JP2004192560A - Electronic data reproducing device, electronic text display device, electronic text display method, program and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To output information such as an explanation of a character and the like according to the reading speed of an operator by a simple method. <P>SOLUTION: In this electronic text display device 1, when the character is selected from text data of an electronic book displayed on a display device 13, a CPU 11 obtains its selected position, compares the selected position with a pointer showing the head position of each character information related to the selected character, obtains character information according to the selected position from character information text data 162 and displays it on the display device 13. Or, the character information according to the selected position is obtained from character information voice data 163 and is output by a voice output device 17. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an electronic data reproducing apparatus for reproducing electronic data including one or more of digitized text data, audio data, image data, and moving image data, particularly, an electronic text display apparatus for displaying text data, and an electronic text display. The present invention relates to a display method, a program, and a recording medium.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In recent years, electronic devices such as portable information terminals and dedicated electronic book terminals capable of reading digitized books have been commercialized, and the market has been expanding. When reading a novel with these electronic devices, particularly in the case of a novel with many characters, it is often necessary to explain the contents of each character as the reading progresses. In such a case, it is very troublesome to read back and search for a part expressing the profile of a certain character.
[0003]
In order to save the trouble of rereading, some books such as ordinary novels include a list of characters and an outline of the description of each character at the beginning or end of the book.
[0004]
Further, in a portable electronic reading device, there is disclosed a technology in which when a "person" key is pressed, a main character name stored in a memory in advance and a brief introduction thereof are displayed (for example, see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open Reference 1).
[0005]
[Patent Document 1]
JP-A-6-309439 (page 4, FIG. 1)
[0006]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, Patent Document 1 describes displaying brief explanation data of the main characters, but cannot refer to the description of the characters up to the point of reading.
[0007]
The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-described problem, and enables information such as a description of a character or the like according to a degree of reading progress of an operator to be output by a simple method. It is aimed at.
[0008]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, an electronic text display device according to the first aspect of the present invention includes:
A sentence data acquisition means for acquiring sentence data;
Proper noun selection means for selecting a proper noun in the sentence data,
Reading position determination means for determining a reading position in the sentence data,
Information data obtaining means for obtaining information data on the selected proper noun, according to the reading position determined by the reading position determination means,
Information output means for outputting the obtained information data,
It is characterized by having.
[0009]
According to the invention described in claim 1, text data is obtained, a proper noun in the text data is selected, and a reading position in the text data is determined. According to the determined reading position, The information data on the selected proper noun is obtained, and the obtained information data is output. Therefore, it is possible to easily output information on proper nouns such as characters in accordance with the degree of reading progress of the operator.
[0010]
The electronic data reproducing device according to the invention according to claim 14,
Story data acquisition means for acquiring story data including story data, text data, audio data, image data, and / or video data,
Object selection means for selecting a specific object, creature or person in the story data,
Progress position storage means for storing the progress position of the story in the story data;
Information data acquisition means for acquiring information data on the object selected by the object selection means, according to the story progression position stored by the progression position storage means,
Information output means for outputting the obtained information data,
It is characterized by having.
[0011]
According to the invention of claim 14, story data including one or more of text data, audio data, image data, and moving image data is acquired, and when a specific object, creature or person in the story data is selected. And outputting information data on the selected object according to the story progress position. Therefore, it is possible to easily output information on the selected object in the story data including one or more of text data, audio data, image data, and moving image data in accordance with the progress of the story.
[0012]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
First, the configuration will be described.
FIG. 1 shows a functional configuration of an electronic text display device 1 according to the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, the electronic text display device 1 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 11, an input device 12, a display device 13, a communication device 14, a RAM (Random Access Memory) 15, a storage device 16, and an audio output device 17. The components are connected by a bus 18.
[0013]
The CPU 11 reads a system program and various control programs stored in the storage device 16 by operating the input device 12 by a user, and executes the program by developing the program and the like in a program storage area in the RAM 15 as necessary. The operation of each unit of the electronic text display device 1 is centrally controlled according to a program. Further, the CPU 11 reads out various processing programs stored in the storage device 16 and executes them by developing them in the RAM 15 as necessary. According to the expanded processing programs, the CPU 11 executes a person information output process A and a person information output process described later. B: Various processes including a person information acquisition process are executed, and the processing results are stored in the RAM 15 and displayed on the display device 13 or output from the audio output device 17.
