KR20110042626A - Method and device for displaying image of digital photo frame - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A device for displaying a digital image to a digital photo frame is provided to display an image which is related with music as a background picture. CONSTITUTION: A music file being played or to be played is analyzed(210). The attribute information of the music file is extracted(220). Images related with the music file is searched using the extracted attribute information(230). The searched image is displayed as a background image while reproducing the music file(240,250).

Description

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE OF DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME}

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and apparatus for displaying an image in an electronic picture frame.

In general, a photo frame is used to print and display a favorite image or a photograph taken by a camera. Due to the limitation of displaying only one or two pictures, the picture frame should use a plurality of picture frames. In addition, in order to display another picture, the trouble of having to remove the currently displayed picture and then replace it with a new picture occurs.

In order to improve the problem of the picture frame, an electronic picture frame has been developed and used to store a plurality of images on a recording medium, access the stored images and display them on the screen.

In general, an electronic picture frame reads and stores image data processed by a digital camera or a personal computer, or displays it on a screen such as an LCD so as to function as a picture frame without a difference in image resolution. Speaks one device.

The electronic frame is scanned with a digital camera or a conventional photo paper photo using a scanner, the image is compressed with a codec (Codec), etc., stored in the form of a file in the memory of the digital camera or personal computer in the form of a file (Loading) Display method.

In addition, as the electronic picture frame trends in convergence (convergence) and the desire of the user increases, the function of the electronic picture frame is expanded beyond simply displaying an image and playing music.

However, the conventional electronic frame has a certain limitation in its utilization, such as providing only a music when playing music, or providing a multi-tasking function that allows other tasks (image viewing) while playing music. Therefore, there is an urgent need for a method and an apparatus that can further enhance the usability of the electronic picture frame so that a user can view an image associated with the music while listening to the music in the electronic picture frame.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, by displaying the image associated with the music as the wallpaper on the electronic frame using the attribute information of the music, the user can view the background picture associated with the music while listening to the music through the electronic frame. It provides a method and apparatus for displaying an image of the electronic picture frame to increase the utilization of the electronic picture frame through this.

An embodiment of the present invention provides an image display method and apparatus for an electronic picture frame that can automatically display a background image associated with music played using the image search function of the Internet on the screen of the electronic picture frame.

The problem to be solved by the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned problem, another task (s) not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

An image display method of an electronic picture frame according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: extracting attribute information of the music file by analyzing a music file being played or to be played; Searching for an image associated with the music file using the extracted attribute information; And displaying the retrieved image as a wallpaper while the music file is playing.

An image display apparatus of an electronic picture frame according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a music file analysis unit for extracting the attribute information of the music file by analyzing the music file to be played or to play; An image search unit for searching for an image associated with the music file using the extracted attribute information; And an image display unit displaying the searched image as a background screen while the music file is playing.

Specific details of other embodiments are included in the detailed description and the accompanying drawings.

Advantages and / or features of the present invention and methods for achieving them will become apparent with reference to the embodiments described below in detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments disclosed below, but will be implemented in various different forms, and only the embodiments make the disclosure of the present invention complete, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. It is provided to fully inform the person having the scope of the invention, which is defined only by the scope of the claims. Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, by displaying the image associated with the music as the wallpaper on the electronic frame using the attribute information of the music, the user can listen to the music through the electronic frame and at the same time the background photo associated with the music It can be seen, through which can increase the utilization of the electronic picture frame.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a background image associated with music played using the image search function of the Internet may be automatically displayed on the screen of the electronic picture frame.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when the image is not searched by the attribute information of the music, the search range of the image may be extended within the range associated with the music by searching for the image by the extended search term associated with the attribute information.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when a plurality of music-related images are found, the plurality of images are produced as a slide show and displayed as a background image while the music is played, so that the user listens to the music through the electronic frame. When the background pictures associated with the music can be changed in various ways, the utilization of the pictures stored in the electronic frame can be further improved.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when playing music flowing from an internet radio, an image related to the music is displayed as a wallpaper on the electronic frame, thereby providing interest to the user in connection with listening to the internet radio. .

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described embodiments of the present invention;

1 is a block diagram illustrating an image display device of an electronic picture frame according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, an image display device 100 of an electronic picture frame according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a music file analyzer 110, an image search unit 120, a database 130, and an image display unit 140. , And the controller 150 may be included.

