JP2003050767A - Information distribution system and information distribution method, and information supply device and information supply method - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Problem] To automatically convert and output an image data file format corresponding to an image display standard of a terminal of a distribution destination. An image data processing device having an image data processing function and a communication function, and an image data processing device.
In an information distribution system including a server 12 for storing image data from a mobile phone, and a mobile phone 15 and a mobile phone base station 13 connected to each other by a mobile phone communication network 14, Web data having image data and text data is standardized. The data is converted into standard Web data in a format, stored in the server 12, and converted by the Web data conversion processing unit 28 into a data format that can be processed by the terminal of the distribution destination and distributed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information distribution system, an information distribution method, an information supply device, and an information supply method, and in particular, determines a terminal model of a distribution destination and corresponds to an image display standard of the terminal model. The present invention relates to an information distribution system and an information distribution method for converting into a data format and outputting, and an information supply device and an information supply method applied to this information distribution system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In portable communication terminals, especially portable telephones, since the image data processing capacity is limited, there are many cases in which the amount of data and the number of colors of usable digital images are limited. Therefore, when displaying an image on the portable information processing terminal, a high degree of knowledge necessary for handling a digital image, for example, retouching operation software or the like is required.
In order to solve this, conventionally, a camera device dedicated to a portable information processing device for displaying an image or a dedicated conversion program for a personal computer is prepared, and an image created using these is portable using an original communication protocol. Typed into the model telephone.

On the other hand, an image processing server is prepared on the network, the image is once uploaded to the image processing server, the uploaded image is converted into a data amount and the number of colors which can be processed by the portable information processing terminal, and after the conversion, There is a service in which an image is downloaded to a portable information processing terminal and used.

[0004]

However, the portable telephone is based on a specific standard (for example, image data size or image file format) defined for each communication service provider. In addition, even with the same provider, a large number of mobile phones that comply with the communication standard defined by this provider are supplied from each manufacturer.

Therefore, in the image data distribution service as described above, it is necessary to prepare a plurality of servers so as to be able to support different standards for each communication service provider.

[0006] Taking Web data including image data as an example, a communication apparatus is provided with a storage device capable of storing data in a format conforming to the standards of communication service providers so as to support different image data standards. It was necessary to prepare for each person.

Therefore, the present invention has been proposed in view of such a conventional situation, in which Web data such as image data is stored as standard data, a portable information processing terminal of a delivery destination is discriminated, and Information distribution system and information distribution method capable of automatically converting and outputting to an image data file format corresponding to the image display standard of a terminal, and
An object of the present invention is to provide an information supply device and an information supply method for discriminating a portable information processing terminal of a delivery destination and transmitting Web data such as image data in a format corresponding to the terminal.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, an information distribution system according to the present invention has a function of generating Web data from image data and a display unit for displaying the Web data and the Web. A data processing terminal having Web data transmitting means for transmitting data to the outside;
An information supply device having a data storage unit for storing eb data and an address information addition unit for attaching a destination address for externally referencing the Web data to the Web data, and the Web data to which the destination address is added. A portable wireless communication terminal having a data acquisition unit for acquiring and a display unit for displaying Web data is provided, the Web data is converted into standard Web data in a standard format, and the standard Web
The data is distributed after being converted into a data format that can be processed by another communication terminal device that is a distribution destination.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the information distribution method according to the present invention has a function of generating Web data from image data, and a display step of displaying the Web data and transmitting the Web data to the outside. A data processing process including a Web data transmission process, a data saving process for saving Web data, and the Web data from the outside
An information supplying step including an address information adding step of adding a destination address for referring to data, a data acquiring step of acquiring Web data to which the destination address is added, and a W
data processing including a display step of displaying eb data, converting Web data into standard Web data in a standard format, and processing the standard Web data by another communication terminal device as a delivery destination. Convert to format and deliver.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the information supply device according to the present invention refers to the Web data from outside with respect to the Web data and a data storage means for storing Web data having image data and text data. And an address information adding unit for assigning a destination address to the image data determining unit for determining the type of image data used in the portable wireless communication terminal of the distribution destination, and the image data determining unit. Standard Web according to the determination result of
Image processing means for performing image processing on the image data included in the data, description language determining means for determining the description language of the Web data used by the portable wireless communication terminal of the delivery destination, and determination result of the description language determining means And data output means for outputting as Web data according to the above.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the information supply method according to the present invention includes a data saving step of saving Web data including image data and text data, and the Web operation described above.
An information supply method comprising: an address information adding step of adding a destination address for externally referencing the Web data with respect to the data, and determining the type of image data used in the portable wireless communication terminal of the delivery destination. Image data determining step, an image processing step of performing image processing on the image data included in the standard web data according to the determination result in the image data determining step, and web data used by the portable wireless communication terminal of the delivery destination. And a data output step of outputting as Web data according to the discrimination result in the description language discrimination step.

[0012]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An information distribution system shown as a specific example of the present invention uses an image data distribution function that can be used by performing usage registration in advance, to a distribution partner desired by a registered user. It is a system that can distribute image data. In addition, in the information distribution system shown as the present specific example, the data to be distributed is temporarily stored as data in a standard format, and when there is a transmission request from the communication terminal of the distribution destination, the image data format optimal for the communication terminal is set. It can be converted and transmitted. In addition, this information distribution system uses the user registration information when the user has registered in advance to distribute the optimum content information to the user and the information distribution partner desired by the user. You can also

Embodiments of the present invention will be specifically described below with reference to the drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1, an information distribution system 1 shown as a specific example of the present invention has an image data processing device 11 having an image data processing function and a communication function, and an image transmitted from the image data processing device 11. A server 12 that stores data and a mobile phone 15 are mutually connected to a mobile phone communication network 1
4 and the mobile phone base station 13 connected by 4 and the image data processing device 11, the server 12 and the mobile phone base station 13 are connected to each other by the wired network 16 to distribute the advertisement information using the image data distribution system. It is a system that does.

The wire network 16 is the so-called Internet. In addition, the mobile phone 15
Is a wired network 1 via the mobile phone base station 13.
6 is a portable telephone that can be connected.

