KR20150108969A - Communication apparatus acquiring information of goods using sound signal, control method thereof, goods trade supporting server, control method thereof, and recording medium for recording program for executing the control method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a communication terminal for checking product information by using a sound signal and a control method thereof, a product transaction support server communicated with the communication terminal and a control method thereof, and a recording medium therefor. The control method of the communication terminal comprises the following steps of: extracting a product key value corresponding to a product from a sound signal inputted through a microphone; transmitting a product information request signal having the product key value to a product information providing server; receiving product information corresponding to the product key value from the product information providing server; and displaying the received product information.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a communication terminal for confirming product information using a sound signal, a control method thereof, a goods transaction support server for communicating with the communication terminal, and a control method thereof, METHOD THEREOF, GOODS TRADE SUPPORTING SERVER, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECORDING PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING THE CONTROL METHOD}

The present invention relates to a communication terminal for confirming product information using a sound signal, a control method thereof, a goods transaction support server for communicating with the communication terminal, a control method thereof, and a recording medium therefor, A communication terminal for acquiring product information from a separate server using a predetermined product key value included in the signal and performing predetermined processing for commodity trading, and a control method thereof, and a commodity trading support server A control method thereof, and a recording medium therefor.

In a TV broadcast or a radio broadcast, a large number of direct advertisements or indirect advertisements related to commodities are transmitted. In a conventional process of purchasing products included in the advertisements, I remembered the company name, searched through the Internet, and bought it at an internet shopping mall selling the product.

However, it is quite troublesome for the potential customers to memorize the advertisement product name or to separately memorize the advertisement product in order to purchase the advertisement product online, and then go through the process of accessing the internet using a web browser.

In order to solve such a conventional inconvenience, a QR code that can be photographed by a mobile phone is inserted into a TV advertisement, so that viewers can shoot the corresponding QR code by using a mobile phone and receive specific contents from an external server using the information included in the QR code Technology has been proposed.

However, such a proposed technology has a problem that it provides user convenience only for media that can be viewed, such as a TV advertisement, and furthermore, an application capable of recognizing a QR code as well as a camera function must be provided in the communication terminals of customers There are disadvantages.

Accordingly, when an advertisement is transmitted through various media, potential customers having communication terminals without a camera function can easily identify the product-related information included in the advertisement, It is desired to present a technique for making it easy to use.

Published patent 10-2012-0109265

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to easily acquire information on a product corresponding to an advertisement transmitted through various broadcast media, And a control method thereof, a goods transaction support server and a control method thereof communicating with the communication terminal, and a recording medium therefor.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of controlling a communication terminal, the method including: extracting a product key value corresponding to a product from a sound signal input through a microphone; Transmitting a product information request signal including the product key value to a product information providing server; Receiving product information corresponding to the product key value from the product information providing server; And displaying the received goods information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a control method for a commodity transaction support server, comprising: receiving a commodity information storing request signal including account information and a commodity key value from a communication terminal; Processing the user authentication using the account information included in the product information storage request signal; Acquiring product information corresponding to a product key value included in the product information storage request signal, and matching and storing product information corresponding to the user account.

In order to achieve the above object, a communication terminal according to the present invention includes: a microphone; An extracting unit for extracting a product key value corresponding to a product from a sound signal input through the microphone; A transmitting unit for transmitting a product information request signal including a product key value extracted by the extracting unit to a product information providing server; A receiving unit for receiving product information corresponding to the product key value from the product information providing server; And a display unit for displaying the goods information received by the receiving unit.

In order to achieve the above object, a commodity transaction support server according to the present invention includes: a storage unit; A request receiver for receiving a merchandise information storage request signal including account information and a merchandise key value from a communication terminal; An authentication processor for processing user authentication using account information included in the product information storage request signal; A product information acquiring unit for acquiring product information corresponding to a product key value included in the product information storage request signal; And a registration unit for matching the product information acquired by the product information acquisition unit with the corresponding user account and storing the same in the storage unit.

As described above, according to the present invention, when a user of a communication terminal having a microphone transmits an advertisement from a TV or a radio, the communication terminal does not have a separate camera module Additional information about the currently advertised product can be confirmed, and further, the merchandise can be easily registered in the wish list of the specific account of the user.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an entire communication system including a communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention,
2 is a functional block diagram of the communication terminal of FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of the commodity transaction support server of FIG. 1,
4 and 5 are control flow diagrams of an overall communication system including a communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in order to facilitate understanding of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to these embodiments. In particular, the present invention can be configured by combining at least any one of individual components, individual functions, or individual steps included in each embodiment.

