WO2015056942A1

WO2015056942A1 - Gui sharing system and gui editing device

Info

Publication number: WO2015056942A1
Application number: PCT/KR2014/009597
Authority: WO
Inventors: 김경철
Original assignee: 김경철
Priority date: 2013-10-14
Filing date: 2014-10-14
Publication date: 2015-04-23
Also published as: KR101426918B1

Abstract

A GUI sharing system and a GUI editing device are disclosed. According to one embodiment of the present invention, provided is an advertisement transmission device, comprising: a communication unit for transmitting an advertisement to an advertisement receiving terminal device through a wired/wireless communication network; an area setting unit for setting an area to which the advertisement is transmitted on the basis of an area setting command inputted from an administrator; a location information collecting unit for collecting location information of the advertisement receiving terminal device; an input/output unit for receiving various data from the administrator and outputting a result of processing the input data; and a control unit for controlling the transmission of the advertisement to the advertisement receiving terminal device when the location information collected from the advertisement receiving terminal device is included in the area to which the advertisement is transmitted. Accordingly, each user edits and corrects a GUI of an application program so as to be suitable for the purpose of use or the preference of the user and can share the GUI with other users.

Description

GUI sharing system and GUI editing device

The present invention relates to a GUI (GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE) sharing system and device, and more particularly, to edit a GUI for a specific application to a user's taste using a device capable of executing a GUI editing application such as a smartphone. The present invention relates to a GUI sharing system and a GUI editing apparatus that can be shared with other users by uploading a GUI to a relay server after editing.

The GUI (GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE) is a new computer-driven approach that is not a text-driven computer operation. More specifically, when a user exchanges information with a computer, an interface is used to exchange information through graphics, not text. It makes the operation of the computer easy.

Recently, due to the rapid development of terminal devices such as smartphones and PCs, the application usage for these devices is increasing day by day, and potential application fields are also rapidly expanding, thereby increasing the possibility of generating new revenue.

Users provide a specialized GUI for each application program by using various terminal devices that can download and execute various applications. However, since the design of the GUI for a specific application program is distributed in a fixed state in advance by the designer, The user was forced to utilize the GUI of the already designated design.

Meanwhile, in executing an application program on a terminal device, a user wants to change a design including a location or a size of submenus according to his or her taste or need, but has not yet been introduced in the technology for supporting the application.

In addition, as a prior art, a method for creating a widget in response to a hyperlink selection by a user, placing it in a predetermined area, and displaying a method, or software for a smartphone that provides various samples that the user can select according to tastes by changing images, colors, etc. While this is known, it also simply could not change the skin of the widget or apply a predetermined sample, so it could not meet the needs of various users.

Accordingly, a user can edit a GUI for a specific application to his or her own preference using a terminal device capable of executing a GUI editing application such as a smartphone, and then upload the GUI to a relay server to share with other users. There is an increasing demand for technology that can be used.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems of the prior art, embodiments of the present invention to utilize the GUI editing application to enable the user to edit the GUI for the downloadable application program.

In addition, embodiments of the present invention to edit the GUI for the application program to be able to modify to suit the user's purpose or taste of each individual user.

In addition, embodiments of the present invention are intended to enable other users to download and share the GUI by uploading the GUI to a separate external server after editing the application program by a specific user.

According to an aspect of the present invention, the communication unit 110 to download or edit one or more application programs via wired or wireless communication, and transmits the GUI, the output unit 120 to display the GUI editing process according to the user's operation, from the user Selected at least one of the application program, the input unit 130 for receiving an editing command for the GUI of the selected application, the application and the GUI editing application, the storage is stored or deleted data generated during the editing process of the GUI A controller for executing the GUI 140 and the GUI editing application to display a GUI of an application program selected by a user among the application programs on the output unit 120, and apply the editing command to the GUI to perform editing. GUI editing apparatus 100 including 150 is provided.

The editing command may include a position moving command, a size changing command, and a frame modifying command.

