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• the present invention relates to creation, transmission, and reception of text messages, and more particularly to a system for animating text messages for text communication and displaying the text messages.
• the present invention relates to a text display terminal device and a server.
• Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-32306 discloses a technique for detecting a phrase indicating an emotion in a text of an e-mail and reflecting the phrase in an animation (doll) when displaying the e-mail. Has been disclosed. However, this technique only changes the movement of the doll, not the doll itself. Nor does it change the text itself.
• An object of the present invention is to provide a novel text display terminal device and a server that can solve the problems of the conventional technology as described above.
• This text display terminal device determines whether a keyword is included in the text input by the user, and if so, the text and / or the background image corresponding to the key for the text. Is added. This display attribute The text information with the added character is transmitted as a message via the communication network. Then, the message received via the communication network is displayed on the display screen.
• the display attribute of the background image may further include an attribute that determines the movement of the image.
• a means may be provided for the user to register a keyword and a display attribute corresponding to the keypad, wherein a display attribute of character movement may be added to the text information.
• a desired display attribute is assigned to a desired keyword for each user.
• the server receives a text message from the terminal device via the communication network, and determines whether a keyword is present in the received text. If there is a key word, the specified text and / or background image display attributes corresponding to the key word are added to the text, and the message is sent to the destination of the text message. Send.
• Another server is a server connected to a text display terminal device via a communication network, wherein the server stores a predetermined keyword, and transmits a text message from the terminal device via the communication network.
• Means for receiving, means for determining whether or not a keyword exists in the received text; and, if a keyword exists, the text corresponding to the keyword and / or Or means for adding a predetermined display attribute of the background image, and means for accumulating the message with the predetermined display attribute added to the text in the form of web information so that the user of the destination of the text message can view the message.
• the server receives a text message from a terminal device via a communication network, and determines whether a keyword exists in the received text. If the keyword exists, the text and the predetermined display attribute of the Z or background image corresponding to the keyword are added to the text, and the user of the destination of the text message in the form of web information is added. Accumulate for viewing.
• Any of the servers may be provided with means for receiving registration of a keyword and a display attribute corresponding to the keyword via a communication network for a user.
• a key word when included in a text message, it is possible to automatically give a background or a character display attribute suitable for the key word.
• a display attribute that matches the keyword preferably a combination of various display attributes, can be automatically given without user's specification or awareness, and the expressive power can be expanded and enriched. Can be.
• the recipient of this message sees the display of the message given such display attributes, and thus comes into contact with rich expressions that are not included in the original text.
• FIG. 1A, FIG. IB and FIG. 1C are diagrams showing a schematic configuration of a system to which the present invention is applied.
• FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of a terminal according to the present invention.
• FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of a server according to the present invention.
• FIGS. 4A and 4B are diagrams illustrating the format and processing elements of a message used in the present invention.
• FIG. 5 shows the configuration example of the text animation engine shown in Figs. 4A and 4B.
• FIG. 5 shows the configuration example of the text animation engine shown in Figs. 4A and 4B.
• FIGS. 6A, 6B, and 6C are diagrams illustrating a display example of a text message including a specific keyword on the receiving terminal or a preview display example on the transmitting terminal.
• FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of an XML document corresponding to the display example of FIG. 6A.
• FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a configuration example of the animation parameters shown in FIG.
• FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a mail creation and transmission process at the transmitting terminal according to the present invention.
• FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing the data conversion processing in the server, which corresponds to the processing in the server shown in FIG. 1B.
• FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing the server's overnight conversion process in the web mail system described in FIG. 1C.
• BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION a text display terminal device and a server according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
• FIG. 1A to 1C show a schematic configuration of a system to which the present invention is applied.
• an e-mail (also called e-mail) system is shown.
• This system is composed of a plurality of terminal devices (terminals) 100, 102, 104 connected to each other via a communication network (not shown), and a supervisor 400.
• the transmitting terminal performs a keyword check, and a message 240a of a predetermined format (here, XML) as a text message including necessary display attribute information is obtained.
• the server 400 transmits the same XML document 240 a as the message 240 a or the XML document 240 b as a message in which the display attribute information is added or changed to the receiving terminal.
