JP3807073B2 - Document style design support device - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an apparatus for supporting design of a document style design, and in particular, a document according to a creator's preference for a document including not only a character part but also a material that appeals to a reader such as a photograph or an illustration. about the document style design support system to effectively support the style design design.
[0002]
[Prior art]
With the improvement of computer performance and price reduction, document creation by computers with a document creation application installed has become widespread. General users at the amateur level also want to create a document with a quality as high as possible, but it is very difficult to create a document with a high design quality that a designer creates.
As a method for realizing the desires of general users, there are methods of reusing existing documents with high design quality and referencing them as design examples.
[0003]
For example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1-304575 discloses an apparatus in which documents are classified and accumulated according to usage, and a document having properties similar to a document to be created can be selected and reused. Has been.
As another technique, there is a method of applying a so-called document format in which document style design contents are stored. In this method, one of a plurality of prepared document formats is selected, and the document is designed by appropriately changing the parameters of the document format. This is a method to obtain a good output.
[0004]
However, in the method of reusing past documents, the more document examples to be selected, the more difficult it is to determine which example should be selected. On the other hand, if the number of document examples to be selected is small, the possibility of finding a document that suits the creator's intention and application becomes low, so there is a possibility that the selection of the document itself has no meaning. Furthermore, it is impossible to determine which part of the document example should be reused unless there is knowledge to understand which part of the selected document example reflects the intention and use of the creator. For ordinary authors, it was not a very useful method other than creating standard documents such as business letters.
[0005]
In addition, although the method using the document format can be expected to achieve a certain level of finish, as with the method of reusing an existing document, any part of the document obtained by applying the format is not the author's intention or Because there is no knowledge to understand whether or not it is a part that reflects the use, and the format suitable for the intention and use of the creator is not necessarily prepared, so it occurred due to conditions specific to the created document It is not always possible to obtain the desired document because it is not possible to correct defects or problems caused by incorrect format selection.
[0006]
In this way, general users who do not have design knowledge in any case can imitate any part of a document created in the past or a pre-prepared format even if they try to rework based on the selected one. Since it is not known how to modify which part of the document will suit the purpose and purpose of the application, the existing document or format cannot be used well, resulting in a certain document. There was a problem that it was not possible to design to the above.
[0007]
Even if the creator does not have the knowledge to make a good-looking document, or does not have the knowledge of how to reflect his intention or purpose, the intention and purpose of the creator Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-108641 proposes a document style design support apparatus that can easily obtain a design related to a good-looking document style. This apparatus performs an inference process using document style design knowledge information from document evaluation terms, document style design elements, etc., and determines an optimal document style design.
In addition, for the same purpose, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-101052 proposes a document creation support apparatus that can finish a document suitable for the purpose and use of the document being created. This device performs inference processing using document design knowledge information that defines document evaluation terms, document design elements, document attributes, and their interrelationships based on document information such as the contents and attributes of the creation support target document. This is to determine the optimal document design.
[0008]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
The method described in the above Japanese Patent Laid-Open Nos. 5-108641 and 5-101052 is certainly more prepared than the method of reusing past documents and the method of using document formats. Can easily create a good-looking document that suits its purpose and purpose.
However, the target document is a document that is composed of text or tables that do not have colors or shapes that have a psychological meaning or have a psychological effect. The design knowledge used was also editorial design knowledge for such documents. In other words, for materials having specific meanings, colors, and shapes, such as photographs and illustrations, that greatly affect the intent and purpose of the entire document and the design, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-108641 In the method described in Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. H10-1052 and Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-101052, there is a problem that the creator cannot easily create a good-looking document that suits his intention and purpose.
[0009]
The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and even when a document including materials such as photographs and illustrations is created, a document having a good appearance suitable for the intention and use of the creator can be easily obtained. An object of the present invention is to provide a document style design support device that can be created.
[0010]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The document style design support apparatus according to the present invention inputs document information including an evaluation term representing an impression to be appealed in a creation support target document , and material information including a material style design that defines a mode of a material to be added to the document. A knowledge database that stores material style design knowledge information that defines the relationship between the input means, the evaluation term and the material style design that includes at least the attribute that modifies the material, and the document information and material information input from the input means And material style design determining means for determining the material style design to be added to the creation support target document using the material style design knowledge information stored in the knowledge database.
