KR20190027645A - Method for producing multimedia book - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for producing a multimedia book. The present invention provides a method for producing multimedia book content which receives recording data on content of each page included in an electronic book file from a user terminal to generate audio files, merges a plurality of pages included in the electronic book file with the audio files after generating the audio files, sequentially converts the plurality of pages included in the electronic book file and plays the audio file matched to a converted page.

Description

{METHOD FOR PRODUCING MULTIMEDIA BOOK}

The present invention relates to a method for producing a multimedia book.

As the use of information communication terminals such as smart phones, smart pads, personal computers and so on is becoming common, various application services available for information communication terminals are actively being released.

The mother or father of the infant child records the contents of the predetermined e-book file through the information communication terminal and displays the page of the predetermined e-book file to the child through the information communication terminal, A technique for constructing and providing a digital audio book for a child to listen to a recording content is disclosed in Prior Art 1.

In the prior art 1, since the page-specific text file and the audio file of the electronic book file are synchronized and stored at the time of digital audio book production, when the user plays the digital audio book, the user must directly convert each page of the electronic book file There is an inconvenience.

In other words, when the information communication terminal displaying the predetermined page of the electronic book file completes the reproduction of the audio file for the predetermined page, the user inputs the page change button displayed on the screen of the information communication terminal and displays the predetermined page displayed on the information communication terminal There was an inconvenience to hand over to the next page.

Prior Art 1: Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2014-0025082

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the foregoing, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for receiving audio data from a user terminal, recording audio data of each page included in an electronic book file, And a method for producing a multimedia book content in which a plurality of pages included in an e-book file are sequentially switched and an audio file matched to a converted page is played back by merging files.

In order to achieve the above object, in one aspect, the present invention provides a method of manufacturing a multimedia book in a multimedia book production apparatus,

A first recording start step of receiving, from a user terminal, a first recording start button input signal which is a recording start button input signal for contents of a first page included in a predetermined electronic book file;

A first recording data receiving step of receiving first recording data, which is recording data for contents of the first page, from the user terminal;

When receiving the first recording end button input signal, which is a recording end button input signal for the content of the first page, from the user terminal, the first recording end button input signal A first recording ending step of encoding the first recording data received up to the point of time of receiving the first recording data as a first audio file;

A first audio file storing step of matching and storing the first audio file with the first page;

An Nth recording start step of receiving, from the user terminal, an Nth recording start button input signal which is a recording start button input signal for contents of an Nth page included in the predetermined electronic book file;

An N-th recorded data receiving step of receiving N-th recorded data, which is recorded data on contents of the N-th page, from the user terminal;

When receiving the N-th recording end button input signal, which is a recording end button input signal for the content of the N-th page, from the user terminal, the N-th recording end button input signal An Nth recording termination step of encoding the Nth recording data received up to the time of receiving the Nth audio file into an Nth audio file;

An Nth audio file storing step of storing and matching the Nth audio file with the Nth page;

When the multimedia book production request signal is received from the user terminal, the first page to the N-th page included in the predetermined electronic book file and the first audio file to the Nth audio file are merged into multimedia book content Multimedia book production stage

And a method for producing a multimedia book.

As described above, according to the present invention, the multimedia book production apparatus merges the first to Nth pages included in the electronic book file and the first to Nth audio files for the first to Nth pages, The first page to the N-th page are automatically switched to pages, and the multimedia book contents in which the audio for each page is reproduced are generated, so that the terminal user does not need to manually switch each page of the electronic book .

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a schematic view illustrating a configuration of a multimedia book production system according to an embodiment of the present invention;
2 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of a multimedia book production apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 to 11 are diagrams for explaining a process of producing multimedia book contents according to an embodiment of the present invention;
12 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of providing a multimedia book content to a user terminal in a multimedia book production apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
13 is a flowchart illustrating a process of creating multimedia book contents in a multimedia book production apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, some embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to exemplary drawings. In describing the components of the present invention, the terms first, second, A, B, (a), (b), and the like can be used. These terms are intended to distinguish the constituent elements from other constituent elements, and the terms do not limit the nature, order or order of the constituent elements. It is to be understood that any component may be directly connected or connected to the other component, but that another component may be "connected "," coupled ", or "connected" between each component.

