CN107077515B

CN107077515B - Display control device, display control method, and display control medium

Info

Publication number: CN107077515B
Application number: CN201680003593.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 藤泽正人
Original assignee: IB Research KK
Current assignee: IB Research KK
Priority date: 2015-10-09
Filing date: 2016-09-16
Publication date: 2021-06-04
Anticipated expiration: 2036-09-16
Also published as: WO2017061253A1; JP2021077426A; JPWO2017061253A1; CN107077515A; JP6895030B2

Abstract

The invention provides a display control device, a display control method and a display control program for enabling a user to effectively grasp sentence contents. The support device 1 includes: a storage unit 13 for storing one or more documents including words corresponding to the views; an extracting unit 143, if receiving a keyword from a user, for referring to the storage unit 13 to extract a term including the received keyword from one or more documents; and a display control unit 142 for causing the display unit 12 to display a view corresponding to the word included in the extracted sentence. The display control unit 142 causes the display unit 12 to display the extracted sentence, and causes the display unit 12 to display a view corresponding to the word if the first operation is performed with respect to the sentence including the word.

Description

Display control device, display control method, and display control medium

Technical Field

The invention relates to a display control device, a display control method and a display control medium.

Background

At present, a process for supporting the creation of a document such as a patent specification has been carried out. For example, patent document 1 discloses a device for reading a template of a new specification stored in advance in a storage unit when creating the new specification, and creating the specification. Specifically, the user can efficiently make the specification based on the template.

Documents of the prior art

Patent document

Patent document 1: japanese laid-open patent publication No. 2000-48013

Disclosure of Invention

Problems to be solved by the invention

However, when a new document is created, a sentence included in a sentence created in the past or the like may be used. For example, the user may search for a word containing a keyword from a document created in the past based on the keyword contained in the document created by the user. However, it is difficult for the user to determine whether or not the sentence can be diverted based on only the content of the sentence. Therefore, the user needs to grasp the contents of the sentence more efficiently.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above, and an object thereof is to provide a display control device, a display control method, and a display control medium that enable a user to effectively grasp the contents of a sentence.

Means for solving the problems

A display control device according to a first aspect of the present invention includes: an extraction unit that, if a keyword is received from a user, extracts a sentence including the received keyword from one or more documents by referring to a storage unit that stores the one or more documents including a word corresponding to a view; and a display control unit that causes the display unit to display a view corresponding to the word included in the extracted sentence.

The display control unit may cause the display unit to display the extracted sentence, and may cause the display unit to display a view corresponding to the word if a first operation is performed with respect to the sentence including the word.

The display control unit may cause the display unit to display a selection acceptance image for accepting selection of a view corresponding to the word if a first operation is performed with respect to the sentence including the word, and may cause the display unit to display the view in accordance with execution of a second operation for selecting a view in the selection acceptance image.

The display control unit may cause the display unit to display a selection acceptance image accepting selection of a plurality of views corresponding to a plurality of words if the first operation is executed with respect to a sentence including the plurality of words, and may cause the display unit to display the plurality of views in accordance with execution of a second operation of selecting the plurality of views.

The display control unit may cause the display unit to display, if the first operation is performed with respect to a sentence not including the word: a view corresponding to the word included in the sentence located in a predetermined range from the sentence in the document including the sentence.

The display control unit may cause the display unit to display, if the first operation is performed with respect to a sentence not including the word: in the document including the sentence, the view corresponding to the word included in the sentence closest to the sentence in which the first operation is performed is included in the sentence including the word before the sentence.

The display control unit may not display the view on the display unit if, in a case where the first operation has been performed with respect to a sentence not including the word, a sentence located in a predetermined range from the sentence in a document including the sentence does not include the word.

The display control unit may cause the display unit to display an edit image for accepting editing of the view in response to acceptance of a third operation after the view is displayed on the display unit.

The display control unit may display the extracted sentence on the display unit, and may display a plurality of views corresponding to the word included in each of all the extracted sentences on the display unit if an operation of displaying a view corresponding to each of the extracted sentences on the display unit is accepted.

The display control unit may display, on the display unit, a plurality of views corresponding to the words included in each of all the extracted sentences, without displaying the extracted sentences on the display unit.

The display control unit may be configured to display a sentence corresponding to one of the plurality of views on the display unit in response to reception of a display operation of the sentence after the plurality of views are displayed on the display unit.

The extracting unit may extract a sentence having a distance between the plurality of keywords within a predetermined range from the one or more documents if the plurality of keywords are accepted.

The extracting unit may extract, if a keyword is accepted, a sentence including the keyword or a similar word having the same meaning as the keyword from the one or more documents.

