JP2001175673A - Electronic book display device and storage medium stored with electronic book display program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic book display device and a storage medium with a recorded electronic book display program which can easily retrieve and display explanation sentences of appearing characters up to a display page when an electronized book is read on electronic equipment such as a portable information terminal and a dedicated electronic book terminal. SOLUTION: Book information composed of document data is stored in a book data storage part 2 and the book information is read out of the book data storage part 2 and displayed at a book display part 1 sequentially in specific units; when a specific displayed word or phrase of an appearing character is specified, appearing character data summary generating algorithm 3 extracts sentences containing the specified word or phrase from a part which is already read to generate an explanation sentence regarding the word or phrase, stores the generated explanation sentence in a appearing character data storage part 6, and displays the contents of the appearing character data storage part 6 to display the desirable explanation sentence.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to an electronic book display device for displaying digitized book information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Electronic devices such as portable information terminals and dedicated electronic book terminals capable of reading digitized books have been commercialized, and the market has been expanding. Book data displayed on these electronic devices includes data such as novels.When reading a novel, especially in the case of a novel with many characters, it is necessary to explain the contents of each character etc as you read on There are many. In such a case, it was very troublesome to read back and search for the part expressing the profile of the character.

In order to solve this problem, in a book such as a normal novel, a list of characters and a brief description of each character are provided on the back of the cover or the like.

[0004] For example, in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-314732, a synopsis of sentence data in each page is stored in advance, and the synopsis up to the page before the displayed page is output, thereby interrupting. There is disclosed a technique for outputting a synopsis up to a previously read point when resuming reading by an electronic book.

[0005] For example, in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 6-309359, when a "person" key is depressed, a certain appearance such as that described in an ordinary book or the like stored in a storage medium or the like in advance is given. A technique for displaying explanation data of the entire person has been disclosed.

[0006]

However, the technique described above still has the following problems.

The technique disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-314732 describes that a synopsis is displayed at the time of resuming the interrupted reading. However, the synopsis data is referred to at any time, and the description of individual characters is described. Can't reference.

In the technique of Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 6-309359, it is described that the description data of a certain character as a whole is displayed. However, the description of the character and the synopsis of the character up to the point of reading are described. The implementation of read back etc. is not specified.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems. The purpose of the present invention is to describe the characters appearing up to the point where the user is currently reading a book, and to display the character names on the screen. By specifying, the character data can be searched from the group of character data, and the character name can be used as a keyword to obtain the character's description data from the read part. It is an object of the present invention to provide a computer-readable storage medium that records a program for realizing an electronic book display device and an electronic book display method capable of outputting character description data.

[0010]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic book display device for storing a book information comprising text data, reading the book information from the storage device, and sequentially displaying the read book information in a predetermined unit. Display control means, designating means for designating a specific word included in the book information, and sentence generating means for extracting a sentence containing the specified specific word from the book information and automatically generating an explanatory sentence related to the word And a description storage means for storing the description generated by the statement generation means, and a desired description stored in the description storage means is displayed.

The electronic book display device according to a second aspect of the present invention is the electronic book display device of the first aspect, wherein the book information is read from the storage means for each predetermined unit, and the book information is sent to the display control means. Book information reading control means to be supplied, wherein the sentence generation means extracts a sentence containing the specified specific phrase from the book information in the range read by the book information reading control means, and relates to the phrase. It is characterized in that an explanatory sentence is generated.

An electronic book display device according to a third aspect of the present invention is the electronic book display device according to the first aspect, wherein the storage means stores book information composed of text data divided for each predetermined unit, The sentence generation unit extracts a sentence including the specified specific phrase for each range of the divided sentence data stored in the storage unit, and generates an explanatory sentence related to the phrase. I do.

The electronic book display device according to a fourth aspect of the present invention is the electronic book display device according to the first aspect of the present invention, wherein the explanatory sentence storage means stores an explanatory sentence relating to a plurality of types of specific words and phrases. An extraction unit for extracting a plurality of specific phrases from the storage unit, and by specifying at least one specific phrase from the plurality of specific phrases extracted by the extraction unit by the specification unit, a description related to the corresponding phrase is provided. A sentence is displayed.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic book display device, comprising: storage means for storing book information comprising sentence data and descriptive sentence information relating to a specific phrase included in the book information; Display control means for reading out and sequentially displaying in a predetermined unit, specifying means for specifying a specific specific phrase in the displayed book information, and storage means based on the specific phrase specified by the specifying means A search unit for searching for explanation information related to the phrase, wherein the explanation information related to the phrase obtained by the search unit is displayed.

