JP2002108895A - Device and method for processing sentence and storage medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate the hypertext sentences of a designated section on the basis of a data group having a hierarchical structure defining sections as the hierarchy units and without impairing the hierarchical structure. SOLUTION: A list of sub-sections included in a section is acquired from a data base 101 (S401). It is checked whether the HTML documents and summary images corresponding to the acquired sub-sections are already generated and outputted (S402). When all sub-sections are already generated and outputted, the HTML document and summary image of the section are generated and outputted (S404). When all sub-sections are not generated nor outputted yet, the HTML documents and summary images of these sub-sections are produced (S403). Then these produced HTML documents and summary images are outputted to an HTTP server 103 (S405).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a text processing apparatus, a text processing method, and a storage medium for performing a process of generating a hypertext text.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a database for storing and retrieving multimedia data such as image data and audio data has been stored in order to list the contents stored in the database. There is a hypertext output system that converts contents into a hypertext document and outputs it. This system allows users who do not have direct access to the database,
Specific data in the database can be shown as a list.

[0003] For example, software called album software for storing and organizing digital images includes:
A list of multiple images specified by the user is stored in HTML (Hype
r TextMarkup Language) There are many documents that have the function of generating documents. The generated HTML document is
Generally, thumbnails of images (index images reduced for a list) are arranged in a line or in a chart format, and an annotation or the like for the image can be output together with the thumbnails. If this HTML document and the image data file used in this document are placed on an HTTP server, users who cannot directly access the database can use W.
These images can be viewed using an web browser.

Further, there is a database that allows a user to create an arbitrary section in the database to assist the user in performing the above-described organizing and searching.
In such a database, it is common that a section (subsection) can be created in a section, and a section hierarchical structure is allowed.

For example, in general album software, a user creates sections such as "travel", "athletic meet", and "picnic", and, for example, "Hawaii", "Hokkaido" and "Kyoto" as subsections of "travel". So that you can create such a section,
In some cases, data classification can be performed in detail in units called subsections.

[0006]

In a conventional procedure for generating a hypertext document from the contents of a database, a user simply designates a plurality of data and simply generates a hypertext in which the data is arranged. In a database having a hierarchical structure as described above, there is a problem that the hierarchical structure of the database is lost when a hypertext document is generated.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and is based on a data group having a hierarchical structure in which a section is defined as a unit of a hierarchy. The purpose is to generate text sentences.

[0008]

In order to achieve the object of the present invention, for example, a text processing apparatus of the present invention has the following arrangement. That is, a sentence processing apparatus that performs a process of generating a hypertext sentence, comprising: storage means for storing a data group having a hierarchical structure in which a section is a unit of hierarchy; and a data group belonging to the section specified by a predetermined instruction means. Generating a hypertext sentence corresponding to the indicated section based on the read data group from the storage means, and generating a part or all of the link destination of the hypertext sentence, Output means for outputting a summary of the specified section including a result of the generation by the generation means.

Output destination instructing means for instructing an output destination of the summary of the designated section by the output means;
Control means for controlling the output means based on an instruction from the output destination instruction means.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below in detail according to preferred embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[First Embodiment] FIG. 1 shows a hypertext document generation system according to this embodiment.

This hypertext document generation system includes a database 101, an HTML document output device 10
2. This is a system in which the HTTP server 103 is connected via the network 104.

The database 101 stores data classified hierarchically by section. Each section has a name, and another section can be created inside a section. In this case, the original section is called a parent section of the new section, and the new section is called a child section of the original section.

The HTML document output device 102 displays the contents of the database 101 to the user, and when the user designates a specific section of the database 101, all the data contained in the designated section are displayed in an HTML document which can be referred to by the user. Convert to And the converted HTM
HTTP server 1 sends L sentences via network 104
Storage device (not shown) included in the storage device 03
Output to

The HTTP server 103 is connected to the Internet, and all users who can connect to the Internet access the HTTP server 103 and
The above-described HTML document output by the ML document output device 102 can be referred to.