A display control device according to a second aspect of the present invention includes: a storage unit for storing one or more documents; an accepting section that accepts a keyword from a user; an extraction unit that extracts a sentence including the received keyword from the one of the documents with reference to the storage unit; and a display control unit that causes the display unit to display the extracted sentence, and if a predetermined operation is performed on the sentence, causes the document including the sentence to be displayed in a state where a portion including the sentence is already displayed on the display unit.

The display control unit may highlight the sentence when the document including the sentence in which the fourth operation is performed is displayed on the display unit.

A display control method according to a third aspect of the present invention is executed by a computer, and includes: an extraction step of, if a keyword is received from a user, referring to a storage unit that stores one or more documents containing words corresponding to a view, extracting a sentence containing the received keyword from the one or more documents; and

a display step of causing a display unit to display a view corresponding to the word included in the extracted sentence.

A display control program according to a third aspect of the present invention causes a computer to function as: an extraction unit that, if a keyword is received from a user, extracts a sentence including the received keyword from one or more documents by referring to a storage unit that stores the one or more documents including a word corresponding to a view; and a display control unit that causes the display unit to display a view corresponding to the word included in the extracted sentence.

Technical effects

According to the present invention, the user can effectively grasp the contents of the sentence.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a view showing an outline of the support apparatus of the present embodiment.

Fig. 2 is a view showing the configuration of the support apparatus of the present embodiment.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart showing the flow of the document editing process.

Fig. 4 is a view showing an example of a document and a search screen to be created.

Fig. 5 is a view showing one example of a retrieval screen.

Fig. 6 is a view showing an example in which a sentence containing a keyword is displayed in the retrieval screen.

Fig. 7 shows a flowchart of the flow of the view display processing.

Fig. 8 is a view showing an example of displaying an image for view selection in the display section.

Fig. 9 is a view showing an example of displaying a selected view in the display section.

Fig. 10 is a view showing an example of displaying a view operation image in the display section.

Fig. 11 is a view showing an example of displaying a reference document in the display section.

Fig. 12 is a view showing a display of a selection acceptance image including all view display acceptance images.

Fig. 13 is a diagram showing an example of display of a plurality of views corresponding to words included in each of all extracted sentences.

Fig. 14 is a view showing an example of displaying a view operation image of embodiment 4 in a display portion.

Detailed Description

< embodiment 1 >

[ overview of the support apparatus 1 ]

Fig. 1 shows an outline of a support apparatus 1 according to embodiment 1 of the present invention. The support apparatus 1 is a computer such as a personal computer that supports the creation of a document such as a patent specification.

The support apparatus 1 is used as a display control apparatus for extracting and displaying a sentence including a keyword specified by a user of the support apparatus 1 from a document to be referred to when creating the document. For example, as shown in fig. 1, if "touch panel" and "display" are accepted as keywords, the support apparatus 1 extracts a term including "touch panel" and "display" from one or more documents. The support apparatus 1 displays the extracted term in association with document identification information (for example, a bulletin) for identifying a document including the term. In the present embodiment, a phrase refers to, for example, one or more phrases defined by predetermined characters or symbols (e.g., line-feed characters). A sentence may also refer to one or more sentences corresponding to one paragraph number.

If an operation of right-clicking one sentence is accepted, the support apparatus 1 displays a view corresponding to the sentence. Further, as an operation of selecting the document identification information displayed in association with a term, if an operation of left-clicking a post number is accepted, the support apparatus 1 displays the document corresponding to the term in a state including the term.

In this way, the user can confirm the map corresponding to the selected sentence or the sentences around the selected sentence, and effectively grasp the content of the selected sentence. Therefore, the user can determine whether or not the selected sentence is a sentence that can be transferred to the document creation.

The configuration and operation of the support apparatus 1 will be described below. In the following description, a document to be extracted as a term is referred to as a reference document. In the following description, a document to be edited by a patent specification will be described.

[ example of the configuration of the support device 1 ]

Fig. 2 is a view showing the configuration of the support apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment.

The support apparatus 1 includes an input unit 11, a display unit 12, a storage unit 13, and a control unit 14.

The input unit 11 is, for example, a mouse or a keyboard. The input unit 11 receives an operation input from the user of the support apparatus 1.

The display unit 12 is, for example, a liquid crystal display, an organic EL (Electro-Luminescence) display, or the like. The display unit 12 displays a document and a search screen for searching for a term included in a reference document, for example, under the control of the control unit 14.