The electronic book display device according to a sixth aspect of the present invention is the electronic book display device according to the fifth aspect, wherein the storage means stores the book information divided into predetermined units and the divided book information. And description information relating to the specific phrase included therein is stored, and the description information relating to the phrase obtained by the search means is displayed in the unit of section.

The electronic book display device according to a seventh invention is the electronic book display device according to the sixth invention, wherein the book information is read from the storage means for each predetermined unit, and the book information is sent to the display control means. Book information reading control means to be supplied, wherein the searching means searches for and displays a description sentence relating to the word in the range read by the book information reading control means.

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, a computer-readable storage medium reads out book information, which is text data stored in advance in a storage means, in a predetermined unit, sequentially displays the read book information, and specifies the book information included in the displayed book information. By specifying a phrase, a sentence including a specified phrase specified from the book information is extracted, and an electronic book display program that operates to automatically generate a description related to the phrase and display the description is stored. It is characterized by having done.

[0018]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of an electronic book display device and a storage medium storing an electronic book display program according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of an electronic book display device according to the present invention. Reference numeral 10 denotes a CPU, which is a central processing unit of the main body of the electronic book display device, and is a portion that controls the entire electronic book display device. A display unit 30 displays information obtained by performing an input operation or operation on the electronic book display device, and is configured by an LCD or the like. Reference numeral 40 denotes a communication unit which receives distribution of book data such as an electronic book on the electronic book display device, and transfers and stores the distributed book data to a book data storage unit 2 described later. Reference numeral 50 denotes an input unit for operating the electronic book display device, which is constituted by a keyboard, a display tablet, or the like, and each word (or character) of book data composed of text data displayed on the display unit 30
By specifying a coordinate position corresponding to the word, the word (or character) information can be read.

Reference numeral 70 denotes an information storage and storage unit that stores a program or book data and is configured by a ROM or a RAM that executes the program. The information storage unit 70 includes a book data storage unit 2 for storing book data, a book display unit 1 for displaying the book data stored in the book data storage unit 2 on the display unit 30, and a character data summary creation. Algorithm 3, character data display unit 4, and character description data buffer 5 for storing searched character data
A character data storage unit 6 for storing description data of items such as characters, and other various information data storage units 7 for storing various information data such as proper noun data and synopsis data other than the character data; It comprises a page information management section 8 for managing the page position of the book data currently displayed in the book data storage section 2, and a program memory section 9 for storing a program for executing these processes.

Character Data Summarizing Algorithm 3
Is an algorithm for creating description data (hereinafter referred to as character data) of the characters or the like from the book data storage unit 2 using, for example, a character name or the like as a keyword.
Parsing is performed using the character name as a keyword, a sentence in which the character name is the subject is extracted, and the modifier is omitted. For a brief summary, extract a paragraph containing a character name and connect the paragraphs, or extract only a paragraph in which a character name appears more than once (a certain number of times) and It can also be created by linking.

The character data display unit 4 retrieves necessary data from the character data storage unit 6 when a description of a character or the like is needed while reading a book, and stores the character description data buffer 5 in the character data storage unit 6. The display unit 3 displays the character data via
Display at 0.

When reading the book data from the book data storage unit 2 and performing a reading operation, the page information management unit 8 reads the text data corresponding to the display capacity of the book display unit 1 from the reading start position. The next read start position and the page number calculated from the top are stored.

Reference numeral 81 denotes a storage medium such as a CD-ROM for storing data such as program data and book data.
Reference numeral 80 denotes a storage medium reading unit that reads the storage medium 81,
The book data is transferred to the book data storage unit 2 and stored in the same manner as the communication unit 40.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of an electronic book display device according to the present invention. The electronic book display device main body includes a display unit 30 for displaying book data, a previous page key 51 and a next page key 52 for turning pages of the book data to be displayed, a menu key 53 for selecting a function, an execution key 54, and a release key. 55 and a character search key 56 for activating and executing the operation of the present invention. The display screen is constituted by a display tablet capable of dragging the screen and inputting characters.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the book data stored in the book data storage unit 2 and the corresponding character data storage unit 6 stored therein. The book data storage unit 2
A plurality of book data sections 21, 22,..., 2Z each storing a unit pre-divided as book data, for example, a chapter or a predetermined page unit as one unit;
The character data storage section 6 includes character data sections 611, 621,... 6Z9 corresponding to each book data section stored in the book data storage section 2.