A schematic configuration of an entire communication system including the communication terminal 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention is as shown in FIG.

That is, the entire communication system includes a TV (television), a communication terminal 100, a broadcasting ad server 500, a merchandise information providing server 300, a merchandise transaction support server 200 and a shopping server 400 .

The broadcast advertisement server 500 is a server for controlling a predetermined advertisement to be transmitted through a broadcast medium such as a TV or a radio. In particular, the broadcast advertisement server 500 includes product key information matched to a predetermined product in a sound signal transmitted through a TV or a radio . In this case, the product key information may be included in the sound signal using the audible frequency or the audible frequency.

Here, the product key may correspond to a product currently being advertised through a broadcast medium, or may correspond to a product related to a drama or other broadcast program transmitted through a broadcast medium.

The broadcast advertisement server 500 communicates with at least one of the product information providing server 300, the goods transaction support server 200 and the shopping server 400 to store product information, product key information, You can share.

The product information providing server 300 has a database in which a product key and product information are matched. When a product information request signal including a product key is received from the communication terminal 100 as described later, And provides the communication terminal 100 with the extracted product information corresponding to the product key.

The shopping server 400 is a server that allows a user to purchase a predetermined commodity through on-line, for example, an online shopping mall. The shopping server 400 can perform online sales for a specific commodity at the request of the communication terminal 100. In particular, when there is a request from the commodity trading support server 200, information on a specific commodity (for example, (Uniform Resource Locator), a description of a product, a product image, and the like, which should be connected to purchase a product. A more detailed description thereof will be given later.

The communication terminal 100 is a terminal operated by a potential customer who purchases a product online. For example, a terminal having a communication function such as a smart phone, a feature phone, and a personal digital assistant (PDA) corresponds to the terminal.

An example of a concrete functional block of the communication terminal 100 is shown in FIG.

1, the communication terminal 100 includes a microphone 110, an extracting unit 120, a transmitting unit 130, a receiving unit 140, a display unit 150, a storage unit 160, A purchase unit 170, and a purchase request unit 180.

The microphone 110 is an element that converts air vibration according to a sound signal into an electrical signal, and is a component that must be included in a terminal having a communication function with the other party. The structure and function of the microphone 110 are merely well known and will not be described in detail. In this embodiment, the microphone 110 performs a function of receiving a sound signal output from a TV, a radio, or the like.

The extracting unit 120 extracts a product key value corresponding to a product from the sound signal input through the microphone 110. [ For example, a real-time home shopping broadcast sound source (a sound signal to be broadcasted) broadcasted through a TV or a radio may include separate information that is inaudible to the audience of the broadcast viewer / listener, that is, a product key value. Is to perform the function of extracting the product key value from the broadcast sound source.

The product key value may be a combination of letters, numbers, and the like, and may be limited to a particular frequency range, among the sound frequency range of a broadcast sound source. The inclusion of such specific information in the sound signal itself corresponds to a known technique, and thus a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The transmitting unit 130 transmits a product information request signal including the product key value extracted by the extracting unit 120 to the product information providing server 300 and also transmits a wish list registration request signal And the like.

The receiving unit 140 receives the goods information corresponding to the goods key value from the goods information providing server 300. The display unit 150 displays the goods information received by the receiving unit 140, For example, an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) having low power consumption, for displaying wish list registration details received from the server 200.

The storage unit 160 stores various programs and data necessary for the operation of the communication terminal 100 and stores real-time data generated during operation or information received from the outside. Particularly, Account information is stored.

Here, the account information of the user may be information necessary for performing automatic login processing to the commodity trading support server 200 as described later, for example, a login ID and a password required to log into the commodity trading support server 200 . The user account information may be registered in advance in the storage unit 160 according to a user's selection.

The merchandise information storage requesting unit 170 accesses the merchandise transaction support server 200 using the account information stored in the storage unit 160 and transmits the merchandise to the merchandise transaction support server 200 And transmits the information storage request signal.

Here, the product information storage request signal may correspond to a wish list registration request signal for storing product information corresponding to the product key value in the product wish list corresponding to the account information.