• the types of terminals include mobile terminals such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), Includes personal computers (PCs). In the figure, only the mobile phone is shown as the transmitting terminal. This is because mail creation in the present invention is suitable for application to terminals with limited display areas and input functions such as mobile phones, but the present invention is applied to terminals other than mobile phones as transmitting terminals. It does not mean that is not applicable.
• a text message 210 is sent from the sending terminal, a keyword is checked by the super-user 400, and an XML document with the necessary display attributes is created. I do. That is, in the present invention, it is not always necessary to create an XML document at the transmitting terminal.
• the server 400 sends the XML document 240b to the receiving terminal.
• FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the hardware configuration of the terminal (mobile terminal) 100 according to the present invention.
• the terminal 100 includes an antenna 300, a duplexer (antenna duplexer) 301, a receiving unit (RX) 302, a transmitting unit (TX) 303, and a digital signal as parts related to telephone and communication functions. Processing unit Including DSP (Digital Signal Processor) 304, speed 305, microphone 306, and receiver 307.
• the terminal 100 further has a control unit 308, a display unit 309, an input operation unit 311, a ROM 313, a RAM 314, and the like as parts related to control of the terminal.
• the control unit 308 includes a central processing unit (CPU) and the like.
• the input operation unit 311 corresponds to various keys, buttons, and jog dials of the terminal.
• ROM313 may include rewritable memory such as flash ROM.
• Data such as font data, keywords, and tables according to the present invention are stored in the ROM 313 and / or the RAM 314.
• Data such as various documents is stored in the RAM 314.
• FIG. 3 shows the hardware configuration of the server 400.
• a central processing unit (CPU) 410 executes an OS (Operating System) and various application programs, and controls each part of the server.
• the ROM 411 stores programs executed by the CPU 410 and fixed data.
• the RAM 412 provides a temporary storage area for the work area of the CPU 10.
• the ROM 411 and the RAM 412 are connected to the CPU 410 via the bus 430.
• An input device 414 such as a keyboard, a display device 415 such as a CRT or a liquid crystal display, and an external storage device 416 such as a hard disk drive, MO, CD-ROM, etc. are connected to the bus 430 via an interface 413. .
• the bus 430 is connected to a network such as the Internet via a communication unit 420.
• the hardware structure of the terminal 104 such as a PC and the hardware of the terminal 102 such as a PDA will be basically described with reference to FIGS. 4A and 4B as well as the message format and processing elements in the present invention.
• a text-format message (text message) 210 input by the user is collated with a predetermined keyword 242 by a text animation engine 230 described later.
• the text message is converted into a document 240 in a predetermined format to which a display attribute is added, for example, XML (eXtensible Markup Language).
• XML is a markup language that adds information that adds an attribute called a tag to a text string.
• a markup language that conforms to SVG Scalable Vector Graphics
• SVG Scalable Vector Graphics
• SVG can define two-dimensional images using XML-compliant tags that define image attributes, which can generate animated images.
• SVG can display bitmap graphics and text in addition to two-dimensional vector graphics shapes.
• the XML document 240 is further processed by another text animation engine 250. It is converted into a text message (motion text message) 260 which is animated.
• the motion text message 260 is reproduced by a predetermined player on the terminal and displayed as a moving image.
• the conversion from text to XML document 240 by the first text animation engine 230 is performed by the processing of the transmitting terminal shown in FIGS. 1A and 1C or by the server 400 shown in FIG. 1B.
• the conversion from the XML document to the motion text message 260 by the second text animation engine 250 is the processing of the receiving terminal shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B and the processing shown in FIG. 1C. This corresponds to the processing of the server 400 shown.
• the text message 210 may be directly converted into a motion text message 260 by the text animation engine 230. This allows the transmitting terminal to preview the XML document before transmission as a motion text message. .
• the text message 210 is collated with a predetermined keyword by the text animation engine 236 and converted into a document 270 of another format.
• This format is used when the receiving terminal (computer) 280 does not have a function equivalent to the text animation engine 250.
• a QuickTime file, eal Player A document in a format such as a file, a Macromedia Flash file, or the like.
• the computer 280 converts the document 270 into a motion text message 260.
• This motion text message, QuickTime file, RealPlayer file, Macromedia File file, etc. may be in the format itself.
• FIG. 5 shows a configuration example of the text animation engine 230.
• the text animation engine 230 has a text plug-in 211, a collating unit 235, an XML module 231 and an animation plug-in 232.
