JP2002288213A - Data-forwarding device, data two-way transmission device, data exchange system, data-forwarding method, data-forwarding program, and data two-way transmission program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To transmit multiple and appropriately added data to a communication device on the receiving side, when the user of the communication device of the sending side transmit message data. SOLUTION: A problem is solved, by providing with a message data receiving means 121, which receives the message data from a data two-way transmission device 110 of the sending side; an external conditions acquiring means 123, which acquires information about the external conditions at the time of receiving the message data; an added data acquisition means 125, which decides and acquires the added data, which is added information from the message data received at the message data receiving means 121 and the information about the outside condition acquired at the external conditions acquiring means 123; and a message data transmitting means 126, which adds the acquired added data to the received message data and transmits it to the data two-way transmission device 110 of the receiving side.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data transfer for transferring message data such as an e-mail and an instant message from a communication device on the transmission side to a communication device on the receiving side through a telephone line, a wireless network or the Internet. The present invention relates to a data transfer device, a data transmission / reception device, a data exchange system, a data transfer method, a data transfer program, and a data transmission / reception program for performing processing for attaching additional information to the message data at the time of data transfer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventional telephone lines and CATV (cable telev
As a method of transmitting and receiving a message through a dedicated line such as ision) or a network such as wireless or the Internet, there is a method of transferring message data such as an electronic mail or an instant message. In these methods, message data transmitted from a transmitting terminal is usually transferred to a receiving terminal via a data transfer device.

In general e-mails and instant messages, message data to be transferred is basically based on characters, but multimedia data such as images, animations and voices are temporarily converted into character information and transmitted to a terminal on the transmission side. , And the receiving terminal can transfer data other than characters by restoring the received multimedia data to the original multimedia data. There is also a method of transferring multimedia data as it is in the form of message data, such as a so-called videophone for transmitting and receiving video and audio.

In the conventional method for transferring message data as described above, the device for transferring message data transfers the message data received from the terminal on the receiving side as it is to the terminal on the receiving side. In general e-mail, when transferring message data,
Although information relating to the transferred history is added to the header information, the body of the message data transmitted from the transmitting terminal is not changed.

On the other hand, there is a method in which a device for transferring e-mail data adds data such as an advertisement to e-mail data received from a terminal on the transmitting side and transmits the data to the terminal on the receiving side. That is, when e-mail data is received from the terminal on the transmission side, data to be added is selected from data such as advertisements stored in advance by any means, and the beginning or end of the body of the received e-mail data is selected. Etc., or attached as an attached file, and transmitted to the receiving terminal. According to this method, it is possible to add information that is not included in the content of the e-mail data transmitted by the terminal on the transmission side and transmit the data to the terminal on the reception side.

ACM SIGGRAPH'96 Conference Proce
In the paper "Comic Chat" described on pages 225-236 of edings, there are expressions and expressions of characters (characters) such as cartoons and pictures, corresponding to specific keywords in conversational sentences in chats. Techniques for changing operation are disclosed.

According to this technique, the transmitting terminal searches for one or more specific keywords set in advance from the message data input by the user, and if the keyword is included, Then, information relating to the expression and movement of the character previously associated with each keyword is added to the original message data and transmitted. On the other hand, at the receiving terminal, if information on the expression or movement of the character is added to the received message data, the information of the character or movement stored in advance in the receiving terminal is used to determine the character. The information corresponding to the information about the expression and the action of the character is selected and displayed, and the message data obtained by excluding the information about the expression and the action of the character from the received message data is displayed as the dialogue of the character.

[0008] In this manner, the character data can be displayed by changing the expression and movement of the character from the message data consisting only of the character string.

[0009]

However, there is a problem that a message using only characters, such as a conventional electronic mail or instant message, has little enjoyment. To solve this problem, according to the method of transmitting multimedia data attached to message data, it is possible to send and receive message data with images and audio added, so it is more interesting than text-only messages Can be.

However, in order to send a message with such multimedia data attached, the user of the transmitting terminal can create the multimedia data by himself or can communicate with the transmitting terminal or the transmitting terminal. After searching and acquiring a desired one from multimedia data stored in another terminal, it is necessary to add the created or acquired multimedia data to a message to be transmitted in the form of an attached file or the like and send it. There was a problem that it was troublesome.

In the above-described method of transmitting and receiving multimedia data as it is as message data, message data using video and audio can be transmitted and received like a videophone. Problems such as the need to create data, which takes time, increases the processing load on the terminal, and increases power consumption, have not been solved.

On the other hand, if the above-described method of transmitting electronic mail data by using a method of adding data such as an advertisement to electronic mail data received from a transmitting terminal and transmitting the data to a receiving terminal is used, , Because it is possible to add multimedia data when transferring message data,
There is a problem that there is little enjoyment with a message including only characters as described above, a problem that a user of a transmitting terminal has trouble in creating or searching for and obtaining multimedia data, or creating multimedia data. This can solve the problem of an increase in the processing load on the terminal.

However, depending on the means for selecting the multimedia data to be added, the data desired by the user of the terminal on the transmitting side is not always added. For example, if a method of searching for specific keywords from message data, such as “Comic Chat” described above, is used, multimedia data corresponding to the keywords can be added, but the selected multimedia data is message data. Is determined only from the content of Therefore,
There is a problem that the specific keyword is fixed so that the specific multimedia data associated therewith is always added to the specific keyword, and the freshness and the fun are reduced with use.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and its object is to provide a telephone line, radio,
When transferring message data such as an e-mail or an instant message from a communication device on the transmission side to a communication device on the receiving side through a dedicated line such as an ATV or a network such as the Internet, an external situation at the time of transferring the message data And obtaining additional information from the message data and the information about the external situation, obtaining the additional information, adding the additional information to the message data, and transferring the additional information to the communication device on the receiving side. To provide a data transfer device, a data transmission / reception device, a data exchange system, a data transfer method, a data transfer program, and a data transmission / reception program.

[0015]

A data transfer device according to the present invention is a data transfer device for transferring message data from a communication device on the transmission side to a communication device on the reception side through a network in order to solve the above problems. In the transfer device, a message data receiving unit that receives message data from the communication device on the transmitting side, an external status obtaining unit that obtains information about an external status when the message data receiving unit receives the message data, Additional data for determining and acquiring additional data by searching a database of additional data, which is additional information, from the message data received by the message data receiving means and the information on the external situation acquired by the external situation acquiring means. Acquiring means, and the message data received by the message data receiving means. And a message data transmitting means for transmitting to the communication device on the receiving side adds the additional data obtained by said additional data acquisition unit to data.

Here, the information relating to the external situation includes information relating to the environment such as time, temperature and weather, and the location (geographical location, etc.) or location (school, amusement park, etc.) where the communication device on the transmitting or receiving side exists. , Hospitals, vehicles, etc.) or information on communication devices such as the history of message data transmitted or received by the communication device on the transmission side, or use of the communication device on the transmission or reception side The information includes information about the user, such as a user's image, body temperature, heart rate, and preference information, and is information that can change in real time depending on the situation or situation.

The method by which the external situation acquiring means acquires the information concerning the external situation has various forms depending on the type of the information concerning the external situation. For example, if the information on the external situation is information on the environment, it may be obtained from a sensor separately provided in the data transfer device according to the present invention, or another device connected to the data transfer device according to the present invention via a network May be obtained from. Alternatively, if the information on the external situation is information on a communication device or information on a user, the information may be acquired from each communication device.

The additional data is general data such as the above-mentioned image, animation, and sound.

Further, the network refers to a communication line network that enables communication between communication devices having at least a communication function regardless of a wireless / wired communication mode. For example, when the communication mode is wireless, a communication network is constituted by base stations or relay base stations for wireless communication. Therefore, the data transfer device can be accessed by any communication device such as a stationary type or a portable type having a communication function via a telephone line, the Internet or a dedicated line.

Further, the communication device on the receiving side may be a device specialized for a receiving terminal having only a receiving function, and it does not matter whether or not it has a data transmitting function.

With the above arrangement, when the message data receiving means receives the message data from the communication device on the transmitting side, the external situation obtaining means obtains information on the external situation at that time. The additional data obtaining means searches a database of additional data from the message data and the information on the external situation, and determines and obtains the additional data. The message transmitting means adds the additional data to the message data and transmits the message data to the communication device on the receiving side.