The storage unit 13 is, for example, a ROM, a RAM, a hard disk, or the like. The storage unit 13 stores various programs for operating the support apparatus 1. The storage unit 13 stores a display control program for causing the support apparatus 1 to function as the storage control unit 141, the display control unit 142, the extraction unit 143, and the editing unit 144. The storage unit 13 may read a program stored in a storage medium such as an external memory, or may store a program acquired from an external device via a communication network.

The storage unit 13 stores one or more reference documents including words corresponding to the views.

The control unit 14 is, for example, a CPU. The control unit 14 controls the functions of the support apparatus 1 by executing various programs stored in the storage unit 13. The control unit 14 includes a storage control unit 141, a display control unit 142, an extraction unit 143, and an editing unit 144.

[ assignment of reference documents ]

The storage control unit 141 associates one or more reference documents including words corresponding to the view with the view and stores the documents in the storage unit 13 according to a user's designation operation. Specifically, the storage control unit 141 receives specification of a document file showing one or more reference documents from a user.

The document is, for example, a document showing a patent publication or a patent specification made by a user. The document file includes a document including a plurality of sentences. Further, the document file includes one or more views corresponding to the reference document, or a view file showing views corresponding to the reference document is associated. Further, in the reference document, a word such as "fig. 1" or "fig. 2" may be included as a word corresponding to the view, and in the word, a link for referring to the drawing is given.

When the document file includes one or more views corresponding to the reference document, the storage control unit 141 extracts the one or more views from the document file and creates a view file including each view. The storage control unit 141 stores, in each document file designated by the user, information in which a word indicating a view corresponding to a reference document of the document file is associated with an address of a position of a view file indicating a view corresponding to the word.

The display control unit 142, the extraction unit 143, and the editing unit 144 cooperate with each other, and the document to be edited by the user is displayed on the display unit 12, and the editing of the document is accepted, and at the same time, a sentence including the keyword accepted from the user and a view corresponding to the sentence are displayed.

[ document editing processing ]

The display control unit 142, the extraction unit 143, and the editing unit 144 will be described in detail below with reference to a flowchart illustrating the flow of document editing processing executed by the control unit 14. Fig. 3 is a flowchart showing the flow of the document editing process. At the beginning of the flowchart, the storage unit 13 stores a reference document and one or more view files corresponding to the reference document in association with each other.

First, the display control unit 142 displays the document to be edited designated by the user and the search screen for searching for the sentence included in the reference document on the display unit 12 (S10). For example, the display control unit 142 causes the display unit 12 to display a screen on which the document to be edited is designated, and causes the display unit 12 to display the designated document through the screen. Next, in response to an operation of displaying the search screen received from the user via the input unit 11, the display control unit 142 causes the display unit 12 to display the search screen. For example, as shown in fig. 4, the display control unit 142 displays: a display screen of a document to be edited which is displayed as "manual" in the title, and a search screen which is displayed as "manual example document search" in the title.

Fig. 5 is a view showing one example of a retrieval screen. As shown in fig. 5, when the reference document is composed of a plurality of parts such as "embodiment" and "claim", the search screen includes: the editing apparatus includes a first selection field for selecting a part to be searched in a reference document, an input field for a keyword, a search button, and a second selection field for setting an insertion method and an insertion position for inserting a term into a document to be edited. In the second selection column, a portion into which a sentence is inserted and an insertion position in the portion can be selected.

The extraction unit 143 determines whether or not the keyword extraction operation is performed (S20). Here, the operation of extracting the keyword is an operation performed by pressing a search button in an input field of the keyword in a state where the keyword is input. The extracting section 143, if it is determined that the keyword extraction operation has been performed, shifts the process to S30, and if it is determined that the keyword extraction operation has not been performed, shifts the process to S40.

In S30, the display control unit 142 and the extraction unit 143 extract a sentence including the keyword, and display the sentence on the display unit 12. Specifically, if a keyword is received from the user, the extraction unit 143 refers to the storage unit 13, and extracts a term including the received keyword from one or more reference documents. The extraction unit 143 extracts a sentence including the received keyword from the portion selected in the first selection field of the search screen.

The extracting unit 143 extracts, from one or more reference documents, a document identification information for identifying the reference document, which is a publication number of the patent laid-open publication. The extracting unit 143 is used to extract a reference number as the document identification information for identifying the reference document, but is not limited to this, and may extract document identification information for identifying the date on which the reference document is created, the arrangement number assigned to the reference document, or the like.

