KR20030052794A - Internet-based picture exhibition system and method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an Internet-based photo exhibition system and method, and more particularly to creating a gallery, which is a space for exhibition of photographs, in the form of a home page for each photographer on a cyber space, and digitizing photographic image data in a database. The present invention relates to a system and a method for easily displaying image data registered to Internet users through a generated gallery and further selling and renting.

Description

Internet-based picture exhibition system and method

The present invention relates to an Internet-based photo exhibition system and method, and more particularly to creating a gallery, which is a space for exhibition of photographs, in the form of a home page for each photographer, and registering the digitized photo image data in a database. The present invention relates to a system and a method for easily displaying registered image data through a gallery created for a user and further selling and renting.

At present, a large number of image providing services related to photographs and pictures are performed on the Internet. One type of service that has been conventionally provided is to provide various image data arbitrarily at the service provider side and to provide them by category. The other type is to provide image data for each artist. Another form is to provide only images of the corresponding category based on one specific category.

The image providing service according to the related art has some disadvantages depending on the type of providing. First, in the case of providing a variety of images by category, there is a lack of connectivity between each image, which makes it seem somewhat distracting to provide a satisfactory service to the user. Second, in the case of providing by individual writers, it was inconvenient to search each site by author. Third, there is a disadvantage in that various kinds of images are not provided in the case of providing a specific category.

Accordingly, an improved image providing service is provided, and its form is to provide image data of a plurality of writers for each artist in one site. However, this method has a disadvantage in that the monotony cannot be avoided by providing only the image data of each artist on a web page of the same type so that the artist's personality to display the image data can not be fully utilized.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and allows photographers to create a gallery in which image data is to be displayed in a desired form on a cyber space, and registers an image from a photographer or the like to generate in advance. It aims to be able to display registered images through the gallery.

In addition, the server side provides a gallery creation wizard including images and scripts required for creating a gallery by a photographer, etc., so that the photographer or the like generates a gallery in response to the guidance of the gallery creation wizard. do.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide an existing gallery name at a glance in addition to the gallery list, which is a collection of generated galleries when the gallery is generated.

1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a system configuration according to the present invention;

2 is a flow diagram illustrating one embodiment of a method configuration in accordance with the present invention;

3 is a diagram illustrating a relationship between a gallery list and a gallery;

4 is a diagram showing the composition of an album list and an album;

5 is a flowchart illustrating one embodiment of a method of accessing a gallery.

<Brief description of the symbols of the main parts of the drawings>

100 ... users, 200 ... image providers,

300 image server, 310 request processing unit,

320 ... Membership Management, 330 ... DB Management,

340 ... Gallery Management, 350 ... DB.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a photo exhibition system based on the Internet, comprising: a database storing member related data and image related data; And a member manager that registers and authenticates an image provider that provides image data such as a user and a picture as a member, a database manager that manages the database, and displays image data owned by each image provider registered as a member. Characterized in that it comprises an image server consisting of a gallery management unit for generating a gallery that can be.

In the above system, the gallery manager may further include a gallery generating means for allowing an image provider to select any one form among a plurality of predetermined forms that are set in advance, and to input a desired phrase. .

In the above system, the gallery manager may further generate an album, which is at least one logical storage space for allowing an image provider to classify image data, and register each image in an associated album. .

On the other hand, in the Internet-based photo display method, the step of creating a gallery in the cyber space where the image will be displayed for the image provider to provide the image data, register the image data transmitted from the image provider to the created gallery and the database And providing an image registered as data of the gallery to a user accessing the generated gallery.

In the above method, the generating of the gallery may include allowing the image provider to select any one form among a plurality of predetermined forms, and input a desired phrase.

The method may further include generating at least one album, which is a logical storage space of an image, which allows the image provider to classify the image data, in the step of registering the image data in the generated gallery and storing it in a database. Further provided with, it is another feature to be able to register the provided image to the desired album.

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Hereinafter, the Example by this invention is described in detail with reference to an accompanying drawing.

1 is an overall block diagram of a system configuration according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, in the system according to the present invention, a user 100 and an image server 300 are connected, and an image provider 200 is connected. The image server 300 is connected. At this time, each connection is made through the Internet (not shown).

The user 100 is a general person using various services through the Internet, and has a conventional computer system required for using the Internet service, that is, a computer system including a browser, a modem, various image viewers, and various plug-ins.

The image provider 200 is a photographer or the like who wants to display a photograph held by the Internet, and includes an individual and a company. That is, it includes freelance photographers, photographers belonging to newspapers, broadcasting stations or magazine companies, illustrators, designers, photo club members, and other students who are majoring in photography. The image provider 200 is provided with a conventional digital image (hereinafter, referred to as an image) generating device, such as a scanner or a digital camera, which can be connected to the above-described conventional computer system and its peripheral devices required to use the Internet service. Digitize the back.