In addition, the controller 150 may include a driving module 151 for executing the GUI editing application and a GUI generation module for generating a GUI for an application program selected by a user among the application programs and displaying the GUI on the output unit 120. 152 and a GUI editing module 153 for performing the editing by applying the editing command to the GUI.

In addition, the GUI editing module 153, the unique code assigning means 154 for assigning a unique code to each target component 10 included in the GUI, by applying the editing command to the target component 10 Editing means 155 for generating the edited component 20 edited by the target component 10 and component matching means 156 for connecting the edited component 20 with the unique code of the target component 10. Can be.

In addition, the frame modification command may include at least one of a color, contrast, texture, three-dimensional effect, voice insertion, border thickness, animation effect or a correction command for the shape of the border.

In addition, when the edge having an arbitrary shape drawn by the user is input as a modification command for the edge shape, the editing means 155 applies the edge to the target component 10 to apply the editing component 20. Can be generated.

In addition, the editing means 155 may automatically correct to have a flatness of less than the reference value when the flatness of the edge is greater than or equal to the reference value.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a GUI editing application is executed to display a GUI for an application selected by a user among one or more applications, and when the user receives an editing command for the GUI, the editing command is sent to the GUI. Applies to perform the editing, and transmits the GUI editing application in response to a request of the GUI editing apparatus 100 and the GUI editing apparatus 100 for uploading the GUI to the relay server 200 after the editing, and the GUI editing apparatus. There is provided a GUI sharing system including a relay server 200 for storing the GUI after editing received from 100 and a user terminal 300 for downloading the GUI after editing from the relay server 200.

Embodiments of the present invention can variously edit the GUI for the downloadable application for each user by utilizing the application for GUI editing.

In addition, embodiments of the present invention can be edited to suit the user's purpose or taste of each user by allowing the GUI for the application program to be editable.

In addition, embodiments of the present invention can share the GUI with other users after editing by uploading the GUI to a separate external server after editing the application program by a specific user.

1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a GUI sharing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a GUI editing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a control unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 (A) to 4 (D) illustrate an example of editing a GUI by applying an editing command according to the present invention.

5 is a flowchart sequentially illustrating each step included in a GUI sharing method using a GUI sharing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

[Description of the code]

100: GUI editing device 110: communication unit

120: output unit 130: input unit

140: storage unit 150: control unit

151 drive module 152: GUI generation module

153: GUI editing module 154: Unique code assignment means

155: editing means 156: component matching means

10: target component 20: editing component

30, 32, 34, 36: GUI before editing

40, 42, 44, 46, 47, 48: GUI after editing

The embodiments disclosed herein should not be interpreted or used as limiting the scope of the invention. It is obvious to those skilled in the art that the description, including the embodiments herein, has a variety of applications. Accordingly, it is to be understood that certain embodiments are intended to illustrate the invention better, and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention to the embodiments, unless limited by the claims. In addition, in describing the present invention, when it is determined that the detailed description of the related well-known configuration or function may obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

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

Referring to FIG. 1, a GUI sharing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a GUI editing apparatus 100, a relay server 200, and a user terminal 300.

First, the GUI editing apparatus 100 executes a GUI editing application according to a user's operation, and displays a GUI of an application program selected by the user among one or more applications stored in the internal storage space.

Here, the application program refers to a program produced for the purpose of utilizing for a specific purpose or work among the programs, for example, there are various programs such as a weather information providing program, banking processing program, video playback program or movie booking program.

Meanwhile, the GUI editing apparatus 100 is a device capable of installing and executing various applications and applications, and typically includes a smart phone, but is not limited thereto. Any device capable of transmitting and receiving data by being connected to another terminal or an external server through a network, etc. It should be interpreted as meaning. At this time, the application or the application may be driven independently or may be driven as a function of another application.

When the GUI editing apparatus 100 receives an editing command for the GUI from the user, the GUI editing apparatus 100 applies the edited command to the GUI to perform editing, and uploads the edited GUI to the relay server 200 through the wired / wireless communication network, The user terminal 300 may transmit directly. In this case, a predetermined fee may be paid to an account held by the user of the GUI editing apparatus 100 according to the number of downloads from another user for the uploaded GUI.

