JP2021192158A - Information processing device and program - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide an information processing device and a program that can assist in specifying a desired book.SOLUTION: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information processing device that performs a search for a book, comprising: a reception unit; a search unit; and a generation unit. The reception unit is configured to be able to receive input of a search word. The search unit is configured to be able to perform a full-text search for a designated book by the search word, wherein the designated book is a book designated as a search target. The generation unit is configured to be able to generate headline information and appearance information based on a result of the full-text search, and generate display information for displaying the appearance information sequentially adjacent to the headline information, wherein the headline information is information for displaying bibliographic information including at least the title of the book in which the search word appears, and the appearance information is information for displaying a predetermined range that is a part of a page of the book in which the search word appears and that includes the search word.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

Description

The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and a program.

In recent years, the number of contents distributed using the Internet has increased, and the number of electronic books, which are digitized books, has also increased.

Further, with respect to an electronic book, a technique or the like that makes it possible to easily acquire information related to the electronic book by utilizing the feature of having a high affinity with a computer has been proposed (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

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However, searching for the desired book from a large number of books still often requires a great deal of effort.

In view of the above circumstances, the present invention has decided to provide an information processing device and a program capable of assisting in the identification of a desired book.

According to one aspect of the present invention, it is an information processing device for searching a book, and includes a reception unit, a search unit, and a generation unit, and the reception unit is configured to be able to accept input of a search term. , The search unit is configured to be able to perform a full-text search for a designated book by the search term, where the designated book is a book designated as a search target, and the generation unit is based on the result of the full-text search. It is configured to be able to generate display information in which the finding information and the appearance information are generated and the appearance information is sequentially adjacent to the finding information and displayed. Here, the search term appears in the finding information. Information that displays journal information including at least the title of the book, and the appearance information is information that is a part of the page of the book in which the search term appears and that displays a predetermined range including the search term. An information processing device is provided.

According to one aspect of the present invention, it is possible to search for a book containing a desired search term and confirm it including in what situation the search term is used.

It is a figure which showed the connection structure of the information processing apparatus 1 which concerns on embodiment of this invention, and other apparatus. It is a figure which showed the structure of the information processing apparatus 1. It is a block diagram which shows the functional structure of the information processing apparatus 1. It is a figure which showed the example of the screen which is displayed on the terminal 2 based on the display information. It is a figure which showed the detail of the finding information 201. It is a figure which showed the detail of the appearance information 202. It is a figure for demonstrating the method of specifying a character position. It is an activity diagram which shows the flow of operation of an information processing apparatus 1.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The various features shown in the embodiments shown below can be combined with each other.

By the way, the program for realizing the software appearing in the present embodiment may be provided as a non-temporary recording medium readable by a computer, may be provided as a downloadable form from an external server, or may be provided. It may be provided to start the program on an external computer and realize the function on the client terminal (so-called cloud computing).

Further, in the present embodiment, the "part" may include, for example, a combination of hardware resources implemented by a circuit in a broad sense and information processing of software specifically realized by these hardware resources. .. In addition, various information is handled in this embodiment, and these information are, for example, physical values of signal values representing voltage and current, and signal values as a bit aggregate of a binary number composed of 0 or 1. It is represented by high-low or quantum superposition (so-called qubit), and communication / operation can be executed on a circuit in a broad sense.

Further, the circuit in a broad sense is a circuit realized by at least appropriately combining a circuit, a circuit, a processor, a memory, and the like. That is, an integrated circuit for a specific application (Application Specific Integrated Circuit: ASIC), a programmable logic device (for example, a simple programmable logic device (Simple Programgable Logic Device: SPLD), a composite programmable logic device (Complex Programg)). It includes a programmable gate array (field programmed gate array (FPGA)) and the like.

1. 1. Overall Configuration FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a connection configuration between the information processing apparatus 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention and another apparatus. As shown in the figure, the information processing apparatus 1 is connected to the network 3. The network 3 is, for example, the Internet. The information processing device 1 is communicably connected to a plurality of terminals 2 via a network 3.

