JP5836334B2 - Search program and search device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a search program and a search device for searching for data specifying information for specifying data of a data group by handwritten characters.

  Conventionally, as a device for searching for data specifying information for specifying data in a data group by handwritten characters, the search character is received by handwriting input, the data specifying information is searched by the received search character, and the search result Is known (see Patent Document 1).

JP 2008-140377 A

  In the conventional apparatus, since the search character receiving area for receiving the search character is displayed on the display unit, the area other than the search character receiving area in the display unit is narrow, and as a result, sufficient information is displayed on the display unit. There is a problem that can not be.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a search program and a search device that can suppress a decrease in the visibility of a list even when a search character is received.

  A search program according to the present invention is a search program executed by an electronic device including a touch panel, and includes a search character receiving unit that receives a search character for data specifying information for specifying data in a data group, and the search character receiving unit. An information search unit that searches the data specifying information with the received search character, and a search result display unit that displays a search result by the information search unit on the touch panel, and the search character reception unit Accepts the search characters handwritten on the list on the touch panel in a state where the list in which the data specifying information is arranged is displayed on the touch panel.

  With this configuration, the search program of the present invention accepts search characters that are handwritten on the list on the touch panel in a state where a list in which data specifying information for specifying data of the data group is arranged is displayed on the touch panel. Therefore, even when a search character is accepted, it is possible to suppress a decrease in the visibility of the list.

  In the search program of the present invention, the information search means searches the data specifying information every time the search character is accepted by the search character acceptance means, and the search result display means is the information search means. The search result may be displayed on the touch panel each time the search is executed.

  With this configuration, the search program of the present invention can execute an incremental search, thereby facilitating a search for data specifying information.

  Further, in the search program of the present invention, the data specifying information is represented by a hierarchical structure with a plurality of attribute information, and the search character accepting means is a hierarchy targeted by the search characters input by handwriting on the touch panel. The search characters of a plurality of the layers may be received by receiving a layer switching character for switching.

  With this configuration, the search program of the present invention can accept search characters of a plurality of hierarchies through a series of operations, so that the data specifying information for specifying the data of the data group is represented in a hierarchical structure with a plurality of attribute information. In this case, the operation for retrieving the data specifying information can be facilitated.

  The search device of the present invention includes a touch panel, search character accepting means for accepting a search character for data specifying information for specifying data in the data group, and the data specifying information using the search character received by the search character accepting means. And a search result display means for displaying a search result by the information search means on the touch panel, and the search character accepting means displays a list in which the data specifying information is arranged on the touch panel. The search character inputted by handwriting on the list on the touch panel is received.

  With this configuration, the search device according to the present invention accepts a search character input by handwriting on a list on the touch panel in a state where a list in which data specifying information for specifying data of the data group is arranged is displayed on the touch panel. Therefore, even when a search character is accepted, it is possible to suppress a decrease in the visibility of the list.

  The search program and the search device of the present invention can suppress a decrease in the visibility of a list even when a search character is received.

It is a block diagram of the portable apparatus which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the list which arranged the data specific information for specifying the data of the data group shown in FIG. It is a front view of the portable apparatus shown in FIG. 1 in the state which is displaying a part of list | wrist on a touch panel. It is a flowchart of operation | movement of the portable apparatus shown in FIG. 1 in the case of searching data specific information. FIG. 2 is an example of a front view of the portable device shown in FIG. 1 in a state where a letter “S” is handwritten. It is a flowchart of the screen update process shown in FIG. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a search result with a character “Kin” in a hierarchy “artist” for the list shown in FIG. 2. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a search result with a letter “D” in a hierarchy “album” for the list shown in FIG. 2. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a search result with a character “Brea” in a hierarchy “song” for the list illustrated in FIG. 2. (A) is an example of search results for the character “Kin” in the hierarchy “artist”, the character “D” in the hierarchy “album”, and the character “Brea” in the hierarchy “song” for the list shown in FIG. FIG. FIG. 10B is a front view of the portable device shown in FIG. 1 in a state where the search result shown in FIG.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  First, the configuration of a mobile device as a search device according to the present embodiment will be described.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a portable device 10 according to the present embodiment.

  As shown in FIG. 1, a portable device 10 includes an operation unit 11 that is an input device such as buttons for inputting various operations, a touch panel 12 that displays various information and inputs various operations, and a program. And a storage unit 13 that is a non-volatile storage device such as a flash memory that stores various data, and a control unit 14 that controls the entire portable device 10.

  The portable device 10 is an electronic device such as a portable music player or a smartphone.

  The storage unit 13 stores a search program 13 a that is executed by the control unit 14. The search program 13a may be installed in the mobile device 10 at the manufacturing stage of the mobile device 10, or may be additionally installed in the mobile device 10 via a storage medium or a network, for example.