Therefore, the user of the communication device on the transmitting side can create additional data that conforms to both the content of the message data and the information about the external situation that can change in real time without creating or searching for the additional data. By being acquired, for example, when the message data is content related to Mt.Fuji, if the information that the weather is snow is acquired as the external situation, the image of the snow-covered Mt.Fuji is added data, or the weather is fine as the external situation. If the information that the time is in the evening and the information that the time is in the evening is acquired, it is possible to send various and appropriate additional data to the user of the communication device on the receiving side, such as acquiring the image of Red Fuji as additional data. it can.

Further, since the processing load for creating or acquiring the additional data is not imposed on the communication device,
The advantage that the increase in power consumption can be avoided and the configuration for creating or acquiring the additional data can be omitted, which makes it easier to reduce the size and cost, especially when the communication device is a portable terminal. growing.

The database of the additional data only needs to be accessible by the additional data acquisition means.
It does not matter whether or not it is built in the data transfer device.

Although a specific example will be described later, it is preferable that the external situation acquisition means be configured to acquire as much information as possible about the external situation in order to expand the diversity of the additional data as much as possible. . This is because the more types of information acquired regarding the external situation, the greater the number of combinations and the range of additional data options, and the additional data acquisition means determines the optimal additional data for the message data from a plurality of options. This is because it becomes possible.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a data transfer device according to the present invention has an additional data acquisition history storing information on an acquisition history of additional data by the additional data acquisition means, in addition to the above configuration. A storage unit is provided, wherein the additional data acquisition unit acquires additional data by referring to acquisition history information stored in the additional data acquisition history storage unit.

[0027] With the above configuration, the additional data acquisition history storage means uses the additional data acquisition means to obtain information on what additional data has been acquired from what message data and information relating to the external situation, or simply Information on the acquisition history of the additional data, such as information on which additional data has been acquired by the additional data acquisition means and how many times the additional data has been acquired by the additional data acquisition means and the date and time of the acquisition. Store and store.
The additional data acquisition unit acquires additional data by referring to acquisition history information stored in the additional data acquisition history storage unit.

Therefore, when the acquisition history information indicating that the additional data has been acquired from the combination of the content of a certain message data and the information on the external situation is stored in the additional data acquisition history storage means, another additional history is obtained. When acquiring additional data, or when there are multiple candidates for additional data, the additional data to be acquired is fixed by preferentially acquiring additional data with a smaller number of acquisitions or additional data in an earlier acquisition order. Can be prevented more effectively.

The additional data acquisition history storage means only needs to be accessible by the additional data acquisition means, and it does not matter whether the additional data acquisition history storage means is incorporated in the data transfer device or whether the access path is wired.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the data transfer device according to the present invention, in addition to the above-described configuration, further includes a reception history of the message data in the message data receiving means and a message in the message data transmitting means. A transmission / reception history storage unit for storing a transmission history of data;
The additional data acquiring means acquires additional data by referring to message data transmission / reception history information stored in the transmission / reception history storage means.

With the above arrangement, the transmission / reception history storage means stores the reception history of the message data received from the communication device on the transmission side by the message data reception means and the communication history on the reception side by the message data transmission means. The transmission history of the transmitted message data is stored. The additional data acquisition means acquires additional data by referring to message data transmission / reception history information stored in the transmission / reception history storage means.

Therefore, for example, when the history of transmission / reception of message data between the communication device on the transmitting side and the communication device on the receiving side is not stored in the transmission / reception history storage means, the sender and the receiver can: Because it means that they are the first to communicate with each other by message data, formal additional data, on the other hand,
If the history of frequent transmission and reception is stored in the transmission and reception history storage means, it means that the friendship between the sender and the receiver is progressing, so the casual additional data is The additional data acquisition means can acquire and change the additional data to be acquired and added in accordance with the transmission / reception history.

As a result, it is possible to more effectively prevent the acquired additional data from being fixed.

The transmission / reception history storage means only needs to be accessible by the additional data acquisition means, regardless of whether it is incorporated in the data transfer device or whether the access path is wired.

The data transfer device according to the present invention transmits the additional data acquired by the additional data acquisition means to the communication device on the transmission side in addition to the above configuration, in order to solve the above problem. It is characterized by having additional data transmission means.

With the above arrangement, the additional data transmitting means transmits the additional data acquired by the additional data acquiring means to the transmitting communication device. It is possible to know whether the data has been transmitted or is about to be transmitted to the receiving communication device.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the data transfer device according to the present invention, in addition to the above-mentioned configuration, performs additional data transmitted to the transmission-side communication device with respect to the additional data transmitted to the transmission-side communication device. An additional data approval / disapproval information acquisition unit for receiving information on approval / disapproval made by a user from the communication device on the transmission side, wherein the message data transmission unit receives information that acknowledges the additional data by the additional data approval / disapproval information acquisition unit. Then, the message data to which the additional data is added is transmitted to the communication device on the receiving side.

According to the above arrangement, the user of the communication device on the transmitting side checks the additional data transmitted by the additional data transmitting means, and if the additional data is desired, information for recognizing the additional data. Is transmitted to the data transfer device according to the present invention, the additional data rejection / acquisition information acquiring means receives information acknowledging the additional data, and the message data transmitting means adds the additional data to the message data and To the communication device on the side.

Therefore, the user of the communication device on the transmitting side confirms whether or not the additional data acquired by the additional data acquiring means is the desired one, and then transmits the additional data to the communication device on the receiving side. Can be sent.

It is to be noted that the additional data is not desired by the user of the communication device on the transmitting side, and information for rejecting the additional data is transmitted to the data transfer device according to the present invention, and the additional data acknowledgment information is obtained. When the means receives the information rejecting the additional data, the additional data obtaining means may obtain another additional data again, or the message data transmitting means may output a message to which no additional data is added. The data may be directly transmitted to the communication device on the receiving side.

A data transmitting / receiving apparatus according to the present invention is a data transmitting / receiving apparatus for transmitting / receiving message data through a network, in order to solve the above-mentioned problem. External status obtaining means for obtaining information regarding an external status, wherein the information regarding the external status obtained by the external status obtaining means is transmitted to the data transfer device via the communication means.

According to the above configuration, the information relating to the external situation acquired by the external situation acquiring means is transmitted to the data transfer device via the communication means. Information on the data transmitting / receiving device such as the history of the message data transmitted or received by the communication means, and information on the user of the data transmitting / receiving device according to the present invention, such as images, body temperature, heart rate, and preference information. To the data transfer device.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a data transmission / reception apparatus for transmitting / receiving message data through a network, comprising: a communication unit for transmitting / receiving data to / from the data transmission apparatus; An additional data acceptance / rejection information input means for allowing a user of the data transmission / reception apparatus to input information regarding approval / disapproval of the additional data received from the data transfer device via the communication means, The information on the approval or disapproval of the additional data, which has been input by the user, is transmitted to the data transfer device via the communication means.

With the above arrangement, the user of the data transmitting / receiving device inputs information on the approval / disapproval of the additional data received from the data transfer device via the communication means through the additional data approval / rejection information input means. Is transmitted to the data transfer device through the transmission device, the transmission-side user confirms whether the additional data acquired by the additional data acquisition unit is the desired data, and then transmits to the reception-side communication device. The data transfer device can be requested to transmit the additional data.

The data exchange system according to the present invention comprises:
In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, it is configured to include the above-described data transfer device and the above-described data transmission / reception device.

With the above configuration, a data exchange system for a wide range of users can be constructed.

The data transfer method according to the present invention is a data transfer method for transferring message data from a communication device on the transmission side to a communication device on the reception side through a network in order to solve the above-mentioned problems. A first step of receiving message data from the communication device on the side, a second step of obtaining information on an external situation at the time of executing the first step, and a message received in the first step A third step of obtaining additional data, which is additional information, from the data and the information on the external situation obtained in the second step;
And a fourth step of adding the additional data obtained in the third step to the message data received in the first step and transmitting the message data to the communication device on the receiving side.

According to the above configuration, when message data is received from the communication device on the transmitting side in the first step, information on an external situation is obtained in the second step. Further, in the third step, additional data is obtained from the message data and the information on the external situation. In the fourth step, the additional data is added to the message data and transmitted to the communication device on the receiving side.

