QR Code Photo Print with Server-Managed Voice Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for printing images from user terminals like camera-equipped cellular phones lack the ability to easily access and update additional information such as voice, position, and music associated with the images, requiring dedicated devices and limited information capacity.
Innovation Solution
A service server that receives image and additional information from user terminals, manages this data in a database, and prints access information on the image, allowing users to access and update the information using a second terminal, enabling easy retrieval of voice, position, and music information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If bar code is used to record voice data on photo print, then voice information can be stored, but the amount of information is insufficient and cannot be updated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from one-dimensional bar codes to two-dimensional codes (such as QR codes) to dramatically increase the information capacity. This dimensional change allows sufficient storage of voice data URLs and other information while enabling update capabilities through server-side database management.
2Reliability
If dedicated reproduction device is used to read bar code and convert to voice, then voice can be reproduced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes ordinary mobile phones with camera and browser functions serve as reproduction devices. The phone captures the two-dimensional code, retrieves information via browser, and plays voice through built-in speaker, eliminating the need for dedicated reproduction devices while maintaining reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses the mobile phone's existing capabilities (camera for scanning, browser for accessing URLs, speaker for playback) to perform all voice reproduction functions. The phone serves itself without requiring external dedicated equipment.
3Ease of operation
If two-dimensional code with URL is printed on advertising medium, then information can be accessed, but additional information such as voice associated with user image cannot be obtained
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary between the two-dimensional code and the additional information. The code contains a URL that directs to the server, which then provides access to voice, position, and music information associated with the printed image, enabling comprehensive information retrieval.
Data Source
AI summary
An image uploaded from a camera-equipped cellular phone, and additional information attached to the image such as voice information and the like are managed in a database in a service server. Then, an URL for accessing the additional information is issued and converted into a QR code. Order information including the image and the QR code are sent to the print device, and a photo print having the image and the QR code printed on a print paper is produced. When the camera-equipped cellular phone reads the QR code on the photo print and accesses by use of the URL acquired by decrypting the above described QR code, the managed additional information on the image is read from the database correspondingly to the URL, and sent to the camera-equipped cellular phone which has accessed.