0.0 >), < / RTI > ) Is a terminal device for transmitting. Here, the image designation information may include setting information on which image data is designated for which person, directory information where the designated original image data is stored, a file name of the original image data, and the like.

The image data management server 140 sets the received image data and the small image to be managed to correspond to the person using the image designation information.

Here, the user terminal 100 is not limited as long as it has a communication function and can be connected to the image data management server 140. The user terminal 100 may be, for example, a personal computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a mobile phone, or the like.

The user terminal 100 may include a launch module 110 and a client application 120 to perform the above functions. Of course, the user terminal 100 may further include a display unit for displaying to visually confirm the image data.

In addition, the web browser may be further included as a means for accessing the image data management server 140 through the communication network 130 to view or print an image managed by the image data management server 140.

For example, when the image data managed by the image data management server 140 are image data of specific kindergarten students, the parents of the specific student are connected to the image data management server 140 using their user terminals. A print request for the image data of the corresponding original may be transmitted. In this case, a payment procedure according to the number of selected image data may be required.

It is apparent that the web browser, launching module 110, and client application 120 installed in the user terminal 100 may be implemented in the form of software installed and driven in the user terminal 100.

Here, the web browser may be a conventional web browser program such as Internet Explorer, Netscape, or the like.

In addition, the launch module 110 and the client application 120 may be a software program that can be downloaded and installed from the image data management server 140 to perform the following functions. In this case, the launch module 110 and the client application 120 may be implemented as a separate software program or as one integrated software program.

In detail, the launch module 110 performs user registration after the user accesses the image data management server 140 using the user terminal 100, and manages and adds image data using the image data management server 140. If you want to perform a service (for example, print order) may be downloaded and installed with the client application 120.

The launch module 110 may be downloaded to the user terminal 100 through an object tag from a web page provided by the image data management server 140, and may be installed in the form of ActiveX control. It may be, but is not limited thereto.

The launch module 110 has not yet been transferred to the image data management server 140 among the original image data of which the user has completed the image classification task using the client application 120 (that is, the transmission of the small image and the image specification information is completed). If there is the original image data that has not been transmitted, the client application 120 may be automatically driven to transmit the image data to the image data management server 140 automatically.

The launch module 110 uses the quantity or characteristic information of the image data for which image classification is completed (for example, one or more of the total quantity of the original image to be transmitted, the file name of the original image, the directory in which the original image is stored, etc.). To determine whether all original image data to be transmitted have been transmitted.

The launch module 110 may be automatically set to be registered in the startup program. At the time when the user terminal 110 is booted, the launch module 110 determines whether or not the original image data is not transmitted. In this case, the client application may be controlled to run to transmit the original image data.

In addition, the launch module 110 checks the version of the client application 120 when the client application 120 is automatically executed or is executed by a user's execution command, and thus the latest version of data exists in the image data management server 140. If so, you can use it to update.

The client application 120 installed in the user terminal 100 may store the original image data corresponding to the folder selected by the user among the original image data stored in the storage unit (not shown) of the user terminal 100. , a thumbnail image, hereinafter referred to as a thumbnail image), and a list of characters to which the thumbnail images can be classified may be displayed on the display.

Here, the list of characters may be set in advance by the user accessing the image data management server 140 using a web browser or a client application 120, and the client application 120 may include the image data management server 140. A list of the set characters may be collected and displayed on the display unit.

For example, the list of characters may be students registered in each class for each kindergarten or school, and may vary according to an ID password input at an initial stage of operation of the client application 120. For example, the list of students in the corresponding class may be displayed when authenticated by the certification information of the kindergarten teacher, and the list of all students in the class may be displayed when authenticated by the certification information of the kindergarten director.

Thumbnail image is a term used by graphic designers and photographers to display large images in small images so that a large amount of images can be easily and quickly viewed or managed.

For example, software for managing multiple images usually provides a smaller image of each image, which eliminates the need to remember the file name of each image.

In addition, when the user classifies the thumbnail images displayed on the display for each person, the client application 120 first transmits the thumbnail image and the designated information to the image data management server 140, and then the user terminal 100. The original image corresponding to the designated information may be sequentially transmitted during the standby mode (for example, a state in which the user does not input a user command using a mouse device or a keypad, or a state in which a screen saver is operated).

Of course, the transmission of the original image is not limited to the standby mode only, it is obvious that the user may be sequentially transmitted as the background mode (background mode) even while the user performs the classification operation for the subsequent image data.

In addition, the client application 120 may limit the display of the image data with respect to the image data selected by the user according to the user's selection.

For example, in the case of the image data selected by the user to classify the classified image data among the plurality of image data, the user can more easily classify the image data by not displaying a thumbnail image of the corresponding image data. You can make it possible.

It is also possible to constantly limit the classifiable area of the image data according to the classification criteria.

In the case of classifying pictures of kindergarten students, for example, if group photo classification is selected for classification, only one selectable image data can be selected, while the name of the kindergarten student can select a plurality of image data. It may provide convenience of classification.

However, if the classification of dog photo is selected, on the contrary, only one name of the kindergarten student may be limited to be selectable, whereas a plurality of selectable image data may be provided.