In the present embodiment, the extraction unit 143 extracts a word including all of the plurality of keywords if receiving the plurality of keywords, but is not limited to this, and may extract a word including at least one of the plurality of keywords. The support apparatus 1 can select, for example, on the search screen: a sentence including all of the plurality of keywords is extracted, or a sentence including at least one of the plurality of keywords is extracted. The extraction unit 143 refers to the storage unit 13 and extracts the words including the received keywords, but is not limited thereto. For example, the extracting unit 143 may store one or more reference documents in a storage unit of an external device connected via a communication network in advance, and extract a term including the received keyword from the one or more reference documents.

Next, the display control unit 142 associates the term including the keyword extracted by the extraction unit 143 with the reference document corresponding to the term, and displays the term on the search screen displayed on the display unit 12. Fig. 6 is a view showing an example in which a sentence containing a keyword is displayed in the retrieval screen. As shown in fig. 6, when a sentence is displayed on the search screen, the display control unit 142 highlights a keyword included in the sentence.

Next, the display control unit 142 determines whether or not the first operation for displaying the view corresponding to the sentence on the display unit 12 is performed for one sentence (S40). Here, the first operation is an operation of right-clicking on the sentence displayed on the search screen. The display control section 142, if judging that the first operation has been performed, shifts the process to S50. Further, if the display control section 142 determines that the first operation is not performed, the process proceeds to S60.

In S50, if the first operation is performed with respect to the term displayed on the search screen, the display control unit 142 executes screen display processing for displaying the screen corresponding to the term on the display unit 12.

Here, the details of the screen display processing will be described with reference to a flowchart showing a flow of processing related to the screen display processing shown in fig. 7.

First, the display control unit 142 determines whether or not a word corresponding to the view is included in the sentence in which the first operation is performed (S501). The display control unit 142 proceeds to S502 if it determines that the word is included in the sentence in which the first operation is executed, and proceeds to S508 if it determines that the word is not included.

In S502, the display control unit 142 displays a selection acceptance image for accepting selection of a view corresponding to the word on the display unit 12. Fig. 8 is a view showing an example of displaying a selection acceptance image. Fig. 8 shows an example of a selection acceptance image in the case where the first operation is performed with respect to the uppermost displayed term among the terms displayed on the search screen. In this sentence, "fig. 1" and "fig. 2" are included as words corresponding to the views.

When a sentence includes a plurality of words corresponding to views, the display control unit 142 displays a selection acceptance image for accepting selection of each of the plurality of views and selection of any one of all the plurality of views. In the example shown in fig. 8, the display control unit 142 selects an acceptance image by including an image shown by "display 1" that accepts a view selection corresponding to "fig. 1", an image shown by "display 2" that accepts a view selection corresponding to "fig. 2", and an image shown by "display all the following views" that accepts a selection of a plurality of views (fig. 1 and 2).

Next, the display control unit 142 determines whether or not the displayed view is selected (S503). Specifically, the display control section 142 determines whether the displayed view has been selected by determining whether the second operation of selecting a view in the selection acceptance image is performed. The display control section 142 moves the process to S504 if it determines that the displayed view is selected, and terminates the view display process if the displayed view has not been selected.

In S504, the display control unit 142 causes the display unit 12 to display the selected view. Fig. 9 is a view showing an example of the selected view in the display section 12. In the example shown in fig. 9, it may be confirmed that the view corresponding to the word "fig. 1" corresponding to the view is selected and displayed. In this way, when there are a plurality of views included in the self-created sentence, each drawing can be easily identified by selecting the receiving image and selecting the view.

In S505, the display control section 142 determines whether or not the third operation as the view editing operation is accepted. Specifically, as shown in fig. 9, in a state where the view is displayed on the display section 12, if a right-click operation is performed on the view, an image for view operation as shown in fig. 10 is displayed. The image for view operation includes: an image displayed as "90 degrees rotated rightward" corresponding to an operation of rotating the view 90 degrees rightward, an image displayed as "90 degrees rotated leftward" corresponding to an operation of rotating the view 90 degrees leftward, and an image displayed as "180 degrees rotated" corresponding to an operation of rotating the view 180 degrees. Further, the image for view operation includes an image displayed as an "edit view" that accepts editing of another view.

The display control section 142 determines whether or not the editing operation of the view has been accepted by determining whether or not any of the respective images included in the view operation images has been selected. The display control section 142 shifts the process to S506 if it is determined that the editing operation of the view (third operation) has been accepted, and shifts the process to S507 if it is determined that the editing operation of the view has not been accepted.

