Picture book production system, server for producing picture book, and recording medium

• US 20020069225A1
• Filed: 12/04/2001
• Published: 06/06/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hudson Soft Co., Ltd. (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Hudson Soft Co., Ltd. (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Kitamura, Yoshimasa
• Granted Patent: US 7,162,197 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/517
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/38 Picture books with additional toy effects, e.g. pop-up or slide displays picture books B42D1/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/062 Combinations of audio and printed presentations, e.g. magnetically striped cards, talking books, magnetic tapes with printed texts thereon
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/493 Interactive information services, e.g. directory enquiries ; Arrangements therefor, e.g. interactive voice response [IVR] systems or voice portals
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

The object of the invention is to provide a picture book production system accompanied with a server and a recording medium for creating a picture book, in order to reduce a user'"'"'s energy and to help create a picture book containing images and sentences which are mutually consistent despite a very small amount of stored data. When a user operates a mobile phone 40 to select three keywords, which are transmitted via a wireless base station 30 and a network 20 to a server 10, where a CPU 11 of the server 10 converts the arrangement of the three keywords, reads sentence data along with image data corresponding to the keywords from a memory 12, and produces three scenarios (picture book constituent parts) by synthesizing the sentence data and the image data, so that the picture book is produced by combining the scenarios.

Claims

1. A picture book production system comprising:

a memory means for storing a plurality of sentence data in accordance with behavior of a main character corresponding to a plurality of keywords representing said behavior of said main character in a picture book, said memory means also storing a plurality of image data corresponding to said plurality of sentence data;

a selection means for selecting a keyword from said plurality of keywords; and

a production means for reading out from said memory means said sentence data and said image data corresponding to said selected keyword as a retrieval key, and synthesizing said read-out sentence data and said read-out image data to produce said picture book.

2. A picture book production system according to claim 1, wherein:

said plurality of images includes animations.

3. A picture book production system according to claim 1, wherein:

said memory means stores said plurality of sentence data and said plurality of image data in accordance with seasons; and

said production means recognizes a present season by a time means, reads out from said memory means said sentence data and said image data corresponding to said present season, and produces said picture book.

4. A picture book production system comprising:

a memory means for storing a plurality of sentence data in accordance with behavior of a main character corresponding to a plurality of keywords representing said behavior of said main character in a picture book, said memory means also storing a plurality of image data corresponding to said plurality of sentence data;

a selection means for selecting a plurality of keywords from said plurality of keywords; and

a production means for rearranging said selected plurality of keywords, reading out from said memory means said plurality of sentence data and said plurality of image data corresponding to said selected plurality of keywords as retrieval keys, synthesizing said read-out plurality of sentence data and said read-out plurality of image data to produce a plurality of picture book constituent parts, and combining said plurality of picture book constituent parts in an order of said rearranged plurality of keywords to produce said picture book.

5. A picture book production system according to claim 4, wherein:

said plurality of keywords are rearranged in a random order.

6. A picture book production system according to claim 4, wherein:

said production means combines said plurality of picture book constituent parts by inserting a connecting sentence between said picture book constituent parts to be combined so that the natural flow of the sentence occurs therebetween.

7. A picture book production system according to claim 4, wherein:

said plurality of images includes animations.

8. A picture book production system according to claim 4, wherein:

said memory means stores said plurality of sentence data and said plurality of image data in accordance with seasons; and

said production means recognizes a present season by a time means, reads out from said memory means said plurality of sentence data and said plurality of image data corresponding to said present season, and produces said picture book.

9. A picture book production system comprising:

a memory means for storing a plurality of sentence data in accordance with behavior of a plurality of main characters corresponding to said plurality of main characters in a picture book and to a plurality of keywords representing said behavior of said main characters, said memory means also storing a plurality of image data corresponding to said plurality of sentence data;

a selection means for selecting one main character and a plurality of keywords from said plurality of main characters and said plurality of keywords; and

a production means for rearranging said selected plurality of keywords, reading out from said memory means said plurality of sentence data and said plurality of image data corresponding to said one selected main character and said selected plurality of keywords as retrieval keys, synthesizing said read-out plurality of sentence data and said read-out plurality of image data to produce a plurality of picture book constituent parts, and combining said plurality of picture book constituent parts in an order of said rearranged plurality of keywords to produce said picture book.

10. A picture book production system comprising:

a memory means for storing a plurality of locations for movement of a main character and a plurality of sub-characters appearing therein corresponding to a plurality of keywords representing behavior of said main character in a picture book, said memory means also storing a plurality of sentence data in accordance with said behavior corresponding to said keywords, said locations, and said sub-characters, said memory means also storing a plurality of image data corresponding to said plurality of sentence data;

a selection means for selecting a keyword from said plurality of keywords; and

a production means for optionally determining said locations and said sub-characters on the basis of said selected keyword, reading out from said memory means said sentence data and said image data corresponding to said selected keyword, said determined locations and said determined sub-characters as retrieval keys, and synthesizing said read-out sentence data and said read-out image data to produce said picture book.

11. A picture book production system comprising:

a memory means for storing a plurality of sentence data in accordance with behavior of a main character corresponding to a plurality of keywords representing said behavior of said main character in a picture book, said memory means also storing a plurality of image data corresponding to said plurality of sentence data;

a selection means for selecting a keyword from said plurality of key words;

a production means for reading out from said memory means said sentence data and said image data corresponding to said selected keyword as a retrieval key, and synthesizing said read-out sentence data and said read-out image data to produce said picture book; and

a display means for displaying said picture book.

13. A server for producing a picture book according to claim 12, wherein:

said production means enables said picture book to be read for said terminal in accordance with request from said terminal.

14. A server for producing a picture book according to claim 12, wherein:

said terminal is a mobile phone, PHS, PDA, pocketboard, or PC.

12. A server for producing a picture book in accordance with information from a terminal connected via a network, said server comprising:

a memory means for storing a plurality of sentence data in accordance with behavior of a main character corresponding to a plurality of keywords representing said behavior of said main character in said picture book, said memory means also storing a plurality of image data corresponding to said plurality of sentence data; and

a production means for reading out from said memory means said sentence data and said image data corresponding to said keyword selected as a retrieval key from said plurality of key words by said terminal, and synthesizing said read-out sentence data and said read-out image data to produce said picture book.

15. A recording medium for recording comprising:

a plurality of sentence data corresponding to a plurality of keywords representing behavior of a main character in a picture book,

a plurality of image data corresponding to said plurality of sentence data, and

a computer operating program for reading out, from said plurality of sentence data and from said plurality of image data, said sentence data and said image data corresponding to said keyword selected as a retrieval key from said plurality of keywords, and synthesizing said read-out sentence data and said read-out image data to produce said picture book.