  The storage unit 13 stores a data group 13b. The data group 13b may be installed in the mobile device 10 at the manufacturing stage of the mobile device 10, or may be additionally installed in the mobile device 10 via a storage medium or a network, for example.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a list 20 in which data specifying information for specifying data of the data group 13b is arranged.

  In the list 20 shown in FIG. 2, the data specifying information of each line other than the heading line specifies each data of the data group 13b. Here, the data is a music file. The data specifying information in each row includes attribute information of a layer “artist” indicating a performer of a song corresponding to the target music file, and a layer below “artist”, and a song corresponding to the target music file. Attribute information in the hierarchy “album” indicating the name of the recorded album, and attribute information in the hierarchy “song” indicating the name of the song corresponding to the target music file, below the “album” It is represented by a hierarchical structure. For example, the data specifying information in the first row is represented by attribute information “Animal” of the hierarchy “artist”, attribute information “Age” of the hierarchy “album”, and attribute information “All” of the hierarchy “song”. Yes. In the list 20, each attribute information of the hierarchy “artist” is arranged according to a specific rule, and each attribute information of the hierarchy “album” below each attribute information of the hierarchy “artist” is further arranged according to a specific rule. Each attribute information of the layer “song” below each attribute information of the layer “album” is further arranged according to a specific rule. Here, the specific rule is an alphabetical order of A, B, C,..., Z, followed by a numerical order of 0, 1, 2,. The rule is that the higher the number is, the higher the order is, and when the order is the same, the higher the order of the subsequent characters, the higher the order. Note that uppercase letters and lowercase letters are not distinguished in order.

  1 includes, for example, a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a ROM (Read Only Memory) storing a program and various data, and a RAM (Random Access Memory) used as a work area of the CPU. And. The CPU executes a program stored in the ROM or the storage unit 13.

  The control unit 14 executes the search program 13a stored in the storage unit 13 to thereby specify the search character accepting unit 14a that accepts the search character for the data specifying information, and specify the data with the search character accepted by the search character accepting unit 14a. It functions as information search means 14b for searching for information and search result display means 14c for displaying the search results by the information search means 14b on the touch panel 12.

  Next, the operation of the mobile device 10 will be described.

  FIG. 3 is a front view of the mobile device 10 in a state where a part of the list 20 is displayed on the touch panel 12.

  When the mobile device 10 is in the state shown in FIG. 3, when a specific operation is input to the operation unit 11, the control unit 14 performs the operation shown in FIG.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the operation of the mobile device 10 when searching for data specifying information.

  As shown in FIG. 4, after the search character acceptance unit 14 a of the control unit 14 of the mobile device 10 starts measuring time (S 101), has a specific time elapsed since starting measuring time in S 101? It is determined whether or not (S102).

  If it is determined in S102 that the specific time has not elapsed, the search character receiving unit 14a determines whether or not a character has been handwritten on the touch panel 12 (S103). The search character accepting unit 14a determines that if one character deletion operation for deleting the last character from the search character queue is an operation in which any character is handwritten on the touch panel 12. Is not subject to the determination in S103. Similarly, the search character accepting unit 14a, when the all character deletion operation for deleting all characters from the search character queue is an operation in which any character is input by hand on the touch panel 12, Is not subject to the determination in S103.

  FIG. 5 is an example of a front view of the portable device 10 in a state in which the letter “S” is input by handwriting.

  In FIG. 5, a character 31 “S” indicated by hatching is a figure that shows the locus of the character input on the touch panel 12 for easy understanding, and is actually displayed on the touch panel 12. Not a letter.

  As shown in FIG. 4, when the search character receiving means 14a determines in S103 that a character has been handwritten on the touch panel 12, it adds this character to the end of the search character queue (S104).

  When it is determined in S103 that no character has been handwritten on the touch panel 12, the search character accepting unit 14a determines whether or not an operation for deleting one character has been input (S105). Here, the single character deletion operation is an operation in which a double slash (//) is manually input on the touch panel 12, for example.

  When it is determined in S105 that the operation for deleting one character has been input, the search character receiving unit 14a deletes the last character from the search character queue (S106).

  If it is determined in S105 that the operation for deleting one character has not been input, the search character receiving unit 14a determines whether an operation for deleting all characters has been input (S107). Here, the all character deletion operation is an operation in which, for example, a double backslash (\\) or an asterisk (*) is manually input on the touch panel 12.

  When it is determined in S107 that the all character deletion operation has been input, the search character receiving unit 14a deletes all characters from the search character queue (S108).

  If the search character accepting unit 14a determines in S107 that an operation for deleting all characters has not been input, it executes the process of S102.

  After the process of S104, the process of S106, or the process of S108, the control unit 14 executes a screen update process described later (S109) and executes the process of S102.

  If the search character accepting unit 14a determines in S102 that the specific time has passed, the operation shown in FIG. 4 is terminated.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart of the screen update process shown in FIG.