The image data processing device 11 is, for example, a personal computer capable of performing various image processing on image data by processing by software or hardware configuration. By using a general-purpose interface for the image data processing device 11,
A digital image pickup device 17 such as a digital video camera or a digital still camera can be connected to the image pickup device 17 so that the image data picked up by the digital image pickup device 17 can be received. Further, the image data processing device 11 is a CD
(Compact Disc), DVD (Digital Versatile Disc)
FD (Flex
recording medium 1 such as a magnetic recording medium represented by a flexible disk)
8a, or a semiconductor memory device 18 represented by a flash memory (registered trademark), a memory stick (registered trademark), or the like.
The image data can be read also from the recording medium 18a or the semiconductor memory device 18b by providing a driver device corresponding to each of the b.

In the above configuration, the image data processing device 11 is supposed to read the image data once, but a system configuration not including the image data processing device 11 is also possible. In this case, for example, a mobile phone is connected to the digital image pickup device 17, and the image data is directly transferred to the mobile phone 15 of the delivery destination. The connection between the digital image pickup device 17 and the mobile phone is an example of means for connecting the digital image pickup device 17 to the wired network 16, and a fixed phone or the like may be used instead of the mobile phone. . Further, the digital image pickup device 17 itself may be provided with a connecting means to the wired network 16.
Further, the digital image pickup device 17 is not limited to a device such as a camera or a scanner, but may be a CCD (Charge Coupled Devic).
e) PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) with built-in camera
Alternatively, it may be a mobile phone with a built-in CCD camera.

The image data processing device 11 includes the digital image pickup device 17, the recording medium 18a, or the semiconductor storage device 1.
The image data is read from 8b and converted into standard format image data. The conversion into standard format image data can be performed by, for example, dedicated conversion software distributed by a provider who provides this information distribution system. The standard format image data refers to image data having a data amount that can be processed by the mobile phone 15 and an image data file format. The “standard format” here means the “standard” in the image data distribution system which is the basis of the information distribution system shown as this specific example.
In this specific example, in consideration of minimizing deterioration of image data, data loss, and the like, GIF (Graphics
InterchangeFormat) file format is applied and the image data has a data amount of 10 kB or less.

As described above, in the information distribution system 1, the standard image data of a predetermined format is converted in advance and the data amount is limited and then transmitted to the server 12. Therefore, the connection time is shortened when transmitting the image data to the server. To be done. Also,
There is an advantage that the capacity of the server 12 is saved.

However, the image data file format, image size, data amount, etc. adopted as the standard image data are, for example, in accordance with the standards established by a majority of telephone companies out of a plurality of telephone companies providing mobile phone services. Various choices are possible, such as matching.

The user uses the image data processing device 11 to convert desired image data into image data of the above-mentioned standard format, and creates text data to be attached to the image data. In the image data processing device 11, the conversion software creates the image / text data including the image data and the text data. Image / sentence data may be, for example, multipart / form data (Multip
It is described as Web page data in the art / Form-data format. This image / text data is transmitted to the server 12.

The server 12 has a wired network 16
An authentication server 19 that stores an authentication ID and a password for authenticating whether or not the user who has accessed the server 12 via the user is a registered user for using the image data distribution system; A user information database 20 that stores user information of registered use is connected.

As a user authentication method, for example, at the time of registration, a service provider of the image data distribution system issues an authentication I issued in advance to a user who has registered for service use.
A method of authenticating D and the password at the time of access can be considered.

As a method of user registration, for example, a method of entering necessary items in a Web page sent from the server 12 to a personal computer or the like via the wired network 16, or a method of user registration in the digital image pickup device 17 is used. There is a method of selling with an application form attached, or a method of applying by fax, telephone, or mailing an application postcard. When a user registers, the user information is acquired from the user who wishes to register. When the use registration is made, the service provider delivers the authentication ID and the password to the user by, for example, mailing or facsimile.

As shown in FIG. 2, the server 12 receives a network interface section (hereinafter referred to as a network I / F section) 2 that receives image data, an authentication ID, a password, etc. transmitted via a wired network 16.
1, a temporary memory 22 for temporarily storing each received data, an authentication unit 23 for collating the received authentication ID and password with the authentication data stored in the authentication server 19, and a message sent from the user. An address adding unit 24 that attaches a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) as a destination address indicating a storage position in the data storage unit 25 to the image / sentence data, a data storage unit 25 that stores the image / sentence data, and a portable type W that manages communication with the telephone 15
The eb data management unit 26, the communication unit 27 that transmits the URL indicating the storage location where the image data is stored to the distribution destination to which the user has designated distribution of the image data, and the transmission Web depending on the terminal of the distribution destination. And a Web data conversion processing unit 28 for converting data. Although not shown, these are controlled by the control unit.

The image / sentence data is multipart / form / image data in the image data processing device 11 in this specific example.
After being converted into Web page data in data (Multipart / Form-data) format and transmitted and received by the server 12,
It is converted into data in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) format or the like.

However, the data format of the data stored in the data storage unit 25 of the server 12 is not particularly limited. For example, the data may be stored in the multipart / form data format as it is, or the image data and the text data of the image / text data may be separated, and the text data may be, for example, title data, text content data, etc. Can also be stored individually. When each data is stored separately, these data are reassembled and transmitted based on the data format such as the HTML format when sending to the portable telephone 15 of the delivery destination. If each data of the image / text data is stored separately, there is an advantage that the conversion processing efficiency in the case of converting the data into the optimum data format for the portable telephone as the destination and transmitting the data is improved.

The Web data conversion processing unit 28 is specifically a C for using an external program in the server 12.
A GI (Common Gateway Interface), as shown in FIG. 3, a description language determination circuit 201 for determining the description language of the Web data used by the portable telephone 15 of the delivery destination,
An image data discriminating circuit 202 for discriminating the image data format of the portable telephone 15 of the delivery destination, a terminal data table 203 in which a model of the terminal and a standard such as image data are stored as a table, a description language discriminating circuit 201 and an image. An image processing circuit 204 for performing image processing corresponding to the discrimination result in the data discrimination circuit 202.

