Comic reproduction system with scroll direction-based sound reproduction control

1 . A comic reproduction system with scroll direction based sound reproduction control, using

comic data including:

comic image data including backgrounds, characters, and speech balloons, which are prepared for a story to progress in a predetermined scroll direction;

sound data including lines, mimetic words, onomatopoeia, phonomimes, phenomimes, a title, sound effects, and music, which correspond to the comic image data; and

sound data reproduction position data for storing a reproduction start position of the sound data as a position along the scroll direction of the comic image data,

the comic reproduction system comprising:

a comic image data display module including a processor and a memory, the module being configured to display a predetermined part of the comic image data on a display screen of a device, and to continuously move the displayed part of the comic image data on the display screen in accordance with a user's scroll operation;

a scroll direction detecting module including a processor and a memory, the module being configured to detect whether the scrolling direction of a user's scrolling operation is a forward scrolling direction or a reverse scrolling direction; and

a sound data reproduction module including a processor and a memory, the module being configured to determine, according to the detection of the scrolling direction by the scroll direction detecting module, whether a reproduction start position of the sound data reached a predetermined reproduction criterial position within the display screen during the movement of the displayed part of the comic data by the comic image data display module, and reproduce the sound data,

wherein for the reproduction criterial position, different reproduction criterial positions are set within the display screen for forward scrolling and reverse scrolling, such that the reproduction criterial positions are defined based on a distance from an edge of the display screen or a percentage of a screen dimension, respectively.

2 . The comic reproduction system of claim 1 , wherein

different positions may be configured for the reproduction start position in forward scroll direction and the reproduction start position in backward scroll direction, respectively.

3 . The comic reproduction system of claim 1 , wherein

the sound data reproduction position data may configure, for specific sound data, a reproduction stop position in addition to the reproduction start position.

4 . The comic reproduction system of claim 1 , wherein

the sound data reproduction position data stores, for each sound data, whether the sound data is simultaneous reproduction-enabled or simultaneous reproduction-disabled, and

when the sound data reproduction module detects that a reproduction start position of specific sound data reached a predetermined reproduction criterial position, the sound data reproduction module stops reproduction of other sound data being reproduced and reproduces the specific sound data if the specific sound data is simultaneous reproduction-disabled and other sound data being reproduced is simultaneous reproduction-disabled.

5 . The comic reproduction system of claim 1 , wherein

the sound data reproduction module stops reproduction of sound data if a scroll velocity by the user's scroll operation reaches a value equal to or greater than a threshold.

6 . The comic reproduction system of claim 5 , further comprising

a control interface display module including a processor and a memory to provide a configuration interface for configuring the threshold of the scroll velocity.

7 . The comic reproduction system of claim 1 , wherein

the sound data further includes text data of the sound data,

the comic reproduction system, further comprising

a language processing module including a processor and a memory, being configured to perform display on the display screen of the device according to the user's language.

8 . The comic reproduction system of claim 1 , further comprising

a language processing module including a processor and a memory, being configured to execute automatic translation based on the sound data and display the automatically translated text on the screen.

9 . The comic reproduction system of claim 8 , wherein

the language processing module including a processor and a memory, further generates sound data based on the automatically translated text.

10 . The comic reproduction system of claim 1 , wherein

further, a reproduction start position of sound data corresponding to a speech balloon displayed in a comic is automatically generated according to a position of the speech balloon.

11 . The comic reproduction system of claim 1 , wherein the reproduction criterial position in the forward scrolling direction is located at a position nearer to a trailing edge of the display screen along the forward scrolling direction, and the reproduction criterial position in the reverse scrolling direction is located at a position nearer to the trailing edge of the display screen along the reverse scrolling direction.

12 . A comic reproduction method utilizing a computer, using

comic data including:

comic image data including backgrounds, characters, and speech balloons, which are prepared for a story to progress in a predetermined scroll direction;

sound data including lines, mimetic words, onomatopoeia, phonomimes, phenomimes, a title, sound effects, and music, which correspond to the comic image data; and

sound data reproduction position data for storing a reproduction start position of the sound data as a position along the scroll direction of the comic image data,

the comic reproduction method comprising the steps of:

displaying comic image data by a computer, by displaying a predetermined part of the comic image data on a display screen of a device, and also continuously moving the displayed part of the comic image data on the display screen with a scroll operation by a user;

detecting whether the scrolling direction of a user's scrolling operation is a forward scrolling direction or a reverse scrolling direction; and

reproducing sound data by the computer, by determining, according to the detection of the scrolling direction by the scroll direction detecting module, whether a reproduction start position of the sound data reached a predetermined reproduction criterial position within the display screen during the movement of the displayed part of the comic data by the step of displaying comic image data, and reproducing the sound data

wherein for the reproduction criterial position, different reproduction criterial positions are set within the display screen for forward scrolling and reverse scrolling, such that the reproduction criterial position in the forward scrolling direction is located nearer to a trailing edge of the display screen along the forward scrolling direction, and the reproduction criterial position in the reverse scrolling direction is located nearer to the trailing edge of the display screen along the reverse scrolling direction.

13 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer instructions for reproducing comic data, using

comic data including:

comic image data including backgrounds, characters, and speech balloons, which are prepared for a story to progress in a predetermined scroll direction;

sound data including lines, mimetic words, onomatopoeia, phonomimes, phenomimes, a title, sound effects, and music, which correspond to the comic image data; and

sound data reproduction position data for storing a reproduction start position of the sound data as a position along the scroll direction of the comic image data,

the instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the steps of:

displaying comic image data by the computer, by displaying a predetermined part of the comic image data on a display screen of a device, and also continuously moving the displayed part of the comic image data on the display screen with a scroll operation by a user;

detecting whether the scrolling direction of a user's scrolling operation is a forward scrolling direction or a reverse scrolling direction; and

reproducing sound data by the computer, by determining, according to the detection of the scrolling direction by the scroll direction detecting module, whether a reproduction start position of the sound data reached a predetermined reproduction criterial position within the display screen during the movement of the displayed part of the comic data by the step of displaying comic image data, and reproducing the sound data,

wherein for the reproduction criterial position, different reproduction criterial positions are set within the display screen for forward scrolling and reverse scrolling, such that the reproduction criterial position in the forward scrolling direction is located nearer to a trailing edge of the display screen along the forward scrolling direction, and the reproduction criterial position in the reverse scrolling direction is located nearer to the trailing edge of the display screen along the reverse scrolling direction.