[0014]
The input device 12 is configured by a so-called touch panel that outputs position information input by touching a transparent sheet panel covering the display screen of the display device 13 with a finger or a dedicated stylus pen to the CPU 11 as an input signal. The input device 12 includes a power button, an arrow button, various function buttons, and the like, and outputs an operation signal by a button operation to the input device 12.
[0015]
The display device 13 is configured by an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) or the like, and displays text data, image data, and the like on a display screen in accordance with an instruction of a display signal input from the CPU 11.
[0016]
The communication device 14 is configured by a modem, a TA (Terminal Adapter), a router, or the like, and is connected to the Internet or the like via a communication line such as a telephone line, an ISDN line, an ADSL line, a cable television line, or a dedicated line made of an optical fiber or the like. Control for communicating with an external device connected to the network N of the first embodiment.
[0017]
The RAM 15 temporarily stores system programs, various processing programs, input or output data, parameters, and the like that can be executed by the electronic text display device 1 read from the storage device 16 in various processes controlled by the CPU 11. Area.
[0018]
The storage device 16 is composed of a nonvolatile semiconductor memory such as a flash memory, and is used for a system program corresponding to the electronic text display device 1, various processing programs corresponding to the system program, and these programs. Data and the like are stored. The storage device 16 has a recording medium (not shown) in which programs and data are stored in advance, and the recording medium is fixedly or detachably mounted on the storage device 16. Each program is stored in the form of a readable program code, and the CPU 11 sequentially executes operations according to the program code.
[0019]
In the present embodiment, the storage device 16 stores text data 161, personal information text data 162, and personal information audio data 163. The personal information text data 162 stores, for each character in the text data 161, personal information 0 (1) to n corresponding to the position (pointer) in the text data 161 as text data. The personal information voice data 163 stores personal information 0 (1) to n corresponding to the position (pointer) in the text data 161 as voice data for each character in the text data 161. In the case where the character is a character who has appeared in the previous volume, the personal information 0 stores information on the person up to the previous volume.
[0020]
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of the data structure of the person information text data 162. As shown in FIG. 2, the person information text data 162 includes a person name area 162a, an information code area 162b, a pointer data area 162c, and a text data area 162d.
[0021]
The person name area 162a stores the names of the characters (eg, character A, character B, character C,...) As data of “person name”. The information code area 162b stores a code (for example, 1, 2, 3, 4,...) Uniquely assigned to specify the personal information text data stored in the text data area 162d for each character. Store as "information code". The pointer data area 162c indicates, in the text data 161, pointer data indicating the head position to which the personal information text data stored in the text data area 162d is applied (for example, page 0, line 0, page 12, line 17 and page 35). ..) Are stored as “pointer data”. In other words, this "pointer data" is data that stores the page and the number of lines, indicating how many pages and lines of the page should be read to display certain person information about a certain person. The text data area 162d stores personal information text data as “text data”.
[0022]
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of the data structure of the personal information voice data 163. As shown in FIG. 3, the person information sound data 163 includes a person name area 163a, an information code area 163b, a pointer data area 163c, and an audio data area 163d.
[0023]
The person name area 163a stores the names of the characters (for example, character A, character B, character C,...) As data of “person name”. The information code area 163b stores a code (for example, 1, 2, 3, 4,...) Uniquely assigned to specify the personal information voice data stored in the voice data area 162d for each character. Store as "information code". The pointer data area 163c indicates, in the text data 161, pointer data indicating the head position to which the personal information voice data stored in the voice data area 163d is applied. ..) Are stored as “pointer data”. The voice data area 163d stores the personal information voice data as “voice data”.
[0024]
In the case where a page number and the number of lines are used as pointer data as in the present embodiment, one sentence data 161 is required for one novel or the like. In the present embodiment, an example will be described in which the storage device 16 has one piece of text data 161. However, when text data for a plurality of novels is stored, the storage device 16 stores a plurality of text data 1611 to 161N. The person information text data 162 and the person information voice data 163 also store the person information text data 1621 to 162N and the person information voice data 1631 to 163N according to the sentence data 1611 to 161N.
[0025]
On the other hand, if information data such as the number of turns and a number that can identify the CD-ROM on which the sentence data is recorded are added to the pointer data, the person information text data 162 and the person information voice data 163 become a sentence consisting of a plurality of volumes. One can also share data.
[0026]
The audio output device 17 shown in FIG. 1 includes a D / A converter, an amplifier, a speaker, and the like. When an audio output instruction signal is input from the CPU 11, the audio data to be output is converted into an analog signal by the D / A converter. The analog signal is converted to a predetermined volume by an amplifier and output from a speaker as a sound.