The music file analyzer 110 extracts attribute information of the music file by analyzing a music file being played or to be played. That is, the music file analyzer 110 may analyze the music file and extract at least one of a song name, singer name, lyrics, genre, or album name of the music file as the attribute information.

In this case, the music file analyzer 110 may access the Internet radio providing server according to the channel selection of the user (music listener) and receive the music file by streaming. In this case, the music file analyzer 110 may select a music file (Internet radio broadcast music) received from the Internet radio providing server as the analysis target. That is, the music file analyzer 110 may extract the attribute information by using the music flowing from the Internet radio as the analysis target.

Alternatively, the music file analyzer 110 may select the music file as the analysis target from among music files stored in the electronic frame of memory.

The image search unit 120 searches for an image associated with the music file by using the attribute information extracted by the music file analyzer 110. That is, the image search unit 120 may extract a search vocabulary for searching for the image using the attribute information, and search the image using the extracted search vocabulary.

For example, when the search vocabulary is 'love', the image search unit 120 may search for an image related to 'love', and when the search vocabulary is 'parting', the image related to 'parting' You can search for.

In this case, the image search unit 120 may search for an image associated with the music file (search vocabulary) among the images stored in the memory of the electronic frame 100.

Meanwhile, when the image is not searched through the search vocabulary, the image search unit 120 searches for an extended keyword associated with the search vocabulary from the database 130 and uses the searched extended keyword to search the music file. You can search for images associated with (extended keywords).

Alternatively, when the image is not found through the search vocabulary, the image search unit 120 may display an image search window for searching an image based on the Internet on the screen of the electronic frame. When a keyword is input in the image search window, the image search unit 120 may access an image search engine through a wired / wireless internet and receive an image corresponding to the input keyword.

In an embodiment of the present invention, when the image search using the search vocabulary is not performed as described above, the image search unit 120 may perform an image search using the extended keyword or the image search box. Alternatively, an image search may alternatively be performed.

For example, when the image search using the search vocabulary is not performed, the image search unit 120 performs an image search using the extended keyword, and even when the image search is not performed at this time, the image Image search using the search box can be provided.

As another example, when the image search using the search vocabulary is not performed, the image search unit 120 provides an image search using the image search box. You can also perform an image search using.

As another example, the image retrieval unit 120 may perform image retrieval using only what is needed independently without relating the search vocabulary, the extended search term, and the image retrieval using the image retrieval window.

The database 130 may store the search vocabulary extracted by the image retrieval unit 120 by matching (matching) the extended keyword associated with the search vocabulary.

For example, when the search vocabulary is 'love', the database 130 may store the search vocabulary 'love' in association with extended keywords such as 'lover, lover, couple, meeting, meeting, blind date, girlfriend' and the like. Can be.

As another example, when the search vocabulary is 'parting', the database 130 matches (matches) the search vocabulary 'parting' to extended keywords such as 'tear, pain, last, end, breakup, broken heart', and the like. Can be stored.

The image display unit 140 displays the image (picture associated with the music file) searched by the image search unit 120 on a background screen while the music file is playing.

In this case, when a plurality of images are searched by the image search unit 120, the image display unit 140 may produce the plurality of images as a slideshow and display the background image.

The controller 150 is an image display device 100 of an electronic picture frame according to an embodiment of the present invention, that is, a music file analyzer 110, an image search unit 120, a database 130, and an image display unit 140. Overall control of the operation of the back.

As such, the image display apparatus of the electronic picture frame according to an embodiment of the present invention displays the image related to the music as the wallpaper on the electronic picture frame using the attribute information of the music, thereby allowing the user to play the music through the electronic picture frame. At the same time while listening to the background pictures associated with the music can be seen, thereby increasing the utilization of the electronic frame.

In addition, the image display device of the electronic picture frame according to an embodiment of the present invention, when a plurality of music-related images are retrieved, by producing a plurality of images as a slide show to display as a background image while the music is playing, the user When listening to music through the electronic frame, it is possible to change the background pictures associated with the music in a variety of ways, thereby increasing the utilization of the photo stored in the electronic frame.

In addition, the image display device of the electronic picture frame according to an embodiment of the present invention, when playing the music flows from the Internet radio, by displaying the image associated with the music as the wallpaper on the electronic frame, in connection with listening to the Internet radio It may provide an interest to the user.

2 to 4 are flowcharts illustrating an image display method of an electronic picture frame in an embodiment of the present invention. The image display method may be performed by the image display apparatus 100 of FIG. 1.

