KR101794881B1 - Multimedia player providing additional information using gradation and operating method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

According to a technical aspect of the present invention, a multimedia player comprises: a multimedia playing unit for playing a video or music; a gradation information generating unit for quantifying additional information related to the played video or music, and generating gradation information corresponding to the quantified additional information; and an interface providing unit for outputting an output of the multimedia playing unit by using a predetermined interface, and providing a visualized gradation display interface corresponding to the gradation information in the interface. The multimedia player can provide immediate and intuitive information by representing the additional information by gradation.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a multimedia player,

The present invention relates to a multimedia player that provides additional information using its radiation and a method of providing the same.

With the development of computing technology, it is becoming possible to play multimedia on various electronic devices such as smart phones.

However, in the case of a conventional multimedia player, multimedia data is merely played and provided, but does not provide additional information.

Therefore, technologies for providing additional information to a multimedia player are being developed. However, in the case of such a conventional technique, there is a problem that a part of a moving image reproduction screen is covered by providing additional information, or since it is required to read such additional information as text-based additional information is provided, there is a problem.

Such prior art can be more easily understood with reference to Published Unexamined Patent Application No. 10-2005-0011035 and the like.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-2005-0011035

Disclosure of Invention Technical Problem [8] Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems occurring in the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a multimedia player capable of providing immediate and intuitive information by expressing additional information on multimedia data .

In addition, one embodiment of the present invention is an information recording method and apparatus for recording and reproducing music information, including climax information for a music or a moving picture, tempo information, volume information, playing count information for each playing time, information related to a flow of a song, The user can intuitively check the climax, the volume, and the popular playback portion of the moving image or music by only setting the radation according to at least one of the usage pattern information of the user, without any additional information .

The above objects and various advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the preferred embodiments of the present invention by those skilled in the art.

One technical aspect of the present invention provides a multimedia player. The multimedia player includes a multimedia reproducing unit for reproducing moving pictures or music, a recording information generating unit for quantifying the additional information related to the moving pictures or music to be reproduced, and generating the recording information corresponding to the quantified additional information, And an interface providing unit for outputting the output of the multimedia reproducing unit using a predetermined interface and providing the radiant display interface visualized corresponding to the radiant information in the interface.

In one embodiment, the radiation information may include at least one of a variation amount of brightness, a variation amount of saturation, and a variation amount of hue associated with the reproduction time of the moving picture or music.

In one embodiment, the additional information includes at least one of climax information for the music, tempo information, volume information, information related to the flow of the songs, manager's opinion information, user's opinion information, and user usage pattern information .

In one embodiment, the additional information may include at least one of a play count information, a climax information, a volume information, an opinion information of an administrator, a user's opinion information, and a usage pattern information of a user for each playing time of the moving picture .

In one embodiment, the radiation information generating unit may include an additional information quantization module for quantifying the additional information with respect to the reproduction time of the moving picture or music, and generating quantization data; and a determination unit for determining the radiation value according to the quantization data And a radiance determination module for generating the radiance information.

In one embodiment, the additional information includes at least one of climax information for a music or a moving picture, tempo information, volume information, playing count information for each playing time, information related to a flow of a song, manager's opinion information, First additional information including at least one of usage pattern information of the user, and second additional information including viewable age information for the music or moving image.

In one embodiment, the radiance determination module determines at least one of brightness or saturation of the first additional information to determine the radial value of the first additional information, and changes the color of the second additional information, The radiation value can be determined.

Another technical aspect of the present invention provides a method of providing a multimedia player. The multimedia player providing method includes the steps of generating radiation information by using additional information related to a moving picture or music to be reproduced and reproducing the moving picture or music using a predetermined interface, And providing the radiated display interface that is visualized corresponding to the displayed information.

In one embodiment, the radiation information may include at least one of a variation amount of brightness, a variation amount of saturation, and a variation amount of hue associated with a reproduction time of the moving picture or music.

In one embodiment, the additional information includes at least one of climax information for a music or a moving picture, tempo information, volume information, playing count information for each playing time, information related to a flow of a song, manager's opinion information, And usage pattern information of the user.

In one embodiment, the step of generating the radiation information may include the steps of generating the quantization data by quantifying the additional information with respect to the reproduction time of the moving picture or music, and determining the radiation value according to the quantization data And generating the radiation information.