When the description language discrimination circuit 201 receives the text data request signal C ₁ from the portable telephone 15, it discriminates the communication service provider and the terminal model from this signal and responds to the discrimination result from the terminal data table 203. The description language is extracted, converted into this format, and the text data response signal C ₂ is transmitted. The description language is, for example, HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language).
Format or HDML (Handheld Device Markup Languag
e) There are formats etc.

When the image data discrimination circuit 202 receives the image data request signal C ₃ from the portable telephone 15, it discriminates the communication service provider and the terminal model from this signal and responds to the discrimination result from the terminal data table 203. The image data format is extracted, converted into this image data format, and the image data response signal C ₄ is transmitted. Here, the image data file format such as GIF format and PNG format, and the designation of the pixel size are referred to as the image data format.

Incidentally, In this specific example, the image data from the user is already converted by the image data processing device 11 as described above so that the data amount is 10 kB or less in the standard of the predetermined communication service provider A, that is, the GIF format. The data is stored in the data storage unit 25.

Here, W of the Web data conversion processing unit 28
A process of converting the image data included in the eb data and the description language conversion will be described with reference to FIG. In this specific example, 3
When there are two communication service providers A, B, and C, and the information distribution system 1 determines the difference between the standards of the three, converts the image / sentence data suitable for each mobile phone, and transmits the data. Is.

When the server 12 receives an access command (text data request signal) from a certain portable telephone, the Web data conversion processing unit 28 determines the communication service provider in step S1 as processing in the server 12. .

The description language discrimination circuit 203 is provided as HTML data in the step S2 for the provider A and in step S3 for the provider B as Web data in the HTML format.
Send data. In the case of the provider C, step S
In 4, the description language discrimination circuit 203 transmits Web data as HDML format data.

HTML or HDM for mobile phones
When the text data is transmitted in the L format, the mobile phone transmits an image data request signal in step S5.

In the Web data conversion processing unit 28, the image data discriminating circuit 202 discriminates the communication service provider from the terminal model (step S6), and the image data extracted from the correspondence table stored in the terminal data table 203. It is converted into a format (step S7) and output.

The above-described series of processes in the Web data conversion processing unit 28 may be executed by software, or may be executed by the control unit of the server 12.

Further, the discrimination of the image data will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. In the terminal determination shown in step S1 of FIG. 4, when the mobile phone that has transmitted the access command to the server 12 is the provider B or the provider C, in steps S10 and S11,
It is determined whether it is the provider B or the provider C. If it is the provider B or the provider C, the process proceeds to step S12, the image data in the GIF format of the image / text data is decoded, and the resizing process is performed in step S13. Details of the resizing process will be described later.

Subsequently, in steps S14 and S15, color reduction processing and PNG file conversion processing are performed in order to reduce the file size to a specified value or less. In step S16, it is determined whether the file size is equal to or less than the specified size,
If the file size is not within the specified range, steps S14 and S15 are repeated. When the image / text data is within the specified range, it is output to the mobile phone.

On the other hand, when it is determined in step S11 that the mobile phone is not a standard of any of the providers A, B, and C, the standard of the image data of the mobile phone is, for example, a file in step S17. It is determined whether the size is 4.3 kB or less and the pixel size is 80 × 72 or less. If this size is met, the image data format stored in the data storage unit 25 is output as is in step S18. Here, the image data standard of the file size of 4.3 kB or less and the pixel size of 80 × 72 or less is a size that can be always displayed on the mobile phone corresponding to the standard of the provider A.

If it is determined in step S17 that the file size is 4.3 kB or less and the pixel size is not 80 × 72 or less, in step S19 following FIG. 6, the size that can be displayed on the mobile phone is 10 kB, and the image is displayed. It is determined whether the file size of the data is 8.8 kB or less and the pixel size is 120 × 10 8 or less. If this condition is met, in step S20, the image data format stored in the data storage unit 25 is output as it is.

The size that can be displayed on a mobile phone is 10k
B, the file size of the image data is 8.8 kB or less, and the pixel size does not conform to 120 × 10 8 or less, the image data is decoded from the GIF format in step S21, and the image data is further converted in step S22. Resize to fit. In step S23, the resized image data is GIF
Encode into a format and output.

FIG. 7 shows the resizing process described above. In step S30, the image data determination circuit 202 extracts the image frame size of the resized image data from the terminal data table 203.

Succeedingly, in a step S31, an aspect ratio of the image data is discriminated. The ratio of length to width is 1
If it is larger than 0: 9 (horizontal: vertical), in step S32, the vertical length is resized so that it becomes the data size defined in the terminal data table 203. When the ratio of the vertical and horizontal lengths is smaller than 10: 9 (horizontal: vertical), the horizontal length is resized so that it becomes the data size defined in the terminal data table 203. The aspect ratio 10: 9 (horizontal: vertical) of the image data here is the aspect ratio of the image data stored in the data storage unit 25.

The encoding process is shown in FIG. In the encoding process, first, in step S40, the number of colors is determined. If the number of colors is 2, the process proceeds to step S47 following b. If the number of colors is not 2, it is determined in step S41 whether or not this mobile phone is a monochrome display model. In the case of monochrome display, the process proceeds to step S46 described later.

If the portable telephone is not a monochrome display terminal, the color reduction processing of the image data is executed in step S42, and the color data is changed to the GIF format in step S43.

In step S44, it is determined whether the file size is equal to or smaller than the specified size. If the file size is equal to or smaller than the specified size, the process returns to the process shown in FIG. If the size is equal to or larger than the specified size, it is determined in step S45 whether the number of colors is 8 or less. If the number of colors is not eight or less, the process returns to step S42 to execute the color reduction process. If the number of colors is 8 or less, the process proceeds to step S46, binarization is performed in black and white, the file is converted to the GIF format in step S47, and the file size is confirmed in step S48. If the file size is equal to or smaller than the specified value, the process returns to the process shown in FIG. If the file size does not fall below the specified value after executing a series of processes, move to error processing.

In the above-mentioned information distribution system, the image data is automatically converted into an image data file format corresponding to the image display standard of the portable telephone as the distribution destination of the image data and outputted. Further, in this specific example, by adopting the standard of the image data format of the communication service provider A as the standard image data format to be stored in the data storage unit 25, the mobile phone that receives the communication service of the provider A can be used. On the other hand, there is an advantage that the process may be simplified because the image data conversion process may not be performed in some cases.

