WO2009113770A2

WO2009113770A2 - Method for producing photo album for showing the life of a person, system thereof, and photo album produced by same

Info

Publication number: WO2009113770A2
Application number: PCT/KR2009/000769
Authority: WO
Inventors: 홍순범
Original assignee: Hong Soon-Bum
Priority date: 2008-03-14
Filing date: 2009-02-18
Publication date: 2009-09-17
Also published as: WO2009113770A3; KR20090098344A

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for producing a photo album for showing the life of a person, a system thereof, and a photo album produced by same. A conventional photo album simply allows a user to gather and attach photos to the photo album and include notes on the photos or in the vicinity of the photos. To overcome such a lack of elaborateness of the conventional photo album, there have been proposed photo albums for special purposes including traveling, graduations, weddings, or the like, which have failed in terms of development in the composition of photo albums. A need therefore continues to exist for a photo album through which people approaching the end of their lives can show and hand down the history of their lives to their posterity and those around them. To overcome the drawbacks enumerated above, the present invention provides a photo album which enables a user to edit his/her history on the basis of family history, personal history; to take, as an input, materials from other individuals as sources for the photo album; and to supplement the photo album with data received from a database which stores data by age and subject so as to produce a photo album showing one's life in a three-dimensional way.

Description

How to make an album to represent a person's life, its system and the album produced from it

The present invention relates to the production of an album containing the user's life based on the material directly provided by the user.

In general, an album is used to store several photos, and is generally composed of an inlay for inserting a picture and an outer cover for protecting a picture in the album.

The inlay allows you to archive the photo by attaching or pasting the photo, and the margins around the photo provide one or two lines of space in the space around the photo so that you can write a brief description of the photo. The general composition of the album consists of hard covers on both sides of the album so that the outside is not deformed by external forces.

Recently, as digital cameras are becoming more popular, more and more pictures are stored in digital form. As a result, digital albums are becoming more popular, and photos taken with digital cameras are also printed and kept in albums. As the number is growing rapidly, there are many cases of making albums by dividing photos by events.

In other words, not only the wedding album, which is a representative event album that is traditionally made, but also the kinds of albums such as prenatal albums, maternity albums, growth albums, and travel destination albums, which take pictures for each destination, are rapidly increasing.

However, even though the category is increasing, the inlay and the outer design of each album are slightly different, and the name of the album is different, but the structure of the inlay that attaches a photo and writes a simple memo and the outer structure to protect it is The reality is that it is not very different and does not have any special features.

In particular, since there is no other arrangement method other than arranging photos in time, it is often meaningless to keep the photographs in order to leave memories at that time. When the number of photos increases, processing becomes difficult. Many.

In addition, the person who is nearing the end of his life has a strong desire to be remembered and left by his loved ones and to organize his life, but there is no such means. If you do not find the materials, such as writings later, you will not see them, and even if you try to remember the person who went first, even if you do not consciously collect them for a very long time, there will be little data stored later. In many cases, even if the data such as photographs remain, they were not organized systematically, and in many cases, they were of no use.

The present invention has been devised to overcome the above-mentioned disadvantages, and not only to store photographs but also to provide personal histories and family histories of the family centered on individuals who are the main characters of albums, In this case, it aims to provide an album that provides not only photographs taken directly but also related materials together so that the individual's life can be viewed in three dimensions.

In addition, the increase in average lifespan is increasing the population of the elderly not only in Korea but also in the world. One of the great hopes of people at the end of their lives is that they will not be forgotten by their descendants and their memorable evidence of their existence. It aims to leave the elderly in the process of organizing their lives so that they can systematically leave records of themselves to their descendants.

In order to achieve the above object, there is provided a method for producing an album representing the life of an individual, from the user's terminal to the server of the service provider connected via the network any one of the picture material, description of the photo, personal history, family history A source providing step of delivering a source including the above to the service provider; And arranging the source according to a predetermined form by using the provided source to construct an inlay of the album; and weaving the inlay to produce an album.

