KR20150117620A - Digital signage - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed is a digital signage to operate a digital display apparatus. The digital signage includes: a manager system providing content for broadcasting, a schedule for the content, and a scheduled content package containing the schedule and the content; a server system storing the content, the schedule, and the scheduled content package provided by the manager system, and providing a publication schedule for publishing the scheduled content package and the scheduled content package corresponding to the publication schedule; and a display system receiving the publication schedule and the scheduled content package, and displaying the content according to the schedule.

Description

Digital Signage {DIGITAL SIGNAGE}

The present invention relates to digital signage, and more particularly, to digital signage for operating a digital display device.

Electronic signboards, digital signboards, electronic bulletin boards, and electronic bulletin boards are referred to as digital signage, and digital signage refers to a system that performs broadcasting of digital contents at an intended time and in order.

Digital signage is an integrated solution that combines hardware, software and content, and is positioned as a next-generation digital imaging medium.

The digital signage needs a tool for managing content to be displayed on a schedule in a digital display device installed in various places, and must be managed in a systematic and effective manner.

Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 10-2013-0103748 (name: method of producing advertisement contents using display device and display device therefor)

It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved tool for setting up and operating a display system for displaying contents according to a schedule and to provide a digital signage systematically and effectively managing the publication of a schedule content package at a server system level .

It is another object of the present invention to provide a digital signage capable of broadcasting contents with effective and various techniques by applying a slide defining a division of a screen displaying contents of a display system to a schedule.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a digital signage capable of efficiently managing a schedule for a display system in various places by hierarchically managing an administrator of a display system for broadcasting contents.

In addition, the present invention can be applied to various types of devices such as equipment management, kiosk content transmission management, device other option management, monitoring and remote control, operation time statistics management, playback tracking management, advertisement management module, support and maintenance management, , A system setting module, and a system management, thereby providing a digital signage capable of improving the efficiency of management.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a digital signage system comprising: a manager system for providing content for broadcasting, a schedule for the content, and a schedule content package including the schedule and the content; A server system for storing the content, the schedule and the schedule content package provided by the administrator system, and providing a schedule schedule for publishing the schedule content package and the schedule content package corresponding to the schedule schedule; And a display system for receiving the publication schedule and the schedule contents package, and displaying the contents according to the schedule.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide an improved tool for systematically and effectively managing the posting of a schedule content package.

In addition, according to the present invention, contents can be broadcast by various techniques using slides.

In addition, according to the present invention, a schedule for a display system at various places can be efficiently managed by classifying the editing authority for the schedule.

In addition, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a content management system and a content management system, which are capable of managing equipment, managing kiosk contents, managing other options, monitoring and remote control, running time statistics management, Authentication management, system setting module, system management, and the like, and it is possible to improve the efficiency of management of digital signage.

1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment according to the digital signage of the present invention;
2 is a detailed block diagram of the display system of Fig.
3 is a diagram illustrating an example in which a slide is applied to a schedule;
4 is a chart for explaining a hierarchical management method of an administrator;
5 is a detailed block diagram of the server system of FIG.
FIG. 6 is a detailed block diagram of the content management application of FIG. 5;
7 is a detailed block diagram of the schedule management module of FIG. 6;
Figure 8 is an example of a status board for monitoring.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. It is to be understood that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of description and should not be interpreted as limiting the scope of the present invention.

The embodiments described in the present specification and the configurations shown in the drawings are preferred embodiments of the present invention and are not intended to represent all of the technical ideas of the present invention and thus various equivalents and modifications Can be.

The digital signage of the present invention is a digital media solution that provides a variety of information such as entertainment and advertisement by installing a digital display device that can be remotely controlled through a network in a public place or a commercial space. The digital signage is installed in a television, a personal computer, to be.

The digital signage of the present invention can be used as a tool for displaying digital contents representing information using a digital display device according to a schedule, inducing interest and interest of the people, and improving the corporate image or brand awareness. Here, digital content that can be displayed as digital signage can be provided in various formats such as video, image, power point, flash, web page, text, Silverlight, and streaming. In the description of the embodiment of the present invention, the presentation of information is expressed as displaying an image.

The digital signage of the present invention can be implemented as shown in FIG. 1, and referring to FIG. 1, the digital signage includes an administrator system 10, a server system 12, and a display system 14. The administrator system 10, the server system 12, and the display system 14 may be configured to communicate with each other remotely and via a network or transmission line. As an example of a network for communication between the administrator system 10, the server system 12, and the server system 12 and the display system, an Internet network based on TCP / IP may be exemplified.