The information processing device 1 searches for books. Further, the terminal 2 is used by a user who uses the information processing device 1, and may be any personal computer, smartphone, tablet, or the like as long as it can operate a web browser. It should be noted that the dedicated software may be used instead of the web browser.
2. 2. Configuration of Information Processing Device 1 FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of information processing device 1. As shown in the figure, the information processing apparatus 1 has a processing unit 11, a storage unit 12, a temporary storage unit 13, an external device connection unit 14, and a communication unit 15, and these components are included. Is electrically connected to the inside of the information processing apparatus 1 via the communication bus 16.

The processing unit 11 is realized by, for example, a central processing unit (CPU), operates according to a predetermined program stored in the storage unit 12, and realizes various functions.

The storage unit 12 is a non-volatile storage medium that stores various information. This is realized by a storage device such as a hard disk drive (Hard Disk Drive: HDD) or a solid state drive (Solid State Drive: SSD). The storage unit 12 can be arranged in another device capable of communicating with the information processing device 1.

The temporary storage unit 13 is a volatile storage medium. This is realized by, for example, a memory such as a random access memory (Random Access Memory: RAM), and temporarily stores information (arguments, arrays, etc.) required when the processing unit 11 operates.

The external device connection unit 14 is a connection unit conforming to a standard such as a universal serial bus (USB) or a high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI), and is an input device such as a keyboard or the like. A display device such as a monitor can be connected.

The communication unit 15 is, for example, a communication means conforming to a local area network (LAN) standard, and realizes communication between the information processing device 1 and a local area network or a network 3 such as the Internet via the information processing device 1. do.

As the information processing device 1, a computer for a general-purpose server, a personal computer, or the like can be used, and the information processing device 1 can be configured by using a plurality of computers.
3. 3. Functions of Information Processing Device 1 Next, the functions of the information processing device 1 will be described. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the information processing apparatus 1.

As shown in the figure, the information processing apparatus 1 includes a reception unit 101, a search unit 102, a discrimination unit 103, and a generation unit 104. Each functional unit of the information processing apparatus 1 is realized by the program making the computer function as the information processing apparatus 1.

The reception unit 101 is configured to be able to receive input of a search term from the terminal 2. At this time, the reception unit 101 may accept a designated condition for designating the book to be the target of the full-text search. This designation condition is bibliographic information, and for example, the title of the book, the year of publication of the book (may be the date of publication, the date of publication), the publisher, the author, and the like can be designated conditions. If the specified condition is not accepted, the specified condition set as the default is used for full-text search. The specified condition set as the default is, for example, all searchable books, but may be limited to books that can be sold.

The search unit 102 is configured to be able to perform a full-text search for the designated book by the search term received by the reception unit 101. The designated book is a book designated as a search target. That is, when the reception unit 101 accepts the specified condition, the search unit 102 sets the book that matches the specified condition as the target of the full-text search as the designated book, and sets the reception unit 101 as the default that the specified condition is not accepted. Use the specified conditions.

The full-text search of a book is performed on the book information stored in the book information DB 4. The book information DB 4 stores electronic data of an electronic book, an image obtained by optically reading a paper document, and a set of the image converted into electronic data by character recognition processing. Therefore, when the designated book is a paper book, the search unit 102 searches for the result of character recognition processing of the image of each page of the paper book. In FIG. 3, the book information DB 4 may be configured to be included in the information processing apparatus 1, and the book information DB 4 may be configured to be included in the information processing apparatus 1.

Further, when the search term has another name, the search unit 102 performs a full-text search by the logical sum of the search word and the other name. For example, the "Product Liability Law" is sometimes called the "PL Law", and usually both have the same meaning. Therefore, when the "product liability method" is accepted as the search term of the reception unit 101, the search unit 102 performs a search by the logical sum of the "product liability method" and the "PL method", that is, an OR search. There may be a plurality of such aliases, and in that case, the search is performed by the logical sum of all the aliases. For example, the term "automobile liability insurance" is abbreviated as "automobile liability insurance", and the common name or popular name is "compulsory insurance".

