CN1319399C - Hand-held mobile communication apparatus with multimedia E-mail transmitting function and multimedia E-mail processing method - Google Patents

Abstract

A handheld mobile communication device includes a wireless communication module, a multimedia message editing module, a multimedia message converting module and an email making module. Wherein the above-mentioned multimedia message editing module is used for editing multimedia messages including at least one text data and one picture data. Wherein the above-mentioned multimedia information conversion module converts the above-mentioned multimedia information into HTML documents, so that the above-mentioned text data and image data can be overlapped and combined for display, which is achieved by specifying the properties of the concatenated style sheet. Wherein the above-mentioned e-mail making module generates a multimedia e-mail, and attaches the hypertext markup language file generated by converting the above-mentioned multimedia message as an attachment. And the above wireless communication module sends the above multimedia email.

Description

Handheld mobile communication device with multimedia email sending function and multimedia email processing method

technical field

The present invention relates to a hand-held mobile communication device, in particular to a hand-held mobile communication device with the function of sending multimedia e-mail. The multimedia e-mail sent by it can be combined to display the above-mentioned multimedia message on a recipient end Multimedia messages such as text, audio and video included.

Background technique

At present, there are many handheld mobile communication devices capable of sending electronic greeting cards (such as smart phones, personal digital assistant mobile phones, or personal digital assistants with mobile phone functions) on the market. Due to the problem of capacity, the sending of this kind of electronic greeting card can only display the layout of the electronic greeting card correctly on the same type of device. When the sending end and receiving end of the electronic greeting card use different types of devices, the above-mentioned Layout for e-cards. Especially when the above-mentioned e-greeting card is arranged to combine text and picture data for overlapping display, it can only display the text data and picture data separately on different types of devices, and cannot present its preset in the form of combined picture and text display. There is no fixed appearance, and text data cannot be overlaid on a picture data.

From the above description, it can be known that the traditional handheld mobile communication device has two major disadvantages in processing multimedia e-mails such as electronic greeting cards. One, it can only make multimedia e-mails in which text and images are separated. Its two, due to the compatibility problem between different type devices, the multimedia e-mail that it transmits can only correctly display the layout of the multimedia e-mail when the sending end and the receiving end device belong to the same model, when the sending end device The layout of multimedia e-mails is often not displayed correctly when the receiver device and the receiving device are of different models.

Contents of the invention

In view of this, an object of the present invention is to provide a handheld mobile communication device with the function of sending multimedia emails, which can create and send multimedia emails with integrated graphics and texts.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a handheld mobile communication device with the function of sending multimedia emails. The multimedia emails created and sent by the mobile communication device can be correctly displayed on different types of devices.

The invention provides a hand-held mobile communication device, which includes a wireless communication module, a multimedia message editing module, a multimedia message converting module and an email making module. Wherein the above-mentioned multimedia message editing module is used for editing multimedia messages including at least one text data and one picture data. Wherein the above-mentioned multimedia information conversion module converts the above-mentioned multimedia information into HTML documents, so that the above-mentioned text data and image data can be overlapped and combined for display, which is achieved by specifying the properties of the concatenated style sheet. Wherein the above-mentioned e-mail making module generates a multimedia e-mail, and attaches the hypertext markup language file generated by converting the above-mentioned multimedia message as an attachment. The above-mentioned wireless communication module is used for sending the above-mentioned multimedia email.

The present invention also provides a multimedia message processing method, which is suitable for the above-mentioned handheld mobile communication device, so that the multimedia e-mail produced and sent by it can be correctly displayed in any hypertext markup language supported by a combination of graphics and text. On the receiving end electronic machine of the file. The above method firstly provides a multimedia message, which includes at least one text data and picture data. Then convert the above-mentioned multimedia information into HTML files, so that the above-mentioned text data and image data can be overlapped and combined for display, which is achieved by specifying the attribute of the serial style sheet. Finally, a multimedia email is generated, and the hypertext markup language file is attached as an attachment, and the multimedia email is transmitted by using the communication function of the handheld mobile communication device.

Description of drawings

In order to make the above-mentioned purposes, features and advantages of the present invention more obvious and understandable, the following specific embodiments are described in detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings as follows:

FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a handheld mobile communication device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 shows a flow chart of the multimedia message processing method according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 shows the contents of an HTML document according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4A shows picture data in a multimedia message according to an embodiment of the invention.

FIG. 4B shows a display screen in an HTML file according to an embodiment of the invention.