• the text plugin 2 11 extracts the text content 2 12 in the input text message 2 10. If the terminal device allows the user to specify display attributes for a particular character string or the whole, for example, font, character size, color, etc., such display attributes are attached to the text message 210. There may be some errors.
• the text plugin 2 1 1 converts it to a text parameter Extract as information 2 1 3
• the animation parameters 233 include (1) background color, still image, video image, (2) font type, size, color, transparency, (3) scroll, text fade-in This includes single door movements, blinking movements, and the like.
• a predetermined combination according to the keypad is selected from the animation parameters 233 by matching the text content 212 with the keyword by the matching unit 235.
• the keywords will be described later.
• the XML module 2 31 generates an XML document 240 based on the currently selected contents of the text contents 2 1 2 and the text parameter information 2 13 and the animation parameters 2 3 3. .
• the XML module 2 3 1 outputs an XML document 2 4 1 equivalent to the XML document 2 40 to the animation plug-in 2 32, and the animation plug-in 2 3 2 outputs the XML document 2 4 1 It can also be converted to motion text message 260.
• the animation plug-in 232 may be Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Directors Java, JavaScript, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, C ++ (all are trademarks), and the like.
• Figures 6A, 6B, and 6C show examples of display of a text message containing a specific keyword on the receiving terminal or preview display on the transmitting terminal, respectively.
• FIGS. 6A and 6B show different display examples for the same keyword
• FIG. 6C shows another display example for another keyword “Achiya”.
• On each background one or more images (icons) 60 1, 60 2, and 60 3 (in this example, marks representing heart sweat) suitable for the keyword are displayed.
• Each icon is set to make a specific movement according to the keyword.
• the characters input by the user are also displayed in a font unique to the keyword, and the characters can be set to perform a predetermined movement.
• Strings are given movement in units of relatively short words or phrases. This unit can be determined according to the user's selection at the time of character input or a determination operation. For example, an XML document may be created by using a relatively short character string as a unit of one screen display, and a longer character string may be displayed on a separate screen and displayed sequentially.
• One of the strings contained in one screen The unit may include not only the keyword alone but also a text portion other than the keyword.
• FIG. 7 shows an example of an XML document corresponding to the display example of FIG. 6A.
• the description section 71 is initial setting information, and determines the size and color of the SVG area and the background area.
• an area having a width of 128 and a height of 96 is set.
• the origin of the coordinates is the upper left corner of the area.
• the description sections 72 and 73 determine the initial position (x, y coordinates), size, and shapes that make up the heart-shaped icons that appear in the text background, and define their movements. Part. In this example, there are 10 heart-shaped icons, and 10 similar descriptions corresponding to each are prepared.
• the image information is specified, in this case, a file called he art 3. gi f.
• This image information may be stored in the terminal or the server.
• the movement of the figure is defined so that the operation of moving the y coordinate from a value of 140 to ⁇ 30 in a cycle of 4 seconds is infinitely repeated.
• a heart symbol appears from the bottom of the screen, rises, and disappears at the top of the screen. After disappearing above, it appears again from below.
• the initial position and operation of the icons are set individually for each icon.
• the description section 74 defines the initial position, font type, size, and color of the character string “suki”, and also defines its movement.
• the movement of a character string will be described for the example of the description section 74.
• the X coordinate of the character string "Suki” is repeated indefinitely every 2 seconds. Within that cycle, the X coordinate takes the values —50, —5, 15 and 13 at 0, 0.5, 1.9, and 2 seconds, and interpolates between them. Movement. In this way, by separately designating the time point and the position by dividing the section within the cycle, it is possible to change the speed of the icon movement. For example, you can get the effect that the icon accelerates into the screen, moves slowly, and then accelerates again to exit the screen. A similar designation is made for the y coordinate.
• the server determines in advance whether the required typeface is available based on the model information of the receiving terminal based on the registered user information for the service of the server, etc., the server determines whether it is necessary to convert the character string to an image. You can judge. Further, in the example of FIG. 7, only the movement of a specific background image and a character are shown, but these are merely examples, and other movements are also possible.