The image server 300 is a means for providing image data to the user 100 through the Internet. The request server 310, the member manager 320, the DB manager 330, and the gallery are used to perform the above operation. The manager 340 is provided.

When the signal related to data transmission or job execution is output and input from the user 100 and the image provider 200, the request processor 310 decodes the signal and is suitable for processing matters related to the signal. Means for delivering the requested contents to the unit, and the member manager 320 performs means related to member management such as member registration and member authentication of the user 100 and the image provider 200. to be.

The DB manager 330 is a means for performing various operations related to data, that is, input, search, deletion, and modification, and the gallery manager 340 is various from gallery creation to image display (provision). It's a means to make things work.

That is, the gallery manager 340 generates a gallery, which is an image display space on the cyber, in a desired form, and after generating the gallery, an album (a kind of folder or directory concept) that is a logical storage space of an image in the gallery. ) To register the image in the album, and to provide the registered image to the user 100 through the gallery. The gallery may be created in the form of a home page, that is, a form having a plurality of web pages of various uses. In this case, the image provider 200 may easily generate a gallery by providing a gallery creation wizard including an image and a script required to generate the gallery. The gallery created by the above method is added to the gallery list, which is a collection of generated galleries, and is provided to the user 100 through the web page.

In addition, each image is registered and managed in an album, which may be referred to as a private category, which is created and managed by the image provider 200. In this way, one gallery consists of a plurality of albums, and one album consists of a plurality of images. Even if the gallery is formed in the above-described form, the images are not necessarily provided to the user 100 in the same form, that is, the album. Although the album can be deleted, it should be noted that when deleting an album, all images constituting the album are deleted. On the other hand, for the performance of the system it is desirable to set the limit capacity that can be accommodated by one album to further register the image in any album to disable image registration when the limit capacity is exceeded.

In addition, the gallery manager 340 may allow the user 100 or the like to select an image for rental or purchase and pay online for the selected image.

The database 350 stores information related to the user 100 and the image provider 200 and data related to an image provided by the image provider 200, so that the user 100 and the image provider ( If there is a request for transmission from 200). The information related to the user 100 is typically data inputted at the time of member registration, and the information related to the image provider 200 is usually inputted at the time of member registration. Includes specific data regarding your identity. Specific data related to the above status may include, for example, a photographic association or a writer, a commercial photographer, a photojournalist in an art or photography magazine or a newspaper, or a graduate of a photographic department. It is one character.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating one embodiment of the method according to the present invention. Hereinafter, an embodiment of the method according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 2.

First, an image provider 200, such as a photographer, accesses an image server 300 and inputs necessary information to register as a member (S200). In general, the information necessary to register as a member includes, in addition to the data input at the time of membership registration, some photo data and specific data related to identity due to the characteristics of the service provided. Specific data related to the above status may be, for example, a photographic association or association author, a commercial photographer, a photographic journalist belonging to an art or photographic magazine or newspaper, or a graduate of a photographic department. It is one character.

Subsequently, the image provider 200 generates a gallery, which is an image exhibition space on the cyber, in a desired form (S210). The gallery may appear in the form of a home page, that is, in the form of a plurality of web pages for various purposes. In this case, the image server 300 provides a gallery creation wizard (Wizard) including an image, a script, and the like necessary for generating the gallery so that the image provider 200 easily generates the gallery. Accordingly, the aspect in which the image provider 200 performs the task of generating the gallery is mainly in the form in which the image provider 200 responds to the guidance of the gallery creation wizard, that is, the web that is preconfigured by the image server 300 side. Select the image to fill the page, and other introductory texts, etc. will appear in the form of input through the input window provided separately. When the gallery is generated in the above manner, the hypertext associated with the generated gallery is included in the site (hereinafter, the mother site) previously provided by the image server 300, and the gallery (hereinafter, used with the website) and the Hypertext is hyperlinked. That is, the generated gallery is added to the gallery list, which is a collection of created galleries. This is illustrated in FIG. 3.

Subsequently, at least one album, which is a logical storage space of an image, is generated by receiving an album name and a description of the album (S220). In other words, as described above, the album is a private category that each image provider 200 creates and manages, so that related images are stored in one place to facilitate image management. The album can be further created if necessary, and can be deleted if unnecessary. However, when the album is deleted, all images constituting the album are deleted. On the other hand, for the performance of the system it is desirable to set the limit capacity that can be accommodated by one album to further register the image in any album to disable image registration when the limit capacity is exceeded.