[0011]
In addition to the above, the document style design support apparatus according to the present invention stores, in addition to the above, the document style design knowledge information that defines the relationship between the evaluation term, the material style design, and the document style design that defines the document mode . Creation support using document style design knowledge information stored in the second knowledge database based on the knowledge database of the document, the document information input from the input means and the material style design determined by the material style design determination means a document style design determining means for determining a document style design target document, and output means for outputting the document style design material style design decisions means a material style design determines the said document style design determining means has determined, the further I have.
In the document style design support device according to the present invention, when the material style design or the document style design is determined, the missing information is output to the output means in the form of a question sentence or the like, and the answer is received from the input means. It is good also as a structure provided with the inquiry means which receives.
[0012]
In the document style design support apparatus as described above, the attribute value such as the impression or purpose that the document creator wants to have from the input means to the document, the type of document to be created, and the type of material used in the document If the creator inputs an attribute value such as, then the material style design determination means refers to the degree of evaluation terms such as impression and purpose desired by the creator, and information on the document to be created. However, the material style design is determined using the material style design knowledge information stored in the material knowledge database, and the result is output to the output means.
Further, the material style design determining means informs the inquiry means if there is insufficient data when determining the material style design. The inquiry means outputs an inquiry about the deficient data based on the information from the material style design determination means to the output means as a question sentence or the like, receives an answer from the creator from the input means, and adds it as input data.
[0013]
Then, the document style design determination means is activated, and the document style design knowledge information stored in the document knowledge database is referred to while referring to the input information and the contents of the material style design determined by the material style design determination means. Is used to determine the document design, and the result is output to the output means.
Further, the document style design determining means informs the inquiry means if there is insufficient data when determining the document style design. The inquiry means outputs an inquiry about insufficient data based on the information from the document style design determination means to the output means as a question sentence or the like, receives an answer from the creator from the input means, and adds it as input data.
[0014]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
A document style design support apparatus according to the present invention will be described based on an embodiment.
FIG. 1 shows the configuration of a document style design support apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
The document style design support apparatus includes an input unit 1, a display unit 2, an input information storage unit 3, a material knowledge database 4, a material style design determination unit 5, a document knowledge database 6, and a document style design determination unit 7. .
Each of these functional units is configured by executing a program using computer hardware.
[0015]
The input unit 1 is an input device for a document creator to input various information, commands, and the like, and includes, for example, a keyboard, a mouse, a joystick, a touch panel, and the like.
The display unit 2 is a display device for displaying characters, figures, messages, or the like, and is configured by, for example, a display.
[0016]
The input information storage unit 3 stores data input from the input unit 1 in a freely readable and writable manner, and is composed of, for example, a magnetic disk device or a main storage device.
Here, the data in the input information storage unit 3 is held in an accessible state on these storage devices, and data corresponding to the inquiry of the creator can be obtained. For example, if the creator wants to know the type of document that the creator wants to create, data such as ““ magazine article ”” can be obtained by an inquiry such as ““ document, type ””.
[0017]
The material knowledge database 4 is an evaluation term representing an impression of a material that gives the reader some kind of impression, such as image data or illustration, by a known knowledge expression method such as IF-THEN rule format or frame format, Knowledge that defines the relationship between the material style design elements, which are constituent parameters of the material, such as the size of the material and the type of the central object in it, is stored as material style design knowledge in a readable and writable manner. For example, it is composed of a magnetic disk device or an optical disk device.
[0018]
The knowledge expression method in the material knowledge database 4 and the configuration of the inference engine are described in detail in, for example, “F. Hayrose et al., Expert System, Industrial Books, 1985”. Then, using these representation methods, the knowledge about the design of the material style is implemented and stored.
Here, the knowledge about the design of the material style is the evaluation / selection of the material such as qualitative / quantitative data as described in “Yuki Uchida, layout dictionary part1 / part2, visual design research institute”. Or various kinds of knowledge necessary for processing. Specifically, for example, knowledge such as “blue sky represents stretchiness”, “viewing angle looking down from above represents tenderness”, and “bleed-off version gives a relaxed feeling” is expressed as shown in FIG. It is described in.
[0019]
The material style design determining unit 5 is a means for determining the material style design while performing inference using the material style design knowledge information in the material knowledge database 4 based on the data stored in the input information storage unit 3. It is composed of an inference engine that performs well-known reasoning such as forward reasoning and backward reasoning.