Next, FIG. 2 shows an HTML document output device 102.
The schematic configuration of is shown. An HTML document output device 102 according to the present embodiment includes a computer device 201 that acquires data from the database 101 and creates an HTML document.
A display device 202 for displaying various information described later including an HTML sentence to a user, a pointing device 203 including a keyboard and a mouse for inputting various instructions from the user, and an HTML sentence output device 10
2 is provided with a network adapter 204 which is a network interface for connecting the 2 to a network.

FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of a process performed in the HTML document output device 102.

First, a section list is obtained from the database 101 (step S301). When the list of sections is obtained, the display device 2
02, a section list is displayed, and the user waits until the user designates an arbitrary section from the sections displayed on the display device 202 using the pointing device 203.

If the user designates one section (step S302), the computer 2
01 is specified to which directory of a storage device (hard disk or the like) (not shown) of the HTTP server 103 to output the HTML document created in the HTTP server 103 (step S30).
3). When the HTTP server 103 has a plurality of storage devices, it specifies which directory of which storage device. This designation is performed by the user using the display device 202 and the pointing device 203.

After the above processing is completed, an HTML document of a list of sections designated by the user and an image summarizing the contents of this section are created by the procedure shown in FIG. 4 and output to the directory designated in step S303. (Step S304).

FIG. 4 shows a flowchart of the processing performed by the HTML document output device 102 (computer device 201) in step S304 to generate and output an HTML document in a section and a summary image of the section.

First, a list of subsections (child sections of the section) included in the section is obtained from the database 101 (step S401).

Next, for the subsection acquired in step S401, an HTML document and a summary image corresponding to the subsection have already been generated, and the HT
It is checked whether it has been output to the TP server 103 (step S402). If there is a subsection that has not yet been output to the HTTP server 103, the subsection is subjected to the HTTP processing according to the processing described below.
Create ML document and summary image (step S40)
3). On the other hand, for all subsections, HTML
If the output of the document and the summary image has been completed, the process proceeds to step S404.

In step S404, the section HT
An ML document and a summary image are generated, and in step S405, the HT
Output to the TP server 103. The generated and output section HTML document includes a summary image of each subsection in the section and a list of data not included in the subsection. Also, a link is provided from the summary image of each subsection to the HTML document of that subsection.

HTM output to HTTP server 103
FIG. 5 shows an example of an L document, and the HTML document is a Web document.
FIG. 6 shows an example of a screen displayed by the browser.

In the examples shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, in the database 101, the contents of the section "PatentList" in which the list of the created patents is stored are indicated by the HTM.
It is output to an L document. "PatentList" contains a subsection "Tanaka" that represents the patent creator
(501), “Yamada” (502), files “PatentList.html” (503), “P
attent Template. doc ”(504). The section of each creator has a subsection “May199” indicating the date of patent application as a subsection.
8 "and" Oct 1998 ".

In the display example of FIG. 6, an image 601 is a summary image (5) representing the contents of the subsection “Tanaka”.
01, Tanaka / index. jpg), and the image 602 is a summary image (in 502, Yamada / Yamada /) representing the contents of the subsection “Yamada”.
index. jpg).

The image 601 has a section “Tanak” as specified in the section 501 of the HTML document.
HTML document (501, Ta
Naka / index. html). When the user uses the pointing device 203 to
Specify the image 601 on the web browser (for example, click)
Then, an HTML document indicating the contents of the subsection “Tanaka” (in 501, Tanaka / ind
ex. html) is displayed. FIG. 7 shows this HTML document, and FIG. 8 shows a display example on a Web browser.

The HTML document shown in FIG. 7 represents the contents of the section “Tanaka”,
a "subsections" May1998 "and" Oct19 "
98 "(May 1998 / inde of 701)
x. jpg, Oct / index. jpg) to an HTML document representing the contents of each subsection (701 May 1998 / index.html, 7
02 Oct / index. html). In FIG. 7, as an example, the section “Tanak
a), which is described in section “Ya
The same applies to “mada”.