In the above configuration, the server system 12 can manage a plurality of display systems 14, and the plurality of display systems 14 can be exemplified as installed in a hospital, a financial institution, a shopping center, or the like.

In addition, the display system 14 may display images by schedules that are determined by administrators having a hierarchical relationship. As an example, the administrator of the highest hierarchical level can be illustrated as L11, the administrators of the lower hierarchy can be illustrated as L21 and L22, and the administrator of the lowest hierarchical level can be exemplified as L31 and L32. For example, the display system (A1) 14 can be schedules combined by the managers L11, L21, L31.

The administrator system 10, the server system 12, and the display system 14 are hardware resources for configuring the digital signage of the present invention. The administrator system 10, the server system 12, The display system 14 may be equipped with an operation program that provides a tool for operation. Firmware, middleware, and applications may have a hierarchical structure. In order to describe the embodiment of the present invention, an operating program of the manager system 10 is referred to as a manager, an operating program of the server 12 is referred to as a server tool, and an operating program of the display system 14 is referred to as a player.

For example, referring to FIG. 2, each display system 14 includes a digital display device 20 and a player 22. The digital display device 20 is a device for displaying contents on a schedule, and the player 22 is the above-mentioned operating program. The display system 14 receives the publication schedule and the schedule content package to be described later, and displays the content on the digital display device 20 according to the schedule.

In the above configuration, the administrator system 10 can create and register content, schedule, and schedule content packages for broadcasting by an administrator, and transmit the registered content, schedule and schedule content packages and their lists to the server system 12, As shown in FIG. The operation of the administrator system 10 may be implemented by a manager operated by an administrator.

Here, the content refers to an object to be broadcast and can be defined in various formats such as a moving image, an image, a power point, a flash, a web page, text, a silverlight, and streaming. The content can be created and registered by an administrator of the administrator system 10 or by an external content provider. In the case of an administrator of the administrator system 10, content creation and registration can be performed using a manager.

The content can be registered in a designated repository, and a content list can be managed for this purpose. A field of the content list may be defined to include a name of a content, a file name, a file size, a registration date, and the like, and the content list may include various contents as a recorder.

The schedule may be defined to include content related to a schedule for broadcasting contents. The schedule can be created and registered by the manager of the manager system 10. The manager of the manager system 10 can perform the creation and registration of schedules using the manager.

The schedule may be registered and managed in the schedule list. The fields of the schedule list can be defined to include the name of the schedule, the file name, the file size, and the registration date, and the schedule list is composed of a simple text text file. That is, since the schedule does not include content, it can not constitute a unit that can broadcast itself.

And, the schedule content package includes a schedule and contents. The schedule content package may be created and registered by the administrator of the administrator system 10. An administrator of the administrator system 10 can create and register a schedule content package using a manager.

The schedule content package may be registered and managed in the schedule content package list. A field of the schedule content list may be defined to include a name, a file name, a file size, and a registration date and time. A schedule content package includes a schedule for broadcasting and contents to be broadcast, and forms a unit capable of actual broadcasting.

The administrator system 10 may then provide slides that define the partitioning of the screen of the digital display device 20 included in the display system 14 and may provide the schedule by using one or more of the slides .

3, the manager of the manager system 10 can display a three-split screen as shown in FIG. 3A, a split screen as shown in FIG. 3B, a single screen as shown in FIG. (D) of FIG. 3 can be created and registered. Each of FIGS. 3 (a) to 3 (d) can be defined as one slide, and by using two or more slides, Schedule can be provided.

Here, the divided screens included in the slides of (a) to (d) of FIG. 3 may be matched to display different images. Each divided screen of the same slide can be implemented such that the video is independently broadcast without being synchronized in time. Alternatively, each split screen of the same slide may be implemented so that the start or end time of an image broadcast on at least two divided screens can be interlocked.

More specifically, the divided areas A1, A2, and A3 included in the slide of FIG. 3 (a) can start and end different contents at different times, and the run time of an image can be set differently . In contrast, in the divided areas A1 and A3 included in the slide of FIG. 3A, different contents can start or end at the same time, and the run time of the image can be set to the same.

If a schedule of one hour is set, the apparatus can be set such that the steps (a) to (d) of FIG. 3 are run in order for 15 minutes.

If it is fixed to FIG. 3 (a), the availability and efficiency of the schedule for broadcasting an image can be reduced.