Therefore, the user of the communication device on the transmitting side can obtain various types of additional data that match both the contents of the message data and the information on the external situation without creating or searching for the additional data. In addition, appropriate additional data can be sent to the user of the communication device on the receiving side.

Further, since a processing load for creating or acquiring additional data is not imposed on the communication device that creates the message data, it is possible to avoid an increase in power consumption of the communication device and to create or acquire additional data. The configuration described above can be omitted, and when the communication device is a portable terminal in particular, there is an effect that the merits of size reduction and cost reduction are increased.

The data transfer program according to the present invention is characterized by causing a computer to function as each means included in the above-described data transfer device in order to solve the above-mentioned problems.

With the above configuration, it is possible to realize a general computer functioning as the data transfer device described above.

The data transmission / reception program according to the present invention is characterized by causing a computer to function as each means provided in the data transmission / reception device in order to solve the above-mentioned problems.

With the above configuration, it is possible to realize a general computer functioning as the data transmitting / receiving device described above.

It is to be noted that a computer-readable recording medium storing a data transfer program for causing a computer to function as each means provided in the above-described data transfer apparatus, or a computer functioning as each means provided in the above-described data transmission / reception apparatus. It is needless to say that a computer-readable recording medium on which a data transmission / reception program is recorded also belongs to the scope of the present invention.

The external condition obtaining means of the data transfer device obtains, as information relating to the external condition, information relating to the type of additional data that can be used by displaying or reproducing it on the receiving communication device. You may.

In this case, the additional data obtaining means obtains the additional data by referring to the information relating to the external situation including the above-mentioned information, so that the additional data of a type which cannot be used by the communication device on the receiving side. You can avoid getting it.

Alternatively, the above data transfer device further comprises:
Data conversion means for converting the type of the additional data, wherein the data conversion means obtains information on the type of the additional data which can be used by the receiving-side communication device obtained by the external situation obtaining means as described above. In reference to,
If the additional data acquired by the additional data acquisition unit is a type of data that cannot be used by the receiving communication device, the additional data is converted into a type of data that can be used by the receiving communication device. After the conversion, the message data transmitting unit or the additional data transmitting unit may transmit the converted additional data instead of transmitting the acquired additional data.

In this way, for example, when the communication device on the receiving side can display a still image but cannot reproduce a moving image, if the acquired additional data is a moving image, it is included in the moving image. By extracting a representative image and using it as converted additional data, it is possible to avoid transmitting additional data of a type that cannot be used by the communication device on the receiving side.

Further, the data transfer apparatus further includes link data creating means for creating link data indicating the additional data acquired by the additional data acquiring means,
The message data transmitting means or the additional data transmitting means may transmit the link data instead of transmitting the acquired additional data.

The link data is, for example, a URL (Uniform Re
This is data indicating the location of the entity of the additional data, such as a source locator, and the data transmission / reception device can separately acquire the entity of the additional data indicated by the link data using a means such as communication.

With this configuration, even when the data size of the acquired additional data is large, the data size of the link data can be reduced, so that, for example, the user of the data transmitting / receiving device that has received the additional data The entity of the additional data pointed to by the desired link data can be obtained. Therefore, transmission of unnecessary data can be omitted.

The data transfer apparatus further includes additional data synthesizing means for synthesizing a plurality of pieces of additional data acquired by the additional data acquiring means to create one or a plurality of pieces of additional data. The data transmitting means or the additional data transmitting means may transmit the combined additional data instead of transmitting the acquired additional data.

As a method of creating the combined additional data,
For example, there is a method of combining a plurality of pieces of additional data as image data so as to overlap each other, a method of combining moving image data and audio data, and synthesizing the moving image data to be reproduced in synchronization with audio.

With this configuration, new combined additional data can be created using a plurality of pieces of additional data acquired by the additional data acquisition means as materials, so that a wide variety of additional data can be transmitted.

Further, the additional data synthesizing means includes all or a part of the message data received by the message data receiving means and received from the transmitting communication device, and one of the message data obtained by the additional data obtaining means. Alternatively, a plurality of additional data may be combined.

In this case, for example, the message data is combined with a balloon portion included in an image such as a comic frame obtained by the additional data obtaining means, or included in the message data as an attached file or the like. Synthesized additional data including all or part of the message data received from the communication device on the transmitting side, such as synthesizing an image of a person obtained by the additional data obtaining means with image data as a background. Can be created.

[0068]

(First Embodiment) A first embodiment of the present invention.
The embodiment will be described below with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a data exchange system including a data transfer device and a data transmission / reception device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 110 denotes a data transmitting / receiving device (communication device) for transmitting or receiving message data such as an electronic mail and an instant message;
Is a data transfer device for transferring message data received from the first data transmission / reception device 110 to the second data transmission / reception device 110.

The data transmission / reception device 110 has message data creation / playback for the user to create message data and to play (display, sound playback, image playback, etc.) the created or received message data and the like. Means111
Information about the data transmission / reception device 110 itself, such as the location (geographical location, etc.) or location (schools, amusement parks, hospitals, vehicles, etc.) of the data transmission / reception device 110, and the user's image, body temperature, heart rate, etc. External condition obtaining means 112 for obtaining information on external conditions such as information on the external conditions, and communication means 113 for transmitting and receiving data to and from the data transfer device 120.

The data transfer device 120 includes a message data receiving means 121 for receiving the message data transmitted from the communication means 113 included in the data transmitting / receiving device 110 which is a transmitting side of the message data; Message data analysis means for analyzing the message data received by the reception means 121 to obtain a descriptor for representing a predetermined keyword or a special meaning described in accordance with a predetermined specific description method 122, information about the external situation, which is information about the environment such as time, temperature, and weather, and the external situation acquiring means 11 provided in the data transmitting / receiving device 110.
2 to the communication means 11
, An additional data storage means for storing a database storing additional data which is general data such as images, animations and sounds, and the message data analysis means.
From the additional data stored in the additional data storage means 124 based on the keyword and descriptor obtained in step 2 and the information on the external situation obtained by the external situation obtaining means 123, Additional data obtaining means 125 for determining and obtaining additional data to be added to message data at the time of transmission of the message data.The additional data obtaining means 125 obtains the message data received by the message data receiving means 121. Message data transmission means 126 for adding the additional data and transmitting the message
, Is provided.

The external status acquisition means 112 provided in the data transmitting / receiving apparatus 110 on the transmitting side collects, for example, a history obtained by collecting information on message data received by the data transmitting / receiving apparatus 110 on the receiving side as a transmission partner. Information about the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side, such as information, may be obtained via the communication unit 113 as information about the external situation.

Alternatively, information relating to the user such as a user image obtained by various sensors such as a CCD (Charge Coupled Devices) camera, a temperature sensor, and a heart rate meter, which is separately provided in the data transmitting / receiving device 110, such as body temperature and heart rate. May be acquired as information on the external situation.

Further, information relating to the user's preference, which is input and stored in advance by the user or extracted from the operation history of the user using a method such as data mining, is used as information relating to the external situation. May be acquired.

Furthermore, if the information is related to the data transmission / reception device 110 such as the position (geographical position, etc.) of the data transmission / reception device 110, the external situation acquisition means 112 may be, for example, a GPS (Global
The current position may be generated by using a receiver (Positioning System) or the current position of the receiver may be generated by signals received from multiple base stations, such as a method of acquiring position information in a PHS (Personal Handyphone System). The position may be calculated and generated.

Further, if the information is related to the data transmitting / receiving device 110 itself such as a place (in a school, an amusement park, a hospital, in a vehicle, etc.), the external situation obtaining means 112 sends the information for specifying the place to a keyboard or a touch panel. It may be obtained through a user's input operation via the input means.

The external condition obtaining means 123 provided in the data transfer device 120 stores information on time, temperature, or weather obtained by various sensors such as a clock and a thermometer separately provided in the data transfer device 120. Information about the environment such as weather received from another device for transmitting may be acquired as information about the external situation.

Even if the above-mentioned various sensors are not included in the data transmitting / receiving device 110 or the data transfer device 120, they may be configured in another device to acquire information obtained by the sensors through communication. You may do so.

The additional data storage means 124 does not necessarily need to be configured inside the data transfer device 120. The additional data acquisition unit 125 may acquire the additional data from another device connected to the data transfer device 120 by wire or wirelessly, or capable of communicating via a network.

