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    • 专利摘要:
    Process for photographic printing from mobile devices and/or from a web through a photo booth. The present invention relates to a process that allows the selection and subsequent printing of digital documents, including photos, through a mobile application and/or a specific web page and a photo booth. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)
    公开号:ES2695755A1
    申请号:ES201830657
    申请日:2018-07-02
    公开日:2019-01-10
    发明作者:Danilo Piersanti
    申请人:Dedem SpA；
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    [0001]
    [0002] PROCESS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING FROM MOBILE DEVICES AND / OR
    [0003]
    [0004] The present invention refers to a process that allows the selection and subsequent printing of digital documents, including photos, through the camera park of the photo booths, the main element of the service. To carry out the process, the interaction of the user with a mobile application and / or a specific web page is necessary, through which the user can select the documents and the digital photos to be printed, from their local file, which could be hosted in their smartphone or your PC, or from any social network to which you have access.
    [0005]
    [0006] State of technology
    [0007]
    [0008] Until today, to print the documents and the photos stored in the mobile device or the PC, the user had to store them in memorization devices (dvd-rom, memory card) and go to the photographic or printing laboratories or to the services of online photo printing. The first system has certainly high costs and requires a long wait to remove the product, the second has low costs, but also the waiting times are long.
    [0009]
    [0010] These processes therefore involve a considerable loss of time for the user.
    [0011]
    [0012] Summary of the invention
    [0013]
    [0014] With the present invention, by simple interaction from a smartphone or web-based application, the user can select the documents or digital photos to be printed, both from his local photo gallery, as from any social network to which he has access.
    [0015]
    [0016] Therefore, once the favorite photos have been selected, a geolocated map will be displayed showing all the photo booths enabled for the service and preferably closer and, once the appropriate cabin has been chosen, you will be able to remove the printed documents or photos.
    [0017] The payment modalities, if applicable, can be two. A first modality contemplates the payment at the moment of the reservation by credit card or online payment provider, directly from the smartphone or PC application. And a second modality contemplates the payment in cash directly in the cabin, using the physical payment systems that are installed.
    [0018]
    [0019] Once the customer has arrived at the chosen cabin, he will select through the Mobile App the corresponding order to print. At that moment the Mobile App will automatically generate on the screen, through a library of its own, a QR code (Quick Response Code) that will contain all the information about the order chosen to print. Subsequently, the user must select in the photo booth, through the user's keyboard, the product to be printed from the App. The photo booth will then be prepared to layer, through a digital camera installed in it, the previously generated QR code by the App. It will be enough for the user to show the QR code, which appears on the App screen, to the captation camera in the booth, to start the process of reading and downloading the locally stored order. The cabin software, based on the captured QR code, can identify the ID of the user and consequently the ID of the order to be printed and retrieve all the information necessary for the printing process, among which is the payment status.
    [0020]
    [0021] If the order is paid, once the order is retrieved locally, the booth will automatically print the photos or documents contained in that order. If, on the contrary, the order is still pending payment, the cabin will enable the payment systems requesting the amount due, which once settled, will start the printing operation.
    [0022]
    [0023] This process is defined in the independent revindication 1.
    [0024]
    [0025] The main feature of the invention that should be pointed out is the process of printing the documents or the photos of the user that substantially contemplates the following steps:
    [0026] installation in the own devices (Smartphone, Tablet) of a mobile application, based on the IOS and Android operating systems, or connection with the web page specifically created;
    [0027] selection of documents or photos to be printed from the local personal gallery or from their social networks;
    [0028] Once confirmed the selection of the photos, the application will show a georeferenced map of the photo booths with active service;
    [0029] After choosing the ideal cabin, the user can decide if he pays at the moment with the credit card modality or if he pays later in cash directly in the cabin.
    [0030] Finally, once in the cabin, the user will select from the App the order to be printed and automatically the QR code containing all the information related to said order will be displayed. Once the QR code has been generated, the user, using the keyboard of the photo booth, selects the "print from App" product that will prepare the photo booth to capture the QR code generated by the App, through its digital camera. read the QR code and, therefore, made the association between the print order and the booth, in a few seconds the printing process will start and the user can remove the final product.
    [0031]
    [0032] The priority mode of simplified execution of the invention manages the data of the order of the client through a unique order code created during the installation phase of the application and selection of the documents to be printed.
    [0033]
    [0034] The print order with the selected documents and photos is stored locally on the user's mobile device Um (or on your own fixed PC), then the editing process is activated and finally sent to a server S. In the database that will be hosted on server S can also memorize user identification data, for example, e-mail address and telephone number, if the user so decides.