It may further include a confirmation step for transmitting to the user so that the inlay configuration of the album before the album production step.

The source providing step further includes providing acquaintance-provided materials sent by family, relatives and friends to the person who is the main character of the album as acquaintances, and the acquaintance-providing material is requested by using the contact information provided by the individual. The service provider may use the data received from the acquaintances as a source in response to the sent message.

The source providing step may be transmitted from a DB provided by the service provider.

The source providing step may include receiving a detailed description of the material after transmitting the material provided by the individual to an acquaintance.

The contact information may include an e-mail address and a telephone number to be connected online.

The source providing step may further include an audio and video providing step, wherein the audio and video are input on the fly through the network, the previously prepared audio and video are transmitted through the network, and have been transmitted by a third party. It may include any one or more.

The source providing step may further include providing a family tree.

The source providing step may further include providing a genealogy.

The inlay composition step includes a photographic material DB, including a photographic material classified by subject and time, an article DB, a genealogical DB categorized by surname, a background DB including a background material and illustrations constituting an inlay, aphorisms, sayings, and literary works. This can be done by referencing the data sent from the text DB containing part of.

In addition, an album production system representing a lifetime of an individual and a plurality of user terminals; A service providing server connected through a network from the user terminal, wherein the service providing server includes a background including data constituting a background of a photo file DB, an article DB, a genealogical DB classified by a last name, and an inlay for each subject and time. It may include one or more of a text DB including text data such as DB, sayings, proverbs, literary works, and membership management DB for membership management.

In addition, as an album representing the life of an individual, the album is composed of the outer surface and inlay, the inlay is a private history book containing the history of the individual's life, a family history department containing the family history around the individual, the individual It may include a letter portion for recording a message left to the people around him and a message left to the individual by people around him.

The inlay may further include a CD / DVD tray unit having a tray for storing a CD / DVD for storing a CD / DVD containing audio and image information.

The inlay may further include a family tree that displays any one or more of a family tree provided by the individual and a family tree of the family name of the surname to which the individual belongs.

The personal historian and the family historian may determine the arrangement by the individual based on photos and sentences provided by the individual.

The individual may further include a photo storage unit configured to insert the photo directly after the album production.

The album further includes a playback device to enable playback of audio and video files, and the playback device includes an output unit for outputting audio and video files and a control unit for encoding the audio and video files and controlling the playback device. It may further include.

The apparatus may further include a memory unit for storing the audio and video files, and may further include a CD / DVD player for playing the files stored in the CD / DVD.

The invention as described above has the effect of providing an album that can illuminate a person's life in a comprehensive and three-dimensional manner and can be used as a material that can leave his life to future generations.

1 is a view showing a production process of the album according to the present invention

2 is a diagram showing the configuration of an album according to the present invention;

3 shows a system for producing an album according to the present invention;

4-12 illustrate one embodiment of an album made in accordance with the present invention.

10, 11: Inlay 20: Outer

30: CD / DVD storage section 40: CD / DVD

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail the present invention. 1 is a diagram illustrating a process of producing an album according to the present invention.

In order to produce an album, the method may include providing a source of an album, processing the source, arranging the processed material as the content of an inlay, and actually producing an album using the produced inlay.

Source refers to the basic material of the album for the production of the album. Sources include photographs, descriptions of photographs, personal histories, family history, family tree, comments about them, video and audio.

In the present invention, the person referred to as the "person" is the person who becomes the main character of the album, but the person using the system according to the present invention may be not only the "person" but also an acquaintance. Also, an 'individual' can be a large number of people in a special relationship and can be focused on a specific time or content, not just the whole of life. For example, it might be the life album of a couple who have lived together for a lifetime, a grandfather's life album made by their grandchildren, a project album of team members who led a long-term project, a couple's dating album, and a three-year-old baby's album.

Photos can be taken with a film camera, developed, printed or stored in digital form. Photos not stored in digital form can be scanned directly by the user or sent to a service provider for a separate scanning process.