1 is a diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of a multimedia book production system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

A multimedia book production system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a user terminal 110, an Internet communication network 120, and a multimedia book production apparatus 130. [

The user terminal 110 installs an application for receiving the multimedia book contents from the multimedia book production apparatus 130 or for creating the multimedia book contents in the multimedia book production apparatus 130, To the multimedia book production apparatus 130 connected thereto.

Then, the user terminal 110 records the user's voice related to the content of the predetermined electronic book file provided from the multimedia book production apparatus 130, generates the recording data for the user, and transmits the recording data to the multimedia book production apparatus 130 .

Specifically, the user terminal 110 receives a predetermined electronic book file selected by the terminal user from among the plurality of electronic book files stored in the multimedia book production apparatus 130 from the multimedia book production apparatus 130, One page can be displayed on the screen as shown in Fig.

Here, when the terminal user touches the first recording start button, which is the recording start button for the contents of the first page, that is, the microphone button (indicated by the dotted line in FIG. 3), the user terminal 110 transmits the first recording start button input signal And transmits it to the multimedia book production apparatus 130.

Then, the user terminal 110 activates the recording function of the user terminal 110 through the control of the multimedia book production apparatus 130 to record an external sound, that is, to record the content of the first page included in the electronic book file The user's voice is recorded, and first recording data, which is recording data for the user, is generated and transmitted to the multimedia book producing apparatus 130.

In other words, when the recording start button is input by the terminal user, the user terminal 110 generates first recording data on the contents of the first page and transmits the first recording data to the multimedia book producing apparatus 130. Here, the user terminal 110 may transmit the first recording data generated in real time through the voice recording of the terminal user to the multimedia book producing apparatus 130 in real time, that is, in a streaming manner.

When the terminal user touches the first recording end button (indicated by the dotted line in FIG. 4) as the recording end button for the contents of the first page while the first recording data is generated and transmitted to the multimedia book production apparatus 130, The user terminal 110 ends voice recording of the terminal user with respect to the content of the first page, and also ends the generation and transmission of the first recording data.

 The user terminal 110 generates recording data for the content of each page included in the electronic book file through the above-described configuration. In other words, the first recording data, the second recording data, the third recording data, and the second recording data for the contents of the first page to the N-th page contained in the electronic book file, And N-th recorded data, respectively.

For example, when the electronic book file includes first to eighth pages as shown in Figs. 3 to 10, that is, when the total number of pages of the electronic book file is 8 pages, the user terminal 110 stores the first The first recording data for the content of the first page is generated and input to the multimedia book production apparatus 130 through the input of the first recording start button displayed on the page, and the first recording end button The generation and transmission of the first recording data can be terminated through the input.

5, the second recording data for the content of the second page is generated and transmitted to the multimedia book production apparatus 130 through the second recording start button input displayed on the second page, The generation and transmission of the second recording data can be ended through the second recording end button input displayed on the page.

The user terminal 110 may sequentially generate recording data for each of the third to eighth pages (see FIGS. 7 to 10) and the multimedia book producing apparatus 130 in the same manner as described above.

After completing the recording of each page of the electronic book file, a multimedia book production request button (e.g., Fig. 10 (a)) displayed on the Nth page (for example, The user terminal 110 may generate a multimedia book production request signal for the input of the multimedia book production request button and transmit the generated multimedia book production request signal to the multimedia book production apparatus 130. [

The Internet communication network 120 is a means for mediating data transmission and reception between the user terminal 110 and the multimedia book production apparatus 130. The Internet communication network 120 may be a wired network, a wireless LAN network, a WCDMA network, a High Speed Downlink Packet Access network, an LTE (Long Term Evolution) network, an LTE-A (LTE Advanced) network, and the like.

The multimedia book production apparatus 130 is a device for producing multimedia book contents, and may be composed of a single server or two or more servers.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the multimedia book production apparatus 130 stores an electronic book database including a plurality of electronic book files and a multimedia book contents database including a plurality of multimedia book contents.

Thus, the multimedia book production apparatus 130 can produce multimedia book contents.

The multimedia book production apparatus 130 produces a multimedia book content in the following manner.

First, when the user terminal 110 connected through the Internet communication network 120 selects a predetermined electronic book file from a plurality of electronic book files, the multimedia book production apparatus 130 extracts a predetermined electronic book file from the electronic book database And provides it to the user terminal 110. Here, the user terminal 110 selects a predetermined e-book file from among a plurality of e-book files for voice recording of a terminal user with respect to contents of a predetermined e-book file.

