KR101631933B1 - Method and server for providing customized sign manufacturing using 3d printer - Google Patents

Abstract

In the production of lettering signboards, it is possible to minimize the manpower and time consumed to reduce billboards production costs, and to provide a technique that is compatible with various signboard standards and enables the production of signboards customized for users, installation areas and industries . A method of providing a customized billboard production service using a 3D printer according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a method for providing a customized billboard production service utilizing a 3D printer, Receiving user information; Extracting at least one signboard attribute information matched with the received user information among the previously stored signboard attribute information as information including the material, form, and installation information of the signboard, and transmitting the extracted signboard attribute information to the user terminal; Receiving billboard production information including information on selection inputs and billboard contents of at least one billboard attribute information among at least one billboard attribute information transmitted from a user terminal; And transmitting the received signboard production information to a three-dimensional printer so that a three-dimensional signboard corresponding to the signboard production information is output.

Description

METHOD AND SERVER FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED SIGN MANUFACTURING USING 3D PRINTER BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [

The present invention relates to a service providing technology for outputting a signboard through a three-dimensional printer, and more particularly, to a technique for producing a signboard customized according to a user, an installation area, and an industry using a three-dimensional printer.

Recently, a variety of print production services using 3D printers are being implemented. The three-dimensional printer is a three-dimensional printer that outputs a three-dimensional object, which can be used in various materials and can be output using drawings. In addition, the three-dimensional printer can reduce manufacturing time and waste of manpower The use rate is increasing according to the effect.

On the other hand, in recent years, signs have been converted into letter signs according to administrative regulations. Such type signboard means various signboards and numbers included in a signboard in which independent fonts used in signboards are produced and attached to a signboard installation position such as a wall surface.

As a method of manufacturing such a signboard, a method that has been used in the past is to manufacture a plate including metal and other materials forming the outer surface of a signboard by using a die casting method or the like, and to bend or cut the plate with the force of a person, Numbers, or shapes. However, this method requires an excessive amount of manpower and time, so that the billboard cost is very expensive. Also, it is pointed out that there are billboards that can not be produced by manpower only when the billboard signboards of various shapes are manufactured.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to minimize the manpower and time consumed in the production of a letter indicia, and to reduce the cost of producing a sign, and to make it possible to produce a letter indicia customized to the user, And to provide a technique for making the

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a customized billboard production service using a 3D printer, the method comprising: receiving a billboard production request input from a user terminal; Receiving user information from a user terminal upon receiving the user information; Extracting at least one signboard attribute information matched with the received user information among previously stored signboard attribute information as information including the material, form, and installation information of the signboard, and transmitting the extracted signboard attribute information to the user terminal; Receiving billboard production information including at least one of the at least one billboard attribute information transmitted from the user terminal and information about the billboard content; And transmitting the received signboard production information to a three-dimensional printer so that a three-dimensional signboard corresponding to the signboard production information is output.

Meanwhile, a customized billboard production service providing server utilizing a three-dimensional printer according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a user information receiver for receiving user information from a user terminal upon receiving a billboard production request input from the user terminal; Extracting at least one signboard attribute information matched with the received user information from among the pre-stored signboard attribute information as information including the material, form and installation information of the signboard, and transmitting the extracted signboard attribute information to the user terminal, A billboard production information receiving unit for receiving billboard production information including at least one of billboard attribute information and at least one of billboard selection information and billboard billing information; And an output control unit for transmitting the received signboard production information to a three-dimensional printer and controlling the three-dimensional signboard corresponding to the signboard production information to be output.

According to the present invention, when a user inputs information such as lighting information together with installation information such as material, form, installation location, and the like through an interface through a terminal, the server manufactures and supplies a signboard through a three-dimensional printer do.

Through this, users can easily apply for signboards to be installed by the user through the terminal, and the billboards can be easily produced through a three-dimensional printer when signboards are manufactured. Therefore, manpower and time required for billboards are minimized, The cost can also be reduced.

According to another aspect of the present invention, it is possible to manufacture a signboard conforming to a standard set by an administrative agency or the like, and thus it is possible to easily solve problems such as installation standards at the time of signboard manufacture.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for providing a customized billboard production service using a 3D printer according to an embodiment of the present invention.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001]
3 to 5 show an example in which a billboard interface implemented according to an embodiment of the present invention is output to a user terminal.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a method and a server for providing a customized signboard creation service using a 3D printer according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The following examples are intended to illustrate the present invention and should not be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. Accordingly, an equivalent invention performing the same function as the present invention is also within the scope of the present invention.