In S506, the editing unit 144 displays an editing image for accepting the mark of the view being displayed, accepts editing of the view, and performs a view rotation process for rotating the view. Specifically, if any one of the image shown as "rotated 90 degrees to the right", the image shown as "rotated 90 degrees to the left", and the image shown as "rotated 180 degrees" is selected, the editing section 144 performs view rotation processing of rotating the view. Also, if an image shown as "edit view" is selected, the editing section 144 causes an image for editing for accepting editing of the view being displayed to be displayed, and accepts editing of the view. In this way, even when the user changes the sentence to be transferred, the view corresponding to the sentence to be transferred can be easily changed.

Next, the display control unit 142 determines whether or not a display termination operation for terminating the display of the view being displayed is accepted (S507). The display control section 142 terminates the view display processing if it is determined that the display termination operation has been accepted, and shifts the processing to S505 if it is determined that the display termination operation has not been accepted.

In step S501, if it is determined that the sentence does not include the word corresponding to the view, the display control unit 142 determines that the first operation is performed on the sentence that does not include the word. In the reference document including the sentence not including the word, the display control unit 142 causes the display unit 12 to display the view corresponding to the word included in the sentence located within the predetermined range from the sentence.

For example, if it is determined in step S501 that the sentence does not include the word corresponding to the view, the display control unit 142 proceeds to step S508 to determine whether or not the sentence including the word is located within a predetermined range before the sentence subjected to the first operation. The display control unit 142 moves the process to S509 if it determines that the word-containing sentence is within the predetermined range before the sentence that has received the first operation, and moves the process to S510 if it determines that the word-containing sentence is not within the predetermined range.

In S509, the display control unit 142 displays on the display unit 12: in a document including a sentence in which a first operation has been performed, a view corresponding to a word included in a sentence (a sentence in front) closest to the position of the sentence in which the first operation is performed, among the sentences including the words corresponding to views positioned further forward than the sentence. In this way, the support apparatus 1 can display a view having a high possibility of corresponding to one sentence designated by the user on the display unit 12.

If the time-view is displayed on the display unit 12 in S509, the display control unit 142 proceeds to S505.

When a plurality of words corresponding to views are included in the sentence in the top sentence, the display control unit 142 may display the view corresponding to the last word among the words included in the sentence on the display unit 12.

In S510, when a reference document including a sentence in which the first operation is performed does not include a word corresponding to a view in the sentence and a word corresponding to a view is not included in the sentences within the predetermined range of the sentence, the display control unit 142 does not display the view corresponding to the reference document on the display unit 12. Further, the display control unit 142 displays on the display unit 12: the sentence in which the first operation is performed does not include a view within a predetermined range from the start and shows an error image not displaying the view. If the processing is terminated, the display control section 142 terminates the image display processing. In this way, the support apparatus 1 can make the user recognize that: a view having a high possibility of corresponding to one sentence designated by the user does not exist.

The description is continued with reference to fig. 3. Next, the display control unit 142 determines whether or not a fourth operation (predetermined operation) for displaying a reference document including the term is performed with respect to the term (S60). The fourth operation is, for example: and a left click operation for searching for a gazette number of a reference document containing a sentence displayed in association with the sentence on the screen. The display control section 142 proceeds with the process to S70 if it is determined that the fourth operation has been performed, and proceeds with the process to S80 if it is determined that the fourth operation has not been performed.

In S70, if the fourth operation is performed with respect to the sentence, the display control part 142 displays the reference document containing the sentence in a state where the part containing the sentence is displayed in the display part 12. Fig. 11 is a view showing an example of displaying a reference document in the display section 12. As shown in fig. 11, when the display unit 12 displays a reference document including a term in which the fourth operation has been performed, the display control unit 142 highlights the term. When the reference document including the word or phrase in which the fourth operation is performed is displayed on the display unit 12, the display control unit 142 highlights the keyword received from the user. In this way, the support apparatus 1 can make the user easily grasp at which position the self-selected sentence is in the reference document displayed on the display unit 12.

Next, the editing unit 144 determines whether or not a pasting operation for pasting the term displayed on the search screen to the editing target document is performed (S80). The pasting operation is, for example: left-click operation of a sentence displayed on the search screen. If the editing unit 144 determines that the paste operation has been performed, the process proceeds to S90, where the sentence for which the paste operation has been performed is pasted to the specified position of the part selected in the second selection field of the search screen. Further, if the editing section 144 determines that the paste operation is not performed, the process proceeds to S100.

In S100, the control unit 14 determines whether or not the document editing job to be edited is terminated. For example, the control unit 14 determines that the editing job is terminated by receiving an operation to make the document to be edited not displayed, and terminates the processing related to the flowchart. Then, if the control unit 14 determines that the editing operation has not been terminated, the process proceeds to S20.