First, referring to FIG. 2, when music is being played or selected as a playback target in the electronic picture frame (YES direction 210), the image display apparatus analyzes a file of the music at step 220. Extract the attribute information of the music file. That is, the image display device may analyze the music file and extract at least one of a song name, singer name, lyrics, genre, or album name of the music file as the attribute information.

In this case, the image display device may access the Internet radio providing server that provides the Internet radio service according to the channel selection of the user (music listener) and receive the music file by streaming.

In this case, the image display device may select a music file (Internet radio broadcast music) received from the Internet radio providing server as the analysis target. That is, the image display device may extract the attribute information by using the music flowing from the Internet radio as the analysis target.

Alternatively, the image display device may select the music file as the analysis target from among music files already stored in the memory of the electronic picture frame.

On the other hand, when the music is not playing or not selected as a playback target in the electronic picture frame (No direction 210), the image display device remains in a standby state until the music is played or selected as a playback target. do.

Next, in operation 230, the image display apparatus searches for an image associated with the music file by using the attribute information extracted in operation 220. That is, the image display apparatus may extract a search vocabulary for searching for the image by using the attribute information, and search the image associated with the search vocabulary by comparing the extracted search vocabulary with the attribute information of the image. . Here, the attribute information of the image may include tag information such as the name, size, and the like of the image.

In this case, the image display apparatus extracts attribute information regarding images stored in the memory of the electronic frame 100 in advance and makes a database in the memory, and among the attribute information stored in the database, the music file (search vocabulary). ) Can be used to retrieve the image associated with the.

If the image is found as a result of searching for the image associated with the music file in step 230 (“YES” direction of 240), the image display device may display the music file while the music file is being played in step 250. The searched image (picture associated with the music file) is displayed as a background screen.

Accordingly, the user can view a background picture associated with the music while listening to music through the electronic frame, thereby increasing the utilization of the electronic frame.

In this case, when the plurality of images are searched, the image display device may display the background images by producing the plurality of images as a slideshow.

Accordingly, when the user listens to the music through the electronic frame, the user can view the background picture associated with the music in various ways, thereby further increasing the utilization of the photo stored in the electronic frame.

Meanwhile, when the image associated with the music file is searched in step 230, if the image is not found (No in 240), the image display apparatus performs the process of FIG. 3.

That is, referring to FIG. 3, in operation 310, the image display apparatus searches for an extended keyword associated with the search vocabulary from a database. Here, the search vocabulary and the extended keywords associated with the search vocabulary are stored in the database in correspondence with each other.

Next, in operation 320, the image display device may search for an image associated with the music file (extended keyword) using the searched extended keyword.

In this case, when the image is searched (YES direction 330), the image display device may display the searched image as a background image on the screen of the electronic frame while the music file is played in step 340. have. In addition, when a plurality of images are found, the image display device may produce a plurality of images as a slide show and display the background image on the screen of the electronic frame while the music file is playing.

On the other hand, if the image is not found (No direction 330), the image display device performs the process of FIG.

That is, referring to FIG. 4, in step 410, the image display device displays an image search window for searching an image based on the Internet on the screen of the electronic frame.

Next, when a keyword is input to the image search box by the user (YES direction 420), the image display device accesses the image search engine through a wired / wireless internet in step 430. The image corresponding to the keyword can be received.

Next, in step 440, the image display device displays the received image as a background screen on the screen of the electronic frame while the music file is playing. In this case, when the plurality of images are searched, the image display device may display the background images by producing the plurality of images as a slideshow.

On the other hand, when a keyword is not input to the image search box by the user (No direction 420), the image display device ends the embodiment of the present invention.

As such, the image display method of the electronic picture frame according to an embodiment of the present invention displays the image associated with the music as the background screen on the electronic picture frame using the attribute information of the music, thereby allowing the user to play the music through the electronic picture frame. At the same time while listening to the background pictures associated with the music can be seen, thereby increasing the utilization of the electronic frame.

In addition, the image display method of the electronic picture frame according to an embodiment of the present invention, when a plurality of music-related images are retrieved, by producing a plurality of images as a slide show to display as a background image while the music is playing, the user When listening to music through the electronic frame, it is possible to change the background pictures associated with the music in a variety of ways, thereby increasing the utilization of the photo stored in the electronic frame.

In addition, the image display method of the electronic picture frame according to an embodiment of the present invention, when playing music flows from the Internet radio, by displaying the image associated with the music as the background screen on the electronic picture frame, the It may provide an interest to the user.