The additional data need not be fixedly stored in the additional data storage means 124 or the like.
Tape system such as magnetic tape and cassette tape, magnetic disk such as floppy (registered trademark) disk and hard disk, and disk system of optical disk such as CD-ROM / MO / MD / DVD, IC
Cards (including memory cards) / cards such as optical cards, or mask ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, flash
The data may be stored in various exchangeable recording media such as a fixed data-bearing media including a semiconductor memory such as a ROM, and may be replaced as necessary.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining an example of additional data stored in the additional data storage means 124. In order to manage the additional data, for a file name 201 which is a name for distinguishing the additional data, a data type 202 representing the type of the additional data, a keyword list 203 including a plurality of keywords, and information on the external situation , A plurality of external situation conditions 204 are stored in correspondence with each other.

The file name 201 may be an arbitrary character string or numeral as long as it can distinguish the additional data. In this example, however, the entity of the data used in a general computer is managed. It is expressed by the name for. That is, the entity of the data can be referred to using the file name 201. FIG. 3 shows an example of the content of the data referred to by the file name.

The data type 202 includes data types such as JPG, WAV (representing a standard audio file format in Microsoft Windows), MP3 and MPG, in addition to data types such as images, sounds, and moving images. Is also stored. As used on common computers,
It is also possible to omit the data type 202 by using an extension that is described in advance with the character string after “.” Included in the file name 201 and is defined in association with the type and format of the data. For example, the extension "jpg" indicates that the data type is image and the format is JPG.

Here, the external situation condition 204 is described in such a manner that the information on the external situation acquired by the external situation acquiring means 123 is compared with a value match or a magnitude relation. For example, “transmitting heart rate> 130” is acquired by the external situation acquiring means 112 provided in the data transmitting / receiving apparatus 110 on the transmitting side, and acquired by the external situation acquiring means 123 provided in the data transfer apparatus 120 via the communication means 113. The heart rate per minute of the user of the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmitting side is 130
It represents the condition that it is larger than.

In this manner, as shown in FIG. 3, even if the contents of the keyword list 203 are the same, information relating to the external situation, that is, different additional data according to the external situation condition 204 is stored in association with each other. I have.

Further, “(none)” written in the external situation condition 204 indicates that the information condition relating to the external situation is not set. For example, in the example of FIG. 3, if the file name 201 is “jinglebell1.mp3”, “jinglebell2.mp3” and “jinglebell3.mp3”,
The contents of the keyword list 203 and the contents of the external situation condition 204 match.

As described above, when a plurality of pieces of additional data are stored in association with the combination of the same keyword and the information on the external situation, the additional data acquisition unit 125 automatically converts the additional data as described later. When obtaining the additional data, arbitrary additional data may be determined and obtained based on a random number obtained by using a random number generator separately provided. A form in which the intention of the user of the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmitting side when the additional data is acquired by the data acquiring means 125 will be described separately.

As described above, in addition to describing that the value of information relating to the external condition is equal or comparing the magnitude relation, the external condition 204 also includes a state condition representing a specific state as the external condition 204. It may be described.
In this case, a condition for comparing a value match or a magnitude relationship with information relating to the external condition may be stored separately in association with the state condition representing the specific state.

For example, the external situation condition 204 includes “intimacy =
The state condition of “high” is stored, and the condition of “transmitting heartbeat> 130, or receiving heartbeat> 130, or number of times of transmission / reception> 20” is associated with the state condition “intimacy = high”. And memorize it separately. In this way, it is possible to set a plurality of pieces of information relating to the external condition indicating the state of “intimacy = high”.

That is, in this example, when the heart rate of the user of the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmitting side is larger than 130, or when the heart rate of the user of the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side is larger than 130. Or, if message data has been transmitted and received more than 20 times between the transmitting-side data transmitting / receiving device 110 and the receiving-side data transmitting / receiving device 110, the user of the transmitting-side data transmitting / receiving device 110 The state condition “intimacy = high”, which indicates that the intimacy with the user of the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side is high, is applicable.

It is not necessary that every data transmission / reception device 110 has the external status acquisition means 112. In this case, it is assumed that there is no information on the corresponding external condition, and the same process may be performed based on only the keyword list 203.

Hereinafter, a specific operation example of the data transfer apparatus 120 according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of message data received by the message data receiving means 121 from the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmitting side. The message data in this example has a subject
Line 401, from line 402 representing the sender, to line 403 representing the destination
, And a body 404.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing the processing performed by the message data analysis means 122 using the text 404 included in the example of the message data shown in FIG.
Is an example of a result of analysis for obtaining a keyword.
Here, as a result obtained by a process of decomposing a natural language into words (morphemes), which is generally known as morphological analysis, a list of the obtained morpheme 501 and a part of speech 502 indicating the type of the morpheme 501 is shown. I have. By using such a process, for example, a morpheme of “I like” is obtained from a sentence of “I like”, and the ending of the endings due to the use of verbs and adjectives is eliminated. The number of keywords included in the keyword list 203 can be reduced.

All the morphemes 501 obtained in this manner may be used as keywords included in the text 404. However, since it is considered that the part of speech such as a particle does not have a very important meaning, only a specific part of speech is used. If it is handled as a keyword, the processing amount of additional data search described later can be reduced. For example, if only nouns, verbs, and adjectives are treated as keywords, in the list of morphemes 501 shown in FIG.
“Next time” “Meal” “Yes” “Reply” “Wait” “Masuru”
Are obtained as keywords.

In addition to the morphological analysis, a character string that matches a pre-registered keyword may be cut out by a general keyword matching method. In English, blank characters such as spaces and tabs, periods and commas may be used. For example, a word or the like separated by a specific symbol may be cut out.

Further, in the example described above, the morpheme 501 obtained by analyzing the message data is used as a keyword. May be. For example, "you", "you", "you" are converted to the same keyword "you". In this case, FIG.
In addition, the number of keywords included in the keyword list 203 shown in FIG. 4 can be reduced, and the influence of a difference in expression when searching for additional data can be reduced as described later.

Further, a description according to a predetermined specific description method included in the message may be extracted as a descriptor for expressing a special meaning. As an example of a specific description method, the description to express a special meaning is <and>
Described in brackets. By using such a specific description method, the user who creates the message data can describe the descriptor representing the content of the message data, so that the additional data acquired by the data transfer apparatus 120 according to the present invention can be described. Can be made more appropriate.

The additional data acquiring means 125 acquires the keyword or the descriptor obtained by the message data analyzing means 122 as described above, and the external situation acquiring means 112 of the data transmitting / receiving apparatus 110, and transmits the acquired data via the communication means 113. From the information on the external situation acquired by the external situation acquiring means 123 or the information on the external situation independently acquired by the external situation acquiring means 123, the additional data stored in the additional data storage means 124 is searched for the corresponding additional data. To get.

For example, the example of the additional data shown in FIG.
When searching from the example of the analysis result of the message data shown in FIG.
1.jpg, heart2.jpg, love.jpg are from “meal” as morpheme 501, breakfast.jpg, lunch.jpg, dinner.jpg
Are obtained respectively. Further, it is assumed that the information regarding the external situation is “the sending heart rate is 90” and “the time is 16:00”. When a search is further performed from the above search results with information regarding the external situation, the external situation condition 204 is “transmitting heart rate ≦
Love.jpg which is "100" and dinn which is "14:00 <time"
er.jpg is obtained.

As described above, additional data acquisition means 125
Additional data love.jpg and dinner.j obtained by
The message data transmitting means 126 adds the pg to the message data shown in FIG.
FIG. 6 shows an example of message data transmitted to 0. Additional data 405 is love.jpg, additional data 406 is dinner.jpg
Are shown respectively.

Although the example in which the additional data is image data is shown here, other than this, for example, if the data is audio data, it is transmitted as an attached file together with the message data in the same manner as a general electronic mail. When the message data is browsed by the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side, the voice data may be automatically reproduced. The same applies to other types of data.

In order to indicate from which message data the additional data was retrieved from the keyword, as shown in the example of FIG. 6, each of the additional data is located near the retrieved keyword. The data may be added so as to be arranged.