In each book data section, book data transferred from the communication section 40 or the storage medium reading section 80 is formatted and stored in each section.

In the character data section, the character data generated by the character data summary creation algorithm 3 is formatted and stored in each section. Similarly, when the character data is included in the book data, it is formatted and stored in each section.

More specifically, an example will be described in detail in which book data such as a novel is divided and divided into chapter units.

First, the first chapter is divided into the first chapter book data 21 and the character data 611 and B of Mr. A.
Mr. character data 612 and Mr. C character data 61
3 is stored. Here, it is also possible to add and store various information such as the outline data of the first chapter. Similarly, data from the second chapter to the last chapter is stored.

The character data 611 of Mr. A describes Mr. A's profile, actions, etc. in the first chapter. Similarly, the character data 621 of Mr. A describes Mr. A only in the second chapter, and is different from the contents of the character data 611 of Mr. A. Also,
Character data 611 of Mr. A and character data 6 of Mr. A
21 is completed as the explanation data of the character A up to the second chapter.

The data of the character B is not added to the data of the third chapter in which Mr. B does not appear or has no development, so that the data capacity does not become too large.

In addition, for each chapter, description data of each character covering all the chapters up to that chapter may be individually stored. In this case, for example, the character data 611 of Mr. A and the character of Mr. A There are duplicates in the data 621,
The data capacity may be too large.

Next, an embodiment of the electronic book display device of the present invention will be described in detail. [First Embodiment] A first embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

The operator reads out the book data stored in the book data storage unit 2 to display the book data on the book display unit 1, and operates the next page key 52 or the previous page key 51 in FIG. Each time the book data is turned forward or backward, a book data reading operation is performed.

In the state where the book data is displayed, by designating a specific word or phrase of the book data being displayed, for example, a character name, a description such as a profile of the character is automatically created and displayed. .

In FIG. 4, an input unit 50 such as a tablet is used.
Is used to designate the word of the character name of the book data being displayed on the display unit 30 (step S11).

FIG. 5 is a display example when the book data is displayed on the electronic book display device, and FIG.
This is an example showing that the character name "Mr." has been designated with a horizontal line by dragging with a pen or the like.

Further, the character search key 56 is operated (step S12). Based on this operation, the page number (W) corresponding to the currently displayed page is fetched from the page information management unit 8 (step S13), and the character description data buffer 5 for storing the searched character data is stored in the buffer. Clear (step S14).

Subsequently, the book data from the head of the book data storage unit 2 to the currently displayed page W is called,
In step S2, a search is made for a sentence including a matching phrase by matching the phrase of the character specified in step S2, and the searched sentence is subjected to syntax analysis processing based on the motion character data summarizing algorithm 3, and is currently displayed. The data of the characters up to the present page W is generated, and the data of the generated characters is stored in the character description data buffer 5 in the order of generation (step S15). As the parsing process, for example, by extracting a sentence in which the matching phrase is located in the subject, checking the part of speech information, and omitting a modifier, etc., it is possible to generate character description data. .

Next, it is checked whether or not data is stored in the character description data buffer 5 (step S1).
6) If it is stored, the contents of the character description data buffer 5 are displayed on the character data display unit 4 in the book display unit 1 (step S17). FIG. 5B is an example in which the character data display unit 4 is displayed in a window display format developed in the book display unit 1. Alternatively, the character data display unit 4 may be displayed using the entire display screen instead of the window display format.

After displaying the character data, the release key 5
By operating No. 5 (step S18), the book data of the original page is displayed again on the book display unit 1, and the display of the character data is canceled (step S19). By specifying an arbitrary character in the same manner as in the above-described operation, a description of the corresponding character is generated, and the description can be displayed.

By operating as described above, it is possible to instantly display and confirm the explanation of the content of the arbitrarily designated character in the currently displayed book information that has been displayed so far. Become. [Second Embodiment] In the first embodiment described above, explanations of characters from the first page of the book data to the currently displayed page are sequentially displayed. Since the information is often divided into a plurality of chapters and edited, a more accurate description can be obtained by generating a description for each divided unit. this is,
It can be easily realized by improving the first embodiment described above.

