CN1366258A - Interactive Animation Teaching Method and System - Google Patents

Abstract

An interactive animation teaching system comprises an animation target database, a special subject database, a selection receiving module and an animation providing module. The animation object database records at least one animation object data. The thematic database records at least one thematic data, and the thematic data comprises thematic related animation data. The selection receiving module receives the animation target option and the special subject option selected by the user. The animation providing module integrates the corresponding animation target data in the animation target database and the corresponding thematic data in the thematic database to provide thematic animation for a user.

Description

Interactive Animation Teaching Method and System

The present invention relates to an interactive teaching method and system, in particular to an interactive teaching method and system that uses computer technology to provide an animation object database, allowing users to select animation objects by themselves.

With the development of computer and network technology, using computers to conduct teaching activities has become a new learning method. For example, using the characteristics that computers can store huge amounts of data, a large number of question bank servers are provided for learners, and the difficulty of the questions is graded, so that users can connect to the question bank server through the network to obtain opportunities for practice. Another teaching method is to provide graphics, text and audio to users in the form of multimedia, so as to increase the interest of learning and improve the learning enthusiasm of users.

However, in the past, teaching activities using computers or networks were limited to the browsing and transmission of fixed data. Compared with traditional book teaching and classroom teaching, the improvement of its interest and interaction is quite limited. For example, repeated learning is one of the effective methods to improve the learning effect. However, if the user intends to repeat learning for a certain topic in the known computer teaching system, what he sees every time will be repeated content. This will greatly reduce the user's enthusiasm for repeated learning.

In view of the above problems, the object of the present invention is to provide an interactive teaching method and system, which can allow users to choose animation targets by themselves, thereby improving the learning enthusiasm of users.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an interactive teaching method and system, which can perform cross-checking of the exercise database and the knowledge database, thereby further improving the learning efficiency of users.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the interactive animation teaching system according to the present invention includes an animation object database, a special topic database, a selection accepting module and an animation providing module. The animation object database records at least one animation object data. The theme database records at least one theme data, and the theme data includes a theme-related animation data, and the theme-related animation data includes related configuration setting values of animation objects appearing in the theme data. The selection acceptance module accepts the animation target option and theme option selected by the user. The animation providing module integrates the corresponding animation target data in the animation target database and the corresponding theme data in the theme database according to the animation target options and theme options selected by the user according to the relevant configuration settings, so as to provide a theme animation to the user.

The present invention also provides an interactive animation teaching method, which first accepts the animation target options and thematic options selected by the user, and then reads the corresponding animation target from the animation target database according to the animation target option selected by the user data, and then read the corresponding theme data from the theme database according to the theme option selected by the user. The theme data includes at least one theme-related animation data, and the theme-related animation data includes the relevant Configure the setting values, and finally integrate the animation target data and thematic data according to the relevant configuration setting values, so as to provide a special animation for the user.

According to the interactive animation teaching system and method of the present invention, the user can select the animation target by himself, so the same animation theme can have different forms of expression. Therefore, the user's enthusiasm for learning can be effectively improved.

The interactive animation teaching system and method according to the preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the relevant drawings, wherein the same components will be described with the same reference symbols.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the structure of an interactive animation teaching system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2(A) is a schematic diagram showing the data structure of the animation object database in the interactive animation teaching system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2(B) is a schematic diagram showing the data structure of the thematic database in the interactive animation teaching system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2(C) is a schematic diagram showing the data structure of the practice question database in the interactive animation teaching system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2(D) is a schematic diagram showing the data structure of the knowledge database in the interactive animation teaching system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2(E) is a schematic diagram showing the data structure of the topic/exercise relationship correspondence table in the interactive animation teaching system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2(F) is a schematic diagram showing the data structure of the topic/knowledge data relationship correspondence table in the interactive animation teaching system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart showing the flow of the interactive animation teaching method according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4(A) and FIG. 4(B) are schematic diagrams showing an example of integrating animation target data and topic data according to relevant configuration settings in the interactive animation teaching method according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Please refer to FIG. 1 , there are four databases in the interactive animation teaching system 1 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, namely animation target database 101 , topic database 102 , exercise database 103 and knowledge database 104 . In this embodiment, the four databases are stored in the same hard disk, but they can also be stored in optical disks or magnetic disks, or stored in different hard disks, depending on the actual situation.