    [0035]
    [0036] The photo booths, the mobile application (or the PC) and the server S will be connected to a telecommunications network to be able to exchange data telematically and the interconnection between the server and the photo booths is established through a VPN network (Virtual Private Network ) created between subjects that use a shared transmission protocol, such as the Internet, as transport technology, while the mobile application and the server will be connected through the Internet.
    [0037] The main core of the present invention, through which it offers its services, is an automatic photographic booth.
    [0038]
    [0039] The cabin is part of a computerized network of photographic cabinets, distributed throughout the territory and connected to one or more S servers, to allow the implementation of the services and the transmission of the data (photos and / or others), both between the cabins as from / to the services that you want to offer to the users.
    [0040]
    [0041] In addition, the proposed methodology allows to overcome other problems such as, for example, the satisfactory fulfillment of the quality standards of digital printing through a configuration of the booth that allows editing the captured photos.
    [0042] The following detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, which are set forth by way of example and not exhaustive, in addition to the characteristics and possibilities of utilization, allows to observe other clear advantages.
    [0043]
    [0044] Brief description of the figures
    [0045]
    [0046] Reference will be made to the drawings reproduced in the attached figures, in which: Figure 1 shows the simplified diagram of the execution process with the present invention;
    [0047] Figure 2 shows the execution process followed by an automatic photo booth with the present invention;
    [0048] Figures 3A and 3B show respectively the flow diagrams of the part of the process executed through the mobile (or web-based) application and the part of the process executed through the cabin management unit;
    [0049] Figure 4 shows, by way of example, a screenshot of the mobile application; and Figure 5 shows an example of the capture of the unwanted codes of recognition of the order in the application.
    [0050]
    [0051] Detailed description of the different embodiments of the invention
    [0052]
    [0053] In the following, the present invention is described, with reference to the figures indicated above.
    [0054]
    [0055] Figure 1 illustrates globally a first embodiment of a system to implement a service of printing digital documents / photos from a personal gallery or a social network.
    [0056]
    [0057] The system comprises a telecommunications network and, at least, an automatic photographic machine or cabin, preferably a plurality of cabins, which can be distributed in different ways throughout the territory. In the process of executing Figure 1, there are shown, by way of example, only some automatic photo booths C1, C2, Cn.
    [0058]
    [0059] In addition to the automatic photographic cabinets, the system may include one or several D1 user databases or libraries, remote with respect to each cabin or integrated in one or more of these, in which digital images and data are stored (eg identification data) of the users. The automated booths and databases included in the The system of the invention are connected to each other by said telecommunications network. It is noted that, for convenience of representation, in the example of Figure 1 a single database D1 is shown.
    [0060]
    [0061] The transmission of the data to the database D1 is carried out by means of a mobile or web-based application activated by the client, shown in the figure as M. The synchronization of the data between the mobile application M and the server S is activated only when the user is in one of the cubicles C1, C2 ... Cn, through interfaces 5 arranged for this purpose, which are shown in Figure 2, the data is extracted from the database D1 and the server S sends them to the selected cabin.
    [0062]
    [0063] When a user accesses the mobile application for the first time, they are asked to register. The registration contemplates the introduction in the platform of the personal data of the user, as well as the introduction of the username and password. The user will be associated with a user identifier. Once the registration has been made, it is sufficient to enter this user name and password to obtain the necessary authorization to carry out the successive accesses. In particular, the database D1 may have subsections, as indicated in Figure 1 as T1, T2, Tn, in which the data and photos of a specific user are memorized, to which only that particular user has access. by entering the user name and password with which you have registered and, if the user is not registered, temporary keys and a user are assigned to identify themselves. For example, a user can execute an order on the photos, memorize the photos in the database D1 and, in a second moment, return to the memorized photos of their order and print them in a booth.
    [0064]
    [0065] To transmit telematically the request of the cabin C1, C2, Cn, it is necessary that the user is connected to the telecommunication network of the system.
    [0066]
    [0067] Another embodiment of the system offered by the invention allows the user to use the booth as the printing station of his order.
    [0068]
    [0069] Figure 2 illustrates in detail one of the cabins of the system of Figure 1. All the photographic cabinets of the system can have the same structure, being the preferred option.
    [0070]
    [0071] The photo booth has means to capture images 4, configured to capture photos or user documents in the form of digital images, media editing and printing of images and means of connection to the telecommunications network 3. The connection means 3 are configured to allow the exchange of data (such as digital images and / or user data) between the various automated cabinets of the system and the database D1.
    [0072]
    [0073] In addition, the cabinet can include a central control unit 7 and interface means 5 programmed to allow the user to select the particular product and acquire the QR code displayed on the mobile device, and the interface means 5 include a display, with and without touch screen.