The product purchase request unit 180 performs a function of transmitting the product purchase request signal to the shopping server 400 that generates at least one of the product information included in the wish list registration details according to the user's selection.

For example, the merchandise purchase request unit 180 may access the shopping server 400 using a url included in the wish list registration history, and then perform a merchandise purchase and payment process. The process of accessing a predetermined online shopping mall to purchase and settle a commodity corresponds to a known technology, and thus a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

On the other hand, the commodity transaction support server 200 performs a function of registering predetermined commodity information in the account of the user of the communication terminal 100 at the request of the communication terminal 100.

An example of a concrete functional block of the commodity trading support server 200 is shown in FIG.

As shown in the figure, the commodity trading support server 200 includes a storage unit 210, a request receiving unit 220, an authentication processing unit 230, a product information obtaining unit 240, a registering unit 250, a transmitting unit 260 ). ≪ / RTI >

The storage unit 210 may store account information for a user authentication process, which will be described later. Here, the account information may be composed of, for example, a login ID and a password pair.

The request receiving unit 220 receives the merchandise information storing request signal including the account information and the merchandise key value from the communication terminal 100. The account information received by the request receiving unit 220 may include a login ID and a password. The product key value is used to specify a predetermined product. For example, the product key value may be a combination of a number and a letter. May contain the url of.

The authentication processing unit 230 compares the account information of the product information storage request signal received in the request receiving unit 220 with the account information stored in the storage unit 210 and processes the user authentication.

For example, if the ID and password included in the product storage request signal are registered in the storage unit 210, the authentication processing unit 230 can process the authentication success.

The product information acquiring unit 240 acquires product information corresponding to the product key value included in the product information storage request signal.

For example, if the product key value and the product information are matched and stored in the storage unit 210 in advance, the product information obtaining unit 240 refers to the data stored in the storage unit 210 and stores the product key value Product information can be extracted.

As another example, if the product key value includes a shopping server address for selling a product, the product information obtaining unit 240 obtains a product key value from the shopping server 400 corresponding to the shopping server address included in the product key value And may receive the goods information corresponding to the goods information. At this time, the product information received from the shopping server 400 may include a network address (for example, a product sales URL) for purchasing goods.

The registration unit 250 performs a function of matching the product information acquired by the product information acquisition unit 240 to the corresponding user account and storing the matching product information in the storage unit 210. For example, the registering unit 250 may register the acquired product information in the wish list of the corresponding user account. At this time, the product information registered in the wish list may be at least one of the name of the product, a brief description of the product, a URL for purchasing the product, and a thumbnail image of the product.

When a request is received from the communication terminal 100, the transmission unit 260 performs a function of transmitting a network address matching a user of the communication terminal 100 and purchasing goods registered in a wish list or the like.

For example, the user of the communication terminal 100 extracts a product key value from a sound signal output through a broadcast medium such as a TV, and transmits product information corresponding to the product key value to a goods transaction support server It is possible to register in the wish list of the wish list 200 and to purchase the goods registered in the wish list later.

In the above description, the goods information providing server 300, the goods transaction support server 200, and the shopping server 400 are distinguished from each other. However, at least two of them may be integrated. For example, the functions of the product information providing server 300 and the shopping server 400 may be integrated into the goods transaction support server 200, and the goods information providing server 300 and the goods transaction support server 200 may be integrated .

Hereinafter, a control procedure of the communication terminal 100 and the commodity trading support server 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

First, a process of requesting and receiving product information from the product information providing server 300 by the communication terminal 100 will be described with reference to FIG.

The communication terminal 100 receives a sound signal transmitted through a broadcast medium such as a TV or a radio (step S1). Here, the sound signal may correspond to a sound signal transmitted as an advertisement for a predetermined commodity. In particular, in the present embodiment, it is assumed that the commodity key composed of a combination of numbers or letters is included in the sound signal.

The communication terminal 100 extracts the product key included in the sound signal (step S3), and requests the product information providing server 300 for product information corresponding to the product key (step S5). At this time, the address of the product information providing server 300 may be registered in advance in the communication terminal 100, or may be included in the product key.

The transmission of the commodity information request signal including the commodity key may be performed according to the user's selection or may be automatically performed at the time of extracting the commodity key from the sound signal. For example, when an application for performing the above-described function is installed in the communication terminal 100 and the user executes the application, the product key extraction and the transmission of the goods information request signal corresponding to the product key Or a user selection screen for inquiring whether or not to view the product information of the user may be additionally displayed in the middle.