In addition, in adding reference numerals to the constituent elements of the drawings, it is to be noted that the same constituent elements are denoted by the same reference numerals even though they are shown in different drawings. In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.

In describing the components of the present invention, terms such as first, second, A, B, (a), and (b) may be used. These terms are intended to distinguish the constituent elements from other constituent elements, and the terms do not limit the nature, order or order of the constituent elements. When a component is described as being "connected", "coupled", or "connected" to another component, the component may be directly connected to or connected to the other component, It should be understood that an element may be "connected," "coupled," or "connected."

In the embodiments of the present invention, " communication ", " communication network ", and " network " The three terms refer to wired and wireless local area and wide area data transmission and reception networks capable of transmitting and receiving a file between a user terminal, a terminal of another user, and a download server.

In the following description, the term " device " or "server" refers to a method of providing a customized billboard production service utilizing a three-dimensional printer implemented by users according to an embodiment of the present invention, Computer. If the capacity is small or the number of users is small, a large number of programs can be operated on one server. Also, if the capacity is very large or the number of real-time connections is large, there may be one or more servers for operation depending on the function.

Middleware for the database and servers performing settlement processing may be connected to the server, but a description thereof will be omitted in the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method of providing a customized billboard production service using a 3D printer according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the following description, all the functions of the method for providing a customized billboard production service using a 3D printer according to an embodiment of the present invention are implemented by a customized billboard using a three-dimensional printer according to an embodiment of the present invention But will not be limited thereto, that each component of the service providing server (hereinafter referred to as a server) can perform.

Referring to FIG. 1, in order to perform a method of providing a customized billboard production service using a 3D printer according to an embodiment of the present invention, when a server receives a billboard production request input from a user terminal, (S10). ≪ / RTI >

In the present invention, a user terminal means a terminal of a user requesting the manufacture of a signboard. On the other hand, the user information generally includes information about a region and an industry in which a signboard is used, in addition to information to be input at the time of joining as a customer at an online shopping mall. That is, the user information may include location information, building information, and business type information of an enterprise in which a signboard is used, that is, an administrative area where a company that is operated by a user and to which a signboard is to be installed is located.

When the operation of step S10 is completed, the server extracts at least one signboard attribute information matching the received user information among the previously stored signboard attribute information as information including the material, form, and installation information of the signboard, (Step S20).

In the present invention, signboard attribute information means all attribute information that a signboard provided in a signboard creation service that can be produced through a server and a three-dimensional printer, that is, a signboard creation service utilizing a three-dimensional printer according to the present invention. For example, information on the shape of the signboard including the size, thickness, and material of each signboard (unit signboard) included in the signboard, information about the shape of the signboard including the material, The signboard illumination information including the type of the light source, the color, the installation position, and the number information may correspond to the signboard attribute information.

On the other hand, according to the type of industry in which the administrative district or the signboard is installed, various standard of the signboard is provided in recent years. Accordingly, there may be attribute information of the signboard that can not be installed according to the installation area even if the signboard is desired by the user.

To this end, the server extracts the billboard attribute information and transmits it to the user terminal, selecting only the billboard attribute information matching the predetermined filtering reference among the billboard attribute information. That is, transmitting the signboard attribute information matched with the user information received in the step S20 may be understood as a concept of selecting and transmitting the signboard attribute information matched with the filtering criteria prepared according to the user information.

For example, as described above, the predetermined filtering criterion may be a filtering criterion that is set for a part of the billboard attribute information in an administrative agency having jurisdiction over the area where the billboard is installed, Standards. For example, in some areas, the material of the sign can be limited, and the size and thickness of the sign can be limited to less than a certain value.

On the other hand, it may be a standard for the installation of signboards determined by an administrative agency having jurisdiction over the type of shops where signboards are installed. For example, in a restaurant business, it may be a criterion such that a signboard of a specific color can not be installed.

By transmitting the billboard attribute information to the user terminal by applying such a filtering standard, the user can confirm at a glance whether the billboard to be produced is a billboard suitable for an administrative district or a business type at a time, It is possible to provide the convenience of requesting a billboard production.