The relay server 200 is a means for storing the GUI 40 before or after editing various applications. Specifically, the relay server 200 stores the GUI 40 after being received from the GUI editing apparatus 100 and downloads the GUI 40. After the edit to the user terminal 300 requesting the configuration to perform the role of delivering the GUI (40). At this time, after editing, the GUI 40 may be classified and stored according to the purpose or use of the application program. In addition, the relay server 200 may count the number of downloads of the edited specific GUI and charge or pay a fee to the user of the GUI editing apparatus 100 or the user terminal 300.

The user terminal 300 is a device capable of installing and executing various applications and applications like the GUI editing apparatus 100, which may be a smart phone, and is connected to the relay server 200 through a wired / wireless communication network to provide a GUI editing apparatus ( After editing (that is, uploading) registered by 100, the GUI 40 may be downloaded or directly received from the GUI editing apparatus 100. In addition, the user terminal 300 may change the GUI of the corresponding application displayed on the screen by applying the GUI 40 to a specific application stored in the internal storage space after the downloaded edit.

2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a GUI editing apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 3 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a control unit 150 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the GUI editing apparatus 100 according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a communication unit 110, an output unit 120, an input unit 130, a storage unit 140, and a controller 150.

The communication unit 110 is a means for downloading one or more application programs through wired or wireless communication or transmitting a GUI of a specific application program edited by the controller 150 to the relay server 200 or the user terminal 300. When transmitting and receiving, Bluetooth, Infrared Data Association (IrDA), ZigBee or Radio Frequency (RF), Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), Bibary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW), Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability (WIPI) Or according to various schemes or specifications, including WiBRO.

The output unit 120 is a means for displaying a process of editing a GUI according to a user's manipulation, such as a monitor, a speaker, or a touch screen.

The input unit 130 is a means for receiving one or more applications selected from one or more applications stored in the storage 140 from the user, and typically includes a keyboard, a mouse, a microphone, or a touch screen. In addition, the input unit 130 may receive an editing command for the GUI of the selected application program. The editing command is a data value for changing the color, size, shape, etc. of the current GUI of the application. For example, the editing command may include a move command, a resize command, and a frame modify command. The process will be described separately below.

The controller 150 executes the GUI editing application to display the GUI 30 before editing the application selected by the user among the applications on the output unit 120, and applies the editing command input from the user to perform the editing. As a configuration, referring to FIG. 3, the controller 150 includes a driving module 151, a GUI generation module 152, and a GUI editing module 153.

The driving module 151 is a component that executes a GUI editing application stored in the storage 140 according to a user's operation to edit the GUI, and the editing process of the GUI is started by executing the GUI editing application.

The GUI generation module 152 generates the GUI 30 before editing the application program selected by the user among the plurality of application programs stored in the storage 140 to be displayed on the output unit 120.

4 (A) to 4 (D) show an example of editing a GUI by applying an editing command according to the present invention, and the left side of FIGS. 4 (A) to 4 (D) is before editing. The GUI 30 is shown and the right side shows the GUI 40 after editing.

Referring to FIG. 4, the pre-editing GUI 30 or post-editing GUI 40 of an application includes at least one component. Here, the GUI may be a wallpaper or a background screen displayed when a terminal device such as a PC or a smartphone is executed, and the overall screen configuration as shown in FIGS. 4 (A) to 4 (D) displayed when a specific application is executed. It may mean.

The GUI editing module 153 is configured to apply an editing command to the GUI 30 before editing, and referring to FIG. 3, the GUI editing module 153 according to an embodiment of the present invention provides a unique code assignment means. 154, editing means 155, and component matching means 156.

A component is a sub-element of each GUI. For example, in the case of a desktop GUI of a PC, each component may mean an icon (for example, the Internet, an account book, a trash bin, etc.). In addition, the background GUI of the smartphone may be various widgets (eg, weather, music, memo) generated on the touch screen, and a sub-menu or keypad displayed when various widgets are executed as illustrated in FIG. 4. Or an electronic button may correspond to this.