Detailed ways

As mentioned above, the present invention provides a hand-held mobile communication device with the function of sending multimedia email and a method for processing multimedia email, which utilizes the widely used hypertext markup language file to convert the video and audio content contained in a multimedia message Text and other data are integrated in a hyperdocument markup language file, and the above hyperdocument markup language file is used as an additional file of multimedia e-mail, and the content of the above multimedia message can be transmitted in the A receiver end displays multimedia information such as text, video and audio contained in it in the form of a combination of graphics and text.

FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a handheld mobile communication device according to this embodiment. The handheld mobile communication device 10 can be a personal digital assistant or a mobile phone, which includes a wireless communication module 11 , a multimedia message editing module 13 , a multimedia message converting module 15 and an email making module 17 .

Wherein, the multimedia message editing module 13 is used for editing a multimedia message including at least one text data and a picture data, and the above multimedia message may also include a sound data.

Wherein, the multimedia information conversion module 15 converts the above-mentioned multimedia information into HyperText Markup Language (HTML) files, so that the above-mentioned text data and image data can be overlapped and combined for display. It uses the specified CASCADING STYLE SHEET (CSS) attribute to enable the configuration of the upper and lower levels and horizontal and vertical positions of the above-mentioned text data and image data when displayed, and then enables the display in a way of combining graphics and text, and can Correctly display the configuration relationship between text and pictures in the above multimedia files.

The multimedia message conversion module 15 achieves the above functions through the operation of several sub-modules, which are: preview sub-module 151, header information generation sub-module 153, title information generation sub-module 155, image data layer generation sub-module Module 157, text data layer generation sub-module 158, sound background layer generation sub-module 159.

The preview sub-module 151 combines and displays the text data and image data included in the multimedia message on the handheld mobile communication device, so that the content of the multimedia email can be previewed.

The header information generation sub-module 153 is to generate the above-mentioned basic header information of the HTML document. The title information generation sub-module 155 generates the title part of the hypertext markup language document according to the subject information of the multimedia message.

The image data layer generation sub-module 157 is based on the above-mentioned multimedia information, generates a HTML image tag (for example: <IMG> tag) in the above-mentioned HTML file, and specifies the concatenated style sheet attribute of the above-mentioned image data, Wherein the above-mentioned cascading style sheet attributes include a position attribute and a hierarchy attribute. The position attribute is various settings related to the position of the picture on the screen, for example: position coordinate type (absolute position coordinate or relative position coordinate), horizontal position setting, vertical position setting and so on. Wherein, the layer attribute is the hierarchical relationship (indicated by the z-axis direction) between the above-mentioned picture and other presenting objects when it is presented on the screen, that is, whether the above-mentioned picture is on the bottom layer or on the top layer. When the pictures are placed in different layers, different effects will be shown due to the principle that the upper layer covers the lower layer.

The text data layer generation sub-module 158 is based on the above-mentioned multimedia information, generates a hyper-document mark-up language text tag (for example: <b> tag) in the above-mentioned hyper-document mark-up language file, and specifies the concatenated style sheet attribute of the above-mentioned text data, Wherein the above-mentioned cascading style sheet attributes include position attributes, layer attributes and style attributes. The meanings of the position attribute and the layer attribute are as above, and the style attribute refers to the format of the above-mentioned text data, such as: font, size, color and so on.

The sound data layer generation sub-module 159 generates a hypertext markup language sound tag (for example: <bgsound> tag) in the above hypertext markup language file according to the above multimedia information. In this way, the above-mentioned sound data becomes the background sound when the above-mentioned HTML file is presented.

The e-mail making module 17 is to generate a multimedia e-mail, attach the hypertext markup language file generated by the conversion of the above-mentioned multimedia message as an attachment, and use the above-mentioned wireless communication module to send the above-mentioned multimedia e-mail. The receiving end of the above-mentioned multimedia email can be various electronic devices, whether it is a handheld device or a device similar to a desktop computer, as long as it supports the hypertext markup language file, it can display the content contained in it in the form of a combination of graphics and text. Multimedia messages such as text, audio and video.

The present invention also provides a multimedia message processing method, which is implemented in the hand-held mobile communication device 10, so that the multimedia email produced and sent by it can be correctly displayed in any hypertext markup language in the form of combined display of graphics and text. On the receiving end electronic machine of the file. As shown in FIG. 2, the above method firstly provides a multimedia message (step S21), which includes at least one text data and picture data, and it may also include at least one audio data.