[PatentList.h] included in the section “Patent” and not included in the subsection
tml "" PatentTemplate.doc "
Are linked from the HTML document (FIG. 5) representing the content of “Patent” (503 and 504, respectively), from which each data can be accessed.

Each HTML document is also provided with a link to the parent section of the next higher level (50 in FIG. 5).
5 or 703 in FIG. 7), it is possible to move freely from each HTML document to an HTML document representing the contents of the sections in the upper and lower layers.

As described above, according to the system of the present embodiment, an HTML document and a summary image can be created for each section of data having a hierarchical structure in a database, and as a result, a hypertext document can be created. Can be used to display the hierarchically structured data of the database to the user.

In this embodiment, the HT for the section
I generated ML sentences and summary images for this section,
Depending on the section, for example, a summary voice may be attached. In that case, in the above-described flowchart, a summary voice is generated together with the HTML text and the summary image. At this time, the summary voice is stored in the database 101 together with the summary image.

[Second Embodiment] FIG. 9 shows a hypertext document generation system according to this embodiment. This hypertext document generation system is a system in which an image database 902, a removable disk drive 903, a pointing device 904 including a keyboard and a mouse, and a display device 905 are connected to a computer device 901.

In the image database 902, image data is stored hierarchically classified by sections. Each section has a name, and another section can be created inside a section. In this case, the original section is called a parent section of the new section, and the new section is called a child section of the original section.

The computer 901 reads the contents stored in the image database 902 and displays various information to the user via the display 905. Further, the pointing device 904 can receive various instruction inputs from the user.

Further, the computer 901 specifies the contents of the section specified by the user with the pointing device 904 among the plurality of sections stored in the image database 902 to specify the contents of the removable disk 906 inserted into the removable disk drive 903. Can be converted to an HTML document and output to a folder below the folder.

Next, FIG. 10 shows a flowchart of the processing in the computer device 901.

First, a section list is acquired from the image database 902 (step S1001). When the section list is obtained, the section list is displayed on the display device 905, and the user waits until the user designates an arbitrary section from the back sections displayed on the display device 905 using the pointing device 904.

When the user designates one section (step S1002), the computer unit 901 is started.
HTML document created in the removable disk 906
To which directory to output (step S1003). This designation is performed by the user using the display device 905 and the pointing device 904.

After the above processing is completed, an HTML document of a list of sections specified by the user and an image summarizing the contents of the section are created by the procedure shown in FIG. 11, and the directory specified in step S1003 is created. (Step S1004).

FIG. 11 shows a procedure performed by the computer device 901 in step S1004 for generating and outputting an HTML document in a section and a summary image of the section.

First, a list of subsections (child sections of the section) included in the section is obtained from the image database 902 (step S110).
1).

Next, for the subsection obtained in step S1101, it is checked whether an HTML document and a summary image corresponding to the subsection have already been generated and output to the removable disk 906 (step S1102). If there is a subsection that has not yet been output to the removable disk 906, an HTML document and a summary image are created for the subsection in accordance with the processing described below (step S1103). If the output of the HTML document and the summary image has been completed for all the subsections, the process advances to step S1104.

In step S1104, the section H
A TML document and a summary image are generated and output to the above-mentioned designated directory of the removable disk 906 in step S405.

The generated and output HTML document is a list of data (excluding subsections) in a section and a summary image of each subsection.
Also, a link is provided from the summary image of each subsection to the HTML document of that subsection. At this time, as a generated summary image, an image obtained by synthesizing a summary image of each subsection and an image summarizing the contents of the section is used.

FIG. 12 shows an example of an HTML document output to the removable disk 906, and FIG. 13 shows an example of a screen on which the HTML document is displayed by a Web browser.