  As illustrated in FIG. 6, the information search unit 14 b of the control unit 14 sets the highest layer among the layers of the data specifying information, that is, the layer “artist” as the target layer (S 131).

  Next, the information search means 14b determines whether or not the search character queue is empty (S132).

  If the information search unit 14b determines in S132 that the search character queue is not empty, the information search unit 14b sets the position of the first character in the search character queue as a target position in the search character queue (S133).

  Next, the information search means 14b determines whether or not there is a hierarchy switching character for switching the hierarchy after the target position in the search character queue (S134). Here, the hierarchy switching character is, for example, an ampersand (&).

  When the information search means 14b determines in S134 that a hierarchy switching character exists, it determines whether or not the character at the target position is a hierarchy switching character (S135).

  If the information search means 14b determines in S135 that the character at the target position is not a hierarchy switching character, the information search means 14b is a character in the search character queue after the target position and before the hierarchy switching character immediately after the target position. A search in the target hierarchy is executed (S136).

  The information retrieval unit 14b determines in S135 that the character at the target position is a hierarchy switching character, or determines whether the target hierarchy is the lowest hierarchy when the process of S136 is terminated (S137). .

  If the information search means 14b determines in S137 that the target hierarchy is not the lowest hierarchy, the information search means 14b determines whether or not there is a character after the previous hierarchy switching character after the target position in the search character queue ( S138).

  If the information search unit 14b determines in S138 that there is a character, the information search unit 14b sets the next layer below the target layer as a new target layer (S139).

  Next, the information search unit 14b executes the process of S134 with the position of the character immediately after the earliest hierarchy switching character after the target position in the search character queue as the new target position (S140).

  If the information search means 14b determines in S134 that there is no hierarchy switching character, the information search means 14b executes a search in the target hierarchy using characters after the target position among the characters in the search character queue (S141).

  The information search means 14b determines in S132 that the search character queue is empty, determines in S137 that the target hierarchy is the lowest hierarchy, or determines in S138 that there is no character, When the process is finished, the search results of each hierarchy are combined and narrowed down (S142). That is, the information search unit 14b performs an AND search. Note that if there is a hierarchy in which no search result exists, the information search unit 14b executes the process of S142 on the assumption that all the data specifying information of the data group 13b is the search result of this hierarchy.

  After the process of S142, the search result display unit 14c of the control unit 14 displays the search result narrowed down in S142 on the touch panel 12 (S143), and ends the screen update process shown in FIG.

  For example, if the search character queue is empty, the information search unit 14b determines that the search character queue is empty in S132, and determines all the data specifying information of the data group 13b as the search results narrowed down in S142. . Therefore, the search result display unit 14c sets all the data specifying information of the data group 13b to be displayed by the touch panel 12 in S143. That is, a display as shown in FIG. In FIG. 3, only a part of the list in which the data specifying information is arranged is displayed, but the remaining part of the list can be displayed by scrolling.

  Further, when the character in the search character queue is “Kin & D & Brea”, the information search means 14b performs a search with the character “Kin” in the layer “artist” in S136 (see FIG. 7), and in the layer “album”. A search with the character “D” is executed in S136 (see FIG. 8), a search with the character “Brea” in the hierarchy “song” is executed in S141 (see FIG. 9), and the search result of each hierarchy in S142. (See FIG. 10A). Therefore, the search result display means 14c, as shown in FIG. 10B, for the data specifying information of the data group 13b, the search character “Kin” for the hierarchy “artist” and the search character “D” for the hierarchy “album”. "And the data specifying information AND-searched with the search character" Brea "for the hierarchy" song "are displayed on the touch panel 12 in S143.

  The user of the mobile device 10 causes the mobile device 10 to play the music file specified by the data specifying information by executing a specific operation such as double-tapping the data specifying information displayed on the touch panel 12. Can do. If there is only one data specifying information finally detected, the mobile device 10 plays the music file specified by the data specifying information without waiting for a playback instruction from the user. It is also possible to do.

  As described above, as shown in FIG. 5, the mobile device 10 displays the search characters input by handwriting on the list in the touch panel 12 in a state where the list in which the data specifying information is arranged is displayed on the touch panel 12. Since it accepts (YES in S103), even if it is a case where a search character is accepted, the fall of the visibility of a list can be suppressed.

  For example, since the mobile device 10 does not require a GUI (Graphical User Interface) such as a search window or a search button for starting a search with a search character input in the search window, the user can search for these GUIs. It is not necessary to operate or operate, and convenience for the user can be improved.

  Further, since the portable device 10 does not require a GUI such as a search window or a search button, a wide display area for information such as the list 20 can be secured on the touch panel 12. In particular, when the touch panel 12 is small, it is effective that a wide display area for information such as the list 20 can be secured on the touch panel 12.