Secondly, the above-mentioned multimedia information is converted into an HTML file, so that the above-mentioned text data and picture data can be overlapped and combined for display, which is achieved by specifying the attribute of the cascading style sheet. To convert the above-mentioned multimedia information into an HTML file, several steps need to be carried out. For the resulting HTML file, please refer to FIG. 3 and its explanatory text. First generate the basic header information of the above-mentioned HTML file (step S231). This so-called header information is the basic information that a HTML file has. Basic information such as the language version declaration and the basic framework structure of the HTML file. Next, according to a topic information of the multimedia message, generate the header portion of the HTML file (step S233). Step S235 is an image data layer generation step, which generates a hypertext markup language image tag (for example: <IMG> tag) in the hypertext markup language document according to the above multimedia information, and uses the "style" syntax to mark in the hypertext document The cascading style sheet attributes of the image data are specified in the language tag, wherein the cascading style sheet attributes include a position attribute, a hierarchy attribute, and a style attribute. Step S237 is a text data layer generation step, which generates a hypertext markup language text tag (for example: <b> tag) in the above hypertext markup language file according to the above multimedia message, and specifies the concatenated style sheet attribute of the above text data , wherein the above cascading style sheet properties include position properties, hierarchy properties and style properties.

If the above-mentioned multimedia message includes sound data, then the above-mentioned method executes a sound data layer generation step (step S239), which generates a hypertext markup language sound tag (for example: <bgsound>) in the above-mentioned hypertext markup language file according to the above-mentioned multimedia message tag), so that when the above HTML file is displayed, the sound data is played as the background sound at the same time.

Then, a multimedia email is generated, and the above-mentioned HTML file is attached as an attachment (step S25). Finally, the above multimedia email is sent by the wireless communication module 11 . The receiving end of the above-mentioned multimedia email can be various electronic devices, whether it is a handheld device or a device similar to a desktop computer, as long as it supports the hypertext markup language file, it can display the content contained in it in the form of a combination of graphics and text. Multimedia messages such as text, audio and video.

Now take a mobile phone to send electronic greeting card as an example to illustrate the implementation of the present invention.

First, edit a multimedia message on the above-mentioned mobile phone as a greeting card, that is, select a picture file and input the theme and content of the greeting card, and also select a sound file such as music or voice as the background sound of the above-mentioned greeting card. As shown in Figure 4A, select GCardImgRef.bmp as the background image. In addition, the subject of the greeting card is "blessings", and the content of the greeting card is "Happy New Year!". It is also possible to set the display format and effect for the text data of the greeting card content, such as: text color, size, layout, etc. After editing, you can preview the effect of the greeting card on the mobile phone mentioned above. When choosing to send the edited greeting card, the mobile phone will convert the content of the multimedia message as a greeting card into a standard HTML file GreetingCard.html, as shown in FIG. 4B. The conversion process first produces the basic header information of the HTML file (see FIG. 3A ), which is mainly about basic information such as the version announcement of the HTML used by the above-mentioned HTML file (as shown in block 31), In this embodiment, the version of HTML is HTML 3.2 Final. The basic header information also includes the basic frame structure of the HTML file (as shown in block 32). The content of <TITLE> can be determined by the user when writing. In this embodiment, the subject information of the multimedia message is used as the title of the hypertext markup language file. The <META> tag is only used to describe the encoding of the document, and it can also be changed as needed. Then, according to the topic information (that is, "blessing") of the above-mentioned multimedia message, generate the title part of the above-mentioned hypertext markup language file (referring to Fig. 3B shown in block 33), input in this pair of <TITLE>... The text "Blessings" in the </TITLE> tag will become the title of the web page, and it will appear in the upper left part of the browser when viewed with a general computer browser. Then, the above-mentioned mobile phone will automatically judge whether the above-mentioned multimedia message as a greeting card contains a picture data, and when it contains a picture data, it will generate a picture data layer, and it will mark the language file in the above-mentioned hyperfile according to the above-mentioned multimedia message Generate a HTML <IMG> tag, import the background image GCardImgRef.bmp, and use the "style" syntax to specify the serial style sheet attribute of the above image data in the HTML tag, wherein the above serial style sheet Attributes include location attributes, hierarchy attributes, and style attributes. Referring to block 35 in Fig. 3, the configuration of the above-mentioned background image adopts absolute position coordinates (that is, the setting of position: absolute); and its horizontal position is close to the left edge of the screen (that is, the setting of left: 0) ; Its vertical position is close to the top edge of the screen (that is, the setting of top: 0); and its layer is placed at the bottom (that is, the setting of z-index: 0). Then, a text data layer generation step is performed, which generates a HTML <b> tag in the above-mentioned HTML file according to the above-mentioned multimedia information, and specifies the concatenation style sheet attribute of the above-mentioned text data, wherein the above-mentioned concatenation Style sheet attributes include positional attributes, hierarchical attributes, and style attributes. Referring to block 37 in Fig. 3, the size of the above-mentioned text data is 20 (that is, the setting of font-size: 20), and the color is red (that is, the setting of color: red), and the configuration of the above-mentioned text data is adopted The absolute position coordinates (that is, the setting of position: absolute); and its horizontal position is close to the left edge of the screen (that is, the setting of left: 0); its vertical position is close to the top edge of the screen (that is, , top: the setting of 0); and the level of its placement is the layer above the bottom layer (that is, the setting of z-index: 1). Then, the above-mentioned mobile phone will automatically judge whether the above-mentioned multimedia message as a greeting card contains a sound data, and when it contains a sound data, a sound data layer will be generated, and it will mark the language file in the above-mentioned hyperfile according to the above-mentioned multimedia message A HTML <bgsound> tag is generated, so that when the above HTML file is displayed, the sound data is played simultaneously as the background sound.