In step S13 of FIG. 4, the page number (W) corresponding to the currently displayed page is fetched from the page information management unit 8, and chapter information is searched from the first page of the book data storage unit 2 to search for each chapter. The range information corresponding to the chapter is acquired, and character data storage areas 611, 612, 613 to 6Z9 corresponding to each chapter as shown in FIG. Note that this processing step is omitted when the character data generation operation has already been performed on another page.

In step S15 of FIG. 4, the data of the previously specified character is stored in the character data storage unit 6.
Is checked, and if not, the book data is called from the beginning of the chapter based on the range information corresponding to the chapter, the phrase is matched with the word of the character specified in step S11, and the matching word is determined. Search for the containing sentence. Then, the searched sentence is subjected to syntax analysis processing based on the character data summarizing algorithm 3 to generate character data of the book data up to the next chapter, and further, the generated character data is generated. Are stored in the character description data buffer 5 corresponding to the specified characters in the specified order.

Further, with respect to the book data up to the chapter including the currently displayed page W, the data of the character previously specified for each chapter is generated, and the data of the same character is included in each chapter. It is stored in the corresponding character data storage units 6 and stored in the same character description data buffer 5.

FIG. 6 is an example of storing the same character data in the character description data buffer 5. For example, the data of the character A when displayed up to Chapter 3 includes the character data 611 of Mr. A in Chapter 1, the character data 621 of Mr. A in Chapter 2, and the data of Mr. A in Chapter 3. Is created and stored by linking the character data 631 of the characters.

By operating as described above, it is possible to instantly display and confirm the description of the arbitrarily designated character in the currently displayed book information in chapter units. [Third Embodiment] In the first and second embodiments described above, by designating a character on the currently displayed page, the description of only the character is sequentially displayed. Here, the description of the characters appearing in the book information is generated and stored in advance or prepared in advance with the book information, so that the description can be displayed more quickly. . A third embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

In FIG. 7, when the character search key 56 is operated while the book data is displayed, the character information (person name) stored in advance in the character data storage unit 6 at 611 to 6Z9 is called. A list is displayed on the book display unit 1 in a window format (step S31). By designating the listed character names by tablet input (step S32), the search for the corresponding character data is started.

The chapter number (X) corresponding to the currently displayed page information is fetched (step S33), and the register A for counting the chapter number is initialized to 0 (step S3).
4) Further, the character description data buffer 5 for storing the searched character data is cleared (step S35).

Subsequently, the register A of the chapter number is counted up by 1 (step S36), and the chapter number (X) is compared with the value of the register A, that is, the chapter number (X) including the currently displayed page. Is checked (step S37), and if the chapter including the currently displayed page is not exceeded, the specified character name is searched from the character data storage unit 6 (step S38). The corresponding character data is added to the character description data buffer 5 and stored (step S39).

In step S38, if there is no desired character name, the flow shifts to S36, where the chapter number is counted up, and the process proceeds to the search for the character name in the next chapter.

In S37, if the value of the register A of the chapter number exceeds the chapter number (X) including the currently displayed page, that is, the characters up to the chapter immediately before the chapter including the currently displayed page When the name search is completed, the character description data buffer 5 stores the data of the specified character as shown in FIG. 6 in order from the first chapter to the immediately preceding chapter including the currently displayed page. Become. Subsequently, it is checked whether data is stored in the character description data buffer 5 (step S41).

If it is stored, the contents of the character description data buffer 5 are displayed on the character data display section 4 (step S42). After the display, the release key 55 is pressed (step S43), or if no data is stored in S41, the contents of the book display unit 1 are displayed and the display returns to the original book data display screen ( Step S44).

By operating as described above, the description of the character specified within the range of the book information that has been read is instantaneously displayed, and the description of the character according to the operator's understanding of the book is displayed. Can be obtained.

In this embodiment, by combining the first and second embodiments described above, it is possible to further improve the function, and the book information to be distributed includes a description including a description. Even if the book information is in this format, the automatically generated description is displayed in addition to the description prepared in advance in the middle of the chapter by operating the automatic generation function of the description. It becomes possible.

