Media transmission method and a related media provider that allows fast downloading of animation-related information via a network system

• US 20060230069A1
• Filed: 12/12/2005
• Published: 10/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Culture.com Technology Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Culture.com Technology Ltd.
• Inventors: Chu, Bong-Foo
• Application Number:
  US11/301,864
• Publication Number:
  US 20060230069A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums

Abstract

A media transmission method and a related media provider are provided for transmitting media to an electronic device including a multimedia chip and a terminal database via a network system. The media provider has a summary database for storing a plurality of objects and their basic information, a media generating module for allowing a content editor who logins a media transmission system where the media provider is installed to select the objects stored in the summary database and design actions of the selected objects, a media database for storing the content of the media generated by the media generating module, and an animation-related information generating module for generating animation-related information based on the content of the media stored in the media database, and transmitting the animation-related information to the electronic device via the network system, the animation-related information comprising the objects of the content of the media and action parameters of actions corresponding to objects.

Claims

1. A media transmission method for transmitting media stored in a media provider to an electronic device including a multimedia chip and a terminal database via a network system, allowing the electronic device to analyze the received media to obtain contents of the media, the method comprising the steps of:

(1) establishing a summary database in the media provider;

(2) performing media content editing using the summary database of the media provider, and storing the edited content of the media in a media database of the media provider;

(3) generating animation-related information based on the content of the media stored in the media database of the media provider, and sending the animation-related information to the electronic device via the network system, wherein the animation-related information includes objects of the content of the media and action parameters corresponding to respective object actions; and

(4) upon receiving the content of the media sent by the media provider, having the multimedia chip of the electronic device obtain object information from the terminal database based on the objects included in the animation-related information, and outputting the contents of the media represented by the animation-related information based on the action parameters of objects included in the animation-related information.

2. The media transmission method of claim 1, wherein the step (2) for performing media content editing further comprises performing sound recording based on the media content, and storing the recorded sound in the media database, and when performing the step (3), the media provider obtains sound parameters corresponding to the objects and the object actions based on the media content stored in the media database to generate the animation-related information.

3. The media transmission method of claim 2, wherein the sound parameters refer to sound instructions, allowing the multimedia chip of the electronic device to interpret the content of the media represented by the animation-related information.

4. The media transmission method of claim 1, wherein the step (2) for performing media content editing further comprises receiving a text file and analyzing and extracting texts that correspond to objects and respective object actions, and storing the analyzed and extracted result in the media database, and when performing the step (3), the media provider obtains text parameters corresponding to the objects and the object actions based on the content of the media stored in the media database to generate the animation-related information.

5. The media transmission method of claim 4, wherein the text parameters refer to text instructions, allowing the multimedia chip of the electronic device to interpret the content of the media represented by the animation-related information.

6. The media transmission method of claim 1, wherein the summary database of the media provider and the terminal database of the electronic device comprises a plurality of objects and their basic information, where each object has an exclusive serial number, which is used to generate identification numbers for objects included in the animation-related information in the step (3), and the electronic device obtains the object information from the terminal database corresponding to the object serial numbers in the animation-related information in the step (4).

7. The media transmission method of claim 6, wherein the object information comprises object image file.

8. The media transmission method of claim 1, wherein before performing the step (3) further comprises establishing a list based on the content of the media stored in the media provider so as to allow a user of the electronic device to select a desired content of media based from the list.

9. A media provider for transmitting media to an electronic device including a multimedia chip and a terminal database via a network system, allowing the electronic device to analyze the received media and obtain contents of media, the media provider comprising:

a summary database for storing a plurality of objects and their basic information;

a media generating module for allowing a content editor who logins a media transmission system where the media provider is installed to select the objects stored in the summary database and design actions of the selected objects, and generate a content of media;

a media database for storing the content of the media generated by the media generating module; and

an animation-related information generating module for generating animation-related information based on the content of the media stored in the media database, and transmitting the animation-related information to the electronic device via the network system, the animation-related information comprising the objects of the content of the media and action parameters of actions corresponding to objects, so as to allow the multimedia chip of the electronic device to obtain the action parameters from the terminal database based on the objects included in the animation-related information, and output the content of the media represented by the animation-related information based on the action parameters of the objects included in the animation-related information.

10. The media provider of claim 9, wherein the media generating module further allows the content editor to record sound, and store the recorded sound in the media database, so as to allow the animation-related information generating module to further obtain sound parameters of the actions based on the content of the media stored in the media database to generate the animation-related information.

11. The media provider of claim 10, wherein the sound parameters refer to sound instructions for use of the multimedia chip of the electronic device to interpret the content of the media represented by the animation-related information.

12. The media provider of claim 9, wherein the media generating module further allows the content editor to receive a text file and analyze and extract texts that correspond to objects and respective object actions, and store the analyzed and extracted results in the media database, so as to allow the animation-related information generating module to obtain text parameters of the actions based on the content of the media stored in the media database to generate the animation-related information.

13. The media provider of claim 12, wherein the text parameters refer to text instructions for use of the multimedia chip of the electronic device to interpret the content of the media represented by the animation-related information.

14. The media provider of claim 9, wherein the summary database of the media provider and the terminal database of the electronic device comprise a plurality of objects and their basic information, each of the objects having an exclusive serial number as an identification number the animation-related information generating module generates for the objects included in the animation-related information, and in accordance with which the electronic device obtains the object'"'"'s basic corresponding to the serial number information from the terminal database.

15. The media provider of claim 9, wherein the object'"'"'s basic information comprise object image files.

16. The media provider of claim 9, wherein the media generating module further establishes a list based on the content of the media stored in the media provider, so as to allow a user of the electronic device to search the list for a desired content of media.

17. The media provider of claim 9 comprising the media provider transmission system.