[0027]
Next, the operation will be described.
FIG. 4 shows an example of the person information output process A executed by the CPU 11 of the electronic text display device 1.
[0028]
When the display of the text data of the electronic book is instructed by the operation signal from the input device 12, the CPU 11 acquires the text data 161 from the storage device 16 and causes the display device 13 to display the text data 161 (step S1). When a character, for example, a character A (hereinafter, referred to as a character A) is selected on the text data displayed on the display device 13 by an input from the input device 12 by the user (step S2; YES), the CPU 11 Determines the position X (the number of pages and the number of lines) where the person A has been selected as the reading position (the position where the reading is currently being performed) (step S3), executes the person information acquisition process (step S4), and The display device 13 displays the text data acquired according to the advance position (step S5).
[0029]
FIG. 5 shows an example of the person information acquisition process executed by the CPU 11.
The CPU 11 starts a search from the head of the data on the person A in the person information text data 162 (step S11), and the information code at the head is 0, that is, the head data is the person information 0 on the person A (the character A is the previous character). It is determined whether or not the information is the person A up to the previous volume when the person has appeared up to the previous volume), and if it is determined that the leading data is the personal information 0 (step S12; YES), the counter n Is set to 0 (step S13), and if it is determined that the person information is not the person information 0, that is, the person A is not the person who appeared before the previous volume (step S12; NO), the initial value of the counter n is set to 1. (Step S14).
[0030]
Next, the CPU 11 determines whether or not the position X is before the pointer (pointer n) of the person information n of the person A, and if it is before (step S15; YES), if n = 0, If the error is n = 1, information is obtained (step S16), and the process proceeds to step S5 in FIG. 4 to display the error or no information on the display device 13.
[0031]
If it is determined in step S15 that the position X is not before the pointer of the person information n of the person A (step S15; NO), the CPU 11 determines whether or not the person information n + 1 exists (step S17). If not (step S17; NO), the process proceeds to step S19 to acquire the text data of the personal information n (step S19), and then proceeds to step S5 in FIG. When determining that the person information n + 1 exists (step S17; YES), the CPU 11 determines whether or not the position X is before the pointer of the person information n + 1, and determines that the position X is not before (step S18; NO). The counter n is updated to n + 1 (step S20), and the process returns to step S17 to repeatedly execute steps S17 to S20. If it is determined in step S18 that the position X is before the pointer of the person information n + 1 (step S18; YES), the CPU 11 acquires the text data of the person information n (step S19), and proceeds to step S5 in FIG. I do.
[0032]
The CPU 11 repeatedly executes steps S2 to S6 until the end of the sentence data display is instructed by the input of the input device 12 in step S6 of FIG.
[0033]
FIGS. 6A and 6B show an example of the electronic book display screen 131 displayed on the display device 13 and an example of a method of selecting the person A in step S2 of FIG. As shown in FIG. 6A, in step S2, when the user presses a person name on the displayed text data with a stylus pen or the like, the person name displayed at the pressed position is selected, The pressed position is determined as the reading position, and in step S4, the text data of the information of the person selected according to the reading position is obtained, and in step S5, the text data is obtained as shown in FIG. Pop-up is displayed.
[0034]
As shown in FIG. 7A, when the text of the personal information displayed as a pop-up in step S5 includes another person's name, the other person is further displayed in the text displayed as a pop-up. Can be selected. Even when a person name on the pop-up display is selected by pressing with a stylus pen or the like instead of the text, steps S3 to S5 of the above-described person information output processing A are executed, and as shown in FIG. Then, information about the selected person is displayed in a pop-up.
[0035]
FIG. 8 shows a method of acquiring personal information. As shown in FIG. 8, in the person information text data 162, for each of the characters A to D appearing in the text data 161, there is no information or any of the person information 0 (1) to n according to the progress of the page. Are associated with each other. The information obtained changes depending on the position where the person is selected, that is, the position (what page and line) where the reading progress position is. For example, when the character A is selected at the current position X shown in FIG. 8, the selected position is after the pointer 3 and before the pointer 4, so that the person information 3 of the person A is obtained from the person information text data 162. Information is acquired and displayed.
[0036]
It should be noted that the user can set in advance whether the personal information is to be displayed as text or output as voice by input from the input device 12 or by other settings. The above-described person information output process A is a process executed when text display is set. However, when voice output is set, the CPU 11 executes step S1 of the above-described person information output process A. To S3, the person information sound data 163 is searched in the person information acquisition processing in step S4 to acquire the person information of the sound data, and the sound data acquired in step S5 is output from the sound output device 17. . It is also possible to set so that text display and voice output of personal information are performed simultaneously.