Further, in the past, since the data compatibility of each communication service provider was poor, it was necessary to provide a source for each communication service provider in accordance with the data distributed to the portable telephone. According to the information distribution system 1 that realizes the present invention, one source may be provided because it can be automatically converted into a data file format corresponding to the image display standard of the mobile phone of the data distribution destination and output.
The system is simplified, and the convenience in terms of system design and system construction is improved.

The information distribution system according to the present invention can provide a common content information distribution service to each mobile phone of different communication service providers by applying the terminal discrimination as described above. You can

Next, a case will be described in which the optimum content information is distributed to the registered user and the desired transmission partner of the user using the information distribution system 2 shown as a specific example of the present invention. In this specific example, a case where the content information is, in particular, advertisement information will be described. In this case, the advertisement information as the content information includes image information including moving images and still images, audio information, character information, and the like. That is, the specific example shown below is an advertisement information distribution system to which the information distribution system 1 is applied.

Since the information distribution system 2 applies the information distribution system 1 shown in FIG. 1 and has the same structure, the components having the same function and action are as follows.
The same numbers are assigned and detailed description is omitted.

As shown in FIG. 9, the features of the information distribution system 2 are: an advertisement information storage unit 29 for storing advertisement information in the server 12; and addition of advertisement information for selecting advertisement information and attaching it to image / text data. It is a point provided with the part 30. However, in the configuration of the server 12, the advertisement information storage unit 29 does not have to be configured as a part of the server 12. Moreover, the position of the advertisement information adding unit 30 is not particularly limited.

That is, when creating a Web page containing advertisement information, the user's image data processing device 1
The image / sentence data transmitted from 1 may be stored in the data storage unit 25 by adding an address indicating a storage location to the image / sentence data added with the advertisement information. The text data may be stored in the data storage unit 25, and when the image / text data is distributed, the advertisement information may be added and distributed.

The flow of advertisement information distribution in the information distribution system 2 shown as a specific example of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the user is required to perform the image data processing device 11
In, the image / text data for distribution is created from the desired image data and text data. FIG. 11 shows an example of a GUI (Grephic User Interface) used as an image / text data creation screen in the image data processing device 11 at this time.

In the GUI of FIG. 11, a sender change button 31, a display field 32 for displaying the destination of the delivery partner, and a message to be attached to the image data are mainly input to switch to an input screen for inputting and / or changing the sender. An input field 33 for inputting and an image display field 34 for displaying an image and changing an image are displayed. In addition to this, a delivery reservation field 35 for designating delivery timing such as whether or not to deliver immediately, a check box 36 for selecting a desired sentence from preset prepared sentence options, and the like are displayed. To be done. The user edits the image / text data desired to be delivered on the GUI screen shown in FIG.

When the user connects to the server 12 and sends the authentication ID and password issued to the user in advance, the server 12 determines whether the user has been registered and authenticates the user. .

When the server 12 confirms that the user has been registered, the server 12 receives the image / text data and confirms to the user who sent the image / text data that the image / text data has been received. Advertisement information 90 based on user information is attached to a notification (hereinafter referred to as a transmission result) and transmitted.

In FIG. 12, We transmitted as the transmission result is transmitted.
The screen b is shown. In the transmission result 40, the notification 41 that the image / sentence data has been deposited is displayed, and the advertisement image 42, the advertisement image 43 and the advertisement image 44, the check boxed text advertisement 45, and the text advertisement 46 are attached. . The advertisement information attached here is based on the user information. For example, the sex of the user, the age, the advertisement of the peripheral device of the digital image pickup device 17 or the personal computer owned by the user, It is an advertisement of a product based on a past purchase record of the product.

Further, here, the text advertisement 45 with a check box is a check box for designating "I will also tell my friends", and if this check box is selected, the image / image delivered to the other party will be displayed. A similar advertisement is attached to the text data. In the information distribution system 2, when the fixed text prepared by the provider such as the check box 36 and the text advertisement with check box 45 is selected, the fixed text selected by the check box is linked to this item. It is possible to efficiently send the advertising information of the related contents to the other party. Also, by providing advertisement information that can be selected according to the other party to whom the image / sentence data is to be distributed, such as the text advertisement with check box 45, the information can be shared between the user and the other party. .

When the latest image / sentence data is transmitted from the user, the server 12 receives the mobile phone 15 of the delivery partner.
On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 10, the image keeping notification including the advertisement information 91 is transmitted.

FIG. 13 shows a deposit notification screen transmitted to the other party's portable telephone 15 at this time. On the custody notification screen 50, a message 51 indicating that the user is keeping the image / sentence data and the image / sentence stored in the server 12 are displayed.
A URL 52 for viewing text data is displayed, and a text advertisement 53 is also attached. This URL is a URL indicating the recording position in the data storage unit 25 of the image / sentence data added by the address addition unit 24 shown in FIGS. 2 and 9.

The text advertisement 53 may be further provided with a URL 54 indicating a Web page showing details of the advertisement. By selecting the URL 54, the distribution partner
You can proceed to a web page showing the details of the text advertisement.

The distribution partner operates the mobile phone 15 to select the URL 52, and
The image / character data transmitted from the user is acquired as a Web page. As shown in FIG. 10, this web page includes advertisement information 92.

The Web page displayed at this time is shown in FIG.
Shown in. Image data 61 from the user, text data 62, and advertisement information 63 are displayed on the web page 60. Here, the advertisement information 63 displayed on the Web page 60 is an advertisement in which the user has selected the check box of “I will tell my friends” on the transmission result 40, but includes advertisement information other than this. You may stay.

As described above, since the information distribution system 2 can provide only the advertisement information necessary for each individual by attaching the advertisement information based on the user information, a certain advertisement information is distributed to an unspecified number of users. It is possible to improve the advertising effectiveness than doing.