The animation object database 101 records at least one animation object data. Please refer to FIG. 2(A), in this embodiment, the so-called "animated object data" includes object name 1011, image file data 1012, text file data 1013 and sound file data 1014. Taking the first animation object in the animation object database 101 as an example, its object name 1011 is "Character 1"; the image file data 1012 includes two image files "character1-1.jpg" and "character1-2.jpg" This means that this character may appear in two different action forms (such as sitting posture and standing posture); the text file data 1013 is a text file "textl.txt", which is the dialogue of this character; the sound file data 1014 is a The sound file "soundl.snd", which is the voice corresponding to the dialogue of this character.

Please refer to FIG. 2(B), in the topic database 102, the topic code 1021 of each animation topic, animation data 1022 related to the topic and text data 1023 related to the topic are recorded. The so-called "thematic animation related data" 1022 refers to various objects in the thematic animation, such as scenes, characters and objects, and other related configuration settings, such as relative positions or the replacement order of scenes or characters. The so-called "theme-related text data" 1023 is the text content displayed together when the thematic animation is played, and the details of this part will be described later.

Referring to FIG. 2(C), the practice question database 103 records the practice question code 1031, the practice question content 1032 and the practice question answer 1033 of each practice question. In this embodiment, both the exercise content 1032 and the exercise answer 1033 are stored in the form of text files, but they can also be stored in other forms, such as graphics, audio or HTML files.

Please refer to FIG. 2(D), the knowledge database 104 records the knowledge code 1041 and the knowledge data 1042 . In this embodiment, the knowledge data 1042 is stored in the form of text files, but it can also be stored in other forms, such as graphics, audio or HTML files.

There are also two comparison tables in the interactive animation teaching system 1 , namely the topic/exercise relationship correspondence table 105 and the topic/knowledge data relationship correspondence table 106 . Please refer to Fig. 2 (E) and Fig. 2 (F), the topic/exercise relationship correspondence table 105 stores the corresponding relationship between each animation topic and exercises, and the topic/knowledge data relationship correspondence table 106 stores the relationship between animation topics and knowledge data. corresponding relationship. In this embodiment, the correspondence between animation topics and exercise questions is a one-to-many correspondence, while the correspondence between animation topics and knowledge data is a one-to-one correspondence.

When the user 80 uses the interactive animation teaching system 1 , the selection accepting module 107 first accepts the animation target option and the topic option selected by the user 80 . Then the animation providing module 108 integrates the corresponding animation object data in the animation object database 101 and the corresponding theme data in the theme database 102 according to the animation object option and theme option selected by the user 80, so as to provide a theme animation for users. 80 viewers. Next, the practice question output module 109 outputs the practice question data corresponding to the project data from the practice question database 103 to the user 80 according to the project/exercise question relationship correspondence table 105 . The knowledge data query module 110 can accept the user's query request, and output the knowledge data corresponding to the query request from the knowledge database 104 to the user 80 according to the topic/knowledge data relationship correspondence table 106 . Hereinafter, the above-mentioned operation flow will be described in detail with reference to the relevant drawings.

Please refer to FIG. 3 , firstly, in the program 31 , the selection acceptance module 107 accepts the animation theme selected by the user 80 . Taking English teaching as an example, the user 80 can select special topics such as word teaching or grammar teaching. Each different theme has different theme animation-related data and theme text-related data.

Next, in the program 32 , the selection accepting module 107 accepts the user 80 to select the animation object. Because in the thematic animation related data of each topic, only the relevant configuration setting values such as scenes, characters and items in the thematic animation are defined, but the contents of the scenes, characters and items are not defined, so when accepting the user 80 to select the animation target Afterwards, the animation providing module 108 can provide a complete animation topic to the user 80 .