Subsequently, an album related to an image to be registered is selected from existing albums to register an image (S230). At this time, if there is no corresponding album, it is possible to create additionally after receiving the album name and description of the album. The aspect of registering an image in the above-mentioned album appears when inputting predetermined related data in the process of registering an image. That is, the image provider 200 may include image file data, album name, image name, description, date taken, original type (related to size, sensitivity, color / monochrome, direction, etc.), sales price, license type (sales and rentals). By inputting a keyword, etc.), and transmitting it to the image server 300, the image is registered in the related album. Images registered by operating as described above may be retrieved and deleted by the image provider 200. At this time, the image search can be searched by image name, description, date taken or keyword.

As image registration is performed by the above method, one gallery is composed of a plurality of albums, and one album is composed of a plurality of images. 4 shows a form in which the album and the registered image generated by the method as described above are shown to the image provider 200. (a) is a diagram of a list of albums in which a plurality of albums are generated and exists, and (b) is a diagram of a list of images constituting an arbitrary album (album 1 in the figure). Even if the gallery is formed in the above-described form, the images are not necessarily provided to the user 100 in the same form, that is, the album.

After the gallery creation and image registration are completed in this manner, when the user 100 accesses the gallery, the image server 300 transmits and provides image data related to the gallery to the user 100 (S240).

At this time, there are several ways to access the gallery, the contents of which are shown in FIG. First, a description will be given of a case in which the user 100 accesses an arbitrary gallery, that is, a case in which a gallery to be visited is not determined and a case in which a user wants to access a specific gallery, that is, a case in which a gallery to be visited is determined. In the figure, only (a) corresponds to the case where the user 100 accesses an arbitrary gallery. That is, the user 100 enters the domain name of the mother site to access the mother site, and then selects and connects the child site, that is, the gallery, to be visited from the gallery list provided by the mother site. In the gallery list, a few images, which may be referred to as representative images, are provided side by side between the name of the image provider 200 and the images registered from each image provider 200 so that the user 100 selects a gallery to visit.

On the other hand, when accessing a specific gallery, all of (a), (b) and (c) are applicable. The description about (a) is omitted, and access to the website is performed by (b), that is, by inputting the original domain name of the website, which is a specific gallery, and by (c), i. Enter a separate domain name for your site and forward it to access your site. The forwarding means domain forwarding, which will be described below with specific examples. That is, the image provider 200 has a separate domain name, for example, www.honggildong.co.kr (hereinafter, referred to as domain name 2) for convenience, and the user 100 who knows the domain name 2 enters the domain name 2. In this case, by connecting to a domain name previously managed by the image server 300 side in real time, for example, www.3agallery.com/gallery/honggildong, domain management can be efficiently performed, and the convenience of the user 100 can be increased. Can be.

On the other hand, the provided image is a watermark, which is a transparent pattern printed faintly on the image to represent an owner, etc., which is a conventional method used to prevent unauthorized use of an image by an Internet user in a conventional image providing service. You can use a form that doesn't support insert save or right-click save as.

Finally, when receiving a request related to the purchase or rental of the image from the user 100, the server 300 pays for the rental or purchase fee of the selected image (S250).

According to the present invention, in an internet-based photo exhibition system and method, a photographer or the like generates a gallery in which image data is displayed in a desired form on a cyber space, and registers an image from a photographer or the like in advance. By providing a registered image through the generated gallery, the photographer and the like can easily display the picture.

In addition, since the server side provides a gallery creation wizard including images and scripts necessary for creating a gallery by a photographer and the like, the photographer and the like can easily create a gallery in the form of a home page.

In addition, by providing the generated gallery as a list to the user at a glance, it is possible to provide convenience to the user who wants to visit the gallery.

Claims (6)

In the Internet-based photo display system, A database storing member related data and image related data; And A member management unit that registers and authenticates an image provider that provides image data such as a user and a picture as a member, a database manager that manages the database, and an image data that is owned by each image provider registered as a member can be displayed. Image server, consisting of a gallery management unit that lets you create a gallery Internet-based photo exhibition system comprising a. The method of claim 1, And the gallery manager comprises a gallery generating means for allowing an image provider to select any one form among a plurality of predetermined forms that are set in advance and to input a desired phrase. The method of claim 2, And the gallery manager generates an album, which is at least one logical storage space for allowing an image provider to classify image data, and registers and manages each image in an associated album. In the Internet-based photo display method, Generating a gallery in cyberspace where an image is to be displayed for an image provider to provide image data; Registering the image data transmitted by the image provider in the generated gallery and storing the image data in a database; And Providing an image registered with data of the gallery to a user accessing the created gallery. Internet-based photo display method characterized in that it comprises a. The method of claim 4, wherein Generating the gallery, An Internet-based photo display method characterized by allowing an image provider to select any one form among a plurality of predetermined forms set in advance and to input a desired phrase. The method of claim 5, Registering the image data in the generated gallery and storing in the database, Creating at least one album, which is a logical storage space for the image, which allows the image provider to classify the image data. Further comprising, to register the provided image to the desired album, Internet-based photo display method characterized in that.