However, in the embodiment of the present invention, the administrator system 10 can create and register a schedule to which a plurality of slides as shown in FIGS. 3A to 3D are applied. As described above, the schedule registered in the administrator system 10 is transmitted to the server system 12 as described later, and the administrator of the server system 12 can select the publication of the schedule content package to be published using the server tool .

That is, in the embodiment of the present invention, the administrator of the server system 12 can select the publication of the schedule content package including the schedules to which various slides are applied. As a result, the digital display device 20 can broadcast have. That is, the broadcasting efficiency can be improved.

The manager system 10 can provide the server system 12 with a schedule that is determined in combination by the managers having the hierarchical relationship.

This will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 illustrates providing schedules for specific display systems (A1) 14 by the managers L11, L21, L31 having a hierarchical relationship. In this case, it is assumed that the manager L11 is the manager of the highest hierarchical level that manages the widest region, and the manager L21 is assumed to be the manager of the middle-tier hierarchy managing some of the regions managed by the manager L11. , And the lowest level of the manager who manages some of the regions. In FIG. 4, a section in which the schedule is set by the administrator L11 is displayed from 1:00 to 4:00, 9:00 to 12:00, 18:00 to 21:00, and a section in which the schedule is set by the manager L21 is displayed from 0:00 From 1:00 to 4:00, from 14:00 to 18:00, from 21:00 to 24:00, and the section where the schedule is set by the administrator L31 is displayed from 7:00 to 9:00, from 12:00 to 14:00 As shown in Fig.

The embodiment of the present invention is controlled such that the administrator of the lower layer does not allow the authority to change the schedule set by the manager of the upper layer.

That is, the manager of the administrator system 10 does not allow the administrator L21 to change the schedule set by the administrator L21 and does not allow the administrator L21 to change the schedule set by the administrator L11.

On the other hand, the manager of the administrator system 10 permits the administrator L31 to change the schedule set by the administrator L21 and the administrator L31, and the administrator L21 grants the authority to change the schedule set by the administrator L31.

The embodiment of the present invention can ensure that the schedule is managed systematically by controlling the right to change the registered schedule in accordance with the hierarchical structure of the manager in accordance with the schedule change authority.

On the other hand, the server system 12 stores the schedule content package provided by the manager system 10 and transmits the schedule content package corresponding to the publication schedule and the publication schedule to be published to the display system 14 to provide. Here, the storage of the schedule content package of the server system 12 means storing the schedule content package and the schedule and contents included in the schedule content package. The provision of the schedule content package also means providing the schedule content and the schedule content included in the schedule content package.

The server system 12 may apply a publication schedule to the marked schedule content package to select a publication, and provide a menu for modification, transmission, and inquiry to the publication schedule using a server tool.

For the above operation, the server system 14 may be exemplified as including the content management server 30 and the database server 32 as shown in FIG.

In the above configuration, the database server 32 stores the first information provided by the manager system 10 including the content, the schedule, and the schedule content package, the second information created and modified by the server system 12 including the publication schedule, , The physical state of the display system 14 and the upload, execution and reservation of content, schedule and schedule content packages for the display system 14.

The first information of the database server 32 is included in the backup target based on the administrator system 10 to be described later and can be backed up to the administrator system 10 by damage or the like. The second information of the database server 32 is for posting the schedule content package to the display system 14. In addition, the third information of the database server 32 may be used for monitoring, statistics, tracking, maintenance, and system configuration and management of the display system 14.

The content management server 30 manages the content, the schedule and the schedule content package, the publication schedule, and the physical state of the display system. For this purpose, the content management server 40, the operation controller 42, And a database controller 44. [0050]

First, the operation controller 42 may include an operating system such as a window, a Java development kit, or a Java engine such as Tomcat, and may communicate with the management system 10 or the display system 14, And supports the operation of the management application 40 and the database controller 44.

The database controller 44 may be configured to include an application program for connecting with the database server 32 to execute SQL in the Java program and serves as a gate between the content management application 40 and the database server 32.

The content management application 40 includes a device management module 50, a schedule management module 51, a posting schedule transmission management module 52, a kiosk content transmission management module 53, a device and other option management module 54, The remote control module 55, the running time statistics management module 56, the reproduction tracking management module 57, the advertisement management module 58, the support and maintenance management module 59, the other management module 60, A module 61, a system setting module 62, and a system management module 63. The detailed configuration of the content management application 40 can be understood with reference to FIG.

Among them, the schedule management module 51 manages the content, the schedule, the database registration of the schedule content package, the publication of the schedule content package, and the registration of the publication schedule.