[ Effect of embodiment 1 ]

As described above, the supporting apparatus 1 according to embodiment 1, upon receiving a keyword from a user, extracts a sentence including the received keyword from one or more reference documents with reference to the storage unit 13, displays the extracted sentence on the display unit 12, and displays a view corresponding to the word on the display unit 12 if a first operation is performed with respect to a sentence including the word corresponding to the view. In this way, the support apparatus 1 can make the user confirm the diagram displayed in association with the sentence, and more effectively grasp the content of the selected sentence.

If the first operation is executed with respect to a sentence that does not include a word corresponding to the view, the support apparatus 1 displays on the display unit 12: in the document containing the sentence, the view corresponding to the word contained in the sentence located within a predetermined range from the sentence. In this way, the support apparatus 1 can make the user confirm the map having a high possibility of correspondence with the sentence, and can more effectively grasp the content of the selected sentence.

If the fourth operation is performed with respect to the extracted sentence, the support apparatus 1 displays the reference document including the sentence in a state where the part including the sentence is displayed on the display unit 12. In this way, the support apparatus 1 can make the user confirm the words before and after the word selected by the user, and can more effectively grasp the contents of the selected word.

< embodiment 2 >

[ extraction of sentences in which the distance between a plurality of keywords is within a predetermined range ]

Next, embodiment 2 will be explained. When the extraction unit 143 extracts a sentence including a plurality of keywords, if the relevance of the plurality of keywords in the sentence is low, a sentence which is not desired by the user may be extracted. Here, unlike embodiment 1, in embodiment 2, when a plurality of keywords are received, the extraction unit 143 extracts words whose distances are within a predetermined range. The following describes the support apparatus 1 according to embodiment 2. The same reference numerals are used for the same components as those in embodiment 1, and detailed description thereof is omitted.

When receiving a plurality of keywords, the extracting unit 143 refers to the storage unit 13, and extracts words in which the distance between the plurality of keywords is within a predetermined range from one or more documents. Specifically, if a keyword is received from the user, the extraction unit 143 refers to the storage unit 13, and extracts a term including the received keyword from one or more reference documents. Next, the extracting unit 143 determines whether or not to accept a plurality of keywords. If it is judged that the plurality of keywords are accepted, the extraction section 143 specifies the positions of the plurality of keywords in the extracted sentence, and further extracts the sentences in which the distances of the plurality of keywords are within a predetermined range.

Here, when the number of received keywords is 3 or more, the extraction unit 143 may extract words whose distance average value of each keyword is within a predetermined range. For example, when the received keywords are "touch panel", "display", and "fig. 1", the extraction unit 143 may extract, from the words including the keywords, words in which an average value of a distance between "touch panel" and "display", a distance between "display" and "fig. 1", and a distance between "fig. 1" and "touch panel" is within a predetermined range.

The predetermined range used when extracting the term may be a predetermined range or an arbitrary range specified by the user of the support apparatus 1. The extraction unit 143 extracts a term in which the distance between the plurality of keywords is within a predetermined range, but may further extract a term when one of the plurality of terms including the term includes a plurality of keywords.

Next, the display control unit 142 associates the term including the keyword extracted by the extraction unit 143 with the reference document corresponding to the term, and displays the term on the search screen displayed on the display unit 12.

[ Effect of embodiment 2 ]

As described above, if a plurality of keywords are accepted, the support apparatus 1 according to embodiment 2 extracts words whose distances between the plurality of keywords are within a predetermined range from one or more documents. In this way, the support apparatus 1 can extract a word having a high relevance among a plurality of keywords.

< embodiment 3 >

[ extraction of a sentence based on an accepted keyword and a similar language to the keyword ]

Next, embodiment 3 will be explained. When the extraction unit 143 extracts a word or phrase containing a keyword accepted by the user, the user may wish to extract a word or phrase containing a similar word or phrase having the same meaning as the keyword. Therefore, unlike embodiment 1, embodiment 3 extracts a word including a keyword accepted by the user or a similar word to the keyword. The following describes the support apparatus 1 according to embodiment 3.

In embodiment 3, the storage unit 13 stores similar-language dictionary information in which a word and a similar language of the word are associated with each other.

When the keyword is accepted, the extracting unit 143 refers to the similar language dictionary stored in the storage unit 13, and specifies the similar language associated with the accepted keyword. The extracting unit 143 extracts a sentence including the received keyword or the specific similar language from one or more documents.