As described above, the information distribution system according to the present invention is used when a user of the image data distribution system distributes image data processed by using, for example, a personal computer, to a portable telephone of the other party. The advertisement information is distributed to the user and the distribution partner, but the history of the image data transmitted by the user using the image data processing device 11 is accessed from the mobile phone owned by the user and called, It can also be applied as an image data distribution system in which this can be edited and retransmitted.

As shown in FIG. 15, an information distribution system 3 shown as another specific example of the present invention comprises a user portable telephone 70 in addition to the system configuration shown in FIG. The feature is that the image / text data can be edited from the mobile phone 70 owned by the user. Figure 1
The information distribution system 2 shown in FIG. 5 has the same function as that of the information distribution system 1 shown in FIG.
The same numbers are assigned and detailed description is omitted.

The information distribution system 3 uses an image data distribution system that can be used by performing usage registration in advance, and based on the contents of the usage registration, the registered user and the partner to whom the user wants to send image data. An information distribution system that distributes optimal advertisement information to the user, and the information distribution system 3 has a display unit for displaying image data and a communication function, and is a mobile phone 70 owned by the user.
An image data processing device 11 having an image data processing function and a communication function, a server 12 for accumulating image data transmitted from the image data processing device 11, a mobile phone 15, and a mobile phone communication network 14 are connected to each other. And the mobile phone base station 13 that has been set. Here, it is assumed that the mobile phone 70 owned by the user is connected to the wired network 16 by the mobile phone communication network, like the mobile phone 15. Here, the wired network 16
Is the so-called Internet.

The flow of information distribution in the above information distribution system 3 will be described with reference to FIGS. 16 and 17.

The user connects to the server 12 using the portable telephone 70. First, the user connects to the information distribution service providing page, selects the specified URL, and proceeds to the information distribution service top page (step S51). FIG. 18 shows an example of the Web page of the image data distribution service displayed at this time. The mobile phone 70 acquires the page top 101 from the server 12.

"History display" on the top page 101
By selecting (step S52), the registration authentication input display 102 of the image data distribution service shown in FIG. 19 is displayed.
You can proceed to. On the registration authentication input display 102, a message 103 for inputting the authentication ID and password is displayed.
, Authentication ID input field 104, and password input field 105
And are displayed. Further, in the registration authentication input display 102, a "Next" button 106 for advancing the processing and a button 107 for returning to the page top 101 are displayed.

The communication between the portable telephone 70 and the server 12 is kept secret by a function of encrypting a sentence transferred in a fixed format, for example, a security technique such as SSL (Security Sockets Layer). Thus, before the server 12 sends a document in a format suitable for the delivery destination terminal, mutual confirmation of the signature, encryption, etc. of the other party (mobile phone 70) is performed, thereby ensuring communication safety. There is. Therefore, in this specific example, when the response is from a model that does not support SSL, an error message as shown in FIG. 20 is displayed.

When the server 12 confirms the authentication ID and password entered by the user in the authentication ID input field 104 and the password input field 105 (step S53) and determined by the "Next" button 106 (step S54). , The stored image list display 108 is sent to the mobile phone 70 of the user (step S55). If the user is not registered in this service, it will not be displayed. Also,
In some cases, the stored image list display 108 cannot be displayed due to an incorrect input of the authentication ID and password. In this case, the error message shown in FIGS. 21 and 22 is displayed, and the process returns to step S53.

FIG. 23 shows an example of the custody list display. The stored image list display 108 includes images previously delivered /
A list showing the display contents of the text data, such as a title, and a button 109 for returning to the page top 101 are displayed. Here, when the user selects from the list showing the display contents of the image / text data (step S5)
6) The image / text data corresponding to the selected display content is displayed (step S57).

FIG. 24 shows an example of the image / text data 110 selected by the user. The image / text data 110 includes image data 111 and text data 1
12 and an edit button 113 for editing these,
A selection button 114 for returning to the page top 101 or the previous page is displayed. When the edit button 113 is selected (step S58), the process proceeds to the edit screen 115 shown in FIG. 25 (step S59).

On the edit screen 115, the image data 111
And a message 116 indicating the operation explanation, and a title input field 1 for changing the title of this image / text data.
17 and a message input field 118 are displayed.
The user inputs the contents to be changed in the title input field 117 and the message input field 118 from the input section of the mobile phone 70 and selects the save button 119.
The title and message can be changed. Further, it is possible to allow the image data to be easily edited on the editing screen 115.

In addition, a plurality of fixed phrases are prepared as the check boxed sentence 120 on the editing screen 115. When the user selects a text with a check box, the advertisement information adding unit 3 in the server 12 is selected.
In 0, advertisement information according to the text content is attached. The edit screen 115 further displays a selection button 121 for returning to the page top 101 or the stored image list display 108.

Image displayed in step S57 /
When the destination of the image is selected from the selection buttons 114 in the text data 110, the process proceeds to step S60, and FIG.
The destination list shown in 6 is displayed. When the destination is confirmed in step S61, the image / sentence data 110
Return to. If the destination is not registered, the process proceeds to step S62, the destination confirmation message shown in FIG. 27 is displayed, and the process returns to the image / text data 110.

When the editing of the image / text data selected from the temporarily stored image / text data is completed by the above operation, the server 12 causes the user's portable telephone 70
On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 16, a storage completion notification indicating that the image is stored with the advertisement information 93 attached is sent (step S63).

FIG. 28 shows an example of the save completion notice 122.
The save completion notification 122 displays a message 123 indicating that the image / sentence data is stored, and an input field 124 for designating a delivery destination of the saved image / sentence data.
The advertisement information 125 extracted based on the user information is attached. A URL 126 indicating the details of the advertisement information 125 may be attached to the advertisement information 125. The advertisement information 125 corresponds to the advertisement information 93 in FIG.
The advertisement information 125 here is advertisement information extracted from the user at the time of registration, that is, advertisement information extracted based on the authentication ID and password of the user. For example, the gender, age, and user of the user Owned mobile phone 7
Advertising information extracted from 0 peripheral devices, information based on past purchase record history of goods, and the like.

When selecting the delivery destination of the image / sentence data that has been saved, it is possible to directly enter the delivery destination address in the input field 124, which is defined as a standard for general portable telephones. You can also select the so-called "Mail to" function.