[0020]
The operation procedure of the inference mechanism in the material style design determination unit 5 will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.
First, upon receiving an inference start instruction, the material style design determination unit 5 extracts all rules written in the IF-THEN rule format from the material knowledge database 4 by the movement of the inference engine, and sets them as Rules 1 (step 1). S1). Next, based on the data in the input information storage unit 3, all rules in the rule 1 in which all the conditions written in the IF condition unit are true are found, and this is set as Rules 1 (step S3). Next, one rule is selected from Rules 1, and the contents written in the THEN execution part of this rule are verified (step S5).
This rule selection verification is repeated until it is an inference stop command by the THEN executing unit (step S2) or until Trules1 becomes empty (step S4).
Thereby, the material style design determination part 5 determines a desired material style design.
[0021]
The document knowledge database 6 uses a known knowledge expression method such as an IF-THEN rule format or a frame format, and an evaluation term representing the purpose / impression of the document, and a document style which is a document configuration parameter such as a paper size or a character size. It stores design elements, document attributes such as document type, purpose, finishing impression, and document style design knowledge that defines the relationship between them in a readable and writable manner. For example, magnetic disk devices and optical disks It consists of devices.
[0022]
The knowledge expression method and the configuration of the inference engine in the document knowledge database 6 are the same as those in the material knowledge database 4. Then, using these representation methods, the knowledge about the document style design is implemented and stored.
Here, the knowledge about the design of the document style determines the design of the document style, such as the qualitative / quantitative data as described in “Yuki Uchida, layout dictionary part1 / part2, visual design research institute”. It is various knowledge necessary to do. Specifically, for example, knowledge such as “the title text of a magazine article is 16-25 mm and the text text is 2.6-3.5 mm” is described in the expression shown in FIG. Knowledge that expresses the relationship between materials such as “the title character color is the color used for the material that is the main motif” is described in the expression shown in FIG. is there.
[0023]
The document style design determination unit 7 uses the document style design knowledge information in the document knowledge database 6 based on the document information stored in the input information storage 3 and the material style design determined by the material style design determination unit 5. It is a means for determining the document style design while performing inference, and is constituted by an inference engine that performs known inference such as forward inference and backward inference.
[0024]
The operation procedure of the inference mechanism in the document style design determination unit 7 will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.
First, upon receiving an inference start instruction, the document style design determining unit 7 extracts all rules written in the IF-THEN rule format from the document knowledge database 6 by the movement of the inference engine, and sets them as Rules 2 (step 2) S11). Next, based on the data in the input information storage unit 3, all rules in which the conditions written in the IF condition unit are all true in Rules 2 are found, and this is set as Rules 2 (step S 13). Next, one rule is selected from Rules 2, and the contents written in the THEN execution part of this rule are executed (step S15).
The selection execution of these rules is repeated until it is an inference stop command by the THEN execution unit (step S12) or until Rules2 becomes empty (step S14).
As a result, the document style design determination unit 7 determines a desired document style design.
[0025]
Next, a specific example in the case where document style design is actually supported by the above-described document style design support apparatus will be described.
First, when the creator inputs document information as shown in FIG. 7 or material information as shown in FIG. 8 from the input unit 1, the input information storage unit 3 stores “document type: magazine article”, “purpose / impression”. : Elongation (5), key point clarity (4),... ”,“ Material object type: empty ”,“ material object color: blue ”, and the like are stored.
Here, the document type represents a type corresponding to the content and use of a document such as a magazine article, an advertisement, or a catalog, and the purpose / impression represents the purpose or impression to be added to the document. The numerical value of each evaluation term item indicating the purpose / impression indicates a score of 5 points, and indicates the degree of the image (finished impression) to be given to the result document designed as the purpose / impression. .
[0026]
Now, the material style design determination unit 5 selects and executes the rule as shown in FIG. 2 according to the operation procedure as shown in FIG. 3, and the blue sky photograph can be used. Decided to make a version. This means that this photo gives a feeling of spaciousness, and that it matches the intended purpose / impression, and if adopted, it would be desirable to give the photo a crisp and crisp feel. .
[0027]
Next, the document style design determining unit 7 selects and executes the rules as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 according to the operation procedure as shown in FIG. For example, the central value of 16-25 mm is determined to be 20 mm, and the text of the text is determined to be 2.6 mm to 3.5 mm. This means that the color of the material object is used for the title character of the magazine, the size is 16-25 mm, and the standard text is 2.6-3.5 mm.