The solution of the above-mentioned problems does not list all the features of the present invention. Various means for solving the problems of the present invention can be understood in detail with reference to specific embodiments of the following detailed description.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, additional information about multimedia data being reproduced is represented by its radiation, thereby providing immediate and intuitive information.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a program for causing a computer to execute a program for causing a computer to execute: , It is possible to intuitively confirm the climax, volume, and popular reproduction portion of a moving image or music with only the radiation without setting additional information by setting different radations according to at least one of the usage pattern information of the user .

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an entire system to which a multimedia player according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.
2 is a block diagram illustrating a multimedia player according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of the radiation information generating unit shown in FIG. 2. FIG.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of the radiation determination module shown in FIG. 3. FIG.
5 is a block diagram illustrating another embodiment of the radiation determination module shown in FIG.
6 is a diagram illustrating an example of an interface of a general multimedia player.
7 is a diagram illustrating an example of an interface of a multimedia player according to an embodiment of the present invention.
8 is a diagram illustrating another example of an interface of a multimedia player according to an embodiment of the present invention.
9 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a multimedia player according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

However, the embodiments of the present invention can be modified into various other forms, and the scope of the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described below. Further, the embodiments of the present invention are provided to more fully explain the present invention to those skilled in the art.

The meaning of the terms described in the present invention should be understood as follows.

It should be understood that the singular " include "or" have "are to be construed as including a stated feature, number, step, operation, component, It is to be understood that the combination is intended to specify that it does not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, or combinations thereof.

The present invention can be embodied as computer-readable code on a computer-readable recording medium, and the computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording devices for storing data that can be read by a computer system . Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include a ROM, a RAM, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical data storage device, and the like, and a program structure (for example, Application of the < / RTI > In addition, the computer-readable recording medium may be distributed over networked computer systems, and thus may include forms of computer readable code in a distributed computing manner.

All terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs, unless otherwise defined. Commonly used predefined terms should be interpreted to be consistent with the meanings in the context of the related art and can not be interpreted as having ideal or overly formal meaning unless explicitly defined in the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an entire system to which a multimedia player according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

Referring to FIG. 1, a multimedia player may be implemented in a user terminal 10.

The user terminal 10 collectively refers to a computing device on which a multimedia player can be operated, and may be a variety of electronic devices such as a personal computer, a notebook, a tablet PC, a smart phone, and the like.

The user terminal 10 is connected to the media providing server 20 and the additional information providing server 30 to receive multimedia contents such as moving pictures and music and to receive additional information about the multimedia contents.

The media providing server 20 may provide multimedia contents such as moving pictures and music to the user terminal 10. [ For example, the media providing server 20 may provide downloading of a moving image or music, or may provide streaming thereof.

The additional information providing server 30 may provide additional information on multimedia contents such as moving pictures and music. Additional information will be described in more detail below.

In FIG. 1, the media providing server 20 and the additional information providing server 30 are shown separately, but this is for convenience of explanation. Therefore, the media providing server 20 and the additional information providing server 30 may be implemented as one server.

Hereinafter, various embodiments of the multimedia player will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2 to 8. FIG.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a multimedia player according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the multimedia player 100 may include an interface providing unit 110, a multimedia reproducing unit 120, and a radiation information generating unit 130.

First, the multimedia reproducing unit 120 can reproduce multimedia contents such as moving pictures and music.

For example, the multimedia playback unit 120 may include a moving image playback unit 121 for playing a moving image and a music playback unit 122 for playing the music.

The interface providing unit 110 may output a moving picture or music being played back, that is, an output of the multimedia reproducing unit, using a predetermined interface. The interface providing unit 110 may provide a radiance display interface for visualizing and displaying the radiation information in the predetermined interface.

For example, the interface providing unit 110 may output moving pictures or music (or music information) through a moving picture or music playback interface among the interfaces of the moving picture player, It is possible to display the generated radiation corresponding to the radiation information.

Such radiation information is generated in the radiation information generating unit 130.

The radiation information generating unit 130 may generate the radiation information using the additional information provided from the additional information providing server.

The radiation information generating unit 130 may quantify additional information related to the moving picture or music to be reproduced, and may generate the radiation information corresponding to the quantified additional information.

For example, if the content being played is music, the additional information may include climax information about the music, tempo information, volume information, information related to the flow of music, opinion information of the manager, opinion information of the user, And may include at least one.

As another example, when the content being played is a moving picture, the additional information may include at least one of a playing count information, climax information, volume information, manager's opinion information, user's opinion information, One can be included.

As such, for the additional information on the content being reproduced, the radiation information generator 130 quantizes the additional information to generate quantified data, adjusts the radiated value corresponding to the quantified data, Can be generated.