[0037]
As described above, according to the present invention, when a person is selected from the text data of the electronic book displayed on the display device 13, the selected position is acquired as the reading position, and the reading data is read to what extent. At this time, by comparing the pointer indicating the head position as to whether or not each piece of personal information about the selected person should be displayed, with the selected position, the personal information corresponding to the reading position can be converted into the personal information text data 162. From the personal information voice data 163 in the form of voice data, and output to the voice output device 17.
[0038]
Therefore, it is possible to display or output the description of the characters up to the point where the user is reading. Furthermore, as described above, the description up to the read portion of the characters can be displayed or output as voice by simple processing, so that the load on the hardware is light and the result can be displayed and output in a short time. Also, it is possible to realize even a device having a relatively simple configuration.
[0039]
The description in the above embodiment is a preferred example of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to this.
For example, in the above-described embodiment, the pointer data of the person information shown in the person information text data 162 and the person information audio data 163 has been described as indicating the head position at which the person information is displayed. The position of the end to be displayed may be indicated, and the search processing may be performed accordingly.
[0040]
In addition, although the personal information is displayed as text or output as audio, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, personal information composed of image data, moving image data, and the like may be displayed. Further, in the above description, as shown in step S19 and the like, only the person information n corresponding to the position where the person is currently reading is displayed as the person information. All the information up to the information n may be displayed.
[0041]
Further, the present invention is not limited to the electronic text display device, and can be applied to a game having a story, such as a role playing game and an adventure game. In this case, information such as which stage (scene) of the game is currently being played, or information data such as whether or not a player has played a certain scene or an event has occurred is held. In advance, one of a plurality of pieces of personal information is selected from the information and displayed.
[0042]
That is, for example, when the story or the information obtained by the user changes according to the user's selection as in the case of multi-ending, based on the event experienced by the user among the information from the above-mentioned person information 1 to person information n. Only the personal information that can be displayed may be selected, and the personal information may be combined and displayed.
[0043]
On the other hand, if the story is a one-way story and the scene develops according to the determined story, it is the same as an electronic sentence display device, so which stage (scene) of the game you are currently playing The present invention can be applied to the case where information such as is held and personal information is searched based on this information (corresponding to the number of pages and lines in the above embodiment) in the same manner as in the above embodiment. it can.
[0044]
Furthermore, if the story is a one-way story, the present invention can be applied to movies, dramas, audio dramas, readings, and the like, instead of games. In this case, the elapsed time from the beginning of the movie or the like can be used instead of the number of pages and the number of lines in the above embodiment.
[0045]
The text data 161, the personal information text data 162, and the personal information voice data 162 are stored in the storage device 16, but these data are stored in an external device such as a server connected to a network N such as the Internet. May be stored, and the electronic text display device 1 may acquire these data via the communication device 14. By doing so, the capacity and processing speed of the storage device of the electronic text display device 1 may be reduced. The problem can be greatly improved.
[0046]
Furthermore, a person is selected from the displayed sentence data, and the selected position is set as the reading position, and the person information corresponding to the reading position is acquired and displayed (voice output). It is not limited to this. For example, when the table of contents is displayed on the display device 13 and “Chapter 上” is selected from the table of contents, the position at the beginning of the chapter 決定 is determined as the reading position, and the reading position is determined according to the reading position. The personal information of each character may be displayed (voice output). The display history (acquisition history) of the sentence data is stored as history data in the RAM 15 or the like, and when the power is turned on next, the reading progress position is determined based on the stored history data, and the reading progress position is determined. May be displayed (voice output) according to the character information. In this way, the personal information up to the position where the user has read in the previous reading can be displayed. it can.
[0047]
In addition, a button for each character in the currently displayed text data is displayed, and when a button for a person for displaying (voice output) personal information is pressed and selected, the character of the selected character is displayed. Information may be displayed (voice output).
[0048]
However, in this case, since the reading position is not input, it is problematic where to set the reading position. Also, for example, if the head of the displayed page is simply determined as the reading position, when the page is scrolled and fast-forwarded, information that has not been read may be displayed (voice output). It is possible. Therefore, in order to solve these problems, the CPU 11 executes a person information output process B shown in FIG. 9 as a process corresponding to a case where a character is selected by a button.