Here, the control unit 14 of the support apparatus 1 may accept a setting from the user regarding the extraction of the sentence based on only the received keyword or the extraction of the sentence based on the received keyword and the similar language of the keyword. Further, the display control unit 142 may extract a word or phrase based on the setting. In this way, the support apparatus 1 can extract the sentence containing the similar language when it is determined that the user wants to confirm the sentence containing the similar language.

[ Effect of embodiment 3 ]

As described above, if a keyword is accepted, the support apparatus 1 according to embodiment 3 extracts a term including the keyword or a similar word to the keyword from one or more documents. In this way, the user can also confirm a sentence in a similar language including the keyword input by the user.

< embodiment 4 >

[ displaying a plurality of views corresponding to a plurality of sentences, respectively ]

Next, embodiment 4 will be described. Unlike embodiment 1, embodiment 4 displays a plurality of views corresponding to a plurality of sentences on the display unit 12. The following describes the supporting apparatus 1 according to embodiment 4.

In embodiment 4, the extracting unit 143 is executed by the keyword extracting operation, and if it is determined that the keyword is received, it refers to the storage unit 13 in which one or more documents including a word corresponding to the view are stored, and extracts a term including the received keyword from the one or more documents. If the sentence is extracted, the display control part 142 displays a view corresponding to the word included in the extracted sentence on the display part.

Specifically, the display control unit 142 specifies a sentence including a word corresponding to the view from the extracted sentences. The display control unit 142 stores, in the storage unit 13, association information in which a term including a word corresponding to a view and identification information (for example, a file name) for identifying the view are associated with each other.

The display control unit 142 displays the extracted sentence on the display unit 12, and if an operation (all-view display operation) of displaying a view corresponding to each of the extracted all sentences on the display unit 12 is accepted, displays a plurality of views corresponding to the words included in each of the all sentences on the display unit 12.

For example, as shown in fig. 6, when a sentence including a keyword is displayed on the search screen, if the first operation is performed in any sentence, a selection acceptance image including an all-view display acceptance image for accepting the all-view display operation is displayed on the display unit 12.

Fig. 12 is a view showing a selection acceptance image including all view display acceptance images. Fig. 12 shows an all-view display acceptance image displayed as a "view displaying all the sentences", and the display control unit 142 displays at least a part of a plurality of views corresponding to words included in each of all the sentences on the display unit 12 in accordance with the selection of the all-view display acceptance image.

Fig. 13 is a diagram showing an example of display of a plurality of views corresponding to words included in each of all extracted sentences. As shown in fig. 13, it may be confirmed that at least a portion of the plurality of views is displayed.

In the present embodiment, the display unit 12 does not display all views corresponding to the words included in each of the extracted all sentences, and displays a part of all the views in response to reception of the scroll operation. The display control unit 142 may change the zoom size of all the views or may display all the views on the display unit 12 at once.

The display control unit 142 may display a plurality of views corresponding to words included in each of the extracted sentences on the display unit 12, instead of displaying the sentences extracted by the extraction unit 143 on the display unit 12. In this way, the user of the support apparatus 1 can easily confirm the view with a high possibility of correspondence with the keyword input by the user.

Then, the display control unit 142 displays the sentence on the display unit 12 in response to reception of a display operation of the sentence corresponding to one of the plurality of views in a state where the plurality of views corresponding to the words included in each of all the sentences are displayed on the display unit 12.

For example, as shown in fig. 13, in a case where a plurality of views are displayed, if a right click operation is performed in a display area of any of the plurality of views, a view operation image as shown in fig. 14 is displayed. The image for view manipulation includes: an image shown as "display text" of the sentence corresponding to the selected view is displayed.

According to the selection of the image shown as "display text" included in the view manipulation image, the display control section 142 refers to the association information stored in the storage section 13 to specify the sentence associated to the selected view. As shown in fig. 11, the display control unit 142 displays a reference document including a specific term in a state where a portion including the term is displayed on the display unit 12.

[ Effect of embodiment 4 ]

As described above, in the supporting apparatus 1 according to embodiment 4, if a keyword is received, a sentence including the received keyword is extracted from one or more documents stored in the storage unit 13, and a view corresponding to a word included in the sentence is displayed on the display unit 12. In this way, the user of the support apparatus 1 can efficiently grasp which view has been used in the past corresponding to the selected keyword.

Then, the support apparatus 1 displays a plurality of views on the display unit 12, and then displays the sentence on the display unit 12 in response to reception of a display operation of the sentence corresponding to one of the plurality of views. In this way, the user of the support apparatus 1 can effectively grasp the contents of the sentence corresponding to the view that the user pays attention to, for example.

The present invention has been described above using the embodiments, but the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to the scope described in the embodiments. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made to the embodiments. Such modifications and improvements are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention, as defined by the following claims.