When the mail-to function is selected, the subsequent input operation is entrusted to the control on the portable telephone side (step S64). The mobile phone's address storage function and mail text creation screen can be used. By selecting the mail-to function, a mail text creation screen as shown in FIG. 29 is displayed. That is, control is transferred to the mail function of the mobile phone 70. In this case, the URL 126 indicating the new storage location of the edited image / sentence data is delivered and displayed on the mail creation screen 125 shown in FIG. After this, the server 12
The URL of the image / text data stored in is sent to the distribution partner.

On the other hand, when the address of the delivery destination is directly input in the input field 124, the page having the screen configuration shown in FIG. 13 is transmitted to the delivery partner. At this time, as shown in FIG. 16, advertisement information 94 can be attached.

The distribution partner can view the image / text data from the user by selecting the transmitted URL. Advertising information 95 is attached to the image / text data acquired by the distribution partner, as shown in FIG. At this time, the same image / sentence data as in FIG. 14 is sent to the distribution partner.

In the case of an information processing terminal such as a personal computer, the user opens a Web page at the same time as another operation by changing the display operation, for example, changing the size of the display window or changing the arrangement of the display windows. Although information can be viewed, an information processing terminal having a narrow display screen such as a mobile phone or an information processing terminal having a poor display function has to close the display window to see another display.

For a user who has registered a destination address such as an electronic mail in the address function of the portable telephone, the We
If the address has to be entered on page b, this operation becomes complicated.

In the information distribution system 3, since the URL indicating the storage location of the image / text data in the server 12 can be displayed on the normal mail creation screen 125 of the mobile phone by the mail-to function, it is provided as a function of the mobile phone. The feature is that the existing address book can be used at the same time. In addition to the mobile phone, the information distribution system according to the present invention is preferably used for an information processing terminal having a narrow display screen and an information processing terminal having a poor display function.

Further, according to the information distribution system 1, We
Browse the image / sentence data stored in the server 12 using a mobile phone that does not have the function of editing the image / sentence data such as page b, edit it, and send it again. Is possible.

From the above-mentioned top page 101, in addition to "history display", "function description", "compatible model confirmation (SS
"L confirmation") and "Cancel registration" can be selected. The processing when these are selected will be described below.

When "function description" is selected on the top page 101 shown in FIG. 18, the processing shown in FIG. 30 is executed. That is, when the "function description" is selected (step S71), the function description screen is displayed (step S72), and the user can return to the top page 101 by the return operation.

The top page 101 shown in FIG.
When "Compatible model check" is selected in step S81 (step S81), if the model of the user's mobile phone 70 is compatible with SSL according to the process shown in FIG. If the model is not compatible, the error message shown in FIG. 20 is displayed in step S83.

If "cancel registration" is selected, the processing shown in FIG. 32 is executed. When the registration cancellation is selected (step S91), if the registration is not made in advance, the message shown in FIG. 21 is displayed in step S92. If registered, the user is prompted to enter the authentication ID and password in step S93.

When the authentication ID and password are entered,
In step S94, the authentication ID and password are confirmed. If the input is incorrect, the error message shown in FIG. 22 is displayed in step S95. If not registered, in step S96, FIG.
The message “Not registered” is displayed. If the authentication ID and password are confirmed, the registration cancellation is confirmed in step S97, and the registration cancellation is completed in step S98.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and it goes without saying that various modifications can be made without departing from the gist of the present invention.
The portable communication terminal according to the present invention is, for example, a PDA (Pe
rsonal Digital Assistant), a portable personal computer, or the like as long as it has a data processing function and a communication function, and is not limited to a portable telephone. Further, the screen display used for the description is an example, and the display method is not limited.

Even in the case of communication between general information processing terminals, the Web once uploaded to the server
When the data is edited and the new edited web page is saved, the server displays the URL (Uniform
It is also possible to send a command to activate the mail-to function to the information processing terminal with the source Locator) as an argument.

As described above, in the information distribution system 3 as well, by attaching the advertisement information based on the user information, the advertisement effect can be obtained rather than distributing the unnecessary advertisement information to an unspecified number of users. Can be improved.

The advertisement information may be attached not only based on the user information as described above but also according to a keyword extracted from the information transmitted and received between the user and the distribution partner.

[0100]

As described above in detail, the information distribution system according to the present invention has a function of generating Web data from image data and a display unit for displaying the Web data and the Web data is transmitted to the outside. A data processing terminal having a Web data transmitting unit for storing the data, a data storage unit for storing the Web data, and the W
Mobile phone having an information supply device having address information addition means for attaching a destination address for referencing eb data, a data acquisition means for obtaining web data to which the destination address is added, and a display means for displaying the web data A wireless communication terminal for converting web data into standard web data in a standard format, and converting the standard web data into a data format that can be processed by another communication terminal device as a delivery destination.

Therefore, according to the information distribution system of the present invention, the We that corresponds to the image display standard of the distribution destination terminal is
b Data file format can be automatically converted and output.

Further, according to the information delivery system of the present invention, since the data is converted into Web data of a predetermined format in advance and the data amount is limited and then transmitted to the information supply device, the connection time required for the transmission is shortened. In addition, the capacity of the information supply device can be saved.

The information distribution method according to the present invention is a data process including a display process for displaying Web data having a function of generating Web data from image data and a Web data transmission process for transmitting the Web data to the outside. Process and We
b an information supplying step including a data saving step of saving data and an address information adding step of adding a destination address for externally referencing the Web data to the Web data; and Web data to which the destination address is added. It has an information processing process including a data acquisition process for acquiring and a display process for displaying Web data, converts Web data into standard Web data in a standard format, and standard Web data is another communication terminal that is a delivery destination. The data is converted into a data format that can be processed by the device and distributed.

Therefore, according to the information distribution method of the present invention, it is possible to automatically convert and output the Web data file format corresponding to the image display standard of the distribution destination terminal.

Further, according to the information distribution method of the present invention, the connection time required for transmission is shortened because the data is converted into Web data in a predetermined format in advance and the data amount is limited before transmission.