[0049]
As shown in FIG. 9, the CPU 11 first sets 1 to a counter X and a counter P (step S31). Then, the text data (first page) is displayed on the display device 13 (step S32). Next, when the page turning operation is instructed by operating the input device 12 (step S33; YES), the CPU 11 stores X + 1 in the counter X and P + 1 in the counter P, returns to step S31, and returns the data of the Pth page. Display. If the page turning operation is not instructed (step S33; NO), and if fast forward is instructed (step S35; YES), the CPU 11 increments the counter P until the fast forward instruction is canceled (step S36), and the fast forward is stopped. When the instruction is released (step S35; NO) and the person button is pressed (step S37; YES), the above-described person information acquisition processing is executed with the selected position as the head of the X-th page (step S38). The information is displayed on the display device 13 (voice output to the voice output device 17) (step S39). On the other hand, if the person button is not pressed when the fast-forward instruction is released (step S37; NO), the process returns to step S32 and executes steps S32 to S37.
[0050]
As described above, even if the fast-forward of the page is instructed and the character button is pressed on the screen displayed by the fast-forward, the page X actually read by the page turning operation is stored in the counter, and the top of the X page is stored. Since the personal information up to this point is displayed (voice output), information that has not been read by mistake is not displayed (voice output). In addition, even when the return of the page is instructed, the reading is proceeded by merely changing the actual display by setting the counter P to a minus value and not changing the counter X in the same manner as when the fast forward is instructed. You may make it display (voice output) the person information up to the position.
[0051]
Further, in the above-described embodiment, the description of the characters is displayed or output as audio. However, the information to be displayed or output as audio is not limited to the information on the characters, and may be other than the name of the person whose description is required. It can also be applied to proper nouns.
[0052]
Further, the present invention can be applied to an electronic device such as a PC (Personal Computer) and a portable information terminal that can output text data of an electronic book.
[0053]
Further, the person information output process A, the person information output process B, and the person information acquisition process can be performed as a single software product independent of the electronic text display device 1 by programming or reading the program into a storage medium. Sales and distribution will be easier. Further, the technology of the present invention can be used on other hardware. Further, by recording the position in the sentence data and the information data to be output before or after the position in association with the sentence data for each proper noun such as each character in the sentence data on a recording medium, The distribution and distribution of text data usable in the electronic text display device 1 are facilitated.
[0054]
In addition, the detailed configuration and the detailed operation of the electronic text display device 1 can be appropriately changed without departing from the gist of the present invention.
[0055]
【The invention's effect】
According to the invention described in claims 1, 10, 11, and 12, when text data is obtained, a proper noun in the text data is selected, and a reading position in the text data is determined, the determined reading is performed. It is possible to acquire information data on the selected proper noun corresponding to the advance position and output the acquired information data. Therefore, it is possible to easily output information on proper nouns such as characters in accordance with the degree of reading progress of the operator.
[0056]
According to the second aspect of the present invention, it is possible to easily select a proper noun for which information data is to be output from the displayed text data.
[0057]
According to the third aspect of the invention, the reading position can be determined based on the intention of the operator.
[0058]
According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the reading position can be determined based on the operation of displaying and / or acquiring the text data by the operator.
[0059]
According to the invention described in claim 5, one or more of text data, audio data, image data, and moving image data can be output as information data of proper nouns.
[0060]
According to the invention described in claim 6, it is possible to select a proper noun in the displayed information data and output the information of the proper noun.
[0061]
According to the invention described in claim 7, it is possible to output information data corresponding to a reading position of a character in the sentence data.
[0062]
According to the invention described in claim 8, storage means for storing, in association with the text data, a position in the text data for each proper noun in the text data and information data to be output before or after the position in association with each other. , It is possible to easily obtain text data and information data of proper nouns corresponding to the reading position of the text data.
[0063]
According to the ninth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to acquire the document data and the information data of the proper noun corresponding to the reading position from the external device via the communication unit.
[0064]
According to the invention of claim 13, the position in the text data and the information data to be output before or after the position are associated with the text data for each proper noun such as each character in the text data. Recording on a recording medium facilitates distribution and distribution of text data usable in the electronic text display device 1.
[0065]
According to the invention of claim 14, story data including one or more of text data, audio data, image data, and moving image data is acquired, and when a specific object, creature or person in the story data is selected. And outputting information data on the selected object according to the story progress position. Therefore, it is possible to easily output information on the selected object in the story data including one or more of text data, audio data, image data, and moving image data in accordance with the progress of the story.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of an electronic text display device 1 according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a data structure of personal information text data 162 of FIG.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a data structure of personal information voice data 163 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a person information output process A executed by a CPU 11 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a personal information acquisition process executed by a CPU 11 of FIG. 1;
6 is a diagram showing an example of a method of selecting a character A and a display of personal information on the character A on an electronic book display screen 131 displayed on the display device 13 of FIG.