Then, the posting schedule transmission management module 52 provides the display system with a posting schedule content package corresponding to the posting schedule and the posting schedule.

The device management module 50 registers and manages information of the server system 12 and the display system 14. In particular, the device management module 50 enables only the authorized display system 14 to perform communication through the MAC address authentication of the display system 14, and manages the display systems 14 on a group basis, Convenience can be provided. Also, the equipment management module 50 provides a function of dividing and managing the sites where the display system 14 is disposed.

The kiosk content transmission management module 53 provides the display system 14 with a kiosk (touch type) schedule for publication and a content package included in the schedule.

The device and other option management module 54 provides a function of editing broadcasting by user definition through schedule broadcast time setting, holiday setting, idle screen setting, and the like.

The monitoring and remote control module 55 provides a monitoring and remote control function for intuitively grasping the current operating state of the display system 14 in which the player 22 is installed, in the form of an image. To this end, the monitoring and remote control module 55 can remotely control the display system 14, such as turning off, restarting, turning the monitor on / off, synchronizing screen shots, synchronizing content, deleting schedules, Function. In particular, the monitoring and remote control module 55 may provide an interface for glancing at the location of the display system 14 using a map.

The running time statistics management module 56 data and stores the running state of the display system 14, and calculates the overall or per-device operation statistics on the basis of the data and provides the data as an Excel or a chart.

In addition, the playback tracking management module 57 provides the function of retrieving the playback information of the content and storing the data on the basis of the content or the specific date.

The advertisement management module 58 is a module for providing information to the advertisement contents. The advertisement management module 58 provides the advertiser or the manager with the advertisement content reproduction information as an Excel or a chart through the mapping of the advertisement content with the advertiser.

The support and maintenance management module 59 is for managing data generated by operation and management, and provides functions for classifying, storing, and managing the generated status according to preset categories.

In addition, the other management module 60 provides a function of performing management through list management for executed remote control commands and deletion of unexecuted remote control commands.

Then, the authentication management module 61 provides the software usage management function through authentication of the player software.

In addition, the system setting module 62 provides a function of managing the authority / role of the server user.

The system management module 63 provides functions of user registration, modification, deletion, and management of login information.

The schedule transmission management module 51 may include a content management unit 70, a schedule management unit 72, a schedule content package management unit 74, and a publication management unit 76, as shown in FIG. The content management unit 70, the schedule management unit 72, the schedule content package management unit 74 and the publication management unit 76 shown in FIG. 7 store content stored in the database server 32, a content list, a schedule, Package, schedule content package list, and publication schedule.

The content management unit 70 serves as a repository for storing content provided by the administrator system 10 and stores the content in the database server 32. The content management unit 70 may provide a content list for stored content, and the content list may include a name, a file name, a file size, and a registration date of the content stored in the database server 32 as fields.

The schedule management unit 72 serves as a repository for storing schedules provided by the manager system 10, and stores the schedules in the database server 32. The schedule management unit 72 may provide a schedule list for the stored schedule. The schedule list may include a name, a file name, a file size, and a registration date of a schedule stored in the database server 32 as fields.

The schedule content package management unit 74 serves as a repository for storing a schedule content package provided by the administrator system and stores the schedule content package in the database server 32. In addition, the schedule content package management unit 74 may provide a schedule content package list for the stored schedule content package, and the schedule content package list may include a name of the schedule content package stored in the database server 32, a file name, And the like as fields.

As described above, the content managed by the content management unit 70, the schedule 72 managed by the schedule management unit, and the schedule content management unit 74 managed by the schedule content management unit can be selected for publication. The selection of the publication is performed by the publication management unit 76, and the publication management unit 76 can provide a mark for the publication selection.

That is, the administrator of the server system 12 can perform the above publication selection by performing marking on the schedule content packages provided by the manager system 10, which is desired to be published. That is, the publication management unit 76 manages a check value for determining whether or not to mark the schedule content package.

As described above, when the server system 12 selects the publication of the schedule content package, the content included in the schedule content package and the schedule are selected at the same time.

The schedule content package published by the schedule management module 51 is transmitted to the display system 14 by the posting schedule transmission management module 52. The display system 14 to be transferred may be determined when schedules are created and registered in the above-described manager system 10 and the schedule management module 51 controls the display system 14 ) Or can schedule transmission.