The user enters his or her own data on the terminal connected through the network, which organizes his life up to the present, so he divides the categories from birth to childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age, and old age, and decides where the photo belongs. Be sure to However, once the photographs / sentences / videos / audio / other materials are classified by themes, they can be arranged again at the time of the data placement.

When inputting a picture, a memo about the picture is to be input together. The input picture can be used for data describing personal history, family history, family history, and the like.

When asked to enter a personal history, vague techniques can be difficult for authors to write such as by giving categories such as birth, growth, school, director, marriage, employment, start-ups, and achievements to answer them. However, such categorization can be formalized, so it can be provided only in special cases, such as when the author feels difficult.

When entering for each subject, episodes such as those that are particularly interesting, unforgettable, and instructive in their lifetimes should be listed separately, and these episodes can be managed separately.

In the input of family history, it is possible to provide a genealogical tree of grandparents, grandparents, fathers, mothers, brothers, children, etc., and the genealogy of ancestors from distant ancestors to the present individual. At this time, a picture of the family may be provided together with the name when displaying the family tree or genealogy.

In the case of genealogy, the user may provide it, but by referring to the genealogy of each surname currently in DB, the service providing server may refer to the DB and edit a part / all of it and publish it in the album.

In the family section, a brief history of family / friendship, family history, etc. should be included so that the whole picture can be drawn not only for the individual user but also for the user. . In addition, episodes focusing on family / relatives may be introduced along with the photographs, and for this, the photographs may be requested to provide photographs of relatives or photographs taken with relatives rather than their own photographs. The range of acquaintances published in the album can be extended separately to family / friends as well as friends / colleagues.

In addition, the user may enter a message that he / she wants to leave about relatives and friends around. Since the user of the album according to the present invention may be a person who is arranging his life to some extent, in order to share the wisdom gained in his or her life with future generations, it is also necessary to say a word / individual to loved ones. By leaving a wish, the viewer can later have the emotional sympathy of the user while feeling the user again while watching the user's words left to him. This can be not only a simple short text, but also a long letter format, and audio and video files can be stored when stored as digital data.

In addition, by allowing people around the user to leave what they want to say to the user, the album may be a space for the user and the people around to communicate with each other rather than a collection of simple photos. The comments of the people around you can be entered directly from the people around you, but you can enter the phone number, email, etc. of people around you want to hear comments from the user, the service provider uses the information to ask the people to comment Receive and send messages / mails from them.

What you want to say to the people around you may be provided in the form of text with photos in the album, but you can have the video / audio material provided by the user as it is in order to remind people around you. The material will be provided on CD / DVD, which may include a separate inlay for storing the CD / DVD. Words that people around you want to tell can also be converted into digital data format rather than text format and stored on CD / DVD. To this end, an album produced according to the present invention may be provided in an album format having a storage unit for storing a CD / DVD format or a CD / DVD.

These sources are then calibrated and processed by the user or service provider and placed on each part of the album. This work is performed by the user or service provider, and the user can connect to the service provider's server to perform the work. The corrections include basic tasks such as matching the brightness of the picture, converting the color picture into a black and white picture, changing the tone and color according to the background, and cropping to the required size.

The album thus produced includes an introduction with a brief introduction to the individual, a personal history containing a comprehensive story about the individual's life history, a family history showing an overview of his family and relatives (including the family tree) beyond the individual, and the user. May include a message to a person or a letter, including a letter or a virtue that the person is sending to the user. Materials provided as source by the user or service provider may be placed in each part. In addition, the CD / DVD storage unit for providing video, audio may be provided together. The CD / DVD storage is made thicker than other pages and may be provided with a tray for storing the CD / DVD.

In addition, the album may be produced as a file of a digital data format that is read by a computer to be in the form of a CD / DVD, in which case no separate CD / DVD storage is required. In addition, a player capable of playing voice and video can be added to the album according to the present invention so that the voice and video file can be played. To this end, a speaker for audio reproduction, a liquid crystal for image reproduction, and an LCD may be provided separately, and a player having a memory for storing audio and video files, and a controller for coding and outputting stored audio and video files. You can have it. When the memory is included, the CD / DVD storage unit is not required, but a CD / DVD player may be separately attached to directly output the CD / DVD. By the above configuration, it is possible to play the video and audio files directly from the album.