7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a method of selecting another character from the person information displayed on the electronic book display screen 131 in FIG. 6 and an example of displaying the person information of the selected character.
FIG. 8 is a diagram schematically illustrating a method of acquiring personal information in the personal information acquiring process of FIG. 5;
FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a person information output process B executed by the CPU 11 of FIG. 1;
[Explanation of symbols]
1 Electronic text display device
11 CPU
12 Input device
13 Display device
14 Communication device
15 RAM
16 Storage device
161 sentence data
162 Person information text data
163 Person information voice data
17 Audio output device
18 bus

Claims (14)

A sentence data acquisition means for acquiring sentence data;
Proper noun selection means for selecting a proper noun in the sentence data,
Reading position determination means for determining a reading position in the sentence data,
Information data obtaining means for obtaining information data on the selected proper noun, according to the reading position determined by the reading position determination means,
Information output means for outputting the obtained information data,
An electronic sentence display device comprising: Display means for displaying the sentence data;
Comprising a pressing position input means for pressing on the screen of the display means and inputting the pressing position,
2. The electronic text display device according to claim 1, wherein the proper noun selection unit selects a proper noun displayed at a pressed position input by the pressed position input unit. 3. 3. The electronic text display device according to claim 2, wherein the reading position determination unit determines a reading position in the text data based on the pressed position input by the pressed position input unit. 4. An operation history storage unit for storing at least a part of history data relating to the display and / or acquisition operation of the sentence data,
3. The electronic text according to claim 1, wherein the reading position determination unit determines a reading position in the text data based on history data stored in the operation history storage unit. Display device. The information data includes one or more of text data, audio data, image data, and moving image data.
The said information output means performs the display of the said information data by the said display means, and / or the audio | voice output of the said information data by an audio | voice output means, The one of Claims 1-4 characterized by the above-mentioned. Electronic text display device. The electronic sentence display device according to claim 5, wherein the proper noun selecting means selects a proper noun in the information data displayed on the display means. The electronic sentence display device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the proper noun is a character appearing in the sentence data. Storage means for storing, in association with the sentence data, a position in the sentence data and information data to be output before or after the position for each proper noun in the sentence data,
The text data obtaining means obtains the text data from the storage means,
8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information data acquisition unit acquires information data corresponding to the reading position determined by the reading position determination unit from the storage unit. 9. Electronic text display device. Along with the sentence data, for each proper noun in the sentence data, an external device including storage means for storing a position in the sentence data and information data to be output before or after the position in association with the external device and the data. It has communication means for sending and receiving,
The text data obtaining means obtains the text data from the external device via the communication means,
8. The information data acquisition unit according to claim 1, wherein the information data acquisition unit acquires information data according to the reading position determined by the reading position determination unit from the external device via the communication unit. The electronic sentence display device according to claim 1. Obtaining text data;
Selecting proper nouns in the sentence data;
Determining a reading position in the sentence data;
Acquiring information data on the selected proper noun according to the determined reading position,
Outputting the obtained information data;
An electronic sentence display method comprising: On the computer,
A function to obtain sentence data,
A function of selecting a proper noun in the sentence data,
A function of determining a reading position in the sentence data;
A function of acquiring information data on the selected proper noun according to the determined reading position,
A function of outputting the obtained information data,
The program to realize. Computer-executable program code for acquiring text data;
A computer-executable program code for selecting a proper noun in the sentence data,
A computer-executable program code for determining a reading position in the sentence data,
A computer-executable program code for acquiring information data on the selected proper noun according to the determined reading position,
A computer-executable program code for outputting the obtained information data,
A recording medium storing a program including: A computer-readable recording medium on which text data to be displayed as an electronic book is recorded,
A recording medium wherein a position in the sentence data and information data to be output before or after the position are recorded in association with each proper noun in the sentence data. Story data acquisition means for acquiring story data including story data, text data, audio data, image data, and / or video data,
Object selection means for selecting a specific object, creature or person in the story data,
Progress position storage means for storing the progress position of the story in the story data;
Information data acquisition means for acquiring information data on the object selected by the object selection means, according to the story progression position stored by the progression position storage means,
Information output means for outputting the obtained information data,
An electronic data reproducing apparatus comprising:

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