The product information providing server 300 stores data in which the product key and product information are matched. Upon receiving the product information request signal from the communication terminal 100, the product information providing server 300 extracts product information corresponding to the product key of the product information request signal (Step S7) to the communication terminal 100 (step S9).

Here, the commodity information transmitted by the commodity information providing server 300 to the communication terminal 100 may include brief or detailed information of the commodity, an image of the commodity, and the like, and may further include a site url for purchasing the commodity.

The communication terminal 100 displays the goods information received from the goods information providing server 300 so that the goods can be confirmed by the user (step S11).

Hereinafter, a process of registering product information in the commodity transaction support server 200 will be described with reference to FIG. 5. The communication terminal 100 receives a sound signal, and receives a product key from the sound signal It is assumed that it is extracted.

The communication terminal 100 extracts the account information of the goods transaction support server 200 that has been stored (step S21), and transmits a login request signal including the account information to the goods transaction support server 200 S23).

Here, the account information may correspond to a login ID and a password, and an access address of the commodity trading support server 200 may also be stored in advance in the communication terminal 100. [

Upon receipt of the login request signal from the communication terminal 100, the commodity transaction support server 200 compares the account information included in the login request signal with the pre-registered account information to perform login processing (step S25) And transmits the signal to the communication terminal 100 (step S27).

In this embodiment, it is assumed that login is normally performed.

The communication terminal 100 transmits a wish list registration request signal including a product key to the goods transaction support server 200 after automatic login to the goods transaction support server 200 (step S29). In this embodiment, the login request process and the wish list registration request process are distinguished from each other, but it goes without saying that the login request and wish list registration request process may be performed at the same time.

The goods transaction support server 200 extracts the product key included in the wish list registration request signal (step S31), and transmits the product information request signal including the product key to the shopping server 400 (step S33).

Here, the address of the shopping server 400 may be registered in the commodity transaction support server 200 in advance. For example, the commodity transaction support server 200 may match the commodity key and the shopping server address. In this case, The goods transaction support server 200 can request the product information to the shopping server 400 corresponding to the product key.

As another example, the shopping server address may be included in the product key.

In the shopping server 400, product information corresponding to each product key is registered in advance, for example, a url for product purchase, a product image, a product brief or detailed information, and the like may be stored.

Accordingly, the shopping server 400 extracts the product key from the product information request signal (step S35), extracts the url for product purchase corresponding to the product key, the product image, the product brief or the detailed information (step S37) , And transmits the extracted information to the commodity trading support server 200 (step S39).

The goods transaction support server 200 registers url, commodity thumbnail image and the like received from the shopping server 400 in the wish list of the customer (step S41).

Accordingly, predetermined commodity information is registered in the wish list of the user of the communication terminal 100 in the commodity trading support server 200.

If the communication terminal 100 requests the merchandise transaction support server 200 for a wish list (in this case, the login process can be performed in advance) (step S43), the commodity transaction support server 200 transmits the merchandise information registered in the wish list of the account, for example, a URL for purchase of goods and a thumbnail image to the communication terminal 100 (step S45).

The communication terminal 100 displays the URL and the thumbnail image for purchasing goods received from the goods transaction support server 200 (step S47), and performs online shopping according to the selection of the user of the communication terminal 100 Step S49).

That is, when the user selects the received url, the communication terminal 100 accesses the shopping server 400 using the url, and the shopping server 400 transmits a page for purchasing goods to the communication terminal 100, And the communication terminal 100 may transmit settlement necessary information such as a card number input by the user to the shopping server 400 to perform payment according to purchase of goods. The payment process itself according to the purchase of goods corresponds to the known technology, so that a detailed description will be omitted.

As described above, the communication terminal 100 receives product information corresponding to a corresponding product key from the product information providing server 300 using a product key extracted from a sound signal transmitted through a broadcast medium such as a TV or a radio, The user can easily browse the information on the product currently being advertised on the broadcast medium and the communication terminal 100 can transmit the wish list registration request signal including the product key, The merchandise can be registered in the wish list of the predetermined server (that is, the merchandise transaction support server 200) having the account.

For example, when an advertisement is output from a broadcast medium, the user of the communication terminal 100 simply executes an application for performing the above-described functions installed in the communication terminal 100 of the communication terminal 100, The information can be automatically registered in the wish list of his particular server. That is, the product information may be automatically registered in the wish list without omitting the process of confirming the product information in advance.