After providing the predetermined electronic book file to the user terminal 110 as described above, the multimedia book production apparatus 130 creates a first recording (i.e., first recording) that is recording data on the contents of the first page to the Nth page included in the predetermined electronic book file, Nth recorded data from the user terminal 110 and sequentially encodes the data from the first audio file to the Nth audio file.

More specifically, when the multimedia book production apparatus 130 receives a first recording start button input signal, which is a recording start button input signal for contents of a first page included in a predetermined electronic book file, from the user terminal 110, And activates the recording function of the terminal 110 to receive the first recording data, which is recording data on the contents of the first page, from the user terminal 110.

The multimedia book production apparatus 130 can receive the first recording data from the user terminal 110 until receiving the first recording end button input signal which is the recording end button input signal for the content of the first page, When receiving the first recording end button input signal from the first recording end button 110, the first recording data received from the time when the first recording start button input signal is received until the time when the first recording end button input signal is received, Lt; / RTI > Here, the multimedia book production apparatus 130 can encode the first audio file to the Nth audio file in any one of a plurality of audio file formats such as MP3, WMAA WAV, OGG, M4A, and AAC.

After encoding the first recorded data into the first audio file, the multimedia book production apparatus 130 matches the first audio file with the first page of the electronic book file and stores the same.

The multimedia book production apparatus 130 transmits the second recording data to the Nth recording data of the contents of the remaining pages included in the electronic book file, that is, the contents of the second page to the Nth page, to the user terminal 110 And successively generates the second audio file through the Nth audio file, and stores the second audio file through the Nth audio file in correspondence with the second page through the Nth page of the e-book file.

Here, the multimedia book production apparatus 130 has a blank portion whose sound size is equal to or less than a predetermined value at the start of recording and the end of recording of the recording data of any one of the first to Nth recorded data, If the time differs from the preset predetermined time, the duration of the blank portion may be edited to a predetermined time, and then any data may be encoded into any one of the audio files.

In other words, when the terminal user records the contents of each page included in the electronic book file, the duration of the recording blank portion of the recording start portion and the recording blank portion duration of the recording end portion, which may occur differently for each recording data, The book production apparatus 130 can be matched with the predetermined time so that the sense of heterogeneity between the first audio file and the Nth audio file can be prevented.

On the other hand, the Nth recording data, which is recording data for the contents of the Nth page, which is the end page of the electronic book file, is encoded and stored as the Nth audio file in the multimedia book production apparatus 130, Upon receipt of the production request signal, the multimedia book production apparatus 130 merges the first to Nth pages and the first to Nth audio files included in the predetermined electronic book file into the multimedia book contents.

Here, the multimedia book production apparatus 130 generates a moving picture file for sequentially switching pages from the first page to the N-th page of the predetermined electronic book file, wherein the page conversion time of each of the first page to the N- File to the Nth audio file, and after merging the first audio file to the Nth audio file into one audio file, the moving picture file and the one audio file are merged to form a multimedia file The content can be newly created.

The multimedia book production apparatus 130 that newly creates the multimedia book contents stores the new multimedia book contents in the multimedia book contents database and stores the multimedia book contents list including the new multimedia book contents in the user terminal 110 to allow the user terminal 110 to play the new multimedia book content as shown in FIG.

As described above, in the embodiment of the present invention, the multimedia book production apparatus 130 generates the first page to the Nth page included in the electronic book file and the first audio file to the Nth audio file The first page to the N-th page are automatically switched to pages and the audio is reproduced with respect to the content of each page, so that the terminal user can manually switch each page of the electronic book There is convenience to not need.

Hereinafter, a configuration of a multimedia book production apparatus 130 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described.

2 is a block diagram schematically illustrating the configuration of a multimedia book production apparatus 130 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The multimedia book production apparatus 130 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a data storage unit 210, an electronic book providing unit 220, an audio file generation unit 230, an audio file storage unit 240, 250). Here, each component of the multimedia book production apparatus 130 may be implemented as separate hardware, or two or more components may be implemented as software in one hardware.

The data storage unit 210 may store a program for performing the functions of the multimedia book production apparatus 130 and may store data necessary for operation of the multimedia book production apparatus 130.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the data storage unit 210 stores an electronic book database including a plurality of electronic book files and a multimedia book content database including a plurality of multimedia book contents.

The data storage unit 220 may include at least one of an internal storage device of the multimedia book production apparatus 130 and a storage server separate from the multimedia book production apparatus 130.