Further, if the message data is long,
There is a possibility that the number of additional data acquired by the additional data acquisition means 125 will increase. To cope with this, the number of additional data to be added to the message data may be limited. Which of the additional data to be added to the message data among the obtained additional data may be arbitrary,
The additional data corresponding to more keywords or descriptors is preferentially added, or the additional data corresponding to the keyword included in a part of the message data indicating the subject such as the subject line 401 is preferentially added. By doing so, additional data more suitable for the content of the message data can be added. In the example of the message data shown in FIG. 4, if the message data analyzing means 122 analyzes the content "I love you" in the subject line 401, "Love" is obtained as the morpheme 501.
In the case of r.jpg, love.jpg may be added preferentially to dinner.jpg from the example of the keyword list 203 shown in FIG.

FIG. 7 is a flow chart for explaining the flow of processing in the data transfer device 120 according to the first embodiment of the present invention. Specific examples of each step are as described above.

First, the message data receiving means 121
Communication means 11 provided in data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmitting side
3 (step S601; hereinafter abbreviated as S601).

Next, the external situation acquiring means 123 acquires information relating to the external situation (S602).

Next, the message data analysis means 122 executes S6
The message data received in 01 is analyzed to obtain a keyword or a descriptor (S603).

Next, the additional data obtaining means 125 obtains the additional data storing means 124 from the information on the external situation obtained in S602 and the keyword or descriptor obtained in S603.
Is searched for, and appropriate additional data is determined and obtained (S604).

Next, the message data transmitting means 126 sets S6
01 to the message data received in S604, and adds the additional data
(S605). After that, the process ends.

As described above, according to the present invention, the user of the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmitting side only needs to transmit message data to the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side.
The message data is temporarily relayed to the data transfer device 120, and the data transfer device 120 automatically selects additional data suitable for the content of the message data based on the analysis result of the message data and the acquired information on the external situation. Then, the additional data can be transmitted to the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side with the additional data attached to the message data.

Therefore, the user on the sending side can add interest to the message data without having to create additional data or search the additional data database to find appropriate additional data. Can be.

In addition, the type and number of types of the information relating to the external situation can be arbitrarily set, and the information (the weather, the position / location of the data transmitting / receiving device 110, the data transmitting / receiving (E.g., the heart rate of the user of the device 110) can also be selected as information relating to the external situation, so that the additional data selected using such information relating to the external situation may change according to the external situation at each time. Can have diversity.

As a result, it is possible to add more interesting additional data to the message data according to the external situation at that time.

(Second Embodiment) In the first embodiment,
The additional data acquisition means 125 acquires the additional data from the message data and the information on the external situation, so that the user of the data transmitting / receiving device 110, which is the terminal on the transmitting side, does not need to create or search for the additional data. A data transmitting / receiving device 11 which is a terminal on the receiving side transmits additional data that is compatible with both the content of the data and the information regarding the external situation
An example that can be sent to 0 users has been described.

On the other hand, in the second embodiment,
Information on the history of the additional data acquired by the additional data acquisition unit 125, the reception history of the message data by the message data reception unit 121, and the message data transmission unit 12
An example in which the additional data acquiring means 125 determines the additional data to be acquired with reference to the information on the transmission history of the message data in 6 will be described. By doing this,
Acquired additional data can be changed more variously.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a data exchange system including a data transfer device 120 and a data transmission / reception device 110 according to the second embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 8, in addition to the configuration shown in FIG. 1, the data transfer device 120 has an additional data acquisition history storage unit 127 for storing information on the acquisition history of the additional data in the additional data acquisition unit 125; A transmission / reception history storage means 128 for storing the reception history of the message data in the means 121 and the transmission history of the message data in the message data transmission means 126 is provided. Further, the additional data acquisition unit 129 is provided with the message data analysis unit.
The keyword and descriptor obtained in 122, the information on the external situation acquired by the external situation acquisition means 123, the information on the acquisition history of the additional data stored in the additional data acquisition history storage means 127, From the transmission / reception history of the message data stored in the transmission / reception history storage means 128, and from the additional data stored in the additional data storage means 124, additional data for adding to the message data when transmitting the message data Determine and get. The other configuration is the same as that shown in FIG.

The information about the additional data acquisition history stored in the additional data acquisition history storage means 127 is as follows.
For example, the number of times each additional data has been acquired by the additional data acquisition unit 129 in the past. Or,
The type of the additional data acquired by the additional data acquiring means 129 may be stored in order.

The information on the acquisition history of the additional data is referred to and used by the additional data acquisition means 129 as follows, for example. In the example of the additional data illustrated in FIG. 2, the additional data having the keyword “Christmas” has file names 201 of “jinglebell1.mp3” and “ji
nglebell2.mp3 "and" jinglebell3.mp3 ". Since the external situation condition 204 is "none" in these additional data, it is a candidate for acquisition by the additional data acquisition means 129 irrespective of the content of the information on the external situation.
As described above, when there are a plurality of acquisition candidates, the additional data acquisition unit 129 acquires the additional data with the least number of acquisitions in the past among the acquisition candidates. If there are a plurality of acquisition candidates with the least number of acquisitions in the past, one of them is determined based on the random number obtained by using the random number generation means and obtained.

As described above, the additional data is selected according to the acquisition history of the additional data by the additional data acquisition means 129 for the combination of the same keyword and the information on the external situation. Can be prevented from being acquired, and the acquired additional data can be prevented from being fixed. In addition, the number of times that each of the additional data is obtained, which corresponds to a combination of a certain keyword and information about the external situation, can be equalized.

Alternatively, when the additional data acquired by the additional data acquisition means 129 is sequentially stored as information on the acquisition history of the additional data, the additional data If there is a candidate that is not included in the acquisition history (additional data that has not yet been acquired), it is acquired, and any candidate is included in the acquisition history of the additional data (it has been acquired).
In this case, the candidate obtained in the order of acquisition is the oldest. Even in this case, the same effect as described above can be obtained.

The transmission / reception history of the message data stored in the transmission / reception history storage means 128 is, for example,
From which data transmission / reception device 110 the message data was received and to which data transmission / reception device 110 the message data was transmitted is information.

The message data transmission / reception history is used by the additional data acquisition means 129 as follows, for example. First, the additional data acquisition unit 129 refers to the transmission / reception history of the message data stored in the transmission / reception history storage unit 128, and the data transmission / reception device on a certain transmission side.
The number of times of transmission / reception of message data performed between the combination of the data transmission / reception device 110 and the data transmission / reception device 110 on the receiving side is obtained.
This number of times is interpreted as representing the degree of intimacy between the user of the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmitting side and the user of the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side, and as described above, the external situation condition 204 is determined.
Is used as the state condition “intimacy” included in the. In this way, the file name 201 in FIG.
v "," hello2.wav ", and" hello3.wav ", among the additional data containing the same keyword in the keyword list 203," intimacy ", Appropriate additional data suitable for the state condition can be obtained.

Alternatively, if the transmission / reception time is also stored as the transmission / reception history of the message data, for example, the transmission / reception history of the data transmission / reception apparatus 110 on a certain transmission side and the data transmission / reception apparatus 110 on the reception side may be stored. By acquiring a time zone in which message data is frequently transmitted and received in the same manner as described above, this time zone is used as information relating to an external situation, in other words, as a condition for selecting additional data having a time-related content. It can also be used.

(Third Embodiment) In the first embodiment and the second embodiment, additional data is determined and acquired from message data and information relating to an external situation, and data transmission / reception as a terminal on the receiving side is performed. An example of transmission to the device 110 has been described.

On the other hand, in the third embodiment, the data transfer device 120 according to the present invention also transmits the acquired additional data to the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmitting side, and the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmitting side transmits the additional data. An example in which the user confirms the additional data and transmits whether or not the additional data is desired to the data transfer apparatus 120 will be described.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a data exchange system including a data transfer device 120 and a data transmission / reception device 110 according to the third embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 9, a data transmitting / receiving apparatus 110 has the configuration of each of the means 111 to 113 described in FIG.
An additional data approval / disapproval information input means 114 is provided for the user of the data transmitting / receiving device 110, which is the source of the message data, to input information on the approval / disapproval of the additional data determined by the data transfer device 120.

Further, in addition to the configuration of each of the units 121 to 125 described with reference to FIG. 1, the data transfer device 120 synthesizes a plurality of pieces of additional data acquired by the Additional data synthesizing means 130 for creating the combined additional data, data converting means 131 for converting the type of data of the combined additional data created by the additional data synthesizing means 130, and the combined addition converted by the data converting means 131. The additional data transmitting means 132 for transmitting data to the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmitting side, the additional data acknowledgment information received from the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmitting side is received from the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmitting side. The information acquiring means 133 receives the additional data from the additional data acceptance / rejection information acquiring means 133 and receives the information recognized by the source user. A message data transmitting device 134 for adding the combined additional data converted in 1 to the message data received by the message data receiving means 121 and transmitting the message data to the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side is provided.