Finally, a multimedia email is generated, and the generated hypertext markup language file GreetingCard.html is attached as an attachment, and the above-mentioned multimedia email is sent by using the above-mentioned wireless communication module. The receiving end of the above-mentioned multimedia email can be various electronic devices, whether it is a handheld device or a device similar to a desktop computer, as long as it supports the hypertext markup language file, it can display the content contained in it in the form of a combination of graphics and text. Multimedia messages such as text, audio and video (that is, the screen shown in FIG. 4B ).

Although the present invention has been disclosed above with preferred embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present invention. Anyone familiar with the art can make some changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, this The scope of protection of the invention shall be defined by the scope of the appended patent application.

Claims (5)

1. A handheld mobile communication device, comprising: A multimedia message editing module, which is used to edit a multimedia message including at least one text data and one picture data; A multimedia information conversion module, which converts the above-mentioned multimedia information into HTML files, so that the above-mentioned text data and picture data can be overlapped and combined for display, which is realized by specifying the attribute of the serial style sheet; An e-mail production module, which generates a multimedia e-mail, and attaches the hypertext markup language file generated by the conversion of the above multimedia message as an attachment; and A wireless communication module, which sends the above-mentioned multimedia email; The above-mentioned multimedia message conversion module further includes: A preview sub-module, which combines and displays the text data and picture data contained in the above-mentioned multimedia message on the above-mentioned handheld mobile communication device, so that the content of the above-mentioned multimedia email can be previewed; A header information generation sub-module, which generates the above-mentioned basic header information of the HTML document; A title information generation sub-module, which generates the title part of the hypertext markup language document according to the subject information of the multimedia message; A picture data layer generation sub-module, which generates a HTML picture tag in the above HTML file according to the multimedia information, and specifies the serial style sheet attribute of the above picture data, wherein the serial style sheet attribute Contains location attributes and hierarchy attributes; and A text data layer generating sub-module, which generates a hypertext markup language text tag in the hypertext markup language file according to the above multimedia information, and specifies the concatenated style sheet attributes of the above text data, wherein the concatenated style sheet attributes include Position properties, hierarchy properties, and style properties. 2. The handheld mobile communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the multimedia message further includes audio data. 3. The hand-held mobile communication device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the above-mentioned multimedia message conversion module further includes a sound background layer generation sub-module, which is based on the above-mentioned multimedia message, in the above-mentioned hypertext markup language file Generate a HTML <bgsound> tag. 4. A multimedia message processing method, comprising: providing a multimedia message, which includes at least one text data and image data; Converting the above-mentioned multimedia information into an HTML file, so that the above-mentioned text data and image data can be overlapped and combined for display, which is realized by specifying the attribute of the concatenated style sheet; Generate a multimedia email and attach the above HTML file as an attachment; The multimedia message conversion step further includes: A header information generation step, which generates the basic header information of the above-mentioned hypertext markup language file; A title generation step, according to a theme information of the above-mentioned multimedia message, to generate the title part of the above-mentioned hypertext markup language file; A picture data layer generation step, which generates a hypertext markup language picture tag in the above-mentioned HTML file according to the above-mentioned multimedia information, and specifies the serial style sheet attribute of the above-mentioned picture data, wherein the above-mentioned serial style sheet attribute includes a location attributes, hierarchy attributes, and style attributes; and A text data layer generation step, which generates a hypertext markup language text tag in the hypertext markup language file according to the above multimedia information, and specifies the serial style sheet attribute of the above text data, wherein the serial style sheet attribute includes a position attribute , hierarchy properties, and style properties. 5. The multimedia message processing method as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that the multimedia message converting step further comprises a sound background layer generating step, which generates a hypertext markup in the hypertext markup language file according to the multimedia message Language sound tags.

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