The electronic book providing unit 220 extracts a predetermined electronic book file selected by the user terminal 110 from a plurality of electronic book files from the electronic book database and provides the selected electronic book file to the user terminal 110.

The audio file generating unit 230 sequentially receives the first to Nth recorded data, which are the recording data for the contents of the first page to the Nth page included in the predetermined electronic book file, from the user terminal 110 And sequentially encodes the audio data into the first audio file through the Nth audio file. Here, the audio file generation unit 230 may encode the first audio file to the Nth audio file in any one of a plurality of audio file formats such as MP3, WMAA WAV, OGG, M4A, and AAC.

In addition, the audio file generating unit 230 may include a blank portion having a sound size of a predetermined value or less at the beginning of recording and the end of recording of one of the first to Nth recorded data, If the time is different from the predetermined time, the duration of the blank part may be edited to a predetermined time, and then any data may be encoded into any one of the audio files.

In other words, when the terminal user records the contents of each page included in the electronic book file, the recording blank portion duration of the recording start portion and the recording blank portion duration of the recording end portion, which may occur differently for each recording data, The file generation unit 230 may match the predetermined time so that the first audio file to the Nth audio file do not have a sense of heterogeneity.

The audio file storage unit 240 stores the first audio file through the Nth audio file generated by the audio file generation unit 230 in a one-to-one correspondence with the first to Nth pages.

In other words, every time the audio file generation unit 230 generates an audio file for the content of each page of the electronic book file, the audio file storage unit 240 matches each page of the electronic book file with the corresponding audio file one by one .

Here, the audio file storage unit 240 temporarily stores the first audio file to the Nth audio file until the electronic book production unit 250, which will be described later, produces the multimedia book contents. When the production of the multimedia book contents is completed, 1 audio file to the N-th audio file.

When the electronic book production unit 250 receives the multimedia book production request signal from the user terminal 110, the electronic book production unit 250 merges the first page to the Nth page included in the predetermined electronic book file with the first audio file to the Nth audio file, And creates it as book content.

Here, the e-book authoring unit 250 generates a motion picture file for sequentially switching pages from the first page to the N-th page of the predetermined electronic book file, wherein the page switching time of each of the first page to the N- File to the Nth audio file, and after merging the first audio file to the Nth audio file into one audio file, the moving picture file and the one audio file are merged to form a multimedia file Content can be newly created.

The electronic book production unit 250 newly generating the multimedia book contents stores the new multimedia book contents in the multimedia book contents database, and transmits the multimedia book contents list including the new multimedia book contents to the user terminal 110 ).

Hereinafter, a process for producing multimedia book contents in the multimedia book production apparatus 130 according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described.

13 is a flowchart illustrating a process of creating multimedia book contents in a multimedia book production apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

When the user terminal 110 receiving the predetermined electronic book file from the multimedia book production apparatus 130 transmits a recording start button input signal for the contents of the first page included in the predetermined electronic book file, the multimedia book production apparatus 130 Activates the recording function of the user terminal 110 to receive the first recording data, which is recording data on the contents of the first page, from the user terminal 110 (S1305, 1310).

The multimedia book production apparatus 130 can receive the first recording data from the user terminal 110 until receiving the first recording end button input signal which is the recording end button input signal for the content of the first page, When receiving the first recording end button input signal from the first recording end button 110, the first recording data received from the time when the first recording start button input signal is received until the time when the first recording end button input signal is received, The first audio file is matched with the first page of the electronic book file and stored (S1315, S1320). Here, the multimedia book production apparatus 130 can encode the first audio file to the Nth audio file in any one of a plurality of audio file formats such as MP3, WMAA WAV, OGG, M4A, and AAC.

The multimedia book production apparatus 130 transmits the second to (N-1) -th recorded data of the contents of the second page to the (N-1) th page included in the electronic book file to the user terminal 110 through the above- 1 to N-1 pages of the e-book file, sequentially from the second audio file to the (N-1) th audio file by sequentially receiving and encoding the second audio file to And stores it.

When receiving a recording start button input signal for the end page of the electronic book file, that is, the content of the Nth page, from the user terminal 110, the multimedia book production apparatus 130 generates recording data And receives the Nth recorded data from the user terminal 110 (S1325, 1330).