The additional data synthesizing means 130 includes all or a part of the message data received by the message data receiving means 121 and received from the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmitting side, and the additional data obtaining means 125
May be combined with one or a plurality of pieces of additional data acquired in step (1). In this case, the additional data acquisition means 125 may acquire all or part of the message data received by the message data reception means 121 as additional data.

Hereinafter, a specific operation example of the data exchange system according to the third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 10 shows a data transmitting / receiving apparatus 110 on the transmitting side.
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of message data received by the message data receiving means 121 from FIG. The message data of this example is similar to the subject described in FIG.
Line 701, from line 702 representing the caller, to line 703 representing the destination
, And in addition to the text 704, the content requesting the data transfer device 120 to convert the data into additional data.
It is composed of a descriptor 705 described according to a predetermined specific description method, and image data 706 attached to the message data.

In the descriptor 705, "<overlay type =" ima
ge ">" is a description indicating the start of the descriptor 705. "Overlay" in this description is a command for instructing the additional data synthesizing means 130 to overlay and synthesize the image data 706 with the additional data obtained by the additional data obtaining means 125. "Type =" image "" is an attribute attached to the command for instructing that the type of the additional data acquired by the additional data acquiring means 125 is an image.

“</ Overlay>” is a description indicating the end of the descriptor 705. The "girl" described between the description indicating the start and the description indicating the end of the descriptor 705 is,
This is a keyword for the additional data acquisition means 125 to acquire additional data.

The above description method is based on XML (Extensible Marku
p Language), but is not necessarily limited to this description method. Also,
In this example, the additional data synthesizing means is determined by a command or attribute for specifying a method of synthesizing the additional data and a type of the additional data.
Although instructions to 130 and additional data acquisition means 125 are described, instructions for other configurations may be described. For example, if the type of the external situation to be acquired is specified for the external situation acquiring means 123,
The information on the external situation acquired by the external situation acquisition means 123 can be limited, and the amount of data transfer and processing can be reduced.

When the description of the commands and attributes is omitted, the respective components may be processed by default operations set in advance.

The message data analysis means 122 analyzes the example of the message data shown in FIG. 10 and obtains the command, attribute and keyword included in the descriptor 705. The additional data acquisition means 125 is provided with the message data analysis means.
The additional data stored in the additional data storage unit 124 is searched from the keyword and attribute obtained by the external data obtaining unit 122 and the information on the external status obtained by the external status obtaining unit 123, and the additional data synthesizing unit 130 is searched. Determines and obtains additional data to be used for synthesis.

In the example of the additional data stored in the additional data storage means 124 shown in FIG. 2, the file name 201 is changed to "girl.jpg" from the condition that the data type is an image and the keyword is "girl". Is obtained. In this case, since the external situation condition 204 is “(none)”, the information is acquired regardless of the content of the information on the external situation. However, when the external situation condition 204 is set, as described above, Is determined according to the external situation condition 204.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of combining additional data by the additional data combining means 130. FIG. 11 (a)
Is image data 706 extracted from the message data shown in FIG. 10 and acquired by the additional data acquisition means 125. The image data 706 is a descriptor 705 obtained by analyzing the message data by the message data analysis means 122.
It is extracted from the message data according to the command "overlay" in it.

FIG. 11B shows additional data storage means 12.
4 is the additional data retrieved and acquired by the additional data acquisition means 125 from among the additional data stored in
This is an example of the contents of girl.jpg. This additional data girl.jpg
Means for analyzing the message data
The attribute "type =" imag "in the descriptor 705 obtained by
e "".

Subsequently, the additional data synthesizing means 130 adds the image data 706 shown in FIG. 11A to the image data 706 shown in FIG.
The contents of girl.jpg are superimposed and synthesized, and image data as shown in FIG. 11C is obtained as synthesized additional data.

In the example of FIG. 11, the image of FIG. 11 (b) is simply superimposed on the image of FIG. 11 (a) and synthesized.
Processing such as color tone adjustment may be performed. Also, here, an example in which the images are superimposed and synthesized according to the above-mentioned command “overlay” has been described, but the synthesis method is not limited to this. Further, for example, a still image and a moving image are combined to make the moving image move with the still image as a background, or a moving image and a sound are combined so that the sound is reproduced along with the moving image.
Different types of data may be combined.

FIG. 12 shows that the combined additional data created by the additional data synthesizing means 130 and the following data converting means 131 as required are transmitted by the additional data transmitting means 132 to the data transmitting / receiving device on the transmitting side. In this example, the message is transmitted to the message transmission / reception device 110, reproduced by the message data creation / reproduction means 111 of the data transmission / reception device 110, and displayed on the screen. Hereinafter, an operation example of the additional data approval / rejection information input means 114 will be described.
Let's touch on the operation of 1.

That is, before the additional data transmitting means 132 transmits the combined additional data to the data transmitting / receiving apparatus 110 on the transmitting side, the data converting means 131 obtains the data on the transmitting / receiving apparatus 110 on the transmitting side obtained by the external state obtaining means 123. It is determined whether or not the combined additional data created by the additional data combining unit 130 as described above can be used by the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmission side with reference to the information on the type of additional data that can be used in In such a case, a process of converting the data into usable data is performed.

For example, when the created combined additional data is a color image, assuming that only the black-and-white display is possible in the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmitting side, the data converting means 13
1 converts the combined additional data into a black and white image so that the additional data transmitting means 132
Can reduce the amount of data to be transmitted. Alternatively, if the combined additional data includes audio data, the data may be deleted and transmitted to the data transmitting / receiving device 110 that cannot reproduce audio, or the type of audio data may be indicated. It may be converted into a character string (such as a song title or word) and transmitted.

In order to perform the above-described conversion, the data conversion means 131 may store in advance conversion rules and conversion means (programs) for each combination of data types before and after conversion.

In FIG. 12, reference numeral 801 denotes combined additional data displayed on the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmitting side, and 802 instructs the data transfer device 120 to transmit the combined additional data 801 to the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side. OK to do
A button 803 is an ANOTHER button for instructing the data transfer device 120 to create combined attached data different from the combined attached data 802, and a button 804 is used to instruct the data transfer device 120 to stop creating combined attached data. To instruct
CANCEL button. Each of the buttons 802 to 804 corresponds to additional data acceptance / rejection information input means 114.

The user of the data transmitting / receiving apparatus 110 on the transmission side looks at the displayed combined additional data 801 and
By pressing any one of 2 to 804, the processing for the combined additional data 801 is instructed to the data transfer apparatus 120. The instruction corresponding to the pressed button is received by the additional data acceptance / rejection information acquisition means 133 provided in the data transfer device 120 via the communication means 113.

When the OK button 802 is pressed, message data is transmitted to the data transmitting / receiving apparatus 110 on the receiving side in the following procedure.

First, the transmission / reception device 110 on the transmitting side is OK.
The additional data acceptance / rejection information acquiring means 133 recognizes that the button 802 has been pressed, and instructs the external situation acquiring means 123 to communicate with the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side.
In response to this, the external situation obtaining means 123 obtains information on the type of additional data that can be used by the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side by communicating with the communication means 113 of the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side.

Next, the data conversion means 131 refers to the information on the type of available additional data, and transmits the combined additional data created by the additional data combining means 130 as described above to the data transmitting / receiving device on the receiving side. At 110 it is determined whether or not it can be used. If the combined additional data is of a type that cannot be used by the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side, it is converted into a usable type of data.

Thereafter, the message data transmitting means 134
Is the message data received by the message data receiving means 121 except for the descriptor 705 and the image data 706 used for creating the combined additional data. In this case, the converted additional data is added to the data and transmitted to the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side. FIG. 13 shows an example of message data transmitted to the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side.

On the other hand, when the ANOTHER button 803 is pressed, the additional data approval / rejection information acquiring means 133 recognizes this and instructs the additional data synthesizing means 130 to create another synthetic additional data. . In this case, the additional data acquisition means 125 may newly acquire additional data to be used for synthesis. Using the information on the acquisition history as described above, if the additional data with a small number of acquisitions or the acquisition data with the oldest acquisition history is sequentially acquired as described above, the combination of the same keyword and the information on the external situation can be handled. Additional data storage means
124, it is possible to obtain different additional data from the plurality of additional data stored each time.