Further, the information supply device according to the present invention is arranged such that the Web storing data for storing Web data including image data and text data and the Web data are externally connected to the Web storing unit.
b is an information supply device having address information adding means for adding a destination address for referring to data, the image data determining means for determining the type of image data used in the portable wireless communication terminal of the delivery destination, An image processing unit that performs image processing on image data included in standard Web data according to the determination result of the image data determination unit, and a description that determines the description language of the Web data used by the portable wireless communication terminal of the delivery destination. The language discrimination means and the data output means for outputting as Web data according to the discrimination result of the description language discrimination means are provided.

Therefore, according to the information supply apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to automatically convert and output the Web data file format corresponding to the image display standard of the distribution destination terminal.

Further, according to the information supply device of the present invention, since the data is converted into Web data of a predetermined format in advance and the data amount is limited and then stored, the storage capacity of the information supply device can be saved.

Further, the information supply method according to the present invention is
An information supply method comprising a data storage step of storing web data including image data and text data, and an address information addition step of attaching a destination address for externally referencing the web data to the web data. Then, the image data discrimination step of discriminating the type of image data used in the portable wireless communication terminal of the distribution destination, and the image processing performed on the image data included in the standard Web data according to the discrimination result in the image data discrimination step. An image processing step to be performed, a description language discrimination step of discriminating a description language of Web data used in a portable wireless communication terminal of a delivery destination, and a data output step of outputting as Web data according to a discrimination result in the description language discrimination step. Have.

Therefore, according to the information supply method of the present invention, it is possible to automatically convert and output the Web data file format corresponding to the image display standard of the distribution destination terminal.

Further, according to the information supply method of the present invention, the storage capacity can be saved because the data is converted into Web data in a predetermined format in advance and the data amount is limited before being stored.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an outline of a configuration of an information distribution system shown as a specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram illustrating a configuration of a server in the information distribution system as a specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram illustrating a configuration of a Web data conversion processing unit in the information distribution system shown as the specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of converting image data and description language conversion included in Web data in the information distribution system as the specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a process of discriminating image data in the information distribution system shown as a specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a process of discriminating image data in the information distribution system shown as a specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a resizing process in the image data determination process of the information distribution system shown as the specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating an encoding process in the image data determination process of the information distribution system shown as the specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a configuration of a server of the information distribution system shown as a specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram illustrating a process of adding advertisement information in the information distribution system shown as the specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of an image data processing GUI screen of the image data processing device in the information distribution system shown as the specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of an image data processing GUI screen of the image data processing device in the information distribution system shown as the specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a screen configuration transmitted to a portable wireless communication terminal of a distribution destination in the information distribution system shown as the specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an example of a screen configuration transmitted to a portable wireless communication terminal of a delivery destination in the information delivery system shown as the specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a configuration diagram showing an outline of a configuration of an information distribution system shown as another specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a schematic diagram illustrating a process of adding advertisement information in the information distribution system shown as another specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart illustrating a process of editing image / sentence data stored in a server from a mobile phone in an information distribution system shown as another specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an example of a top page screen transmitted to the user's portable wireless communication terminal in the information distribution system shown as another specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing an example of an authentication ID and password input screen transmitted to the user's portable wireless communication terminal in the information distribution system shown as another specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing an example of an error message screen configuration transmitted to the user's portable wireless communication terminal in the information delivery system shown as another specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing an example of an error message screen configuration transmitted to a user's portable wireless communication terminal in the information distribution system shown as another specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 22 is a diagram showing an example of a configuration of an error message screen transmitted to the user's portable wireless communication terminal in the information distribution system shown as another specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing an example of a stored image list display screen transmitted to the user's portable wireless communication terminal in the information distribution system shown as another specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 24 is a diagram showing an example of an image / sentence data screen selected from the deposit image list display transmitted to the user's portable wireless communication terminal in the information distribution system shown as another specific example of the present invention. Is.

FIG. 25 is a diagram showing an example of an edit screen transmitted to the user's portable wireless communication terminal in the information distribution system shown as another specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 26 is a diagram showing an example of a transmission destination display screen transmitted to a user's portable wireless communication terminal in the information distribution system shown as another specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 27 is a diagram showing an example of a transmission destination unconfirmed display screen transmitted to the user's portable wireless communication terminal in the information distribution system shown as another specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 28 is a diagram showing an example of a save completion notification screen transmitted to the user's portable wireless communication terminal in the information delivery system shown as another specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 29 is a diagram showing an example of a mail creation screen of a user's portable wireless communication terminal in the information distribution system shown as another specific example of the present invention.

[Fig. 30] Fig. 30 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of functional description of an information distribution service in the information distribution system shown as another specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 31 is a flowchart illustrating a model confirmation flow of an information distribution service in the information distribution system shown as another specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 32 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of deregistration of an information distribution service in the information distribution system shown as another specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 33 is a diagram showing an example of a screen configuration transmitted to a user's portable wireless communication terminal in the information distribution system shown as another specific example of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1, 2 advertisement information distribution system, 11 image data processing device, 12 server, 13 mobile phone, 14 mobile phone communication network, 15 mobile phone base station, 16 wired network network, 17 digital image capturing device, 18a recording medium, 18b Semiconductor memory device, 19 identification server, 2
0 user information database, 21 network I / F
Unit, 22 temporary memory, 23 identification unit, 24 address addition unit, 25 data storage unit, 26 Web data management unit, 27 communication unit, 28 Web data conversion processing unit, 2
9 advertisement information storage unit, 30 advertisement information addition unit, 31 sender change button, 32 display column, 33 input column, 34 image display column, 35 distribution reservation column, 36 check box, 40 transmission result, 41 notification, 42, 43, 44
Advertising image, 45 Text advertisement with check box, 46
Text advertisement, 50 Custody notice screen, 51 Message, 52 URL, 53 Character advertisement, 54 URL, 60
Web page, 61 image data, 62 text data, 63 advertisement information, 70 mobile phone, 91, 92,
93,94,95 Advertising information, 101 Page Top,
102 registration authentication input display, 103 message, 10
4 Authentication ID input field, 105 Password input field, 106
Next button, 107 return button, 108 image list display, 110 image / text data, 111 image data,
112 text data, 113 edit button, 114 selection button, 115 edit screen, 116 message, 1
17 Title input field, 118 Message input field, 1
19 Save button, 120 Text with check box, 121 Select button, 122 Save completion notification, 123
Message, 124 input field, 125 advertisement information, 1
26 URL