Meanwhile, in order to provide convenience when the users determine the signboard attribute information through the following steps, the server extracts the signboard attribute information and transmits it to the user terminal. When the signboard attribute information is extracted and transmitted to the user terminal, Extracts signboard attribute information corresponding to the above-mentioned business information included in the user information from among the stored signboard attribute information, extracts signboard attribute information corresponding to the business information included in the user information, And evaluation information on signboard attribute information corresponding to the business type information included in the user information can be transmitted to the user terminal together.

For example, if the business type included in the user information is the restaurant business, the server extracts attribute information on the signboard produced by other users operating the restaurant business, Can be transmitted to the user terminal together. That is, if other users who operate the restaurant business produce the color, size, lighting, etc. of the signboard, the server receives the evaluation information about each property information, stores the information, It is possible to check the stored evaluation information for each of the billboard attribute information that can be selected by the user at the time of submission, thereby helping the user to decide which of the billboard attribute information is to be selected in the business category of the user.

The step S20 may mean transmitting a billboard interface including a menu for selecting some of the extracted billboard attribute information to the user terminal in order to receive an input relating to billboard production from the user terminal have. That is, when the step S20 is performed, the user terminal can not only check the signboard attribute information, but also an interface including a variety of menus for producing a signboard for requesting a production by the user at a later stage.

When the step S20 is performed, the server receives the selection input for at least one of the at least one signboard attribute information transmitted from the user terminal and the signboard production information including the information about the content of the signboard S30).

As mentioned above, a billboard interface can be transmitted to the user terminal. Through the signboard making interface, the user can input the contents of the signboard, select the signboard attribute information, and can request the production of the signboard by determining the material, size, color, type and intensity of the light.

In the present invention, the information on the contents of the signboard will be understood as a concept including characters, numbers or image information to be described on the signboard. That is, all the information about the contents that the person can identify and recognize the signboard will be included in the information about the contents of the signboard.

When the step S30 is completed, the server transmits the received signboard production information to the three-dimensional printer so as to perform a step S40 of controlling the three-dimensional signboard corresponding to the signboard production information to be output.

Accordingly, the user can easily confirm whether or not the signboard desired to be supplied by him is a signboard that can be installed in the installation position, and can designate the signboard property freely within the range that can be installed, Since the signboards to be installed can be easily applied through the terminal and the signboards can be manufactured easily through the 3D printer when the signboard is manufactured, the manpower and time required for the signboard production are minimized compared with the existing signboard production technology, The cost can also be reduced, and the degree of freedom in the manufacture of signboards is increased.

On the other hand, when signboard attribute information and information on the contents of the signboard are inputted, it is possible to provide convenience to the user by confirming the signboard to be produced in advance. That is, between steps S30 and S40, the server obtains three-dimensional image information of a to-be-printed signboard that changes in real time according to input and correction of signboard information, To the user terminal.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a customized billboard production service providing server utilizing a three-dimensional printer according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the following description, portions overlapping with the description of FIG. 1 will be omitted.

2, a customized billboard production service providing server 10 utilizing a 3D printer according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a user information receiving unit 11, a billboard information receiving unit 12, and an output control unit 13, And a control unit.

The user information receiving unit 11 is connected to the user terminal 20 and performs a function of receiving a billboard production request and user information from the user terminal 20 in step S10 of FIG.

The billboard production information receiving unit 12 performs all functions mentioned in the description of steps S20 and S30 in FIG. That is, the database 30 is connected to the database 30 separately or integrally, and uses the received user information and the information related to the billboard installation criteria received from the administrative institution 50 or the like, A function of receiving billboard production information including selection input for billboard attribute information and information on contents of billboard from the user terminal 20 by selecting it according to a predetermined criterion and transmitting it to the user terminal 20 through a billboard interface, .

The output control section 13 receives the billboard production information from the billboard production information receiving section 12 and then transmits the billboard production information to the three dimensional printer 40 to control the three dimensional printer 40 to output the billboard in accordance with the billboard production information And performs all the functions described in step S40 of FIG.

3 to 5 are examples in which a billboard interface implemented according to an embodiment of the present invention is output to a user terminal.

Referring first to FIG. 3, an example of a billboard interface 100 is shown.

It can be confirmed that the first interface 101 includes an input menu in which the user can input the name of the signboard, that is, the information about the content to be described in the signboard. On the other hand, as the signboard property information, there is a menu which can select the material, size, height (thickness), type and color of illumination, and intensity (brightness) of illumination. Of course, when the user selects the signboard attribute information through the drop-down menu, the signboard attribute information that can be selected can be output only information corresponding to the candidate group previously selected by a certain filtering criterion as described above.