For example, the lightness and the darkness of the radiation are displayed differently according to the climax of the music, or the darkness is displayed more in the portion where the user reproduces a lot in the moving picture, and the like are examples of such radia- tion .

In one embodiment, the radiation information may be represented by a variation of at least one of brightness, saturation, and hue.

For example, the radiation information may include at least one of a variation amount of brightness, a variation amount of saturation, and a variation amount of hue associated with a reproduction time of a moving image or music. That is, the radiation information may include a radiation value that varies according to a reproduction time of a moving picture or music.

6 and 7, a description will be given of an example in which theradiation is displayed in the multimedia player according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of an interface of a general multimedia player, and FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of an interface of a multimedia player according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, in the comparative example shown in Fig. 6, the portion currently being reproduced is indicated through the reproduction bar of the moving image, but other information is not disclosed.

On the other hand, in the example of the present invention shown in FIG. 7, the notations (P1, P2, P3) are used so as to have a high degree of radiance with respect to a portion where the number of times of reproduction of a moving image is high. Various additional information can be intuitively understood at a glance.

On the other hand, in the example shown in Fig. 7, the radiative display interface is displayed in place of the playback bar, but this is an example, and the radiative display interface may be displayed together with the playback bar.

In one example, the radiation display interface may be represented by a bar type that is parallel to the playback bar.

3, various embodiments of a multimedia player according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of the radiation information generating unit shown in FIG. 2. FIG.

Referring to FIG. 3, the radiation information generating unit 130 may include an additional information quantifying module 310 and a radiation determining module 320 thereof.

The additional information quantization module 310 may quantify the additional information with respect to the reproduction time of moving pictures or music, and generate quantification data.

For example, the additional information quantization module 310 generates quantization data such that the higher the tempo of the music has the higher value, the higher the value of the music is, the higher the value of the climax for music .

As another example, the additional information quantization module 310 may be configured to quantize the quantized data such that the portion having a high number of times of reproduction of a moving picture has a high value, the value of a climax of a moving picture has a high value, Can be generated.

 The radiation determination module 320 may determine the radiation value according to the quantization data generated by the additional information quantization module 310 and generate the radiation information.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of the radiation determination module shown in FIG. 3. FIG.

Referring to FIG. 4, the radiation determination module 310 may include at least one of a brightness determination module 410, a saturation determination module 420, and a color determination module 430.

The brightness determination module 410, the saturation determination module 420 and the color determination module 430 receive the quantified additional information, that is, the quantization data provided by the additional information quantization module 310, And the value of the color.

In embodiments where the radiance determination module 320 includes both the brightness determination module 410, the saturation determination module 420, and the color determination module 430, the radiance may be changed by a change in brightness, Can be displayed by using all of the changes of < RTI ID = 0.0 >

Meanwhile, in one embodiment, the additional information may be divided into two or more types, and two or more types of the additional information may be displayed in accordance with the additional information divided into two or more types. This will be described with reference to Figs. 5 and 8. Fig.

For example, the additional information may be divided into first additional information and second additional information, wherein the first additional information includes climax information for music or a moving picture, tempo information, volume information, , Information related to the flow of the music, opinion information of the manager, opinion information of the user, and usage pattern information of the user. Further, the second additional information may include viewable age information for the music or the moving picture.

In such an embodiment, the radiation determination module 311 may change at least one of brightness or saturation for the first additional information to determine its radiation value, change the color of the second additional information, Value can be determined.

Referring to FIG. 5, the radiation determination module 311 may include a brightness determination module 411, a saturation determination module 421, and a color determination module 431.

The brightness determination module 410 and the saturation determination module 420 may receive the quantization data for the first additional information and the color determination module 430 may receive the quantification data for the second additional information.

The brightness determination module 410 and the saturation determination module 420 may respectively output brightness and saturation values corresponding to the quantization data for the first additional information.

The color determination module 430 may output the color value corresponding to the quantization data for the second additional information.

Referring to the example shown in FIG. 8, for the first additional information, the gradation changes (P1, P2, P3) by a change in brightness or saturation, while for the second additional information, .

For example, in a portion where the number of times of reproduction of a moving image is high, notation (P1, P2, P3) is made so as to have a high gradation according to the first additional information, 2 The notation Pt1 can be known to have high gradation according to the additional information.

This is because differences in color are more apparent than brightness or saturation, so that if the additional information is divided into two or more groups, the groups are grouped by color.

In one embodiment, when the additional information is divided into two groups, the color relationship for the two groups may be a complementary color relationship or a similar color relationship. This is to intuitively distinguish the two groups by setting the color difference between the two groups to be wide.