Next, a rule is selected by the document style design determination unit 7 including the information that the title character is determined to be 20 mm. Similarly, the subheadings are desired to have a high degree of clarity in the same way. The document style design, such as double the text and Gothic to express the stretch, is determined, and the inference ends when the necessary document style design parameters are determined.
[0028]
The value of the document style design parameter obtained in this way is displayed on the display unit 2 in a format as shown in FIG. 9, and the creator can edit the document according to the presented document style design parameter. Although the document style design parameter values are listed here as character strings, an example of a general document created based on the document style design parameter values may be displayed. More specifically, when a photograph as shown in FIG. 11 is added to a document as shown in FIG. 10, the photograph is cut off from the document as shown in FIG. It is added as a version, and the text part of the document is edited according to the decision.
[0029]
Next, a document style design support apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described.
FIG. 13 shows the configuration of the document style design support apparatus according to the second embodiment, and the same reference numerals are given to the same parts as those in the first embodiment.
This document style design support apparatus is provided with an inquiry unit 8 in addition to the configuration of the first embodiment. The inquiry unit 8 receives from the input unit 1 a function for displaying information that the material style design determining unit 5 and the document style design determining unit 7 lack on the display unit 2 in the form of a question sentence and the like. And a function to be added to the input information storage unit 3.
[0030]
In this embodiment, when the document style design determination unit 7 makes an inquiry such as ““ document, type ”” to the input information storage unit 3, if this data is not in the input information storage unit 3, the input information A process for returning a special value such as ““ nil ”” from the storage unit 3 to the document style design determination unit 7 is performed. When “nil” is returned from the input information storage unit 3, the document style design determination unit 7 suspends the processing and moves the control to the inquiry unit 8, asks the creator for the value and sets the value. The input information is stored in the input information storage unit 3, and control is again transferred to the document style design determination unit 7 to execute the continuation. Since the material style design works in the same way, the description is omitted.
With such an inquiry function, the document creator can create a document more suited to his / her intention by inputting insufficient information.
[0031]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, document information such as document contents and attributes, material information such as contents and attributes of materials used in the document, material style design knowledge information, and document style design knowledge information. Since the inference process is used to determine the optimal document style design, the document creator can understand the intentions and uses of the creator even if he / she does not have knowledge of designing documents containing materials such as photographs and illustrations. It is easy to create a good looking document.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a document style design support apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of knowledge representation in a material knowledge database.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure of an inference mechanism in a material style design determination unit.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of knowledge representation in a document knowledge database.
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of knowledge representation in a document knowledge database.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure of an inference mechanism in a document style design determination unit.
FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of data input by a user.
FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of data input by a user.
FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a display example of determined document style design parameters.
FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of an original document that is a creation support target;
FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of a material that is a creation support target;
FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example in which a material is added to an original document.
FIG. 13 is a block diagram of a document style design support apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Input part, 2 ... Display part, 3 ... Input information storage part,
4 ... Material knowledge database, 5 ... Material style design decision part,
6 ... Document knowledge database, 7 ... Document style design decision part,
8 ... Inquiry department,

Claims (2)

A document creation support device for supporting a task of creating a document by adding a material for appealing a certain impression to a reader,
An input means for inputting document information including an evaluation term representing an impression to be appealed in the creation support target document , and material information including a material style design that defines an aspect of the material to be added to the document ;
A knowledge database that stores material style design knowledge information that defines the relationship between the evaluation term and at least the material style design that includes attributes that modify the material;
Based on the document information and material information input from the input means, material style design determining means for determining a material style design to be added to a creation support target document using material style design knowledge information stored in the knowledge database When,
A document style design support device characterized by comprising: The document style design support apparatus according to claim 1,
A second knowledge database storing document style design knowledge information defining the relationship between evaluation terms, material style design, and document style design defining the document mode ;
Based on the document information input from the input means and the material style design determined by the material style design determination means, the document of the creation support target document using the document style design knowledge information stored in the second knowledge database and the document style design determining means for determining a style design,
And output means for outputting the document style design of the material style design decision means has determined the material style design and the document style design decision means has determined,
A document style design support apparatus further comprising:

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