The discrimination unit 103 is configured to be able to discriminate the importance of the appearance information. The appearance information is generated by the generation unit 104, as will be described in detail later, is a part of the page of the book in which the search term appears, and is information for displaying a predetermined range including the search term. The importance of the appearance information is relatively low when the search term appears in the table of contents or index, and relatively high when many related words or the like appear in the vicinity of the search term. That is, the discriminating unit 103 determines that the more important the book is, the higher the importance is when the user of the terminal 2 determines whether or not the desired content is described in the searched book. do.

The generation unit 104 is configured to be able to generate display information in which the finding information and the appearance information are generated based on the result of the full-text search and the appearance information is sequentially adjacent to the finding information and displayed. The screen displayed on the terminal 2 based on the display information generated by the generation unit 104 is, for example, as shown in FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the terminal 2 based on the display information.

The finding information 201 is displayed on the display screen 200 displayed on the terminal 2, and the appearance information 202 is displayed adjacent to the finding information 201. Further, the appearance information 203 is displayed adjacent to the appearance information 202, and the appearance information 204 is displayed adjacent to the appearance information 203. Further, the finding information 205 is displayed adjacent to the appearance information 204. The display screen 200 shows an example in which the finding information 201 and the appearance information 202 are vertically adjacent to each other, but in the case of a vertically written book or the like, they are displayed adjacent to the left and right. The generation unit 104 determines the order of the appearance information 202, the appearance information 203, and the appearance information 204 based on the importance determined by the discrimination unit 103.

Here, the finding information 201 will be described. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing details of the finding information 201. The finding information 201 is information for displaying bibliographic information including at least the title of the book in which the search term appears. As shown in FIG. 5, the finding information 201 includes a thumbnail 212, a paper book purchase instruction button 213, and an electronic book purchase instruction button 214 in addition to the bibliographic information 211. You may do it. The thumbnail 212 is a thumbnail image of the cover of the book corresponding to the bibliographic information 211, and the paper book purchase instruction button 213 is a button for instructing the purchase of the paper book corresponding to the bibliographic information 211. The description of purchasing paper books will be omitted. Further, the electronic book purchase instruction button 214 is a button for instructing the purchase of the electronic book corresponding to the bibliographic information 211. The description of purchasing an electronic book will be omitted.

Next, the appearance information 202 will be described. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing details of the appearance information 202. The appearance information 202 is information that is a part of the page of the book in which the search term appears and that displays a predetermined range including the search term. The predetermined range is a predetermined range based on the number of lines, the number of characters, and the like. For example, the number of lines is 4 lines and the number of characters is 160 characters. Of course, it may be another number of lines such as 3 lines or 5 lines, or it may be another number of characters such as 150 characters or 180 characters. Further, as shown in FIG. 6, the appearance information 202 includes the position information 221 indicating the appearance position of the search word in the book in which the search word appears. The position information 221 represents the position of the search term by the page number where the search term appears. At this time, the title of the chapter to which the page belongs may also be displayed. Further, the appearance information 202 includes the page content 222. The page content 222 is a part of the page where the search term appears, and when the document is a paper book, it corresponds to a part of the page image.

In addition, the generation unit 104 highlights the search term included in the appearance information 202. For example, the search term is highlighted as in the highlighting 223 shown in FIG. If the document is a paper book, the generation unit 104 highlights the position in the image where the search term is arranged. The position for highlighting can be realized by storing the coordinates of each character together with the character recognition result when the character recognition of the image is performed. As for the coordinates of the characters, for example, as shown in FIG. 7, the positions of the inked brackets are specified by the start point coordinates S1 and the end point coordinates E1 in the document image 300, and the character "request" is specified by the start point coordinates S2 and the end point in the document image 300. It is like being specified by the coordinates E2. FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining a method of specifying a character position.

4. Operation of Information Processing Device 1 Next, the operation of the information processing device 1 will be described. FIG. 8 is an activity diagram showing an operation flow of the information processing apparatus 1.

First, when the user operates the terminal 2 to connect to the information processing device 1, the reception unit 101 provides the terminal 2 with an input screen (A101). The input screen is for inputting a search term and a designated condition, and when the user inputs these on the input screen, the reception unit 101 accepts the search term and the designated condition (A102). Subsequently, the search unit 102 performs a full-text search of the book based on the search term and the designated condition (A103).