• Figs. 6B and 6C are not shown, in Fig. 6B, for example, the movement of a heart-shaped icon, which is a single background image, periodically enlarges / reduces the icon size. It can be repeated to show the heart fluttering. Further, in FIG. 6C, for example, it is conceivable that the icon indicating the sweat appears repeatedly from the top of the screen, falls down and disappears.
• FIG. 8 shows an example of a table 233a constituting a part of the animation parameter 233 as a configuration example of the animation parameter 233.
• This table may be maintained by the terminal or the server.
• the attributes of “background size / color, etc.”, the attributes of “background image movement, etc.” and the attributes of “text position / font / movement, etc.” are defined as predetermined pattern data (template) in advance. are doing.
• the attribute of the background size color corresponds to the description section 71 in the example of FIG. 7
• the attribute of the background image motion and the like corresponds to the description sections 72 and 73 of the example of FIG.
• Attributes such as text position / font / movement correspond to the description part 74 in the example of FIG.
• the character string is left blank and embedded later.
• the keywords registered in the table 23a can be default keywords prepared initially and / or keywords registered by the user.
• a desired one can be selected from a plurality of pattern options for each attribute for a keyword input by the user.
• the new option can be downloaded from the server via the communication network. If this table is placed on the server, at least the part of the template registered by the user should be saved corresponding to the user, and the table information of the user based on the user's identification information (eg, mail address) Make available.
• Other text movements include the text flowing from the side and flowing as it is, the text appearing to be breathing through repeated scaling, and the text initially appearing on the screen in a large size and becoming smaller and smaller.
• Text is randomly entered from various directions on the screen and disappears from the other side, and a newly appearing character string always overlaps another old character string, and at the same time the old character string gradually disappears from the screen.
• There can be various forms such as ascending upwards and each character string swinging like a spring around a point.
• FIG. 9 shows a flowchart of the mail creation and transmission process at the transmitting terminal according to the present invention. This processing corresponds to the processing at the transmitting terminal in FIG. 1A.
• a text message input process is performed according to a user input operation (S11). It is checked whether a key key exists in this text (S12). If it exists, the XML document to which the display attribute pattern including the addition of the icon (single or multiple) associated with the key is added with reference to the table 2333a shown in FIG. Is created (S13). When the input of the message is completed (S14, Yes), the XML document is converted into the above-described motion text message and previewed (S15). The created message previewed at this time is a combination of the typeface, character color, movement, and background image for each keyword, and the display attribute information (if any) added by the user during character input.
• the user looks at the preview and wants to modify the message (S16, No)
• the user can return to the message input. If there is no problem, this XML document is sent to the server (S17).
• the user can update the contents of the table 233a, add keywords, and the like. Accordingly, a plurality of display attribute patterns that can be selected by the user are prepared.
• FIG. 10 shows the mail receiving process of the terminal that receives this message from the server.
• the terminal receives the XML document automatically (S21), for example, in response to a mail arrival notification from the server, or according to the user's instruction, as described above, the text animation engine 250
• the XML document is converted into motion text 1 and message (S22). Further, the motion text message is displayed on a predetermined player (S23). .
• the data conversion processing in the server will be described with reference to FIG. This corresponds to the processing at the server 400 shown in FIG. 1B.
• the server 400 receives the text message 210 containing no display attribute information from the transmitting terminal (S31) and performs a keyword check (S32).
• an XML document having a display attribute pattern including the addition of an icon associated with the keypad is created according to the table (S33). If there are a plurality of keywords, this is repeated. If there are no more keywords, the converted message is transmitted to the destination according to the request of the destination user or the automatic reception request according to the incoming call notification (S34). . If no keyword exists in the received text message, an unconverted message is sent to the destination.
• FIG. 12 shows a flow chart of the server data conversion process in the web mail system described in FIG. 1C.
• the server upon receiving the message (XML) (S41), the server converts this XML document into a motion text message by means equivalent to the text animation engine 250 shown in FIG. Yes (S42). Further, this motion text message is stored as a web page in a folder for the destination user of the mail (S43). Then, the notification of the message arrival is notified to the destination user (S44). Link information for accessing the web site is embedded in the notification of the incoming call. The user who receives this notification can access this server from the terminal and browse the web data in the folder assigned to him / her.
• the resulting message is fun to look at, unlike regular, static and dry text.
• the finished message reflects the image corresponding to the keyword, and the recipient can enjoy the e-mail playback with richer expressions.

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