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Claims (24)

[Claims] 1. A display unit having a function of generating Web data from image data and displaying the Web data, and the We.
b a data processing terminal having a Web data transmission unit for transmitting data to the outside, a data storage unit for storing the Web data, and the We
b, an information supply device having an address information addition means for attaching a destination address for externally referencing the web data, a data acquisition means for obtaining the web data to which the destination address is added, and the web An information distribution system for distributing Web data from the data processing terminal to the mobile communication terminal, comprising: a portable wireless communication terminal having a display unit for displaying data. An information distribution system, which converts the data into data, converts the standard Web data into a data format that can be processed by another communication terminal device as a distribution destination, and distributes the data. 2. The Web data is data having image data and text data, and the information supply device is an image for discriminating the type of image data used in another portable wireless communication terminal of the delivery destination. The data discriminating means and the standard W according to the discrimination result of the image data discriminating means.
Image processing means for performing image processing on image data included in eb data, and a Web used by the other portable wireless communication terminal of the delivery destination.
The information distribution system according to claim 1, further comprising: a description language discriminating means for discriminating a description language of the data; and a data output means for outputting as Web data according to the discrimination result of the description language discriminating means. 3. The information distribution system according to claim 1, wherein the image data included in the standard Web data has an image data file format that minimizes image deterioration. 4. The image data file format is GIF
The information distribution system according to claim 3, wherein the information distribution system is in a (Graphics Interchange Format) format. 5. The data output means, according to the discrimination result of the description language discrimination means, HTML (Hyper Text Mar
kup Language) format or HDML (Handheld Device Ma)
3. The information distribution system according to claim 2, wherein the information is output as rkup language) format data. 6. The destination address is a URL (Uniform
The information distribution system according to claim 1, which is a resource locator. 7. The information distribution system according to claim 1, wherein the image data processing terminal includes a reading unit for reading image data stored in a recording medium and / or a semiconductor storage device. 8. A display step of displaying Web data having a function of generating Web data from image data and the We
b a data processing step including a Web data transmission step of transmitting data to the outside, a data storage step of storing the Web data, and the We
An information supply step including an address information adding step of adding a destination address for externally referencing the web data to the b data, a data acquisition step of obtaining the web data to which the destination address is added, and the web An information distribution method including an information processing step including a display step of displaying data, wherein the Web data is converted into standard Web data in a standard format, and the standard Web data is another communication terminal that is a distribution destination. An information distribution method, characterized in that the information is converted into a data format that can be processed by the device and distributed. 9. The Web data is data having image data and text data, and the information supplying step is an image for discriminating the type of image data used by another portable wireless communication terminal of the delivery destination. The standard W according to the data discrimination process and the discrimination result of the image data discrimination process.
An image processing step of performing image processing on the image data included in the eb data, a description language determination step of determining a description language of Web data used by the portable wireless communication terminal of the delivery destination, and a description language determination step. 9. The information distribution method according to claim 8, further comprising a data output step of outputting as Web data according to the determination result of. 10. The information distribution method according to claim 8, wherein the image data included in the standard Web data has an image data file format that minimizes image deterioration. 11. The image data file format is GI
The information delivery method according to claim 10, wherein the information delivery method is in F (Graphics Interchange Format) format. 12. The data output means, according to the discrimination result of the description language discrimination means, HTML (Hyper Text M
arkup Language) format or HDML (Handheld Device M)
9. The information distribution method according to claim 8, wherein the information is output as arkup Language) format data. 13. The destination address is a URL (Unifor
m Resource Locator).
Information delivery method described. 14. W having image data and text data
An information supply device having a data storage unit for storing eb data and an address information addition unit for attaching a destination address for externally referencing the Web data to the Web data. Image data discriminating means for discriminating the type of image data used in the communication terminal, and the standard W according to the discrimination result of the image data discriminating means.
Image processing means for performing image processing on the image data included in the eb data, description language determination means for determining the description language of the Web data used in the portable wireless communication terminal of the delivery destination, and the description language determination means An information supply device comprising: a data output unit that outputs as Web data according to the determination result. 15. The information supply apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the image data included in the standard Web data has an image data file format in which image deterioration is minimized. 16. The image data file format is GI
The information supply device according to claim 15, wherein the information supply device is in an F (Graphics Interchange Format) format. 17. The data output means, according to the discrimination result of the description language discrimination means, HTML (Hyper Text M
arkup Language) format or HDML (Handheld Device M)
15. The information supplying device according to claim 14, wherein the information supplying device outputs the data as arkup Language) format data. 18. The destination address is a URL (Unifor
m Resource Locator).
4 information supply devices. 19. W having image data and text data
An information supply method comprising a data storage step of storing eb data and an address information addition step of attaching a destination address for externally referencing the Web data to the Web data, which is a portable radio of a delivery destination. An image data discriminating step of discriminating the type of image data used in the communication terminal; an image processing step of performing image processing on the image data included in the standard Web data according to the discrimination result in the image data discriminating step; A description language determining step of determining a description language of Web data used in the portable wireless communication terminal of the delivery destination, and a Web corresponding to the determination result in the description language determining step.
And a data output step of outputting the data as data. 20. The image data included in the standard Web data is based on the image data standard adopted by a majority of mobile wireless communication terminals among a plurality of communication companies. Information supply method. 21. The information supplying method according to claim 19, wherein the image data included in the standard Web data has an image data file format that minimizes image deterioration. 22. The image data file format is GI
22. The information supply method according to claim 21, which is in the F (Graphics Interchange Format) format. 23. In the data output step, HTML (Hype) is used according to the discrimination result in the description language discrimination step.
r Text Markup Language) format or HDML (Handheld)
20. The information supply method according to claim 19, wherein the information is output as data in a Device Markup Language format. 24. The destination address is a URL (Unifor
m Resource Locator).
9. The information supply method described in 9.