The publication schedule transmission management module 52 can delete the publication selection of the schedule contents package at the selection of the administrator of the server system 12 even if the publication is selected in the schedule management module 51. [

The embodiment of the present invention can systematically and effectively manage the publication of the schedule content package at the server system level as described above.

In addition, embodiments of the present invention can provide status boards, status indicators (icons), history management, and map-based monitoring for various monitoring.

An example of the status board for monitoring described above can be illustrated as shown in FIG.

The status board can be designed to express graphs, indicators, charts, and visual status so that the status of the broadcasting apparatus or display system 14 can be grasped at a glance.

Further, when the display system 14 displayed on the status board is selected or a position in the map-based monitoring display state is selected, an additional indicator that can identify the registered device of the display system 14 or the current status of the corresponding position, And can be variously provided.

The embodiment of the present invention is also applicable to the case where the manager system 10 transmits the content, schedule and schedule content package to the server system 12 or all contents transmitted from the manager system 10 at a time specified by the manager, You can perform an administrator system based backup of schedules and schedule content packages.

When the manager system 10 is to be restored due to a situation such as a damage due to the backup of the administrator system standard as described above, the embodiment of the present invention can perform backup for recovery by using the server system 12.

10: Administrator system 12: Server system
14: display system 20: digital display device
22: player 30: content management server
32: database server 40: content management application
42: Operation controller 44: Database controller
70: Content management unit 72: Schedule management unit
74: schedule content package management unit 76:

Claims (9)

An administrator system for providing content for broadcasting, a schedule for the content, and a schedule content package including the schedule and the content;
A server system for storing the content, the schedule and the schedule content package provided by the administrator system, and providing a schedule schedule for publishing the schedule content package and the schedule content package corresponding to the schedule schedule; And
A display system for receiving the publication schedule and the schedule content package, and displaying the contents according to the schedule; / RTI >
The server system comprises:
A first information provided by the manager system including the content, the schedule, and the schedule content package; second information generated and modified by the server system including the publication schedule; a physical state of the display system; A database server for storing third information including the content, the schedule and the schedule content package upload, execution and reservation for the system; And
And a content management server for managing the content, the schedule, the schedule content package, the publication schedule, and the physical state of the display system. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the manager system provides slides that define a split of a screen of a digital display device included in the display system and provides the schedule by using one or more of the slides. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the administrator system provides the schedule so that the content linked to each divided screen of the slide is independently broadcasted. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the manager system provides the schedule so that the content of at least two of the divided screens of the slide is interlocked with the start or end of the broadcast. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the management authority for the display system is layered with respect to two or more administrators, and the manager system blocks the schedule content package registered by the first manager having the higher authority from being changed by the second manager having the lower authority Digital signage. The content management system according to claim 1,
Applying the publication schedule to the scheduled content package marked to select a publication, and providing a menu for modification, transmission, and viewing of the publication schedule. The content management system according to claim 1,
A content management application,
The content management application,
A schedule management module for managing the content, the schedule, the database registration of the schedule content package, the publication of the schedule content package, and the registration of the publication schedule; And
And a publication schedule transmission management module for providing the display schedule package to the display system corresponding to the publication schedule and the publication schedule. The content management system according to claim 7,
A device management module that performs device authentication through a MAC address of the display system, manages the display systems as a group, and provides a function of separately managing sites where the display system is disposed;
A kiosk content transfer management module that provides a function of managing the publication distribution of kiosk (touch type) content;
A device for providing a broadcast programming function according to a user definition;
A monitoring and remote control module that analyzes the current state of the display system and provides a function of performing remote control;
A running time statistic management module for providing a function of statistically analyzing the operating time of the display system and expressing it in Excel and a chart;
A playback tracking management module that provides a function of tracking playback data of the content and displaying the data in an Excel or a chart;
An advertisement management module for mapping advertisers and advertisement contents, converting the advertisements into data, and providing a function of expressing the advertisements in an Excel or a chart through statistical analysis;
A support and maintenance management module for classifying, generating, storing, and querying the status occurring during operation of the display system;
A management module that provides a function to perform management through list management of executed remote control commands and deletion of unexecuted remote control commands;
An authentication management module for providing a software usage management function through authentication of the player software;
A system setting module for providing a function of managing authority / role for a user; And
A system management module that provides a function of registering, modifying, deleting and managing login information; A digital signature. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the manager system performs the manager system reference backup on the content, the schedule, and the schedule content package transmitted to the server system, and the manager system reference backup is performed on the server system by using the content, The digital signage is performed at the time of transmission including the transmission point and the point designated by the administrator.

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