As described above, the preview menu 102 outputs three-dimensional image information of a signboard, which is scheduled to be output according to signboard production information input by a user, so that a user can check a signboard to be produced in advance.

When the user wishes to produce a signboard using the currently selected signboard information and production information, the user can select the order menu 103 to complete the production request.

Referring to FIG. 4, an example of the material selection menu 110 is shown as a part of a menu of a billboard interface in which a user can select information about a material among signage attribute information.

Referring to the pop-up screen 111 for the aluminum material among the materials, the aluminum material is best selected by the other users of the restaurant industry by reflecting the evaluation information inputted by the other restaurant industry, that is, You can see the evaluation.

On the other hand, the signboard of the material corresponding to the paper can be confirmed on the basis of the installation reference information 112 that the signboard is set to be unavailable in the administrative agency in the area where the signboard is to be installed. Of course, in FIG. 4, the corresponding material is shown to be displayed, but the material may be set so that the display itself is not displayed, i.e., excluded from the user selectable material.

Referring to FIG. 5, similar to FIG. 4, a user selects a size selection menu 120 (FIG. 4) as a menu of a signboard creation interface that allows the user to select information about the size of each letter constituting the signboard, ) Are shown. The user can select any size of the signboard to be selected from the menu.

Similar to FIG. 4, in FIG. 5, it is possible to confirm the installation reference information 121 indicating that the specific size (70 X 70) is set so as not to be applicable to the administrative agency in the area where the signboard is to be installed. Of course, although the size is shown in FIG. 5, the size may be set so that the display itself can not be displayed, that is, the size can be selected by the user.

As described above, the method of providing a customized billboard production service utilizing the 3D printer according to the embodiment of the present invention, and the functions of the server and all the functions of the server and the corresponding interface, (Which may basically include a program included in a platform or an operating system mounted on the computer), and may be installed in a user terminal directly through an application providing server such as an application store server, an application, or a web server associated with the service May be executed by an application (i.e., a program). In this sense, the method of providing a customized billboard production service utilizing the three-dimensional printer according to the embodiment of the present invention described above, and all the functions of the server and the function of the advertisement interface output corresponding thereto, (I.e., a program) directly installed by the user and recorded on a computer-readable recording medium such as a user terminal.

Such a program may be recorded on a recording medium that can be read by a computer and executed by a computer so that the above-described functions can be executed.

As described above, in order to implement a method of providing a customized billboard production service utilizing a three-dimensional printer according to each embodiment of the present invention and all the functions of the server and the function of the advertisement interface corresponding thereto, (C), a C ++ code, a JAVA code, a machine code, etc., which can be read by a CPU (CPU).

The code may include a function code related to a function or the like that defines the functions described above and may include an execution procedure related control code necessary for the processor of the computer to execute the functions described above according to a predetermined procedure.

In addition, such code may further include memory reference related code as to what additional information or media needed to cause the processor of the computer to execute the aforementioned functions should be referenced at any location (address) of the internal or external memory of the computer .

In addition, when a processor of a computer needs to communicate with any other computer or server, etc., to perform the above-described functions, the code may be stored in a computer's communication module (e.g., a wired and / ) May be used to further include communication related codes such as how to communicate with any other computer or server in the remote, and what information or media should be transmitted or received during communication.

In addition, a functional program for implementing the present invention, a code and a code segment associated with the functional program, and the like are provided to programmers in the technical field of the present invention in consideration of a system environment of a computer that reads a recording medium and executes a program Lt; RTI ID = 0.0 > and / or < / RTI >

Examples of the computer-readable recording medium on which the above-described program is recorded include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical media storage, and the like.

In addition, the computer-readable recording medium on which the above-described program is recorded may be distributed to a network-connected computer system so that computer-readable codes can be stored and executed in a distributed manner. In this case, one or more of the plurality of distributed computers may execute some of the functions presented above and send the results of the execution to one or more of the other distributed computers, The computer may also perform some of the functions described above and provide the results to other distributed computers as well.

Particularly, it is possible to provide a method of providing a customized billboard production service utilizing a three-dimensional printer according to each embodiment of the present invention, a computer readable by a computer that records all functions of a server and an application as a program for executing a function of an ad- The recording medium may be a storage medium (e.g., a hard disk or the like) included in an application provider server such as an application store server, an application or a web server related to the service, It may be itself.