    [0074]
    [0075] The means of capturing images 4 have professional-type capture cameras, which preferably apply a minimum resolution of 1.2 Megapixel image capture.
    [0076]
    [0077] The image editing means 6 are configured to modify the parameters of the images acquired from the database D1 or through the capture means 4, so that they reach the quality standards of the digital photos. In particular, when the digital image has been captured, it is edited with a specific software that intervenes on some parameters (eg profiles and color) of the image to improve the quality.
    [0078]
    [0079] Said image capture means 4, image editing means 6 and connection means 3 are preferably connected to, and directed by, the central unit 7, in turn connected to the user interface means 5.
    [0080]
    [0081] In the following, the preferred embodiments of the process are described, implemented by means of the systems described above, to request printing of the photos / documents through a photo booth connected to a telecommunications network.
    [0082]
    [0083] In general, the process of the present invention contemplates at least the following phases: a) selection of the photos (and / or documents) to be entered in the print order;
    [0084] b) selection of the cabin where to make the printing of the photos / documents;
    [0085] c) verification of the user's registration; in the affirmative case, proceed with the order, and otherwise you can proceed to the registration phase with the introduction of user data and the creation of a unique order code to associate the orders.
    [0086]
    [0087] Once the set of photos and / or documents to be printed have been selected and associated with the user, there is a computer container that includes at least the following data:
    [0088] i. the digital images of the user to be printed; Y
    [0089] ii. the unique order code, which in turn contains the user's identifier;
    [0090] Said computer container is received from subsections T1 ... Tn of database D1 through the telecommunications network. In particular, the central unit 7 is configured to receive telematically from the server, through the telecommunications network, the computer container.
    [0091]
    [0092] In some embodiments, as will be explained below, the computer container may also contain a payment status of the user's order.
    [0093]
    [0094] Therefore, the process can contemplate a phase of selection of the method of payment, to choose between the credit card and the immediate payment in cash in the photo booth.
    [0095]
    [0096] In any case, the user goes to the booth, selects the print function from the App, shows the QR code generated by the Mobile App to the camera of the booth; if the payment is confirmed as made, the booth will print the order and, if not, the user must make the payment at the moment and then start the printing of the selection.
    [0097]
    [0098] The flow diagrams of Figures 3A and 3B, below, illustrate the preferred embodiment of the process that can be implemented with the present invention.
    [0099]
    [0100] The installed mobile application, or web page, generates for each order that a unique order code is made to identify and manage all the user's orders, which will be sent promptly to database D1.
    [0101]
    [0102] When selecting the photos, they will be temporarily stored in the device's Crazy Memory, and then edited and sent to the D1 database.
    [0103]
    [0104] In Figure 4, there is shown, by way of example, a screenshot of the mobile application M of the invention, as visualized in the mobile devices.
    [0105]
    [0106] The edition process is necessary given the varied typology of photos / documents that can be sent for printing.
    [0107]
    [0108] This takes place in the phase of the creation of the order through a specific algorithm, that takes care of resizing the photos / documents to a maximum size of 500Kb, so that the printed product has an optimal quality and, at the same time, optimize the transmission times, both in the upload phase to the server, and in the phase of discharge in the cabins.
    [0109]
    [0110] The resizing phase will be used to manipulate the digital size of the photo / document, which will be scaled at a 4: 3 ratio to adapt it to the 4 "x6" print, without changing the original display.
    [0111]
    [0112] Once the edition of the images has finished, they can be associated with the unique order recognition code of the order (Figure 5).
    [0113]
    [0114] The transmission of the package contemplated in the order is carried out through the HTTPS protocol (Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol), protected and encrypted to guarantee the security of the information.
    [0115]
    [0116] The package in JSON (Notation of Javascript Objects) format presents a simple format for data exchange. The package will contain the data of the order, in addition to the photos / documents sent in base-64 JPEG format and the ID of the user who, once received by the server, will be decrypted and archived in the database waiting for the Signal of impression.
    [0117]
    [0118] The indicators of the active printing booths for the service will be displayed on the map of the application.
    [0119]
    [0120] It will be guaranteed that each cabin that appears in the map has a good connectivity that allows the download of the contents from the concentrator server, as well as that in the booth is installed the function that allows the printing of the photos / documents through the application. .
    [0121]
    [0122] Inside the photo booth you can select, through a small keyboard for the client, the corresponding function, which will appear in video through an easily recognizable icon and description.
    [0123]
    [0124] After selecting the function, the screen will be displayed in the cabin to capture the QR code shown in the Mobile App.