According to the method of constantly limiting the classifiable area of the image data according to the classification criteria, the user can classify the image data more conveniently.

In addition, when a confirmation request is input from the user, the client application 120 may receive the image data classified and stored by the user from the image data management server 140 and provide the same to the user.

For example, when a user selects a name of a specific person from a list of persons displayed on the display unit, the client application 120 displays thumbnail images classified and registered for the person on the display unit of the user terminal 100.

In this case, the thumbnail image is first retrieved from a temporary directory of the user terminal 100 (this is a folder for temporarily storing the thumbnail image and image designation information for transmission to the image data management server 140), and does not exist. If not, it is provided from the image data management server 140.

Whether a number of thumbnail images correspond to which person can be identified as image designation information corresponding to each thumbnail image.

Meanwhile, if the image data is first transmitted to the image data management server 140 and the image data is classified in a web page provided by the image data management server, the client application 120 according to the present invention may be a user terminal. It may not be installed on (100).

The function and configuration of the client application 120 will be described in more detail later with reference to FIG. 2.

The user terminal 100 is connected to the image data management server 140 through the communication network 130, the communication network 130 includes not only a mobile communication network and the Internet, but also the Internet exists in the TCP / IP protocol and higher layers thereof. Multiple services, namely HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Telnet, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Domain Name System (DNS), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), and Network File Service (NFS) It includes all of the world's open network architectures.

In addition, a mobile communication network may include an access gateway that enables transmission and reception of wireless packet data in addition to a base station (BS), a mobile telephone switching office (MTSO), and a home location register (HLR). It further includes components such as a gateway, a packet data serving node (PDSN), and the like.

The image data management server 140 receives image data input by the user from the user terminal 100 and receives a request for a service (for example, photo printing, photo album production, etc.) using the image data requested by the user.

In addition, the image data management server 140 receives and registers thumbnail images, image designation information, and original image data which are classified and received from the user terminal 100. Subsequently, the user terminal 100 connected through the communication network can make a request for checking, downloading, or printing the registered image data.

In FIG. 1, the image data management server 140 is illustrated as one, but it is obvious that the image data management server 140 may be configured as a plurality of servers according to a function performed by the image data management server 140.

First, a server that performs transmission / reception and storage of image data in association with the client application 120, and a web server that allows the image data stored in cooperation with the web browser and / or the client application 120 to be identified through a web page. It is possible to configure the image data management server 140 by dividing. In this case, the server in charge of sending and receiving image data uses a protocol such as FTP (File Transfer Protocol), which is a protocol used for sending and receiving files, and the web server uses a protocol such as HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol), a web protocol. Each function can be performed.

When the transmission and reception of such image data and the provision of a web page for checking the image data are performed by different servers, respectively, if the user only checks the stored image data, the image data may be transferred through the web browser of the user terminal 100. There is an advantage that can be seen.

In addition, the image data management server 140 may be configured as a plurality of servers by configuring a separate server for each function performed by the image data server 140.

In the present invention, a method of managing image data is possible by various embodiments, and the image data management methods according to various embodiments will be described in more detail in the respective embodiments.

The image data management server 140 stores image information received from the user terminal 100 (that is, thumbnail image, image designation information, original image data, etc.) in the database 150.

A storage area for storing image information received corresponding to a specific user in the database 150 may be generated by setting information previously input by the user.

For example, in the case of a kindergarten, if a user wants to classify and store the pictures by class and raw students, the input information for each class is entered. A storage area of the image data according to the class names is created.

Also, when stored in the database 150 to manage a group photo, only one thumbnail image and one original image data are stored so that the user can easily store and manage the photo in units of subjects (that is, characters). One thumbnail image and original image data stored in 150 are stored for each person by the image designation information in which a plurality of person selection information is set.

For example, if the image data A is designated to correspond to the original a and the original b, only one image data A is stored in the database 150, but the display unit is selected even if the original b is selected even if the user has selected the original a. Image data (or thumbnail images) called A is displayed.

Therefore, there is an advantage that the storage capacity of the database 150 can be efficiently operated by generating or updating image designation information corresponding to one photo without having to repeatedly store the same picture for each person.

In FIG. 1, only one database is illustrated. However, in the case of the database, various fields such as image data, kindergarten user information, and group photo character information are stored, and thus a field is stored in each database. Obviously, they can be stored differently or configured into different databases.

Although the above has been described with reference to embodiments of the present invention, those skilled in the art may variously modify the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as set forth in the claims below. And can be changed.

1 is a diagram schematically showing the configuration of an image data management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (1)

In the image data management system including a user terminal and an image data management server, the user terminal to perform the management of the image data, Displaying a reduced image corresponding to original image data stored in an arbitrary folder and a list of persons for classifying the original image data; If person selection information corresponding to an arbitrary reduced image is input, generating corresponding image designation information and transmitting the image designation information to the image data management server; And Determining whether it is in a standby mode, and when in the standby mode, transmitting original image data corresponding to the image designation information to the image data management server. And the image data management server sets and registers the reduced image, the image designation information, and the original image data to correspond to the person selection information.

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