Content delivery system, content server, and content delivery method

• US 20040169666A1
• Filed: 11/17/2003
• Published: 09/02/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Tsuji, Keisuke, Komoriya, Takahiro, Shigetake, Hideki
• Granted Patent: US 7,319,470 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/636
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

To provide a contents distribution system, a contents server and a contents distribution method that do not need a layout operation at the time of distribution of contents and that enable a check of the content of image data that is hard to browse. When distribution of contents is requested from a contents display terminal to a contents server, a contents distribution server obtains the classification of the contents display terminal, and obtains text data and image letter data corresponding to a font size of terminal information via the contents management server. The contents distribution server couples the obtained image letter data and text data to generate a contents page, and distributes the contents page to the contents display terminal.

Claims

1. A contents distribution system comprising:

a contents display terminal for displaying contents composed of text data and image data on a display; and

a contents server for distributing the contents to the contents display terminal via a network in response to a distribution request from the contents display terminal, the contents server including;

contents storing means for storing the contents; and

image converting means having an image converting function of converting the image data to image letter data of a same size as a font size of the text data displayed by the display of the contents display terminal,

wherein, in response to a contents distribution request from the contents display terminal, the contents server couples the text data and the image letter data and distributes the coupled data to the contents display terminal.

2. The contents distribution system of claim 1, wherein the image converting means converts the image data of the contents to preview image data of almost a same size as a display size of the contents display terminal;

and

the contents server distributes the preview image data to the contents display terminal in response to a preview image data distribution request from the contents display terminal.

3. The contents distribution system of claim 1, wherein the contents server distributes the image data to the contents display terminal in response to an image data distribution request from the content display terminal;

and

the contents display terminal has image data storing means for storing distributed image data, and displays the distributed image data when it can be displayed on the display.

4. The contents distribution system of claim 2, wherein

the contents server distributes the image data to the contents display terminal in response to an image data distribution request from the content display terminal;

and

the contents display terminal has image data storing means for storing distributed image data, and displays the distributed image data when it can be displayed on the display.

5. The contents distribution system of claim 1, wherein the contents server comprises terminal information storing means for storing the font size of the text data displayed by the display of the contents display terminal and the display size as terminal information.

6. The contents distribution system of claim 1, wherein the image data is still image data.

7. The contents distribution system of claim 1, wherein the image data is moving image data.

8. A contents server for distributing contents composed of text data and image data to a contents display terminal via a network in response to a distribution request from the contents display terminal, the contents server comprising:

contents storing means for storing the contents; and

image converting means having an image converting function of converting the image data to image letter data of almost a same size as a font size of text data displayed by the display of the contents display terminal,

wherein, in response to a contents distribution request from the contents display terminal, the contents server couples the text data and the image letter data and distributes the coupled data to the contents display terminal.

9. The contents server of claim 8, wherein the image converting means converts the image data of the contents to preview image data of almost a same size as a display size of the contents display terminal;

and

in response to a preview image data distribution request from the contents display terminal, the preview image data is distributed to the contents display terminal.

10. The contents server of claim 8, further comprising:

terminal information storing means for storing the font size of the text data displayed by the display of the contents display terminal and the display size as terminal information.

11. The contents server of claim 8, wherein the image data is still image data.

12. The contents server of claim 8, wherein the image data is moving image data.

13. A contents distribution method that a contents server comprising image converting means and contents storing means distributes contents composed of text data and image data via a network in response to a distribution request from a contents display terminal, the contents distribution method comprising the steps of:

storing uploaded contents in the contents storing means of the contents server;

converting image data to image letter data of almost a same size as a font size of text data displayed by a display of the contents display terminal, by the image converting means of the contents server; and

coupling the text data and the image letter data and distributing the coupled data to the contents display terminal, in response to a contents distribution request from the contents display terminal, by the contents server.

14. The contents distribution method of claim 13, wherein

the image converting means converts the image data of the contents to preview image data of almost a same size as the display size of the contents display terminal;

and

the contents server distributes the preview image data to the contents display terminal in response to a preview image data distribution request from the contents display terminal.

15. The contents distribution method of claim 13, wherein the image converting means converts image data based on the font size of the text data displayed by the display of the contents display terminal and the display size.

16. The contents distribution method of claim 13, wherein the contents server stores the font size of the text data displayed by the display of the contents display terminal and the display size as terminal information.

17. The contents distribution method of claim 13, wherein the image data is still image data.

18. The contents distribution method of claim 13, wherein the image data is moving image data.