In the example shown in FIGS. 12 and 13, the contents of the section "Travel" in the image database 902, in which images related to travel are collected, are output to an HTML document. The section "Travel" includes sections "Hawaii" (1201) and "H
okkaido ”(1202),“ Kyoto ”(12
03), “HongKong” (1204), and four images “Unknown01.jpg” with unknown shooting locations
"Unknown02.jpg""Unknown0
3. jpg ”and“ Unknown04.jpg ”.
In addition, the section of each travel destination includes, as a subsection, a section “3-May19” indicating the date of travel.
13 that “98-98” and “8-Aug1998” have been created.

In the display example of FIG.
02, 1303, and 1304 are subsections “Hawaii” (1201) and “Hokkaido”, respectively.
(1202), "Kyoto" (1203), "Hon"
gKong ”(1204) (Hawaii respectively)
/ Index. jpg, Hokkaido / inde
x. jpg, Kyoto / index. jpg, Hon
gkong / index. jpg). The summary image of each subsection is created by synthesizing the contents of the section and a further reduced summary image of the subsection. Therefore, the section "T
Also, the HTML sentence that outputs "ravel" is expressed including the contents of all lower sections.
For example, the subsection "Kyoto" of the section "Travel" and the subsection "15-Au"
g1998 ", the section" T
The “revel” is output in a reduced form in the output HTML document.

In FIG. 13, an image 1303 (Kyot
o / index. jpg) is 1203 of the HTML document.
Section, as specified in the section "Kyot
o document (Kyoto / index)
x. html). Clicking on the image of 1303 on the web browser, HTM of 1203
As specified in the L document, the subsection "Ky
An HTML document indicating the contents of “oto” is displayed. FIG. 14 shows this HTML document, and FIG. 15 shows a display example on a Web browser. This HTML document has the section "K
"Kyoto", subsections of "Kyoto""15-May1998" (1401),
Summary images of "15-Aug1998" (1402) (15-May1998 / index.jpg, 15-
Aug 1998 / index. jpg) to the HTML documents (15-
May 1998 / index. html, 15-Aug
1998 / index. html).

In the section “Travel”,
Image data not included in the subsection
The link is linked from an HTML document (FIG. 12) representing the contents of "el", and image data can be accessed therefrom.

Each HTML document has a link to the parent section of the next higher hierarchy (120 in FIG. 12 as an example).
5, taking FIG. 14 as an example, 1403) is also set, and it is possible to freely move from each HTML document to an HTML document representing the contents of the sections in the upper and lower layers.

As described above, according to the system of the present embodiment, an HTML document and a summary image are created for each section with respect to the hierarchically-structured data of the database, and the section summary image is used as the summary image. All of the subsection summaries included in the section,
By synthesizing all the images not included in the subsection, it is possible to generate a hypertext document that expresses the contents of the section specified by the user including the contents of all lower sections. As a result, the data of the hierarchical structure of the database can be displayed to the user.

[Other Embodiments] Even if the present invention is applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices (for example, a host computer, an interface device, a reader, a printer, etc.), an apparatus (one device) For example, the present invention may be applied to a copying machine, a facsimile machine, and the like.

Another object of the present invention is to supply a storage medium (or a recording medium) in which a program code of software for realizing the functions of the above-described embodiments is recorded to a system or an apparatus, and a computer (a computer) of the system or the apparatus. It is needless to say that the present invention can also be achieved by a CPU or an MPU) reading and executing the program code stored in the storage medium. In this case, the program code itself read from the storage medium implements the functions of the above-described embodiment, and the storage medium storing the program code constitutes the present invention. Also,
When the computer executes the readout program code, not only the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized, but also the operating system (OS) running on the computer based on the instructions of the program code.
It goes without saying that a case where the functions of the above-described embodiments are implemented by performing some or all of the actual processing, and the processing performs the functions of the above-described embodiments.