After the user 80 selects a theme and an animation object, the animation providing module 108 starts to integrate the animation object data in the animation object database 101 and the theme data in the theme database 102 in the program 33 . For example, when the animation target is a character, the animation providing module 108 can take out the image file data corresponding to the character from the animation object database 101, and move the position of the image file data in conjunction with the setting of the theme-related animation data, So as to achieve the effect of animation.

Referring to FIG. 4(A) and FIG. 4(B), how the animation providing module 108 integrates the animation object data in the animation object database 101 and the theme data in the theme database 102 will be further described below.

4(A) and 4(B) show the animation content of the theme in the theme database 102 with the theme code "1". In the scenes shown in FIG. 4(A) and FIG. 4(B), the animation object “character 1” in the animation object database 101 is used, which includes two image file data 1012 and two text file data 1013 . In FIG. 4(A), the image file data 1012 and text file data 1013 used are "character1-1.jpg" and "textl-1.txt" respectively, while in FIG. 4(B), the image file data used The data 1012 and the text file data 1013 are respectively "character1-2.jpg" and "text1-2.txt".

4 (A) and FIG. 4 (B) the relative positions of scenes and images of characters, as well as the appearance position of text, etc., are all configured according to the setting in the theme-related animation data 1022, namely the file "dispositionl.dat". The text below FIG. 4(A) and FIG. 4(B) are all topic-related text data 1023, that is, the content in the file "infol.txt".

The animation providing module 108 integrates the theme animation with the theme code "1" as shown in Fig. 4(A) and Fig. 4(B) according to the settings in the file "dispositionl.dat". After the integration is successful, the animation providing module 108 provides a complete thematic animation including animation, text and sound effects to the user 80 in step 34 shown in FIG. 3 . This thematic animation can be an HTML file and provided to users via the Internet.

In step 35, if the user 80 inputs a practice request, then proceed to step 36, and the practice question data corresponding to the special topic data is output from the practice question database 103 by the practice question output module 109 according to the topic/exercise question relationship correspondence table 105 User 80. In step 37, if the user 80 inputs a knowledge query request, proceed to step 38, and the knowledge data query module 110 outputs knowledge data from the knowledge database 104 to the user 80 according to the topic/knowledge data relationship correspondence table 106.

Finally, in step 39, if the user 80 wants to continue with another topic, then go back to step 31, if not, then end the whole process.

Through the above process, the user 80 can set his favorite animation content, so that the same animation topic can be presented in different forms.

The above descriptions are for illustration only, and are not intended to limit the present invention. Any equivalent modifications or changes made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention shall be included in the scope of the appended claims.

Claims (27)