Alternatively, even if the additional data to be used for the combination is the same, another combined additional data may be created by changing the position, size, color tone, etc. of the additional data to be combined. . In this case, the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmitting side is further provided with input means for instructing the position, size, color tone, etc. after the change so that the user can input an instruction to the additional data synthesizing means 130. Is also good.

Further, when the CANCEL button 804 is pressed, the additional data acknowledgment information acquisition means 133 recognizes that the message data transmission means 134 has received the message data received by the message data reception means 121. Is transmitted as it is to the data transmitting / receiving apparatus 110 on the receiving side. At this time, the descriptor 705 that is an instruction for creating the combined additional data may be omitted and transmitted.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart for explaining the flow of processing in the data transfer device 120 according to the third embodiment of the present invention. Specific examples of each step are as described above.

The processes in S601 to S604 are the same as those described with reference to FIG. 7, and a description thereof will not be repeated.

After the processing in S604, the additional data synthesizing means 13
0 creates combined additional data as described above (S90
Five).

Next, the data converting means 131 transmits the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmitting side acquired by the external situation acquiring means 123.
It is determined whether or not it is necessary to convert the combined additional data created in S905 into data of a type that can be used by the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the transmission side with reference to the information on the type of additional data that can be used in (S906). ). If conversion is necessary, the process proceeds to S907. If conversion is not necessary, the process proceeds to S908.

When it is determined in S906 that the combined additional data needs to be converted, the data conversion means 131 converts the combined additional data created in S905 (S907). A specific example is as described above.

After S907, or when it is determined in S906 that it is not necessary to convert the combined additional data, the combined additional data is transmitted to the data transmitting / receiving apparatus 110 on the transmitting side (S90).
8). If the combined additional data has been converted in S907, the converted combined additional data is transmitted here.

Next, additional data acceptance / rejection information acquisition means 133
Determines whether or not information on acceptance or rejection of the combined additional data transmitted in S908 has been received (S909). If received, the process proceeds to S910. S9 if not received
Return to 09.

The process of S909 is repeated until information on approval / disapproval of the combined additional data is received. However, if a certain time has elapsed, the repetition of this process is stopped and the process proceeds to S910. Good. When the process is stopped in this way, the information on the approval / disapproval of the combined additional data may be processed as if a preset value has been received.

Next, additional data approval / disapproval information acquisition means 133
Determines the information on the approval / disapproval of the combined additional data received in S909 and allocates the process (S910). Here, the processing will be described with reference to the example of FIG. If the information on approval / disapproval of the combined additional data is OK, the
If it is OTHER, go to S604. If it is CANCEL, go to S9.
In step 12, the process proceeds.

If the information on the approval / disapproval of the combined additional data is OK in S910, the data conversion means 131 acquires the type of the additional data which can be used by the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side, obtained by the external situation obtaining means 123. It is determined whether or not the combined additional data created in S905 needs to be converted into data of a type that can be used by the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side with reference to the information on the related information. Thereafter, the message data transmitting means 134 adds the combined additional data (or the combined additional data after conversion if the conversion is performed) to the message data received by the message data receiving means 121 (S911).

After the processing in S911, or when the information on the approval / disapproval of the combined additional data is CANCEL in S910, the message data transmitting means 134 transmits the message data to the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side. At this time, as described above, unnecessary descriptors or attached data may be deleted from the transmitted message data.

After the processing of S912, the transfer processing of the message data ends.

The data transfer device 120 further includes a combined additional data storage unit for storing the combined additional data created by the additional data combining unit 130 or the combined additional data converted by the data conversion unit 131, Link data creating means for creating link data indicating the location of the additional data stored in the combined additional data storage means, wherein the message data sending means 134 or the additional data sending means 132 is created by the link data creating means. Link data may be transmitted.

FIG. 15 shows an example in which link data is included in the message data instead of the combined additional data and transmitted as described above. Instead of the combined additional data shown in FIG. 13, a URL 707 indicating the combined additional data stored in the combined additional data storage unit is included. The user of the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side can use general WWW (World
The content of the combined additional data indicated by the URL 707 can be referred to in the same manner as in the case of the Wide Web. Therefore, even when the data size of the combined additional data is large, the data size of the link data can be reduced, so that unnecessary data transmission can be omitted, or when the user of the data transmitting / receiving device 110 on the receiving side does not want to perform the combining. It is possible to prevent the communication of the data transmitting / receiving device 110 from being exclusively used for receiving the additional data.

The data transfer apparatus 120 described above allows a computer to acquire additional data from the message data received from the data transmission / reception apparatus 110 and information on the external situation, and transfer the additional data to the data transmission / reception apparatus 110 of the transmission partner. It is realized by the program for.

The data transmitting / receiving apparatus 110 described above
Are realized by a program for causing a computer to perform a function of creating message data and transmitting the data to the data transfer apparatus 120, and a function of acquiring information regarding an external situation and transmitting the information to the data transfer apparatus.

These programs are stored in a computer-readable recording medium. In the present invention, as this recording medium, since processing is performed by a general computer, a memory such as a ROM (Read Only Memory) built in or connected to the general computer may be a program medium, Further, a program reading device may be provided as an external storage device, and may be a program medium readable by inserting a recording medium therein.

In any case, the stored program may be configured to be accessed and executed by a microprocessor, or in any case, the program may be read, and the read program may be a general program. RAM (Random Access Memo)
ry), the program may be downloaded to a program storage area and the program may be executed.
It is assumed that this download program is stored in the main unit in advance.

Here, the program medium is a recording medium configured to be separable from the main body, such as a tape system such as a magnetic tape or a cassette tape, a magnetic disk such as a floppy disk or a hard disk, or a CD-ROM / MO / MD / Disc system of optical discs such as DVD, card system such as IC card (including memory card) / optical card, or mask ROM, EP
It may be a medium that carries a fixed program including a semiconductor memory such as a ROM, an EEPROM, a flash ROM, or the like.

Further, in the present invention, since the system configuration can be connected to a communication network including the Internet, a medium that carries the program in a fluid manner may be used so as to download the program from the communication network. When the program is downloaded from the communication network as described above, the download program may be stored in the main device in advance, or may be installed from another recording medium.

The contents stored in the recording medium are not limited to programs, but may be data.

[0178]

As described above, the data transfer device according to the present invention comprises a message data receiving means for receiving message data from the communication device on the transmitting side and a time when the message data receiving means receives the message data. External status obtaining means for obtaining information relating to the external status at step S, and additional data which is additional information from the message data received by the message data receiving means and the information regarding the external status obtained by the external status obtaining means. An additional data obtaining means for searching the database for additional data to determine and obtain the additional data, and adding the additional data obtained by the additional data obtaining means to the message data received by the message data receiving means, and Message data transmitting means for transmitting the message data to the communication device.

Therefore, the user of the communication device on the transmitting side can send various and appropriate additional data to the user of the communication device on the receiving side without creating or searching for additional data. Play. Also, for the communication device,
Since the processing load for creating or acquiring the additional data is not required, an increase in power consumption can be avoided, and the configuration for creating or acquiring the additional data can be omitted, thereby reducing the size and cost of the communication device. You can also enjoy the advantage of being easier.

The data transfer device according to the present invention includes, as described above, an additional data acquisition history storage unit for storing information relating to the acquisition history of the additional data by the additional data acquisition unit, in addition to the above configuration. The additional data acquisition unit acquires additional data with reference to acquisition history information stored in the additional data acquisition history storage unit.

Therefore, it is possible to further effectively prevent the acquired additional data from being fixed.

The data transfer device according to the present invention, in addition to the above-described configuration, further comprises a message data reception history of the message data reception means and a message data transmission history of the message data transmission means. The additional data acquisition means acquires additional data by referring to the message data transmission / reception history information stored in the transmission / reception history storage means.

Therefore, the additional data to be obtained and added can be changed according to the transmission / reception history, and the obtained additional data can be more effectively prevented from being fixed. To play.

The data transfer device according to the present invention, as described above, has an additional data transmitting means for transmitting the additional data acquired by the additional data acquiring means to the communication device on the transmitting side, in addition to the above configuration. It is characterized by having.