Further, after the program code read from the storage medium is written into a memory provided in a function expansion card inserted into the computer or a function expansion unit connected to the computer, the program code is read based on the instruction of the program code. Needless to say, the CPU included in the function expansion card or the function expansion unit performs part or all of the actual processing, and the processing realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments.

When the present invention is applied to the storage medium, the storage medium has the above-described flowchart (shown in FIG. 3, and / or FIG. 4, and / or FIG. 10, and / or FIG. 11). The corresponding program code will be stored.

[0058]

As described above, according to the present invention, based on a data group having a hierarchical structure in which a section is a unit of hierarchy, a hypertext sentence of a designated section can be converted without impairing the hierarchical structure. Can be generated.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a hypertext sentence creation system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of an HTML document creation device 102.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a process performed in the HTML document creation device 102;

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example in which the HTML document creation apparatus 102 executes step S30.
6 is a flowchart of a process performed in Step 4.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of an HTML sentence output to the HTTP server 103.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a screen on which HTML text is displayed on a Web browser.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an HTML sentence representing the content of “Tanaka”.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displaying an HTML sentence representing the content of “Tanaka” on a Web browser.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a hypertext sentence creation system according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a process in the computer device 901.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a computer apparatus 902, step S1004.
3 is a flowchart of a process performed in the processing of FIG.

FIG. 12 shows H output to a removable disk 906.
It is a figure showing an example of a TML sentence.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displaying the HTML text shown in FIG. 12 on a Web browser.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an HTML sentence indicating the content of “Kyoto”.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displaying the HTML text shown in FIG. 14 on a Web browser.

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Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A sentence processing apparatus for performing a process of generating a hypertext sentence, comprising: storage means for storing a data group having a hierarchical structure in which a section is a unit of hierarchy; Generating a hypertext text corresponding to the specified section based on the read data group from the storage unit and generating a part or all of a link destination of the hypertext text based on the read data group; Means for outputting a summary of the instructed section including a result of generation by the generation means. 2. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: an output destination instructing unit for instructing an output destination of the summary of the designated section by the output unit; The sentence processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: 3. The sentence processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the link destination of the hypertext sentence corresponding to the designated section includes a summary image of the designated section. 4. The generating means further includes: a hypertext sentence corresponding to a subsection included in the designated section; and a determining means for determining whether a link destination of the hypertext sentence has been generated. The sentence according to claim 1, further comprising: a hypertext sentence corresponding to the subsection, and a subsection generating means for generating a link destination of the hypertext sentence, according to a result of the judgment by the judging means. Processing equipment. 5. A text processing method for generating a hypertext text, comprising: a storage step of storing a data group having a hierarchical structure in which a section is a unit of a hierarchy in a predetermined storage means; A data group belonging to the designated section is read from the predetermined storage unit, a hypertext sentence corresponding to the designated section is generated based on the read data group, and a link destination of the hypertext sentence is generated. A text processing method comprising: a generation step of generating a part or all of the sections; and an output step of outputting a summary of the specified section including a generation result of the generation step to a predetermined output unit. 6. An output destination specifying step for specifying an output destination of the summary of the specified section in the output step, and a control for controlling the predetermined output means based on an instruction from the output destination specifying means. The sentence processing method according to claim 5, comprising: 7. A storage medium for storing a program code for a process of generating a hypertext sentence, comprising: a program code for a storage step of storing, in a predetermined storage means, a data group having a hierarchical structure in which a section is a unit of a hierarchy; Reading a data group belonging to the section specified by the predetermined instruction means from the predetermined storage means, and generating a hypertext sentence corresponding to the specified section based on the read data group; A program code for a generation step for generating part or all of a link destination of a sentence; and a program code for an output step for outputting a summary of the specified section including a generation result of the generation step to a predetermined output unit. A storage medium characterized by the above-mentioned. 8. The program according to claim 1, further comprising: a program code for an output destination specifying step for specifying an output destination of the summary of the specified section in the output step; The storage medium according to claim 7, further comprising a program code for a control step of controlling.