The unique code assigning means 154 is a means for assigning a unique code to each target component 10 included in the GUI. The target component 10 refers to a component that a user wants to edit and change among components included in the GUI 30 before editing. For example, the target component 10 corresponds to the “depository inquiry” menu of FIG. 4A.

The unique code granting means 154 assigns a unique code to each target component 10 of the GUI 30 before editing through sentence analysis, ie, parsing, etc. for the application program, and the unique code is then edited to a component. Connected with (20) allows the user to utilize the application program with the same function as the GUI 30 before editing through the GUI 40 after editing.

The editing means 155 is a means for applying an editing command input from the user to the target component 10. Specifically, the editing means 155 edits the target component 10 to generate the editing component 20.

Referring to the left side of Fig. 4 (A), the position of the "Deposit inquiry" menu and the "Fund transfer" menu among the target components 10 of the GUI 32 is moved by the user who executes the banking processing application of Hana Bank. Suppose a command is entered. The editing means 155 changes the upper and lower positions according to the position movement commands for the "Inquiry for deposit" menu and the "Money transfer" menu, and includes the editing component 20 including the editing component 20 as shown in the right side of FIG. 4 (A). (42) may be generated.

In addition, referring to the left side of FIG. 4 (B), a case in which a change size command is input to a "residual data" menu among the target components 10 of the GUI 34 by a user who has executed a telecommunication company customer center application program. Can assume In this case, the editing means 155 applies the detected direction and the moving distance to the target component 10 according to the user's motion (eg, dragging with a finger or manipulating with a mouse), as shown in the right side of FIG. 4B. The GUI 44 may be generated after editing in which the size of the “residual data” menu, which is the target component 10, is changed.

On the other hand, the frame modification command is a command for changing properties except for the position and size of the target component 10, for example, the color, contrast, texture, three-dimensional effect, voice insertion, border thickness, This may correspond to a command for modifying an animation effect or a border shape.

In addition, the editing means 155 is applied to the target component 10 by applying a correction command for the shape of the border of the target component 10, that is, an arbitrary shape drawn by the user, to the target component 10. 20).

For example, referring to FIG. 4C, "movie", "movie theater", and "review" among the target components 10 produced by the user who executed the movie ticketing application with the rectangular border of the GUI 36. It may be assumed that a frame modification command is input for the “run time” menu. The editing means 155 changes the edges of the above-described target components 10 into ellipses, pentagons, stationery and heart-shaped editing components 20 according to a user's editing command to generate the GUI 46 after editing. can do.

On the other hand, the voice insertion is an editing command in which the user directly records a voice or inserts a special sound for a specific target component 10 so that the inserted voice is reproduced when the user later executes the corresponding component. In addition, the animation effect refers to adding effects such as flickering and shaking to a specific target component 10. For example, the "run time" menu of FIG. Image animation effects may be added (not shown).

In addition, when the flatness of the edge drawn by the user is equal to or greater than the reference value, the editing means 155 may automatically correct this to be an edge having flatness less than the reference value. The border may be drawn by a user's dragging operation or mouse operation detected by the input unit 130 through a touch screen or the like.

For example, the left side of Fig. 4D shows the target component 10 of the subway information application program as the editing component 20 having rounded corners of the “route map” having a rectangular border and the GUI 47 after editing. You can check it. However, in the lower right end of the "route diagram", a defect part having flatness equal to or more than a predetermined reference value such as shaking or breaking at a predetermined portion of the edge due to a user's mistake or the like has occurred. The editing unit 155 checks whether a defect is generated in the edge drawn by the user, and if it is determined that the determination unit is generated, the editing means 155 may be corrected to have a flatness of less than the reference value, and the defect may be removed. The GUI 48 is shown after editing with the defects corrected automatically.