Needless to say, the process of performing each of the above-described embodiments can be performed by a program stored in a predetermined recording medium (for example, a computer readable medium).

The present invention is not limited to the above-described specific embodiments, and various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the gist of the present invention. It is to be understood that such variations and modifications are intended to be included in the scope of the appended claims.

100: communication terminal 200: commodity transaction support server
300: goods information providing server 400: shopping server
500: broadcast advertisement server 110: microphone
120: extracting unit 130:
140: Receiver 150: Display
160: storage unit 170: product information storage request unit
180: merchandise purchase request unit 210: storage unit
220: request reception unit 230: authentication processing unit
240: goods information obtaining unit 250:
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Claims (17)

(a) extracting a product key value corresponding to a product from a sound signal input through a microphone;
(b) transmitting a product information request signal including the product key value to a product information providing server;
(c) receiving product information corresponding to the product key value from the product information providing server;
(d) displaying the goods information received in the step (c). The method according to claim 1,
(e) extracting pre-stored account information and accessing a commodity trading support server based on the extracted account information;
(f) transmitting a product information storage request signal including the product key value to the connected goods transaction support server. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the merchandise information storage request signal is a wish list registration request signal for storing merchandise information corresponding to the merchandise key value in a merchandise wish list corresponding to the account information. The method of claim 3,
Transmitting a request list registration request signal to the goods transaction support server and receiving and displaying the wish list registration details;
Further comprising the step of generating a merchandise purchase request signal using at least one of the merchandise information included in the wish list registration details according to the user's selection. (a) receiving a product information storage request signal including account information and a product key value from a communication terminal;
(b) processing user authentication using account information included in the product information storage request signal;
(c) acquiring product information corresponding to the product key value included in the product information storage request signal, and matching the product information with the corresponding user account, and storing the product information. 6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein the product key value includes a shopping server address for selling the product,
Wherein the step (c) comprises: obtaining product information corresponding to the product key value from the shopping server corresponding to the shopping server address included in the product key value. The method according to claim 6,
Wherein the merchandise information received from the shopping server includes a network address for purchasing merchandise. 8. The method of claim 7,
Further comprising the step of transmitting a network address for purchasing the product when a request is received from the communication terminal. A computer-readable recording medium recording a program for executing the method of any one of claims 1 to 8. A microphone;
An extracting unit for extracting a product key value corresponding to a product from a sound signal input through the microphone;
A transmitting unit for transmitting a product information request signal including a product key value extracted by the extracting unit to a product information providing server;
A receiving unit for receiving product information corresponding to the product key value from the product information providing server;
And a display unit for displaying the goods information received by the receiving unit. 11. The method of claim 10,
A storage unit for storing user account information;
And a merchandise information storage requesting unit for accessing the merchandise transaction support server using the account information stored in the storage unit and transmitting a merchandise information storage request signal including the merchandise key value to the connected merchandise transaction support server . 12. The method of claim 11,
Wherein the product information storage request signal is a wish list registration request signal for storing product information corresponding to the product key value in a product wish list corresponding to the account information. 13. The method of claim 12,
The transmission unit transmits a wish list registration request signal to the goods transaction support server
Wherein the display unit displays the wish list registration details received from the goods transaction support server,
Further comprising a merchandise purchase request unit for generating a merchandise purchase request signal using at least one of the merchandise information included in the wish list registration details according to a user's selection. A storage unit;
A request receiver for receiving a merchandise information storage request signal including account information and a merchandise key value from a communication terminal;
An authentication processor for processing user authentication using account information included in the product information storage request signal;
A product information acquiring unit for acquiring product information corresponding to a product key value included in the product information storage request signal;
And a registration unit for matching the product information acquired by the product information acquisition unit with the user account and storing the same in the storage unit. 15. The method of claim 14,
Wherein the product key value includes a shopping server address for selling the product,
Wherein the product information obtaining unit obtains product information corresponding to the product key value from a shopping server corresponding to the shopping server address included in the product key value. 16. The method of claim 15,
Wherein the merchandise information received from the shopping server includes a network address for purchasing merchandise. 17. The method of claim 16,
Further comprising a transmission unit for transmitting a network address for purchasing the product when a request is received from the communication terminal.

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