On the other hand, the image display device and method of the electronic picture frame according to an embodiment of the present invention, when playing music, displays not only the image associated with the playback music, but also the content, such as advertisements, texts associated with the playback music on the screen of the electronic picture frame You may.

5 is a diagram illustrating an example of displaying an image associated with playback music as a wallpaper on an electronic frame according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 5, when playing music, the screen 500 of the electronic picture frame displays a music player 510 for playing the music. The music player 510 displays buttons such as play, stop, rewind, fast forward, and the like, as well as a volume bar.

At this time, the screen 500 of the electronic picture frame is displayed as a background image 520 of the image (picture) associated with the song name of the attribute information of the playback music. For example, when the song name of the reproduction music is 'love', a friendly picture between a man and a woman, which is an image associated with 'love', may be displayed as the background image 520 on the screen 500 of the electronic picture frame.

Embodiments of the present invention include computer readable media including program instructions for performing various computer implemented operations. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, local data files, local data structures, or the like, alone or in combination. The media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical recording media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, magnetic-optical media such as floppy disks, and ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute the same program instructions are included. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like.

While specific embodiments of the present invention have been described so far, various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the claims below, but also by the equivalents of the claims.

As described above, the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, which can be variously modified and modified by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Modifications are possible. Accordingly, the spirit of the present invention should be understood only by the claims set forth below, and all equivalent or equivalent modifications thereof will belong to the scope of the present invention.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an image display device of an electronic picture frame according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 to 4 are flowcharts illustrating an image display method of an electronic picture frame in an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a diagram illustrating an example of displaying an image associated with playback music as a wallpaper on an electronic frame according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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110: music file analysis unit

120: image search unit

130: database

140: image display unit

150: control unit

Claims (10)

Extracting attribute information of the music file by analyzing a music file being played or to be played; Searching for an image associated with the music file using the extracted attribute information; And Displaying the searched image as a wallpaper while the music file is playing. Image display method of the electronic picture frame comprising a. The method of claim 1, Extracting attribute information of the music file Extracting at least one of a song name, singer name, lyrics, genre, or album name of the music file as the attribute information; Image display method of the electronic picture frame comprising a. The method of claim 2, Searching for the image Extracting a search vocabulary for searching the image using the attribute information; And Searching for an image associated with the search vocabulary by comparing the extracted search vocabulary with attribute information of the image Image display method of the electronic picture frame comprising a. The method of claim 3, Storing the search vocabulary in a database corresponding to the extended keyword associated with the search vocabulary; Retrieving an extended keyword associated with the search vocabulary from the database if the image is not retrieved; And Searching for the image using the extended keyword Image display method of the electronic picture frame further comprising a. The method of claim 1, Searching for the image Searching for an image associated with the music file among images stored in the electronic picture frame; If the image is not found, displaying an image search window for searching an image based on the Internet on the screen of the electronic frame; And When a keyword is input in the image search window, accessing an image search engine and receiving an image corresponding to the input keyword Image display method of the electronic picture frame comprising a. The method of claim 1, Accessing an internet radio providing server according to a user's channel selection, receiving the music file by streaming, and selecting the received music file as the analysis target; or Selecting the music file as the analysis target from among the music files stored in the electronic frame Image display method of the electronic picture frame comprising a. The method of claim 1, Displaying the image as a wallpaper If the plurality of images are found, creating the slideshow as a background image Image display method of the electronic picture frame comprising a. A music file analyzer for extracting attribute information of the music file by analyzing a music file being played or to be played; An image search unit for searching for an image associated with the music file using the extracted attribute information; And An image display unit which displays the retrieved image as a wallpaper while the music file is playing. Image display device of the electronic picture frame comprising a. The method of claim 8, A database storing the search vocabulary included in the attribute information in correspondence with the extended keyword associated with the search vocabulary; More, The image search unit Search for the image using the search vocabulary, but if the image is not searched, search for an extended keyword associated with the search vocabulary from the database, and search for the image using the searched extended keyword. Image display device of electronic frame. The method of claim 8, The image search unit Search for an image associated with the music file among the images stored in the electronic frame, and if the image is not found, displays an image search window for searching an image based on the Internet on the screen of the electronic frame, When the keyword is entered in the image search window, the image display device of the electronic picture frame, characterized in that to access the image search engine to receive an image corresponding to the input keyword.

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