A method for providing a customized billboard production service utilizing a three-dimensional printer according to each embodiment of the present invention, and a method for reading a recording medium on which an application, which is a program for executing all the functions of the server and the functions of the advertisement interface, The computer may include not only a general PC such as a general desktop or a notebook computer but also a mobile terminal such as a smart phone, a tablet PC, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistants) and a mobile communication terminal. In addition, All devices should be interpreted.

In addition, a method of providing a customized billboard production service utilizing a three-dimensional printer according to an embodiment of the present invention, and a recording medium on which an application, which is a program for executing functions of a server and all functions of the server, If the computer is a mobile terminal such as a smart phone, a tablet PC, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistants), and a mobile communication terminal, the application may be downloaded from the application providing server to a general PC and installed in the mobile terminal through a synchronization program.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments. That is, within the scope of the present invention, all of the components may be selectively coupled to one or more of them. In addition, although all of the components may be implemented as one independent hardware, some or all of the components may be selectively combined to perform a part or all of the functions in one or a plurality of hardware. As shown in FIG. The codes and code segments constituting the computer program may be easily deduced by those skilled in the art. Such a computer program is stored in a computer-readable storage medium, readable and executed by a computer, thereby realizing an embodiment of the present invention. As a storage medium of the computer program, a magnetic recording medium, an optical recording medium, or the like can be included.

It is also to be understood that the terms such as " comprises, " " comprising, " or " having ", as used herein, mean that a component can be implanted unless specifically stated to the contrary. But should be construed as including other elements. All terms, including technical and scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs, unless otherwise defined. Commonly used terms, such as predefined terms, should be interpreted to be consistent with the contextual meanings of the related art, and are not to be construed as ideal or overly formal, unless expressly defined to the contrary.

The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention but to limit the scope of the technical idea of the present invention. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

Providing a customized billboard production service utilizing a 3D printer A server,
Receiving user information from a user terminal upon receiving a billboard production request input from the user terminal;
Extracting at least one signboard attribute information matched with the received user information among previously stored signboard attribute information as information including the material, form, and installation information of the signboard, and transmitting the extracted signboard attribute information to the user terminal;
Receiving billboard production information including at least one of the at least one billboard attribute information transmitted from the user terminal and information about the billboard content; And
And transmitting the received signboard production information to a three-dimensional printer to control the three-dimensional signboard corresponding to the signboard production information to be output,
Extracting the signboard attribute information and transmitting the extracted signboard attribute information to the user terminal,
And selecting and transmitting billboard attribute information matching the predetermined filtering criterion among the billboard attribute information to the user terminal,
Wherein the predetermined filtering criterion is information included in the received user information, the criterion relating to the installation of the signboard determined by the administrative agency having jurisdiction over the area where the signboard is installed, Of the standards set by the administrative agency governing the type of industry,
The step of extracting the billboard attribute information and transmitting the extracted billboard attribute information to the user terminal includes extracting billboard attribute information corresponding to the business type information included in the user information from among the billboard attribute information stored at the time of manufacturing the manufactured billboard; And evaluation information on signboard attribute information corresponding to the business type information included in the user information inputted from another user terminal, to the user terminal together with the signboard attribute information corresponding to the business type information included in the user information The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of: The method according to claim 1,
The signboard attribute information may include:
A signboard type information including a size, a thickness, and a material of the signboard, and a signboard light information including a type, a color, an installation location, and a number information of a signboard lighting which is located inside or outside the signboard, The method comprising the steps of: (a) displaying a plurality of images on the three-dimensional printer; The method according to claim 1,
Information on the contents of the signboard is,
Wherein the information includes character, number or image information to be described in the signboard. delete delete delete The method according to claim 1,
Extracting the signboard attribute information and transmitting the extracted signboard attribute information to the user terminal,
And a billboard interface including a menu for selecting a part of the extracted billboard attribute information is transmitted to the user terminal. The method according to claim 1,
Between the step of receiving the billboard production information and the step of controlling,
And transmitting, as the three-dimensional image information of the signboard produced in accordance with the received signboard production information, the scheduled output signboard image information that changes in real time according to the modification of the signboard production information to the user terminal A method of providing a customized billboard service using a three-dimensional printer. delete delete

Images