The multimedia player according to an embodiment of the present invention described above can be implemented as a program driven by a computing device, that is, a program driven by a CPU and a memory. In this case, each of the above-described components may be a function of the program or a sub-program.

Or according to an embodiment, at least some of each component may be implemented in a dedicated hardware device implemented as a dedicated IC.

As such, it will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that the multimedia player according to an embodiment of the present invention is implemented based on hardware.

In the foregoing, various embodiments of the multimedia player according to an embodiment of the present invention have been described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 8. FIG.

Hereinafter, a method of providing a multimedia player according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. However, the method of providing players to be described below can be easily understood with reference to the above description with reference to Figs. 1 to 8. Fig.

9 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a multimedia player according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 9, the multimedia player may generate the radiation information using additional information related to a moving picture or music to be reproduced.

That is, the multimedia player may generate the quantization data by quantifying the additional information with respect to the reproduction time of the moving image or music (S910).

Thereafter, the multimedia player may generate the radiation information by determining the radiation value according to the quantification data (S920).

In addition, the multimedia player may reproduce moving images or music using a predetermined interface, and provide the radiated display interface visualized corresponding to the radial information in the interface (S930).

In one embodiment, the radiation information may include at least one of a variation amount of brightness, a variation amount of saturation, and a variation amount of hue associated with the reproduction time of the moving picture or music.

In one embodiment, the additional information may include climax information for the music or video, tempo information, volume information, playback count information for each playback time, information related to the flow of the song, information related to the flow of the song, , User's opinion information, and usage pattern information of the user.

The description of the present invention described above is only an example for structural or functional description, and thus the scope of the present invention should not be construed as being limited by the embodiments described in the text. That is, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments and the attached drawings, but is limited by the following claims, and the constitution of the present invention is not limited to the above- It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, it is to be understood that the scope of the present invention includes equivalents capable of realizing the technical idea.

10: user terminal 20: media providing server
30: Additional information providing server
100: Multimedia player
110: interface provisioning
120: Multimedia playback unit
121: Moving picture playback unit 122: Music playback unit
130: Radiation information generating unit
310: Additional information quantification module 320: Gradation determination module

Claims (11)

A multimedia reproducing unit for reproducing a moving picture or music;
A radiative information generating unit for quantifying the additional information related to the reproduced moving image or music and generating the radiative information corresponding to the quantified additional information; And
And an interface providing unit for outputting the output of the multimedia reproducing unit using a predetermined interface and providing a radiance display interface visualized corresponding to the radiation information in the interface,
The radiation information generating unit
An additional information quantification module for quantifying the additional information with respect to the reproduction time of the moving image or music, thereby generating quantification data; And
And a radiance determination module for determining the radiated value according to the quantification data and generating the radiance information,
The additional information
First additional information including at least one of climax information on the moving picture or music, tempo information, volume information, information on the number of plays per each playing time, and information on the flow of the music;
Second additional information including viewable age information for the moving picture or music; And
And third additional information including at least one of the opinion information of the manager, the opinion information of the user, and the pattern information of the user.
The method of claim 1, wherein the radiation information
A change amount of a saturation, and a change amount of a color associated with a reproduction time of the moving picture or music.
The method of claim 1,
Wherein the multimedia player further comprises one of climax information, tempo information, volume information, and information related to a flow of music for the music.
The method of claim 1,
A climax information, and a volume information for each of the reproduction times of the moving picture.
delete delete The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the radiation determination module
Determining at least one of brightness or saturation for the first additional information to determine the radial value,
And changes the color of the second additional information to determine the radial value of the second additional information.
A first step of generating the radiation information by using additional information related to a moving picture or music to be reproduced; And
And a second step of reproducing a moving picture or music using a predetermined interface and providing a radiance display interface visualized corresponding to the radiated information in the interface,
The first step
Quantizing the additional information with respect to the reproduction time of the moving picture or music to generate quantification data; And
And determining the radiation value according to the quantification data to generate the radiation information,
The additional information
First additional information including at least one of climax information on the moving picture or music, tempo information, volume information, information on the number of plays per each playing time, and information on the flow of the music;
Second additional information including viewable age information for the moving picture or music; And
And third additional information including at least one of the opinion information of the manager, the opinion information of the user, and the pattern information of the user.
9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the radiation information
A change amount of a saturation, and a change amount of a color associated with a reproduction time of the moving picture or music.
9. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the multimedia player further comprises at least one of climax information for a music or a moving picture, tempo information, volume information, information on the number of times of reproduction for each reproduction time, and information related to a flow of the music.

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