Private ministries can be subdivided into individual lives such as time of birth, growth, and other themes such as travel and achievements. Family history can be subdivided into different figures by parents, children, and relatives. Fig. 2 briefly shows the components of such an album.

In addition, it may further include a photo unit that can be put in the front component, but the user wants to put the picture. The photo unit may include a background printed only so that the user can directly attach a picture later. The album production can be printed as a single book based on the digital data provided, and the photo unit is provided so that the user can insert additional photos into the album after the album production. Photos inserted into the photo part are provided in a non-digital form after the album is produced, so it provides an inlay that can be directly inserted.

3 briefly illustrates the configuration of a system according to the present invention. The service providing server receives the user's data through a terminal connected online and creates an album with reference to various DBs connected to the service providing server.

In the case of album production, when there is a shortage of photos at a certain time in relation to individual companies, the album can be filled by extracting appropriate photos from the data photo DB of the service providing server. In other words, you can put a picture of Jong-ro of the 60s who spent adolescence, or pick up a picture of Taekwon V, a precious memory of childhood. This is because the album according to the present invention is not merely a collection of personal photos, but expresses the life of an individual, and for this purpose, even if photographs are not provided mainly because the stories such as personal histories and family histories provided by individuals also play an important role This is what constitutes.

The data photo DB is divided into primary categories by subjects such as birth, growth, childhood, school days, play, travel, employment, etc. for ease of retrieval, and again by period of the 50s, 60s, 70s, etc. Can be subdivided into

In addition, for a more rich and three-dimensional production may be attached to the news of the time in the private or family history department. To do this, you can refer to the article DB containing the news at the time and attach the article to the relevant section.

In addition to the process of drawing a family tree, in addition to the genealogy in the case of attaching the genealogy by referring to the genealogy DB that provides genealogy by sex can be attached to the genealogy to the album.

When configuring each page, you can also include a background DB so that you can attach backgrounds and illustrations necessary for the composition of the page, and decorate the page by referring to the movie's famous pronouns, sayings, and parts of literature in the content DB. For reference.

In addition, a text DB including text materials such as sayings, proverbs, famous pronouns, and parts of literary works may be referred to the album production.

In addition, by including a member management DB to receive the basic information about the member who makes the album and the contact information (telephone number, e-mail address, etc.) of the member's acquaintances to request comments and data about the member to the contact person It can receive the UCC produced by the can directly receive the voice recorded directly on the phone. To this end, the system is connected to a public telephone network and a wireless telephone network.

The album that has completed the content arrangement step is composed of a book, which is composed of a book containing a picture between the outer surface of the hard cover to protect the picture inside, or may be in the form of a tray for storing CD / DVD.

When a family visits at once to produce an album, the voice and video recordings of the family may be recorded directly off-line, not on the Internet or telephone network. For a life album, the whole family visits the store together, organizes photos together, explains them, records warm words about the other person, and strengthens the bonds between them. It can be a special event in between. In addition to organizing life, it can be used to organize memories of special periods such as travel, parenting, and dating. It can also help people in their memories to organize and keep memories together by participating in album production.

4 to 12 show an example of a life album according to the present invention. For the sake of explanation and understanding, we chose the characters in the film whose life is well revealed to produce the album. 4A shows the name of the person (Don Vito Koleone) who is the main character of the album as the first chapter.

Figure 5 corresponds to the personal history of the picture is arranged from childhood to old age. In the above embodiment, the number of pictures is small and all are put on one page, but from childhood to old age, each page may be dedicated according to the number of pictures and a description thereof may be included. Each period may contain a description of each period. Fig. 6 is also arranged with photos and descriptions in chronological order with the extension of the personal history part.