The multimedia book production apparatus 130 can receive the Nth recording data from the user terminal 110 until receiving the Nth recording end button input signal which is the recording end button input signal for the contents of the Nth page, When the Nth recording end button input signal is received from the Nth audio file 110, the Nth recording data received from the time when the Nth recording start button input signal is received until the Nth recording end button input signal is received, The Nth audio file is matched with the Nth page of the electronic book file and stored (S1335, S1340). Here, the multimedia book production apparatus 130 has a blank portion whose sound size is equal to or less than a predetermined value at the start of recording and the end of recording of the recording data of any one of the first to Nth recorded data, If the time is different from the predetermined time, the duration of the blank part may be edited to a predetermined time, and then any data may be encoded into any one of the audio files.

In other words, when the terminal user records the contents of each page included in the electronic book file, the duration of the recording blank portion of the recording start portion and the recording blank portion duration of the recording end portion, which may occur differently for each recording data, The book production apparatus 130 can be matched with the predetermined time so that the sense of heterogeneity between the first audio file and the Nth audio file can be prevented.

On the other hand, the Nth recording data, which is recording data for the contents of the Nth page, which is the end page of the electronic book file, is encoded and stored as the Nth audio file in the multimedia book production apparatus 130, Upon receiving the production request signal, the multimedia book production apparatus 130 merges the first page to the Nth page included in the predetermined electronic book file and the first audio file to the Nth audio file into multimedia book contents (S1345 , S1350).

Here, the multimedia book production apparatus 130 generates a moving picture file for sequentially switching pages from the first page to the N-th page of the predetermined electronic book file, wherein the page conversion time of each of the first page to the N- File to the Nth audio file, and after merging the first audio file to the Nth audio file into one audio file, the moving picture file and the one audio file are merged to form a multimedia file The content can be newly created.

The multimedia book production apparatus 130 that newly creates the multimedia book contents stores the new multimedia book contents in the multimedia book contents database and stores the multimedia book contents list including the new multimedia book contents in the user terminal 110 to allow the user terminal 110 to play the new multimedia book content as shown in FIG.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments. That is, within the scope of the present invention, all of the components may be selectively coupled to one or more of them. The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (4)

A method for producing a multimedia book in a multimedia book production apparatus,
A first recording start step of receiving, from a user terminal, a first recording start button input signal which is a recording start button input signal for contents of a first page included in a predetermined electronic book file;
A first recording data receiving step of receiving first recording data, which is recording data for contents of the first page, from the user terminal;
When receiving the first recording end button input signal, which is a recording end button input signal for the content of the first page, from the user terminal, the first recording end button input signal A first recording ending step of encoding the first recording data received up to the point of time of receiving the first recording data as a first audio file;
A first audio file storing step of matching and storing the first audio file with the first page;
An Nth recording start step of receiving, from the user terminal, an Nth recording start button input signal which is a recording start button input signal for contents of an Nth page included in the predetermined electronic book file;
An N-th recorded data receiving step of receiving N-th recorded data, which is recorded data on contents of the N-th page, from the user terminal;
When receiving the N-th recording end button input signal, which is a recording end button input signal for the content of the N-th page, from the user terminal, the N-th recording end button input signal An Nth recording termination step of encoding the Nth recording data received up to the time of receiving the Nth audio file into an Nth audio file;
An Nth audio file storing step of storing and matching the Nth audio file with the Nth page;
When the multimedia book production request signal is received from the user terminal, the first page to the N-th page included in the predetermined electronic book file and the first audio file to the Nth audio file are merged into multimedia book content Multimedia book production stage
The method comprising the steps of: The method of claim 1, wherein the multimedia book content creation step
The first page to the N-th page of the predetermined e-book file is sequentially changed, and the page switching time of each of the first page to the N-th page is changed from the first audio file to the N-th page, N audio files in accordance with the playback time of each of the N audio files;
Merging the first audio file to the Nth audio file into one audio file; And
Generating the multimedia book contents by merging the moving picture file and the one audio file
And generating a multimedia book. The method according to claim 1, wherein in the first recording end step
When the duration of the blank portion is different from the predetermined time, the multimedia book producing device determines that the duration of the blank portion is equal to or less than a predetermined value at the start of recording and the end of recording of the first recording data, Wherein the first audio data is encoded into the first audio file after the time is edited to the predetermined time. The method according to claim 1, wherein in the N-th recording end step
When the duration of the blank portion is different from the predetermined time, the multimedia book producing apparatus determines that the duration of the blank portion is less than a predetermined value, And recording the Nth recorded data into the first audio file after editing the time to the predetermined time.

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