Referring to FIG. 5, in a GUI sharing method using a GUI sharing system according to an embodiment of the present invention, first, as a first step, a GUI editing apparatus 100 connects to a relay server 200 through a wired / wireless communication network, and executes a GUI editing application. The process of requesting the provision of the (S510) is performed. Thereafter, the relay server 200 transmits the GUI editing application in response to the request of the GUI editing apparatus 100 (S520). Next, the GUI editing apparatus 100 stores the transmitted GUI editing application and executes it according to a user's operation to edit one or more of the pre-editing GUI 30 among the plurality of applications stored in the storage 140. The process of performing is followed (S530). Subsequently, the GUI editing apparatus 100 registers (uploads) the GUI 40 to the relay server 200 after editing (S540). Thereafter, the user terminal 300 accesses the relay server 200 to search for a GUI desired by the user, and then requests a download to the GUI 40 after at least one edit (S550). Subsequently, as a final step, the relay server 200 transmits the GUI 40 after the corresponding edit in response to the request of the user terminal 300 (S560). Meanwhile, the user terminal 300 may receive and execute the GUI 40 after directly editing from the GUI editing apparatus 100 without accessing the relay server 200.

The GUI sharing method using the GUI sharing system can be written as a program, and codes and code segments constituting the program can be easily inferred by a programmer in the art.

In addition, a program related to a GUI sharing method using a GUI sharing system may be stored in a readable media that can be read by an electronic device, and then read and executed by the electronic device.

The term "comprise" and the like described above means that the corresponding component may be inherent unless specifically stated otherwise, and thus may not include other components but may further include other components. Should be interpreted as

The embodiments of the present invention described above are disclosed for purposes of illustration, and the present invention is not limited thereto. In addition, one of ordinary skill in the art of the present invention will be able to add various modifications and changes within the spirit and scope of the present invention, these modifications and changes will be considered to be within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

Communication unit for transmitting the GUI after downloading or editing one or more applications through wired and wireless communication;

An output unit for displaying a GUI editing process according to a user's operation;

An input unit for selecting one or more of the application programs from a user and receiving an editing command for the GUI of the selected application program;

A storage unit for storing or deleting data generated during the editing of the application program, the GUI editing application, and the GUI; And

A controller configured to execute the GUI editing application to display a GUI of an application program selected by a user among the application programs on the output unit, and apply the editing command to the GUI to perform editing;

GUI editing device including
The method of claim 1,

The editing command includes a position moving command, a size changing command, and a frame modifying command.
The method of claim 2,

The control unit,

A drive module for executing the GUI editing application;

A GUI generation module for generating a GUI for an application selected by a user among the application programs and displaying the GUI on the output unit; And

A GUI editing module for performing editing by applying the editing command to the GUI;

GUI editing device including
The method of claim 3,

The GUI editing module,

Unique code assigning means for assigning a unique code to each target component included in the GUI;

Editing means for generating the edit component in which the target component is edited by applying the edit command to the target component; And

Component matching means for connecting the editing component with a unique code of the target component;

GUI editing device including
The method of claim 4, wherein

The frame editing command includes at least one of a color, contrast, texture, three-dimensional effect, voice insertion, border thickness, animation effect or at least one of a modification command for the shape of the border.
The method of claim 5,

The editing means,

GUI edit apparatus, characterized in that the editing component is generated by applying the border to the target component when a border having an arbitrary shape drawn by the user is inputted as a modification command for the border shape.
The method of claim 6,

The editing means,

GUI editing apparatus, characterized in that the automatic correction to have a flatness less than the reference value when the flatness of the edge is more than the reference value
Executes a GUI editing application to display a GUI for an application selected by a user among one or more applications, and when the user receives an editing command for the GUI, performs the editing by applying the editing command to the GUI; GUI editing device to upload the GUI to the relay server after editing;

A relay server for transmitting the GUI editing application according to a request of the GUI editing device and storing the GUI after editing received from the GUI editing device; And

A user terminal for downloading the GUI after editing from the relay server;

GUI sharing system that includes