7 shows a family tree centered on the main character of the album. In the embodiment, only the lineal existence and the wife are displayed. Each person is accompanied by a photo, and a separate page can be assigned to a specific person.

8 is a part corresponding to the family history section, the contents of the family, the parent of the main character is displayed. This may be the case, so there may be no photos kept by the individual, so you can refer to the DB of photo material DB, article DB, etc. to fill out the page.

9 and 10 are pages that contain messages sent to family members, but are simply displayed in the embodiment, but more pages can be allocated and appropriate backgrounds can be extracted from the background DB.

11 is a part including a message from family and acquaintances may be provided by the user directly, or may be collected by the service providing server through the contact information input by the user.

12 may be included with a brief description as a part including a photo not included above. In addition, this part is not enough to be included in private history, but it can be divided into subjects such as meaningful travel photos and meeting photos. It is also possible to provide an inlay with only the background printed so that the user can paste the extra photo directly.

Claims

As an album production method that represents one's life

A source providing step of delivering a source including at least one of a photographic material, a description of a photo, a personal history, and a family history from a terminal of a user to a server of a service provider connected through a network;

Configuring the inlay of the album by arranging the source according to a predetermined form using the provided source;

Weaving the inlay to produce an album, comprising the step of producing an album life of an individual
The method of claim 1, wherein the source providing step further includes providing acquaintance-provided materials sent by family, relatives and friends to the person who is the main character of the album, and the acquaintance-providing material provided by the individual. How to make an album representing the life of an individual, characterized in that the service provider uses the data received from the acquaintances as a source in response to the message sent by using the contact information
The method of claim 1, wherein the source providing step is transmitted from a DB provided by the service provider.
The method of claim 1, wherein the source providing step includes transmitting the data provided by the individual to an acquaintance and receiving an additional explanation about the material.
The method of claim 2, wherein the contact information includes an e-mail address and a telephone number connected online.
The method of claim 1, wherein the source providing step further includes an audio and video providing step, wherein the audio and video are input on the fly through the network and the previously prepared audio and video are transmitted through the network. An album production method representing a lifetime of an individual, characterized in that it comprises any one or more of those transmitted by
The method of claim 1, wherein the source providing step further comprises providing a family tree.
The method of claim 1, wherein the source providing step further comprises providing a genealogy.
The method of claim 1, wherein the inlay composition step comprises a photographic material DB, including a photographic material classified by subject, time, article DB, family tree DB classified by surname, background DB comprising a background material and illustrations constituting the inlay, A method of producing an album representing an individual's life, which is performed by referring to a material transmitted from a text DB including aphorisms, sayings, famous words, and literary works.
As an album production system that represents one's life

With multiple user terminals

A service providing server connected through a network from the user terminal, wherein the service providing server includes a background including data constituting a background of a photo file DB, an article DB, a genealogical DB classified by a last name, and an inlay for each subject and time. An album production system representing a lifetime of an individual, comprising at least one of a text DB including text data such as a DB, a quote, and a member management DB for member management.
As an album representing an individual's life,

The album is composed of outer and inlay,

The inlay is a private history book containing the history of the individual's life, a family history book containing the history of the family centered on the individual, a letter section that contains the message that the individual leaves to the people around and the message that people around the person leaves to the individual An album representing a person's lifetime.
12. The album according to claim 11, wherein the inlay further comprises a CD / DVD tray section having a tray for storing CD / DVDs for storing CD / DVDs containing audio and video information.
The album of claim 11, wherein the inlay further comprises a family tree that displays at least one of a family tree provided by the individual and a family tree of a family name of the surname.
12. The album of claim 11, wherein the personal historian and the family historian are arranged by the individual based on the photographs and sentences provided by the individual.
12. The album of claim 11, further comprising a photo storage unit configured to directly insert a photo after the album is produced by the individual.
12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the album further comprises a playback device for reproducing audio and video files, wherein the playback device outputs audio and video files and encodes the audio and video files. The control unit may further include a control unit.