1. An interactive animation teaching system, comprising: An animation object database, which records at least one animation object data: A theme database, which records at least one theme data, the theme data includes at least one theme-related animation data, and the theme-related animation data includes the relevant configuration setting values of each animation object appearing in the theme data; a selection acceptance module that accepts an animation object option and a theme option selected by a user; and An animation providing module, which integrates the corresponding animation object data in the animation object database and the corresponding theme data in the theme database according to the relevant configuration settings according to the animation object options and theme options selected by the user, To provide a special animation to the user. 2. The interactive animation teaching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the animation object data includes image file data. 3. The interactive animation teaching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the animation target data includes text file data. 4. The interactive animation teaching system as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the animation object data includes sound file data. 5. The interactive animation teaching system according to claim 1, wherein the topic data includes at least one topic-related animation data and at least one topic-related text data. 6. interactive animation teaching system as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that also comprising: A practice question database, which records at least one practice question data; A special topic/exercise relationship correspondence table, which records the corresponding relationship between the special topic data and the exercise question data; and An exercise output module, which outputs the exercise data corresponding to the topic data from the exercise database to the user according to the topic/exercise relationship correspondence table. 7. interactive animation teaching system as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that also comprising: a knowledge database, which records at least one knowledge data; A topic/knowledge data relationship correspondence table, which records the correspondence between the topic data and the knowledge data; and A knowledge data query module, which accepts a query request from the user, and outputs the knowledge data corresponding to the query request from the knowledge database to the user according to the topic/knowledge data relationship correspondence table. 8 . The interactive animation teaching system according to claim 1 , wherein the selection accepting module accepts the animation target option and the theme option selected by the user via the network. 9. The interactive animation teaching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the animation providing module provides the thematic animation to the user via a network. 10. The interactive animation teaching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the special animation is an HTML file. 11. The interactive animation teaching system according to claim 1, wherein the animation object database and the thematic database are stored in at least one optical disc. 12. The interactive animation teaching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the animation object database and the thematic database are stored in at least one hard disk. 13. An interactive animation teaching method, comprising: Accept an animation target option and a theme option selected by a user; Reading corresponding animation object data from an animation object database according to the animation object option selected by the user; According to the topic option selected by the user, the corresponding topic data is read from a topic database. The topic data includes at least one topic-related animation data. configuration settings; and The animation target data and the theme data are integrated according to the relevant configuration settings to provide a theme animation to the user. 14. The interactive animation teaching method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the animation object data comprises image file data. 15. The interactive animation teaching method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the animation object data comprises text file data. 16. The interactive animation teaching method as claimed in claim 13, characterized in that the animation object data includes sound file data. 17. The interactive animation teaching method according to claim 13, wherein the topic data includes at least one topic-related animation data and at least one topic-related text data. 18. The interactive animation teaching method as claimed in claim 13, further comprising: According to a special topic/exercise relationship correspondence table, the exercise data corresponding to the special topic data is output from an exercise database to the user, wherein the exercise database records at least one exercise data, and the special topic/exercise relationship corresponds to The table records the corresponding relationship between the special topic data and the practice question data. 19. The interactive animation teaching method as claimed in claim 13, further comprising: Accepting a query request input by the user, and outputting the knowledge data corresponding to the query request from a knowledge database to the user according to a topic/knowledge data relationship correspondence table, wherein the knowledge database records at least one knowledge data, the The topic/knowledge data relationship correspondence table records the correspondence between the topic data and the knowledge data. 20. The interactive animation teaching method according to claim 13, wherein the selection accepting module accepts the animation target option and the theme option selected by the user via the network. 21. The interactive animation teaching method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the animation providing module provides the thematic animation to the user via a network. 22. The interactive animation teaching method as claimed in claim 13, characterized in that the special animation is an HTML file. 23. The interactive animation teaching method according to claim 13, wherein the animation object database and the thematic database are stored in at least one optical disc. 24. The interactive animation teaching method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the animation object database and the thematic database are stored in at least one hard disk. 25. A recording medium, which records data for realizing the interactive animation teaching method as claimed in claim 13, comprising: an animation object database, which records at least one animation object data; A theme database, which records at least one theme data, the theme data includes at least one theme-related animation data, and the theme-related animation data includes the relevant configuration setting values of each animation object appearing in the theme data; a selection acceptance module that accepts an animation object option and a theme option selected by a user; and An animation providing module, which integrates the corresponding animation object data in the animation object database and the corresponding theme data in the theme database according to the relevant configuration settings according to the animation object options and theme options selected by the user , to provide a featured animation to the user. 26. The recording medium of claim 25, further recording: A practice question database, which records at least one practice question data; A special topic/exercise relationship correspondence table, which records the corresponding relationship between the special topic data and the exercise question data; and An exercise output module, which outputs the exercise data corresponding to the topic data from the exercise database to the user according to the topic/exercise relationship correspondence table. 27. The recording medium of claim 25, further recording: a knowledge database, which records at least one knowledge data; A topic/knowledge data relationship correspondence table, which records the correspondence between the topic data and the knowledge data; and A knowledge data query module, which accepts a query request from the user, and outputs the knowledge data corresponding to the query request from the knowledge database to the user according to the topic/knowledge data relationship correspondence table.

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