  In addition, since the mobile device 10 accepts search characters input by handwriting on the touch panel regardless of information such as the list 20 displayed on the touch panel 12, a screen on the touch panel 12 when performing a search. The degree of freedom of design can be improved.

  The mobile device 10 searches the data specifying information every time a search character is accepted in S103 (YES in S103) (S136, S141, and S142), and displays the search result on the touch panel 12 every time the search is executed. (S143). That is, the mobile device 10 can execute an incremental search. Therefore, the mobile device 10 can facilitate the search for the data specifying information.

  In addition, the mobile device 10 can accept search characters of a plurality of hierarchies by a series of operations by accepting a hierarchy switching character for switching the hierarchies targeted by the search characters input on the touch panel 12. Therefore, when the data specifying information is represented by a hierarchical structure with a plurality of attribute information, an operation for searching for the data specifying information can be facilitated.

  For example, the conventional search method requires a plurality of search operations. Specifically, first, a search character is input into a search window to search for a specific artist, and a list of albums of that artist is displayed. Next, a search character is input into a search window for the list to search for a specific album, and a list of songs in the album is displayed. Finally, a specific character is searched by inputting a search character into the search window for the list, and data specifying information corresponding to the target music is displayed.

  However, as described above, since the mobile device 10 can accept search characters in a plurality of layers through a series of operations, the mobile device 10 can reach the target data specifying information with a smaller number of operations compared to the conventional search method. It is possible.

  In addition, since the mobile device 10 can accept search characters of a plurality of layers through a series of operations, even when the number of data included in the data group 13b is large, the mobile device 10 can reach the target data specifying information in a short time. It is possible.

  The mobile device 10 starts the operation illustrated in FIG. 4 when a specific operation is input to the operation unit 11, but performs the operation illustrated in FIG. 4 under conditions other than the input of the specific operation to the operation unit 11. You may start. For example, the mobile device 10 may start the operation illustrated in FIG. 4 when a specific GUI displayed on the touch panel 12 is operated, or illustrated in FIG. 4 when the touch panel 12 is pressed for a long time. Operation may be started.

  Further, in the operation illustrated in FIG. 4, the mobile device 10 ends acceptance of the search character when a specific time has elapsed since the start of time measurement in S101, but under conditions other than the elapse of the specific time. Acceptance of search characters may be terminated. For example, the mobile device 10 may end acceptance of the search character when a specific operation is input to the operation unit 11, or may end acceptance of the search character when the touch panel 12 is pressed for a long time. good. The portable device 10 reproduces the music file specified by the data specifying information displayed at the long-pressed position on the touch panel 12 when the acceptance of the search character is finished when the touch panel 12 is long-pressed. May be.

  The search device of the present invention handles music files as data in the present embodiment, but may handle data other than music files such as document files and image files.

  The search device of the present invention is a mobile device in the present embodiment, but may be an electronic device other than the mobile device as long as it includes a touch panel. For example, the search apparatus of the present invention may be an image forming apparatus such as an MFP (Multifunction Peripheral) or a printer dedicated machine.

10 Mobile devices (electronic devices, search devices)
12 Touch Panel 13a Search Program 13b Data Group 14a Search Character Accepting Unit 14b Information Search Unit 14c Search Result Display Unit 20 List 31 Characters (Search Characters)

Claims (3)

A search program executed by an electronic device including a touch panel,
Search character accepting means for accepting search characters for data specifying information for specifying data of the data group,
Information search means for searching for the data specifying information with the search characters received by the search character receiving means; and
Causing the electronic device to function as search result display means for displaying the search result by the information search means on the touch panel;
The search character accepting unit accepts the search character input by handwriting on the list in the touch panel in a state where the list in which the data specifying information is arranged is displayed on the touch panel ,
The data specifying information is represented by a hierarchical structure with a plurality of attribute information,
The search character accepting unit accepts the search characters of a plurality of the layers by receiving a layer switching character for switching a layer targeted by the search characters input by handwriting on the touch panel. Search program to do. The information search means searches the data specifying information every time the search character accepting means accepts one search character,
The search program according to claim 1, wherein the search result display unit displays a search result on the touch panel every time a search is executed by the information search unit.   A touch panel;
  Search character accepting means for accepting a search character for data specifying information for specifying data of the data group;
  Information search means for searching for the data specifying information with the search characters received by the search character receiving means;
  Search result display means for displaying a search result by the information search means on the touch panel;
  The search character accepting unit accepts the search character input by handwriting on the list in the touch panel in a state where the list in which the data specifying information is arranged is displayed on the touch panel,
  The data specifying information is represented by a hierarchical structure with a plurality of attribute information,
  The search character accepting unit accepts the search characters of a plurality of the layers by receiving a layer switching character for switching a layer targeted by the search characters input by handwriting on the touch panel. Search device to do.

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