    [0125] At this point, the user, from the screen that summarizes the orders that will appear in the mobile device, will proceed to the selection of what is going to be printed, and this operation will serve to generate the QR code that will be shown later to the camera in the cabin.
    [0126]
    [0127] Within the QR code all the information necessary to proceed with the printing of the order, as well as the ID of the user and the ID of the order will be contained.
    [0128]
    [0129] Each cabin present in the territory is counted with a cabin code utivoco formed, for example, by 8 decimal places, which will serve the server to identify the cabin that should proceed to effect the download of the order.
    [0130]
    [0131] At the moment the QR code is scanned from the photo booth, a script of the application in the booth will be connected to the database of the server, identify the user number and the registered order number and perform the registration update with the cockpit code of the selected cabin.
    [0132]
    [0133] The update of the record in database D1 will execute the device that initializes a script to send the package to the booth.
    [0134]
    [0135] Through a protected connection and under the SFTP protocol (Secure Data Transfer Protocol), the package of the order containing the data and the photos / documents to be printed will be transferred.
    [0136]
    [0137] Another application in the cabin in real time will analyze the received data and, if the order is recorded as paid, it will proceed directly to the printing of the photos.
    [0138]
    [0139] If the order is not recorded as paid, the application will enable the payment systems to allow the order to be settled and then proceed with the printing.
    [0140]
    [0141] The digital container is transmitted, via SFTP protocol, through protected connections defined on the basis of the actual locations of the photo booths (eg, ADSL, UMTS, HSUPA, HSPDA), to a Cloud server. The Cloud server and its resources are distributed efficiently on activated disks in a high-performance RAID storage system. Each memory is replicated in a twin memory protecting the data from possible memory failures, while the CPUs (Central Processing Unit) virtual and the Gigabytes of RAM (Random Access Memory) contemplate a minimum power reserved and guaranteed, and not Overbookings will be made or oversold of resources.
    [0142]
    [0143] The server will accept both protected connections from the booths, as well as internet connections from mobile devices.
    [0144]
    [0145] The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described up to now, but it must be clarified that all the technical solutions implemented for the preferred embodiments, here described by way of example, can be effectively combined with the others, in different ways. to those described, to configure other embodiments, of the same invention, all of them within the scope of protection of the claims set forth below.
    权利要求:
    Claims (10)
    [1]
    1. Process for printing photos and / or documents from a mobile or web application of a user device through a photo booth, in which: said user is associated with an univocal user identifier, the photo booth belongs to a network of photo booths, the network comprises a server unit connected to the Internet and each cabin is associated with an univocal cabin code; characterized by the fact that the process comprises the following phases:
    • selection, through said application, of one or a set of said photos and / or documents to be printed;
    • association of the user identifier to the set of photos and / or documents to be printed, with a unique order code;
    • generation of a computer container comprising at least:
    or the set of photos and / or documents to be printed; Y
    or the unique order code,
    • transmission, through said application, of the computer container from the user's device to the server unit that stores it in a database;
    • association, through said application, of a photographic booth in which to print said set of photos and / or documents to be printed;
    • sent to the server, through the photo booth, a print request containing the cabin code of the selected booth, the unique order code and the unique code of the user;
    • extraction, from the server database, of the set of photos and / or documents to be printed associated with the order code received with the print request;
    • transmission, from the server to the selected photo booth associated with the booth code received with the application, from said computer container; and
    • printing of said set of photos and / or documents to be printed received in the selected photo booth.
    [2]
    Process according to claim 1, characterized in that it also includes a payment phase of the consideration for the printing of the set of photos and / or documents to be printed.
    [3]
    3. Process according to claim 2, characterized in that in the printing phase it is subordinated to a verification of the effective payment of the consideration.
    [4]
    4. Process according to claim 3, characterized in that the container computer also includes a payment status for the purpose of verification.
    [5]
    Process according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it also includes a pre-printing step of printing each photo and / or document to be printed.
    [6]
    6. Process according to claim 5, characterized in that in the pre-printing edition phase includes an automatic regulation of the sizes and / or brightness parameters and / or contrast and / or color profile.
    [7]
    Process according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in the selection of the photographic booth in which to print the set of photos and / or documents to be printed is made through a georeferenced map in which they are identified the photo booths.
    [8]
    Process according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in the transmission of the computer container, from the user device to the server unit, it is produced through the Internet on the basis of a protected and encrypted HTTPS protocol.
    [9]
    9. Process according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in the transmission of the computer container from the server to the selected photo booth is carried out through a protected connection of type VPN according to an SFTP protocol.
    [10]
    10. - Program for electronic processor, in the form of mobile or web application, able to implement the phases of the process of any of the claims, from 1 to 9 that can be executed through said application.
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