Further, in this embodiment, a character is exemplified as a specific phrase. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the present invention is applicable to any phrase such as a place name, an event, etc., which is positioned as the subject of a sentence. You can do it.

The contents of the above-described embodiments are not limited to the above description unless the gist of the present invention is changed.

[0059]

According to the electronic book display device of the present invention,
If you specify a character name or the like that needs an explanation from the displayed book data, or select it from a list of characters, a description of the character is created, searched, and displayed. To improve.

Further, when displaying the description of the character or the like, the description data up to the page or chapter that has been read so far is created, so that the description of the character according to the degree of understanding of the operator's book can be obtained. Can be obtained.

In addition, when the description data of the characters and the like is stored, only the contents that have changed in the breaks of each chapter are stored, so that the amount of the description data of the characters and the like can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of an electronic book display device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of an electronic book display device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a storage example of a book data storage unit and a corresponding character data storage unit of the electronic book display device of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the first embodiment and the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a display example when book data is displayed on the electronic book display device of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a storage example in which data of the same character is stored in a character description data buffer;

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation of the third embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Book display part 2 Book data storage part 3 Character data summary creation algorithm 4 Character data display part 5 Character description data buffer 6 Character data storage part 7 Other various information data storage parts 8 Page information management part 9 Program memory part Reference Signs List 10 CPU 30 Display unit 40 Communication unit 50 Input unit 70 Information storage and storage unit 80 Storage medium reading unit 81 Storage medium

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A storage unit for storing book information composed of text data, a display control unit for reading book information from the storage unit and sequentially displaying the book information in a predetermined unit, and specifying a specific phrase included in the book information. A designation unit, a sentence generation unit that extracts a sentence including the specified specified phrase from the book information, and automatically generates an explanation sentence related to the phrase, and a description that stores the explanation sentence generated by the sentence generation unit. An electronic book display device comprising: a sentence storage unit; and displaying a desired explanatory sentence stored in the explanatory sentence storage unit. 2. A book information read control unit for reading book information from the storage unit for each predetermined unit and supplying the book information to the display control unit, wherein the sentence generation unit includes the book information read control. 2. The electronic book display device according to claim 1, wherein a sentence including the specified specific phrase is extracted from the book information in the range read by the means, and an explanatory sentence related to the phrase is generated. . 3. The storage means stores book information composed of text data divided for each predetermined unit, and the sentence generation means stores the book information for each range of the divided text data stored in the storage means. 2. The electronic book display device according to claim 1, wherein a sentence including the specified specific phrase is extracted, and an explanatory sentence related to the phrase is generated. 4. The description storage means includes: a description storage unit that stores a description related to a plurality of types of specific phrases; and an extraction unit that extracts a plurality of types of specific phrases from the description storage unit. 2. The electronic book display device according to claim 1, wherein by specifying at least one specific phrase from a plurality of types of specific phrases by the specifying means, an explanatory sentence related to the corresponding phrase is displayed. 5. A storage unit for storing book information composed of text data and descriptive sentence information relating to a specific word included in the book information, reading the book information from the storage unit and sequentially displaying the read book information in a predetermined unit. Display control means, designating means for designating a predetermined specific phrase in the displayed book information, and searching the storage means for explanatory sentence information relating to the phrase based on the specific phrase designated by the designating means An electronic book display device comprising: a search unit that performs a search; and displays explanation information about the phrase obtained by the search unit. 6. The storage means stores book information sectioned for each predetermined unit and descriptive sentence information relating to a specific word included in the sectioned book information, and is obtained by the search section. 6. The electronic book display device according to claim 5, wherein descriptive sentence information relating to the phrase is displayed in the division unit. 7. A book information read control unit for reading book information from the storage unit for each predetermined unit and supplying the book information to the display control unit, wherein the search unit includes the book information read control unit. 7. The electronic book display device according to claim 6, wherein a description sentence relating to the word in the range read by the search is retrieved and displayed. 8. A book information consisting of sentence data stored in advance in a storage means is read out in a predetermined unit, sequentially displayed, and a specific word included in the displayed book information is designated, thereby specifying the book information from the book information. A computer-readable storage medium storing an electronic book display program for extracting a sentence including the specified specific phrase, automatically generating a descriptive sentence related to the phrase, and operating to display the descriptive sentence.