Therefore, the user of the communication device on the transmitting side has the effect of being able to know what additional data has been or is about to be transmitted to the communication device on the receiving side. Play.

As described above, the data transfer device according to the present invention, in addition to the above-described configuration, allows the user of the transmitting-side communication device to respond to the additional data transmitted to the transmitting-side communication device. The additional data acknowledgment information obtaining means for receiving the information on the acknowledgment from the communication device on the transmitting side, the message data transmitting means, after receiving the information acknowledging the additional data in the additional data acknowledgment information obtaining means, The message data to which the additional data is added is transmitted to the communication device on the receiving side.

Therefore, the user of the communication device on the transmitting side confirms whether or not the additional data obtained by the additional data obtaining means is the desired one, and then sends the request to the communication device on the receiving side. There is an effect that additional data can be transmitted.

As described above, the data transmitting / receiving apparatus according to the present invention includes the communication means for transmitting / receiving data to / from the above-mentioned data transfer apparatus, and the external status obtaining means for obtaining information on the external status. The information on the external situation acquired by the situation acquisition means is transmitted to the data transfer device via the communication means.

Therefore, there is an effect that information on the data transmitting / receiving device according to the present invention and information on the user of the data transmitting / receiving device according to the present invention can be transmitted to the data transfer device.

As described above, the data transmitting / receiving apparatus according to the present invention comprises a communication means for transmitting / receiving data to / from the above-mentioned data transfer apparatus, and an approval / disapproval of additional data received from the data transfer apparatus via the communication means. Data input / output information input means for a user of the data transmission / reception device to input information about the additional data, the information regarding the input / output of the additional data input by the additional data input / output information input means being transmitted through the communication means. The data is transmitted to the data transfer device.

Therefore, the user of the transmitting-side communication device confirms whether or not the additional data obtained by the additional-data obtaining means is the desired one, and then transmits the additional data to the receiving-side communication device. This has the effect of requesting the data transfer device to transmit.

The data exchange system according to the present invention comprises:
As described above, the configuration includes the above-described data transfer device and the above-described data transmission / reception device.

[0193] Therefore, there is an effect that a data exchange system for a wide range of users can be constructed.

As described above, the data transfer method according to the present invention relates to the first step of receiving message data from the communication device on the transmitting side and the external situation at the time of executing the first step. A second step of obtaining information; and a third step of obtaining additional data, which is additional information, from the message data received in the first step and the information on the external situation obtained in the second step. And a fourth step of adding the additional data acquired in the third step to the message data received in the first step and transmitting the message data to the communication device on the receiving side.

Therefore, the user of the communication device on the transmitting side can send various and appropriate additional data to the user of the communication device on the receiving side without creating or searching for the additional data. Play.

Further, since the processing load for creating or acquiring the additional data is not imposed on the communication device that creates the message data, it is possible to avoid an increase in the power consumption of the communication device and to create or acquire the additional data. The structure of the communication device can be reduced,
This also has the effect of reducing costs.

As described above, the data transfer program according to the present invention is characterized by causing a computer to function as each means included in the above-described data transfer device.

Therefore, there is an effect that a general computer can be made to function as the above-described data transfer device.

As described above, the data transmission / reception program according to the present invention is characterized by causing a computer to function as each unit included in the above data transmission / reception device.

[0200] Therefore, an effect that a general computer can be made to function as the above-described data transmitting / receiving device can be realized.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a data exchange system including a data transfer device and a data transmission / reception device according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of additional data.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the content of additional data referred to by a file name;

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of message data received by a message data receiving unit from a data transmitting / receiving device on a transmitting side;

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a result of analyzing a text included in message data by a message data analysis unit to obtain a keyword;

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of message data transmitted by a message transmitting unit by adding the additional data acquired by the additional data acquiring unit.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a processing flow in the data transfer device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a data exchange system including a data transfer device and a data transmission / reception device according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a data exchange system including a data transfer device and a data transmission / reception device according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of message data received by a message data receiving unit from a data transmitting / receiving device on a transmitting side.

FIGS. 11A to 11C are diagrams illustrating an example of combining additional data by an additional data combining unit.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram showing an example in which the combined additional data created by the data conversion unit is transmitted by the additional data transmission unit and displayed on the data transmission / reception device on the transmission side.

FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of message data transmitted to the data transmitting / receiving device on the receiving side.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart illustrating a processing flow in a data transfer device according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram showing an example in which link data is included in message data instead of combined additional data and transmitted.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 110 data transmission / reception device (communication device) 111 message data creation means 112 external status acquisition means 113 communication means 114 additional data approval / disapproval information input means 120 data transfer device 121 message data reception means 122 message data analysis means 123 external status acquisition means 124 additional data Storage means 125 Additional data acquisition means 126 Message data transmission means 127 Additional data acquisition history storage means 128 Transmission / reception history storage means 129 Additional data acquisition means 130 Additional data synthesis means 131 Data conversion means 132 Additional data transmission means 133 Additional data authorization information acquisition means 134 Message Data Transmission Means

Claims (11)

[Claims] 1. A data transfer device for transferring message data from a communication device on the transmission side to a communication device on the reception side via a network, wherein the message data receiving means receives message data from the communication device on the transmission side; An external status obtaining unit that obtains information about an external status at a time when the message data receiving unit receives the message data; and an external status obtaining unit that obtains information about the message data received by the message data receiving unit and the external status obtained by the external status obtaining unit. An additional data acquisition unit that searches a database of additional information, which is additional information, to determine and acquire additional data from the information; and acquires the message data received by the message data receiving unit by the additional data acquisition unit. Of the receiving side by adding the additional data A data transfer device comprising: a message data transmitting unit that transmits a message data to the device. 2. An additional data acquisition history storage means for storing information on an acquisition history of additional data in the additional data acquisition means, wherein the additional data acquisition means is stored in the additional data acquisition history storage means. The data transfer device according to claim 1, wherein the additional data is acquired by referring to the acquired acquisition history information. 3. A transmission / reception history storage means for storing a reception history of message data at said message data reception means and a transmission history of message data at said message data transmission means, wherein said additional data acquisition means is 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the additional data is acquired by referring to message data transmission / reception history information stored in the transmission / reception history storage means.
Or the data transfer device according to 2. 4. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an additional data transmitting means for transmitting the additional data obtained by said additional data obtaining means to the communication device on the transmitting side. A data transfer device according to claim 1. 5. An additional data approval / disapproval information for receiving, from the communication device on the transmission side, information on approval / disapproval of a user of the communication device on the transmission side for the additional data transmitted to the communication device on the transmission side. Acquiring means for transmitting the message data to which the additional data has been added to the communication device on the receiving side, after the information for approving the additional data has been received by the additional data authorization information acquiring means. The data transfer device according to claim 4, wherein: 6. A data transmitting / receiving apparatus for transmitting / receiving message data through a network, comprising: a communication unit for transmitting / receiving data to / from the data transfer apparatus according to claim 1; A data transmitting / receiving device, comprising: an external status obtaining unit for obtaining the external status obtained by the external status obtaining unit, to the data transfer device via the communication unit. 7. A data transmitting / receiving apparatus for transmitting / receiving message data via a network, a communication means for transmitting / receiving data to / from the data transfer apparatus according to claim 5, and receiving from the data transfer apparatus via the communication means. Data input / output information input means for a user of the data transmission / reception device to input information on the approval / disapproval of the additional data, wherein the information on the approval / disapproval of the additional data input by the additional data input / output information input means is provided. A data transmission / reception device for transmitting the data to the data transfer device via communication means. 8. A data exchange system comprising the data transfer device according to claim 1 and the data transmission / reception device according to claim 6 or 7. . 9. A data transfer method for transferring message data from a communication device on the transmission side to a communication device on the reception side via a network, wherein: a first step of receiving message data from the communication device on the transmission side; A second step of acquiring information about the external situation at the time of executing the first step; and from the message data received in the first step and the information about the external situation acquired in the second step. A third step of acquiring additional data, which is additional information; and the receiving-side communication device by adding the additional data acquired in the third step to the message data received in the first step. And a fourth step of transmitting the data to the data transfer method. 10. A data transfer program for causing a computer to function as each means included in the data transfer device according to claim 1. Description: 11. A data transmission / reception program for causing a computer to function as each means provided in the data transmission / reception device according to claim 6.