Then, based on the result of the search by the search unit 102, the generation unit 104 generates the finding information (A104) and generates the appearance information (A105). It should be noted that the generation of the finding information and the generation of the appearance information may be performed in the reverse order, or both may be performed in parallel. Subsequently, the generation unit 104 sorts the appearance information according to the importance, and generates display information including the finding information and the appearance information (A106). Then, the generation unit 104 provides the display information to the terminal 2 and ends the process. When the user presses the paper book purchase instruction button 213 or the electronic book purchase instruction button 214, the book sale process is performed, but the description of the process is omitted.

5. Others The present invention may be provided in each of the following embodiments.
In the information processing apparatus, the reception unit receives a designated condition for designating a book to be the target of the full-text search, and the search unit sets a book that matches the designated condition as the designated book and targets the full-text search. Information processing equipment.
In the information processing device, the appearance information is an information processing device including position information indicating the appearance position of the search term in a book in which the search term appears.
In the information processing device, the search unit is an information processing device that performs a full-text search by the logical sum of the search term and the alias when another name of the search term exists.
The information processing apparatus includes a discrimination unit, the discrimination unit is configured to be able to discriminate the importance of the appearance information, and the generation unit determines the order of the appearance information based on the importance. Processing equipment.
In the information processing device, the generation unit is an information processing device that highlights the search term included in the appearance information.
When the designated book is a paper book, the search unit searches for the result of character recognition processing of the image of each page of the paper book, and the generation unit searches for the search in the image. An information processing device that highlights the position where a word is placed.
A program that causes a computer to function as the information processing device.
Of course, this is not the case.

It may also be provided as a computer-readable non-temporary recording medium for storing the above program.

1: Information processing device 2: Terminal 3: Network 4: Book information DB
11: Processing unit 12: Storage unit 13: Temporary storage unit 14: External device connection unit 15: Communication unit 16: Communication bus 101: Reception unit 102: Search unit 103: Discrimination unit 104: Generation unit 200: Display screen 201: Viewing Outgoing information 202: Appearance information 203: Appearance information 204: Appearance information 205: Finding information 211: Bibliographic information 212: Thumbnail 213: Paper book purchase instruction button 214: Electronic book purchase instruction button 221: Location information 222: Page content 223: Highlight 300: Document image E1: End point coordinates E2: End point coordinates S1: Start point coordinates S2: Start point coordinates

Claims (8)

An information processing device that searches for books.
It has a reception section, a search section, and a generation section.
The reception unit is configured to be able to accept input of search terms.
The search unit is configured to be able to perform a full-text search for a designated book by the search term, and the designated book is a book designated as a search target.
The generation unit is configured to be able to generate finding information and appearance information based on the result of the full-text search, and to generate display information in which the appearance information is sequentially adjacent to the found information and displayed.
Here, the found information is information for displaying bibliographic information including at least the title of the book in which the search term appears.
The appearance information is an information processing device that is a part of a page of a book in which the search term appears and is information that displays a predetermined range including the search term. In the information processing apparatus according to claim 1,
The reception unit accepts a designated condition for designating a book to be the target of the full-text search.
The search unit is an information processing device that targets a book that meets the designated conditions as the designated book as the target of the full-text search. In the information processing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2.
The appearance information is an information processing device including position information indicating the appearance position of the search term in a book in which the search term appears. The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3.
The search unit is an information processing device that performs a full-text search based on the logical sum of the search term and the alias when another name of the search term exists. The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4.
Equipped with a discriminator
The discriminating unit is configured to be able to discriminate the importance of the appearance information.
The generation unit is an information processing device that determines the order of appearance information based on the importance. The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5.
The generation unit is an information processing device that highlights the search term included in the appearance information. When the designated book is a paper book, the search unit searches for the result of character recognition processing of the image of each page of the paper book.
The generation unit is an information processing device that highlights a position in the image where the search term is arranged. It ’s a program,
A program that causes a computer to function as an information processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 7.

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