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1. supporting device, 11. input part, 12. display part, 13. storage part, 14. control part, 141. storage control part, 142. display control part, 143. extraction part, 144. edit part

Claims

1. A display control apparatus, characterized by comprising:

an extraction unit that, if a keyword is received from a user, refers to a storage unit that stores one or more documents containing words corresponding to a view, and extracts all of the sentences containing the received keyword or the sentences containing similar words having the same meaning as the keyword from the one or more documents; and

and a display control unit that causes the display unit to display at least a view in which a part of the at least one document corresponds to the word included in the extracted sentence, so that the extracted sentence and document identification information for identifying a document including the sentence are displayed in association with each other.

2. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

the display control unit causes the display unit to display the extracted sentence, and causes the display unit to display a view corresponding to the word if a first operation is performed with respect to the sentence including the word.

3. The display control apparatus according to claim 2, characterized in that:

the display control unit causes the display unit to display a selection acceptance image that accepts selection of a view corresponding to the word if a first operation is performed with respect to a sentence including the word, and causes the display unit to display the view in accordance with execution of a second operation that selects the view in the selection acceptance image.

4. A display control apparatus according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that:

the display control unit causes the display unit to display a selection acceptance image accepting selection of a plurality of views corresponding to a plurality of words if the first operation is executed with respect to a sentence including the plurality of words, and causes the display unit to display the plurality of views in accordance with execution of a second operation of selecting the plurality of views.

5. A display control apparatus according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that:

the display control unit, if the first operation is executed with respect to a sentence not including the word, causes the display unit to display: a view corresponding to the word included in the sentence located in a predetermined range from the sentence in the document including the sentence.

6. The display control apparatus according to claim 5, characterized in that:

the display control unit, if the first operation is executed with respect to a sentence not including the word, causes the display unit to display: in the document including the sentence, the view corresponding to the word included in the sentence closest to the sentence in which the first operation is performed is included in the sentence including the word before the sentence.

7. A display control apparatus according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that:

the display control unit does not display the view on the display unit if the first operation is executed for a sentence not including the word and a sentence positioned in a predetermined range from the sentence in the document including the sentence does not include the word.

8. A display control apparatus according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that:

and a display control unit that, after the view is displayed on the display unit, causes the display unit to display an edited image in which the editing of the view is accepted, in response to the acceptance of a third operation.

9. The display control apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that:

the display control unit displays the extracted sentence on the display unit, and displays a plurality of views corresponding to the word included in each of all the extracted sentences on the display unit if an operation of displaying a view corresponding to each of the extracted sentences on the display unit is accepted.

10. The display control apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that:

the display control unit does not display the extracted sentence on the display unit, and displays a plurality of views corresponding to the word included in each of all the extracted sentences on the display unit.

11. The display control apparatus according to claim 9, characterized in that:

the display control unit displays a sentence corresponding to one of the plurality of views on the display unit in response to reception of a display operation of the sentence after the plurality of views are displayed on the display unit.

12. The display control apparatus according to claim 10, characterized in that:

13. The display control apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that:

if a plurality of keywords are accepted, the extraction unit extracts a sentence having a distance between the plurality of keywords within a predetermined range from the one or more documents.

14. A display control apparatus, characterized by comprising:

a storage unit for storing one or more documents;

an accepting section that accepts a keyword from a user;

an extraction unit that extracts, from the one or more documents, all of the words containing the received keyword or words containing a similar word having the same meaning as the keyword, with reference to the storage unit; and

and a display control unit that causes the display unit to display the extracted sentence, displays at least a view in which a part of the one or more documents corresponds to a word included in the extracted sentence, so as to display the extracted sentence in association with document identification information identifying a document including the sentence, and displays the document including the sentence in a state in which the part including the sentence is already displayed on the display unit if a predetermined operation is performed with respect to the sentence.

15. The display control apparatus according to claim 14,

16. A display control method characterized by comprising, in a display control unit,

is executed by a computer and is provided with a computer,

the method comprises the following steps:

an extraction step of, if a keyword is received from a user, referring to a storage unit that stores one or more documents containing words corresponding to a view, extracting all of the sentences containing the received keyword or the sentences containing a similar word having the same meaning as the keyword from the one or more documents; and

a display step of causing a display unit to display at least a view in which a part of the one or more documents corresponds to the word included in the extracted sentence, so that the extracted sentence and document identification information for identifying the document including the sentence are displayed in association with each other.

17. A storage medium storing a display control program, characterized in that,

the display control program causes a computer to function as: